Research & Projects (Page 80)

To best support UF needs for digital humanities and digital scholarship concerns, I try to keep up with what other places are doing and how they’re doing it. As part of that, I subscribed to the  Digital Library Brown Bag series email list for Indiana University’s Digital Library Program , and the upcoming brown bag (in person and online) looks of great interest for Medievalists. Information on how to view the brown bag online, and how to subscribe to the email list for news on these brown bags is below. Also, in case anyone is interested in seeing what UF is doing and how, our Digital HumanitiesRead More →

The UF Faculty Senate meeting begins in just a few minutes. I’m so excited to be attending and serving as a Faculty Senator. The meeting is also livestreamed.Read More →

The job posting below specifically mentions humanities folks being of interest. I’m currently in a tenure-accruing faculty position as a librarian (a position where I’m extremely happy and well-placed) and I don’t have a library science degree. When I applied for my position, I was planning on attending library school and wasn’t thinking of trying to apply for library positions. I only ended up applying because my position was posted to an education technology list with a note by the person posting that the position didn’t require a library science degree and that the position wanted and welcomed applications from folks with other terminal degrees.Read More →

I’m looking forward to a number of travels this year, and I’m hoping to see lots of great friends and colleagues, and to meeting new folks with these trips. My upcoming travels for the fall are: October 1, New York City Attending the NFAIS – Humanities Roundtable November 11-15, Puerto Rico Presenting a workshop on the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) at THATCamp Caribe at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico and with a visit to UPR, San Juan December 9-16, Havana, Cuba Presenting a paper on dLOC and attending the INKE Havana Gathering 2012 “Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age: E/Merging Reading,Read More →

The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) has announced the call for the CRL 2013 Primary Source Awards. This is a wonderful program to: recognize research and  teaching faculty, librarians and library staff, students, and others within the CRL community for their innovative use or promotion of primary source  materials in three ways: Access Research Teaching Nominations are due by January 31, 2013, submitted through the CRL site. In addition to international recognition for innovative use or promotion of primary source materials, both awardees and nominators get an actual prize (each gets to choose a gift certificate for books for an iPad). Even aside from the prizeRead More →

The current discussion underway on the Modern Language Association (MLA) Job Information List (JIL) seems to be focused on whether the list is open (or open enough) and whether the JIL should be replaced with something else that would meet the need to share information on job postings. In a related vein, nearly a year ago, I called MLA to inquire about the JIL, because I’m working with two academic library HR scholars who were interested in setting up a system to house position descriptions for academic libraries. The new project has been met with great interest and support and development is underway with external fundingRead More →

The Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum Keynote Speaker is Kathleen Fitzpatrick. She’s a wonderful writer, speaker, and advocate for academia. Her keynote is one more exciting reason to attend the 2012 DLF Forum in Denver, taking place Nov. 4-5, with pre- and post-conference events running Nov. 2-6. The main events look incredibly useful (and fun) like the panel presentation on “the Landscape of Digital Humanities Librarianship” and there are many more with the full schedule now online. Those additional events include the Digital Humanities (DH) & Libraries THATCamp on Nov. 3. For folks considering attending, there are also DLF Forum Fellowships for librarians new to the profession and the deadlineRead More →

The toolbox for the Digital Epigraphy & Archaeology Project has now been released:  http://www.digitalepigraphy.org This release is great news, and I’m looking forward to seeing more great news on this as the project continues and evolves both from the UF and distributed members of the Digital Epigraphy & Archaeology Team and from their community of users.Read More →

I’d read on Brendan Riley’s blog that The Cabin in the Woods was great and completely not what it sounds like from the title. Knowing Brendan’s excellent taste as a filmwatcher and a teacher, I recently saw The Cabin in the Woods despite my initial thoughts that it was an automatic reject based on the title. As expected based on Brendan’s review, the film is excellent and not at all what would be expected based on the title. It’s a fun film to watch and would be incredibly useful in an undergraduate film class when speaking about film genres, tropes, norms, expectations, and so on, and it would be anRead More →

We’re well past the first day of the fall semester and now with the first day of the fall season officially here, election season has been well underway. Elections offer the opportunity and many ready examples for use in obvious politically related areas as well as for things like visual rhetoric with political messaging, slogans, and materials. With other obvious examples coming from popular culture with things like “Vote for Voldemort!” A friend of mine with a wonderful sense of humor to create parody (by which I mean this in the best sense with parody being legitimize and subvert, following Linda Hutcheon’s work on parody)Read More →