Research & Projects (Page 76)

The news release for the new issue of Archive Journal is below. What happens in the archival laboratory, a place where students are actively involved in research, stewardship, publication, and exhibits? The new issue of Archive Journal (archivejournal.net) addresses this question through case studies featuring students’ archive-based projects, a roundtable discussion about the practicalities and value of incorporating archival work into the undergraduate experience, and more. Archive Journal provides a forum for critical reflection on the academic community’s deep investments in the selection, description, preservation, use, and digitization of materials in special collections and archives.  Read more about the journal here: http://www.archivejournal.net/home/about/Read More →

The news below is from Anvil Academic, a new academic publisher of “born-digital and born-again-digital academic research. We are an open-access, post-monograph publisher of new, complex forms of scholarly argument” (“About Anvil Academic“). This is great news, and I’ve already contacted Anvil to ensure the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) and the UF Digital Collections are included, like the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature Digital Collection. I’m extremely excited because what Anvil is doing  is exactly what many scholars need. I work with many scholars who create and expand digital collections and archives as part of their normal work. They have to buildRead More →

The information below is from: http://www.acrl.ala.org/acrlinsider/archives/6297 November 26th, 2012 by Mary Jane Petrowski ACRL has released a new research report, “Academic Libraries and Research Data Services: Current Practices and Plans for the Future” to provide a baseline assessment of the current state of and future plans for research data services in academic libraries.  Authored by Carol Tenopir, Chancellor’s Professor at the School of Information Sciences, Director of the Center for Information and Communication Studies, and Director of Research for the College of Communication and Information at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Ben Birch, doctoral student and Graduate Research Associate on the NSF-sponsored DataONE project in theRead More →

The information below is from the site for this institute: http://emdigitalagendas.folger.edu/ In July 2013, the Folger Institute will offer “Early Modern Digital Agendas” under the direction of Jonathan Hope, Professor of Literary Linguistics at the University of Strathclyde. It is an NEH-funded, three-week institute that will explore the robust set of digital tools with period-specific challenges and limitations that early modern literary scholars now have at hand. “Early Modern Digital Agendas” will create a forum in which twenty faculty participants can historicize, theorize, and critically evaluate current and future digital approaches to early modern literary studies—from Early English Books Online-Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP) to advanced corpus linguistics, semanticRead More →

Digital Library Projects Coordinator, Federal Reserve Bank of St. LouisJob number 229439 To apply online (the only way to apply):  http://careers.stlouisfed.org/searchjobs.cfm Application deadline:  December 7, 2012 Job Summary: The Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis is seeking a team builder with technical skills and vision to oversee the continued growth of the Bank’s leadership role as a provider of historical digital content.  The Research Department hosts the FRASER Digital Library and Archive (http://fraser.stlouisfed.org) of historic banking and economic materials.  This digital library was created in 2004, and has grown to over 40,000 documents.  It generated 87,600 visits in the past year.Read More →

Full job posting: www.calpolyjobs.org/applicants/Central?quickFind=162952 Information from the posting: Quick Link www.calpolyjobs.org/applicants/Central?quickFind=162952 Requisition Number 102708 Position Title Librarian 12 Mo Job Posting Title Librarian 12-month Regular / Temporary Regular Working Title Digital Archivist Full / Part Time Full-Time If part-time, indicate time base Appointment Duration / End Date: Initial two-year appointment subject to renewal Department Library – Academic Services College / Division Library Salary Range $57,000 -$70,000/year; commensurate with qualifications and experience. Pay Basis Monthly Pay Plan 12-month Position Description Under the direction of the Director, Information Resources and Archives, and working closely with the Head, Special Collections and University Archives, the incumbent will lead theRead More →

27 November 2012, 2:00 pm Smathers Library (East), Room 1A Scholarly Publishing in the Digital Age For Faculty and Graduate Students Meredith Morris-Babb, director, and Amy Gorelick, editor-in-chief, at the University Press of Florida, will speak to UF faculty and graduate students on “Scholarly Publishing in the Digital Age.” Judith Russell, Dean of University Libraries, will give the welcome and introduction Ms. Gorelick will discuss the basics of attaining published works: submitting a proposal, when to submit a full manuscript, the review process, the production process, marketing and selling works of non-fiction, and things to avoid when working with a publisher. Ms. Morris-Babb will discussRead More →

What are the broader impacts of your research? How do your interests intersect with work in other disciplines? Would you like practice pitching your work for funding bodies and news outlets? Do you have questions about how to put together a collaborative grant proposal? We invite all UF students, faculty, and staff to join us for the Humanities Center’s own ‘holiday party’: a dynamic creativity, collaboration, and grant-writing event offered together with the UF Libraries ‘CoLAB’ team. For more information and to register to attend, please see: http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/communications/CoLAB/home.html Collaborating with Strangers in and OUTSIDE the Humanities 6 December 2012 (reading day), 2:00-5:00 pm, Ustler Hall Atrium Refreshments willRead More →

The job posting below is from code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/4484/ The research landscape is changing rapidly in the digital age, with scholars able to ask new types of questions and answer them in novel ways. As one of the British Library’s Digital Curators you will play a role in the exciting transformational steps that will change the way the Library provides access to its collections in digital form. You will also assist in the development of programmes to train staff in the opportunities for and practices of digital scholarship. The work will involve tracking developments in digital scholarship, creating partnerships which can support the Library’s strategic objectives and encouraging, supporting and assisting curators to realise theirRead More →

The Storm of Progress: New Horizons, New Narratives, New Codes April 25-28, 2013 York University, Toronto, Canada 
Submissions Deadline: November 15, 2012 hastac2013.org  This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe that keeps piling ruin upon ruin and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer closeRead More →