There is a higher being ...taking care of all my Canadian needs:

Congratulations to #iSchoolUI Assistant Professor @drtlwagner.bsky.social, recipient of the 2026 ASIS&T James M. Cretsos Leadership Award! 🎉   The award honors a new ASIS&T member who has demonstrated outstanding leadership in professional ASIS&T activities.   ▶️ bit.ly/3RfeWxS

www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in... I have a 3-year undergrad (took me 5 years). No honours. 3 years is the English norm. Scottish, 4 years. Have had a modestly successful academic career notwithstanding.

Happy Canada Day from London, Ont.

Happy Canada Day from London, Ont.

Sharing my new venture. I'm excited to expand my work with scholarly publishers and platforms, facilitating deeper integration of library perspectives in their work. librarianintheloop.com

#iSchoolUI researchers are tackling AI's biggest challenges. Professor Dong Wang and students from his Social Sensing and Intelligence Lab are presenting research on AI photo privacy and safer medical AI at the ACM Web Conference this week in Dubai. ▶️ bit.ly/4vFVVnq

The #iSchoolUI Alumni Association (ISAA) is pleased to announce the recipients of the annual Alumni Awards: Professor Emeritus Carole Palmer (PhD ’96), Professor Allen Renear, and Billy Tringali (MSLIS ’19). Congratulations! 🎉▶️ bit.ly/4xZ45Zm

Canada Day celebrations return to downtown #LdnOnt tomorrow Experience live music, unique vendors, kids' activities, and more on Dundas Place from 12 – 11 PM Celebrations in Harris Park will begin at 6 PM, with fireworks beginning at approximately 10 PM

That's a wrap on #ALAAC26! 🎉 Thank you to everyone who celebrated @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social's 150th anniversary with us, stopped by the #iSchoolUI booth, and connected with us throughout the conference. See you next year! 👋

everyone has been saying getting a PhD doesn’t make you smart & that’s fair. but if I was looking for information on Shakespeare, for example, & someone had a PhD in Shakespeare studies, published a book on Shakespeare, & was tenured at an R1 as a Shakespeare prof—that would mean something to me.

Chicago is awesome.

So thrilled to hear this June 10 interview between local radio host Cope Cumpston & @ischoolui.bsky.social MSLIS student Haley Reynolds about the book project she made in BookLab—including hand-made paper & letterpress pages—about histories of genocide around the world new.weft.org/audio/2026/c...

What is the the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage? @dariaheu.bsky.social have put together a handy guide so we can all get our heads around it... campus.dariah.eu/resources/ho...

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: JCA seeks a Managing Editor to support day-to-day operations of our peer-reviewed, open-access journal at the forefront of computational and data-driven approaches to humanistic inquiry. More info on requirements and how to apply: cdh.princeton.edu/opportunitie...

Applications for this 2-year postdoc at @cmu.edu are starting to be reviewed now, so don't delay! Please spread the news to your local #DH networks. One of the people you'll be working with is me :) I am excited to meet this new colleague and collaborate on computational humanities in Pittsburgh!

Champaign-Urbana folks/visitors, my retirement party is tomorrow, Wednesday, June 24, 2-4 pm in the Main Library, room 428. Please come by and have some cake!

Career opportunity | Job opening Musical instruments conservator careers.yale.edu/us/en/job/YU... #classicalmusic #nowhiring

Back @skeuomorphpress.org today printing a stack of these @judgejohnhodgman.bsky.social broadsides & I realize I haven’t shared a video of our new Vandercook in action, so here it is! Yes, I’m aware of that terrible squeak & have an idea how to fix it—I just have to find time to rehab a roller

Very welcome cautious take on what historical language models actually do, from @tpoibeau.bsky.social. Section 4, on the ladder of validity, is particularly worth a look: philpapers.org/archive/POIW...

Title: Writing for Algorithmic Audiences engl3844.github.io/engl3844s18/...

Our digital cultural heritage is so fragile without ongoing resources. We're reaching a critical point where the whims of fascist politicians are dictating what digitised resources will survive. Who said culture and history wasn't political? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#iSchoolUI Interim Dean @ejmknox.bsky.social and Adjunct Lecturer Jarrett Dapier joined WBEZ’s In the Loop to discuss America’s new era of book bans and its impact on society and education.   Listen here 🎧▶️ bit.ly/4gzw5fQ

#bookhistory Hey, folks, have you made, or do you have, a favourite bibliography or curated corpus focused on 18th or 19th century books in English? Maybe it's quite small or has a niche genre or period focus? (how-to manuals from the 1840s? books about cows, 1770-1820?) I'd love to hear abt it!

I’m hiring a digital humanities librarian to join my team at Tufts! Please share with your networks! Full details: jobs.tufts.edu/jobs/23231

Parade. Thursday. Manhattan.

All y’all book history nerds, historical making nerds, or just plain nerd nerds, Sean Silver posted the recipes and instructions for making historical ink that we used in our “Thinking Through Printing” symposium workshop last week. Go brew some stuff, get inky!

Congratulate @djevans.bsky.social on defending his brilliant dissertation, “The Layered Incompleteness of Historical Data: Newspaper Directories and the Construction of the Bibliographic Record, 1869–1925”—one of the best examples I’ve read marrying rich historical & advanced computational research

This work is going to start appearing soon, in articles & in the published dataset, & folks are going to learn so much from it—but for now, CONGRATS to @djevans.bsky.social, his director of research @zoeleblanc.bsky.social, & committee @dasmiq.bsky.social & @profdownie.bsky.social

Can highly recommend checking out the program of the DH Lab for the rest of term! Thanks for having me! www.gw.uni-hamburg.de/ueber-die-fa... (3/3)

Some familiar #iSchoolUI faces at the Children’s Literature Association (#ChLA26) annual conference 🧡

Back teaching at DHSI after a 15 year hiatus! This time, #Digitalhumanities leadership co-teaching with @raysiemens.bsky.social @gworthey.bsky.social welcoming a diverse stellar group of participants this a.m. What do YOU think makes for effective leadership in #dh? dhsi.org/2025/09/30/f...

Here I am! 🤗 - what is the point of #digitalhumanities in a world which is on fire? and how has DH changed over the past 20 years? My personal take:

I have been depositing the Shadow Libraries chapter in my repositories, using a CC BY-NC-ND license. KC Works: works.hcommons.org/records/s8y2... BIROn: eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/50... I know I am biased, but I love the setup and rich metadata we have on KC Works for open sharing of research.

Well this is certainly in the running for the most incredible space where I’ve given a talk

I’ll be giving a keynote for the “Thinking Through Printing” symposium Thursday in Toronto—the conference is closed but there are public seats for the keynote “A Skeuomorphic View of Book History” has been fun to write—things went in some unexpected but I think productive directions while drafting

Will be giving my TORCHLITE talk at Keio University's 3rd International Workshop for Library and Information Sciences and Digital Humanities in about an hour. The talks have been really interesting. @ischoolui.bsky.social

What can a street name tell us about London's history? Join the Friends of the Library for Speaking with Friends as we celebrate the launch of the new edition of London Street Names: an Illustrated Guide. 📅 June 13, 2–4pm 📍 Central Library Reception, book sale and signing to follow.

#iSchoolUI Professor Dong Wang and PhD student Ruichen Yao will present their research at the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) 2026, which will take place May 27-29 in Los Angeles. Read more about their papers▶️ bit.ly/4a580cL

Trinity achieved in Ginza after a long, long flight.

🙌 🎉 🧠 💡 ❌ 🤖

UCLDH is delighted to welcome Melissa Terras, Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage at the University of Edinburgh, to give the 2026 Susan Hockey Lecture. 2 June 2026, 6-8pm in London. www.ucl.ac.uk/digital-huma...

Returning to the (new home of the) place where it all started!

If you’re in Toronto in early June, I’ll be giving a talk,“A Skeuomorphic View of Book History”—continuing a series, working toward an article—the conference is closed but registration is open for the keynote Thursday, June 4, 6-7pm More info here: libcal.library.utoronto.ca/calendar/805...

JOB for recent MLIS grads! Nadia Sophie Seiler Rare Materials Residency Split between Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, July-Dec. 2026) & Yale Center for British Art (New Haven, CT, Jan.-May 2027) Application deadline is May 22 amherst.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/FSL_Em...

We cordially welcome Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com as #CASFellow who is working together with the Research Focus Group "Scales". @spoerhase.bsky.social @julianschroeter.bsky.social @sinasteglich.bsky.social

Only half of BookLab students have submitted their final self-assessments—they’re not due until Friday—but if the question is “when you use consultative grading, don’t they all just give themselves As?” the answer is, yet again—nope. They are thoughtful & honest & if anything, too hard on themselves

CFP: “Computational Approaches to Art” in Computational Humanities Research. Interesting to see how strongly the field is shifting from simple digitization toward questions of epistemology, AI, computer vision, network analysis, and computational visual culture. A sign that the debate is moving […]

Last week, Informatics students showcased their creativity at the Game Studies & Design Spring Student Showcase 🎮✨ We hope everyone had fun getting a firsthand look at the innovative projects our students built this semester.

This week, we presented our first #iSchoolUI awards to faculty and staff in recognition of their contributions to teaching and for outstanding service.   Congratulations to Asst. Prof. Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo, Adjunct Lecturer Anne Barnhart, & Asst. to the Dean Christine Hopper! 🎉   ▶️ bit.ly/3P0O3Nb