The NEW Michigan Memories
2025-05-15 11:00 - 12:00 UTC | 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.

Utah State Archives & Records Service - Spring 2026 Internships!
2025-11-20 - 2025-12-02
Applications are open through December 1, 2025 for Spring 2026 internships (yes, they are paid!!) with Utah Sate Archives and Records Service.
Please review this blog post for more details on positions and applications.

University of Utah, Marriott Library - Science & Engineering Librarian positions
2025-11-24 - 2026-01-04
University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library is currently accepting applications for two (2) tenure-track Science and Engineering Librarian positions.
Description:
Come work in a student-centered library with a team that excels in supporting the teaching and research mission of the University of Utah. The J. Willard Marriott Library seeks to recruit two tenure-track librarians who will enrich and strengthen our organization. We seek qualified applicants with broad knowledge in science and engineering. The Librarians will develop, implement, and assess learning experiences concerning library research tools, methods, and strategies. They will also build connections with academic programs to increase engagement with library resources and services, as well as manage library collections and services to meet research and curricula needs. Working in conjunction with faculty and staff in the library and across campus, the librarians will help set the direction for STEM teaching, engagement, and outreach.
For full details, deadlines, and application materials, please review the full posting.

Call for Proposals: 2026 Western History Association Conference
2025-12-06
The Call for Papers is now open for the Western History Association’s 66th Annual Conference, October 21-24, 2026, in Portland, Oregon.
The 2026 conference theme, “Unsettled: New Wests, New Lessons,” acknowledges how communities and scholars continue to expand our understanding of who prospered and suffered in the North American West. They have unsettled the past by showing us that the past is unsettling.
With their insights in mind, the 2026 Program Committee calls for papers, panels, roundtables, workshops, and innovative session formats that encourage us to learn lessons from each other.
See more information at the link provided.

Webinar: Wikipedia Metrics & Tools for DPLA Contributors
2025-12-11 11:00 - 12:00
With Christine Fernsebner Eslao, Giovanna Fontenelle, and Jamie Flood. Join members of the Wikimedia Working Group for an overview of metrics and tracking tools across Wikimedia platforms. We will look at metrics and tools while offering advice for institutions currently contributing, or looking to get involved with the DPLA Wikimedia Pipeline, and related Wikipedia work and editing. During the presentation we will cover pipeline metrics, Wikimedia events dashboard and using it for tracking, article assessment tools, a tool for adding images to articles, and Wikimedia Commons specific tools. Additionally, we will briefly discuss new Wikimedia Foundation tools that are being developed. The presenters have first hand experience with all tools being covered and will offer insight and demonstrations into how to best utilize them for your personal or institutional editing and content goals.

Webinar: A Case Study of Wikimedia for DPLA institutions
2026-01-08 11:00 - 12:00
The Wikipedia for Cultural Heritage lecture series will end with a case study from a DPLA hub, the Minnesota Digital Library. Working together with a cohort of several of their contributing institutions, MDL utilized the DPLA Wikimedia pipeline to share over 375,000 images. One of the project’s coordinators, Sara Ring, will offer an overview of how they got started in their work on Wikipedia, how it has been going, and offer insights into how an institution could start their own project.

Roots Tech 2026
2026-03-05 - 2026-03-07 | Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Roots Tech is the world’s largest family discovery event and will be held March 5–7, 2026. Join in-person in Salt Lake City, Utah or online world-wide. See organizer website for more details and pricing!
