Little Data
By Charles Henry So much attention today is focused understandably on “big data.” Scientific disciplines such as astronomy, particle physics, meteorology, and genomics generate petabytes
August 14, 2014
Digital Library Federation’s Rachel Frick to Join the Digital Public Library of America as Business Development Director
Contacts: Kathlin Smith Kenny Whitebloom Boston, MA, and Washington, DC, August 7, 2014-The Digital Public
August 7, 2014
Challenges and Cohorts
By Marta Brunner Last week, the newest cohort of CLIR/DLF Postdoctoral Fellows gathered at Bryn Mawr College for the annual 10-day “bootcamp” orientation seminar. I
August 7, 2014
Digital Preservation Meeting DP-2014
By Inna Kouper Last week, I attended the Digital Preservation 2014 meeting in Washington, DC. It is an amazing event that gathers researchers, practitioners, technologists, designers, artists,
July 31, 2014
A Kit for Hosting “Speaking in Code”
By Bethany Nowviskie This is a belated follow-up post to last autumn’s “How We Learned to Start/Stop Speaking in Code,” in which I described the motivation
July 24, 2014
Using a Team Approach to Expose Yellowstone’s Hidden Collections
By Anne Foster The Yellowstone National Park Archives has begun blogging about it’s Hidden Collections project, “Using a Team Approach to Expose Yellowstone’s Hidden Collections.”We’vedesigned
July 17, 2014
Embracing Teamwork and the Limited-Term Initiative
By Elizabeth Waraksa In his 2012 article, “Embracing Hybridity: The Merged Organization, Alt/Ac and Higher Education,” CLIR Distinguished Presidential Fellow Elliott Shore urged library administrators
July 17, 2014
CLIR Issues Number 100
Number 100 • July/August 2014 ISSN 1944-7639 (online version) Contents On The 100th Edition of CLIR Issues Farewell Interview with Rachel Frick DLF Announces 2014
July 12, 2014
Attending the Brooklyn Historical Society’s Pedagogy Workshop at RBMS 2014
By Amy Chen The Rare Book and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) of the Association of College and Research Libraries met for its annual conference June 24-27
July 10, 2014
22,000 lines 140 characters at a time, or The Rose Twitter Project
By Stephen Nichols The Romance of the Rose was the most popular vernacular work in the Middle Ages. It was also one of the longest at some
July 2, 2014
Mellon Foundation Awards CLIR New Funds for Dissertation Fellowships
Contact: Kathlin Smith 202-939-4754 Washington, DC, July 1, 2014-The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has granted the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) $1.4 million
July 1, 2014
CLIR Receives Mellon Grant for Postdoctoral Fellowships in Data Curation for Visual Studies
Contact: Kathlin Smith 202-939-4754 Washington, DC, June 26, 2014-The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) $916,000 to
June 26, 2014