The Open Science/STEM Librarian reports to the Head of the STEM Library and is a valued member of the STEM Library and Research and Academic Services Division. The Open Science/STEM librarian manages a combination of duties and expectations, with responsibilities in: Collections and Content, Reference and Research Consulting, Teaching, Learning and Literacies, Outreach and Engagement, […]
This is a write-up of a talk I gave at CESTA on January 29, 2026, with an epilogue covering the last few weeks. The talk wasn’t recorded, and since I wrote this up later, it’s less off-the-cuff and probably a bit better than the original. As we confront this moment of great institutional and societal […]
The Electronic Literature Organization has opened its nomination form for the 2026 ELO Awards, with a nomination deadline of March 9, 2026, at midnight CET (Central European Time). The winners of the ELO 2026 awards will be announced at the 2026 ELO (Un)Supervised Conference, hosted virtually by the University of Central Florida in July. See […]
I want to share an interesting pattern – get claude code on the web (or any other autonomous agent + sandbox) to do R&D on a coding question. Based on these blog posts – https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/6/pydantic-monty/ and https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/6/async-code-research/. I wanted to learn about WASM and Pyodide as I don’t know much about these technologies. I asked […]
Over eighteen days, from 19 January to 6 February, working in dialogue with Claude Sonnet 4.5, Anthropic’s large language model running in their Claude Code development environment, I developed a web application for annotating and analysing source code. The reason for developing this was the result of working with a group of colleagues attempting to […]
Digital Humanities Awards are a set of annual awards where the public is able to nominate resources for the recognition of talent and expertise in the digital humanities community. The resources are nominated and voted for entirely by the public. The weeding out by the nominations committee is solely based on the criteria of “Is […]
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager and Zhihui Zou, DHNow Guest Editor. Our first Editors’ Choice considers the experience of data repositories from the perspective of researchers who have deposited datasets. The second selection also discusses user experience, specifically comparing the experience using Google and DuckDuckGo. Our third selection interrogates […]
The position serves as a Supervisory Librarian in the Digital Collections Workflow Section (DCW), Digital Collections Management & Services Division (DCMS), Digital Services Directorate (DSD), Discovery & Preservation Services (DPS) within the Library Collections and Services Group (LCSG) at the Library of Congress (LOC). The Supervisory Librarian reports directly to the Section Head and is […]
The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites proposals to host the Digital Humanities Conference in 2029. Digital Humanities (DH) is ADHO’s annual international conference. ADHO’s constituent organizations are the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH), the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), the Associazione Informatica Umanistica e Cultura Digitale (AIUCD) the Canadian Society […]
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now a regular topic of conversation in archives. Managers and stakeholders are asking whether AI can speed up description, identify sensitive content, or provide new forms of access. This document offers practical guidance on how to prepare archival collections for AI in ways that remain true to archival principles and ethical […]
