JOB: Senior Director of Digital Scholarship and Scholarly Communication (Ball State University)

From the job posting: Position Title: Senior Director of Digital Scholarship and Scholarly Communication   Compensation: The minimum salary for this position is $85,000.   Department: University Libraries   About this opportunity: The Ball State University Libraries seeks a dynamic, effective, and visionary leader to head up our Digital Scholarship and Scholarly Communication team. The senior director will be responsible for  developing and growing the suite of services around open access publishing, scholarly communication, digital scholarship projects, and open educational resources. If you would like to be an essential part of developing and energizing our digital scholarship and scholarly communication programs, we want to talk to you! Apply today!   What you’ll do and what you’ll bring:   Position Function: Provides leadership and direction for the Ball State ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Librarian (Missouri University of Science and Technology)

From the job posting: Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T), one of the world’s leading technological research universities, seeks a dynamic and creative Digital Scholarship Librarian. Reporting to the Associate Dean of Libraries the Digital Scholarship Librarian leads the planning, coordination, analysis and implementation of library service models focusing on scholarly communication services ...

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 ...

PROJECT: OutHistory

OutHistory is a public history website dedicated to generating, presenting, and promoting high-quality, evidence-based LGBTQ+ historical research for broad audiences, with a non-exclusive focus on the United States and Canada. Founded by Jonathan Ned Katz, the platform’s core mission is to foster broad community participation in the process of discovering and writing LGBTQ+ histories, prioritizing under-represented ...

PROJECT: University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s War Crimes Documentation Initiative (WCDI)

The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s War Crimes Documentation Initiative (WCDI) recently launched new online tools to make fragmented archival materials about Japanese war crimes in Asia and the Pacific during World War II more accessible to students, scholars, and the public. Led by historians, librarians, and GIS specialists, the initiative brings together trial records, ...

PROJECT: Save Our Signs (SOS)

Save Our Signs (SOS) is a rapid-response digital archive working to preserve U.S. National Park Service interpretive signs and exhibits at risk of removal under new federal mandates. The initiative began as an urgent response to Executive Order 14253 and Secretary Order 3431, which directed NPS sites to review and replace materials seen as “inappropriately ...

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 ...

CFP: Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship Special Issue on Libraries, Humans, Machines: Old Relationships, New Entanglements

The open access, peer-reviewed Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship (CJAL) invites submissions for a special issue entitled Libraries, Humans, Machines: Old Relationships, New Entanglements. From the call: Libraries have long served as mediators between people and technologies, from catalogues to databases to digitized surrogates. Recent literature has called for academic libraries to position themselves as ...

CFP: A Field Guide to Lost Modernisms

“A Field Guide to Lost Modernisms” is a proposed edited collection seeking contributions that address the vulnerability and disappearance of digital resources related to modernist studies. The instability of the online realm has put digital archives, digital humanities projects, and crucial scholarly resources at risk; this collection aims to be a call-to-action that challenges the ...