The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded CLIR $2.01 million to extend Data Curation Fellowships in African American and African Studies. This funding will support current fellows whose work has been negatively affected by the global pandemic by enabling them to extend their time at host institutions by up to two additional years. The...
At its fall meeting, the CLIR Board elected new members Asma Naeem, chief curator at the Baltimore Museum of Art; Ben Vinson III, provost and executive vice president at Case Western Reserve University; and Sandra Phoenix, executive director of the HBCU Library Alliance. Photo: Mark Gulezian Asma Naeem joined the Baltimore Museum of Art in...
The HBCU Library Alliance and CLIR seek proposals for assistance in a study to identify common barriers and shared visions for creating access to historic collections held by libraries at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). The recently funded study will inform strategic planning to build the capacity of HBCU Library Alliance member organizations...
Study will inform plans to make HBCU special collections and archival materials discoverable and accessible The HBCU Library Alliance and the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) have received a $75,000 planning grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a project titled “Creating Access to HBCU Library Alliance Archives: Needs, Capacity,...
Note: this blog is reposted from the CLIR Grants & Programs Fall 2020 newsletter, released November 18. The second season of CLIR’s podcast Material Memory delves into the impact of the climate crisis on communities and their cultural heritage. We asked host Nicole Kang Ferraiolo, Director of Global Strategic Initiatives at CLIR, about the...
CLIR today released the first two episodes of its new podcast season exploring the impact of the climate crisis on communities and their cultural heritage. In conversations with host Nicole Kang Ferraiolo, seven guests offer perspectives from around the globe on how climate change threatens our records and traditions, the relationship between memory and...
The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is pleased to announce the appointment of Louisa Kwasigroch as interim Digital Library Federation (DLF) senior program officer. Kwasigroch, who currently serves as CLIR’s director of outreach and engagement and has worked extensively with the DLF community, will serve as the primary point of contact for...
The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is now accepting applications from collecting institutions for the digital reformatting of audio and audiovisual materials through the Recordings at Risk grant program. Generously funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Recordings at Risk is focused on digitizing “at-risk” recorded content of high scholarly value. CLIR...
Number 137 September/October 2020 ISSN 1944-7639 (online version) Contents Keynotes and Programs Announced for DLF Forum and Affiliated Events Material Memory Podcast, Season Two, Coming in November Extending Support to the Community Sharon Burney Named Program Officer IIIF Seeks Your Input Recordings at Risk Applicant Webinar Nov. 18 CLIR Issues is produced in electronic format...
An interview with Jasmine Shumaker, September 15, 2020. Let’s start by having you introduce yourself and tell us what you do professionally. My name is Jasmine Shumaker and I am a reference and instruction librarian at University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). Before coming to UMBC, I was an adult services librarian for the...
September 1, 2020—CLIR today announced the appointment of Postdoctoral Fellowship alumni Emily Beagle and Jennifer Garcon as co-faculty for CLIR’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. They succeed Elliott Shore, former executive director of the Association of Research Libraries, and Louisiana State University associate professor Lauren Coats, who served together as deans for 12 years. Shore originally...
Number 136 July/August 2020 ISSN 1944-7639 (online version) Contents Digital Library of the Middle East Offers Rich Resources for Teaching and Learning CLIR Names 2020 Postdoctoral Fellows Virtual Colloquium Highlights DLF Born-Digital Access Working Group Activity Digitized Collections in the News Reminders: —DLF Forum Community Voting Deadline Aug. 31 —Recordings at Risk Application...