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Digital Humanities Specialist Full-time Academic Professional Position University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Library Duties and Responsibilities:  The University of Illinois Library conducts a variety of activities in support of digital humanities scholarship, including creation, delivery, curation and preservation of a wide variety of types of digital assets and tools.  Reporting to the Technical Architect for Repositories and Scholarly Communication, the Digital Humanities Specialist will assist with the planning, implementation and ongoing production of these digital collections and scholarly initiatives, with particular emphasis on project design, digitization workflows, and content and delivery systems.  The successful candidate will work across a number of humanities and SpecialRead More →

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This is being re-posted from NEH’s Office of Digital Humanities (ODH) website. New ODH programs are always worth re-posting! Announcing a New Grant Program: Digital Humanities Implementation Grants Jun 22 Written by: Brett Bobley 6/22/2011 12:57 AM On Wednesday, June 22, at the Digital Humanities 2011 conference at Stanford University, the ODH officially announced our new grant program, Digital Humanities Implementation Grants (or DHIG, for short). This program is designed to be a follow-on to our popular Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant program (SUG). As you know, the SUG program awards small grants and is designed to fund early, cutting-edge, experimental work that shows great potential. SUGsRead More →

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The University of California Riverside’s California Digital Newspaper Collection (CDNC) is expanding to include weekly papers in searchable archive. The full news story from June 21, 2011 is “California Weekly Newspapers to be Preserved Online” and it’s online here. This is great news about the California Digital Newspaper Collection’s growth and success! Also, there is a minor point in the news story that I wanted to clarify. The news story notes: Libraries in Minnesota and Florida also are collecting PDFs of newspaper pages, but do not offer the ability to search text across titles, Geiger said. Software developed to process historical newspapers in the CaliforniaRead More →

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News: Caribbean Region of the International Resource Network presents “Preserving Our Stories – Caribbean LGBT Histories & Activism” Launch & Discussion The Digital Archive Collection of the Jamaica Gay Freedom Movement 21 June, 2011 at 6PM (USA Eastern Standard Time) Panelists include: Larry Chang (co-founder of the Jamaica Gay Freedom Movement and Jamaica Forum of Lesbians, All-Sexuals & Gays – JFLAG) & Thomas Glave (award-winning author and co-founder of JFLAG); along with co-chairs of the Caribbean IRN Board: Angelique V. Nixon (scholar, writer, community worker) & Rosamond S. King (writer, scholar, artist) Also featuring the short documentary “Sisters without Misters” by Cynthia Cheeseman http://bandwagonist.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/sisters-without-misters/ TheRead More →

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The (paradigm) Personal Archives Accessible in Digital Media was designed to provide support and guidance for preserving digital private papers in terms of accessioning, ingesting digital private papers into digital repositories, and processing them in line with archival and digital preservation requirements. The project is a bit older (2005-2007), but the paradigm documentation is still very useful as a primer for anyone new to the ideas and concerns for working with born digital materials. In particular, I like the section on Practical Tips, which advises against overly long filenames and spaces in names. This might  seem to be a bit basic, but because it’s basicRead More →

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In April, Europeana announced that they would be releasing a number of additional online exhibits this year. They’ve already released quite a few including: From Dada to Surrealism Exhibition Live Yiddish Theatre in London Virtual Exhibition Live These are wonderful online exhibits on their own. It’s also wonderful to see Europeana’s dedication to supporting online exhibits because online exhibits allow people to see, use, and understand materials in new ways that enhance the experience with the online exhibit and the collections it draws upon. The process of creation online exhibits itself is also requires scholarly and creative work for the curation and design. The UFRead More →

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GL13 POSTER SESSIONS FOR SPONSORS, DELEGATES, AND LIS STUDENTS Thirteen International Conference on Grey Literature, From Social Networking to Wealth Creation, Library of Congress, Washington D.C., December 5-6, 2011 For the first time in the International Conference Series on Grey Literature, Posters will be presented on the first day. Also, for the first time a special Poster Session for LIS graduate students will take place alongside the regularly scheduled Sponsor and Poster Session. LIS posters are expected to deal with research topics in grey literature or successful course programs in which grey literature is taught at their respective colleges of library and information science. BothRead More →

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The Digital Library of the Caribbean’s diverse partners serve an international community of scholars, students, and citizens by working together to preserve and to provide enhanced electronic access to cultural, historical, legal, governmental, and research materials in a common web space with a multilingual interface. Please read our latest newsletter to learn about new partners, new content and new technologies available in dLOC. English Français Español If it has been a while since you’ve been to www.dloc.com, we encourage you to browse our more than 1.5 million pages of content. Enjoy reading more about dLOC in the newsletter and please contact us with any questionsRead More →

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The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) is seeking a full time Assistant Director <http://mith.umd.edu/about/jobs/assistant-director/> to help initiate and manage our projects, someone who will deepen the expertise of our interdisciplinary team of humanities researchers and developers and who will contribute to a creative, high-energy, and team-oriented environment. The Assistant Director will generate grant projects, work closely with MITH Fellows, and bear primary responsibility for the supervision of MITH’s development team, which includes programmers, web designers, graduate assistants, and interns. The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) is a renowned and rapidly growing research center that is helping to transform theRead More →

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News from DLF: DLF has awarded $50,000 to fund research on business cases for new service development in research libraries. The project will develop guidance for academic libraries seeking to support innovative services such as publishing and data management activities on their campuses. Librarians from four universities and OCLC will investigate business-planning literature and study established publishing and data curation services. The project will result in a series of publications, to be published between fall 2011 and August 2012, that will suggest a model for the business planning of new ventures and services. The model will help libraries determine whether a new service is feasibleRead More →