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RECOMMENDED: Letters from Freedom: New Digital Resource

Oct

31

2025

Last year, the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) received a grant to digitize “655 pages of letters, notebooks, and photographs created by formerly enslaved people.” As part of that initiative, AAS created a new digital resource, “Letters from Freedom,” which features digitized and transcribed letters written between 1863 and 1870 by formerly enslaved students in the ...

PROJECT: OutHistory

Oct

31

2025

OutHistory is a public history website dedicated to generating, presenting, and promoting high-quality, evidence-based LGBTQ+ historical research for broad audiences, with a non-exclusive focus on the United States and Canada. Founded by Jonathan Ned Katz, the platform’s core mission is to foster broad community participation in the process of discovering and writing LGBTQ+ histories, prioritizing under-represented ...

PROJECT: University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s War Crimes Documentation Initiative (WCDI)

Oct

31

2025

The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s War Crimes Documentation Initiative (WCDI) recently launched new online tools to make fragmented archival materials about Japanese war crimes in Asia and the Pacific during World War II more accessible to students, scholars, and the public. Led by historians, librarians, and GIS specialists, the initiative brings together trial records, ...

PROJECT: Save Our Signs (SOS)

Oct

31

2025

Save Our Signs (SOS) is a rapid-response digital archive working to preserve U.S. National Park Service interpretive signs and exhibits at risk of removal under new federal mandates. The initiative began as an urgent response to Executive Order 14253 and Secretary Order 3431, which directed NPS sites to review and replace materials seen as “inappropriately ...

RESOURCE: In Our AI Era (Library’s Version)

Oct

31

2025

Rebekah Cummings (University of Utah) has shared her keynote from the Utah Academic Library Consortium’s 2025 Professional Development Retreat, “Library Futures: Supporting Faculty, Students, and Librarians in a Changing Environment.” Cummings’ talk, “In Our AI Era (Library’s Version),” explores how libraries and librarians can respond to emerging opportunities and challenges posed by artificial intelligence across ...

RESOURCE: Digital Preservation and its Environmental Impact: The Effect of Digital Preservation on the Environment and Potential for Organizational Change

Oct

31

2025

Elizabeth C. Bogar-Wyman (Johns Hopkins University) explores the intersection of digital preservation and environmental sustainability in her paper, “Digital Preservation and its Environmental Impact: The Effect of Digital Preservation on the Environment and Potential for Organizational Change,” shared via JScholarship, Johns Hopkins’ repository. From the paper abstract: Digital preservation is a process that inherently contributes ...

RESOURCE: Black Digital Humanities Projects & Resources

Oct

31

2025

The Colored Conventions Project (CCP) has curated a list of Black Digital Humanities Projects, Events, and Resources. The CCP is, as stated on their website, “a scholarly and community research project dedicated to bringing the seven decades-long history of nineteenth-century Black organizing to digital life.” The list is currently 23 pages long and organized alphabetically ...

CFP: Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship Special Issue on Libraries, Humans, Machines: Old Relationships, New Entanglements

Oct

31

2025

The open access, peer-reviewed Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship (CJAL) invites submissions for a special issue entitled Libraries, Humans, Machines: Old Relationships, New Entanglements. From the call: Libraries have long served as mediators between people and technologies, from catalogues to databases to digitized surrogates. Recent literature has called for academic libraries to position themselves as ...

CFP: A Field Guide to Lost Modernisms

Oct

31

2025

“A Field Guide to Lost Modernisms” is a proposed edited collection seeking contributions that address the vulnerability and disappearance of digital resources related to modernist studies. The instability of the online realm has put digital archives, digital humanities projects, and crucial scholarly resources at risk; this collection aims to be a call-to-action that challenges the ...

OPPORTUNITY: Minimal Computing Internship

Oct

31

2025

University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Archives and Special Collections has opened applications for a paid, fully remote minimal computing internship. From the posting: The minimal computing intern will take a leading role in the collaborative development of the Digital Health Humanities Toolkit, a static Jekyll-based website for online instruction. The intern will be responsible ...

EVENT: Data Rescue Project Hackathon

Oct

31

2025

Hosted by the Research Data Access & Preservation (RDAP) Association, the upcoming Data Rescue Project Hackathon invites attendees of all skill levels to help capture, describe, upload, and preserve federal datasets at risk of deletion or alteration. The Hackathon is part of a broad community effort launched in 2025 by members of IASSIST, RDAP, and ...