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Thanks to Ithaka S+R for an excellent new report, The Effectiveness and Durability of Digital Preservation and Curation Systems, on the current landscape for digital preservation. The full report is online https://sr.ithaka.org/publications/the-effectiveness-and-durability-of-digital-preservation-and-curation-systems/ and well worth reading!Read More →

The amazing Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective has officially launched their website! See more: English: http://cdscollective.org/ Español: http://cdscollective.org/es/ The Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective (CDSC) supports the growth and development of digital humanities scholarship for the Caribbean and its diasporas. Through summer schools, conferences, micro-grants, and training programs, the CDSC promises to generate cohorts of students and practitioners from across the Caribbean and the US that will advance the development of the Caribbean Digital scholarship and the Digital Humanities at large.Read More →

CFP: Edited Collection Liberatory Librarianship: Case Studies of Information Professionals Supporting Justice Editors: Dr. Laurie Taylor (University of Florida, USA) Dr. Shamin Renwick (University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago) Brian Keith (University of Florida, USA) Background: In this volume to be published by the American Library Association, we seek to explore what is “liberatory librarianship,” using liberatory to mean serving to liberate or set free and using “librarianship” capaciously, to include all information professionals, including archivists, museum professionals, and others who may or may not identify as librarians. Liberatory librarianship involves the application of the skills, knowledge, abilities, professional ethics, andRead More →

New Items and Updates Partners contributed new items, including: Training materials in French: https://dloc.domains.uflib.ufl.edu/2022/uncategorized/formation-sur-la-configuration-et-la-capture-du-support-de-copie-manuel-et-video/ University of The Bahamas: https://dloc.com/AA00088892/00001 Please join us for the online conversation on Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science with Archives (SOAS), on July 26, 11am-12pm About: https://bit.ly/3ylXAmD Nuevos elementos y actualizaciones Socios contribuyeron con nuevos artículos, incluidos: Materiales didácticos de digitalización en francéshttps://dloc.domains.uflib.ufl.edu/2022/uncategorized/formation-sur-la-configuration-et-la-capture-du-support-de-copie-manuel-et-video/ University of The Bahamas: https://dloc.com/AA00088892/00001 Únase a nosotros para la conversación en línea sobre Crowdsourcing y ciencia ciudadana con archivos (SOAS), el 26 de julio, de 11 a.m. a 12 p.m. Acerca de: https://bit.ly/3ylXAmD Nouveaux articles et mises à jour Partenaires ont contribué à de nouveaux éléments, notamment: SupportsRead More →

On July 26, from 11am-12pm (Miami time), please join us for a conversation on Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science with Archives.   In this session, Joanne Ichimura and Dr. Sophie Salffner, Special Collections Archivist and Digital Archivist from SOAS University of London, will share about their upcoming planned Citizen Science Archival project, featuring letters from Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad & Tobago. SOAS Special Collections holds the archives of the Council for World Mission, including correspondence from London Missionary Society missionaries to the London office. The early 19th century letters from Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago have recently been digitised. However, the cataloguing of the letters is un-reflectedRead More →

With a heart overflowing with joy, I write from the always wonderful ACURIL conference! ACURIL is the Association of Caribben University, Research, and Institutional Libraries, and this year, it is in beautiful Curaçao. There’s too much to write, so I hope to caught up in the coming months on sharing on wonderful work and fun underway at ACURIL instititions! One note is that this year is the first year ACURIL is testing automated translation, using wordly.ai, which automatically detects and translates speech into transcribed text and audio in other languages. I’m interested to see the overall evaluation from all ~200 partipants. From what I canRead More →

Huge thanks to the amazing Digital Development Team in the Library Technology Services Department! Note: We’re moving to focus on production tools, so we will have fewer patron system updates while we work on updating production and preservation processes. And, I love all our systems, so will share whatever I can! The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC), Florida Digital Newspaper Library, and UF Digital Collections (UFDC), have several new updates, including: Date hierarchy view for newspapers. Example with dates: https://www.dloc.com/title-sets/AA00079436 Example with paging: https://www.dloc.com/title-sets/AA00079436/browse This has been the most requested feature for the new interfaces. The difference is having a browseable list of datesRead More →

FIX THE GAP: Crowdsourcing STEMM Speaking Engagement Fees & Honoraria is an awesome resource for improving equity for honoraria and other speaking engagement payments, and for the process overall. How often are folks on committees and asked what an honorarium should be? My experience is that this happens pretty often and a bunch of us not knowing benchmarks is the good situation; worse is when this isn’t discussed and then zero is assumed. How often are folks asked to speak and know their labor and what it will require from them, but then lowball or don’t ask at all because they don’t know standard benchmarks? SuperRead More →

I love sharing joyous things, and this is super joyous! archipelagos: a journal of Caribbean digital praxis, the top journal of Caribbean Digital Scholarship, has just published a special issue dedicated to the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC), and guest edited by Hadassah St. Hubert and Perry Collins. This is a fantastic special issue! The issue begins with an introduction by the archipelagos editors, Kaiama Glover and Alex Gil, entitled “A love letter to librarians”, which includes: At the heart of this issue is the gift to all of us that is the Digital Library of the Caribbean, one of the largest and most stable suchRead More →

I had been wondering how fast the technological changes had been for folks in the Libraries at UF recently. Then, last week, I stumbled across an old grant from 2017 which included paying for a Zoom pro license as an experiment. In checking, it turns out the Libraries started with Zoom on February 5, 2018. Just over 4 years, the work to set up Zoom got started. Now, Zoom is a standard, routine part of operations. Microsoft Teams came even later, and again, it is a standard, routine part of operations. I remember the times before, when conference calls via phone were still in use,Read More →