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The posting below is copied from the Archives & Archivists (A&A) email list. Florida State University Libraries Digital Archivist Assistant or Associate Librarian (rank to be based on qualifications) The Florida State University Libraries seeks a Digital Archivist to develop, implement, and provide leadership for digital initiatives involving Special Collections materials and services. The Digital Archivist will be creative, dynamic, and articulate and be skilled in digitization, metadata, project and website management, and digital preservation. The Digital Archivist will report to the Associate Dean for Special Collections and Archives. Responsibilities:  Collaborate in planning, creating, and managing digital collections o Implement quality control procedures o PrioritizeRead More →

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Full job posting on the University of Michigan’s website and copied below for ease. Special Projects Librarian, Library Information Technology (Three Year Term Appointment) Basic Function and Responsibility: The Special Projects Librarian assists the Associate University Librarian for Library Information Technology (AUL for LIT) in the coordination of major digital initiatives within the University Library. The Special Projects Librarian works with the AUL for LIT, as well as with key staff, in the delivery and management of digital library content and services, and will assist in the research and development of new library technologies. The Special Projects Librarian will assist in conducting the work of the LITRead More →

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THATCamp Caribe 2012 is now scheduled and full details, as they’re available, are on the THATCamp Caribe 2012 website. THATCamp Caribe will be hosted by the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus, November 12-14. This is a great opportunity for attendees to the American Studies Association 2012 conference (in San Juan, Nov. 15-18) to also take in a THATCamp. The Haitian Studies Association Conference is Nov. 8-10, so it’s possible to add another trip right after HSA. Brooke Wooldridge, Director of the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC), will be flying from HSA to THATCamp Caribe, where I’ll be meeting Brooke. We’re both looking forward to THATCamp Caribe, sharing aboutRead More →

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TAMU is an excellent school and the Institute for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture has already done a great deal of stellar work. The full posting is on TAMU’s IDHMC website, and also copied below for ease. Job Posting Texas A&M University seeks to hire at the level of Associate or Full Professor a dynamic scholar with an established record in digital humanities research and academic leadership to participate–as Associate Director–in establishing an interdisciplinary Institute for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture. The Institute has been designated one of eight Texas A&M Initial University Multidisciplinary Research Initiatives (and thus is the recipient of substantial start-up funding). The new appointmentRead More →

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In Lee Bessette’s article on the digital humanities, Lee states: I guess the first things that I am trying to build are bridges. Bridges between different humanities disciplines (translation, comparative literature) and bring them into digital humanities, at least in a more visible way. Looking at Mark Sample’s list of DH sessions at MLA 12, I was struck at how those working in a language other than English were off on their own panels, and probably largely attended not by those in DH but those who also worked in that language area. I think, more generally, DH could do more to bridge linguistic divides. AtRead More →

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Rebecca Jefferson, Curator of the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica at the University of Florida, recently started a blog to promote discussion of and hopefully locate more information on Count Riamo d’Hulst. Rebecca is researching the Count’s life  in order to write a book about him and his role in the Cairo Genizah. She shares a fascinating story of how her research began with a single mention of Count Riamo d’Hulst in a newspaper article. She’s published on her findings thus far, but the research hasn’t been easy. In order to help locate additional materials, she’s now blogging and has created a Wikipedia entry for the Count.Read More →

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As the scholarly publishing landscape heats up with more talk of boycotts and Open Access mandates, research libraries increasingly find themselves at a crossroads between publishers and faculty — and eagerly working to provide new solutions to entrenched problems.  The California Digital Library’s (CDL) latest foray into this space, on behalf of the University of California system, focuses on supporting open source publishing infrastructure through a major development partnership with the Public Knowledge Project (PKP). As a result of this agreement, the CDL will assist with PKP’s ongoing development and support of its open source software suite — Open Journal Systems (OJS), Open Conference SystemsRead More →

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The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) began in 2006. dLOC is a cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean. dLOC provides access to digitized versions of Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials currently held in archives, libraries, and private collections. dLOC has now had over 10 million hits! To be exact, dLOC has had 10,447,708 hits with 747,711 in January 2012 alone. Congratulations to dLOC, all who work to support and contribute to dLOC, and to the world for making so many wonderful materials available, recognizing dLOC’s value, and using dLOC!Read More →

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On Friday, NITLE (National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education) hosted a webinar: “Building Scholarly Networks: Digital Humanities Commons.” The webinar was very useful in terms of orienting people to DHCommons and the digital humanities. I particularly like the speakers who shared their own experiences in getting started with digital humanities research and who noted that they were doing digital humanities work before they knew or identified with the term. I’m a relative newcomer to identifying with and embracing the digital humanities as a label. I was initially concerned about possible limitations and loss of the humanities in the digital, at least until reading Johanna Drucker’s brilliantRead More →

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The UF Digital Collections include many, many rich collections, including the University Archives Photograph Collection. One of the more exciting recent uses of the collection has been in rephotography like that done by Pam Marlin: While evocative and powerful, rephotography isn’t always easy or fast in  terms of time for setup to get the correct angle for a new photo. Historypin.com has an app that makes this process simpler. There are probably many apps and tools for rephotography, but I’m most familiar with Historypin because images from the University Archives Photograph Collection in the UF Digital Collections have been loaded there. This page shows many ofRead More →