The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) has published a new site for the Blackwell Companions to Digital Humanities. This new site for A Companion to Digital Humanities (2004) and A Companion to Digital Literary Studies (2008) is aimed towards long term preservation and a full text search has been added. According to the project’s GitHub repository, The content ...

Toolkits for Equity has released their latest toolkit, Antiracism Toolkit for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. Hosted on PubPub in collaboration with Coalition for Diversity & Inclusion in Scholarly Communications (C4DISC), the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP), and the Knowledge Futures Group, this toolkit is aimed towards BIPOC as a resource to navigate the scholarly ...

The new Journal of Critical Digital Librarianship released its first issue of its first volume. The journal is an open source, open peer review journal focusing on critical approaches to the field of digital librarianship. The journal “publishes, promotes, and builds community around cultural heritage digital library work, especially critical approaches to these and similar ...

UCLA Library Special Collections strives to develop ethical and inclusive descriptive practices. In this brief piece, they share their motivation and approach to creating/remediating “inclusive, humanizing, and anti-oppressive” object description, as well as resources that informed their approach. Informed by recent scholarship, their process has evolved from an act of discovery, with its assumptions of ...

Violet B. Fox (World Intellectual Property Organization) has published the Disorientation Guide to Librarianship on her website. The zine is: … a compilation zine created by 23 contributors and published in October 2021. The zine is designed to be an accessible resource for people who are unfamiliar with structural oppression and injustice in librarianship. It is ...

Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities is a “peer-reviewed, curated collection of reusable and remixable resources for teaching and research.” The articles are organized by keywords that include a curatorial statement and artifacts that illustrate it, and they are browsable by type or subject matter or read like a printed collection. A helpful feature of the ...

Sarah Lippincott’s ARL-CNI report, “Mapping the Current Landscape of Research Library Engagement with Emerging Technologies in Research and Learning” has been released. In it, she identifies strategic opportunities for research libraries to adopt and engage with emerging technologies, with a roughly five-year time horizon, such as utilizing “machine learning to improve research, learning, and scholarly ...

OCLC Research has released a report, “Total Cost of Stewardship: Responsible Collection Building in Archives and Special Collections,” authored by Chela Scott Weber (OCLC Research), Martha O’Hara Conway (University of Michigan), Nicholas Martin (NYU), Gioia Stevens (NYU), and Brigette Kamsler (George Washington University). From the report description: Developed by the OCLC Research Library Partnership’s (RLP) ...

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 ...