Discommoded by the Archive
By Fred Moody Our just-concluded stint as guest editors of Archive Journal‘s new issue, entitled “Publishing the Archive,” has proven sobering and instructive, to say the
May 8, 2014
Committee on Coherence at Scale Forms Steering Committee
Washington, DC, May 5, 2014-The Committee on Coherence at Scale for Higher Education established a steering committee at its April meeting. The Steering Committee is
May 5, 2014
Net Neutrality: an Open Letter to the FCC
By Bethany Nowviskie This is a brief post meant to direct your attention to an almost equally brief letter—and to an issue of likely interest to
May 1, 2014
Un-Hidden Collections: CLIR’s seven-year experiment in exposing scholarly resources and the question of digitization
Amy Lucko and Jena Winberry of CLIR contributed to this post. With funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, CLIR issued the seventh request for
April 24, 2014
Montana Historical Society announces the Lee Metcalf Photograph Collection
By Matthew Peek The Montana Historical Society (MHS), recipients of a 2012 CLIR “Hidden Collections” grant to process the Lee Metcalf Photograph and Film Collections,
April 24, 2014
CLIR’s Reach
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
April 10, 2014
CLIR Appoints John Unsworth Distinguished Presidential Fellow
Contact: Kathlin Smith 202-939-4754 Washington, DC, April 9, 2014-The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has appointed John Unsworth CLIR Distinguished Presidential Fellow. Unsworth
April 9, 2014
CLIR Names 2014 Mellon Dissertation Fellows
Contact: Kathlin Smith 202-939-4754 Washington, DC, April 9, 2014-Seventeen graduate students have been selected to receive awards this year under the Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research
April 9, 2014
Role Negotiation
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
April 3, 2014
The Need for Reskilling
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
March 27, 2014
Linked Open Data in the Cultural Heritage World: Issues for Information Creators and Users
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
March 20, 2014
CLIR Appoints New Members to Digital Library Federation Advisory Committee
Washington, DC, March 19, 2014-The Board of Directors of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has approved three new members to serve on
March 19, 2014