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Report: Are AI Bots Knocking Cultural Heritage Offline?
| Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Reports
From the GLAM-E Lab/ Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy, NYU School of Law: In late 2024, isolated accounts began to emerge from individual online cultural heritage collections. Those stories described servers and collections straining – and sometimes breaking – under the load of swarming bots. The bots were reportedly scraping all of the […]
Robert H. McDonald Appointed Senior Vice Provost and Director of the University of Texas Libraries
| Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Interactive Tools, Jobs, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Open Access, Preservation, Publishing
From the University of Texas Libraries: The University of Texas at Austin announces the appointment of Robert H. McDonald as Senior Vice Provost and Director of the University of Texas Libraries, effective August 16, 2025. McDonald currently serves as Dean of University Libraries and Senior Vice Provost of Online and Extended Education at the University […]
Roger Schonfeld Named Managing Director, JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services
| Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Preservation, Reports, Scholarly Communications
From a JSTOR Announcement (Full Text): ITHAKA announced today that Roger Schonfeld will lead JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services as its managing director. Launched in April 2025, JSTOR Digital Stewardship is a new digital collection stewardship solution designed to help libraries and archives describe, preserve, manage, and share their unique collections at scale. This service integrates next generation […]
AI Citation Parsing and Analysis with Language Models (preprint via arXiv) Archives/Web Archives As Trump’s White House Purges Public Records, These Independent Databases are Keeping Their Own Archives (via Time) GitHub Repository Complexity Leads to Diminished Web Archive Availability (preprint; via arXiv) Scholarly Communications Predicting the Longevity of Resources Shared in Scientific Publications (via Humanities […]
Resolution Published: Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) Honors Dr. Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress
| Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, News
From ASERL: Today, the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) published a resolution honoring the career of Dr. Carla Hayden, the 14th Librarian of Congress. The resolution notes her impressive contributions to improving public access to the Library’s vast collections and championing lifelong learning and civic engagement. ASERL had the privilege of hosting Dr. Hayden […]
Carnegie Mellon University Announces Reappointment of Keith Webster as the Helen and Henry Posner, Jr. Dean of the University Libraries
| Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Open Access
From a Letter to the CMU Community by James H. Garrett Jr., Provost and Chief Academic Officer: Dear Members of the Carnegie Mellon University Community, I am delighted to announce the reappointment of Keith Webster as the Helen and Henry Posner, Jr. Dean of the University Libraries. Since his appointment in July 2013, Dean Webster, […]
Report: “Expertise is Disappearing’: How Canadian Film Archives are Fighting to Save Nearly Forgotten Culture”
| Archives and Special Collections, Funding, Jobs, Libraries, News, Preservation
From The Globe and Mail: The preservation of Canada’s audio-visual history relies on these archives, but those who run them say they are struggling with a lack of funding, resources and postsecondary programs to bring in new archivists. Recently, they’ve also been calling attention to the Trump administration’s cuts to funding and jobs in the […]
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 […]
Accessing Archived Material From ERIC (Education Resource Information Center) via the Internet Archive & Elsewhere
| Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Journal Articles, News
Here are a couple ways to access archived material from ERIC on the open web. We will do our best to keep this post updated if/when new open web sources become available to access ERIC material. At this hour (9pm EDT, April 23) the ERIC.ed.gov site/database remains accessible (and searchable). We do not know if […]
An Archivist’s Job is to ‘Keep The Receipts.’ What Happens When They Can’t Do Their Job?; ‘A Death Blow’: Filmmakers, Archivists Reel As DOGE Suddenly Cuts Their Funding; & More Headlines
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Archivists and Archives An Archivist’s Job is to ‘Keep The Receipts.’ What Happens When They Can’t Do Their Job? (via The Boston Globe) Data U.S. Climate Data Websites Go Dark (via Science) Democracy Op/Ed From EveryLibrary, American Alliance of Museums; League of Women Voters: The Trump Administration is Not Just Erasing History, They’re Rewriting the […]
