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RECOMMENDED: Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship

Dec

4

2025

Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship, edited by Anna-Maria Sichani (University of London), Michael Donnay (Software Sustainability Institute), is a new open access volume published by University of London Press. This volume asks “if there is value in failure in digital scholarship, how do we create the space to fail ‘better’?” By positioning failure as an ...

RESOURCE: Driving Digital Transformation in Cultural Heritage Institutions

Dec

4

2025

The International Council on Archives (ICA) has shared an online training program on “Driving Digital Transformation in Cultural Heritage Institutions,” recorded from live sessions held between November 26 and December 3, 2025. Available as a 3-part YouTube video series, the series features five speakers on topics related to digitization, cultural heritage data access, and re-use ...

RESOURCE: Archiving Machines: From Punch Cards to Platforms

Dec

4

2025

Amelia Acker (Rutgers University) has published an open access book through MIT Press, Archiving Machines: From Punch Cards to Platforms. This book tells the “story of the rise of networked data through the evolution of archiving and digital storage” through advancing … our understanding of memory, information, and data by charting the struggle between the ...

RESOURCE: Student-Led Digital Projects in Cultural Heritage Sector Collaborations

Dec

4

2025

“Student-Led Digital Projects in Cultural Heritage Sector Collaborations,” by Katrina Grant (University if Sydney) and Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller (Australian National University), is available open access as a chapter in The Companion to Digital Humanities in Practice (Routledge, 2024). The authors present a multi-year teaching model at the Australian National University in which interdisciplinary student teams build ...

EVENT: How Users Imagine Archival Research

Dec

4

2025

The University of Edinburgh’s Edinburgh Futures Institute is hosting a hybrid talk by Dorothy Berry (Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture), entitled “How Users Imagine Archival Research: JPCA Explore and Digital Curation at the Smithsonian National African American History and Culture Museum.” The free talk is December 10th, from 4:00 PM – ...

CFP: Record Keepers of Nation, Recovery/ADE Joint Conference 2026

Dec

4

2025

The Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Program (Recovery) and the Association for Documentary Editing (ADE) invite proposals for a joint conference to be held October 8-10, 2026, in Houston, Texas. From the call for proposals: This first-ever collaboration between Recovery and ADE will bring together scholars, archivists, editors, students and community practitioners to explore ...

CFParticipation: Tech and Data Zine Suggestion Box

Dec

4

2025

Do you have a favorite tech- or data-related zine you’d like to share? The Research Data and Digital Scholarship (RDDS) team at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries has shared a call for submissions to their zine rack. Submissions to this Zine Suggestion Box (Airtable form) are reviewed regularly, and folks who submit zines may also ...

OPPORTUNITY: Barcelona Past Networks Summer School 2026

Dec

4

2025

The Barcelona Past Networks Summer School invites applications for participation at a 4-day annual summer training event in Barcelona, Spain, to be held June 16-19, 2026. This opportunity is open to those who study the human past and wish to learn the theory and practice of network research. No prior computational skills are required. The ...

OPPORTUNITY: CLIR Invites Applications for Digitizing At-Risk Audio and Audiovisual Materials

Dec

4

2025

Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) invites applications for the thirteenth cycle of its Recordings at Risk grant program, which supports the digital reformatting of at-risk audio and audiovisual materials held by nonprofit academic, research, and cultural heritage organizations in the United States and Canada. Grants fund preservation-focused reformatting of analog and select digital ...

JOB: Educational Technologies Librarian (University of Virginia)

Dec

4

2025

From the job posting: The University of Virginia is seeking applications for the position of Educational Technologies Librarian. This position will join a team responsible for the creation and delivery of instructional programming that develops students’ digital literacy and maker mindsets. The successful candidate will develop and deliver media production classes and workshops; create asynchronous ...

JOB: Data Science Specialist/Librarian (University of Arizona)

Dec

4

2025

From the announcement: The University of Arizona Libraries invites you to apply to the role of Data Science Specialist/Librarian (Assistant or Associate rank). Located within the University of Arizona Libraries Research Engagement department, Data Cooperative provides data science, geospatial, and digital scholarship services for the University of Arizona. The incumbent will contribute to a robust ...