The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) is looking for Communications fellows for 2015-2016. The position requires 3-4 hours per week, pays 600 Euros, and is ideally targeted for graduate students. The fellows will: write news releases, blog posts and announcements about ADHO, its constituent organizations, and the broader digital humanities community monitor and update ADHO’s ...

The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) and the Digital Library Federation (DLF) have announced a new program to “to engage DLF community members and connect them to exciting areas of growth and opportunity at DPLA” by facilitating attendance at the upcoming DPLAfest, which will take place April 17-18, 2015, in Indianapolis. The purpose of ...

The Alliance for Networking Visual Culture has announced the spring schedule of free webinars for learning Scalar, an open source multimodal publishing platform. Scalar enables authors to incorporate multimedia content from a variety of sources into their own content using a system of “paths” and “tags” to create digital publications: Paths are linear sequences of ...

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is accepting applications for Sparks! Ignition Grants for Libraries. The Sparks grants range from $10,000 to $25,000 and “encourage libraries and archives to prototype and evaluate innovations that result in new tools, products, services, or organizational practices.” IMLS is hosting two information webinars to answer questions about ...

Laurie N. Taylor (University of Florida) has shared a recruiting call from the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science for “high quality doctoral students who want to design, develop, and evaluate informatics solutions to the grand challenges of the twenty-first century. Admitted candidates typically receive up to 4 years of funding ...

The American Antiquarian Society has announced “The Digital Antiquarian,” a 2-day conference and 5-day workshop taking place May 29-June 5, 2015, in Worcester, MA. The two-day conference will open up questions related to digitization, cataloguing, and research design, exploring applications of digital tools and methods to diverse library materials, and identifying needs and opportunities in ...

The Digital Library Federation is offering two fellowships for its upcoming conference, to be held October 27-29 in Atlanta, Georgia: ARL/DLF Fellowships for Underrepresented Groups Up to four fellowships will be awarded, which include $1,250 each (to be applied towards travel, board, and lodging) in addition to complimentary registration. Applicants “must be interested in actively ...

The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) is accepting proposals for microgrants – awards up to $1,000 and $3,000 total grant call – related to pedagogy, although all applications will be considered. Projects should be completed within roughly six months, and might include: a framework for sharing DH syllabi a means of annotating and sharing ...

Applications are open for the Association of Documentary Editing’s 43rd Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents (July 20-24, Louisville, KY). The Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents is an annual five-day workshop for individuals new to the field of historical documentary editing. With the needs of the participants as a guide, experienced documentary editors ...

From the Digital Library Federation (DLF) blog: The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is seeking nominations for appointments to the Digital Library Federation (DLF) Advisory Committee. The committee advises the DLF director on matters relating to program activity and initiatives, budget, and strategy. Members serve three-year terms, with the possible option to renew ...