From “Across the Great Divide: Findings and Possibilities for Action from the 2016 Summit Meeting of Academic Libraries and University Presses with Administrative Relationships”: Partnerships and collaborations have become standard responses to the multiple challenges that both higher education and scholarly publishing face. Organizing the work of the academy, either on one campus or across…

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From the post: It’s clear that #VastEarlyAmerica includes not only an expansive conceptual, geographical, and chronological scope, but also new and exciting methodologies. The possibilities for doing digital historical scholarship, from research to publication platforms, have expanded exponentially over the last decade; I find this a tremendously encouraging sign about the vitality and future of…

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From the CFP: The Canadian Society for Digital Humanities (http://csdh-schn.org/) invites scholars, practitioners, and graduate students to submit proposals for papers and digital demonstrations for its annual meeting, which will be held at the 2017 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Ryerson University, from May 29th to 31st (http://congress2017.ca/). The theme of this year’s…

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From the announcement: Unique in its sheer size and breadth, a new open dataset released by the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) will provide researchers with access to otherwise restricted information. The HTRC Extracted Features (EF) Dataset reports quantitative counts of words, lines, parts of speech, and other details extracted from each page of the more…

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North Carolina State University Libraries is filling the position of Head, Learning Spaces & Services. From the ad: The NCSU Libraries invites applications and nominations for the position of Head, Learning Spaces & Services. The Learning Spaces & Services department, part of the Libraries’ newly formed Student Success division, provides dynamic services, spaces, and technologies…

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UCLA is recruiting a Scholarly Communication Project Coordinator. From the ad: Reporting to the Head of Scholarly Communication and Licensing the Scholarly Communication Project Coordinator (SCPC) coordinates and provides paraprofessional support for all scholarly communication activities assumed by the Scholarly Communications and Licensing department. Read full ad here, job #25040.