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Job Announcements, News

Job: Assistant Director for Scholarly Communication & Projects, Columbia University Libraries

From the ad: The Columbia University Libraries seek an Assistant Director for its newly formed Digital Scholarship division to help lead a team that is coordinating library-facilitated digital scholarship projects. This position also connects the library’s efforts to emergent themes and approaches around scholarly communication. Reporting to the Director of Digital Scholarship, the Assistant Director […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Programs Manager, National Museum of American History

From the ad: This position is located in the Office of Curatorial Affairs (OCA) at the National Museum of American History (NMAH), Smithsonian Institution (SI). The Digital Programs Officer leads and directs the Digital Programs division in performing outstanding digital services and provides the vision to seek new, innovative policies, programs and practices to provide […]

News, Resources

Resource: Exploring Histograms

From the resource: Histograms are a way to summarize a numeric variable. They use counts to aggregate similar values together and show you the overall distribution. However, they can be sensitive to parameter choices! We’re going to take you step by step through the considerations with lots of data visualizations. Read the full resource here.

Job Announcements, News

Job: Endowment Director, Wikimedia Foundation

From the ad: As the professional focused on developing sustainable support for the Foundation, the Endowment Director will report to and work with the Chief Advancement Officer. Succeeding in this environment will require taking a hands-on approach to connecting with a broad array of donors, using traditional development methods, while implementing the infrastructure required for […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Humanities Librarian, Brown University

From the ad: The Brown University Library seeks an innovative and service-oriented individual to be the Digital Humanities Librarian.  The Digital Humanities Librarian plays a central role in the integration of digital tools, resources, and methodologies with traditional resources and approaches to research, teaching, and learning in the humanities. Read more here.

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Digital Technologies, Bodies, and Embodiments – Computers and Composition

From the CFP: This special issue will examine questions of digital media, bodies, and embodiments with specific attention to writing studies itself: how writing composes embodiments and how embodiments compose writing within and through digital technologies and institutions. We are calling for scholarship that offers theoretical, methodological, and/or pedagogical work that contributes to the latest […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Funding: Visualizing Digital Scholarship in Libraries and Learning Spaces

From the post: North Carolina State University has launched a Mellon-funded project for visualizing digital scholarship in libraries and learning spaces… This call solicits proposals for block grants from library or museum systems that have visualization installations. Block grant recipients can utilize funds for ideas ranging from creating open source scholarly content for visualization environments […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Opportunity: Join the ADHO Steering Committee

From the post: The Alliance of Digital Humanities (ADHO) is looking for enthusiastic Digital Humanists who would like to actively help further DH in all its breadth and diversity on a global scale. The ADHO Steering Committee (SC) has several vacancies to be filled, starting August 8, 2017, until July 1st 2018 (when the governance […]