Re: Thinking

By Jon Dunn I recently returned from Helsinki, Finland, where I had the pleasure of attending the 9th annual International Conference on Open Repositories (OR2014). This year’s

By Charles Henry On the first day of discussions at the recently concluded Leading Change Institute (LCI), participants were asked to identify challenges they believe

By Joseph Shelley We just wrapped up the 2014 CLIR/EDUCAUSE Leading Change Institute. This institute brought together a talented group of higher education library and

By Hannah Florence Marcus As I enter into the final months of my CLIR fellowship, it is a treat to reflect on the diversity of

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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