Have you ever wondered what exactly is web archiving? How the Library select which websites to preserve? Or how you would find and search the web archives? The Web Archiving Team’s Senior Digital Collection Specialists gathered to answer these questions and more in a live webinar during the Preservation Directorate’s celebration of Preservation Week. If …
Two frameworks to support individual and institutional community engagement
Drawing on qualitative evidence from community engaged academics, Wade B. Kelly and Lisa M. Given outline how two frameworks for context-informed, community engagement can support researchers and research institutions to foster social change. Effective…
The Last of the Data Doubles Publications
It’s been pretty quiet on the blog, though it definitely has not been quiet in real life. I have lots of things that I’m looking forward to sharing with you! First off, I had a pair of papers published this … Continue reading
Superficial engagement with generative AI masks its potential contribution as an academic interlocuter
The value of generative AI is often dismissed after it fails to produce coherent academic responses to single prompts. Mark Carrigan, argues that careless use of generative AI fails to engage with more interactive ways in which it can used to supplemen…
Creating New Opportunities with Digital Strategy: An Interview with Margaret Gentry
We are happy to share this interview with Margaret Gentry. Margaret is serving as a Presidential Management Fellow with the Digital Strategy Directorate. In this interview, we learn a bit about Margaret’s interests and work with us at the Library. Welcome! We’re so excited you’ve joined the Digital Strategy Directorate as a Presidential Management Fellow. …
Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds
In Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds, Arseli Dokumacı argues that in the adaptive ways they improvise everyday tasks, disabled people demonstrate how all people can create a more habitable planet. Connecting idea…