Job Announcements, News

Job: Assistant Director, Digital Scholarship Initiatives

From the ad: The Assistant Director, Digital Scholarship Initiatives, Library Systems and Collections will share responsibility for strategic planning and resource allocation to develop digital services and steward library collections to support teaching and learning at Salve Regina University. Working with other librarians, staff, and campus partners, the incumbent will envision and implement services for […]

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Job: Assistant Professor of English for New Media

From the ad: The English Department at Dakota State University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of English specializing in Digital Media Design and Digital Humanities. Candidates should demonstrate the ability to teach courses in our English for New Media degree program and some area of specialization in the digital humanities. Preference will be […]

News, Resources

Resource: A Digital Archive of 1,800+ Children’s Books

From the post: Of the adult literary imagination of the time, Leo Bersani writes in A Future for Astyanax that “the confrontation in nineteenth-century works between a structured, socially viable and verbally analyzable self and the wish to shatter psychic and social structures produces considerable stress and conflict.” I think we can see a similar conflict, expressed […]

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Job: Digital Archivist and Institutional Repository Librarian, WPI

From the ad: Serve as the first-level technology and application manager for the library’s institutional repository service (currently using Bepress’s Digital Commons); and as the library’s chief liaison to Information Technology in developing requirements and functionality of other digital scholarship and repository platforms (such as Samvera); and as the lead functional liaison to university faculty, […]

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Job: Digital Research Fellow, Folger Shakespeare Library

From the ad: The Digital Research Fellow will be tasked with developing, building, and trialing a structure for accessing and researching texts, images, and metadata relating to the major themes of the project, with an emphasis on the Folger’s unique collection of food-related manuscripts. Working closely with co-directors and Folger stakeholders, the post-doc will help […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: Major Milestones for Omeka (Omeka S 1.0 Release)

From the announcement: Today, the Omeka team is releasing the first major point release for Omeka S: 1.0. It is available for download today. We are also revealing a redesigned, Omeka.org, which represents a major undertaking of effort that has happened at the edges of all other pressing design, development, and outreach work. One year […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: Decolonizing Digital Humanities – A Discussion and Zotero Workshop

About the workshop: Together we will have a discussion of what it means to decolonize the Archive as well as the field of Digital Humanities. Please come ready to participate! Please bring your computer. After the discussion, we will have a hands-on Zotero workshop. Learn how to use Zotero for organizing your bibliographic references… Organized […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Canadian Society for Digital Humanities 2018 – Gathering Diversities

From the CFP: The Canadian Society for Digital Humanities (http://csdh-schn.org/) invites scholars, practitioners, and graduate students to submit proposals for papers, posters, and digital demonstrations for its annual meeting, which will be held at the 2018 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Regina, from May 26th to 28th (https://www.congress2018.ca/). The theme of […]

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Job: Digital Scholarship Archivist, MIT

From the ad: DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP ARCHIVIST, MIT Libraries, to coordinate, facilitate, and enhance activities to advance student, faculty, and public awareness and use of, learning with, and access to digital archives and special collections. Will assist with the coordination of digital collections’ workflows and the creation of digital assets from archives and special collections materials; […]