The Digital Library Federation and HBCU Library Alliance announce The Authenticity Project, “an IMLS-funded mentoring and professional development program for early- to mid-career HBCU library staff.” The goal of the project “is to build a more diverse, inclusive, collaborative, and cohesive next-generation digital library workforce, ready to work across types of institutions in building infrastructure ...

The Connecting Communities Digital Initiative (CCDI) has recently announced three new grant opportunities with awards ranging from $50,000 to $150,000. The three different categories for award include: higher education; library, archives, and museums grant; and a program for an artist or scholar in residence. Higher Education grant: open to two-year and four-year minority-serving higher education ...

OCLC Research has put out a call for focus group participants to help them improve access to their archival collections. The focus group is part of their work on the Building a National Finding Aid Network project and is intended to garner insight from those who work with an archival collection in a library, archive, museum, ...

From the Call for Applications: The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) seeks applicants for its two 2021 Communications Fellowships, each of which comes with a stipend of €500 (Euros). Each year, Communications Fellows work with ADHO’s Communications Officer to manage ADHO’s public communications activities. The fellowship is well suited for graduate students, young scholars, ...

The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) has opened calls for nomination to the triennial Antonio Zampolli Prize. According to the announcement, the prize: offers a unique opportunity to reward individual projects that either have been formative or had a decisive impact on the field as a whole. Because the prize is awarded to the ...

The LIS Education and Data Science Integrated Network Group (LEADING) is accepting applications for 2021 cohort of fellows. As per the website, “The LEADING project scales-up the highly successful LEADS-4-NDP initiative and will prepare a diverse, nation-wide cohort of 50 LIS doctoral students and early to mid-career librarians for data science endeavors.” LEADING fellows receive a ...

Applications are now open for the Text Analysis Pedagogy (TAP) Institute, an open educational institute that aims to empower teachers (and aspiring teachers) of text analysis in the digital humanities. The TAP Institute is led by JSTOR Labs in partnership with University of Virginia and University of Arizona, funded by National Endowment for the Humanities. ...

The Open Knowledge Foundation has announced mini-grant opportunities for Open Data Day in order to support people hosting events across the globe. Anyone may apply for $300 USD awards, and events should fit into one of four tracks: Environmental data: Use open data to illustrate the urgency of the climate emergency and spur people into ...

The Digital Library Federation (DLF) Digital Library Pedagogy working group, also known as #DLFteach, has published their slate of 2021 #DLFTeach Twitter chats: Tuesday, February 16th, 2:00pm EST – more info coming soon! Tuesday, April 20th, 2:00 pm EST Thursday, June 17th, 2:00 pm EST Tuesday, August 17th, 7:00 pm EST Monday, October 18th, 2:00 pm ...

The Library of Congress is looking for a researcher to help the Library “build a rich understanding of the uses for large scale computational access to library collections, including images, audio, video, web, text, and structured metadata” as part of the Computing Cultural Heritage Collections project in LC Labs. Supported by the Andres W. Mellon ...

The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) invites applications to participate in a one-year mentorship program for graduate students interested in digital humanities work in and around the academy, including libraries, archives, museums, teaching, and research. From the call: This program will bring together a cohort of 5-10 Masters and PhD students interested in ...