The Open Source movement, as championed by the OSI, prizes absolute openness above all other concerns...

Have you ever wanted to see a handful of folders in a collection at the Archives of American Art, but you couldn't find the time to come to our DC reading room? Or maybe you live far away from Washington, and the expense of traveling here is beyond what you can manage? Then the Archives of American Art’s new Digitization on Demand service is for YOU!

Smaller open source developers are fighting back against tech giants like Amazon using their code in commercial services.

We've jokingly referred to the problem of disappearing maintainers as "bus factor" for about as far back as I can remember. In short, the idea is that it's bad for a project to have only one maintainer, because if they are (morbidly) hit by a bus, no one will keep working on the project.

Smaller open source developers are fighting back against tech giants like Amazon using their code in commercial services.

Open Source Freelancer

Nature - Releasing lab-built open-source software often involves a mountain of unforeseen work for the developers.

Blog for the Journal of Open Source Software • https://joss.theoj.org

Imagine you're responsible for preserving the long-established digital collection at a large research or national library. It is currently p...

The axiom to “do more with less” in university research libraries is increasingly untenable, as budgets continue to shrink and demand for novel services continues to rise. The impacts of such existential uncertainties are self-evident and widely discussed in the current literature—staff burnout, lowered morale and increased toxicity, weakened local collections, and limited capacity for ambitious and genuinely innovative work. Like many institutions, the University of Maryland (UMD) Libraries has found itself reinventing many of its services and initiatives to meet the increasingly technical needs of students and researchers in our campus community. New services and positions for research data services, GIS librarianship, discovery services, and digital scholarship are all popular and increasingly central to the information service mission of the Libraries. Like many more institutions, demand for such services often outstrips the Libraries’ operations and collections budgets, as well as labor capacity for project-driven initiatives and highly technical service requests.

In Why Is the Digital Preservation Network Disbanding?  Roger Schonfeld examines the demise of the Digital Preservation Network which was an...

Emails and documents from the King and Baldacci administrations are likely gone forever or nearly impossible to access.

In an attempt to explain the periodic fluctuations in American history, the historian Arthur Schlesinger – the Schlesinger the Harvard library is named after, not his son Arthur Schlesinger Jr that worked in Kennedy’s administration – posited that history runs in cycles. Specifically, his cyclical theory argued that American history swung back and forth between

Applying Digital Preservation Management to Digital Scholarship Service Models Good morning everyone and thank you for being here today! Our talk is entitled “Applying Digital Preservation Management to Digital Service Models” and we’re part of a cluster of talks about digital preservation, but t...

I’ve recently had several conversations with projects about software foundations, so I figured I should type up my thoughts here.

Looking for reasons to visit a library for students in the age of technology? Here are a couple of solid ones.

Open resources offer many potential benefits to students, but the institutional costs are real, too. One college offers a look into the math.