If you’re a Philadelphia local (or power user!), please share your expertise by suggesting nearby restaurants, bars, or things to see or do. Provide as much information as you can: Distance from the convention venue, price range, URL, and what you like about a place are particularly useful.

Welcome! Philadelphia has hosted the MLA convention several times in this millennium and will do so again this January. For those of you who’ve attended those conventions—and certainly for many of us on staff—Philadelphia has become a home away from home. This year all sessions will take place at the Philadelphia Marriott, the Pennsylvania Conve…[Read more]

Dear friends,

I’m pleased to share this call for papers for a special issue of Journal of Electronic Publishing. The issue title is On Gathering: Exploring Collective and Embodied Modes of Scholarly Communication, and I am the issue editor.

Changes in scholarly communication have shifted the boundaries of where and how we share our work, and…[Read more]

The Research Data and Digital Scholarship team at University of Pennsylvania Libraries is looking for a mapping geospatial project specialist to work primarily on digital humanities and digital scholarship projects, as well as to work with the existing librarian for mapping and geospatial data to foster a mapping-curious community on campus. Sound…[Read more]