Ph.D. – European Studies Librarian – University of Florida
This is my latest newsletter for Spring 2020 about the services I provide for my patrons, new resources we have recently acquired in the UF libraries, information about the Canvas Librarian Role, information about upcoming library events for the month of January, and 10 of our most recent book acquisitions.
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The Florida Digital Humanities Consortium (FLDH) will host its 2nd annual conference at Flagler College in St. Augustine, FL on Friday, March 27, 2020. FLDH is a collective of institutions in the State of Florida that seeks to promote an understanding of the humanities in light of digital technologies and research. Founded in 2014, FLDH provides a platform for studying and discussing digital tools, methods, and pedagogies as well as educates teachers, faculty, and the public about the multiple, interdisciplinary ways humanities research and computing impact our world. Each year at the annual conference, FLDH members and guests meet to hear current research, discuss issues of interest, and set goals for future collaboration and digital humanities research.
The conference will last all day and include academic research and teaching presentations in the morning and early afternoon, followed by a THATCamp session and a plenary talk and dinner. FLDH seeks proposals for papers, posters, lightning rounds, roundtables, and panel presentations on any topic related to digital humanities. We welcome proposals not only from those in higher education, including students, faculty and staff, but also from cultural institutions and other organizations doing work in the digital humanities.
Individual abstracts of 200-250 words should be submitted for talks of 15 minutes.
A panel proposal of 150-250 words by the panel organizer(s) and individual abstracts for 3-5 papers can be submitted for panel presentations.
Posters, lightning rounds, and roundtables can be proposed with brief descriptions of 150 words.
All proposals should include name, affiliation, contact email, and needed IT equipment.
The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2020.
You can submit your proposals at https://ufl.libwizard.com/f/FLDH2020
Come watch international movies with us. We will have drinks and snacks.
I am delighted to have been part of the “DH for Librarians” project led by Emma Annette Wilson. Always happy to share the work I do alongside my colleague Laurie N. Taylor.
October 2 (211 Library West), “Getting Your Classes on Track: Improving Your Teaching Skills”
Sean Trainor (PhD), Lecturer, Management Communication Center.
New to teaching? Struggling to balance your teaching and research obligations? Then attend this session for some easy-to-implement tips on how to maximize your teaching effectiveness while minimizing teaching-related headaches.
October 9 (212 Library West), “Getting a Job: Finding Work after Grad School”
Megan Daly (PhD), Classics, Philosophy, and Religion Librarian
This workshop provides a brief introduction and discussion for graduate students about approaching the job market and job application process.
October 16 (212 Library West), “Getting Published: Writing Clear, Effective Academic Prose”
David Schwieder (PhD), Political Science Librarian
This session covers a set of powerful, easy-to-use techniques that will help participants write better theses, dissertations and manuscripts.
October 23 (212 Library West), “Getting Free: Leveraging Open Access Publishing Options”
Perry Collins (MA, MLS), Scholarly Communications Librarian
Are you hearing terms like “open access,” “preprint,” and “data sharing” and want to know more? The open access publishing landscape has expanded exponentially over the past two decades—this workshop will introduce options across disciplines for sharing, reviewing, and publishing open scholarship. This workshop is part of international Open Access Week.
October 30 (212 Library West), “Getting Organized: managing Projects and Time”
Hélène Huet (PhD), European Studies Librarian
This workshop will provide you with tips and tools to help you manage your time and your various projects as you navigate your graduate career.
All sessions held during Period 4 (10:40-11:30 am). No registration required. Open to all UF Graduate and Professional Students.
Welcome back (and welcome) to the University of Florida. My newsletter for Fall 2019 is out. In this newsletter, I highlight the services I provide for my patrons and new resources we have recently acquired in the UF libraries. I also provide information about the IR@UF and ORCID, quick facts about the Graduate Student Workshop Series we are hosting and our faculty and graduate carrels. Finally, I list 10 of our most recent book acquisitions.
An article I wrote with two of my UF colleagues, Suzan Alteri and Laurie N. Taylor, was published yesterday in the latest issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly. It is entitled: “Manifesto: A Life on the Hyphen: Balancing Identities as Librarians, Scholars, and Digital Practitioners.“
The work of digital humanists and librarians is often invisible to the larger communities in which they work, particularly in academia. This opinion essay by three librarian-scholar-digital practitioners explores invisible work and life on the hyphen — between the academy and the library and between the human and the digital. In this essay, we illustrate how librarian-scholar-digital practitioners can feel overworked and underappreciated, working in and with multiple fields and communities who have different and sometimes competing methodologies. Through two examples, we look at how living on the hyphen takes its toll for librarian-scholar-digital practitioners. We end our essay by detailing steps faculty and administration can take to help us solve the problem and realize the promise of digital humanities.
ADHO 2020 CFP
The Alliance of Digital Humanities
Organizations (ADHO) invites
contributions of proposals for its annual conference, Digital Humanities
2020: “Carrefours/Intersections”.
(http://dh2020.adho.org/guidelines/conference-details/#theme)
The conference will be held July 20-25, 2020 at Carleton University and the
University of Ottawa in Ottawa, Canada. Conference Submissions will be
welcomed from August 15- October 15, 2019. More details are available at
dh2020.adho.org.
The theme of the 2020 conference is “Carrefours/Intersections”, a
place
where roads or streets meet. We specifically invite proposals that relate
to our sub-disciplinary conference interests
(http://dh2020.adho.org/guidelines/conference-details/#theme):
First Nations, Native American, and Indigenous Studies; public digital
humanities; and the open data movement. We welcome all who identify
themselves as working in the broad variety of disciplines, methodologies,
and pedagogies that the digital humanities encompasses.
Submissions may include:
– Posters (http://dh2020.adho.org/guidelines/conference-details/#poster)
(abstract 250-500 words)
– Lightning talks
(http://dh2020.adho.org/guidelines/conference-details/#lightning)
(5 minutes; abstract 200-250 words)
– Short presentations
(http://dh2020.adho.org/guidelines/conference-details/#shortpresentations)
(10 minutes; abstract 250-500 words)
– Long presentations
(http://dh2020.adho.org/guidelines/conference-details/#longpresentations)
(20 minutes; abstract 750-1000 words)
– Panels (http://dh2020.adho.org/guidelines/conference-details/#panels)
(90 minutes; abstract 250 words + 300-500 word overview)
– Forums (http://dh2020.adho.org/guidelines/conference-details/#forum)
(90 minutes; abstract 500 words)
– Pre-conference workshops and tutorials
(http://dh2020.adho.org/guidelines/conference-details/#workshops-tutorials)
(2 hours or 4 hours; 250-word overview plus syllabus and/or
relevant existing
tutorials)
Please consult the full call for proposals in your selected language:
Algonquin (http://dh2020.adho.org/cfps/cfp-anishinabeg/),
English (http://dh2020.adho.org/cfps/cfp-english/),
French (http://dh2020.adho.org/cfps/cfp-francais/),
Spanish (http://dh2020.adho.org/cfps/cfp-espanol/),
German (http://dh2020.adho.org/cfps/cfp-deutsch/),
Italian (http://dh2020.adho.org/cfps/cfp-italiano/)
for more details.
In addition, we welcome nominations for the following:
– Keynote & Plenary Panelist Nominations
(http://dh2020.adho.org/cfps/plenary-speaker-nomination/)
– Conference Reviewers (http://dh2020.adho.org/cfps/reviewers/)
Questions related to this announcement should be directed to the DH2020
Program Chairs, Laura Estill and Jennifer Guiliano at pc2020@adho.org
Jennifer Guiliano <jenguiliano@gmail.com>
UF Museum Studies 20th Anniversary Symposium
In 2000, the University of Florida (UF) established a graduate program in Museum Studies. In the last twenty years, museums and museum professions have undergone critical transformations. To mark the twentieth anniversary of the program and the radical changes in Museum Studies and museums, UF is convening a symposium to examine the history and future of museums and museum professionals challenging ideas and practices in order to shape transformational knowledge and experiences.
The UF Museum Studies program states: “We believe museums can change the world.” Thus, the program centers the transformational power of museums. At this interdisciplinary symposium, we will focus on museums and Museum Studies programs:
Twenty-years ago Stephen Weil posited that American museums were in a moment of great transformation, shifting from “Being about Something to Being for Somebody.” No longer able to be ‘salvage and warehouse business[s]’, he argued that it was imperative for museums to become more entrepreneurial and to demonstrate their impact and advocate for their value. In the decades prior to Weil’s essay, New Museology or New Museum Theory established a critical discourse for museum practice around how museums construct knowledge, engage with communities, and operate in society. Pierre Mayrand argued that this critical discourse “mobilize[d] the supporters of the radical transformation of the aims of museology, and advocates profound changes in the thinking and attitudes of the museologist.”
Today, museums continue to strive to assert their public value and critically engage with the systems and structures upon which they have been built. Many museums have shed guises of neutrality. Museum professionals are positioning their work and institutions as inherently engaged with justice, representation, and addressing historic traumas. Some museums have taken more overt stances to address critical contemporary social issues such hate crime, genocide, migration, mass incarceration, racism, and climate change through their collections and programs.
This symposium celebrates the work of museums, Museum Studies, and our communities over the past twenty years. In doing so, this program looks to the future as we work together for a more just and equitable world.
We seek proposals for participation in the symposium in various formats:
A publication in the form of an edited volume is planned. Selected participants will be asked to contribute to this publication with texts due in Feb 2020.
Proposals
Due: Monday, August 26th
Acceptance Notifications: by Friday, September 20th
Proposal for each formats should include:
If you
have inquiries about the symposium or the proposal process you may send them
to:
museumschallenge@arts.ufl.edu
The George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida are currently hiring two brand new and very important positions.
Student Success Librarian.
The Student Success Librarian is a year-round (12 month) tenure track faculty position that will coordinate student success support within the libraries and collaborate with student success initiatives across campus. We are seeking a service-oriented candidate who is committed to empowering undergraduate students of diverse experiences, races, ethnicities, genders, sexualities, abilities, and socioeconomic backgrounds; an innovative instructor who will develop engaging information literacy learning experiences; a creative collaborator who will coordinate and participate in campus-wide outreach efforts; and a student-centered advocate for inclusion.
Applications are due by August 20, 2019. For more information, check out the job posting: http://library.ufl.edu/pers/documents/StudentSuccessLib_PVA_Final.pdf
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Librarian.
Through a participatory Strategic Directions development process in 2018, the Libraries committed to better understanding and fostering a more inclusive workplace. As one element in our efforts, the DEI Librarian position will help the Libraries’ team members recognize, understand, value and embrace our differences as crucial to our communal work. As part of the development and implementation of a DEI program for the Libraries, the DEI Librarian will serve as the Libraries’ Campus Diversity Liaison (CDL), working within a network of peer positions from across the University as well as serving as a liaison within the Libraries. We seek a capacity builder who will create, in collaboration with people of diverse cultural backgrounds and origins, races, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, and perspectives, meaningful dialogue and change.
The DEI Librarian will participate in national dialogues within the United States and globally that promote the establishment of professional practices in libraries and programs to enhance the opportunities of minority and underrepresented groups in the library profession.
Applications are due by August 30, 2019. For more information, check out the job posting: http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/pers/documents/DEILib_PVA-FINAL_2019.pdf