The Data Doldrums; or, Reflections at the End of a Grant
By Spencer Keralis For the past two years, starting as a CLIR Fellow in 2011, and continuing in my current role as director for digital
November 14, 2013
CLIR Issues Number 96
Number 96 • November/December 2013 ISSN 1944-7639 (online version) Contents CLIR Announces 2013 Hidden Collections Awards, 2014 Funding Cycle CLIR and LC Publish Report on
November 12, 2013
Liberal Arts Colleges and Digital Scholarship
By Carrie Rampp How might liberal arts colleges collaborate in support of digital scholarship?Are there inherent strengths of liberal arts colleges that, together, we can
November 8, 2013
CLIR Publishes “Born Digital: Guidance for Donors, Dealers, and Archival Repositories”
Report offers guidelines for donors, dealers, and archives on the acquisition and transfer of items created and managed in digital form Washington, DC, October 31,
October 31, 2013
Born Digital: Planning for Access
By Gabriela Redwine When Tony Geiss (1924-2011), an American songwriter and staff writer for Sesame Street, wrote a song called “Don’t Eat the Pictures” to
October 31, 2013
Molly Corbett Broad Appointed to Committee on Coherence at Scale for Higher Education
Washington, DC, October 30, 2013- Molly Corbett Broad, president of the American Council on Education (ACE) and former president of the University of North Carolina,
October 30, 2013
How We Learned to Start/Stop “Speaking in Code”
By Bethany Nowviskie Here’s a consummation devoutly to be wished: digital humanities research and practice becomes its best self, and finds scholars and technology staff
October 24, 2013
CLIR Appoints Rita Van Duinen Curriculum and Research Strategist
Washington, DC, October 23, 2013-The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has appointed Rita Van Duinen to the newly created position of Curriculum and
October 23, 2013
CLIR Receives Mellon Grant for Postdoctoral Fellowships in Data Curation for Early Modern Studies
Washington, DC, October 21, 2013-The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) $916,000 to support a program of
October 21, 2013
Registration for E-Science Institute Now Open
Washington, DC, October 21, 2013-Registration for the 2014 DuraSpace/DLF E-Science Institute is now open. The E-Science Institute is designed to help academic and research libraries
October 21, 2013
Thread Count: Cataloging Textile Collections
By Caitlin Harvey Before I started my 22-month job as a textile cataloger, my knowledge of Pennsylvania German culture was limited to the dandelion and
October 10, 2013
Data as a Human Condition
By Charles Henry The term big data is popular today, as our world accumulates unprecedented amounts of information—approximately 2.5 quintillian bytes per day (2.5×10 18). Fields of
October 4, 2013
