| | | | | | The first edition of the dh+lib Review for 2023 is now available. Many thanks to Editors-at-Large, Ruth Carpenter, Mimosa Shah, Soni Wadhwa, Kayla Abner, and Michael Cummings!
| All our best,
Pam Lach and Hillary Richardson | | Digital Humanities Librarian | | San Diego State University | | Hillary Richardson (she/her) | Coordinator of Undergraduate Research and Information Literacy
Mississippi University for Women
hhrichardson@muw.edu | | | | | | RECOMMENDED: Tech Won't Save Us: Don't Fall for the AI Hype with Timnit Gebru | Explore the latest episode of Tech Won't Save Us, a podcast that "examine the tech industry, its big promises, and the people behind them. Tech Won't Save Us challenges the notion that tech alone can drive our world forward by showing that separating tech from politics has consequences for us all, especially the most vulnerable." In this recent episode, "Don't ...
| | | | | | RESOURCE: Smithsonian Open Access | The Smithsonian recently launched Smithsonian Open Access, featuring "more than 4.5 million 2D and 3D digital items" from their collection. The open access content includes "images and data from across the Smithsonian's 21 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo." All content is available for download and reuse, and will surely prove to be a treasure trove ...
| | | | | | RESOURCE: Debates in the Digital Humanities: New OA Editions | Several new editions in the Debates in Digital Humanities series are now open access in Manifold. Most recently added volumes include Debates in the Global Digital Humanities and People, Practice, and Power: Digital Humanities Outside the Center. The Debates in Digital Humanities series, which began with the first Debates book in 2011, has grown into a comprehensive series of books covering a ...
| | | | | | CFP: ACH 2023 (virtual) | The Association for Computers and the Humanities seeks proposals for ACH 2023, our virtual conference, to be held June 29-July 1, 2023. From the announcement: We welcome a broad range of topics, with a particular emphasis on social justice in multiple contexts: anti-racist work, Indigenous studies, cultural and critical ethnic studies, intersectional feminism, postcolonial and decolonial studies, disability studies, and ...
| | | | | | CFP: Digital Humanities Pedagogies in Times of Crisis | Call for Papers: Digital Humanities Pedagogies in Times of Crisis Guest Editors: Roopika Risam (Dartmouth College) and Sara Dias-Trindade (Universidade do Porto and CEIS20) From the call: From the COVID-19 pandemic, to the Russian war against Ukraine, to accelerating climate change, to the rise of neo-fascist politics that target racial and ethnic minorities, refugees, and gender minorities, the last several ...
| | | | | | CFP: Turning It Off and Back On Again: Speculative Digital Librarianship | The Journal of Critical Digital Librarianship seeks proposals for a special issue "Turning It Off and Back On Again: Speculative Digital Librarianship." From the call: Digital Librarianship is a thriving subfield of LIS, concerned with the tools, technologies, theory and practice of creating, managing, sharing, and exploring digitized and born-digital material held by cultural heritage institutions. Critical digital librarianship interrogates ...
| | | | | | EVENT: Item Not Found: Accounting for Loss in Libraries, Archives, and Other Heritage and Memory Organizations | The Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies at UCLA is hosting a free, virtual conference Wednesday, March 8, 2023–Thursday, March 9, 2023. Item Not Found: Accounting for Loss in Libraries, Archives, and Other Heritage and Memory Organizations "considers the ongoing reassessment of memory and heritage work and heritage ownership, as it is understood by libraries, archives and related organizations, through ...
| | | | | | EVENT: Automation by Design | Automation by Design is a global, interdisciplinary, virtual symposium on the politics and culture of digital automation, to be held Friday through Saturday, February 17 & 18, 2023. Hosted by the Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering & University Libraries, this two-day symposium explores "The platformization of society, fueled by automation and machine ...
| | | | | | EVENT: Global Digital Humanities Symposium | The 8th annual Global Digital Humanities Symposium will take place as a virtual event, March 13-15, 2023, and as an in-person event at Michigan State University, March 17, 2023. The Global DH Symposium explores how "DH has been a key site for interrogating narratives about disruption, connection, virtuality, surveillance, algorithmic bias, data and resistance, the digital divide, and digital accountabilities. ...
| | | | | | EVENT: Lightning Lunch: Old Data, New Data | The Critical Digital Humanities Initiative at the University of Toronto is hosting their fourth virtual lunch in their 2022-2023 lightning lunch series on February 17 at 12pm EST. The session will explore "digital humanities approaches working with new data and ethics - and the afterlives of old data." The conversation will feature three speakers: Dr. LK Bertram (Associate Professor of History ...
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| | | | | | OPPORTUNITY: Art Resources on the Web Workshop | "Art Resources on the Web: Introduction to Web Archive Data Analysis and Instruction," scheduled for April 18, 2023 as a part of the ARLIS/NA 2023 Annual Conference in Mexico City, Mexico, will introduce participants to archiving and analyzing web-based art collections. Other sessions include learning more about how digital art can be a worthwhile and challenging resource for researchers, teachers, ...
| | | | | | OPPORTUNITY: Code4Lib Call for Editors | The Code4Lib Journal, which publishes two issues a year aiming to "foster community and share information among those interested in the intersection of libraries, technology, and the future," is looking for editorial committee members to commit around 10 hours per month toward collaborative submission reading and editing. Other duties include formatting text, images, figures, etc. with WordPress, completing administrative tasks, ...
| | | | | | JOB: Instruction and Research Librarian, William and Mary | This is a Research and Instruction Librarian position with a focus on digital humanities and the arts. From the announcement: William & Mary Libraries is seeking a creative, collaborative, and proactive Instruction & Research Librarian with a focus on digital humanities and the arts. Reporting to the Head of Research and a member of the Research team, the librarian will ...
| | | | | | JOB: Assistant Editor, Brown University Digital Publications | From the announcement: Brown University Library seeks to hire a creative, highly organized, and enthusiastic individual for the new position of Assistant Editor, Brown University Digital Publications. Widely recognized as accessible, intentional, and inclusive, Brown University Digital Publications - launched with generous support from the Mellon Foundation with additional support from the National Endowment for the Humanities - is helping ...
| | | | | | JOB: Associate Director, Digital Scholarship Lab, University of Richmond | From the announcement: The Associate Director (1) coordinates the development of digital collections and digital scholarship projects and applications and (2) manages all processes involved in the production and organization of spatial data for those projects. In the former role, they oversee and coordinate the work of the Boatwright Library's website design and development staff and work with the Director ...
| | | | | | JOB: Digital Scholarship Librarian, UC Santa Cruz | From the announcement: We seek a motivated individual who will contribute to the Library's digital scholarship programming. Our team works to support the campus community in their efforts to integrate digital methods into their learning, teaching, research, and individual experimentation. The University Library Center for Digital Scholarship encompasses our programming across two physical spaces: The David Kirk Digital Scholarship Commons ...
| | | | | | JOB: Digital Scholarship Specialist, Princeton University | From the announcement: Princeton University Library seeks two curious and innovative Digital Scholarship Specialists (DSS) to support its growing digital scholarship program. Reporting to the Assistant Director of Digital & Open Scholarship, the DSS will collaborate closely with library colleagues within the Research Data & Open Scholarship department to train, support, and collaborate with Princeton researchers on emerging digital research ...
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