The following two blog posts are from Digital Humanities Now announcing the new Journal of Digital Humanities and inviting the community to participate in open peer review for selected pieces. HELP PEER REVIEW FOR THE JOURNAL OF DIGITAL HUMANITIES Digital Humanities Now is pleased to announce the Journal of Digital Humanities (ISSN 2165-6673), forthcoming in March...
The announcement below is from an email list announcing a new journal, the Journal of eScience. We are pleased to announce the publication of the inaugural issue of the Journal of eScience Librarianship (http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/jeslib/), a new online journal published by the Lamar Soutter Library at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. The Journal of eScience Librarianship is...
The posting below is copied from the Archives & Archivists (A&A) email list. Florida State University Libraries Digital Archivist Assistant or Associate Librarian (rank to be based on qualifications) The Florida State University Libraries seeks a Digital Archivist to develop, implement, and provide leadership for digital initiatives involving Special Collections materials and services. The Digital...
Full job posting on the University of Michigan’s website and copied below for ease. Special Projects Librarian, Library Information Technology (Three Year Term Appointment) Basic Function and Responsibility: The Special Projects Librarian assists the Associate University Librarian for Library Information Technology (AUL for LIT) in the coordination of major digital initiatives within the University...
THATCamp Caribe 2012 is now scheduled and full details, as they’re available, are on the THATCamp Caribe 2012 website. THATCamp Caribe will be hosted by the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus, November 12-14. This is a great opportunity for attendees to the American Studies Association 2012 conference (in San Juan, Nov. 15-18) to also take in a...
TAMU is an excellent school and the Institute for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture has already done a great deal of stellar work. The full posting is on TAMU’s IDHMC website, and also copied below for ease. Job Posting Texas A&M University seeks to hire at the level of Associate or Full Professor a dynamic scholar with...
In Lee Bessette’s article on the digital humanities, Lee states: I guess the first things that I am trying to build are bridges. Bridges between different humanities disciplines (translation, comparative literature) and bring them into digital humanities, at least in a more visible way. Looking at Mark Sample’s list of DH sessions at MLA...
Rebecca Jefferson, Curator of the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica at the University of Florida, recently started a blog to promote discussion of and hopefully locate more information on Count Riamo d’Hulst. Rebecca is researching the Count’s life in order to write a book about him and his role in the Cairo Genizah. She shares...
As the scholarly publishing landscape heats up with more talk of boycotts and Open Access mandates, research libraries increasingly find themselves at a crossroads between publishers and faculty — and eagerly working to provide new solutions to entrenched problems. The California Digital Library’s (CDL) latest foray into this space, on behalf of the University...
The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) began in 2006. dLOC is a cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean. dLOC provides access to digitized versions of Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials currently held in archives, libraries, and private collections. dLOC has now had over 10 million hits!...