OCLC Research has released a new report, “Does every research library need a digital humanities center?” [PDF].  Written by Jennifer Schaffner and Ricky Erway, it: [I]s intended to prepare research library directors and other decision-makers to respond to questions from deans or provosts who may ask what the library is doing about the digital humanities. It discusses specific ...

The most recent issue of the Code4Lib Journal includes Anthony Cocciolo’s “Unix Commands and Batch Processing for the Reluctant Librarian or Archivist.” Cocciolo, an Assistant Professor at Pratt’s School of Information and Library Science, outlines the basics for learning Unix. He describes Unix as offering “high-quality tools for quickly transforming born-digital and digitized assets, such as resizing videos, creating ...

Miriam Posner (UCLA) has created a tutorial for using Scroll Kit, a simple drag-and-drop framework for creating “multimedia works in a scrolling format suitable for long-form narratives.” Posner also provides a second, advanced tutorial that concentrates on the parallax effect in Scroll Kit. Popular with online journalism outlets, Scroll Kit provides flexibility and allows users to easily ...

The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) has released videos of presentations from its Fall 2013 meeting, including: Trends in Digital Scholarship Centers, Joan Lippincott (CNI), Harriette Hemmasi (Brown University), Vivian Lewis (McMaster University) Capturing the Ephemeral: Collecting Social Media and Supporting Twitter Research with Social Feed Manager, Daniel Chudnov, Bergis Jules, Daniel Kerchner and Laura ...

WebWise Now, a pilot project funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services in support of its annual WebWise conference and developed by the PressForward Initiative at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM), is a news aggregator intended for gallery, library, archive, and museum professionals. According to the site, “WebWise ...

Recordings from the 2013 Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) Forum are now available via U-stream. The three keynote presentations are: Travis Good (Make Magazine), “Making Maker Libraries“ Providing resources for lifelong learning is taking on new meaning. Making is part of the mix. Tools are part of the mix. Project learning is part of ...