Stanford Prize for Innovation in Research Libraries (SPIRL) | Stanford University Libraries. Purpose Stanford University Libraries offers a prize to recognize and celebrate innovation through programs, projects, and/or new or improved services that directly or indirectly benefit readers and users. The goal of this prize is to single out for community attention and to celebrate…
Call for nominations for 3 new aaDH Executive Committee positions – aaDH: Australasian Association for Digital Humanities The Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH) invites nominations for three new Executive Committee positions. The Association seeks to elect three Ordinary Members for 3-year terms beginning in 2013. To be eligible, candidates must be current members of the Australasian…
Registration Open: Free ALA Webinar on Digital Literacy and Libraries | District Dispatch. How do librarians and educators keep up with the continual stream of new advancements? How do they motivate and support library staff in staying current? To facilitate a national dialogue on digital literacy education, the American Library Association (ALA) will host the…
CENDARI Visiting Research Fellowships – Call for 2013 Fellows. CENDARI (Collaborative European Digital Archive Infrastructure) invites applications for its Visiting Research Fellowship Programme for 2013. The fellowships are being funded through the CENDARI project by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for Research. Visiting Research Fellowships are available in the following CENDARI partner institutions Trinity…
Software Studies: 250K for two students to do their PhD degrees with Lev Manovich at CUNY. I am looking for two exceptional individuals who want do their PhDs with me at CUNY Graduate Center beginning in Fall 2013 (or Fall 2014). Funding: Each student will receive a 25k/year stipend for 5 years (125K in total); tuition…
GIS in the Digital Humanities: A free one day seminar « Applied Technologies to Archaeology. Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are becoming increasingly used by historians, archaeologists, literary scholars, classicists and others with an interest in humanities geographies. Take-up has been hampered by a lack of understanding of what GIS is and what it has to…
Open Call for Fellowship Applications, Academic Year 2013-2014 | Berkman Center. The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University has opened our yearly call for fellowship applications. This opportunity is for those who wish to spend the 2013-2014 academic year in residence in Cambridge, MA as part of Berkman’s community of pioneers, and…
Workshop: Developing methods for the microanalysis of online data, Radboud University Nijmegen | HASTAC. Date: 9-10 January 2013 Venue: Radboud University Nijmegen Organisers: David Giles (Winchester University), Jessica Lester (Washington State University), Trena Paulus (University of Tennessee) and Wyke Stommel (Radboud University Nijmegen) Although computer-mediated communication (CMC) has been studied extensively for the last three decades, few…
Welcome to Maker Librarian! | Maker Librarian. Having been involved in Maker Culture since 2009, I’ve taken a lot of pleasure in watching the maker and hacker movement intersect with libraries and was excited to play a small role in making this happen. And in the last year interest seems to have exploded! This is where…
Digital Humanities Implementation Grants | National Endowment for the Humanities. Office of Digital Humanities Receipt Deadline January 23, 2013 for Projects Beginning September 2013 Brief Summary This program is designed to fund the implementation of innovative digital-humanities projects that have successfully completed a start-up phase and demonstrated their value to the field. Such projects might enhance our understanding…