(20 Jun 2023) CNI (Coalition for Networked Information) is delighted to release the concluding report from Associate Director Emerita Joan Lippincott’s extensive study of the recent past, present and future of a selected set of programs at CNI member institutions addressing digital scholarship (DS), data-intensive, and computation research and interconnections among them. The report can be…
(14 Apr 2020) In March of 2017, senior Library of Congress managers formed a cross-departmental Digital Scholarship Working Group to respond to a set of foundational questions: What are the current demand and the current levels of response for digital scholarship? What are potential approaches to enhancing digital scholarship support across the Library? and, What would…
(11 January 2019) CUHK is hiring Library Sub-Librarian (carrying the job title of ‘Head of Digital Scholarship Services’) CUHK Job Number: 1900000W Application / Period: 11 January 2019 to 15 Feb 2019 The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Library, a leading research library in East Asia, is seeking an academic librarian to play a leading…
(7 December 2018) This post by the British Library’s Digital Curator for Western Heritage Collections, Dr Mia Ridge, reports on an experimental format designed to provide more flexible and timely training on fast-moving topics like text and data mining. This post covers two topics – firstly, an update to the established format of sessions on…
(4 December 2018) Chiba University launched a new academic resource collection named “Chiba University Academic Resource Collections (c-arc) ” which makes content published and provided by Chiba University Libraries widely available on the web. This website is a new infrastructure to realize “Digital Scholarship,” which promotes using digital content to research, education, and learning materials.…
(26 November 2018) Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, invites applications for the position of Senior Librarian/Manager in its Digital Scholarship team in the Office of Information, Knowledge and Library Services (OIKLS). The successful candidate will be evaluating and implementing a range of text mining techniques, GIS tools and platforms such as Omeka. The candidate should possess…
(24 October 2018) SHARE offered a webinar on October 4, 2018, describing practical workflows for scraping Omeka sites in order to curate metadata for discoverability. The presenters were Michael Roth, Project Intern; Heather Froehlich, Literary Informatics Librarian; and Cynthia Hudson Vitale, Head of Digital Scholarship and Data Services, Pennsylvania State University Libraries This one-hour webinar…
(21 May 2018) The 14th AUNILO Meeting takes place 2-4 July 2018 followed by a training workshop on 5 July at the Learning Resource Center – Cantho University, Vietnam. The theme of this meeting is Digital Scholarship Trend in Academic Library. The meeting will discuss: – New awareness of libraries’ role in digital information age…
Theme: “Digital scholarship and knowledge management: building confidence in the digital world” (13 December 2017) This session at IFLA WLIC 2018, Kuala Lumpur, will explore issues of trust in digital libraries, and the impact of those issues on digital scholarship. Knowledge management plays a critical role for libraries and organizations seeking to establish trustworthy digital…
(19 September 2016) The Japan Digital Research Center (JDRC) of the Fung Library at Harvard University seeks an innovative and collaborative information professional to serve as its Japan Digital Scholarship Librarian. This position is best suited for an individual with a strong interest in a range of activities in digital scholarship, including building new digital…