From the ad: Reporting to the Head of Scholarly Communications & Collections, the Digital Scholarship Team Lead leads the library’s efforts in coordinating Tisch Library’s digital scholarship services for students, faculty, and staff in the School of Arts & Sciences and the School of Engineering. The position is responsible for conducting ongoing needs assessment and…

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From the ad: Columbia University Libraries (CUL) seeks an innovative and energetic librarian to provide support for Columbia’s digital library and scholarly technology systems by adapting, configuring and using relevant software tools and implementing standards and best practices. The Special Collections Analyst will work directly with Libraries and University stakeholders to research, develop and document…

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About the report: Personal and private Web archives are proliferating due to the increase in the tools to create them and the realization that Internet Archive and other public Web archives are unable to capture personalized (e.g., Facebook) and private (e.g., banking) Web pages. We introduce a framework to mitigate issues of aggregation in private,…

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From the ad: The University of Delaware seeks a Project Manager for the Colored Conventions Project (CCP). The Project Manager will lead efforts to continue existing projects and partnerships and implement new national initiatives. Collaborating closely with the CCP Team and the University of Delaware Library’s technical team, the incumbent will also work on the…

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From the resource: Two years ago, when I first grabbed the transcripts of the TED talks, using wget, I relied upon the wisdom and generosity of Padraic C on StackOverflow to help me use Python’s BeautifulSoup library to get the data out of the downloaded HTML files that I wanted. Now that Katherine Kinnaird and…

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