Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Humanities Librarian, University of Alabama

From the ad: The University of Alabama seeks an energetic and innovative librarian to continue our excellent support of digital humanities at The University of Alabama University Libraries. The successful candidate will serve as an ambassador within the University of Alabama faculty to promote the resources and community of the Alabama Digital Humanities Center (ADHC). […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: DHLC Specialist, Michigan State

From the ad: The College of Arts and Letters (CAL) at Michigan State University seeks a continuing system specialist in Literature, Cognitive Science, and Digital Humanities (DH) to participate in ongoing initiatives in history of the mind, literary cognition, and digital humanities as manager of the Digital Humanities and Literary Cognition Lab (DHLC) and academic […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Opportunity: KB Researcher-in-residence 2019

About the opportunity: Are you an early career social scientist, data scientist, computer scientist, humanities scholar, or more simply put, a researcher working with or interested in our digital collections, such as the web archive, 60 million pages digitised text or anonymised user log data? Then we’re looking for you! The Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB), National […]

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Job: Team Lead – Digital Scholarship, Tufts

From the ad: Reporting to the Head of Scholarly Communications & Collections, the Digital Scholarship Team Lead leads the library’s efforts in coordinating Tisch Library’s digital scholarship services for students, faculty, and staff in the School of Arts & Sciences and the School of Engineering. The position is responsible for conducting ongoing needs assessment and […]

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Job: Special Collections Analyst, Columbia University Libraries

From the ad: Columbia University Libraries (CUL) seeks an innovative and energetic librarian to provide support for Columbia’s digital library and scholarly technology systems by adapting, configuring and using relevant software tools and implementing standards and best practices. The Special Collections Analyst will work directly with Libraries and University stakeholders to research, develop and document […]

News, Reports

Report: A Framework for Aggregating Private and Public Web Archives

About the report: Personal and private Web archives are proliferating due to the increase in the tools to create them and the realization that Internet Archive and other public Web archives are unable to capture personalized (e.g., Facebook) and private (e.g., banking) Web pages. We introduce a framework to mitigate issues of aggregation in private, […]

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Job: Project Manager, Colored Conventions Project

From the ad: The University of Delaware seeks a Project Manager for the Colored Conventions Project (CCP). The Project Manager will lead efforts to continue existing projects and partnerships and implement new national initiatives. Collaborating closely with the CCP Team and the University of Delaware Library’s technical team, the incumbent will also work on the […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: Canada’s Early Women Writers project launches two websites

From the announcement: The Canada’s Early Women Writers project is pleased to announce that their sister websites, Canada’s Early Women Writers and the Database of Canada’s Early Women Writers, are both fully populated and available online. Canada’s Early Women Writers began in the pre-digital 1980s, with research using snail mail and typewriters; this now-static database […]