In a guest post on the Signal,  Joe Carrano (Georgetown University, National Digital Stewardship Residency program) describes his NDSR Project, “building digital preservation processes for digital preservation platforms” that allow the institutions to collocate materials, document workflows and deposit them in the digital preservation repository, Academic Preservation Trust. Carrano outlines the project goals and completed milestones closing with ...

Christian Howard (University of Virginia) authored a post that was cross posted on the Washington and Lee Digital Humanities blog and the Scholar’s Lab Blog at the University of Virginia in which he describes a collaboration with Taylor Walle (Washington and Lee University) in the English 232 class, “Frantic and Sickly, Idle and Extravagant: The Gothic ...

Abbey Potter (Library of Congress) authored a post summarizing Michelle Gallinger’s (Gallinger Consulting) and Daniel Chudnov’s (Chudnov Consulting) report, “Library of Congress Lab” ,  which discusses “how libraries and other research centers have developed services that use computational analysis, design, and engagement to enable new kinds of discovery and outreach.” Potter interviews the authors to gain additional insight ...

Roxanne Shirazi (City University of New York Graduate Center) authored a post entitled “In defense of the MLS; or, confess your unpopular opinion” in response to recent debate about the educational qualifications for the Executive Director of the American Library Association. Shirazi challenges readers to consider how  “to open the doors to our profession without ...

John Overholt (Harvard University) collocated statements from professional organizations responding to the recent Trump administration policies in a post on Medium as an update to his earlier post about how the professional is political: There is no longer, if there ever was, any distinction between the values that librarians and archivists consider essential to their professional ...

The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) released the report of the Fall 2016 Executive Roundtable: The discussion covered a wide range of topics related to the development of institution-wide strategies for describing, managing, curating, enhancing access, preserving, and disseminating surrogates or born-digital representations of objects housed in those institutions, and ways in which these collections can ...