Job Announcements, News

Job: Director of Visualization Services at NCSU

From the posting: The NCSU Libraries invites applications and nominations for the position of Director of Visualization Services in the Digital Library Initiatives (DLI) department. Recognizing the power of visualization to ask and answer novel questions, spark new insights, enable greater understanding, and communicate powerful ideas, the NCSU Libraries offers advanced visualization spaces, services, and […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: RRCHNM’s 20th Anniversary Conference

RRCHNM’s 20th anniversary is now only one month away. Over 100 people have registered to attend the free, two-day event on November 14 and 15. There is still time to join us – details and the registration form can be found here. More details of the schedule will be released soon. As part of lead-up to the conference, […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: American Antiquarian Society

From the CFP: The American Antiquarian Society is launching a new initiative with a conference and workshop to explore critical, historical, and practical challenges of archival research and access, offering project-based development and discussion focused on the AAS’s unparalleled holdings in pre-1876 books, manuscripts, newspapers, and graphic arts. The two-day conference will open up questions […]

News, Resources

Resource: Some Tips for WordPress.com Beginners

From the post: I have adapted the following from a longer, slightly different document I created for my Digital Information Technologies and Architectures (DITA) module at #citylis this year. It contains some tips for wordpress.com beginners and perhaps some for more advanced users. Read full post: Some Tips for WordPress.com Beginners  

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: DPLA: DPLA and DigitalNZ Present GIF IT UP, an International GIF-making Competition

From the announcement: It’s a public domain celebration! The Digital Public Library of America and DigitalNZ are very excited to announce the launch of GIF IT UP, an international competition over the next six weeks to find the best GIFs reusing public domain and openly licensed digital video, images, text, and other material available via our search portals. The winners […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: DH Research Coordinator at Ghent University Centre for Digital Humanities

From the posting: Ghent University is currently looking for a Digital Humanities Research Coordinator, starting at the earliest possible date. The successful candidate will coordinate the Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities and DARIAH-BE (consisting of the Flemish consortium DARIAH-VL and DARIAH-Wallonie Bruxelles). The Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities develops DH collaboration and supports research projects, […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: On the Digital Practices in History and Ethnography Interest Group

From the CFP: New members are invited to join the Digital Practices in History and Ethnography Interest Group (DPHE-IG) in the Research Data Alliance (RDA), an international initiative to facilitate the development of effective data practices, standards, and infrastructure in particular research areas, and across research areas–aiming to enhance capacity to archive, preserve, analyze, and […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Director, Digital Library Federation

From the announcement: In the past three years, DLF has added more new members than it did in the previous fifteen. It has been a key player in recent important initiatives that contribute to the evolution of libraries and higher education, including the Digital Public Library of America and the Committee on Coherence at Scale […]