Congratulations to the University of Victoria Libraries on a successful launch of the Kula Library Futures Academy! CLIR President Charles Henry, CLIR Board Chair Guy Berthaiume, and CLIR Board emerita Richard Ovenden and Leslie Weir all spoke at the Kula opening.

Applications must be received by September 30, 2025!

Happy Rosh Hashanah to all who celebrate! 🥂

We'll also be screening six of Bill's films on October 17 at UChicago's Logan Center for the Arts, with Bill in person for a post-screening conversation. Hope to see you there!

After a year of work, we've finished digitizing and cataloging hundreds of reels shot by photojournalist Bill Stamets, who described his subjects as "a miscellany of civic occasions where Americans make sense of power." You can watch them all our website for free.

This project would not have been possible without the support of @clirnews.bsky.social!

🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Carla Hayden! The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture has honored her with the inaugural Jean Blackwell Hutson Award as part of its Centennial celebration. www.nypl.org/blog/2025/08...

CLIR’s newest affiliate is hiring! The Shared Print Partnership is seeking a part-time, fully remote Program Coordinator. The role is 20 hours/week and includes a standard benefits package. Learn more and apply here: jobs.diglib.org/job/16/

We’re thrilled to welcome Shaneé Yvette Willis as CLIR’s new Senior Program Officer for DLF! She brings 14+ years of GLAM experience, most recently at the HBCU Library Alliance, and has been recognized as a 2021 Library Journal Mover & Shaker.

Welcome to our newest DLF members: University of Cincinnati & Arizona State University! 🎉 Membership includes Forum perks, job board access, and support for open + accessible DLF programs.

📅 Save the Date! Join CLIR’s Grant Team for the Digitizing Hidden Collections: Amplifying Unheard Voices Initial Applicant Q&A Webinar on September 25, 2025, at 2 p.m. ET. The team will answer questions about the initial application process. 👉 Register here: clirdlf.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

📅 Save the Date! Join CLIR’s Grant Team for the Digitizing Hidden Collections: Amplifying Unheard Voices Initial Applicant Q&A Webinar on September 25, 2025, at 2 p.m. ET. The team will answer questions about the initial application process. 👉 Register here: clirdlf.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Labor issues in libraries, archives & museums deserve year-round attention. Since 2017, the DLF Labor Working Group has shared resources like the Labor Advocacy Toolkit, “Do Better” Guidelines, & Valuing Labor Research Agenda. Learn more: www.diglib.org/groups/labor...

Welcome to our newest DLF members: University of Cincinnati & Arizona State University! 🎉 Membership includes Forum perks, job board access, and support for open + accessible DLF programs.

We’re thrilled to welcome Shaneé Yvette Willis as CLIR’s new Senior Program Officer for DLF! She brings 14+ years of GLAM experience, most recently at the HBCU Library Alliance, and has been recognized as a 2021 Library Journal Mover & Shaker.

CLIR’s newest affiliate is hiring! The Shared Print Partnership is seeking a part-time, fully remote Program Coordinator. The role is 20 hours/week and includes a standard benefits package. Learn more and apply here: jobs.diglib.org/job/16/

For this past #LaborDay, we’re highlighting CLIR’s Creating Ethical Temporary Positions in Archives, offering research-driven guidelines for more ethical grant-funded & term-limited roles. Read: www.clir.org/pubs/reports...

We are honored that CLIR has been recognized with the Society of American Archivists Council Exemplary Service Award! This recognition affirms CLIR’s role in supporting archives, libraries, museums and galleries through funding for essential services and innovative projects.

Excited to announce that I am following in the footsteps of my mentors @safiyanoble.bsky.social and @kishonna.bsky.social as the 2025 keynote speaker for the Digital Library Federation at CLIR Forum in Denver! forum2025.diglib.org/speakers/

🎤 Featured at #DLF2025: @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.app — Your Silence Will Not Protect You: A Clarion Call to Make Online Protection the Rule and NOT the Exception. Nov 16–19 | Denver, CO. Learn more: forum2025.diglib.org/speakers/?ut... #DLFForum #OnlineSafety #DigitalLibraries

📢 Apply now for 2025 DLF Forum Fellowships! Support for students, emerging pros, public library staff, HBCU affiliates & grassroots archives workers. Nov 16–19 | Denver, CO. ✅ Free reg + hotel + $650 stipend. Apply by Sept 2: forum2025.diglib.org/resources/fe...

It is! We're thrilled to be with @clirnews.bsky.social.

📢 Big news! BHL has a new fiscal sponsor – @clirnews.bsky.social 🎉 This marks a major step forward in BHL’s transition to a more sustainable, community-led future. 🌍 Read all about what this means for BHL: 🔗 blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/08/tran... #ILoveBHL

⏳ ICYMI — Early bird registration for the 2025 DLF Forum ends August 15! Secure your spot and save: hubs.li/Q03mJVG_0 #DLFForum #DLF2025 #DigitalLibraries

Congrats of Ohio History Connection for their award for "Sights and Sounds of LGBTQ+ Ohio: Preserving the Gay Ohio History Initiative’s Audiovisual Collections"! 🏳️‍🌈

Amplifying Unheard Voices is open until October 20 for $50k-$300k for digitization. 📜

CLIR is now accepting applications for Digitizing Hidden Collections: Amplifying Unheard Voices! Grants from $50K to $300K support the digitization of rare materials that center on underrepresented communities. Initial apps due Oct. 20. 🌐 www.clir.org/2025/08/auv4...

Big news! CLIR has funded 21 projects through the Recordings at Risk program. Rare recordings, including Muhammad Ali footage and LGBTQ+ oral histories, will be digitized and preserved for future generations. Learn more 👉 www.clir.org/2025/08/clir...

🎙️ CLIR is thrilled to announce that Recordings at Risk will continue with 2 new grant cycles in 2025 & 2026, thanks to generous support from the Mellon Foundation. 📼 First time ever: Canadian nonprofits can apply alongside U.S. orgs. MORE: www.clir.org/2025/07/mell...

Scenes from Chicago’s 15th Annual Gay & Lesbian Pride Parade in June 1984. 📽️From a loosely assembled reel of Super 8 film in the Bill Stamets Collection.

Wishing a joyous Canada Day to our Canadian colleagues, grantees, and especially our sponsors and members: Concordia University, McMaster University, the University of British Columbia, the University of Calgary, the University of Toronto and the University of Victoria!

🏳️‍⚧️ Pride highlight: UVic Libraries is leading a new CLIR-funded project to digitize the Rikki Swin Institute Trans+ media collection. Materials span the 1970s–2000s and include Fantasia Fair workshops, fashion shows, and interviews with key activists. Explore more here: www.uvic.ca/transgendera...

🏳️‍🌈 Pride Month Spotlight 🏳️‍🌈 This Pride Month, we’re celebrating LGBTQ+ history with a special project from the Texas Archive of the Moving Image. More content is on the way with help from a community advisory group, but you can start exploring the archive now: texasarchive.org/taxonomy/ter...

🚨 The 2025 DLF Forum program is live! Take a look at the lineup and plan your time at this in-person event for the digital library, archives, museum, and cultural heritage communities. 🔗 Check out the program and register here: forum2025.diglib.org

2025 DLF Forum Program Now Available www.diglib.org/2025-dlf-for... #libraries #digitallibraries @clirnews.bsky.social

The monthly @clirnews.bsky.social DLF Committee on #equity and #inclusion mtg is a welcoming space to discuss supporting #libraries, #DEIA work, and each other in this challenging time. DM me for details about the next mtg this Monday, 6/23/2025 wiki.diglib.org/Committee_fo...

For #AAPIHeritageMonth, we're spotlighting the DHC-AUV funded project Unboxed — a project digitizing photos, letters & stories of Japanese Americans during WWII by @jamuseum.bsky.social. These hidden stories are now accessible online. Credits in alt text. #Unboxed #DigitizingHiddenCollections #JANM

We're spotlighting Histories of South Asians in Canada—a two-year effort to digitize 20,000 photos by Chandra Bodalia, a legendary South Asian Canadian photojournalist in BC. The images capture decades of cultural, political, and social moments. 🔗 Explore more: sacda.ca

📚 CLIR + BnF have signed an MOU to link DLME with Bibliothèques d’Orient, uniting Middle Eastern collections from 14+ institutions. A win for digital heritage + access! Explore more: dlmenetwork.org/library/abou... #DLME #BnF #DigitalLibraries #CulturalHeritage

300,000 Records and Growing! To start the year, the DLME conducted a five-week sprint, adding 100,000 new records to the DLME and growing the site by 50%. DLME By the Numbers: DLME now holds... -300,000 records, in -140 collections, from -34 data providers

📚 CLIR + BnF have signed an MOU to link DLME with Bibliothèques d’Orient, uniting Middle Eastern collections from 14+ institutions. A win for digital heritage + access! Explore more: dlmenetwork.org/library/abou... #DLME #BnF #DigitalLibraries #CulturalHeritage

CLIR wishes our colleagues Martin and Caitlin a very successful conference! CLIR affiliate, @iiif.bsky.social , is hosting its annual conference on June 3-4, jointly hosted by the University of Leeds. More information can be found here: iiif.io/event/2025/l...

We're spotlighting Histories of South Asians in Canada—a two-year effort to digitize 20,000 photos by Chandra Bodalia, a legendary South Asian Canadian photojournalist in BC. The images capture decades of cultural, political, and social moments. 🔗 Explore more: sacda.ca

For #AAPIHeritageMonth, we're spotlighting the DHC-AUV funded project Unboxed — a project digitizing photos, letters & stories of Japanese Americans during WWII by @jamuseum.bsky.social. These hidden stories are now accessible online. Credits in alt text. #Unboxed #DigitizingHiddenCollections #JANM

🔊Registration is now open for the in-person Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum and Learn@DLF at in Denver, Colorado, November 16-19. Learn more and reserve your spot:

Check out these Friday video tours with Q&A! "Cool and Collected at the University of Minnesota: Rarities 80 ft underground" & "Tour of the @gettymuseum.bsky.social Library" are both 1:15-1:45pm EDT tomorrow on Zoom. See Sched for more info and Zoom links! #ARLISNA2025 #tours #umnlib #GettyLibrary

🚀 Registration is now open for the 2025 DLF Forum! We invite librarians, technologists, archivists, digital scholars and more to register and help spark conversation and innovation in our field. Register here: forum2025.diglib.org

🚀 Registration is now open for the 2025 DLF Forum! We invite librarians, technologists, archivists, digital scholars and more to register and help spark conversation and innovation in our field. Register here: forum2025.diglib.org

🌍 In honor of #EarthMonth, we’re resharing Season 2 of Material Memory: Climate Change & Cultural Memory. This podcast season explores how the climate crisis affects memory, heritage, and identity — and how preservation work must adapt. 🎧 Listen now: material-memory.clir.org/season-2/

In honor of #EarthDay, we’re resharing A Green New Deal for Archives by Eira Tansey 🌎 — a call to action for sustainable, well-resourced archives in the face of climate change. 📘 Read here: www.clir.org/wp-content/u... #EarthDay2025 #Archives #GreenNewDeal #ClimateAction #EiraTansey #CLIR