We’re rolling out the new user registration/Editor-at-Large user management plugin (developed by one of our managing editors, Amanda Regan) this week. This post will serve as an introduction to its new features, and a brief instruction manual for both new users and existing Editors-at-Large. We welcome any feedback you might have after you’ve experienced this new process—our…

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The University of Michigan is recruiting a Michigan DPLA Service Hub Coordinator. From the ad: Under the guidance of the Michigan DPLA Steering Committee, this role will serve as the primary point of contact between Michigan “sub-hubs” and DPLA, and will be responsible for coordinating metadata aggregation between partner institutions located throughout the state. Additionally, responsibilities…

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From the ad: This position supports the Library’s data applications, including GIS, and other digital library programs and will adopt, adapt, develop and maintain software to provide a web-based geospatial discovery and access portal using open source technologies in an inter-institutional, community-based, development effort. The successful candidate will work to provision the necessary computing systems…

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Georgia State University Library seeks a collegial, entrepreneurial, and hands-on Digital Scholarship Librarian skilled at using technology to support interdisciplinary digital projects in a wide array of subject areas, including but not limited to the digital humanities. Read full ad here.

Humanists use historical images as sources of information about social norms, behavior, fashion, and other details of particular cultures, places and periods. Dutch Golden Era paintings, works by French Impressionists, and 20th century street photography are just three examples of such images. Normally such visuals directly show objects of interests such as social scenes, city…

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For the last few years, I’ve been collaborating with Roger Whitson on editing Comics as Scholarship, a special issue for Digital Humanities Quarterly. The open-access issue is now available and may be of interest to anyone experimenting with alternatives to the monolithic scholarly essay. The collection includes six comics written and designed by scholars as…

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From the ad: Oregon State University Libraries and Press (OSULP) seeks applications for the position of STEM Instruction and Outreach Librarian. This is a full-time (1.0 FTE), 12-month, tenure-track Assistant Professor position reporting to the Head of the Teaching and Engagement Department. The successful candidate will focus on developing library services and programming to support…

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The interdisciplinary online journal Southern Spaces invites researchers, writers, teachers, artists, documentary producers, and geographers to submit materials for a 2017–2018 “Digital Spaces” series.  We seek multi-media articles and projects that engage with and mobilize digital scholarship. “Digital Spaces” is especially interested in work that deals with the real and imagined spaces and places of…

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From the ad: WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS. The Department of English seeks applications for a tenure-track assistant professorship in English, American, or Anglophone literature, with literary subfield open, to begin in the fall semester of 2016; the candidate should have expertise in computational approaches to literary analysis and will be expected to make a…

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