CFP: Data Workshops in Academic Libraries

Editors of a new ACRL book, Data Workshops in Academic Libraries: Building Literacy and Reproducible Research Skills, have shared a call for chapter proposals. From the call: This book will be a collection of essays that share the experiences, strategies, and lessons learned by librarians who have organized and facilitated data workshops in academic libraries. ...

FUNDING/OPPORTUNITY: Public Humanities Fellowship

Applications are open for the 2025-26 Public Humanities Fellowship program offered by Oregon State University’s PRAx Center. The theme of this year’s fellowship is “Trust in the Age of Generative AI,” asking applicants to consider how they might contribute to public-facing projects “that will deepen political, ethical and/or social engagement with issues related to data ...

JOB: Emerging Technology Lab Coordinator (San José State University)

From the announcement: The University Library’s Emerging Technology Lab Coordinator develops and manages resources, policies, and activities that pertain to emerging technologies in King Library, especially those connected with King Library’s Virtual Experiential Reality Lab (KLEVR Lab). The incumbent works with faculty, staff and students in the library and on campus to develop curriculum and ...

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Alongside our recent expansion of the dh+lib Review Editorial Team and some technical improvements to dhandlib.org, the dh+lib team will be retiring the WordPress plugin-operated mailing list we previously used to distribute the biweekly Review to readers’ inboxes. What this means: please take a moment to (re)subscribe to receive the dh+lib Review! Even if you ...

RECOMMENDED: ACH Town Halls

The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) is holding two Town Hall meetings to  “discuss recent events affecting Digital Humanities” that are “designed to hear your experiences regarding how the recent government actions are affecting your ability to pursue digital humanities, and the steps that ACH can take to support you and your communities.” ...

POST: Assessing Preservability in New Forms of Scholarship

A recent guest post on the H-Net Book Channel titled “Assessing Preservability in New Forms of Scholarship” shares some outcomes of the Embedding Preservability project, the second project led by NYU Libraries to address preservation risks for complex digital publications. The authors note that this Mellon-funded project had two broad goals: “The first goal was ...

POST: Vanishing Culture: Punch Card Knitting

In this guest blog post on the Internet Archive by Nichole Misako Nomura (Stanford University), the author shares a brief history of the computational translations of knitting punch cards, starting with how they became proto-versions of code and taking us through the ins and outs of a digitization and preservation workflow. This blog post is ...

POST: How to Lead an Academic Social Network

This open-access article in Public Humanities gives a brief history of HASTAC.org’s inception and growth, with the values of sharing knowledge in a free, open, and ethically minded group of scholars. Cathy N. Davidson (CUNY Graduate Center), the co-founder of HASTAC, writes lessons she learned in the creation and growth of this community of scholars, ...

EVENT: Digital Treatment of African Cultural Heritage

On Monday, March 24, 2025, at 11:00am Eastern Time, Chijioke Okorie (University of Pretoria) will present a talk titled “Digital Treatment of African Cultural Heritage: Shifting Landmarks and Implications for Copyright Exceptions for Archives.” Registration required: RSVP here. From the event advertisement: This talk examines how copyright law must adapt to facilitate digital treatment of ...

EVENT: AI in Art Panel Discussion

On Friday, March 28, 2025, at 3 p.m., Towson University’s Albert S. Cook Library will host a Panel Discussion on AI and the Arts. From the event website: Panelists will discuss the importance of AI in their work as well as the challenges and opportunities it presents, including information on how research universities can respond ...

CFP: DLF Forum 2025

The Digital Library Federation has opened its call for proposals for this year’s annual Forum in Denver Colorado. Proposals can include topics encompassing digital libraries, including: case studies, ‘fail and learn’ opportunities, practical application, methods, projects, ethics, research, and learning in any area, including, but not limited to: Digital humanities Digital scholarship Digital pedagogy Digital ...