Matt Huculak

Reimagining the future of libraries  - UVic News In a time shaped by artificial intelligence (AI), misinformation and complex global challenges, trusted sources of knowledge have never been more vital.

Looking forward to working with the library and archives community on our futures! news.uvic.ca/2025/reimagi...

Kula Academy Launch: Symposium on Truth, Knowledge, & Society Join us for engaging discussions with internationally renowned thinkers about the future of democratic societies.

Academic libraries are catalysts for innovation and creativity. We are a place for conversations, debates, and sense-making in a world of polarized and entrenched views. Join us in Victoria, BC, Sept. 15 & 16 for a discussion on Truth, Knowledge, & Society kulalaunch.eventbrite.ca #libraries #uvic

Hallelujah! SSHRC and NSERC integrate ORCID into Convergence!!! www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...

DHQ table of contents: [en] Introduction to Special Issue: Project Resiliency in the Digital Humanities Martin Holmes, University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre; Janelle Jenstad, University of Victoria Department of English; J. Matthew Huculak, University of Victoria Advanced Research Services & Digital Scholarship Librarian Abstract [en] Articles [en] The Stories We Tell: Project Narratives, Project Endings, and the Affective Value of Collaboration Claire Battershill, University of Toronto Abstract [en] [en] “No Boutique or Fashionable Technologies”: Project Development, Mentorship, and Sustainability in an Innovation-First World Constance Crompton, Department of Communication, University of Ottawa Abstract [en] [en] Academics Retire and Servers Die: Adventures in the Hosting and Storage of Digital Humanities Projects James Cummings, Newcastle University Abstract [en] [en] The Dangers of Disappearance, the Opportunities of Recovery Sara Diamond, OCAD University Faculty of Arts & Science Abstract [en] [en] Doing it for Ourselves: The New Archive Built by and Responsive to the Researcher Nick Thieberger, School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Melbourne, Australia Abstract [en] [en] “Follow the Money?”: Funding and Digital Sustainability Jessica Otis, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University Abstract [en] [en] From Tamagotchis to Pet Rocks: On Learning to Love Simplicity through the Endings Principles Martin Holmes, University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre; Joey Takeda, Digital Humanities Innovation Lab, Simon Fraser University Abstract [en] [en] Reference Rot in the Digital Humanities Literature: An Analysis of Citations Containing Website Links in DHQ Zach Coble, New York University Libraries; Jojo Karlin, New York University Libraries Abstract [en] [en] The Project Endings Interviews: A Summary of Methodological Foundations Emily Comeau, University of British Columbia Abstract [en]

Grateful today for the Endings Project @dhquarterly.bsky.social 2023 special issue:

www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/17/1...

ed. @jmhuculak.bsky.social @janellejenstad.bsky.social @martindholmes.bsky.social

Chock full of fantastic articles that are more relevant than ever

Don't Be Evil | Understood | CBC Podcasts | CBC Listen Google Search was the gold standard — a product born in a dorm room during the internet’s early, idealistic era. But when internal emails surfaced they revealed a deeper conflict inside the company: w...

Excellent podcast on why google search sucks now and why the internet is ruined. Information professionals: now is our time www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...

A new documentary checks out the many ways libraries are a 'Free For All' By examining the value of libraries in the distant and recent past, this PBS film makes a compelling case for the importance of the American public library system today.

A new documentary checks out the many ways libraries are a 'Free For All' 📚
www.npr.org/2025/04/29/n...

Did you know #Canada had an early homegrown #internet called #Telidon? That it was used by artists to share early electronic art? And #librarians & researchers recovered that art thought lost? Check out the fascinating story of "Remembering Tomorrow: A Telidon Story": www.remembertomorrow.ca/en-ca

Cuts to NEH and Humanities Councils: What Southern States Will Lose - Federation of State Humanities Councils Jump to Your State: Alabama | Arkansas | Georgia | Kentucky | Louisiana | Mississippi | North Carolina | Oklahoma | Tennessee | Texas On Monday, March 31, the Federation … Read more

Hats off to the Federation of State Humanities Councils, and the southern state councils for leading the way in speaking up about what they're losing with the NEH funding cuts.

There are many challenges being faced by many in America today, but at this moment, I want to call attention to all the good folks who are losing their jobs without due process.

As someone who has worked on NEH-funded projects, I can tell you their programs are lights of knowledge that shine in the darkness, that reveal something about who we are, where we have been, and where we can go as a people.

Thinking of all my colleagues at the @nehgov.bsky.social (NEH) today. This is not okay. A culture is defined by its shared values--by the tangible and intangible works that are passed from one generation to the other.

#librarians, especially in the #UK: does anyone have contact information for the family of Gordon Eric Maxim, the author of _A History of Library Publishing_? I believe he passed in 2019 in Derbyshire. If so, would love to contact his kin. catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/00695...

Still a useful technology. Researching publishing in libraries. Thank you for your ILL #microfilm @uclalibrary.bsky.social !

So we meet again, my friend….

Proud to see @zapthelibrarian.bsky.social and Monique Grenier sharing their experiences of our faculty member - liaison librarian mentorship program at @uvic.bsky.social Libraries in the current issue of College & Research Libraries News @ala-acrl.bsky.social 👏👏👏: crln.acrl.org/index.php/cr...

Trump Says He’ll Replace Leader of National Archives (Gift Article) The president-elect’s suggestion that he plans to replace the head of the agency comes after her predecessor raised alarms about his handling of presidential records.

'There is no political power without power over the archive' (Derrida) www.nytimes.com/2025/01/06/u...

Vesuvius Challenge A $1,000,000+ machine learning and computer vision competition

The Scroll Prize is hiring an Annotation Specialist: scrollprize.org/jobs

For academics who are wondering if bluesky is "worth it" compared to Mastodon or other platforms, here is what @altmetric.com has to say... (thanks to @lauraestill.bsky.social for feeding my data addiction)

Just want to highlight the lovely work of the English Oak Project, which given the "root" of the word "book", deserves librarian praise @thekentacorn.bsky.social #trees

thank you, Amanda! A great book full of wonderful contributions

Preserving Digital Humanities Projects Using Principles of Digital Lon Academic libraries and archives struggle to preserve Digital Humanities (DH) projects due to the divide between faculty expectations and operational realities

"Preserving Digital Humanities Projects Using Principles of Digital Longevity" has just been published in The Routledge Companion to Libraries, Archives, and the Digital Humanities. Many thanks to @gworthey.bsky.social & Isabel Galina Russell, eds. extraordinaire! doi.org/10.4324/9781...

also highly recommend Richard Ovendon's Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge. It's still happening now

Highly recommend "Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge" by Richard Ovendon. It touches on the difficulty of this sort of endeavor

Would love to hear what you think the "future" of libraries are: what collaborations, technologies, spaces, collections, people, ... would YOU like to see in the coming five years? Let's chat in the comments! #libraries #archives

Preserving at-risk archives - University of Victoria Post-doctoral fellow Nathaniel Brunt's field work in northern Iraq is shaped by present-day geo-political forces, human rights violations, and the urgent need to preserve at-risk community-based archi...

What are the futures of libraries? What type of work does the Kula Academy support? The work of @uvic postdoctoral fellow Nathaniel Brunt provides one answer to these questions #libraries #archives @UVicResearch @UVicLib www.uvic.ca/news/topics/...

So … that other place WAS the bad place

My first post will be the pup in her happy place