Community Stories

The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has received a $679,827 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to help launch a new CLIR/DLF Data Curation Fellowship Program. The program, an expansion of CLIR’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in Academic Libraries, will provide recent Ph.Ds with professional development, education, and training opportunities in data curation for the natural and social sciences.

For the program’s first cohort, CLIR is now recruiting six data curation fellows in cooperation with its partner institutions: Indiana University, Lehigh University, McMaster University, Purdue University, the University of California Los Angeles, and the University of Michigan.

Information about the program and position descriptions are available at http://www.clir.org/fellowships/datacuration. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until all positions are filled, but no later than June 30, 2012.

The new DLF Advisory Subcommittee will include current CLIR Board members as well as two or three non-Board representatives from the broader DLF community. The subcommittee will advise the DLF director on matters relating to program activities, initiatives, partnerships, and strategy. The At-Large members will not only contribute to the success of the DLF program, but will also gain a better understanding of CLIR’s governance and operations. Members will serve two-year terms.

We have compiled a list of all nominations for DLF community representatives and ask the DLF community to vote on who they would like to serve in this governance role. You may select up to three candidates. The top 5 names will be put forward to CLIR’s Executive Board, which will make the final selection of the DLF Advisory Subcommittee.

The poll will be open until Friday, March 16th. Vote now!

Project Bamboo recently announced the release of its quarterly newsletter Bamboo News. Read the rest of this entry »

DLF has been working to coordinate and co-chair the Content & Scope Workstream for the Digital Public Library of America since mid-October. Part of this process involves lengthy discussion of key issues and goals with the workstream conveners and public members via listserv. The DPLA blog will now be posting listserv recaps at least once a month for all six of the workstreams: Audience & Participation, Content & Scope, Financial/Business Models, Governance, Legal Issues, and Technical Aspects. To read the December 2011 recaps, see the DPLA blog post. If you are interested in adding to the Content & Scope Workstream discussion, please join our listserv.

Interested in helping to launch a large-scale digital public library in the United States? Excited about the future of online access to information? Want to collaborate closely with innovative partners in public and research libraries, government, publishing, and elsewhere? Look no further! The Berkman Center seeks a part-time Research Assistant for the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) planning initiative.
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Today, December 1, 2011, on the Kojo Nnamdi Show, Maura Marx, Director of the Digital Public Library of America Secretariat at the Berkman Center at Harvard University, Martin Kalfatovic, Associate Director of Digital Services at the Smithsonian Libraries and Co-chair of the Technical Workstream of the DPLA, and Maria Pallante, United States Register of Copyrights, discussed the mission, goals, potential challenges, and future of the DPLA. Read the rest of this entry »

In a recent post on the PLA blog, Nate Hill of the San Jose public library recapped his experience at the recent National Digital Public Library meeting at the Los Angeles Public Library, and took this opportunity to suggest a new direction for public libraries and the Digital Public Library of America. Read the rest of this entry »

With projects like the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) and HathiTrust at the forefront of the digital library conversation, and representing a potential direction of digital library efforts, it is vital to incorporate the perspective of librarians from a variety of institutions and create space for collaboration across fields. This panel consists of both public and academic librarians from across the nation: Sandra McIntyre, Cheryl Walters, Nate Hill, Toby Greenwalt, Michael Lascarides, and Jefferson Bailey. Read the rest of this entry »

The White House Blog reported last week that the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy has released two Requests for Information (RFI), “soliciting public input on long term preservation of and public access to the results of federally funded research, including digital data and peer-reviewed scholarly publications.” Read the rest of this entry »

DPLA staffers interviewed a variety of attendees at the Digital Public Library of America Plenary Meeting on October 21 in Washington, DC. Visit their blog to watch videos as they are posted! Additionally, notes from the six workstreams are now available on the DPLA wiki.