From the ad: The Metadata Product Manager provides product management and metadata strategy experience in support of the CDL’s Discovery & Delivery (D2D) program goals. In close coordination with the D2D technical team manager and D2D product management supervisor, lead a team of developers and analysts. Overall product management responsibility for Zephir, a custom metadata…
From the ad : Harvard University Information Technology (HUIT) is a community of Information Technology professionals committed to understanding our users and devoted to making it easier for faculty, students, and staff to teach, research, learn, and work through the effective use of information technology. We are recruiting an IT workforce that has both breadth…
From the CFP: ACRL 2019 contributed paper, panel session, preconference, and workshop proposals are due May 4, 2018. Submit proposals via the online form available on the conference website. Learn about the overall process, see examples of successful proposals, and discover ways to strengthen your proposal submission in this webcast featuring members of the ACRL 2019 Conference…
From the call: The University of Maryland’s African American History, Culture, and Digital Humanities Initiative (AADHum) has posted a call for proposals for their first national conference, to be held at the University of Maryland on October 18-20. The conference’s theme is “Intentionally Digital, Intentionally Black.” Read full CFP here.
From the call: Digital Frontiers has posted a call for proposals for the 2018 Digital Frontiers/University of Kansas’s Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities (IDRH) Digital Humanities Forum, to be held October 4-5 at the University of Kansas. The theme for the conference is “Finding Community in Digital Humanities.” Read full post here.
From the ad: The University of Idaho Library seeks an innovative, flexible, and highly collaborative librarian who will help promote, develop, and maintain the digital services and projects of the library and the relationships that make these services and projects possible. Reporting to the Dean, this position will work within the Data and Digital Services…
The Council on Library and Information Resources has published a report on Learning and Teaching in Today’s Academic Libraries. From the report: Six essays, written collaboratively by current and former CLIR postdoctoral fellows, explore the contributions that today’s academic libraries—as providers of resources, professional support, and space—are making to learning and teaching. Topics include the continuing…
From the post: This article outlines some of the high-quality digital collections and primary source materials available online on the history of activism in the United States. This list is not exhaustive, but focuses on strong multimedia collections that can have applications as both resources for original research and use as educational materials for classroom…
From the call: To help support innovative scholarship using digital technologies, the Newberry Library invites proposals for projects incorporating open-access full-text data files from its French Revolution Pamphlets Digital Initiatives. The winning applicant for the Newberry Open Data Grant will receive $1,000 to aid in the development of their digital project. Applicants should seek to apply…
From the post: The goal of our trainings is to learn the building blocks of privacy protection and digital security. Our teachings focus on activities patrons do every day at the library so that library staff can develop the capacity to: identify how patrons’ data travels to and through library networks; assess which privacy and…