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EVENT: DH@Guelph Summer Workshops 2026

Feb

26

2026

Digital Humanities @ Guelph (DH@Guelph) announces its 2026 Summer Workshops, taking place in person May 19–22, 2026, in the McLaughlin Library at the University of Guelph (Guelph, Ontario, Canada). All workshops run for four days, and each participant may register for one workshop. Workshop options include: Introduction to Database Design (Harvey Quamen and Jon Bath) ...

RECOMMENDED: Training Information Professionals in the Digital Humanities

Sep

22

2023

“Training Information Professionals in the Digital Humanities: An Analysis of DH Courses in LIS Education,” by Chris Alen Sula (Pratt Institute) and Claudia Berger (Sarah Lawrence College), provides a look at DH courses offered in LIS programs in light of the growth DH has seen since 2014 when it was identified as one of the ...

RESOURCE: Text on Maps Help Guide

Sep

22

2023

Text on Maps has collected pieces of text from 57,000 georeferenced maps from the David Rumsey Map Collection and made them searchable with mapKurator, allowing users to search within the contents of text on maps, rather than just the metadata. From the site: “While library patrons have become used to searching books via their content ...

CFP: dh+lib Review Editors-at-Large for Fall 2021

Sep

9

2021

Dear friends and colleagues, The dh+lib Review team sends you well-wishes as our fall semesters are underway. We’re inviting librarians, archivists, students, and anyone interested in the intersections of digital humanities and librarianship, to volunteer weekly shifts for the journal. Editors-at-Large play an essential role in discovering and highlighting new ideas, opportunities and projects that ...

PROJECT: Japan Disasters Digital Archive Project

Nov

12

2020

The Japan Disasters Digital Archive (JDA) is an advanced search engine for materials “from all over the web, individuals’ testimonials, tweets, prominently including content from international partners who are building digital repositories about the disasters” of 2011. In addition to facilitating searching through the archive’s materials, users can also use the site to create their own curated ...

RESOURCE: Startwords

Nov

12

2020

Startwords, an online publication from Princeton’s Center for Digital Humanities, recently published its debut issue. From the issue’s announcement: With an emphasis on exploration and creativity in both content and presentation, Startwords is “a forum for experimental humanities scholarship” that invites a broad audience to think about new or underexplored aspects of DH work. The title ...

EVENT: Medical Heritage Library 10th Anniversary Conference

Nov

12

2020

The Medical Heritage Library is pleased to announce its 10th Anniversary Virtual Conference, to be held this Friday, November 13th from 11 – 5 EDT. The conference features a broad range of presentations of interest to the digital humanities community, and is entirely free to attend. Presentations will be made via Zoom. Registration for the ...

PROJECT: Machine Learning Jim Crow

Sep

17

2020

On the Books: Jim Crow and Algorithms of Resistance, a digital project from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries, uses collections as data and machine learning approaches to discover Jim Crow and racially-based legislation signed into law in North Carolina between Reconstruction and the Civil Rights Movement. The project is in honor ...

EVENT: Spectrums of DH at McGill University

Sep

17

2020

Digital Humanities at McGill has announced a virtual speaker series, Spectrums of DH. Inspired by Professor Stéfan Sinclair’s legacy of DH Initiatives, the series features talks from renowned DH scholars and researchers from around the world. All events are free and open to the public via Zoom. The series will run from September 17th, 2020 through ...

EVENT: Silences in the LAMS: Digital Surrogacy in the Time of Pandemic

Sep

17

2020

The Historical Medical Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, in conjunction with the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries and the University of Pennsylvania, will host a virtual symposium, Silences in the LAMS: Digital Surrogacy in the Time of Pandemic, on Monday, October 12, 2020 from 1-4pm EDT. The event will be ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Librarian, Marquette University Libraries (Milwaukee, WI)

Sep

17

2020

From the announcement: Marquette University Raynor Memorial Libraries seeks a Digital Scholarship Librarian. The library’s Digital Scholarship Lab supports the growing number of Marquette faculty and student research projects involving web development, digital posters, mapping, data analysis, text visualization, open scholarship, and other means of digital knowledge production and communication. This person will play a key role ...