This is a great student-authored short piece about, in my read, how the allure of innovation/problem solving/bragging rights has led a lot of smart people to ignore the work of archivists and historians when developing historical, archive driven tools.

@dhnow.bsky.social · 2w ago

Editors’ Choice: The Archive is Not a Toy: The Hidden Problems of a ‘Vintage’ AI

Archivists: Closure of Chicago National Archives threatens our right to access history 📜📚 www.wbez.org/in-the-loop-...

Archivists: Closure of Chicago National Archives threatens our right to access history

The National Archives at Chicago is a resource for residents and researchers including historians, genealogists and librarians.

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Save the date: Sept 22 #OhioDIG meeting at Old Worthington Library. Free as always. Registration coming soon! ohiodig.org/meetings #DigitalArchives #Digitization

Ever heard of “The Magic Carpet on Wheels”? Come with me on a medieval manuscript magic carpet ride across North America in the 1950s!

Job: The Ohio State University Libraries is seeking a Polar Archivist, FT faculty. osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/OSUCar... #OhioArchivists #ArchivesJob

Polar Archivist

Screen reader users may encounter difficulty with this site. For assistance with applying, please contact hr-accessibleapplication@osu.edu. If you have questions while submitting an application, pleas...

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Midwest Archives Conference Statement on proposed NARA closures 📜 midwestarc.memberclicks.net/statement-on...

To the inevitable cries of “just digitize everything, then;” not an answer. Making digital facsimiles accessible requires huge investment: staff, metadata, preservation. Orgs are currently not funded to meet these needs. While digital objects are great, they’ll never replace looking at originals.

Amalia S. Levi, PhD@amaliasl.bsky.social · 3w ago

📢 Once more for the people in the back: - Most [more than 95%] of archives have not been digitized. - Most of humanity's knowledge and memory is *not* reachable by LLMs. - Believing that AI can provid you with comprehensive, definitive, "intelligent" results is folly.

I'm so pleased to finally announce (pleased I somehow kept my yap shut) that my book won the Society of American Archivists' Waldo Gifford Leland Award "given for writing of superior excellence & usefulness in the fields of archival history, theory, & practice" www2.archivists.org/recipients/2...

Job: Imaging Technician (2 positions), Full time. Greene County Records Center and Archives, Xenia, Ohio. #Digitization #ArchivesJob www.governmentjobs.com/careers/gree...

Job Opportunities | Greene County Job Opportunities

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Public conversation about the OMB proposal has focused on science, but make no mistake: this is about ALL research and humanities are just as vulnerable. I'm back @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social w historian & @historians.org exec director Sarah Weicksel. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/07/10/t...

The OMB Guidance Revision Threatens All Research - The Scholarly Kitchen

The OMB proposed revision is about all research — and humanities research is just as vulnerable as STEM.

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The National Council on Public History unequivocally rejects the findings of the White House's report on the National Museum of American History. Read the reasons why at ncph.org/news/ncph-st....

NCPH Statement in Response to White House “Saving America’s Story” Report | National Council on Public History

NCPH Statement in Response to the White House “Saving America’s Story” Report and in Support of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History Published July 9, 2026 The National Council on Publi...

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"Shoring up those existing human and organizational network agents so that they can shift from crisis response to longer-term strategizing is likely to be the best investment we can make." Amen! @investinopen.bsky.social investinopen.org/blog/data-re...

The Data Resilience Funding Landscape: A Preliminary Analysis

Mapping where the money is (and isn't) going in the data rescue movement.

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CFP for this year's State Library of Ohio ODNFest: Authenticity in the Digital Age, 10/8 at Columbus Metro Library, Dublin, Ohio. Topics: libraries & digitization, digital collections, digital curation, digital archiving & more. forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...

If you like Instagram takeovers, we've a great one this week from the Local History and Genealogy team at the Columbus Metropolitan Library! www.instagram.com/ohiodig/ #OhioArchivists #DigitalArchives @columbuslibrary.bsky.social

"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...

These Maine librarians are helping patrons resist AI and Big Tech

Despite breathless reporting on how AI is going to change the world, Hannah Cyrus, a Bangor librarian, said that, in her experience, most library patrons aren’t finding it helpful.

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new open access publication - free for download! - on digital approaches to tracing the illicit trade in cultural objects: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Our access to historical records is directly affected by this closure. Thanks @chicagoarchivists.bsky.social for their attention to this. blockclubchicago.org/2026/07/06/c...

Chicago National Archives Closure Will Be Loss For Historians, Researchers — Even Deep-Sea Divers

The closure of the South Side center will take place “over the next few years.” The records and documents will be relocated, but it’s unclear where and how many employees are affected.

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If you like Instagram takeovers, we've a great one this week from the Local History and Genealogy team at the Columbus Metropolitan Library! www.instagram.com/ohiodig/ #OhioArchivists #DigitalArchives @columbuslibrary.bsky.social

The US Slavery and Abolition Archive brings together a wide range of historically significant records to support scholarly inquiry into economic, social, and political histories. The collection is structured to enable understanding of slavery and its legacies.

Home - U.S. Slavery & Abolition Archive

Explore primary-source documents from 1688–1894 that support research on slavery, abolition, and the African American experience in the American South.

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Register: 7/16 #OhioDIG in-person meeting in Dayton @ Wright State U. "Navigating Title II ADA Digital Accessibility Implementation" panel. Free as always thanks to our hosts, presenters, volunteers! #DigitalArchives #Digitization #Accessibility docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

OhioDIG Meeting Registration--WSU--2026-07-12

Please join the Ohio Digitization Interest Group for our summer in-person road trip meeting at 10 AM on Thursday, July 16, 2026 at Wright State University in Dayton. Registration: Open until Monday, ...

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The West Virginia Mine Wars Museum is expanding its labor history trail to become the largest labor history driving trail in the US, with the goal of driving economic development in the region! Learn more here! https://loom.ly/ZXUr8RI #UnionStrong #Courage #Appalachia

Register: 7/16 #OhioDIG in-person meeting in Dayton @ Wright State U. "Navigating Title II ADA Digital Accessibility Implementation" panel. Free as always thanks to our hosts, presenters, volunteers! #DigitalArchives #Digitization #Accessibility docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

OhioDIG Meeting Registration--WSU--2026-07-12

Please join the Ohio Digitization Interest Group for our summer in-person road trip meeting at 10 AM on Thursday, July 16, 2026 at Wright State University in Dayton. Registration: Open until Monday, ...

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Just over a week left to register for #ACH2026! Join us virtually June 24–26 for 70+ presentations on DH, transnationalism, and solidarity, with keynotes by Laura Gonzales and Maria José Afanador-Llach. Registration closes June 21: buff.ly/uXOU1lR Program: buff.ly/cs2h5pm

ACH 2026 – ACH Membership

ACH 2026 explores how we create and collaborate through moments of exigency in a bilingual, virtual conference. In Spanish, emergencia can mean both "emergence" and "emergency." This dual meaning…

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Job: Digitization Assistant, University Libraries, University of Dayton, Full Time. #ArchivesJob #LISJob employment.udayton.edu/en-us/job/50...

Save the date: July 16 #OhioDIG in-person meeting in Dayton @ Wright State U. Panel on ADA Digital Accessibility implementation. Free as always thanks to our hosts, presenters, volunteers! #DigitalARchives #Digitization #Accessibility Watch for more info: ohiodig.org/meetings

The #Library #Innovation Lab #Harvard has just launched #WARCbench, which they describe as a "Swiss Army Knife for #WARC Processing". This is a high benchmark because I frickin' love Swiss Army knives! 😀But, on a serious note, this WARCbench looks seriously useful. As someone who has recently […]

If you're looking for more digital humanities learning opportunities, there's still space in these low-cost, virtual, one-day options from @ach.bsky.social. (You *don't* need to attend the conference nor be a membership, to take one of these workshops!)

pam lach@plach.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Looking for a low-cost, virtual #DigitalHumanities workshop? @ach.bsky.social's got ya covered. We're offering 3 wkshps ahead of #ACH2026: 1) DH Pedagogy Studio: Creative + Critical Assignment Design 2) Get Started Preserving your Web Content & Data 3) Envisioning DH at your Teaching-Focused Instn

Announcing our new #OpenAccess #DigitalCulturalHeritage series - thanks @sas-news.bsky.social! And thanks to the authors of the inaugural volume: @amsichani.bsky.social @jfwinters.bsky.social @dh-researchhub.bsky.social & Eirini Goudarouli @uknatarcsector.bsky.social. www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

University of London Press launches new open access ‘Digital Cultural Heritage’ series

The University of London Press has published the inaugural volume in its new Digital Cultural Heritage series, co-authored by researchers from SAS and The National Archives, UK.

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Issue 46 of #rdmweekly is out! 📬 ➡️ @post45data.bsky.social Tabular Data Style Guide ➡️ Resources to Meet the NIH Data Sharing Plan Format @marlahertz.bsky.social ➡️ AI-Assisted Data Analysis for Reproducible Research @digiresacademy.bsky.social and more! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

RDM Weekly - Issue 046

A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.

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It has been TEN years since the premiere of Andy Van Dam's "Hypertext" movie, the product of a 1974 NEH grant to test using computers to teach the humanities. @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social & MITH hosted the screening. Here's @doctorow.pluralistic.net's take: boingboing.net/2016/05/03/a...

Astounding, visionary video about hypertext from 1976

Brett Bobley writes, "'Hypertext: an Educational Experiment in English and Computer Science at Brown University' is an amazing documentary film from 1976 made by Brown University computer scientist An...

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