Kevin Smith (Duke University) has written a post on the Scholarly Communications @ Duke blog about the recent Authors Guild v. HathiTrust decision, which Smith describes as “another important win for libraries and fair use.” Smith discusses a technical but important aspect of the decision: The oddity about this remand is that it does not actually question the conclusion that digitization for ...

Responding to the #esrworkshop (Evolving Scholarly Record and Evolving Stewardship Ecosystem workshop, preceding a meeting on Libraries and Research: Supporting Change/Changing Support), Jennifer Schaffner (OCLC Research Library Partnership) has written a post on the “evolving scholarly record.” Schaffner considers the changing nature of archival collections in the digital age as “components of the ‘scholarly record.'” Schaffner discusses how context ties ...

In a post to The Signal, Kate Murray (Library of Congress) summarizes a recent meeting of the NDSA Standards and Practices Working Group, focused on issues around preserving digital and software-based artworks. Presenters from the Goldsen Archive of New Media Art at Cornell University, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Smithsonian’s Time Based Media Art initiative, and the San ...

Paige Morgan (University of Washington) has written a post summarizing the advice she shared while leading an unconference session at DHSI 2014. “How to Get a Digital Humanities Project off the Ground” includes 15 points of general and specific recommendations. Though some address issues that are specific to graduate students, many could be useful for librarians ...

In a post introducing the African American Theater History Project, Cecily Marcus (University of Minnesota Libraries) introduces the collaboration between the Penumbra Theater and the University of Minnesota Libraries aiming to increase access to “the primary materials that document African American theater and cultural history.” In developing the IMLS-funded project, the participating institutions will be: 1. working with leading African ...