Trevor Owens (Library of Congress) and Angelina Wong (University of Maryland) have shared a preprint of Collaboration, Empathy & Change: Perspectives on Leadership in Libraries and Archives in 2020 on SocArXiv. From the book introduction, Owens describes the impetus and process behind the book: …the students in the organizational theory and leadership course I taught ...

Season 2 of Reframing Digital Humanities, a podcast by Julian Chambliss (Michigan State University), is now available as an open access text. Season one drew Chambliss’ attention to the challenge of definition around digital humanities, so season two became a series of conversations with scholars about digital humanities. According to Chambliss, to create the list ...

In a recent blog post, HASTAC Scholar and PhD candidate at the University of Kansas Rebekah Jo Aycock shared her experiences exploring Queer DH Projects. Relying on Twitter, Aycock (@AycockRebekah) compiled a set of Queer DH projects and resources. These resources include: #QueerDH Projects and Resources #QueerDH Projects and Resources was started by Corey Clawson. It was ...

Authors Abigail E. Mann and Micah Vandegrift (NC State) have published a new open access resource, Immersive Scholar: A Guidebook for Documenting and Publishing Experiential Scholarship Works. From the abstract: A Guidebook for Documenting and Publishing Experiential Scholarship Works offers a model for librarians, technologists, and scholars collaborating on the production of new forms of ...

The Knowledge Equity Lab, in partnership with SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), has launched a new podcast series, Unsettling Knowledge Inequities. The series explores “issues related to the politics of knowledge production, exchange and circulation and the structural, global power dynamics that shape it.” About the series: What do equitable systems for ...

The Internet Archive has released Internet Archive Scholar (IA Scholar), an open database that preserves and makes available inactive and at-risk open-access research publications. From their blog: Looking for a research paper but can’t find a copy in your library’s catalog or popular search engines? Give Internet Archive Scholar a try! We might have a PDF ...

The Journal of eScience Librarianship has published an article, “Engaging Researchers in Data Dialogues: Designing Collaborative Programming to Promote Research Data Sharing,” by Moira Downey, Sophia Lafferty-Hess, Patrick Charbonneau, and Angela Zoss (all Duke University). From the abstract: A range of regulatory pressures emanating from funding agencies and scholarly journals increasingly encourage researchers to engage ...

The National Archives (NARA) has released a Guide to Black History. This is an updated version of Black History: A Guide to Civilian Records in the National Archives, first created by Dr. Debra Newman Ham, with the help of several other colleagues in 1984. This updated guide includes “tools and other resources that can be ...

Laura Burtle (Georgia State University) has made her chapter, “Copyright and Libraries: Georgia State Copyright Lawsuit” from Ruth Dukelow and Michael Robak’s Legal Issues in Libraries and Archives available via ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University. From the introduction of the chapter: Three publishing houses, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and Sage Publications, Inc. (collectively, ...

CariDiScho2020: A Directory of Caribbean Scholarship is “an open-source bibliography of digital resources resulting from—and meant for—the study of the Caribbean.” From the project, All of our entries were compiled during one of the out-of-synch events that defined The Caribbean Digital VII conference. We shared a “Data Sheet” on Google docs with our colleagues on social media ...

In honor of International Day of Persons with Disabilities on 3 December 2020, UNESCO released, Accessible Documentary Heritage, which offers a set of guidelines for digitizing heritage documents that centers disability and accessibility. The publication draws upon key features of the 2006 United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the 2015 ...