CASVA, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, seeks a research associate with a PhD in art history to serve as Project Head for Digital Art History for the academic years 2014-2016. Candidates should have proven experience with digital art history projects and be able to provide […]
In this newly created short term project role the main objective is to explore ways of using digital material to provide further research opportunities and to understand what the potential copyright challenges might be. The successful applicant will need to be able to demonstrate excellent communication skills to enable them to consult experts both in […]
Washington and Lee University invites applications for a Mellon Foundation postdoctoral fellowship for recent Ph.D.s in history who intend to pursue careers as teacher-scholars in a liberal arts college setting. See the full job ad here.
Why is this space called a “Mall?” Did cattle ever roam the Mall? How have protests changed over time? Visitors will find answers to those questions, and more, in the new website, Histories of the National Mall mallhistory.org, developed by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media with funding from the National Endowment of […]
The British Library has acquired an exceptional manuscript of a medieval drama, made for Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1467). Duke Philip’s copy is one of the finest surviving illuminated manuscripts of any medieval theatrical text, and is now in two volumes: it includes 20 large miniatures painted by Loyset Liédet (d. 1479), illustrating […]
Welcome to the Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections, a freely accessible online archive of digitized newspaper content from the University of Illinois Library. This collection contains 45 newspaper titles, 78,494 issues comprising 978,921 pages and 6,648,636 articles. See the full resource here.
“It’s not just about studying and learning,” says Pitzer College student Susanna Ferrell. “It’s also about activism,” adds fellow student Jade Ulrich, both of whom were beta testers for a Distributed Open Collaborative Course (DOCC) about “Dialogues on Feminism and Technology” that started with Pitzer, University of California, San Diego, and Bowling Green State University […]
We invite you to join us on March 11, 2014, at 1:00 PM (EST), for a free webinar on the Ithaka S+R 2013 US Library Survey. SAGE, one of the sponsors of the survey, is hosting the 60-minute webinar, which will feature Elisabeth Leonard, Sage’s Market Research Analyst, discussing the survey findings with Roger Schonfeld, Ithaka S + […]
If you missed our conference in Florence Italy in February, its not to late to register for Museums and the Web 2014 in Baltimore Maryland, April 2-5, and join a Deep Dive on Email Archiving in Art Museums. Exhibitors looking to reach museum technologists from around the world are invited to sponsor, advertise, or reserve […]
I’ve got some great news: over the last few years javascript has matured as a language and as a community. No longer are javascript applications “spaghetti” code by default, and cross-browser issues are much less common and painful than in the past. Myriad Model-View-Something frameworks exist to provide structure for your code, and if you’re […]
