RECOMMENDED: Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship

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

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

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)

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

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)

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

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

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 ...

OPPORTUNITY: Minimal Computing Internship

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: DHSI 2026

Registration is now open for DHSI 2026! The Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) will be held on the campus of the Université de Montréal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada across two weeks in June: June 8-12 (Week 1) and June 15-19 (Week 2). This year’s DHSI will offer 45 courses across a range of topics that ...

JOB: AI & Technology Initiatives Librarian (Stanford University)

From the announcement: This is a Hybrid position. AI & Technology Initiatives Librarian Innovation that is secure, accessible, and student-centered advances Stanford Law School’s teaching and research. The AI & Technology Initiatives Librarian identifies, evaluates, and implements state-of-the-art legal technology through risk-aware pilots and thoughtful rollouts. Working across the library, IT, and faculty, this role ...