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By Charles Henry This is a short blog to direct your interest to a new map CLIR recently unveiled that demarcates our activities during the last 14

By Hannah Rasmussen In my January 30 blog I wrote about developing personal metrics as a way to “know that you’re winning.” After that blog went live

By Rita Van Duinen I recently attended a webinar on training data-savvy librarians that ended with the following quote by Eric Shinseki: “If you dislike

By Patricia Harpring Since returning to sunny Los Angeles from lovely but cold Milwaukee, I’ve been contemplating the bright potential future for cultural heritage information

By Charles Henry Part 3 of a 3-part series In two recent blogs I noted the predicted imminent appearance of neuromorphic processors: new machines that will have

By Rachel Frick Last week I was honored to be one of the 53 poster presenters at the 9th Annual International Data Curation Conference (IDCC) held in San Francisco. It

By Steven Heslip Participatory design affords us an opportunity to understand our users’ perspectives through their eyes and their words. We ask questions about their

By Justin Schell The recent OCLC report, “Does Every Research Library Need a Digital Humanities Center?”, unfortunately represents digital humanities scholars and librarians as encompassing completely

By Charles Henry Part 2 of a 3-part series My January 9 blog highlighted the contemporary paradox of new computers that will reach the market later this

By Hannah Rasmussen Just over seven months ago I made a leap from consulting in the for-profit sector to working as a research fellow in

By Rachel Frick This is the time of year when many of us reflect on what we accomplished in 2013, as we plan, strategize, and

By Charles Henry Part 1 of a 3-part series A recent front-page article in the New York Times grabbed my attention. Titled “Brainlike Computers, Learning from Experience,”