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H-Net academic announcements posted to the web 2014-06-05 - 2014-06-06

Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 07:00:03 -0400
From: H-Net Announcements <announce@mail.h-net.msu.edu>
Subject: H-Net academic announcements posted to the web 2014-06-05 -
2014-06-06

EVENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM H-NET

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Academic Libraries and the Adjunct Crisis

In an ACRLog post Maura Smale reflects on the impact of the increase of adjunct instructors on the work of academic librarians, and offers suggestions on what librarians can do.

-- Maura Smale, "Academic Libraries and the Adjunct Crisis," ACRLog, May 31, 2014, http://acrlog.org/2014/05/31/academic-libraries-and-the-adjunct-crisis-2/

 

Digitization and Digital Preservation: A Review of the Literature

This article provides a summary of the main issues around digitization, based on recent literature.

Routhier Perry, Stephanie (2014) "Digitization and Digital Preservation: A Review of the Literature," SLIS Student Research Journal 4 no. 1,  http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/slissrj/vol4/iss1/4

The Differences between Digital History and Digital Humanities

In his blog, Stephen Robertson identifies at least two differences between digital history and digital humanities: "the collection, presentation, and dissemination of material online is a more central part of digital history;" and "digital history has seen more work in the area of digital mapping than has digital literary studies, where text mining and topic modeling are the predominant practices."

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