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The Journal of Critical Digital Librarianship has announced calls for proposals for two upcoming special issues. “Digital Librarianship in an Eroding Democracy” focuses on precarity, censorship, AI, and broader political crisis as they shape digital library work, while “The Graduate” invites current students, recent graduates, and early-career librarians to consider transitions into the profession and ...

The Digital Library Federation (DLF) has issued a call for proposals for the DLF Virtual Forum 2026, to be held October 14–15, 2026. The Forum invites proposals for live virtual sessions across digital library practice, research, and community work, including topics such as collections and stewardship, digital research and pedagogy, ethics and justice, and infrastructure. ...

The Journal of Open Humanities Data has announced a special collection on Data Rescue and Safeguarding. The call invites submissions from humanities practitioners and scholars on rescuing at-risk data and on safeguarding practices, with topics including digitization, institutional and community responses, disinformation, cyberattack, sustainability, ethics, and user experience. The collection accepts both short data papers ...

The Digitorium Conference is accepting proposals for its 2026 meeting, which will take place September 10–12, 2026. The conference theme, “Preserve,” focuses on preservation at multiple levels, including the recovery and documentation of hidden or marginalized histories as well as questions of sustainability for digital humanities projects. The call asks contributors to reflect on what ...