RECOMMENDED: The Digital Preservation Coalition Requests Feedback on Carbon Footprint Toolkit for Digital Preservation ← dh+lib

Save the date for July 16 #OhioDIG meeting, in-person at Wright State U in Dayton, on Title II ADA Digital Accessibility.

Upcoming and past meetings listed here: ohiodig.org/meetings some with slides and recordings of virtual meetings. #Digitization #DigitalArchives

First side of a whiteboard covered in handwritten student responses the questions: 1. What does the word “archive” mean to you? 2. What would you put into an archive of your life?

Second side of a whiteboard covered in handwritten student responses the questions: 1. What does the word “archive” mean to you? 2. What would you put into an archive of your life?

March archives whiteboard takeover was a hit!
Read what people wrote in response to our questions! #WhiteBoardWednesday
Some great responses, like "accessible history!"
Schedule an appointment and learn more: https://bit.ly/oulibraries-archives-questions
#OHIOUniversity #OHIOUniversityLibraries

This is a fantastic resource for high school and college educators. #historyteacher #sschat

The Mean Girls meme with Regina George and friends in a convertible, captioned GET IN LOSER WE'RE SAVING GOVERNMENT DATA

Listening to Data Rescue Project give the keynote at #RDAP26 and really enjoying it. Plus, this meme:

Learn more about their work at www.datarescueproject.org

But who among us hasn’t spent hours watching the light play off of an illuminated initial? Ms. Codex 1056 is a Book of Hours for the use of Rouen, and this initial O on fol. 18v is a particularly good example of the kinds of decorative labor that went into it. #medievalsky

🔗: https://bit.ly/4m0SpP7

Collections Stewardship This program funds projects to preserve and make available physical and digital collections important for research, teaching, and public engagement in the humanities.

NEH announced new Collections Stewardship Grants. Apply to preserve and make available physical and digital collections important for research, teaching, and public engagement in the humanities. NEH offers awards from $50,000 to $500,000. The deadline to apply is May 11.

In Feb I started working in earnest on a training for my library colleagues on the topic of "What is AI and Why Is It Happening To Me?" Here's what I put together:
hfroehli.ch/2026/03/24/w...
Distilling the past 15 yrs of AI without going on side trips into linear algebra is hard!

Register for May 7 joint #OhioDIG / Ohio Preservation Council hybrid meeting at Case Western Reserve U in CLE!
Safe Handling Practices for Digitizing 19thC Wedding Dress & Incorporating Digi into Conservation Workflow.
Great tours too! Free as always.
ohiopreservationcouncil.org/event-6635464

#Artemis II splash lands today! Let's zoom in on an illustration of the man on the moon from a 1656 edition of one of the earliest works attributed to #Galileo 🔭.

Trattato della sfera di Galileo Galilei, Rome, 1656. QB41 .A85 1656x. https://bit.ly/trattato-catalog

#RareBooks #NASA #Moon

Saving local news means saving our shared memory. When archives disappear, communities lose their history. Learn about the librarians & archivists helping safeguard local history, & the collaboration between @archive.org, @poynterinstitute.bsky.social, & @ire.org that’s providing tools & training ⬇️

Part-time archives processing internship in Cleveland, open to both undergrads/grad students. (Advertised as paid, but the link here doesn't address that.) #Archives #ArchvesInternships
www.wrhs.org/about/employ...

Victory in Preventing the Dismantling of IMLS We have good news to share regarding the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). On Monday, April 6, the Trump administration withdrew its appeal of a federal judge’s earlier ruling in Rhode Island v. Trump. The withdrawal means that the 21 Attorneys General who filed the lawsuit

Good news about the Institute of Museum and Library Services! In Rhode Island v. Trump, the Trump administration withdrew its appeal of a federal judge's earlier ruling. This means the administration cannot dismantle IMLS or take further steps to eliminate the agency. Read more on our blog.

Shift Collective developed Community Cloud Storage to address the needs of community-based archives for affordable digital storage that offers offsite redundancy along with privacy. www.shiftcollective.us/communityclo...

Another important and insightful #OttoEge thread from @lisafdavis.bsky.social ! Especially for us in Ohio with so many of his dismembered leaves floating around.

Revolutions and Reflections: A Conference for Editing and Recovery Practitioners From August 8–9, the Center for Digital Editing’s eLaboratories will host its first annual conference in Charlottesville, Virginia, under the theme “Revolutions and Reflections.” We invite editors, re...

We see UVA's Ctr for Digital Editing's CFP (due 5/10) for editing+recovery practitioners on e.g. power of editions, archives, research collections to construct/contest/reframe intellectual/political revolutions; amplify voices historically marginalized+silenced; invisible labor. Travel/hotel funded:

Save Our Signs: New photos, new maps, and a renewed sense of purpose The past four months have been a challenging and sobering time for the Save Our Signs team. Most of us live in Minneapolis and St. Paul and as the ICE occupation in Minnesota devastated our communitie...

#SaveOurSigns has expanded our project database to include 2,500 new photos and created a new StoryMap visualization to help folks explore the recent leaked NPS dataset. Read more at the @datarescueproject.org blog: www.datarescueproject.org/save-our-sig...

Slides, recording & transcript now available from our #OhioDIG meetings page! ohiodig.org/meetings #digipres #FADGI #digitization #archives

Save the date May 7, for joint #OhioDIG / Ohio Preservation Council in-person meeting at Case Western Reserve University in CLE! Great tours too!
Panel on safe material handling during image capture (seeking 2 more speakers). Contact ohiodigroup@gmail.com to volunteer.
#digitization #archives

ACRL Membership Funding Opportunity for Library Workers (2026–2028) The ACRL Board of Directors has approved funding to support one year of ALA and ACRL membership for up to 50 library workers who identify as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and/or a per...

The ACRL Board of Directors has approved funding to support one year of ALA and ACRL membership for up to 50 library workers who identify as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and/or a person with disabilities. 📚
acrl.ala.org/acrlinsider/...

Terrific new article about how the idea of "neutrality" has been used for decades to deny the approval of #LCSH relating to marginalized people. Great description of how subject headings are created and how inordinate scrutiny is given to certain proposals in order to appear "unbiased." #critcat 📚

"DigitalArc (DA), was designed to support the creation of low-cost sustainable digital exhibits and archives built by and for communities who want to control how their histories are presented online."

Save the date May 7, for joint #OhioDIG / Ohio Preservation Council in-person meeting at Case Western Reserve University in CLE! Great tours too!
Panel on safe material handling during image capture (seeking 2 more speakers). Contact ohiodigroup@gmail.com to volunteer.
#digitization #archives

A great opportunity for #MLIS students or any library worker who doesn't have institutional support to attend ALA Annual in Chicago. 📚 A 3-hour volunteer shift gets you free access to the conference!!

Florida State man sentenced for stealing nearly 5,000 comic books The recent sentencing of University Libraries' former head of security, Todd Peak, renews attention to the grand theft of archival comics in 2020.

Thid was the theft from March of 2020. 📜
www.fsunews.com/story/news/2...

Are you a student in archives, museum studies, or information studies? Do you know one?

@saa-snap.bsky.social, the Students section of the Society of American Archivists, has two calls open—poster proposals and committee nominations. 🧵

OHRAB #NHPRC archival fellowship! For grad students in public history, library science, etc.
Program: locating, IDing, describing manumission records held in Athens, Fairfield, Gallia, Hocking, Jackson, Lawrence, Meigs, Morgan, Perry, Vinton counties. Apply by April 20! ohrab.org/2026-ohrab-a...

Text heavy poster with images of five middle aged women, four of whom are white. The text reads: The Fresno State Library invites you to a FREE webinar! Critical Cataloging & Librarianship Today Ethics, Power, and Possibility Tuesday, April 14, 2026 10:00 am - 12:00 pm PT/ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm ET. Please join us for a conversation with four nationally known librarian leaders in the critical cataloging/critical librarianship movement. They will explore how we can continue to move forward with this important work in the shifting political landscape. The panel will also discuss why it matters in higher education and in society today more than ever. Speakers 1. Emily Drabinski Associate Professor and Chair, School of Information Studies, Queens College, City University of New York 2. Dr. Karen Snow Professor and Ph.D. Program Director, School of Information Studies, Dominican University, River Forest, Illinois 3. Violet Fox Creator of The Cataloging Lab, Minnesota 4. Billey Albina (FKA Amber Billey) Social justice rockstar librarian turned clinical social worker, Toronto, Canada. Host: Julie Renee Moore Special Collections Catalog Librarian, Fresno State Library, California State University, Fresno. Use the QR code to register! This webinar is sponsored by The Womack Lecture Series named for late librarian emeritus, Printise J. Womack, at Fresno State.

Join @edrabinski.bsky.social & Karen Snow & Billey Albina & me for a free webinar, "Critical Cataloging & Librarianship Today: Ethics, Power, and Possibility" on Tuesday April 14th. Part of the Womack Lecture Series sponsored by @fresnostatelibrary.bsky.social. 📚 #critcat

Many are the repositories whose digitized collections are held together by paper clips & twine paid for with an uncertain budget that may not get renewed in the next fiscal year because there’s long been a zeal to “just” digitize things but not to invest in their careful documentation & maintenance.

Dan from Saint Meinrad made our first delivery of manuscripts this morning for this second round of the project!

It is always such a fun time to see items again, and to get excited about digitizing and describing them!

#midwestmss #medievalsky #manuscripts