Research & Projects (Page 79)

The position notice below came from the code4lib list. The Pennsylvania State University Libraries are currently seeking a Digital Humanities Design Consultant who is a creative researcher interested in exploring an “alternative academic” career and in expanding the modes of humanistic research through emerging and existing technologies. The person in this position will be a critical part of initiating services and programs in support of the digital humanities at Penn State, and will work as an intellectual partner with faculty, students and staff in the College of the Liberal Arts. The successful candidate will be able to work effectively between the boundaries of various humanities disciplines to help Penn State develop its digital humanities research programs.Read More →

Yesterday, the UF Smathers Libraries participated in the many  events across campus celebrating the closing of the Capital Campaign. The Smathers Libraries showcased materials in the Special Collections Reading Room, with gems from so many of the collections including the one below from the University Archives. With so many of us watching the Gator-LSU game today, I thought this item was especially relevant. This was just one of so many items shown yesterday in the newly updated Special Collections Reading Room, but so much more is available and is shown in events on a regular basis and featured in so much scholarly and popular writing,Read More →

Todd Presner announced this a few weeks ago, and I’m behind in getting to share about it or test it. Presner explains Mapping Jewish LA: What if you could “go back in time” and visit Boyle Heights in the 1920s? What if you could hear the music and voices coming out of Zellman’s Men’s Wear or Ginsberg’s Vegetarian Café? What if you could follow the pathways of immigrant families who just landed in LA in 1900 to make a new life for themselves? Through a partnership with the UCLA Library and Special Collections, the University of Southern California, and more than a dozen community archives,Read More →

This great news is from the Modern Language Association (MLA): The MLA will launch its new scholarly communication platform, MLA Commons, at the 2013 convention in Boston. Designed to facilitate active member-to-member communication, MLA Commons will support the work of divisions and discussion groups, offer a platform for the publication of scholarship in new formats, and much more. The Committee on Information Technology and others are now testing an alpha version of the Commons. To join them in helping us build this new community, please contact the office of scholarly communication and ask to be included in the alpha testing. To learn more about the Commons, visit the Exhibit Hall Theater inRead More →

The news release below is from the SHARP-L email list. Please note that the deadline for these fellowships is this year: Dec. 1, 2012. The fellowships are for doctoral candidates, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty. RARE BOOK SCHOOL RECEIVES MELLON FOUNDATION GRANT TO FUND FELLOWSHIPS IN CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY New fellowship program seeks to reinvigorate bibliographical studies within the humanities Charlottesville, VA, October 1, 2012 – Rare Book School (RBS) at the University of Virginia has been awarded an $896,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support a new three-year fellowship program, The Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in Critical Bibliography, whose aim isRead More →

This is from the SHARP-L email list: We are excited to announce the publication of the fourth issue of Digital Defoe: Studies in Defoe & His Contemporaries, a peer-reviewed online journal that celebrates the works and culture of the eighteenth century. You can access Repositioning Defoe athttp://www.english.ilstu.edu/digitaldefoe. Each work is accompanied by a downloadable and print-friendly PDF and can be shared instantly on Facebook and Twitter. We have also posted the CFP for our 2013 issue on the topic of “Public Intellectualism and 18th-Century Studies,” with a submission deadline of May 1, 2013. Contents: Sarah Rasher, “She Never Had Been a Bride in Her Life’: The Marriage of Roxana andRead More →

News from the TEI-L list: English Professor Laura Mandell, Director of the Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture (IDHMC), along with two co-PIs Professor Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna and Professor Richard Furuta, are very pleased to announce that Texas A&M has received a 2-year, $734,000 development grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the Early Modern OCR Project (eMOP, http://emop.tamu.edu ).  The two other project leaders, Anton DuPlessis and Todd Samuelson, are book historians from Cushing Rare Books Library. Over the next two years, eMOP will work to improve scholarly access to an extensive early modern text corpus. The overarching goal of eMOP is to develop newRead More →

I’m in New York for the NFAIS Humanities Roundtable, and it’s being held at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, which is on 365 Fifth Avenue and extremely close to the Empire State Building and so many buildings with fabulous Art Deco stylings. Seeing the buildings made me think of a wonderful colleague, Matt Mariner, who recently left the University of Florida libraries to join the Auraria Library at the University of Colorado Denver (Auraria serves several local campuses, but Matt is based with UC-Denver) as the Head of Special Collections and Digital Initiatives. Matt has an #alt-ac or alternative academic career in that he didn’tRead More →

I’m happy to be attending the 2012 NFAIS Humanities Roundtable XI: Focus on the Library! which will be held on Monday, October 1, 2012. Details on it are below and on the NFAIS site.  This is certain to be an excellent event. I have to return to Gainesville rather quickly and so will be leaving right after the meeting (which is unfortunate because New York is fabulous, of course, but Gainesville is also wonderful and so always wonderful to return to). Hopefully, I’ll get to see some of the other folks attending the meeting on Sunday as well as Monday at the meeting. 2012 NFAIS HUMANITIESRead More →

POSITION VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT Chair, Department of Special and Area Studies Collections Associate University Librarian or University Librarian The George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, seeks applications and nominations for the position of Department Chair for Special and Area Studies Collections. The successful candidate will be a forward thinking leader who is knowledgeable and enthusiastic about the changing nature of librarianship for special collections and area studies collections. Reporting to the Associate Dean for Scholarly Resources and Research Services, this position is a key member of the Library team, ensuring organizational effectiveness, efficiency, and development of policies for library operations. The Department Chair for SpecialRead More →