Laurie N. Taylor, Librarian

The news below is from the UF Libraries News Blog: UF Open Access Awards nominations due by October 1, 2012 The University Libraries Committee, with support of the University Libraries, announces the new UF Open Access Awards. The awards will recognize contributions to Open Access from across campus and across the full Gator Nation. Award recipients will be announced during Open Access Week, October 22-28. Because this is the inaugural year for the Open Access Awards, the committee seeks to recognize all UF contributors to Open Access. In future years, the awards will recognize important new or not previously awarded work in Open Access. Please submitRead More →

These may not be to everyone’s interests, but I find Academic Tim Gunn and #WhatShouldWeCallGraduateSchool to be humorous sites on academic life. They’ve now entered my regular reader-reading along with xkcd and others. Between many meetings and piles of paperwork that I currently seem unable to make smaller, these sites make me smile a little bit more. I’m posting in hopes that they might do the same for someone else as well. To be clear, it is smiling more. Being almost overwhelmed with work doesn’t mean I’m not already smiling, because I am. I believe in and love the work that I get to do, andRead More →

Reporting to the Director of the Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS) (http://cdrs.columbia.edu/), a division of the Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, the Research Data Manager will work closely with the Office of the Executive Vice President for Research, staff within CDRS (particularly the Digital Repository Manager and the Head of the Scholarly Communication Program), data librarians and librarian subject specialists, and others within the Columbia University community on planning, outreach, and policy development to address the data life cycle needs of researchers at Columbia University and its affiliates. S/he will also work closely with the Libraries Digital Program Division staff and the Metadata Librarian on implementationRead More →

Cathy Davidson has written a very useful post, “How Can A Digital Humanist Get Tenure?”  As Davidson explains, the title of the post is posed as a question because this is a standard question for new fields and areas, and then she continues on to list several examples of people whose digital work supported them in earning tenure, as well as tenure and promotion guidelines that show how the process supports inclusion of digital work in the review for tenure. She then also includes additional resources for the evaluation and inclusion of digital work, notably including the MLA guidelines and wiki, and many others. LikeRead More →

This is more library-focused on reference support and services for data/digital materials, but it’s also relevant for digital humanities and other areas in terms of how digital resources are made findable, found, and used. We will have a Data Management Brown Bag next Tuesday, September 18, from 12:30-1:30pm at the Health Science Center Libraries, room C2-41C. Details are: Data Management Brown Bag: ICPSR and Data Reference (Tuesday, Sept. 18, 12:30-1:30pm, HSCL room C2-41C) David Schwieder, Political Science Librarian in UF’s Library West, will discuss the 2012 ICPSR Summer Program Workshop, Providing Social Science Data Services: Strategies for Design and Operation. Dave will share and leadRead More →

The Library of Congress has a blog post on “Big Data and the Dawn of the Super Researcher” which discusses the current age of big data with its challenges and concerns for researchers. Like so many research institutions, the University of Florida has tremendous socio-technical resources to assist researchers with specific activities involving big data as well as with orientation to opportunities and possibilities through the UF High Performance Computing Center (UF HPC Center). In addition to advanced technologies and great online resources, the UF HPC Center has a team of wonderful folks who are great to work with, collaborate, and discuss ideas with. ForRead More →

Nick Montfort has posted about what sounds like an amazing exhibit currently installed at the MIT Libraries, and the games are also available online including an NES version of The Great Gatsby. Read more about it on his blog and on the Games by the Book exhibit site.Read More →

The text below is from the American Anthropological Association blog and thanks go to Dan Reboussin for sharing this with me! The American Anthropological Association is excited to announce the creation of a Wiki to help researchers locate anthropological source materials! One of the effects of the web has been to create myriad crevices and crannies of information. Did you know that Frederick Starr’s notebooks (12 volumes of field notes) have been put online? Do you have a website of ethnographic or anthropological source materials you’d like people to know about? Add it to the wiki and help others benefit. Have you deposited your personal papers in an archive? Building onRead More →

13 September 2012, 6:00 pm University of Florida, Smathers (Library East) 1A Cary Wolfe (Rice University) Biopolitics of the Posthumanities  In this lecture, Prof. Wolfe will discuss new ways of thinking about the shared fate of human beings and non-human animals, using recent biopolitical thought as a framework, thus moving beyond traditional humanism. He will suggest some of the implications of what amounts to a rejection of the essential assumption in the classical humanities that necessary divisions exist between humans and animals, and indeed between society and nature. In light of his work, he will point to what he believes are some of the newRead More →

DataCite is looking for a Communications and Project Officer You will assist the Managing Agent and the Board in developing an overall strategic communications plan for DataCite and its services by clarifying communications objectives to support strategic directions, defining and articulating messages for key audiences, recommending strategies for and/or performing marketing research, and by contextualizing communications within the larger academic library and scholarly research environment You will plan and implement communication and marketing strategies including overseeing Internal and external communication through newsletters, direct phone contact, blog entries and administration of the DataCite Website and Blog. You will assist the Managing Agent and the Board inRead More →