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Job: Associate University Librarian, Digital Scholarship and Strategy, U. Victoria (PDF)

The AUL will provide visionary leadership in emerging areas of digital scholarship and foster broad and deep collaborations between librarians, researchers, and faculty and community members. He/she will help to further integrate the Libraries within the teaching, learning and research activities at the university. The AUL will build upon existing partnerships between the Libraries and […]

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Editors’ Choice: NITLE Presentation on Geotemporal Storytelling with Neatline

About this time last year, David McClure and I had a great conversation with the folks from the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) about geotemporal storytelling with Neatline. We had lots of great questions and comments from the audience, too. Video for the talk is now available on NITLE’s YouTube channel. Watch […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Local and Unique and Digital: A Evolving Trend for Libraries and Cultural Heritage Institutions

Libraries have been digitizing materials for decades as surrogates for access to physical materials, and in doing so have broadened the range of people and uses for library materials. With projects like Hathi Trust and Google Book Search systematically digitizing mass-produced monographs and making them available within the bounds of copyright law, libraries continue the […]

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Job: Digital Preservation Librarian and Records Manager – Marshall University

As a member of the Special Collections Department team, research, develop, document, and implement a digital preservation program to ensure preservation of all the University’s archival, manuscript, map, rare book, and other special collections of enduring value. Review existing Library practices and analyze needs and establish policies and best practices for the long-term protection and […]

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Announcement: Writing History in the Digital Age

We are proud to announce the latest title from digitalculturebooks, Writing History in the Digital Age edited by Kristen Nawrotzki and Jack Dougherty. This book is the third title in our Digital Humanities series and began as a “what-if” experiment by posing a question: How have Internet technologies influenced how historians think, teach, author, and […]

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Announcement: Smithsonian Releases E-Book on Museums, Libraries, and Archives in a Digital Age

The Smithsonian—the world’s largest museum and research complex, with collections numbering in excess of 137 million objects and specimens—has long experimented on the digital frontier. In his book, “Best of Both Worlds: Museums, Libraries, and Archives in a Digital Age,” G. Wayne Clough, the Smithsonian’s 12th Secretary, surveys the efforts of many world-class institutions, including […]