Taking Action by Casting a Wider Net
By Donna Ziegenfuss I recently attended the 2016 Leading Change Institute (LCI), a program sponsored through CLIR and EDUCAUSE, with 37 amazing and talented higher education
June 30, 2016
CLIR Receives Grant for Data Curation Fellowships in Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Contact: Kathlin Smith 202-939-4754 Washington, DC, June 29, 2016-The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded CLIR $995,000 to
June 29, 2016
Missed Connections
One of the best things about CLIR’s immersion in the educational, information, and cultural professions is an ongoing chance to be inspired by people who
June 20, 2016
Report Surveys Changing Landscape of Archival Research and Graduate Student Research Experiences
Contact: Kathlin Smith 202-939-4754 Washington, DC, May 24, 2016-A new report from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) surveys the current landscape
May 24, 2016
What would a “transformative use” of digitized moving image assets look like?
By Dimitrios Latsis On the heels of the US Supreme Court’s decision not to review the Author’s Guild case against Google’s Digital Library project (which means that
May 19, 2016
CLIR Issues Number 111
Number 111 • May/June 2016 ISSN 1944-7639 (online version) Contents CLIR Receives Grant for Data Curation Fellowships in Latin American and Caribbean Studies Announcing Postdoctoral
May 12, 2016
The Embedded Data Consulting Model and the “IDEAL” Collaboration
By Natsuko Nicholls Embedded librarianship has increasingly shifted the emphasis from one-time reference services to developing highly focused, targeted, specialized research assistance. Although embedded liaison
May 12, 2016
The 10th Orphan Film Symposium: Digital Humanities and the (Film) Archive
By Dimitrios Latsis For four packed days (and nights) from April 6th to 9th, close to 200 archivists, curators, scholars and artists gathered at the
April 29, 2016
Beyond Data: Reproducibility in Scientific Software and the Role of Digital Preservation
By Fernando Rios Looking at the titles of presentations and workshops at recent digital library- and curation-related conferences such as the DLF Forum, iPRES, IASSIST,
April 28, 2016
How much does and should digitization cost?
How much does and should digitization cost? It’s a simple enough question. You take the cost per item, multiply it by the number of items, and
April 22, 2016
A Pivotal Year for the Committee on Coherence at Scale
By Charles Henry First convened in 2013 to reinvigorate and rejuvenate higher education in the United States, the Committee on Coherence at Scale believes that
April 14, 2016
Getting the Public to Archive
By Jaime Mears I am a National Digital Stewardship Resident whose project will end in 49 days. The following post is a reconsideration of my
April 7, 2016
