DPLA's 2025 Kickoff
2025-01-09 11:00 - 12:00 UTC | Zoom
Join DPLA as they announce new initiatives for 2025 and beyond, and share how you can get involved.
In 2025, DPLA will be rolling out new grant programs, as well as the first DPLAfest in years, and begin planning the transition of the cultural heritage work’s new home—and they will collaborate with our community to design and plan these exciting projects.
This is open to the public and all are invited to help us build the new DPLA, regardless of prior experience, institution, membership status, etc.!
Registration is open now.

Job Posting: Digital Collections & Metadata Specialist, University of Montana Library
2025-01-10 - 2025-02-03
The University of Montana in Missoula is seeking a Digital Collections and Metadata Specialist to help enhance access to materials in the Mansfield Library’s Archives and Special Collections. This is a full-time classified staff position with benefits. Minimum education is a Bachelor’s degree and two years of related work experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Experience with or advanced knowledge of metadata creation for library and/or archival materials is required, along with other qualifications. The full position announcement is available from the University of Montana’s Job Opportunity website.
Apply by Sunday, February 2, 2025 for full consideration.

Call for Participation: New DPLA Committees
2025-01-10 - 2025-02-04
Pursuant to DPLA’s transition to its new institutional home, Free Library of Philadelphia, 2 new committees are forming and anyone in our community is welcome to serve.
Please visit this link to read more about the Grants and DPLAFest committees.

2025 Virtual Member Meeting
2025-01-29 14:00 - 15:30 | Zoom
Join us for the 2025 MWDL Virtual Member Meeting! This is a chance to get together, network, and hear what our colleagues have been working on.
We’ll meet via Zoom on Wednesday, January 29th 2025 at 2PM Mountain/1PM Pacific.
Agenda forthcoming!
Registration closed 1/17/2025.

Job Posting: Program Manager - Digital Operations Manager, Montana State University
2025-01-30 - 2025-03-01
Montana State University Library is currently accepting applications for Program Manager – Digital Operations Manager.
The Program Manager provides key project management for unique digital collections. This includes leading and and facilitating a cross-departmental team, acting as liaison with clients when launching projects, and staying up-to-date with digital library technologies, equipment, and techniques.
Full consideration began on 1/24/2025 but remains open until the position is filled. Full details here: Program Manager

RootsTech 2025
2025-03-06 - 2025-03-09 | Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
It’s baaaack! Discover your family’s roots at this year’s RootsTech, either in-person in downtown Salt Lake City or virtually.
Online attendance is FREE and registration is open. If you want to visit the Salt Palace, there are single and multi-day options available.
MWDL is a online exhibitor for this event!

USHRAB Grant applications - open now!
2025-03-10 - 2025-04-16
The Utah State Historical Records Advisory Board’s 2025 grant funding round is here!
Do you work in a museum, historical society, library special collections, university or other non-profit with documentary collections of historical value? The Utah State Historical Records Advisory Board (USHRAB) is awarding grants of up to $7,500 for time-limited archival projects.
Applications are due April 15. Learn more at ushrab.org

Western History Association - Award deadlines approaching!
2025-03-14 - 2025-07-01
Heads up, western US history scholars!
The Western History Association strives to be a congenial home for the study and teaching of all aspects of North American Wests, frontiers, homelands, and borderlands. Their mission is to cultivate the broadest appreciation of this diverse history.
Two of WHA’s awards have deadlines coming up fairly soon.
First, the Autry Public History Prize is awarded annually to media exhibits, public programs, or written works that contribute to a broader public reflection and appreciation of the past or serve as a model of professional public history practice in the history of the North American West. The award consists of a $1,000 prize and a certificate to the award recipient. The prize is made possible by the generous support of the Autry Museum of the American West. The deadline to submit is April 15, 2025.
The WHA Council created the Louise Pubols Public History Prize to honor Pubols’ prize-winning publications, landmark exhibitions, and extraordinary service to the WHA. In keeping with Louise’s deep commitment to public history, the Pubols Prize will support the attendance of a public historian to the WHA’s annual meeting [in Albuquerque, NM, October 15-18, 2025]. The overwhelming generosity of donations from Louise’s friends and family fully-funded this prize in the fall of 2017 in its inaugural year. The deadline for submissions is June 30, 2025.
The prize will include complimentary registration, a ticket to the Awards Banquet, and $500 to offset travel expenses to this year’s WHA Conference.
You can learn more about all of WHA’s awards on their Awards overview page.

CfP: DLF Forum 2025
2025-03-18 - 2025-04-14
DLF Forum 2025 will take place in Denver, CO, November 16-19.
DLF invites proposals on all topics related to digital libraries, encompassing case studies, “fail and learn” opportunities, practical application, methods, projects, ethics, research, and learning in any area, including, but not limited to:

Digital humanities
Digital scholarship
Digital pedagogy
Digital collections and DAMS
Digitization, digital preservation, or reformatting analog to digital format(s)
Born-digital materials
Data curation
Data access
Art information
Community archives
Machine learning / artificial intelligence
Project management
Partnerships, advocacy, and outreach
Race and technology
Accessibility
Copyright
Assessment
Climate change
Open access
Library-based publishing
Future of higher education

Visit the DLF CfP site for more details. The submission deadline for all events is Monday, April 14, at 11:59pm MT.

DPLA Open Board + Community Meeting
2025-03-20 11:00 - 12:00
Want to hear what DPLA is up to these days? Join the DPLA Board of Directors for the next open community meeting, as we review the progress we made in 2024 and early 2025.
We’ll share updates from DPLA and library partners, as well as from our new Grants Committee and DPLAfest Committee. You’ll also hear about how you can be part of what’s coming next.
We hope to see you there. Register at the link provided below!

DPLA Spring Network Council Meeting
2025-04-03 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
DPLA’s Network Council will meet Thursday, April 3.

TPS Western Region Granting open now
2025-04-11 - 2025-11-01
School districts, universities, cultural institutions, library systems and other educational organizations are invited to apply for grants of up to $25,000 to incorporate Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) materials and methods into their existing education and professional development programs for pre and in-service K-12 teachers, librarians, community members, and students.
TPS Western Region is currently accepting proposals for 6-9 month projects completing before 5-31-26.
The deadline for proposals for 6–9-month projects is July 31, 2025. These projects must start no earlier than Sept 1, 2025, and be completed by May 31, 2026.
The deadline for proposals for 6-month projects is Oct.31, 2025. These projects must start no earlier than Dec. 1, 2025, and be completed by May 31, 2026.
TPS Regional Program also offers subgrants under the Lewis-Houghton Civics and Democracy Initiative, named in honor of late Congressmen John Lewis (D-GA) and Amo Houghton (R-NY). Lewis-Houghton Initiative subgrants support projects incorporating music and creative arts-based primary sources and approaches to support student learning about civics, history, and democracy at the middle and high school level. Educational organizations across the country are invited to apply for subgrants to incorporate music, visual art, theatre, poetry, and literature from the Library’s digital collections, as well as arts-based approaches, into secondary civic and history education.
Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) program offers grants to a wide spectrum of organizations that plan to integrate the Library’s resources into educational programs and teaching materials. TPS regions award grants of up to $25,000 for projects designed to deliver educational programming centered on resources made available by the Library of Congress.

Quarterly MWDL Collections Roundup
2025-04-14 10:00 - 11:00 | Zoom
Join us for our first ever Quarterly Collections Roundup! Collection managers from MWDL hubs who submitted new collections in late 2024 and early 2025 will be on hand to share more details about the most recent crop of content.
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Utah State Archives - Summer Internship Apps open!
2025-04-18 - 2025-05-02
Utah State Archives is currently accepting applications for summer 2025 internships through May 1! Please see their blog for more details and application process.

PA Digital Rights Team - Copyright Office Hours
2025-05-06 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
PA Digital‘s Rights Team will host Copyright Office Hours on May 6 at 12 p.m. Mountain/11 AM Pacific on Zoom (please register in advance). Please bring your questions about copyright and digital collections, including questions about rights statements, fair use, and the public domain. To submit questions in advance, email Ana Enriquez (Head, Scholarly Communications and Copyright, Penn State University Libraries; aee32 [at] psu.edu).
This event is open to all — please share with interested colleagues.

2025 Area Studies Teaching & Collections Symposium
2025-05-07 09:00 - 2025-05-08 16:00
Mark your calendars for the upcoming 2025 Area Studies Teaching & Collections Symposium on May 7-8, 2025 (May 7 at the University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library and May 8 at Brigham Young University’s Harold B. Lee Library). Each day includes unique content! Engage with academic faculty, graduate students, and library professionals across Utah at this FREE symposium exploring ways to build and use area studies collections in higher education.
Hear from scholars specializing in Asian, Latin American, Middle East, Indigenous, and Pasifika Studies. Additional topics include using area studies primary source materials in teaching and scholarship and creating inclusive library collections.
Registration is now open, through April 25, 2025: https://ias.utah.edu/news/2025-library-symposium.php.
Lightning talk proposals are due by February 28, 2025 (to be given May 8 at BYU, Lee Library): https://utah.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cZmTygY6ZSVR8Vw
Contact for questions: uu_astcs@lists.utah.edu

The NEW Michigan Memories
2025-05-15 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
Join DPLA as we spotlight the recent relaunch of Michigan Memories, a website that allows users to search the online collections of cultural institutions all around the state. Michigan Memories is the Michigan-centric counterpart to the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), and the new version offers support for exhibits and educational resources about the state of Michigan and the people who live there. Many of our DPLA hubs are initiatives with close ties to state-based memory portals, and Michigan’s challenges and learnings offer useful insight for the whole DPLA Network.
The Michigan Service Hub was created in 2015 as a collaborative project by the Library of Michigan, Wayne State University, the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Western Michigan University, and the Midwest Collaborative for Library Services. The service hub works with archives, libraries, museums, and historical societies around Michigan to help them share their publicly accessible, online collections more widely through the DPLA and Michigan Memories. Funding for the new site was provided in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Library of Michigan.
Register to receive Zoom information.
Speaker Richard C. Adler is the coordinator of the Michigan Service Hub, part of the hub network of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). He has traveled around the state to meet with staff at cultural institutions and work with them to share their online collections with the DPLA and the newly rebuilt Michigan Memories.

Leveraging the Decentralized Web to Preserve Cultural Heritage
2025-05-21 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
As part of DPLA’s ongoing effort to serve as a bridge between their institutional partners and emerging technologies, DPLA has started to explore the benefits of decentralized storage. Long-term storage on the decentralized web is one approach to ensuring the protection of cultural artifacts and heritage –– against both natural and man-made threats, such as natural disasters, loss of funding, or technological failures. In this webinar, we will share the results of a pilot project to upload some of our partner content onto Filecoin’s decentralized storage network. During the webinar, we will be joined by speakers from the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) to help the DPLA community understand decentralized storage technology and how they can leverage it for added resilience.
Speaker Jefferson Sankara is a Senior Software Product Engineer at the Filecoin Foundation, where he leads the development of Singularity—the only open-source, end-to-end data onboarding platform for the Filecoin network. With over a decade of experience in product management, data science, machine learning, and blockchain technology, he specializes in creating tools that empower organizations to preserve, discover, and derive long-term value from decentralized storage networks. In this webinar, Sankara will share insights on how libraries can leverage filecoin’s decentralized storage solutions to preserve data securely and reliably. His unique blend of product strategy, technical expertise, and passion for decentralized systems makes him an invaluable voice for libraries exploring Web3 technologies.
Register for Zoom meeting details.

MWDL Governing Body Meeting
2025-05-22
MWDL’s Governing Body will hold its semi-annual meeting virtually on Thursday, May 22. The Governing Body last met on November 21, 2024.
New service terms begin July 1, 2025 and we will be choosing a new Chair. Many thanks to our outgoing Chair, Emily Boss of University of Nevada, Reno! Thanks also to Julia Simic (University of Oregon) as her 3-year term is ending as well.

MWDL 2025 Member Meeting
2025-08-08 09:30 - 16:00 | University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library, 295 1500 E, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, United States
How has another year flown by so quickly? Please join us on Friday, August 8, 2025 for our annual in-person member meeting!
We’ll get reacquainted, welcome new faces, and get caught up with all the latest around the network.
Registration closed July 18. Our agenda will be ready in early August.
Parking will be provided for those driving to campus. The nearest parking is in the West Lot directly across from the Marriott Library West Entrance. Ride share services like Lyft and Uber both operate in Salt Lake City, and the Library is also accessible via public transit.

Call for Proposals: NCPH-AASLH Joint Conference
2025-08-20 - 2025-12-02
Introduction
The National Council on Public History (NCPH) and American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) are excited to announce that the Call for Proposals for their first joint conference is now live, with final proposals due December 1, 2025.
Theme: “The Work of Revolution”
Revolution is at the center of every remarkable societal change. Through formal politics, grassroots organizing, boycott, protest, litigation, war, and a wide range of other mass and individual actions, behind every revolutionary moment are the people working to bring revolutionary ideas into reality. In the face of rapid cultural, social, political, and technological change, history’s importance as a guide for our future has become clearer than ever. Documenting during crises, archiving our collective past, supporting researchers and revolutionaries alike, public historians are part of the landscape of revolution. We bring history to the public because it matters.

Read the full theme statement here. We hope you’ll join NCPH and AASLH in this semiquincentennial year in Providence, Rhode Island—a host city where the ongoing work of revolution is front and center, with revolutionary roots and legacies embedded in self-determination and self-rule—as they reflect on the work of revolutions past and the work that lies ahead as we take stock of our field and consider how we can strengthen and protect it for the future.
Topic Proposals
NCPH invites people looking to connect with co-presenters or seeking feedback on a draft proposal to submit an optional Topic Proposal by October 15, 2025. They’ll post the Topic Proposals received to the NCPH website for a period of feedback from the public history community to help you craft the strongest possible proposal. Then, you’ll resubmit your proposal on AASLH’s Submittable platform for official consideration for the program.
Submitting Your Final Proposal
Your session, working group, and workshop proposals are due December 1, 2025. This year, proposal submissions will be hosted by AASLH on Submittable. Here you can also find explanations of our session formats (combined and streamlined from NCPH’s and AASLH’s formats) and see the review criteria that the Program Committee will use to evaluate proposals.

Webinar: Assessing Opportunities for Engagement with the Wikipedia Workbook for Cultural Institutions
2025-09-11 11:00 - 12:00
Featuring Mary Mark Ockerbloom. The “Wikipedia Workbook for Cultural Institutions” (PDF link) is designed to help Wikipedians, Wikimedians in Residence and interested GLAM institutions (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) to survey opportunities for engagement with Wikipedia and its related projects. The Workbook gives an overview of key projects, the ways in which they can and cannot be used, and where to find resources to learn more about using them. Both Wikipedians and GLAM professionals have specialized knowledge and skills. This Workbook attempts to introduce key concepts and information that will be useful to both groups and support more rewarding conversations and collaborations.
The Workbook is organized so that it pairs information with suggested tasks. You can focus on the content that is most useful to you. Major sections include: Using this workbook, Wikipedia articles, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, Logic models and metrics, Institutional workflows, and a bibliography of Resources. Sections include topics such as OpenRefine, InteGraality, and dealing with disinformation. The intention is not to teach someone everything they may need to know; rather, it gives starting points for further exploration. The Workbook can help Wikimedians and GLAM partners to assess their resources, identify areas where they can potentially contribute, define their goals, and plan ways to measure their impact.
The Wikipedia Workbook for Cultural Institutions was developed with support from Vizcaya Museum and Gardens in Miami, Florida, and is freely available on Wikimedia Commons.

U.S. Copyright Law and Creative Commons Licensing
2025-10-08 11:30 - 12:30 | Zoom
The PA Digital rights team will host an event on Wednesday, October 8, at 11:30AM Mountain/10:30 AM Pacific on U.S. Copyright Law and Creative Commons Licensing.
Danielle Steinhart will provide a brief introduction to U.S. copyright law and Creative Commons licensing. She will talk about what copyright covers, including fair use and how copyrighted works enter the public domain. You’ll also learn about the different types of Creative Commons licenses. There will be a Q&A after the presentation.
Danielle Steinhart is the Interim Head of the Office of Scholarly Communications and Copyright at Penn State University Libraries where she assists faculty, staff, and students, with copyright and scholarly communications matters and serves as a resource on these topics for the Libraries departments and projects. Danielle practiced law early in her career before transitioning to academia and has been with Penn State Libraries for the past three years.
Please register to receive the Zoom information.

Webinar: I Have Thousands of Items in Commons – What Do I Do Now?: Utilization Opportunities on Wikimedia Commons
2025-10-09 11:00 - 12:00
Giovanna Fontenelle, Christine Fernsebner Eslao Jamie Flood, and Dominic Byrd-McDevitt will together look at how DPLA contributors and other cultural heritage institutions are using Commons and Wikipedia beyond uploads. They will share about updating and improving metadata for Commons uploads, and look at projects about improved descriptions and captioning. We will explain what Wikidata is and how institutions may want to consider utilizing it, and briefly touch on adding images to Wikipedia (which will be covered in-depth in another webinar).

Preservation West Symposium
2025-10-16 08:00 - 2025-10-17 17:00 | Conference Center, 60 North Temple, Salt Lake City, UT, 84150, United States
The Preservation West Symposium is a professional gathering that will bring together experts in the fields of preservation, conservation, and care of historic documents and artifacts, as well as university students aspiring to enter the field, helping us build capability by providing a platform for collaboration, broadening knowledge and experience, and networking across Utah’s preservation community.
Parking will be provided onsite and light snacks will be provided throughout the event.
Registration is free and closes September 29, 2025. Please register here.
If you are interested in presenting, please submit a proposal by July 31.

Save the Date! DPLA Hub Meeting 2025
2025-10-28 - 2025-10-29 | Temple University Charles Library, 1900 N 13th St, Philadelphia, PA, 19122
DPLA plans to gather as a Hub community this October. PA Digital, the Pennsylvania hub, and Temple University have agreed to host an event in Philadelphia, PA. The goal is to come together to plan for 2026 and beyond. DPLA staff will be working with Network Council to develop the agenda for the meeting.
Stay tuned for more details!

National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) Grant Opportunity
2025-11-05
Introduction
The NHPRC seeks archival projects that will significantly improve online public discovery and use of historical records collections. We welcome projects that engage the public, expand civic education, and promote understanding of the nation’s history, democracy, and culture from the founding era to the present day. The Commission encourages projects focused on collections of America’s early legal records, such as the records of colonial, territorial, county, and early statehood and tribal proceedings that document the evolution of the nation’s legal history.
Projects may preserve and process historical records to:

Arrange or re-house and describe collections
Convert existing description for online access
Create new online Finding Aids to collections
Digitize historical records collections and make them freely available online

All types of historical records are eligible, including documents, photographs, born-digital records, and analog audio and moving images.
The successful application will:

demonstrate the value of the collections to public understanding of United States democracy and culture;
outline a project that addresses archival best practices;
be appropriately staffed with archivists;
propose a budget that accomplishes the project in a cost-effective manner; and
outline activities that bring researchers to the collections included in the project as well as the rest of the repository’s holdings.

For a comprehensive list of Commission limitations on funding, please see: What we do and do not fund .
Award Information
A grant is for one to two years and for up to $150,000. The Commission expects to make up to 14 grants in this category for a total of up to $1,400,000. The Commission requires that grant recipients acknowledge NHPRC grant assistance in all publicity, publications, and other products that result from its support. Grants are contingent upon available appropriated funds.
Eligibility

U.S. nonprofit organizations or institutions
U.S. colleges, universities, and other academic institutions
State or local government agencies
Federally-acknowledged or state-recognized Native American tribes or groups

In order to ensure eligibility, applicants should first review the rules and regulations governing NHPRC grants under the Administering an NHPRC Grant section.

Fall 2025 MWDL Governing Body Meeting
2025-11-05 13:00 - 14:30
The MWDL Governing Body will hold its fall semi-annual meeting on November 5, 2025.

Webinar: Wikipedia Edit-a-thons: Minimum Lift for Maximum Reward
2025-11-13 11:00 - 12:00
While Wikipedia edit-a-thons may sound like a daunting event opportunity, sharing experiences, guides, and best practices, can make editing an easy engagement opportunity for institutions contributing to Wikimedia Commons through DPLA. Jamie Flood has been organizing and supporting Wikipedia editing events for almost a decade, and has worked the process of organizing an event into an accessible, if not easy, opportunity to engage community members with cultural heritage collections. During the presentation, we will look at different event types/styles, how to handle a work list and tracking, and best practices for outreach to ensure you meet interested community members – and even experienced Wikipedians.

DLF Forum 2025 - Denver, CO
2025-11-16 08:00 - 2025-11-19 17:00
DLF programs stretch year-round, but they are perhaps best known for our signature event, the annual DLF Forum. DLF Forum welcomes digital library, archives, and museum practitioners from member institutions and beyond—for whom it serves as a meeting place, marketplace, and congress. As a meeting place, DLF Forum provides an opportunity for our working groups, and community members to conduct their business and present their work. As a marketplace, the Forum provides an opportunity for community members to share experiences and practices with one another and support a broader level of information sharing among professional staff. As a congress, the Forum provides an opportunity for the DLF to continually review and assess its programs and its progress with input from the community at large.
Registration is now open and early-bird pricing ends August 14, 2025. All registration closes October 31, 2025.

Registration includes meals: two basic continental breakfasts, two lunches, frequent coffee/snack breaks.
Ticket to the conference reception (including one alcoholic or non-alcoholic beverage).
DLF member organizations receive one free registration code to the DLF Forum, emailed to the main contact. Not sure who receives your organization’s code? Email us at forum@diglib.org.
