Don't film violence on your phone—put the camera down and help the people who need it.

“Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest” is riveting firsthand account and incisive analysis of modern protest, revealing internet-fueled social movements’ greatest stre...

The New York Philharmonic orchestra is deploying content management and archiving technology to create harmony with the paying public.

OpenCon works to make research & education more open and equitable.

Web-based courses are a practical way to engage in meaningful discussions with learners from a diverse set of communities. By gathering online to learn about a topic, learners can form communities that transcend geographic and political boundaries. This paper aims to investigate a partnership between the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) and Wisconsin Library Services, which brought open access online learning to thousands of lifelong learners around the state of Wisconsin. “Changing Weather and Climate in the Great Lakes Region”, a massive open online course the UW-Madison launched in 2015, paired a regional focus with face-to-face discussions at 21 public libraries to deepen learners’ personal connections to the subject matter. Through strategic partnership, targeted course development and marketing of events, intimate local discussion sessions and statewide events provided fora in which Wisconsin residents would explore changing weather and climate with university faculty, staff and students.,This paper uses a case study approach and firsthand interview feedback from librarians, library staff and university faculty and staff who were leading the effort.,This paper explores the lessons learned and practical implications from the project and offers insight into libraries and universities looking to engage specific communities in non-credit online learning projects into the future.,This effort was a first of its kind partnership for the University and the State of Wisconsin.

Elevator pitches for data librarians to researchers.

The other day, I was meeting with an associate who was relaying to me his frustration with influencer marketing:   "Tara, influencer marketing just doesn't work. I made a deal with the most influential person in this network and he posted his shining endorsement of my product and I got very lit

When working with political campaigns for EveryLibrary, we are often asked to identify the most important digital tactic for winning campaigns and advocating for libraries. Many of the people who ask expect us to talk about best practices using Facebook or Twitter to reach the public. They are usually surprised to hear we still believe email is the absolute most important tool for digital campaigns. This is true because email is still fundamentally the key to the Internet. Your library’s biggest goal in digital and in-person strategy should be the acquisition of email addresses.

After a dramatic 24 hours, the Senate on July 13 confirmed Carla Hayden as the nation’s 14th Librarian of Congress. Hayden is the first woman, and the first African-American to serve as Librarian of Congress, and is the first professional librarian to hold the office in over 60 years.

I maintain what I hope is a healthy scepticism towards the use of ‘digital’ when it comes to museums and heritage which mostly involves being a snarky bastard on the Internet and probin…

As our initial community survey shows, burnout in the diversity in tech movement represents a state of crisis.

About 15 months ago, I transitioned from being a full-time archivist to a full-time outreach coordinator.  I still work for an archives. I still consider myself an archivist.  I quickly learned tha…

A few months ago, the MAH  board and staff started discussing whether and how to create a formal policy for advocacy activities. I blogg...

My library, in partnership with our Center for Teaching and Learning, recently launched a faculty stipend program for faculty interested in either replacing their traditional course materials with OER or sharing their students’ work as OER for other educators’ use. We awarded four stipends this Janu

This is a guest post by Jaime Mears. On March 4th, 2016, the Washington DC Public Library hosted Digital Curation and the Public: Strategies for Education and Advocacy at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library. It was what the National Digital Stewardship Residents program calls an “enrichment session” and the audience was composed of NDSR colleagues and mentors. […]

This brief report summarizes the purpose and key activities of the Geek the Library program, its reach and participation rates, and its outcomes, including analysis from the project evaluators.  #oclcresearch #geekthelibrary

The dynamics of opinion-change on social media are critically important to civil discourse. Researchers at Cornell say they've figured it out.