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Job: Discovery Metadata Librarian at Yale University

Yale University is recruiting a Discovery Metadata Librarian. From the ad: The Discovery Metadata Librarian will participate in the ongoing development of the library’s Hydra/Fedora/Blacklight/Ladybird infrastructure, and will coordinate metadata activities and advise on metadata function improvement, enhancement, and troubleshooting in Ladybird. The incumbent will perform analysis, remediation, and normalization of metadata in the library’s […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Digital Initiatives Symposium

From the CFP: Join University of San Diego’s Copley Library for the Fourth Annual Digital Initiative Symposium. We are accepting proposals for 45-minute concurrent sessions, 90-minute panel discussions, and poster presentations. We welcome proposals from organizations, including colleges and universities of all sizes, community colleges, public libraries, special libraries, museums, and other cultural memory institutions. […]

News, Resources

Resource: Adjusting Map Data with Mapshaper

From the post: Map making is a finicky challenge where oftentimes your map data — points, lines, and polygons — must align just right with your external data that exists as a CSV file or related. Mapshaper is an online tool that helps you massage your geographic data to where it needs to be. Read […]

News, Resources

Resource: R graph gallery

From the resource: Looking for inspiration or help concerning data visualisation with R? Here you will find lots of plots made using it, always with the associated code! I hope you will find the information you are looking for. Access resource here.

Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Curation Librarian, Fort Hays State University

From the ad: Forsyth Library, Fort Hays State University (FHSU) seeks a creative and service-oriented colleague to build, curate, and promote the library’s unique digital collections and to partner with others across campus in a variety of academic digital initiatives. The Digital Curation Librarian will work closely with colleagues from the library, the university, and […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Scholarly Communication Librarian, IU Bloomington

From the ad: The Indiana University Libraries seeks a creative and forward-thinking professional to manage the library’s scholarly communication efforts. Reporting to the Head, Scholarly Communications, this position provides operational oversight for specific areas of the Library’s scholarly communications program. Read full ad  here.

News, Resources

Resource: Using Clustering to Make a Color Scale

Choice of color scale can make a big difference in how the data reads. A careless choice might make the data appear skewed too far low or too far high, so you need to look at the data and decide what’s right for the context. But, sometimes you just gotta make a lot of charts […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Scholarship Fellow, PSU

From the ad: The Pennsylvania State University Libraries seek creative, forward-thinking individuals to apply for the fixed-term, non-tenure track, three-year appointment as Digital Scholarship Fellow. This faculty librarian will play a critical role in outreach, training, and service development to strengthen digital scholarship at Penn State. The successful candidate will be conversant with methods, technologies, […]