Job Announcements, News

Job: Library Data Scientist, Arizona State University

From the ad: Under general direction, design, implement, and/or deploys tools for statistical analysis, machine learning, data acquision, data cleaning, and data visualization. Performs professional work in the research, design, development, implementation and maintenance of data science projects. Works typically involves researching a complex problem and implementing a machine learning or analytic tools to solve […]

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Job: Data Manager & Project Coordinator, Digital Library of the Middle East

From the ad: The Digital Library of the Middle East (DLME) project is an international effort, gathering digital resources of Middle East and North African (MENA) material from providers around the world. This initiative will create the first seamlessly interoperable, large-scale digital library of cultural artifacts from the region. Working as part of Stanford Libraries’ […]

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Job: Librarian for Collections and Digital Scholarship, European Languages Division, Harvard

From the ad: Reporting to the Head of the European Languages Division (ELD), the Librarian for Collections and Digital Scholarship will initiate and lead the ELD’s digital projects. As a member of a team of librarians emphasizing collections in the humanities and social sciences in Western European and Slavic languages, providing collaborative support for the Division’s digital […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Funding: Announcing 2018 Deadline for NEH/Mellon Humanities Open Book Program

From the announcement: I’m pleased to announce that the next deadline for the NEH/Mellon Humanities Open Book Program will be September 26, 2018. The Humanities Open Book Program is designed to make outstanding out-of-print humanities books available to a wide audience by making them open access. NEH and Mellon are soliciting proposals from academic presses, […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Slavery in the Machine, sx archipelagos

From the CFP: sx archipelagos is now accepting submissions for our upcoming special section “Slavery in the Machine,” guest edited by Jessica Marie Johnson. This special section aims to highlight scholarship situated at the intersection of technology and hemispheric American slavery. Topics may include but are not limited to: black code studies through a hemispheric […]

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Job: Web Developer 2, University of Houston Libraries

From the ad: The University of Houston Libraries is seeking a talented individual to fill its Web Developer 2 position. This developer will work with an agile team to develop, maintain, and integrate the University of Houston Libraries Digital Asset Management System (DAMS). They will provide advanced web skills in the areas of interface design, […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Archives in the Anthropocene

I want to frame my talk around a quote from Community Futures Lab co-director Rasheedah Phillips from her workshop “Time, Memory, and Justice in Marginalized Communities.” She states “Oral Futures is about speaking into existence what you want to have happen.” I want to think with you today about how such future-making materials are collected, […]