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Digital Scholarship Coordinator, Humanities and History Libraries Columbia University Libraries/Information Services The Columbia University Libraries invites nominations and applications for the position of Digital Scholarship Coordinator, Humanities and History Libraries division. The Digital Scholarship Coordinator will provide leadership in incorporating technologies and new research methodologies into the scholarly activities of the humanities community at Columbia University. The Digital Scholarship Coordinator will work with colleagues from across the University to develop outreach strategies and partnerships with faculty and students supporting digital research projects in the humanities. The Digital Scholarship Coordinator will engage technologies emerging as critical to research and teaching in the humanities to meet theRead More →

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Sheila A. Brennan,the Associate Director of Public Projects at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM) and Research Assistant Professor at George Mason University, has written an excellent post regarding her experiences with the RRCHNM and digital humanities for International Women’s Day. Sheila’s narrative resonates strongly with me when she states: “My perspective may seem too positive, but I am not blind” (blog). I began self-identifying as a digital humanist after reading Johanna Drucker’s SpecLab: DIGITAL AESTHETICS AND PROJECTS IN SPECULATIVE COMPUTING and other works as well as having experiences where I came to understand  the digital humanities as the humanities in and for a digitalRead More →

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Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Director of Curation Services The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan provides social science data to researchers and policymakers around the world. An international organization with over 700 member institutions, ICPSR offers access to data for research and instruction, training in methods of quantitative analysis, and a data preservation service to ensure long-term availability. The Director of Curation Services will develop and maintain a comprehensive approach to data management and digital preservation. She/he will lead a team with responsibility for policy implementation and planning across the data lifecycle,Read More →

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Announcement from the centerNet email list: To all digital humanists or people working on humanities computing projects, Please join us for the fourth annual Day of Digital Humanities that will take place on March 27th, 2012. A Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities (Day of DH) is a project looking at a day in the work life of people involved in humanities computing. Every year it draws people from across the world together to document, with text and image, the events and activities of their day. The goal of the project is to weave together the journals of participants into a resource thatRead More →

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The MARC Library (SobekCM) is a C# library that contains classes for working in memory with MARC records: This allows records to be read from MARCXML and MARC21 formats. Once in memory any field or subfield can be edited, added, or deleted. Then the record can be queried or saved again in either a MarcXML or Marc21 file format. Features Ability to read MARC records into memory from a Marc21 or MarcXML file or stream Ability to manipulate the MARC record in memory Ability to save the record to a Marc21 or MarcXML file (UPCOMING) Plan to add Z39.50 ability into this library The MARC Library (SobekCM) evolved out ofRead More →

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The position below is with the Wolfsonian Museum at Florida International University (FIU), with the Wolfsonian in Miami Beach, Florida. The Wolfsonian and all of FIU are great partners and colleagues, and folks at UF work with them frequently. Visual Resources Photographer The Wolfsonian – Florida International University The Wolfsonian – FIU is seeking a full-time Photographer to capture images of two and three-dimensional art objects from its extensive and diverse collection using high-end digital equipment. The photographer’s work is essential to the mission of the institution and is central to our ambitious digitization plans to bring this unique and one-of-a-kind collection out into theRead More →

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The newest issue of the Modern Language Association (MLA) Newsletter is out and, in it, MLA is calling for innovative presentation proposals for the 128th MLA Annual Convention in Boston. In the newsletter, MLA does a wonderful service in articulating the need for innovative proposals as a way to support communication and discussion and innovative proposals as an addition to and not a replacement for traditional presentations. The first piece in the newsletter (pages 1-2) explains the need and interest in innovative proposals and explains that the goal is to support enriched exchange. On page 5, Rosemary G. Feal, Executive Director of MLA, again explains theRead More →

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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 2012. Select pieces are available for open peer review from February 14-29. We invite and encourage you to read, view, and listen to these posts and provide your comments and critiques for the authors. INTRODUCING THE JOURNAL OF DIGITAL HUMANITIES Digital Humanities Now is pleased to announce the Journal of Digital Humanities (ISSN 2165-6673), forthcomingRead More →

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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 an open access, peer-reviewed journal that advances the theory and practice of librarianship with a special focus on services related to data-driven research in the physical, biological, and medical sciences.  The inaugural issue includes the Proceedings of the Third Annual University of Massachusetts and New England Area Librarian e-Science Symposium heldRead More →