MORE 'DIGITAL-PRESERVATION' POSTS
Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) Releases 2025 State of Open Infrastructure Report; Why AI Literacy is Now a Core Competency in Education; & More Headlines
| Awards, Digital Preservation, Libraries, News, Open Access, Publishing
AI Why AI Literacy is Now a Core Competency in Education (via World Economic Forum) Infrastructure Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) Releases 2025 State of Open Infrastructure Report Mass Digitization A Case for Libraries’ Survival in the Internet Age: Mass Digitization of Literary Works and the Legality of Controlled Digital Lending (via The Columbia Journal […]
AP: “President Fires Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden as White House Continues Purge of Perceived Trump Opponents”
| Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Preservation, Interviews, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Preservation, Profiles, Public Libraries, Reports
Ed. Note: We will update this report with additional media coverage and statements as they become available Recent Additions (Last Update 1:30pm; May 16) Donald Trump’s Library Of Congress Fight is Really About the Separation of Powers (via AP) Especially worrisome to them is potential meddling with the Congressional Research Service, known as the nonpartisan […]
Brown University: “Collaborative Project Yields New Digital Archive on Hidden History of Indigenous Enslavement”
| Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Maps, News, Open Access
From Brown University: Scholars estimate that between 1492 and the 1900s, at least 2.5 million Indigenous people in the Americas were taken from their communities and forced into enslavement and servitude. Just like the transatlantic slave trade, the phenomenon shaped United States history — yet few schoolchildren learn about it today. That could change with […]
SF Chronicle: “Trump’s War on Information Meets a Dedicated Adversary: University Librarians”
| Academic Libraries, Data Files, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Preservation
From The San Francisco Chronicle: More than 50,000 government webpages have been affected, according to an evolving snapshot by the End of Term Archive, a nonpartisan project that began in 2008 to record government websites at the end of each presidential term, and the Internet Archive, a nonprofit digital library formed nearly 30 years ago in San […]
Realising Potential, Supporting Users: International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) Statement on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence; Crawford County Library System to Pay Plaintiff Attorney Fees (via 40/29TV; & More Headlines
| Associations and Organizations, Digital Preservation, Funding, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Preservation, Public Libraries
AI Realising Potential, Supporting Users: International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) Statement on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence Arkansas Crawford County Library System to Pay Plaintiff Attorney Fees (via 40/29TV) Digital Equity Announcing a Study: Assessing The Impact of Federal Funding in Promoting Digital Equity (via Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy) Digital Preservation First 100 […]
Getty Images and Ancestry Partner to Digitally Preserve Historic Archives of HBCUs
| Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Digital Preservation, Funding, News, Preservation
From Getty Images: Getty Images has announced a first‑of‑its‑kind genealogy‑focused partnership with Ancestry, the global leader in family history. As part of Getty Images’ HBCU Grants Program, this initiative will focus on the digital preservation and accessibility of historical documents, records and the photographic archives of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Once digitized, these invaluable archives […]
In Memoriam: Clifford Lynch
| Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Digital Preservation, Libraries, News, Preservation
UPDATE (April 15): Memorial: Clifford Lynch (via Association of Research Libraries) —- End Update—- Ed. Note: Cliff Lynch was a hero and teacher (via his writing) of mine for many years first encountering his work during library school. A number of years later I was very fortunate (blessed is a better word) when he became […]
Digital Collections: “War of the Worlds Fan Mail: Over 1,300 Letters Digitized, Open Access From University of Michigan Library
| Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Open Access
From the University of Michigan: The University of Michigan Library has digitized, transcribed and categorized more than 1,300 fan letters sent in response to the 1938 broadcast of Orson Welles’ “War of the Worlds.” The entire collection of letters, part of the university’s Screen Arts Mavericks & Makers Collection, has been published open access for researchers […]
Report: “Boston Public Library Expands Access to Collections Through AI-Enhanced Digitization”
| Data Files, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Maps, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries, School Libraries
From the Boston Public Library (Full Text Announcement): The Boston Public Library (BPL) is launching a large-scale digitization project to unlock hundreds of thousands of historically significant items previously inaccessible to the public. This multi-phase effort will give BPL the opportunity to pilot the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools to make vast historical collections […]
All-Inclusive Digital Search Solution Launched By EBSCO Information Services and The New York Public Library; ORCID Partners with Digital Science to Make Openness Even More Accessible; Utrecht University Library Digitizes Earliest Printed Books; & More Headlines
| Academic Libraries, Digital Preservation, EBSCO, Libraries, News, Public Libraries, Reports
AI AI Literacy in K-12 and Higher Education in the Wake of Generative AI: An Integrative Review (preprint) (via arxiv) Google is Adding More AI Overviews and a New ‘AI Mode’ to Search (via The Verge) Digitization Utrecht University Library Digitizes Earliest Printed Books (via UU) EBSCO / New York Public Library All-Inclusive Digital Search […]
