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Sprinting toward a Lab: defining, connecting and writing a book in five days

Posted by: Abbey Potter

A lab is where experimental and research-focused tools, methods, and services are incubated. The starting premise for a lab is often wanting to spur change and make space for new practice and new people. Yet calling something a lab can also signal separation between traditional services and new approaches. Labs, and innovation in general, can …

Posted in: Digital Content, digital scholarship, Inside the Library, Open Research, Partners and Collaboration

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Recommendations for Enabling Digital Scholarship

Posted by: Abbey Potter

Mass digitization — coupled with new media, technology and distribution networks — has transformed what’s possible for libraries and their users. The Library of Congress makes millions of items freely available on loc.gov and other public sites like HathiTrust and DPLA. Incredible resources — like digitized historic newspapers from across the United States, the personal papers …

Posted in: Digital Content, digital scholarship, NDI, Open Research, Tools and Infrastructure, Web Archiving