Over the past few years, many of the most prominent American universities, including Harvard, MIT, Stanford, and Duke, have joined to embrace a game-changing approach in opening up their previously closed academic resources. Leveraging the revolutionary potential of digital technology to provide access to the world’s best faculty members, this new method of dissemination takes […]
Clemson University Libraries seeks an innovative and motivated professional to work with a vibrant library faculty and staff to envision and implement a digital scholarship initiative that creatively engages all members of the campus community. The Head of Digital Scholarship, reporting to the Head of the Office of Library Technology, will play a key leadership role in shaping […]
CFP: Alt-Academic Feminism I: “Teaching Outside the Classroom through Digital Humanities,” Women’s Caucus for Modern Languages at the MLA, Chicago, 1/9-12/2014. Amid Fembot Collective, Black Girls Code, MOOCs, “brogrammers,” new collaborations, how are women teaching, learning, connecting (or not) via DH? 250-word proposals 3/15/13 to Teresa Mangum (tmangum@uiowa.edu). The Women’s Caucus for the Modern Languages, an allied […]
Manuscripts Online has now been officially launched. We hope you’ll like it! We have a few resources still to be processed and added to the search engine, but the site is essentially complete. Key features include Sophisticated custom search which enables you to combine Keyword, Place, Person and Date searches; and/or restrict your search to specific Resources, […]
The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, in partnership with the Office of the Provost, announces a postdoctoral fellowship for the academic year 2013-2014 in the area of digital humanities. This position is in association with the Culture, Creativity, and Design Project (http://artsci.case.edu/culturecreativitydesign/) and the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities’ DH Initiatives (humanities.case.edu). This is a […]
Electronic roundtable session. Candidates will share experiences with submitting digital scholarship for tenure and promotion. Digital work samples, framing strategies, evaluation criteria, challenges and recommendations. Abstracts by 15 March 2013; Victoria E. Szabo (ves4@duke.edu).
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), currently based at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University but moving to a permanent location by spring 2013, is an ambitious project to make the cultural and scientific heritage of humanity available, free of charge, to all. By adhering to the fundamental principle of free and universal […]
Decoding Digital Pedagogy, pt. 1: Beyond the LMS by Sean Michael Morris We are not ready to teach online. In a recent conversation with a friend, I found myself puzzled, and a bit troubled, when he expressed confusion about digital pedagogy. He said something to the extent of, “What’s the difference between digital pedagogy and […]
Museums and galleries embrace social media and use it as a means to communicate and promote their activities, and also to interact and engage with their visitors (Russo, Watkins, Kelly, & Chan, 2008; Kidd, 2011; Fletcher & Lee, 2012). A large number of museums now have a profile on social media sites to post news, […]
A quick fyi for Bach lovers: You can download for free the complete organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach. They were recorded by Dr. James Kibbie (University of Michigan) on original baroque organs in Leipzig, Germany. Start with a collection of Favorite Masterworks, or get the complete worksthat have been divided into 13 groups for easy download. Once you download these […]
