CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Future Past – Researching Archives in the Digital Age

From the CFP: This conference aims to promote the understanding and collaboration between archivists and researchers; explore challenges posed by digital access to collections, and improve methodologies (e.g. education/training for researchers in what information is available from online catalogues, how archivists can improve catalogue descriptions so researchers can find relevant records more easily and how you […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Project Manager, UVA

From the ad: The University of Virginia School of Architecture seeks a Project Manager for the first phase of the UVA Landscape Studies Initiative. This position is funded by the Mellon Foundation and is a three-year appointment to begin in August 2017.The Project Manager will lead the first phase of the UVA Landscape Studies Initiative […]

News, Resources

Resource: Zines vs. Google Vision API

From the post: Everyone likes zines. If you went to library school your probably really love zines. Even if you didn’t go to library school, you still probably like zines. Even Kanye likes zines. However much I like them I don’t really have too much experience with them. While I worked at NYPL I knew […]

News, Resources

Resource: Data Privacy Project

From the post: The goal of our trainings is to learn the building blocks of privacy protection and digital security. Our teachings focus on activities patrons do every day at the library so that library staff can develop the capacity to: identify how patrons’ data travels to and through library networks; assess which privacy and […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Research Associate, Albert Johannsen Project

From the ad: This three-year term position serves as the Project Director for the Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Collections Grant, “The Albert Johannsen Project: Digitizing the House of Beadle and Adams and their Nickel and Dime Novels.” Reporting to the Digital Collections and Metadata Librarian at Northern Illinois University Libraries, the Project […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Robots.txt

The Internet Archive does some amazing work in the Sisyphean task of archiving the web. Of course the web is just too big and changes too often for them to archive it all. But Internet Archive’s crawling of the web and serving it up out of their Wayback Machine, plus their collaboration with librarians and […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Books as Medicine

Have you ever read a book and felt healed by it? Most readers can think of a novel that offered some comfort, a poem that presented direction, or even a biography that provided inspiration. The notion that books can heal is as old as reading itself but, during World War I, doctors and librarians joined together […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Processing Archivist

The University of Texas Libraries is recruiting a Digital Processing Archivist. From the ad: Manage, preserve and provide access to archival collections from post-custodial partnerships. Build and maintain relationships with post-custodial partners in Latin America. Support the implementation of post-custodial projects at partner sites in Latin America, including the development of digitization and metadata workflows. […]