MORE 'PRESERVATION' POSTS
New Leadership for Ithaka S+R: Catharine (“Cappy”) Bond Hill Stepping Down as Managing Director on January 1, 2026, Martin Kurzweil to Assume the Role
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Preservation
From an Ithaka S+R Post by Kevin Guthrie, Ithaka President: I’m excited to announce a leadership transition that sets the stage for Ithaka S+R’s next era of impact. On December 31, 2025, Catharine (“Cappy”) Bond Hill will step down as managing director after nine transformative years. On January 1, 2026, Martin Kurzweil, currently vice president at Ithaka […]
Harvard Law School Library Releases First Complete Set of Digitized Nuremberg Trials Records
| Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Libraries, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Preservation, School Libraries
From Harvard Law School Beginning today, the Harvard Law School Library is making available online the first complete, fully searchable, digitized collection of official evidentiary documents and trial transcripts in English from all 13 Nuremberg Trials, at https://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu/. On the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the first trial on November 20, 1945, researchers, scholars, […]
Center for Open Science (COS) Awarded Grant from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to Preserve and Safeguard Publicly Funded Scientific Data
| Dashboards, Data Files, Funding, Management and Leadership, News, Open Access, Preservation
Here’s the Full Text of the COS Announcement: The Center for Open Science (COS) has been awarded a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to develop a community-driven strategic plan for ensuring the long-term preservation, accessibility, and usability of federally-funded scientific data. COS has long championed policies and practices that increase the openness, […]
Center for Research Libraries (CRL) Goes Live on TIND ILS for Print Archives Preservation Registry (PAPR)
| Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Preservation, Reports
From a TIND Release: The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) has launched its new Print Archives Preservation Registry (PAPR) on the TIND ILS platform, completing the second of three TIND systems now in production at CRL. The new PAPR serves as a modern, hosted data lake, replacing CRL’s locally built infrastructure with a scalable environment for […]
From a DPC Post: Across every sector – government, culture, industry, academia, media, and community – digital materials are at-risk of extinction. On World Digital Preservation Day 2025, the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) has published a new version of the Global ‘Bit List’ of Endangered Digital Materials, which reveals the urgent need for coordinated action to […]
Milestones: Internet Archive Celebrates One Trillion Web Pages Preserved
| Associations and Organizations, Awards, Digital Preservation, Libraries, News, Open Access, Preservation
Ed. Note: infoDOCKET would like to take a moment to congratulate the Internet Archive on this monumental and important achievement. In a word, Wow! The vision and efforts (24x7x365) of Brewster Kahle, Mark Graham, and the ENTIRE IA team cannot be understated. The Wayback Machine is and will continue to be an essential research resource […]
UBC Library Digitizes William Shakespeare’s Second Folio
| Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, Libraries, News, Preservation
From a UBC Library Announcement: While William Shakespeare’s First Folio was much celebrated when it arrived at UBC in 2021, did you know that UBC Library also has a Second Folio of Shakespeare’s works? The Second Folio, digitized by UBC Library’s Digitization Centre, is now publicly accessible through Open Collections. Published in 1632, the Second Folio is the […]
New Journal Article: “From Niche to Norm: A Case Study of Zines in a Circulating Collection”
| Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, Libraries, News, Preservation
The article linked below was recently published by Library Resources & Technical Services. Title From Niche to Norm: A Case Study of Zines in a Circulating Collection Authors Emilee Mathews University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign María Evelia University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Source Library Resources & Technical Services Vol 69, No 4 (2025) DOI: 10.5860/lrts.69n4.8550 Abstract Zines […]
The preprint linked below was recently posted on arXiv. Title A Decentralized Future For the Open-Science Databases Authors Gaurav Sharma, Viorel Munteanu, Nika Mansouri Ghiasi, Jineta Banerjee, Susheel Varma, Luca Foschini, Kyle Ellrott, Onur Mutlu, Dumitru Ciorbă, Roel A Ophoff, Viorel Bostan, Christopher E Mason, Jason H Moore, Despoina Sousoni, Arunkumar Krishnan, Christopher E Mason, Mihai Dimian, Gustavo Stolovitzky, Fabio G Liberante, Taras K Oleksyk, Serghei Mangul Source via arXiv DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2509.19206 Abstract Continuous and […]
Special Issue of Journal of the Copyright Society: Libraries and Collections, and the Annual Review of Selected Copyright Cases (Volume 72, Issue 3; 2025)
| Academic Libraries, Lecture, Libraries, News, Open Access, Preservation
Journal of the Copyright Society Libraries and Collections, and the Annual Review of Selected Copyright Cases Volume 72, Issue 3; 2025 72 J. Copyright Soc’y 593 Direct to Complete TOC (with Abstracts) In This Issue Recent Developments In Copyright Law: Selected Annotated Cases Thomas Kjellberg, Joelle Milov, Dasha Chestukhin and Jaime Berman with Allison Furnari, […]
