Number 133 January/February 2020 ISSN 1944-7639 (online version) Contents Three Questions with Sohair Wastawy Material Memory Season One Focuses on Indigenous Languages Hidden Collections Symposium Planned for November Get the Latest on DLF Working Group Activities Follow CLIR on Throwback Thursday Where You’ll Find Us Briefly Noted CLIR Issues is produced in electronic format...
The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is now accepting applications for 2020 Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives awards. The national competition, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, supports digitizing collections of rare and unique content in collecting institutions. Grants of between $50,000 and $250,000 for a single-institution project, or between...
The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) today announced the award of more than $4.1 million to fund 18 projects for 2019 Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives awards. Fifty-eight institutions located in seventeen U.S. states and Canada will be involved in the projects, which cover subjects ranging from natural history and biodiversity...
As we near the end of 2019, the planning commences for CLIR and DLF 2020 events. The 2020 Learn@DLF, DLF Forum, and NDSA’s Digital Preservation 2020 will take place in Baltimore, Maryland, November 8-12, 2020. We are pleased to announce that our call for the DLF Forum Planning Committee volunteers is open! Want to...
At its fall meeting, the CLIR Board elected new members Edward Ayers, Tucker-Boatwright Professor of the Humanities and president emeritus at the University of Richmond; and Fenella France, chief of the Preservation Research and Testing Division at the Library of Congress. Ayers has been named National Professor of the Year, received the National Humanities...
—Abby Smith Rumsey CLIR’s Material Memory podcast series explores ways in which collective memory and the organizations entrusted with its stewardship are experiencing the disruptions of rapid technical innovation, accelerating climate change, armed conflict, mass movements of population, political and legal regimes that hamper access to culture, and the unintended ravages of simple neglect....
Number 132 November/December 2019 ISSN 1944-7639 (online version) Contents CLIR Launches Podcast! Edward Ayers, Fenella France Join CLIR Board Digital Library of the Middle East’s Conflict Zone Emergency Intervention DLF Fellows Reflect on 2019 Forum Apply Now for CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowships Leading Change Institute 2020 Accepting Applications Reminder: Recordings at Risk Applications Due January...
We are pleased to be a sponsor of the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) in Victoria, BC for the fifth year. Via this sponsorship, attendees affiliated with a CLIR sponsor or DLF member institution can register for over 50 digital humanities workshops, training, and enrichment courses at a deeply reduced rate. Additionally, we are...
CLIR is now accepting applications for 2020-2022 CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowships. The deadline for prospective fellows is January 10, 2020. Potential applicants, as well as current and past fellows, are invited to participate in four #CLIRPostdoc Twitter Sessions hosted by former CLIR/DLF Postdoctoral Fellow and current CLIR Program Officer Jodi Reeves Eyre (@thejodireeves): November 20,...
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) a grant of $547,321 for three new postdoctoral fellowships in data curation for energy social science. The grant from Sloan’s Energy and Environment program builds on the first cohort of CLIR/Digital Library Federation (DLF) energy postdoctoral fellows by supporting...
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...
The application period is now open for the Leading Change Institute (LCI), which will be held May 31–June 5, 2020, in Washington, DC. This will mark the institute’s twentieth year. Cosponsored by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and EDUCAUSE, LCI brings together leaders in the information sector, including deans, librarians, and...