A new post on the Internet Archive blog details a variety of methods to ensure webpages are added to the Wayback Machine. “If You See Something, Save Something: 6 Ways to Save Pages in the Wayback Machine,” includes a one-click “Save Page Now” form on the wayback machine’s homepage, a new Chrome Extension and Wikipedia ...

Harriet Green (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) authored an article in Parameters responding to Jim Neal’s (Columbia University) future of libraries piece in the same publication. Neal asks thought provoking questions: Will the library in the eyes of the researcher mean innovation? Can the library advance new methods, new ideas, and new products and services? Can the library ...

Christine Borgman (University of California, Los Angeles) recently deposited the slides from the presentation,”Data, Data Citation, and Bibliometrics” she gave recently at the Taiwan Data Curation and Citation Workshop/Academia Sinica and National Taiwan University. The presentation makes the case for data citation, its best practices, its benefits for scholarship, and recommendations. Borgman quotes CODATA-ICSTI Task Group on ...

A post at AHA Today announces the release of the latest issue of Perspectives, which takes on the topic “Doing History in the Digital Age.” …we’ve assembled a group of articles that do not issue the “go digital or else” imperatives that rightly ruffle many in our community—they explore possibilities and complications of the digital ...

Shun Han Rebekah Wong (Hong Kong Baptist University) has authored an article analyzing collaborative authorship and library involvement in the digital humanities: Wong, S. H. R. (2016). Digital Humanities: What Can Libraries Offer? [pdf postprint] portal: Libraries and the Academy, 16(4), 669-690. The abstract is reproduced below: The collaborative aspect of digital humanities is one ...

Ithaka S+R has published “Finding the Public Domain: The Copyright Review Management System,” an issue brief written by Melissa Levine (University of Michigan). Providing an overview to the Copyright Review Management System (CRMS), “a system to train and coordinate reviewers to assess the copyright status of digitized books held in the HathiTrust Digital Library,” the ...

DHCommons has released their second publication, and announced an expanded remit that can include completed as well as mid-stage projects, and that future publications will be published on a rolling schedule: We have also reconsidered our publishing schedule as we felt that the digital-only nature of DHCommons meant it no longer needed to be tied ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology released their Institute-wide Task Force On the Future of Libraries report.  The task force, comprised of 30 people representing faculty, graduate students, undergraduate students, and staff were divided into three working groups: Community and Relationships, Discovery and Use, and Stewardship and Sustainability. Collectively, they offer a vision for the libraries, “using the ...

Digital Humanities Quarterly has released a preview version of Elyse Graham’s (SUNY Stony Brook) article “The Printing Press as Metaphor,” which examines the popular use of historical technologies of print as metaphors for making sense of our changing media and information landscape. Situating an examination of this rhetoric within a larger discussion of the market ...

The University of Kentucky News points to the release of a new digital collection developed in partnership with the University of Kentucky Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center and the Fayette County Clerk’s Office. The project provides “access to the Colored Marriage Indexes dated 1866-1882 and 1958-1968. The purpose of the project is to provide researchers with ...