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This edition of dh+lib Review is now available.
| All the best,
Hillary Richardson and Linsey Ford
| | Coordinator of Undergraduate Research and Information Literacy | | Mississippi University for Women | Linsey Ford
Head of Scholarly Communications
University of Houston-Clear Lake
ford@uhcl.edu | | | |
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RECOMMENDED: Training Information Professionals in the Digital Humanities | | "Training Information Professionals in the Digital Humanities: An Analysis of DH Courses in LIS Education," by Chris Alen Sula (Pratt Institute) and Claudia Berger (Sarah Lawrence College), provides a look at DH courses offered in LIS programs in light of the growth DH has seen since 2014 when it was identified as one of the top trends in academic libraries. ... | | | | | |
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RECOMMENDED: DHQ Issue 17.2 | | The most current issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ), issue 17.2, focuses on Critical Code Studies and Tools Criticism, which the editors define as "the application of the hermeneutics of the humanities to the interpretation of the extra-functional significance of computer source code. 'Extra' here does not mean 'outside of' or 'apart from' but instead it refers to a significance ... | | | | | |
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PROJECT: Mapping Racist Covenants | | The Mapping Racist Covenants project highlights neighborhoods and properties in the Tuscon, AZ area that contained racist language in their covenants, conditions, and restrictions (CCRs) during development, focusing on CCRs from 1912-1968. From the project's website: The MRC project will deliver an interactive web-based map highlighting the geography of racist CCRs in Tucson that prevented African American, Asian, Mexican-American, Native American, ... | | | | | |
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POST: The Data Sitters Club #19: Shelley and the Bad Corpus | | DCS#19 of The Data Sitters Club, a project that applies "digital humanities computational text analysis tools and methods" to a popular book series from the 1990s, looks at the corpus of works that make up the collection. The author of this chapter, "Shelley and the Bad Corpus," Quinn Dombrowski (Stanford University), worked with Prof. Shelley Staples (University of Arizona), a ... | | | | | |
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RESOURCE: Text on Maps Help Guide | | Text on Maps has collected pieces of text from 57,000 georeferenced maps from the David Rumsey Map Collection and made them searchable with mapKurator, allowing users to search within the contents of text on maps, rather than just the metadata. From the site: "While library patrons have become used to searching books via their content as well as their titles ... | | | | | |
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EVENT: Digital Humanities Virtual Podcasting Workshop Series | | The Digital Humanities Center at San Diego State University's Libraries will host a free, virtual, 5-part workshop series on scholarly podcasting. All workshops will be hosted on Zoom, from 10:00 am - 11:00 am, Pacific Time. The workshop dates and descriptions for the semester are: September 29: Why Podcast? October 6: Recording your Podcast October 13: Editing your Audio October ... | | | | | |
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EVENT: Beyond Black Data Reading Group | | Join faculty, researchers, and those interested in "exploring ideas around community-based data analytics (CBDA), a collaborative approach to data that involves community members in the collection, management, and analysis of data in their communities" in a reading group throughout the semester. Each meeting will be the last Friday of each month, and will feature the following guest speakers: September 29: ... | | | | | |
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CFP: ACRL Digital Scholarship Section Virtual Professional Development Program | | The ACRL Digital Scholarship Section's Professional Development Committee (PDC) has announced a call for proposals for its 2023 DSS virtual professional development series. The series is a collaboration between the Outreach Committee and the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee, and will focus on topics identified from a recent survey of the DSS community. Proposals will be accepted on a rolling ... | | | | | |
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CFP: Digital Humanities Utah | | The Digital Humanities Utah Executive Committee is currently accepting proposals for the 8th Digital Humanities Utah Symposium (DHU8) to take place February 23-24, 2024. Session formats include panel presentations, complete panels, roundtables, and hands-on workshops, and suggested topics of interest include computational and digital approaches to humanistic research, humanistic examinations of the computational and the digital, digital librarianship, DH tools ... | | | | | |
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CFP: Latin American & Caribbean Digital Humanities Symposium | | From the Call: The University of Florida, the University of North Florida, and Universidad San Francisco de Quito will host their second Latin America & Caribbean Digital Humanities Symposium at Universidad San Francisco Quito in Quito, Ecuador from Thursday, July 4 – Saturday July 6, 2024. This symposium will offer a mix of in-person and virtual sessions. We seek proposals for papers, posters, and lightning rounds, on any topic related to Digital Humanities focusing on ... | | | | | |
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OPPORTUNITY: Early Modern Digital Itineraries | | Early Modern Digital Itineraries, or EmDigIt, is looking for participants to attend 3 virtual workshops and 1 in-person conference toward developing a database of traveler itinerary books published between 1500-1750 and will provide a stipend for lodging and travel for the conference, slated for August 2024 at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. ... | | | | | |
| | JOB: Digital Projects Specialist, George Washington Presidential Library | From the posting: This position will be devoted to working on compelling new projects that the CDH is building. Of primary importance is ARGO: American Revolutionary Geographies Online, an NHPRC-funded multi-institutional historic maps platform spearheaded by the Washington Library and the Norman B Leventhal Map and Education Center at the Boston Public Library. In particular, this position will be responsible ...
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JOB: Text Mining Specialist, Northeastern | From the posting: Reporting to the Head of Research Data Services, the Text Mining Specialist (salary range $56,835-88,095) works closely and collegially with fellow Research Data Services team members and others inside and outside the library to a) identify existing support and research needs across the University, and b) develop a broad and deep range of services and initiatives to ...
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JOB: Digital Scholarship Librarian, Michigan State University | From the posting: Michigan State University (MSU) Libraries seeks a creative, service-oriented professional to join the Digital Scholarship Lab as the Digital Scholarship Librarian. The ideal candidate values collaboration, inclusivity, and community engagement in digital scholarship efforts and will bring expertise and a learning mindset that will shape a growing, dynamic digital scholarship program at the MSU Libraries.
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JOB: Data Applications Librarian Lecturer, University of Kentucky | From the posting: University of Kentucky Libraries is vital to fulfilling the goals of enhancing and expanding the university's research enterprise, and we are looking for a visiting Data Applications Librarian to strengthen and expand UK Libraries research data services, particularly in data refinement, analysis, and visualization. This 2-year position will join the growing Digital Scholarship and Data department of ...
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JOB: AI and Emerging Technologies Librarian, Mississippi State University | From the posting: The AI and Emerging Technologies Librarian will play a crucial role in the integration and management of new and emerging technologies at MSU Libraries, with special attention to the burgeoning impact of AI. The position combines expertise in library science and emerging technologies to enhance and streamline library services and operations. The AI and Emerging Technologies Librarian ...
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