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  • Editors’ Choice: Understanding the Environmental Impacts of Artificial Intelligence

    Editors’ Summary: The tools we use are not neutral. This LibGuide intends to offer librarians, instructors, and others within the higher education community a gateway for learning more about how AI development and use are impacting the environment. By providing a set of resources that can be inserted within broader AI literacy training, the LibGuide…

  • DHNow Newsletter, June 17, 2026

    This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor and Monica Storss, DHNow Guest Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week include a LibGuide on the environmental impacts of AI and discussion of AI and book history. We have also included CFPs, job announcements, opportunities, and reports, including a digital archive of cartography. As part…

  • Job Announcement: AI Postdoctoral Research Fellows at Princeton University

    Princeton University is seeking to hire AI Postdoctoral Research Fellows to conduct research focused on societal AI. See full post.

  • Opportunity: Join The DO Team 2026/27

    The Digital Orientalist is pleased to announce its annual open call for contributors and team members for the 2026-2027 academic year. We seek individuals who work at the intersection of digital humanities and area studies. Our current coverage includes the following areas – with links to recent contributions within each of these teams – though…

  • Resource: a zine: ‘Get to Do An Art or Craft: Applying to artist residencies for ‘non-artists’’

    I just published an 8-page minizine: “Get to Do An Art or Craft: Applying to artist residencies for ‘non-artists’”. If like me you’re coming from outside the formal Art World, but are a crafter, maker, or artist (or do these but think “I’m not a real artist though…”) You might also not be aware you…

  • Report: The World in an Archive: Preserving the Websites of Geographers, Cartographers, and Map Enthusiasts

    The Geographic and Cartographic Professional Societies and Organizations Web Archive preserves the websites of groups shaping our understanding of the world. In this interview, Carissa Pastuch discusses how the collection was built, what it includes and why preserving born-digital content is increasingly important for documenting the field of geography and cartography. See full post.

  • Weekly Highlight: Now & Here

    Now & Here is a collection of original research projects created by emerging scholars in collaboration with partners in communities, historic sites, and public lands. Now & Here shares the work of the Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. See full post.

  • Editors’ Choice: A Skeuomorphic View of Book History

    Editors’ Summary: This post considers the relationship between AI and book history. According to Cordell, the chat box relies on a flawed skeuomorphism that misleads users, obscuring rather than revealing the relationship between users’ inputs and the language model systems’ outputs. This post proposes the skeuomorph as a key heuristic for book historical scholarship and…

  • CFP: Alabama Digitorium

    In 2026, Digitorium is focused on the theme of Preserve. As Digital Humanists, we engage in so many levels of preservation, and we want to make space to explore and document that work. Digital Humanities is a field committed to uncovering and preserving culture and society that is hidden. Sometimes hidden means time, as in…

  • Job Announcement: Digitization Archivist at Letterform Archive

    Reporting to the Collections Director, the Digitization Archivist will be responsible for implementing digitization services and managing resources that support the current and future needs of our team and community. The Digitization Archivist will support the Collections Director in key areas of digitization project management, data preservation, workflow strategy, and design and launch of the…

  • Report: Ecosystem Notes: Black Culture, Black Futures, and a Fight for Our Lives

    Ecosystem Notes is where we share updates on what is happening across LifexCode labs, projects, and members! If you like what you see, please support LifexCode by sharing this newsletter, attending events, or just dropping a note in the comments! See full post.

  • Resource: Data Center Policy Database

    Editors’ Summary: The Data Center Policy Database, developed by researchers at the University of Virginia, offers a vital open-access resource tracking the infrastructure and regulations governing global digital architecture. By mapping the policy frameworks that dictate data storage, this project provides digital humanists with a critical tool to interrogate the material, political, and environmental footprints…

  • Report: LGBTQIA+ Pride Month

    June is LGBTQ Pride Month, so JSTOR Daily gathered some of our favorite stories to celebrate. All with free and accessible scholarly research. See full post.

  • Weekly Highlight: Digital Humanities Intersections

    Digital Humanities Intersections (DHI) is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to multilingual and interdisciplinary research in Digital Humanities. Published by KSHIP, IIT Indore, it focuses on applications and reflections of digital methods and humanities research. This new journal recently published its first issue and is a useful resource for readers of DHNow. See journal.

  • Opportunity: Funding for Bibliographical Events

    The Bibliographical Society of America events present the study of material texts to our community, bringing people and ideas together. They celebrate, nurture, and incubate new ideas around research, practice, and pedagogy, and almost all are open to the public. Virtual and in-person events offered year-round include lectures, panel discussions, receptions, and workshops. If you…

  • Editors’ Choice: Open Tool Registries! Resolving the Directory Paradox with Wikidata

    Editors’ Summary: In “Open Tool Registries! Resolving the Directory Paradox with Wikidata,” Till Grallert, Sophie Eckenstaler, Claus-Michael Schlesinger, Nicole Dresselhaus, Isabell Trilling, and Sophie Stark address a familiar challenge in digital humanities: how to document and sustain knowledge about the field’s many digital tools without creating yet another static directory that quickly becomes outdated. The…

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