Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Scholarship Librarian at DePaul University

From the ad: Reporting to the Coordinator of Reference, Instruction, and Academic Engagement, the Digital Scholarship Librarian will provide leadership for the integration of digital tools, resources and methodologies with traditional resources and approaches to research, teaching and learning. The Digital Scholarship Librarian will collaborate with members of the Library Administration and with Coordinators of […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: 7th Annual Open Access Symposium at UNT

We are pleased to issue the call for proposals for the 7th annual Open Access Symposium at UNT, the premier annual conference regarding Open Access, attracting speakers and attendees from around the world.  The conference will be held on the main campus of the UNT system in Denton, Texas, just north of Dallas.   This year we invite both […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Data First Interventions

These are some remarks I made at the Web Archives conference at the University of Michigan, on November 12th, 2015. I didn’t have any slides other than this visual presentation. To some extent I think the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities and similar centers, conferences and workshops like ThatCamp have been so successful at […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Tool Time, or a Discussion on Picking the Right Digital Preservation Tools for Your Program

Who remembers Home Improvement? Tim the “Tool Man” Taylor was always trying to show the “Tool Time” audience how to build things, make repairs and of course, demo new tools made by the show’s sponsor, Binford. In true sitcom fashion, he broke more things than he fixed, thanks to his “more power” mantra. But I’m […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Angel Fund

As part of the Code4Lib community’s ongoing committment to helping under-represented groups excel in computing and technology, we offer multiple scholarships to attend the annual conference. In addition to seeking organization sponsors for scholarships, we are now able to accept donations from individuals who would like to support the scholarship program. Indiviual donors will be […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: NEH Launches Contest to Use Chronicling America Database

MITH would like to call attention to a new opportunity from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), to create new web-based creative projects. The Library of Congress has developed a user-friendly Application Program Interface (API) to explore the data contained in Chronicling America. While previously working at the Library of Congress, MITH’s Lead Developer […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: DH Developer, Carnegie Mellon University

The Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is undertaking a long-term initiative to foster digital humanities research among its faculty, staff, and students. As part of this initiative, CMU seeks an experienced Developer to collaborate on cutting edge interdisciplinary projects. The Developer would work alongside researchers from Dietrich and elsewhere […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Digital Approaches and the Ancient World

We invite colleagues all around the world and at all stages of their careers to submit papers on the topic of “Digital Approaches and the Ancient World” to a themed issue of the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. The topic is to be construed as widely as possible, to include not only the […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: CGS Position Paper, Opportunities Created by Emerging Technologies

The following is a position paper for an upcoming workshop on the dissertation convened by the Council of Graduate Schools. I’ll be speaking on a panel focusing on what new technologies enable us to do with this critical milestone in graduate study. My main argument is that while the affordances of specific technologies can be exciting, more important is the […]