Job Announcements, News

Job: Director for Strategic Initiatives, MIT Press

From the ad: DIRECTOR FOR STRATEGIC INITIATIVES, MIT Press, to operationalize key developments within the Press’s strategic plan, helping establish a foundation for ongoing growth and innovation by bridging the vision for the business with its operational implementation. Will help build the Press’s capacity for digital innovation. A primary objective will be to obtain external […]

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Job: LibraryPress@UF Coordinator, University of Florida Libraries

From the ad: The Coordinator supports production and development needs for all LibraryPress@UF imprint works (e.g., new publications, republications, expanded editions, digital works, etc.) for design, layout, creation, coordination on metadata (e.g., library records, CIP, and publisher information), developing and maintaining design files and processes, and overall production needs. The LibraryPress@UF focuses on works that […]

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Job: Digital Projects Manager, University of Dayton

From the ad: The Digital Projects Manager will coordinate activity of all digital project contributors from across University libraries. They will direct the workflow for the projects, manage daily scanning activities, and supervise a production team of student workers. They will collaborate with other staff in the University Libraries and with campus partners to ensure […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Preprint for “The Spine of American Law”

Kellen Funk and I have co-authored an article titled “The Spine of American Law: Digital Text Analysis and U.S. Legal Practice.” The article has been recently accepted for publication in the American Historical Review. It is currently scheduled for the February 2018 issue. Here is our abstract. In the second half of the nineteenth century, the […]

News, Resources

Resource: Hand-Colored Photographs from 19th Century Japan

From the post: The colorized images you see here come from the NYPL’s large collection of late 19th century Japanese photography, taken by photographers like the Italian-British Felice Beato and his Japanese student Kimbei, who “assisted Beato in the hand-coloring of photographs until 1863,” then “set up his own large and flourishing studio in Yokohama […]

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Job: Supervisory Librarian (Chief, Digital Collections Management and Services), Library of Congress

From the ad: This position reports to the Director, Technology Policy, in Library Services and is responsible for leading the newly established Digital Collections Management & Services Division. The division is responsible for providing support for the full lifecycle management of digital collections. This includes executing digitization projects using in-house or contractor digitization services. Read […]

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Job: Head of STEM and Entrepreneurship, Northeastern University Libraries

From the ad: The Head of STEM and Entrepreneurship leads research and instruction services in support of STEM and business-related schools and affiliated labs, centers, and institutes.  You’ll supervise talented staff and shape core teaching and learning activities including course-integration strategies, collection development, and research consultation services.  Working collaboratively across the library and beyond, you’ll […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: Zotero 5.0 Release

From the post: We’re delighted to announce the release of Zotero 5.0, the next major version of Zotero and the biggest upgrade in Zotero’s history. Zotero 5.0 brings many new features, as well as a huge number of changes under the hood to improve Zotero’s responsiveness and stability and lay the groundwork for other big […]

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Announcement: Neatline 2.5.2 Release

From the announcement: New release! First, a huge thank you to Jamie Folsom and Andy Stuhl from Perfomant Software Solutions LLC, who did the heavy lifting on the coding for this release. We couldn’t have done it without them. We’re grateful, as well, to Neatline community member Adam Doan (@doana on Github) from the University of […]