When Good Enough is Better than Perfect
By Hannah Rasmussen When I was a PhD student I had a terrible habit of wanting something to be perfect before I’d let anyone see
September 4, 2014
Transitions, Career Paths, and the Lessons of Community Building
By Rachel Frick This past week, I have taken time to reflect on the four-plus years I have dedicated to the Digital Library Federation program
August 28, 2014
A Word Is Born: A Digital Exhibit for the Dictionary of Old English
By Alexandra Bolintineanu In Old English poetry, the human body is a bone house (banhus) and the sea is a whale-road (hronrad). There is a
August 21, 2014
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
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
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
Opening Open Repositories
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
June 26, 2014
