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Author: Wendy Hanamura

Announcements, News

Announcement: Boston Public Library’s Sound Archives Coming to the Internet Archive for Preservation & Public Access

From the announcement: Today, the Boston Public Library announced the transfer of significant holdings from its Sound Archives Collection to the Internet Archive, which will digitize, preserve and make these recordings accessible to the public. The Boston Public Library (BPL) sound collection includes hundreds of thousands of audio recordings in a variety of historical formats, […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: Books from 1923 to 1941 Now Liberated!

From the announcement: The Internet Archive is now leveraging a little known, and perhaps never used, provision of US copyright law, Section 108h, which allows libraries to scan and make available materials published 1923 to 1941 if they are not being actively sold. Elizabeth Townsend Gard, a copyright scholar at Tulane University calls this “Library […]

News, Resources

Resource: Kicking off the GCDI Sound Series – A Workshop on Sound

About the resource: Later today, I am teaching a workshop on sound, kicking off our new GCDI Sound Series. In the workshop I will review a variety of digital tools, techniques and concepts for recording, editing and sharing sound… Like the workshops led by previous Digital Fellows, my workshop is publicly available to follow online. Currently, […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Excel vs R – A Brief Introduction to R

Quantitative research often begins with the humble process of counting. Historical documents are never as plentiful as a historian would wish, but counting words, material objects, court cases, etc. can lead to a better understanding of the sources and the subject under study. When beginning the process of counting, the first instinct is to open […]

News, Reports

Report: The 2017 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing

From the report: I’m filing this conference report from the annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, which just wrapped in Orlando, Florida. The conference is a project of Anita B.org, which has been a community for women in computing since 1987. According to the GHC conference website, it’s the largest gathering of women in […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Project Manager, Digital Projects, NYU Libraries

From the ad: The Project Manager, Digital Projects, reporting to the Associate Dean, Digital Library Technology Services, will lead New York University Libraries’ efforts to complete several technology initiatives. The Project Manager, Digital Projects will research cloud services, work with the Hemispheric Institute and DLTS developers and designers on the HIDVL site redesign. They will […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Scholarly Publishing Specialist, NYU Libraries

From the ad: Reporting jointly to the NYU Press and the NYU Libraries, the Digital Scholarly Publishing Specialist develops and manages a variety of digital services and projects ranging from advising and assisting NYU faculty and advanced graduate students in electronic dissemination of their scholarly work to the development of innovative publishing initiatives, such as […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Assistant Professor of Convergent Media, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

From the ad: The College of Media invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Convergent Media, including the interaction between the old and new media systems and platforms. Successful candidates should demonstrate an innovative research and teaching agenda. Appointments will be made on a tenure-track, 9-month academic year basis in one of the College’s […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: The Suffrage Postcard Project – A Replica Archive

At the 2017 Australian Historical Association Conference, in a panel about digital history, Professor Victoria Haskins discussed what she described as a “replica archive.”  Haskins’ research is concerned with Indigenous domestic servants in Australia and the United States – women whose lives, she rightly notes, are often difficult to uncover in the archives.  Technology, however, […]