Job Announcements, News

Job: Collections and Online Resources Coordinator at University of Houston

From the announcement: Reporting to the Head of Liaison Services for Collections and Research Support, the Collections and Online Resources Coordinator will collaborate with subject liaison librarians to support collection development and assessment, primarily of electronic materials such as e-books, online journals, databases, and other e-resources, in order to ensure data-informed decision-making. As a member […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: NYU Libraries to Team with Internet Archive to Preserve High Quality Musical Content on the Web

From the announcement: New York University Libraries is leading a collaboration with NYU’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) program and San Francisco-based Archive-It, a service of the Internet Archive (IA) to ensure that the websites of musical composers can be collected, preserved, and made accessible today and in the future, with sound and visual […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: Introducing the Digital Pedagogy Lab

From the announcement: If you’re itching to brush up your digital teaching chops over the summer, the journal Hybrid Pedagogy is offering a Digital Pedagogy Lab this summer. Slated to take place at the University of Wisconsin, Madison from August 10-14, 2015, the lab is a five-day practical institute that will combine discussions of digital pedagogy […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Opportunity: Postgraduate pre-doctoral training positions in digital history, University of Groningen

From the posting: The fellows will participate in the training programme of ForSEAdiscovery and consequently work in an international and interdisciplinary environment involving regular participation in workshops and courses abroad. They will be seconded for a few weeks abroad at other participating institutions. They will acquire experience in organizing digital historical research, in collecting, processing […]

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CFParticipation: Seeding Digital Scholarship! April 24th

From the announcement: This spring, we’re hosing a digital scholarship capacity-building event for librarians, staff, and faculty from Ontario-region universities. Join us for a day of planning (& playing!) – you”ll leave with experience and ideas to grow big and small digital scholarship activities in your institution. Read more: Seeding Digital Scholarship!

Job Announcements, News

Job: Coordinator of Digital Projects at University of Houston

From the announcement: The Coordinator of Digital Projects reports to the Head of Special Collections. Primary responsibilities include managing the internal workflow for the department’s digital library projects and supervising assigned personnel. The Coordinator leads departmental efforts, in collaboration with other UH Libraries departments to preserve, process, and provide access to audiovisual and digital materials, […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Opportunity: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Fellowships

From the announcement: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation is pleased to invite applications for a range of short-term residential fellowships at the John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, with its distinguished collection of primary and secondary sources relating to the Revolutionary era, the colonial Chesapeake, African American studies, decorative arts and material culture through 1830, archaeology, architectural […]

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CFP: The Internet and Online Pedagogy

From the CFP: Pedagogy and pedagogical thinking, with invaluable support from the various disciplines already concerned with the Internet, reside in the ability to articulate and offer new ways of educational representation. Besides interdisciplinary matters, this construction is not a mechanical path that consists in shifting old pedagogy onto the Internet; nor is it something […]

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CFP: 10th Conference ISKO-France 2015

From the announcement: Knowledge organization has been the main object of research for the French branch of ISKO, since its foundation in 1996. We have successively explored organizational structure, the technical tools of mediation as well as the forms and mechanisms of knowledge-sharing systems. All these questions are related to the mechanisms of the production […]