Laurie N. Taylor, Librarian

The information below is about a new company, kandelsmith, which is creating mobile apps using classic children’s stories. These apps are particularly exciting to me because they’ve been made by Rita Smith, former Curator of the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature, and her daughter using classic children’s books from the Baldwin Library. As a company,  kandelsmith was created to share 19th century children’s books with a new and wider audience by creating interactive apps for the iPad. Their first two apps (alphabet books) were released on September 7 and are available in the iTunes app store for FREE through September 14. These are the links forRead More →

This news on the ARTBOUND 2012 exhibit is from the UF Libraries news blog by Barbara Hood : Exhibition of Artists’ Books from the Juried Student Book Arts Competition at the George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida September 10 – November 2, 2012 Smathers Library 2nd floor gallery Opening reception: Monday, September 10, 10:00 a.m. – noon This year’s juror, Sarah Bryant (Big Jump Press), offers her generous response to the submissions. “It was a privilege to jury this show, and I enjoyed seeing the wide range of the work. Books present a peculiar problem in these circumstances. Photographs are simply not enough, particularlyRead More →

Laura Mandell, Director of Texas A&M’s IDHMC: the Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture,  is offering a limited preview of her manuscript Breaking the Book (forthcoming Blackwell Manifesto) for feedback using CommentPress. There’s more on this and the actual manuscript here: http://idhmc.tamu.edu/commentpress/breaking-the-book/Read More →

The Center for Computation and Visualization at Brown University (http://www.brown.edu/Departments/CCV/) has an opening for an Application Scientist, with an emphasis on social sciences and humanities, working on projects that include high performance computing, visualization, and statistical approaches to big datasets, among other things. Although the humanities are only a partial focus of this position, there is a vibrant DH community at Brown which would welcome a new colleague. The official description follows: The Application Scientist Specialist is responsible for the collaborative support of targeted sciences research projects, preferably with an emphasis on applications in the humanities and social sciences. The incumbent will provide advice and support to researchers on the proper methodology to conduct data analysis, synthesis,Read More →

Digital Humanities 2013 (“Freedom to Explore”) – Call for Papers Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations Hosted by the University of Nebraska 16-19 July 2013 http://dh2013.unl.edu/ Paper/Poster/Panel deadline: 1 November 2012 Workshop proposal deadline: 15 February 2013 Call for Papers I. General Information The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites submissions of abstracts for its annual conference, on any aspect of the digital humanities. This includes but is not limited to: humanities research enabled through digital media, data mining, software studies, or information design and modeling; computer applications in literary, linguistic, cultural, and historical studies, including electronic literature, public humanities, and interdisciplinary aspects of modernRead More →

ARL has released SPEC Kit 329: Managing Born-Digital Special Collections and Archival Materials. From ARL’s website for the SPEC Kit: This SPEC Kit explores the tools, workflow, and policies special collections and archives staff use to process, manage, and provide access to born-digital materials they collect. It also looks at which staff process and manage born-digital materials and how they acquire the skills they need for these activities, and how libraries have responded to the challenges that managing born-digital materials present. The management of born-digital materials is still relatively new for ARL libraries, and the survey results show that good practices and workflows are still evolving.Read More →

The agenda for today’s meeting of the UF Digital Humanities Working Group (meeting in Pugh 210 from 12-1:30pm) is copied below and available as a PDF. The meeting today will include introductions from all attendees and informal discussions on a general reading and on collaboration. The meeting should have an exciting mix of academic and library faculty attendees for discussion and brainstorming. The UF Digital Humanities Working Group (DHWG) is a group of academic and library faculty, staff, and graduate students who meet monthly to discuss current projects and topics at the intersection of digital technologies and core research needs and questions in the humanitiesRead More →

David Mimno wrote a lovely overview of Princeton’s Digital Humanities work, “The Digital Humanities Initiative at Princeton University.” I’d like to emphasize several of his excellent points, which are applicable to all digital humanities work (emphasis added below is mine): If there is one message I’d like to convey in this talk, it is that the real goals of  digital humanities are not that diferent from traditional humanities.The methods and tools that have become available recently are not part of standard practice in the humanities, so we need a label for them: thus, “digital” humanities. But as these new technologies become more familiar, they willRead More →

This is from the centerNet email list. http://www.acls.org/programs/digital/ The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) invites applications for the eighth annual competition of the Digital Innovation Fellowships. This program supports digitally based research projects in all disciplines of the humanities and humanities-related social sciences. It is hoped that projects of successful applicants will help advance digital humanistic scholarship by broad­ening understanding of its nature and exemplifying the robust infrastructure necessary for creating such works. ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships are intended to support an academic year dedicated to work on a major scholarly project that takes a digital form. Projects may: address a consequential scholarly questionRead More →

The call for editors below is from DHNow. As part of our efforts to produce a crowdsourced digital humanities publication, volunteer Editors-at-Large helped us publish Digital Humanities Now over the summer. They did such a great job that we are currently recruiting additional Editors-at-Large for the rest of 2012. Editors-at-Large monitor the work of the digital humanities community by reviewing aggregated RSS feeds from blogs, websites, and Twitter, and suggest content for publication in DHNow and the Journal of Digital Humanities. Editors-at-Large are critical to helping DHNow reflect community interests, ideas, and opportunities. Becoming an Editor-at-Large also is a great way to discover the wide range of material and resources being producedRead More →