Laurie N. Taylor, Librarian

The call for applications below is from the  Humanist Discussion Group (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist). MLA Workshop: Get Started in Digital Humanities with Help from DHCommons Thursday, 3 January 2013, 8:30am-12:30pm At the 2012 MLA, conference attendees packed many sessions on the digital humanities (DH), reflecting the growing interest in this domain. Yet many newcomers to digital humanities lack opportunities to connect with the DH community, get help from experienced practitioners with conceptualizing and launching a project, or begin building the skills they need to realize their projects. This four-hour preconvention workshop welcomes language and literature scholars who wish to learn about, start, or join digital scholarly projects for research and/or teaching. Representatives of major digital humanitiesRead More →

The CFP below is from the IGDA Game Preservation SIG email list (game_preservation@igda.org). The History of Games International Conference 1st edition: Working With, Building, and Telling History Montreal, Canada. June 21st – 23rd 2013 Organizers: Espen Aarseth (IT University of Copenhagen), Raiford Guins (Stony Brook University), Henry Lowood (Stanford University), Carl Therrien(Université de Montréal). In spite of the strong wake of game studies in the last decade, the history of video and computer games is still in its infancy in the academic world. Some significant contributions have been made and continue to emerge. In order to make the most out of these contributions and to reflect on the methodological issues they raise, we have decided to create the first international conference on the history of games. This will be the occasion to bring together academics, curators and museumRead More →

The press release below is from: http://news.library.cornell.edu/news/120828/arXiv Ensuring arXiv’s Future Grant Provides Five Years of Matching Funds for Scientific Repository ITHACA, N.Y. (Aug. 28, 2012) – arXiv, the free repository that has revolutionized the way scientists share information, is adopting a new governance and business model that will allow it to grow and succeed in the future. Thanks to an operating grant from the Simons Foundation, Cornell University Library has helped arXiv take a major step toward sustainability. Beginning in January and running through 2017, the Simons Foundation will provide up to $300,000 per year as a matching gift for the funds generated through arXiv’s membershipRead More →

This job posting is from the code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/2142/.  Texas A&M Libraries seeks a service-oriented, technically-savvy, and innovative professional to serve as Digital Repository Librarian in the Office of Digital Services & Scholarly Communication (DSSC). The Digital Repository Librarian is part of a team that provides leadership and direction in support of the Texas A&M Libraries’ Digital Services and Scholarly Communication (DSSC) program. DSSC serves the digital research and scholarly communication needs of faculty, researchers, students, and scholars through the innovative creation and implementation of digital publishing technologies and services. This is an academic appointment carrying full faculty status and responsibilities, including research, publication and service,Read More →

The School of Music at Indiana University, Bloomington is holding a workshop on “Scholarly Editions and the Digital Age: Text and Music” this Friday and Saturday (August 31-September 1, 2012). This looks to be a very exciting workshop. I’m particularly interested to see news from the workshop because it could be directly relevant to the UF Digital Humanities Working Group meetings this fall. The information below is from the workshop announcement and this is the full workshop schedule. SCHOLARLY EDITIONS AND THE DIGITAL AGE: TEXT AND MUSIC An interdisciplinary workshop jointly organized by the Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature and the Medieval StudiesRead More →

The announcement below is from the TEI email list and looks to be an excellent opportunity for musicology. The University of Virginia Library, the University of Paderborn, and the Music Encoding Initiative Council are pleased to offer an opportunity to learn about the Music Encoding Initiative (MEI), an increasingly important tool for digital humanities music research, in conjunction with the joint meeting of the American Musicological Society, the Society for Ethnomusicology and the Society for Music Theory in New Orleans, scheduled for 1-4 November. “Introduction to MEI,” an intensive, hands-on workshop, will be offered Wednesday, 31 October from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Experts from the Music Encoding Initiative CouncilRead More →

The news story below is from the UF George A. Smathers Libraries news blog and the Center for Latin American Studies on one of the new grants received for a digitization and digital humanities (digital scholarship) project to create an online Archive of Haitian Religion and Culture. University of Florida’s Languages, Literatures and Cultures and the George A. Smathers Libraries Receive $240,804 National Endowment for the Humanities Grant Award: Online resource will create an Archive of Haitian Religion and Culture University of Florida and Duke University researchers and librarians have spearheaded a collaborative partnership project which has been awarded $240,804 from the National Endowment for the HumanitiesRead More →

The news story below is from the UF George A. Smathers Libraries news blog on one of the new grants received for a digitization and digital humanities (digital scholarship) project. The Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica at the George A. Smathers Libraries, in partnership with the Jewish Museum of Florida and three Florida county public libraries’ systems, (Miami-Dade County, Broward County and Palm Beach County), will broaden access to the Florida Digital Newspaper Library (FDNL) through an award of $21,753 from the State Archives of Florida. The FDNL is a key resource for research, comprising 730 Florida newspaper titles and over one millionRead More →

The announcement below is from the Digital Library Federation email list and is on their website: http://www.diglib.org/news/ Position Announcement To apply, please visit: http://www.hr.cornell.edu/jobs/positions.html Digital Scholarship Initiatives Coordinator, Digital Scholarship & Preservation Services – 18333 The Cornell University Library is seeking a Digital Scholarship Initiatives Coordinator. Reporting to the AUL for Digital Scholarship & Preservation Services (DSPS), the Digital Scholarship Initiatives Coordinator will provide leadership in conceptualizing and implementing new digital scholarship and preservation initiatives with a focus on needs assessment, requirements analysis, and business planning. One of the key responsibilities will be facilitating the implementation of CUL’s scholarly communication outreach program by partnering with subject liaisonsRead More →

The information below was sent to the UF Digital Humanities email list yesterday. Please subscribe to the UF Digital Humanities email list for updates on upcoming meetings and other events: digital-humanities-L@lists.ufl.edu (join the  list and list archives). The schedule and description of Fall 2012 meetings of the UF Digital Humanities Working Group (DHWG) is below. With feedback from the group, we have designed the meetings to be more of a faculty reading group and project study, in order to expand our knowledge of opportunities to work with and create scholarly archives and editions in the digital age. We will meet 12-1:30pm, in Pugh Hall 210, on the following Wednesdays: Sept.Read More →