In coordination with the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and specialists at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, in addition to bepress, we have established the Magazine of Early American Datasets (MEAD). Read full post here.
Walt Disney Studios is looking for a digital archivist to build, organize and maintain the Walt Disney Animation Studio’s digital production archive. Read the full posting here.
LITA is offering an online course on Personal Digital Archiving. Registration closes October 6th. Read the full post here.
Antony Groves has published a short guide on using Vine to disseminate library information. Read the full post here.
Benjamin White lectures on the question of “Are digital laws making or breaking libraries?” Watch the full thing here.
Corynne McSherry, a legal scholar with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, has a talk up on CopyTalk about recent copyright cases. Listen to the talk here.
This study was commissioned by Universities UK’s Open Access Co-ordination Group in response to a recommendation of the Finch Group in its second report in 2013 that reliable indicators should be gathered on key features of the transition to open access (OA) in the UK. Read full post here.
I wanted to explore Spotify’s metadata in a way that would model the interpretive messiness of generic categories. To do so, I built a program that bounces through Spotify’s metadata to produce multiple readings of the idea of genre in relation to a particular artist. Spotify offers a fairly robust API, and there are a number of […]
The Film Studies Program at Mount Holyoke College invites applications for a visiting assistant professor of digital media studies, beginning July 1, 2016. This position is a new category called an Innovation Hire, a four year position that invites the candidate to help shape the College’s curriculum in new directions. Read full post here.
Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon invites applications for the Digital Projects Developer position at the Aubrey R. Watzek Library. Lewis & Clark is a selective liberal arts college with graduate programs in Education, Counseling Psychology, and Law. Read full post here.
