Laurie N. Taylor, Librarian

Please join us for this exciting and important discussion! Please share and promote widely! ******************************************************** Clifford Lynch wrote in Rethinking Institutional Repository Strategies: Report of a CNI Executive Roundtable, “The Digital Humanities/IR relationship is very important. For faculty aggressively embracing DH work, and producing new genres of scholarly output that don’t fit within the existing publishing (and hence stewardship and preservation) systems, the ability to shift access and preservation of their work into an institutional setting is essential to legitimizing this work.” Digital scholarship presents a similar set of challenges and opportunities to library publishers. How can we support scholars in creating complex digital products?Read More →

More incomplete notes from different sources, and sharing as usual in case of use/interest for others and to make these easier for me to find. Lauren F. Klein and Matthew K. Gold. “Digital Humanities: The Expanded Field.” Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016. Eds. Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2016. Pages ix-xv: http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/debates/text/51 Page xiii: “The 2012 edition of Debates in the Digital Humanitiesintervened in the discourse of the field by highlighting pedagogy as the neglected “stepchild” of DH, with several chapters arguing that teaching had been diminished in favor of research-focused projects (Brier; Waltzer). That volume included anRead More →

The University of The Bahamas is a fantastic institution, with so many wonderful colleagues! Please share this job posting, and please consider applying! CAMPUS LIBRARIAN – LIBRARIAN II – NORTHERN BAHAMAS Institution: University of The Bahamas Location: Nassau, Bahamas Category: Admin – Libraries Application Due: Ongoing until filled! Type: Full TimeThe University Libraries is seeking a full-time Librarian to lead the strategic development of library services at its Northern Bahamas Campus.The incumbent will be a dynamic, innovative individual with strong communication, analytical and interpersonal skills that engender excellence in librarianship, customer service, collegiality and professionalism.The successful candidate will demonstrate sound understanding of emerging technologies andRead More →

POSITION: Metadata Librarian RANK: Assistant University Librarian or Associate University Librarian REPORTS TO: Chair, Digital Production Services SALARY: Actual salary will reflect selected professional’s experience and credentials Minimum Salary at the Assistant Librarian rank is $48,492 Minimum Salary at the Associate Librarian rank is $56,098 REQUISITION #: 502568 DEADLINE DATE: July 17, 2017. Review of applications will begin June 15, 2017 NOTE: Office located off campus Please note that this posting has specific instructions for the submission of application materials – see our website at: http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/pers/careers.htm or the APPLICATION PROCESS section below for further details. Failure to submit the required documents may result in theRead More →

APPLY TO AN OBJECT LESSONS WORKSHOP Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities How can scholars and nonfiction authors write for broader audiences while maintaining intellectual rigor and developing their academic profiles? This NEH institute is designed for academics and writers who seek to write and publish for broad audiences, particularly about contemporary technology, everyday objects, and digital culture. The institute’s workshops—geared to scholars as well as nonfiction writers from across disciplines—aim to better equip participants to pitch their ideas and publish their writing in venues that exist fruitfully between both traditional academic and trade publishing routes. The workshops are hosted by Dr. IanRead More →

MANLIBNET 2017 International Conference on INNOVATION IN LIBRARY TECHNOLOGY,SERVICES AND RESOURCES -CURRENT TRENDS IN LIBRARIES GLOBALLY,SEPTEMBER 15-16, 2017. Organized Jointly By JAIPURIA INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT, NOIDA and MANAGEMENT LIBRARIES NETWORK BACKGROUND Automation and digitalization of libraries has a topic of past decade and both of these are considered as a must for any library today. What is currently trending and emphasized upon is innovative practices adopted by libraries globally those attract and bind the users to the library. Some libraries talk about more and more technology adoption; RFID technology, mobile-apps for providing user services; reaching to the patrons at their doorstep, opening library kiosks i.e.Read More →

This note is far too quick, and I have much to add on this absolutely fabulous and essential article! For now, posting even with minimal notes just to have this to be able to answer emails that need this reference! Citation: Alex Gil and Élika Ortega. “Global Outlooks in Digital Humanities: Multilingual Practices and Minimal Computing.” Doing Digital Humanities: Practice, Training, Research. Eds. Crompton, Constance, Richard J. Lane, and Raymond G. Siemens. New York: Routledge, 2016: 22-34. Page 28: MINIMAL COMPUTING Minimal computing as a conceptual provocation has been around GO::DH since the formative days of INKE’s Birds-of-a-Feather gathering in Havana (“Havana Gathering”). As aRead More →

I’ve been traveling a lot this past year with the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC). I’ve been meeting with folks to learn and share about digital scholarship. Most often, the response is, “what is digital scholarship?” Yes. Digital scholarship is a term that doesn’t really work, and that won’t persist. The term is a marker of a particular time, and it will fade to be simply scholarship. The addition of “digital” is really a shorthand for “scholarship in and for the digital age, scholarship in these times.” The next question, which makes perfect sense comes: Why we can’t simply say scholarship? We could. However,Read More →

The Libraries are a great place to work, and the Latin American and Caribbean Collection (LACC) is amazing! I get to work with these great folks on the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) and so much more, and so I want another great person on the team! Also, please note that the requirement is the MLIS or equivalent; many of our librarians, including me, have PhDs and not MLIS degrees. The full posting is available from the Libraries’ HR site, and copied below for ease. POSITION VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT POSITION: Head Curator, Latin American and Caribbean Collection (LACC) RANK: Associate University Librarian or University Librarian REPORTSRead More →

The Report of the Commission on the Humanities, which led to the creation of the National Endowment for the Humanities, is always a great read.  I find different parts more relevant at different times. I’m again re-reading it, and today these quotes stand out: Page 1: “One cannot speak of history or culture apart from the humanities. They not only record our lives; our lives are the very substance they are made of. Their subject is every man. We propose, therefore, a program for all our people, a program to meet a need no less serious than that for national defense. We speak, in truth,Read More →