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Please join us this Thursday evening for: 5 April, 7:30 pm, Smathers 1A, University of Florida Gregory Crane (Tufts University; Editor in Chief, Perseus Project) To Advance the Common Understanding: Reinventing the Humanities in a Digital Age The rise of vast digitized collections and increasingly sophisticated analytical methods has begun to transform both the depth and potential scale of humanities research. New media are, however, far more important because they have the potential to change the “who” and not simply the “what” of humanities discourse. We have an opportunity to redefine the relationship between what happens in the academy and society as a whole, butRead More →

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I’m excited that tomorrow I’ll be participating in the Day of Digital Humanities (DH). The Day of DH is: A Day of the Life of the Digital Humanities, an event where digital humanists from around the world document what they do. This year the event will be held March 27th, 2012. (Peter Organisciak) My Day of DH blog is here and I’ll be cross-posting links from this blog as well. The Day of DH has been going on for several years, but tomorrow will be my first time participating. This is partly because I was overwhelmed from an interim administrative position for the past three years andRead More →

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The hospital admissions sheet simply read: “Name: Buddha; DOB: 1662.” The quote above is from The Washington Post’s  lovely article about the work done by Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida, which the Libraries also supported through digital imaging and online access and preservation of digital imaging done by others including the Shands@UF Hospital. In addition to the WP article, see more images in the Harn Museum Digital Collection, supported by the Libraries with the UF Digital Collections.Read More →

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Monday, 19 March 2012, Smathers 1A, 4:00-5:00pm Presentation by Brett Bobley, Director, NEH’s Office of Digital Humanities All faculty, students, and staff are invited to a virtual presentation and Q&A with Brett Bobley, Director of the NEH’s Office of Digital Humanities (ODH), who will speak about the development of the ODH, its current funding programs, and future trajectories. There will be time for a Q&A. Those planning to attend are advised to read Brett Bobley’s Feb. 1, 2009 interview with HASTAC scholars Kathleen Smith and Michael Gavin, which gives a helpful introduction to the roles played by digital technologies in the context of humanities scholarship: http://hastac.org/node/1934. This eventRead More →

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 16, 2012 CONTACT: Cheryle Cole-Bennett – ccole-bennett@aserl.org – (919) 912-9486 ASERL Receives “Documents to the People” Award ProQuest / GODORT / ALA Recognizes Innovation in Managing Federal Documents The Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) was recently awarded the 2012 “Documents to the People” Award, presented by ProQuest, the American Library Association (ALA), and ALA’s Government Documents Round Table (GODORT). This award is presented each year to an individual or organization that has most effectively encouraged the use of government documents in support of library service. ASERL’s Collaborative Federal Depository Program (CFDP) was selected for this award in recognition of its “achievable and sustainable plan for theRead More →

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In the fall 2012, the Brown University Library will open a state-of-the-art Digital Scholarship Lab, which will feature a high-resolution tiled video display wall, surround sound, and the ability to interact with the wall using peripheral devices. The Digital Scholarship Lab will provide the facilities for scholars across the disciplines to engage with research data using advanced visualization software, to examine and compare high-resolution digital content, and to experience audiovisual media in a setting unique on Brown’s campus. The Lab will complement other visualization resources on campus, including the Center for Computing and Visualization’s CAVE and the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts. The Data Visualization Coordinator oversees the operation of the Digital Scholarship LabRead More →

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Theatre Library Association – Call for Panelists 2012 Annual Conference of the American Society for Theatre Research – Theatre Library Association – Nashville, Tennessee, November 1-4, 2012 DIGITAL HUMANITIES AND THE PERFORMING ARTS The performing arts have had a long, distinguished tradition of practice, recently enhanced by creative use of emerging technologies. Diverse collections representing print, electronic, multimedia, visual resources, and ephemera support our research. While Digital Humanities is currently a frequently discussed topic, how does this affect libraries, archives, museums, teaching and learning, and new scholarship in the performing arts? We invite panelists to respond to the following questions: •         HowRead More →

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Happy Birthday to the UF Digital Collections (UFDC) and SobekCM, which is the system powering UFDC and so much more! UFDC and the beginnings of SobekCM started in March 2006. In February 2008, I wrote about UFDC turning 2. At that time, UFDC had “nearly 1.5 million pages.” Now, UFDC supports more than 300 digital collections and more than 7.6 million pages of open access to unique manuscripts and letters, antique maps, rare children’s literature books, theses and dissertations, newspapers, historic photographs, oral histories, audio and video, and so much more.  UFDC has grown in content, scope, and impact. Alongside UFDC, SobekCM has grown dramatically as well. SobekCM is the system poweringRead More →