August ← 2017 ← dh+lib

POST: A History Dissertation Goes Digital

Aug

31

2017

AHA Today has posted an interview with Celeste Sharpe (Carleton College), discussing “what is purportedly the first born-digital dissertation in the discipline of history.” In the post, Kritika Agarwal speaks with Dr. Sharpe about her dissertation, They Need You! Disability, Visual Culture, and the Poster Child, 1945–1980, built in Scalar. Dissatisfied with “the rigidity of ...

RESOURCE: The JavaScripting English Major

Aug

31

2017

Moacir P. de Sá Pereira (New York University) has released The JavaScripting English Major, a fifteen-session course aimed at helping humanities students to code projects in JavaScript. The course, built in support of de Sá Pereira’s Digital Literary Studies: Novel Maps of New York class, presents a series of lessons covering both the conceptual and ...

RESOURCE: Public Libraries as Publishers: Critical Opportunity

Aug

31

2017

The Idealis has featured an article by Kathryn M. Conrad (University of Arizona Press) in the Journal of Electronic Publishing, “Public Libraries as Publishers: Critical Opportunity.” The paper examines how public libraries can engage their communities by offering publishing services. From the abstract: Libraries have a long and distinguished history of publishing, since their earliest ...

CFP: PMLA Varieties of Digital Humanities

Aug

31

2017

Publications of the Modern Language Association has a released a call for submissions for its upcoming special topic issue, “Varieties of Digital Humanities,” coordinated by Alison Booth (University of Virginia) and Miriam Posner (University of California, Los Angeles). From the call: Digital humanities (DH) may not be a full-fledged discipline, but it has advanced beyond ...

CFParticipation: Archives Hashtag Party

Aug

31

2017

The National Archives has announced an ongoing Archives Hashtag Party through December, and they have released an open call for Libraries, Archives, Galleries, and Museums to participate: You’re invited to the Archives Hashtag Party! Come hang out on social media and share highlights from your collections around a different theme each month. We want to ...

JOB: Digital Collections Management Librarian, Texas A&M

Aug

31

2017

From the announcement: The Texas A&M University Libraries seeks an innovative and collaborative professional to support our expanding programs in digital collections management. Reporting to the Dean through the Director of the Office of Scholarly Communications, this person will have an integral role in the development of the University Libraries’ emergent digital asset management ecosystem ...

JOB: Digital Matters Lab Director, University of Utah

Aug

31

2017

From the announcement: The Digital Matters Lab (DML) is a collaborative venture between the University of Utah’s College of Humanities, College of Fine Arts, College of Architecture + Planning, and J. Willard Marriott Library. The aim of the lab is to provide the space, tools, and expertise necessary for computationally-enhanced research and teaching in the ...

Welcome, Nickoal Eichmann-Kalwara and Sarah Melton, our new Review editors!

Aug

28

2017

We are pleased to welcome Nickoal Eichmann-Kalwara and Sarah Melton to the dh+lib editorial team. Both will be serving as editors for the dh+lib Review. Caitlin Christian-Lamb, Roxanne Shirazi, and Patrick Williams will continue to serve as Review editors, bringing our rotating team of editors for the weekly publication to five. Nickoal Eichmann-Kalwara is the ...

We’re Looking for dh+lib Review Editors-at-Large for Fall 2017

Aug

10

2017

The dh+lib Review, our weekly roundup of news, articles, and resources relevant to the digital humanities and librarianship, is now seeking editors-at-large for Fall 2017. Sign up for a shift today! dh+lib Review posts appear on the dh+lib homepage, in a weekly newsletter sent to relevant mailing lists, and are shared in our Twitter feed. Items are selected from the streams of content produced and ...

What I’m Reading This Summer: Rebecca Dowson

Aug

4

2017

Note: As the dh+lib Review editors work behind the scenes this summer, we have invited a few members of our community to step in as guest editors and share with us what they are reading and why the dh+lib audience might want to read it too. We close out the series with a post from ...