Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Soon You May Be Able to Text with 2,000 Egyptian Hieroglyphs

Led by Unicode Consortium member Michel Suignard, the proposed Hieroglyphs will add over 2,000 new glyphs to the current Unicode standards. It will also provide greater global standardization and ease of use for Egyptologists through a searchable Hieroglyphs database. Over 2,000 new Hieroglyphs may soon be available for use on cell phones, computers, and other […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Reflecting on Critical Making in Digital History

Editors Note: This is the second post in a two-part post exploring a digital history course taught at Carleton University in Winter 2018. Part one explains the premise behind #hist3812. In part one, Graham explained the rationale and unfurling of HIST3812, Critical Making in Digital History. At the end of the course, he invited the students […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Head of Scholarly Communications at Emory University

From the ad: Reporting to the Director, Research, Engagement, and Scholarly Communications, the Head of Scholarly Communications leads the Scholarly Communications Office (SCO) and has leadership, management, policy, planning, and advocacy responsibilities for scholarly communications for all Emory libraries, including promoting scholarly repositories and scholarly communications services to the Emory community. Scholarly communications advocacy and […]

News, Resources

Resource: An Archive of 8,000 Benjamin Franklin Papers Now Digitized & Put Online

From the post: Let me quickly pass along some good news from the Library of Congress: “The papers of American scientist, statesman and diplomat Benjamin Franklin have been digitized and are now available online for the first time…. The Franklin papers consist of approximately 8,000 items mostly dating from the 1770s and 1780s. These include […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

Conference: 2018 IIIF Conference, Washington, DC

About the conference: The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) Community is pleased to announce that registration for the 2018 IIIF conference is open on Eventbrite. The conference will be held between Monday May 21 and Friday May 25 in Washington, D.C., and is hosted by the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress, and the Folger […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Supervisor, Library Applications Programming at University of Oregon

From the ad: The Supervisor, Library Applications Programming, provides high level technical leadership, management and direction in planning, developing and maintaining the library’s public and staff Web environment and applications to support library workflows and services. The Supervisor supervises the programming staff of the Application Development & Integration team (ADI), coordinates needs assessment, design, testing, […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Metadata Product Manager, California Digital Library

From the ad: The Metadata Product Manager provides product management and metadata strategy experience in support of the CDL’s Discovery & Delivery (D2D) program goals. In close coordination with the D2D technical team manager and D2D product management supervisor, lead a team of developers and analysts. Overall product management responsibility for Zephir, a custom metadata […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Director, Arts & Humanities Research Computing, Harvard University

From the ad : Harvard University Information Technology (HUIT) is a community of Information Technology professionals committed to understanding our users and devoted to making it easier for faculty, students, and staff to teach, research, learn, and work through the effective use of information technology. We are recruiting an IT workforce that has both breadth […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: ACRL 2019 Conference – “Recasting the Narrative”

From the CFP: ACRL 2019 contributed paper, panel session, preconference, and workshop proposals are due May 4, 2018.  Submit proposals via the online form available on the conference website. Learn about the overall process, see examples of successful proposals, and discover ways to strengthen your proposal submission in this webcast featuring members of the ACRL 2019 Conference […]