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August 12, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | Event

Leading Innovation: A Workshop for Department Chairs

Department chairs help make important hiring and budget decisions and increasingly play a crucial role in innovations around teaching, learning, and technology. Yet, while the department chair is typically the first rung on the ladder to senior...
June 24, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | Event

Equity in the Academic Experience

Martin Kurzweil is serving on the steering committee for the summer institute on “Equity in the Academic Experience,” to be hosted by Georgetown University and University of Texas at Austin in collaboration with the American Talent Initiative. The...
June 20, 2019 | JSTOR | Event

JSTOR @ ALA 2019

We hope to see you at the American Library Association 2019 Conference! We’ll be at booth 1548 to tell you about new content, new projects, and new free tools for research. Plus, we’re participating in two great sessions Successes and lessons of Evidence...
June 20, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | Event

Martin Kurzweil at the Summit on Education Blockchain

On Thursday, June 20, Martin Kurzweil will take part in the Summit on Education Blockchain in Washington DC, hosted by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Technology. This Summit will focus on the potential of education blockchains to...
June 17, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | Event

Christine Wolff-Eisenberg at EBLIP10

In June, Christine Wolff-Eisenberg will be presenting at two sessions during the the EBLIP10 Conference at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. For more information about the conference, please see the EBLIP website. Monday, 17 June 3:00-4...
June 11, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | Event

Library Acquisition Patterns: How Do Libraries Buy from University Presses?

In June, Roger Schonfeld will present on “Library Acquisition Patterns: How Do Libraries Buy from University Presses?” at the Association of University Publishing Meeting in Detroit, Michigan. He will be joined on the panel by Jon T. Elwell (EBSCO) and...
June 07 - 10, 2019 | ITHAKA | Event

ITHAKA at a2Tech360 Events

We're excited to participate in Ann Arbor's amazing week long celebration of technology and innovation: a2Tech360.  Come see us during any of these events:   Tech Talk Friday, June 7 10-11:30 AM The Michigan Theater Kevin Guthrie, ITHAKA's president,...
June 07, 2019 | ITHAKA | Event

Kevin Guthrie Joins Visionary Speakers at Tech Talk

ITHAKA President Kevin Guthrie will join a group of visionaries, technologists, and innovators at Tech Talk on Friday, June 7. This free event takes place at The Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor, MI and is part of a week long series of events.  See...
June 05, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | Event

Martin Kurzweil at Eduventures Summit 2019

Martin Kurzweil is taking part in Eduventures Summit 2019 in Boston from June 5-7. For more information, please see the event website. About the summit: The search for a truly new higher education business model must grapple with product, time, cost, and...
June 03, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | News

Three questions for Carrie Corneilus, Sara Morris, Rebecca Orozco, and Michael Peper

For our quarterly newsletter, we interviewed Carrie Corneilus, a librarian at Haskell Indian Nations University, and Sara Morris, Rebecca Orozco, and Michael Peper, librarians at the University of Kansas (KU), about their participation in the Research...
May 31, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | Event

Roger Schonfeld Delivers Keynote Address at OhioLINK Summit 2019

On Friday, May 31, Roger Schonfeld will deliver a keynote address on the future of the ILS at the OhioLINK Summit 2019. The conference, which is open to OhioLINK members, will be held at OCLC’s conference center in Dublin, Ohio. For more information,...
May 30, 2019 | ITHAKA | Event

Kevin Guthrie on The Future Trends Forum

ITHAKA president Kevin Guthrie will join host Bryan Alexander on The Future Trends Forum, a leading video discussion series focused on higher education.  They'll be exploring the themes in Kevin's recent paper: Challenges to Higher Education's Most...
May 30, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | News

Mass Incarceration, Second Chance Pell, and the State of Postsecondary Education in Prison

Last week, the US Department of Education announced an expansion of its 2015 experimental initiative that provides federal Pell Funding to eligible incarcerated students. The announcement builds off other 2019 bipartisan policy initiatives — at both the...
May 29 - 31, 2019 | ITHAKA | Event

Agile & Beyond 2019: ITHAKA Sponsorship, Speakers, and More!

ITHAKA is proud to sponsor Agile & Beyond 2019.  Grab your ITHAKA bag at registration, come to hear one of our speakers, and look for the 20+ ITHAKA staff attending the event. We'd love to talk with you. Our Ann Arbor-based technology, product, and...
May 24, 2019 | JSTOR | Event

JSTOR @ LASA

Visit us at the Latin American Studies Association conference table #BB66 to learn how we collaborated with El Colegio de Mexico to digitize more than 600 previously out-of-print scholarly titles and made them available as Open Access ebooks. And we...
May 23, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | Event

What Key Faculty Findings Reveal for Libraries

On Thursday, May 23, from 11:00 am – noon (EST), Melissa Blankstein and Christine Wolff-Eisenberg are presenting on the findings from the US Faculty Survey for Elsevier’s Library Connect. To register, please see the Library Connect website. About the...
May 22, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | News

It was just an experiment—we didn’t mean to change the way we do our work

In Fall 2017, Georgetown University fielded the Ithaka S+R local undergraduate student, graduate student, and faculty surveys. Emily Guhde, Director of Library Assessment, describes in today’s blog post how the library has analyzed – and continues to...
May 21, 2019 | JSTOR | Event

JSTOR’s data driven tools for research

JSTOR currently provides several tools that leverage data & data connections to help researchers discover and analyze the scholarly literature in the JSTOR digital library. This webinar will demonstrate the ways Data for Research, Text Analyzer, and...
May 21, 2019 | ARTSTOR | News

American art at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

Dr. Kelli Morgan, Associate Curator of American Art at the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA) at Newfields introduces us to some of the American gems in the IMA’s collection. The American collection at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields (IMA) is...
May 21, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | News

Who is Supporting Student Success? A Faculty Perspective

In the course of their higher education career, students come into contact with faculty members, librarians, advisors, other students, and many others at their college or university who aim to help them achieve their academic and personal goals....
May 21, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | Event

Improving Access, Affordability and Success in American Colleges and Universities

On Tuesday, May 21, at 5:30 pm, Catharine Hill is speaking on “Improving Access, Affordability and Success in American Colleges and Universities” at the Third Biennial Brasenose Undergraduate Access Symposium: Access to Higher Education at Oxford and...
May 21, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | Event

Elevating Student Voices: Advancing Equity Through College Affordability

On Tuesday, May 21, Martin Kurzweil will be participating in IHEP’s 2019 National Policy Summit, “Elevating Student Voices: Advancing Equity Through College Affordability.” The summit will take place in Washington DC. More information about IHEP is...
May 20, 2019 | ARTSTOR | News

New: Bowdoin College Museum of Art

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May 20, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | Event

National Survey: Local Findings

Last month, we published the US Faculty Survey 2018, a national survey that tracks the research, teaching, and publishing practices of higher education faculty members at four-year colleges and universities. Thirteen libraries fielded a local version of...
May 17, 2019 | JSTOR | Event

Auto Draft

The post Auto Draft appeared first on About JSTOR.
May 15, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | News

What Can We Learn from Publicly Available Data on College Students’ Income Distribution?

In January 2017 researchers at the Equality of Opportunity Project—now called Opportunity Insights—released detailed data on the financial circumstances of undergraduate students at each of the vast majority of American colleges and universities....
May 14, 2019 | PORTICO | News

In April 2019, 4 more publishers joined Portico

In April 2019, four more publishers began preserving content in the Portico archive, ensuring that an additional 10 Open Access e-journals will be secure and available into the future We’d like to extend a warm welcome to our newest participants:...
May 14, 2019 | JSTOR | Event

JSTOR @ DRAA 2019

Visit us at this year’s Digital Resource Acquisition Alliance of Chinese Academic Libraries (DRAA). The post JSTOR @ DRAA 2019 appeared first on About JSTOR.
May 13, 2019 | JSTOR | News

Open Access collaboration with El Colegio de México expands

Thanks to a grant from the Mellon Foundation, we’ve worked with El Colegio de México to digitize nearly 600 important scholarly books and make them available to everyone on an Open Access basis. These titles have been highly used in the six months since...
May 13, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | News

Looking at Data Communities

There is a growing perception that science can progress more quickly, more innovatively, and more rigorously when researchers share data with one another. Amid a growing array of organizations, initiatives, and policies working toward this vision, there...
May 10, 2019 | PORTICO | News

Portico at OA seminar preceding SSP conference

On May 29, Stephanie Orphan, Portico’s Director of Publisher Relations, is co-facilitating Fact or Fiction? OASPA Lifts the Lid on Open Access Publishing, a seminar preceding the Society for Scholarly Publishing annual conference in San Diego. The...
May.09.2019 | ITHAKA | News

Job Candidates: Beware of Recruiting Scam

  Hi,   If you have applied for a job at ITHAKA, we want that to be a great experience.   We recently learned that someone is posting fake jobs on various job boards including LinkedIn. Candidates are being directed to an application page that is branded...
May 08, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | News

The Usability of Research Data: If We Curate, Will They Reuse It?

During the last seven years, Ithaka S+R has conducted in-depth qualitative analyses of the research practices of academics in several fields. While the studies have highlighted disciplinary differences in research data sharing and reuse decisions in...
May 07, 2019 | JSTOR | Event

Five ways JSTOR makes research easy and organized

Missed the live event? View the recording This webinar will show you five features on JSTOR that can help you research better, organizer faster, and become savvy in your search for content. From My Workspace to our award winning Text Analyzer, we’ll...
May 07, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | News

CNI Spring Meeting Presentation on Scholars as Collectors

At CNI’s Spring Meeting in April, we had the pleasure of presenting some of the highlights from the recent Ithaka S+R brief on scholars as collectors and discuss the implications, benefits, trade-offs, and other key questions that must be taken into...
April 29, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | News

You Asked, We’ve Answered

Earlier this month, we were thrilled to release the Ithaka S+R US Faculty Survey 2018 at the ACRL 2019 conference in Cleveland in a standing-room-only session with 200+ conferences attendees. We subsequently had the opportunity share results from the...
April 29, 2019 | PORTICO | News

Mellon funds collaborative digital preservation project

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a grant of $527,000 for a project to help ensure the preservation of complex new forms of digital scholarship. With New York University as lead, project partners NYU Press, Michigan Publishing, the University...
April 25, 2019 | JSTOR | Event

Q&A; about JSTOR COUNTER 5 usage report transition

Bring your questions to this live Q&A session as we discuss JSTOR’s new offering of COUNTER 5-compliant reports. JSTOR is among the first in passing an independent audit of the reports to assure compliance in support of changes in the COUNTER Code of...
April 23, 2019 | JSTOR | Event

Meet Reveal Digital: helping libraries open their hidden collections

Join us to learn about ITHAKA’s newest family member, Reveal Digital, and the ways they support a non-traditional approach for libraries to join together to share and create primary source collections and make them openly available. Come hear about their...
April 22, 2019 | ARTSTOR | News

Artstor celebrates the earth: Flora, fauna, and natural phenomena

The Artstor Digital Library is replete with images from nature: arks of animals, a plethora of plants, and the dazzling spectacles of the earth. Meticulous renderings of animal and botanical species from classical times through the onset of photography...
April 19, 2019 | PORTICO | News

4 publishers joined Portico in March 2019

In March 2019, four more publishers began preserving content in the Portico archive, ensuring that an additional 86 Open Access e-journals will be secure and available into the future We’d like to extend a warm welcome to our newest participants:...
April 17, 2019 | JSTOR | Event

Artstor essentials: discover our latest tools

This webinar will show you everything that’s changed since our big relaunch. Not just a show-and-tell: we’ll also teach you how to use these tools and get started organizing and downloading content for your teaching and research, plus answer any...
April 17, 2019 | JSTOR | Event

JSTOR @ ANKOSLink 2019

Visit us to talk about Artstor and JSTOR at this year’s ANKOSLink! More details at ankoslink.org.tr The post JSTOR @ ANKOSLink 2019 appeared first on About JSTOR.
April 16, 2019 | JSTOR | Event

JSTOR’s data-driven tools for research

JSTOR currently provides several tools that leverage data & data connections to help researchers discover and analyze the scholarly literature in the JSTOR digital library. This webinar will demonstrate the ways these new tools support research in...
April 16, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | News

When Research is Relational

I am excited to announce the publication of the capstone report from Ithaka S+R’s Indigenous Studies project, which brought together teams at eleven academic libraries to study the research support needs of Indigenous Studies scholars. Indigenous Studies...
April 12, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | News

The Research, Teaching, and Publishing Practices of Faculty

This morning we published the US Faculty Survey 2018. Through this national survey, we have tracked the research, teaching, and publishing practices of higher education faculty members at four year colleges and universities on a triennial basis since...
April 12, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | Event

US Faculty Survey 2018: First Release of Key Findings

The Ithaka S+R Faculty Survey has tracked the attitudes and behaviors of US faculty members since 2000 to provide regularly updated snapshots on key issues and trend analysis of changes across survey cycles. Christine Wolff-Eisenberg and Roger Schonfeld...
April 10, 2019 | JSTOR | Event

New collections & tools for literature

Join us for this webinar on JSTOR content and tools to support literature – the most-searched topic area on JSTOR. We’ll cover the newest thematic collection, Lives of Literature, which supports advanced literary studies and interdisciplinary research...
April 09, 2019 | ARTSTOR | News

New: Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

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April 09, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | News

What to Watch for at ACRL 2019: Research Data Edition

With the ACRL (Association of College and Research Libraries) 2019 conference less than a week away, there has been some discussion about research data receiving limited attention in this year’s program. Academic libraries are at the forefront of key...
April 08, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | News

Learning from the Locals

In 2012, Ithaka S+R began offering colleges and universities the opportunity to field a customized instance of the US Faculty Survey, which tracks the research and teaching practices, perceptions, and needs of faculty members at four-year colleges and...
April 08, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | Event

Martin Kurzweil at the ASU GSV Summit

Martin Kurzweil will be attending the ASU GSV Summit in San Diego, California from April 8-10. If you would like to set up meetings with Martin during the conference, please contact him at martin.kurzweil@ithaka.org. The post Martin Kurzweil at the ASU...
April 07, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | Event

Cappy Hill Speaks on Racial and Economic Equity in Higher Education

In April, Catharine Bond Hill will take part in a panel discussion on “Racial and Economic Equity in Higher Education ” at the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions Conference at the CUNY Graduate...
April 04, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | News

Hot Topics in FAIR Data: An Orientation for the Uninitiated

“Data” has become a watchword in academic circles – not to mention in society writ large. But it can be difficult to stay abreast of data-related developments as a plethora of organizations, initiatives, and technologies emerge. I recently had the...
April 02, 2019 | JSTOR | Event

Security Studies collection overview

JSTOR Security Studies gathers academic and policy research on international and national security problems and foreign policy issues, encompassing perspectives from around the world. Join us to learn how the collection is serving students and...
April 02, 2019 | PORTICO | News

Portico sponsors iPRES 2019 attendees from underrepresented countries

Portico is pleased to sponsor registration for iPRES 2019 conference attendees from underrepresented countries. The awards, co-sponsored by the Dutch Digital Heritage Network, aim to expand the cultural diversity of the iPRES community. The funds cover...
March 29, 2019 | PORTICO | News

600 publishers and counting

Portico has reached a new and exciting milestone: more than 600 publishers have now joined the archive ensuring their content will be secure and available into the future. So far this year, 12 publishers have started preserving 100+ Open Access e-...
March 28, 2019 | PORTICO | News

Portico Access Alert: Blood Science, a De Gruyter Publication

The contents of three ahead-of-print articles from the Open Access e-journal Blood Science, a De Gruyter publication, will no longer be available through any online platform and have therefore “triggered.” All Portico participants now have access. Title...
March 27, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | News

Three Questions for Giuseppe Basili

For our most recent newsletter, we interviewed Giuseppe “Seppy” Basili, the executive director of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation (JKCF), a foundation dedicated to advancing the education of exceptionally promising students who have financial need. In...
March 26, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | News

March Madness: Socioeconomic Diversity Edition

At Ithaka S+R, one of our primary missions is to expand educational opportunities for students from diverse backgrounds. Some of our programs, including the American Talent Initiative which aims to increase the number of lower-income students enrolled at...
March 26, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | News

A New Survey of Art Museum Directors

Art museums are in the midst of substantial transformations while trying to stay true to their values. They are buffeted by changes in technology, demographics, and how individuals and families choose to spend their leisure time or seek opportunities for...
March 26, 2019 | JSTOR | News

Career opportunity: Director of Books at JSTOR

ITHAKA is seeking a Director of Books at JSTOR to oversee all aspects of the book program, including building strong relationships with our library and publisher participants, attracting new content to the platform, developing sustainable acquisition...
Mar.25.2019 | ITHAKA | News

ITHAKA Awarded Grant to Improve Higher Education in Prisons

We are pleased to announce that ITHAKA has received funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support a research and development initiative focused on improving access to higher education for incarcerated students.   Increasingly media and...
March 21, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | News

Understanding the Value of the Liberal Arts

Last year, Catharine Bond Hill and Elizabeth Davidson Pisacreta undertook a study on the economic benefits and costs of a liberal arts education on behalf of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. As they note in the report, critics claim that the value of a...
March 19, 2019 | JSTOR | Event

JSTOR tools to support student research

Take a look at the new tools JSTOR offers to help students discover, annotate, and organize content quickly and easily. Learn about the richness of JSTOR as a vehicle for teaching research methods and as a vast repository for research and classroom...
March 15, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | News

Two New Ithaka S+R Analyst Job Openings

Are you passionate about evidence-based approaches to improving higher education and the arts? Ithaka S+R has two new positions to support our dynamic research on libraries, scholarly communication, and museums. Our work helps these organizations better...
March 13, 2019 | ARTSTOR | News

Behind the lens of Frank Cancian, in his own words

Frank Cancian. Shooting back, Juan Vásquez (Pig) family (Another Place). 1971. Black-and-white photograph. © Frank Cancian. Image and data provided by University of California...
March 12, 2019 | ARTSTOR | News

New: Frank Cancian Documentary Photograph Archive

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March 12, 2019 | JSTOR | Event

JSTOR @ London Book Fair 2019

Visit us at London Book Fair 2019! We’ll be at booth #6B97C. For more information about the conference, visit the London Book Fair 2019 website. The post JSTOR @ London Book Fair 2019 appeared first on About JSTOR.
March 11, 2019 | ARTSTOR | News

Artstor at VRA 2019

Carleton E. Watkins. Los Angeles. 1876. Image and data courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Artstor will be attending the 2019...
March 11, 2019 | ARTSTOR | News

Artstor at ARLIS 2019

The Gast Lithograph & Engraving Company. Capitol of Utah in Salt Lake City, from the General Government and State Capitol Buildings series (N14) for Allen & Ginter. 1889. Image and data courtesy The Metropolitan Museum...
March 11, 2019 | JSTOR | News

Recording now available for “Meeting research challenges in Security Studies”

On a recent webinar for JSTOR, Dr. Sara Moller, Assistant Professor of International Security at the School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University, discussed the special challenges she has encountered in conducting research in...
March 11, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | Event

Connecting Veterans with Quality Higher Education Institutions

On Monday, March 11, Cappy Hill will present on “Connecting Veterans with Quality Higher Education Institutions” as part of a panel discussion at ACE’s Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. The panel will run from 2:30 – 3:45 pm, and more information is...
March 07, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | Event

Veterans Serve Us. Higher Ed Must Serve Them

Cappy Hill will join panelists Andrea Goldstein (Service to School), Cristine Pedersen (Georgetown student), and Bruce Shahbaz (College Board) at SXSW EDU 2019 in Austin, Texas to discuss strategies for enrolling and graduating more veterans in the...
March 06, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | News

Scale Is Existential

For more than a hundred years, academic libraries in North America have understood that they must seek scale greater than that of their own institution in order to provide the collections and services that their communities need. In search of cross...
March 05, 2019 | JSTOR | News

A new way to share sources on JSTOR

JSTOR has introduced a feature that supports collaboration in your research and teaching by allowing you to easily share a list of sources you save in My Workspace. My Workspace is JSTOR’s citation-management tool. It allows you to save and organize your...
March 05, 2019 | PORTICO | News

Accessible Archives joins Portico

Malvern, PA (March 5, 2019) – Accessible Archives, Inc®, an electronic publisher of full-text primary source historical databases, has partnered with Portico, the leading service in the digital preservation field, and announced its intent to fully...
March 05, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | Event

Martin Kurzweil at SXSW EDU

On Tuesday, March 5, Martin Kurzweil is speaking as part of a panel session on “Who Does Online Education Really Serve?” at SXSW EDU in Austin, Texas. Martin will be joined on the panel by Jill Buban, Chief Academic Officer at Unizen,  Robert Ubell, Vice...
March 04, 2019 | ARTSTOR | News

What’s in the box? The art of reliquaries

Attributed to Jean de Touyl. Reliquary Shrine from the convent of the Poor Clares at Buda. ca. 1325-50. Image and data courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Cloisters...
March 01, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | News

What is Content Syndication?

Over the past year, there have been some important developments among the major publishers as they move towards a new model for distributing their content. The principal driver has been the fear of “leakage,” which is to say usage for which publishers...
February 28, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | News

Landscape of Library Service Quality Tools

During the course of the past year, I have had a chance to speak with many assessment librarians, library deans, and others in academic libraries about the types of tools they are using, or considering, for their planning and assessment projects. We...
February 26, 2019 | JSTOR | Event

Meeting research challenges in Security Studies

While security issues are prevalent in news, finding desirable resources for research and instruction related to security is challenging. Join us as Dr. Sara Moller, Assistant Professor of International Security at the School of Diplomacy and...
February 25, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | News

On Being Student-Centered

What does it mean for us to be student-centered in our work at Ithaka S+R? In our collaborative research initiative on student success and community college libraries, the Community College Libraries & Academic Support for Student Success (CCLASSS)...
February 25, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | Event

Defining Success: Uncovering Community College Student Perspectives

Christine Wolff-Eisenberg will join Braddlee from Northern Virginia Community College and Jean Amaral from the Borough of Manhattan Community for a panel discussion on “Defining Success: Uncovering Community College Student Perspectives” at the League...
February 23 - 24, 2019 | ITHAKA | Event

ITHAKA Sponsors TCNJ Hackathon

ITHAKA is a proud sponsor of HackTCNJ 2019.  Join us for two days at The College of New Jersey, February 23 and 24, and bring your ideas to life!   Our talent director will be there along with mentors who will work directly with attendees. Stop by our...
February 21, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | News

Reflections on PASIG

From February 12-14, I attended the PASIG Conference where 150 individuals from 12 countries gathered to share experiences and insights on organizational, technical, social, business, and political aspects of digital preservation and archiving. Digital...
February 21, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | Event

Catharine Bond Hill to Deliver Keynote Address at Union College’s Founders Day

On Thursday, February 21, Catharine Bond Hill is delivering the keynote address at Union College’s Founders Day. The event commemorates the 224th anniversary of the College’s charter, and Hill’s talk will center on coeducation at Union, which will...
February 20, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | Event

Christine Wolff-Eisenberg Leads Workshop at Achieving the Dream

On February 20, Christine Wolff-Eisenberg, along with Jean Amaral (Borough of Manhattan Community College), Dr. Braddlee (Northern Virginia Community College), and Christie Flynn (Pierce College) will lead a workshop at the 15th Annual Achieving the...
February 20, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | Event

Martin Kurzweil Attending the ELI Annual Conference in Anaheim

Martin Kurzweil will be attending the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) Annual Conference in Anaheim, California, on February 20 -21. For more information about the conference and to register, please visit the ELI website. About ELI The EDUCAUSE...
February 16, 2019 | ITHAKA | Event

Dane Hillard is Speaking at PyCaribbean 2019

    ITHAKA lead web app developer, Dane Hillard, is speaking at PyCaribbean 2019 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.  Join him Saturday, February 16 at 11:10 AM for his session on Multiple Inheritance and Mixins, and reach out to Dane on Twitter (@...
Feb.13.2019 | ITHAKA | News

Reveal Digital Joins ITHAKA

We are pleased to share the news that Reveal Digital has joined the ITHAKA family. Reveal Digital is a small innovative company that uses a unique library crowd-funded model to support the development of open digital collections. In partnership with...
February 13, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | News

The Right Tool for the Job

In October 2018 we had the opportunity to engage with attendees to at the Digital Library Federation (DLF) conference about fostering strategic approaches to digital library assessment. During the session we briefly presented a framework for thinking...
February 13, 2019 | JSTOR | Event

JSTOR @ CAA 2019

Visit us at this year’s College Art Association (CAA) conference! We’ll be at 315, Rhinelander Gallery. For more information about the conference, visit the CAA 2019 website. The post JSTOR @ CAA 2019 appeared first on About JSTOR.
February 12, 2019 | ARTSTOR | News

Oral histories of the staff of life: CRAFT: Babka and Beyond

The CRAFT: Babka and Beyond public collection features 28 interviews conducted with people connected to the production and use of grain within the Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area in Western Pennsylvania. The stories feature bakers, bakery owners,...
February 11, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | Event

Oya Rieger at PASIG 2019 in Mexico City

On February 13, Oya Rigier is giving a lightning round talk at the PASIG conference at El Colegio de México in Mexico City. Her talk will begin at 3:50 pm. For more information, please see the conference website. About PASIG The Preservation and...
January 31, 2019 | ARTSTOR | News

Picturing the Little Ice Age

Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Return of the Hunters. 1565. Oil on oak panel. Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna. Image and data provided by Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Arts Archives/ART RESOURCE, N.Y. Photo Erich Lessing. In the summer of 1675, Madame de...
January 31, 2019 | ITHAKA | Event

Global Cities Symposium

  Kevin Guthrie, president of ITHAKA, will speak at Bloomberg Philanthropies' Global Cities Symposium on January 31, 2019 in New York City.   The event's theme is "Global Competency in a Changing World: Assessing Student Learning Outcomes" will mark the...
January 31, 2019 | PORTICO | News

Looking back at Portico’s 2018

Every year, we continue to make strides in expanding the Portico archive and building our expertise to serve the needs of our participants and ensure that our service remains stable and sustainable. Our activities in 2018 included:Expanding the...
January 29, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | News

Do Physical Books Still Spark Joy?

Marie Kondo of Tidying Up, the decluttering-as-self help phenomenon, recently met controversy for declaring that she strictly limits the number of books in her home to thirty. She has since clarified that the optimal physical book collection size is a...
January 29, 2019 | ARTSTOR | News

New: the wit and whimsy of Warhol, works from the 1950s

Andy Warhol. Car. Ink and Dr. Martin’s Aniline Dye on Strathmore paper. Artwork and Image © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc....
January 29, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | News

National Study Examines How Book Acquisitions at Academic Libraries Have Evolved

Academic books are an important part of scholarship and have traditionally been integral to academic libraries as they develop collections to support the research needs of students and faculty members. However, as library budgets shrink and students and...
January 28, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | Event

Roger Schonfeld Delivers Plenary Address at NFAIS

On Thursday, February 14, Roger Schonfeld is delivering a plenary address on “The Role of Library Consortia in the Transition to Cloud-based Infrastructure and Open Access Publishing” at the NFAIS Annual Conference in Alexandria, Virginia. His session...
January 28 - 31, 2019 | ITHAKA | Event

Upcoming Career Fairs in Detroit - Ann Arbor

We're looking for talented develpers and people with quantitiative and communication skills to join our team and are meeting candidates in the Detroit - Ann Arbor area.   Come and meet our talent director and team members at the following events:  ...
January 28, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | News

Museums Grow More Diverse, But Change is Uneven

Today we are pleased to announce the publication of the Art Museum Staff Demographic Survey 2018. In partnership with the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD), the American Alliance of Museums (AAM), and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Ithaka S+R...
January 25, 2019 | JSTOR | Event

JSTOR @ ALA Midwinter 2019

Visit us at this year’s ALA Midwinter conference! We’ll be at booth #2018. Be sure to ask us about our newest thematic collection Lives of Literature, JSTOR and Artstor’s milestones in 2018, and about our growing Books at JSTOR program. You can also sign...
January 24, 2019 | JSTOR | Event

Artstor essentials: ask us anything

Want to learn how to do side-by-side comparisons on the new platform? Do you have questions about image groups? We want to hear from you. Bring your questions to this webinar and we will do our best to answer each one. Join us for this 45-minute session...
January 24, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | News

A New Issue Brief on Revenue-Generating Library Services

Academic libraries are grappling with how to respond to the the continuing introduction of increasingly more business-like approaches to the academy, such as through the popularity of “responsibility center” approaches to management, and “customer” or “...
January 16, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | News

Supporting Civil and Environmental Engineering Research

In Ithaka S+R’s newest Research Support Services project – highlighted in our capstone report released today – we partnered with teams at 11 academic libraries in the United States and Canada to study the research practices and support needs of civil and...
January 16, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | News

Engineering for Impact: Practices of Civil and Environmental Engineering Scholars

The latest installment in Ithaka S+R’s series of Research Support Services projects investigates the research practices and support needs of civil and environmental engineering scholars. Today we are excited to publish the project’s capstone report. The...
January 16, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | News

Announcing a New Project on Teaching with Primary Sources

We are excited to announce a new research project designed to support effective teaching with primary sources. Teaching undergraduates with primary sources promotes student engagement and critical thinking skills and is a key ingredient in the current...
January 15, 2019 | ARTSTOR | News

It’s a wrap: Artstor looks back at 2018

  Click to view slideshow. Over the past year we have enriched Artstor’s resources with global selections that travel through time and meander from Ming ceramics to Mughal palaces, illuminating history from the tells of Ancient Iraq through to...
January 14, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | News

Defining Academic Support Services in Community Colleges

Last year, Ithaka S+R, along with a team of outstanding advisors from a variety of community colleges and college systems, embarked on the first phase of the Community College Academic and Student Services Ecosystem (CCASSE) project, a new research...
January 14, 2019 | ARTSTOR | News

Artstor at CAA 2019

Artstor will be attending the 2019 College Art Association Annual Conference in New York, New York, February 13-16. Stop by booth #315 in the Rhinelander Gallery to say hello and learn about the new collections and tools we’ve added to Artstor,...
January 11, 2019 | ARTSTOR | News

Artstor at ALA Midwinter 2019

Artstor will be attending the 2019 ALA Midwinter conference in Seattle, Washington, January 25-29.  Stop by booth #2018 to say hello to Artstor and JSTOR, and learn the latest on surfacing Artstor images in JSTOR searches, our improved...
January 10, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | News

New Report: Enrolling More Veterans at High-Graduation-Rate Colleges and Universities

In November, Ithaka S+R and the College Board hosted “Improving Opportunities for Veterans.” This conference brought together leaders from higher education, the military, and veterans service organizations who share the goal of increasing the enrollment...
January 09, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | News

Redoubling Our Commitment to Museums and the Arts

In recent years, Ithaka S+R has completed a number of major research and advisory projects focusing on the museums, arts, and cultural communities. In 2019, we are redoubling our commitment through a number of new projects and growth on our team. Many...
January 09, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | News

CNI Fall Meeting Presentation on the State of Digital Preservation

At CNI’s Fall Meeting in December, we had the pleasure of presenting some of the highlights from the recent Ithaka S+R brief on the state of digital preservation. It was one of the talks selected for recording and is now available on CNI’s YouTube and...
January 04, 2019 | ITHAKA | Event

Meet us at the MLA Possible Futures Career Fair

ITHAKA staff are looking forward to the MLA Possible Futures Career Fair.  Our employees have diverse backgrounds but one thing in common: a love for learning.  Come by and talk with us about jobs that will benefit from your research, writing, analytical...
January 03, 2019 | ITHAKA S+R | News

Meet the Surveys Team

The Ithaka S+R surveys team has continued to grow to support our exciting and expanding portfolio of projects, including the US Faculty Survey, US Library Director Survey, Local Surveys program, Community College Libraries & Academic Support for...