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RESOURCE: Sifting the Digital Heap: A Scoping Study of AI for Government Archives

Mar

27

2026

Lise Jaillant, Matthew Kidd, and Lingjia Zhao (all Loughborough University) have shared their report, “Sifting the Digital Heap: A scoping study of AI for government archives – access, backlogs, and responsible practice” via Zenodo. Their report details the GLOW scoping study, part of the overall LUSTRE project, which has the overall aim to “connect policy makers ...

CFP: Code4Lib Special Issue: Static Websites for Scholarly Editions and Other Publications in the Humanities

Mar

27

2026

Code4Lib Journal has released a call for submissions for a special issue titled “Static websites for scholarly editions and other publications in the Humanities.” From the call: Static websites are increasingly recognized as a sustainable solution for digital editions and other scholarly publications in the Humanities. They are broadly defined as applications that do not ...

OPPORTUNITY: Four Board Positions at ADHO

Mar

27

2026

The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) has released a call for expressions of interest in four positions on the board of ADHO: 1. Executive Board Chair-Elect 2. Executive Board Deputy Secretary 3. Deputy Treasurer 4. Deputy Conference Officer As the call notes, “By joining the ADHO board, you will have the chance to work alongside leading experts in ...

EVENT: Platform Extractivism: Data Work and The People Powering AI

Mar

27

2026

The Black Communication and Technology Lab (BCaT) at the University of Maryland is hosting a speaker series entitled Automating Black Joy (ABJ). On March 27 from 10 AM to 12 PM eastern, the next talk in the series will take place both in person and via Zoom, with Dr. Julian Posada presenting a talk titled ...

RECOMMENDED: Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship

Dec

4

2025

Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship, edited by Anna-Maria Sichani (University of London), Michael Donnay (Software Sustainability Institute), is a new open access volume published by University of London Press. This volume asks “if there is value in failure in digital scholarship, how do we create the space to fail ‘better’?” By positioning failure as an ...

RESOURCE: Archiving Machines: From Punch Cards to Platforms

Dec

4

2025

Amelia Acker (Rutgers University) has published an open access book through MIT Press, Archiving Machines: From Punch Cards to Platforms. This book tells the “story of the rise of networked data through the evolution of archiving and digital storage” through advancing … our understanding of memory, information, and data by charting the struggle between the ...

EVENT: How Users Imagine Archival Research

Dec

4

2025

The University of Edinburgh’s Edinburgh Futures Institute is hosting a hybrid talk by Dorothy Berry (Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture), entitled “How Users Imagine Archival Research: JPCA Explore and Digital Curation at the Smithsonian National African American History and Culture Museum.” The free talk is December 10th, from 4:00 PM – ...

JOB: Data Science Specialist/Librarian (University of Arizona)

Dec

4

2025

From the announcement: The University of Arizona Libraries invites you to apply to the role of Data Science Specialist/Librarian (Assistant or Associate rank). Located within the University of Arizona Libraries Research Engagement department, Data Cooperative provides data science, geospatial, and digital scholarship services for the University of Arizona. The incumbent will contribute to a robust ...

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 ...

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 ...