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RECOMMENDED: The Digital Preservation Coalition Requests Feedback on Carbon Footprint Toolkit for Digital Preservation

Apr

9

2026

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) seeks feedback on its newly released draft of the Carbon Footprint Toolkit. The toolkit has been being developed by the DPC Carbon Footprint Task Force over the past year to create a resource for organizations to correctly and efficiently calculate the carbon footprint of their digital collections and preservation work. ...

POST: Operationalizing Minimal Computing Values Through Shared Computing-Platform Development: A Case Study of DigitalArc and Opaque Publisher

Apr

9

2026

Kalani Craig (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Michelle Dalmau (Indiana University Bloomington), and Sean Purcell (University of California, San Francisco) have published “Operationalizing Minimal Computing Values Through Shared Computing-Platform Development: A Case Study of DigitalArc and Opaque Publisher” on In the Library With the Lead Pipe. The article discusses the authors’ experiences working on two minimal ...

POST: Models All The Way Down

Apr

9

2026

Models All the Way Down, a Knowing Machines project written by Christo Buschek and Jer Thorp, breaks down the relationship between a large AI model and its training data. The authors focus their article on the LAION-5B training set, which is a enormous, open dataset of captioned images. The model is widely used for research and ...

POST: IFLA Statement on Harm to Lives and Cultural Heritage in the Gulf Region and Eastern Mediterranean

Apr

9

2026

The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) released a statement on March 20, 2026 outlining the organization’s concern and stance on recent events affecting Iran, the Gulf Region, and the Eastern Mediterranean. The full statement is quoted below: In light of increasing hostilities affecting Iran, the Gulf Region and the Eastern Mediterranean, the ...

RESOURCE: Lesson Planning 101: Primary Source Instructional Design for Archivists

Apr

9

2026

The Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Collective is a hub of articles, best practices, and resources supporting education and teaching with primary sources for practitioners across libraries, museums and archives as well as those coming to that work from outside of those spaces. Mae Casey (Penn State University) recently published an article on the TPS ...

CFP: Library Trends: Exploring Metaphors of Expertise in LIS

Apr

9

2026

Library Trends has released a call for publications for its 71.6 issue, to be published in August 2027. The issue’s theme is “Exploring Metaphors of Expertise in LIS.” From the call: In 2000, information scholar Marcia Bates shared a metaphor wherein the field of library and information science (LIS) was described as an iceberg, with ...

CFP: Minimal Computing for Social and Cultural Heritage

Apr

9

2026

The Minimal Curation Project, funded by Research Ireland, is putting together a collection on Minimal Computing for Social and Cultural Heritage edited by Olga C. Patroni, James O’Sullivan, Susan Rea, Shawn Day, Luigina Ciolfi, and Mary Galvin. The collection is calling for full chapters or short contributions on approaches to minimal computing through a critical ...

CFP: Digitorium 2026: Preserve

Apr

9

2026

Digitorium 2026 will be held September 10-12, 2026 in-person and online at The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, AL. Digitorium is a bi-annual conference bringing together DH practitioners to discuss projects, practices, and to learn from each other. From the call for proposals: We invite you to share your experiences around the idea of Preserve. ...

RESOURCE: The Pudding

Mar

12

2026

The Pudding publishes interactive data storytelling stories on a variety of subjects and topics. Most recent articles include, “Happy Map,” “Sizing Chaos,” and “Musical Motifs,” although past articles show a range of topics including political, social, pop-culture, sports, and food. Stories often mix custom imagery with dynamic data visualizations to create engaging visual journalism stories. ...

EVENT: Freedom School 2026 Series, Digital Literacy & Cultural Stewardship

Mar

12

2026

Archiving the Black Web’s (ATBW) Freedom School 2026 Webinar Series: Digital Literacy & Cultural Stewardship is presenting three talks across the spring months. The webinars are free and serve ATBW’s mission to provide accessible training and “opportunities for archivists and other memory workers interested in documenting the contemporary Black experience” in web archiving practices. “Images ...

EVENT: 4th Annual Teaching and Learning with AI Conference

Mar

12

2026

The University of Central Florida’s (UCF) Teaching and Learning Center, Libraries, and Digital Learning Center are hosting the 4th Annual Teaching and Learning with AI Conference. The conference “aims to discuss how AI tools continue to evolve and change the way educators instruct students, as well as how students can effectively use these tools in ...