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Job Announcements, News

Job: Research and Instruction Librarian/Virtual Reference Coordinator, Duquesne University

From the posting: This is a reference position with significant instructional and liaison duties. Knowledge of information sources, interpersonal skills, instructional skills, and technology skills are of highest importance for this position. Provides research assistance; coordinates and provides training for virtual reference. Collaborates with colleagues and disciplinary faculty to develop, promote, and provide library instruction […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: Digital Classicist London Live-Casts

From the announcement: For the first time this year, the Digital Classicist London seminars will be live-cast via the Web, so colleagues who are unable to make it to the events themselves at 16:30 (British Summer Time) on a Friday afternoon, can watch and listen along at the DCLS YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIamtu1Z62wL5XRk2mE8HKw Or watch […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: 5 Things We’ve Learned About Digital Humanities in the Last 5 Years

At the end of May, 2015, it will be exactly five years since the formal launch of UCL Centre for Digital Humanities. Our mission is “is to champion, catalyse, promote, facilitate, undertake, advise and publicise activities in Digital Humanities (with as wide an interpretation of that phrase as possible) throughout the founding Faculties and UCL, […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: The Carework and Codework of the Digital Humanities

When it comes to the digital humanities, my most strongly-held belief is that the field, in its most powerful instantiation, can perform a double function: facilitating new digital approaches to scholarly research, and just as powerfully, calling attention to what knowledge, even with these new approaches, still remains out of reach. I will illustrate this […]

News, Resources

Resource: A Student Collaborators’ Bill of Rights | Center for Digital Humanities – UCLA

From the announcement: UCLA’s Digital Humanities program emphasizes cross-disciplinary, cross-hierarchy collaboration among students, faculty, and staff. We’ve created this Student Collaborators’ Bill of Rights as a statement of our values and principles in the UCLA DH program. Collaborations between students and more experienced digital humanities practitioners should benefit everyone. At their best, these partnerships are a […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: Critical Blogging in Archaeology, A Special Volume of Internet Archaeology

From the introduction: This special volume of Internet Archaeology collects the leading voices of blogging in archaeology to provide a critical examination of informal, online self-publication. This collection of articles is one result of over a decade of digital communication; the confluence of a conversation that grew from a few lonely voices to a tumultuous […]

News, Resources

Resource: HathiTrust Resource Center Workset Browser

From the post: In my copious spare time I have hacked together a thing I’m calling the HathiTrust Research Center Workset Browser, a (fledgling) tool for doing “distant reading” against corpora from the HathiTrust. [1] The idea is to: 1) create, refine, or identify a HathiTrust Research Center workset of interest — your corpus, 2) […]