Research & Projects (Page 81)

“A Message of Thanks” is the subject line for an email I received yesterday from the Modern Language Association (MLA). The email message explains that I’ve now renewed and am entering my 10th year as an MLA member. The message is from MLA Executive Director Rosemary Feal (or signed by her, it looks like a system generated message, but that doesn’t detract from the message) and states: The association depends on the commitment of members like you to promote the study of language and literature and to advance the interests of those who work in our field. Both as MLA executive director and as a teacher-scholar, IRead More →

Great news on a new grant! The news below is from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS):  University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries – Gainesviller, FL Congressional District: FL_06 Award Amount: $477,312; Matching Amount: $541,976 Category: Library-Museum Collaboration Contact: Judith Russell (352)273-2505; jcrussell@ufl.edu Financial pressures caused by the economic downturn caused the Panama Canal Museum to close and terminate services this year. The George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida agreed to not only assume custody of and responsibility for the museum’s collections, but also to explore ways to support and increase the community of donors, members volunteers, and other supporters.Read More →

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 →