Ok, starting off a thread to document the unloading. For those who have visited @skeuomorphpress.org & were wondering, “where on earth earth will you put that type?” here’s the main answer: the bases of our central tables will be replaced by type cabinets—tabletops will go back on the cabinets
The Straits Times did a nice piece on our centre (@cssh-nus.bsky.social), which will be officially launched this coming Wednesday, with @mmvty.bsky.social as our keynote speaker. Looking forward!
www.straitstimes.com/singapore/pa...
See you in Korea, James!
It's good.
Jonathan Chen, associate professor of medicine at Stanford University, will present “AI in Medicine - Integrated Intelligence or Illusory Imitations?" as part of “The AI Disruption” series.
All are welcome to attend tomorrow’s “The AI Disruption” talk! Jonathan Chen, associate professor of medicine at Stanford University, will present “AI in Medicine - Integrated Intelligence or Illusory Imitations?" ▶️ bit.ly/4tUGbMM
iSchool Professor Ted Underwood
A HAVI award from Schmidt Sciences will support a multi-institutional collaboration, “AI for Cultural and Historical Reasoning.” At #ILLINOIS, #iSchoolUI Professor and PI @tedunderwood.com will help build models that better represent past historical periods. ▶️ bit.ly/4qYwmuz
Professor and Associate Dean for Research Dong Wang and PhD student Ruohan Zong
#iSchoolUI Professor Dong Wang and PhD student Ruohan Zong will present their research at the 19th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (#WSDM26), which will be held from February 22–26 in Boise, Idaho. ▶️ bit.ly/40smWMV
Hey, look at that—you can embed Bandcamp songs right in Bluesky now
I’ll try not to be too annoying about that
but hey, listen to our song "Dive"!!
Director of Research and Technology Innovation and Research Scientist Anita Nikolich and Teaching Associate Professor David Dubin
A new NSF award supports “REDTEAM,” a project led by #iSchoolUI Director of Research & Technology Innovation Anita Nikolich & Teaching Associate Professor David Dubin that uses structured role-playing games to model threats to academic research. ▶️ bit.ly/46jefrU
Toronto as SF in Monk.
Yo, that's the CN Tower!
Mature adults gather around a table in a library
We are pleased to provide open access to the latest issue of Library Trends 74 (3), which examines the intersection of technological hype and practical reality in librarianship through the lens of data literacy. ▶️ bit.ly/3OjePjd
The most wonderfully chaotic day in BookLab is printing day @skeuomorphpress.org, but we did it! We printed an octavo on the hand press & a half-sheet quarto on the jobbing press—every student got to ink, manage paper, pull the hand press, & run the jobber—made 1 copy for everyone plus a few extras
Digitalhumanities, #librarylife and #NLP friends: has anyone bought a large historical dataset (books, newspapers, maps etc, images or ocr) from a publisher/digitiser to data mine? I’d like to compare notes… either on here or DM me 🙏
Nice to be out on the bike on Sunday afternoon!
Bit chilly here in East Central Illinois but otherwise spiffy.
Today is the wonderful, buzzy, barely contained chaos that is typesetting day in BookLab
The Robert B. Downs Intellectual Freedom Award. Text: Given annually, the award acknowledges individuals or groups who have furthered the cause of intellectual freedom, particularly as it impacts libraries and information centers and the dissemination of ideas. Photo of Robert B. Down on the right and the wordmarks of the School of Information Sciences and Sage Publishing on the bottom.
Sponsored by the #iSchoolUI & @sagepub.com, the Robert B. Downs Intellectual Freedom Award acknowledges those who have furthered the cause of intellectual freedom. If you know someone who would be a good candidate, nominate them by April 14! ▶️ bit.ly/405D9Yb
Association of Canadian Archivists workshop: Introduction to Archival Description in Canada
Thursday, March 5, 2:00pm EST
This workshop will provide participants with a solid introduction to archival arrangement and description.
More info here: archivists.ca/event-6528080
Digital Humanists and Librarians for me.
Was kinda hoping for Elite Hand Models, but alas.
Students showed me this morning that UIUC has a service where they can run a Jupyter notebook on an H200 backed by 141GB VRAM. Free (for our students). My jaw dropped enough to communicate, I think, that this is not the norm.
The Virality of Racial Terror
Join us for a Digital Humanities Brown-Bag Lunch Roundtable on “The Virality of Racial Terror in U.S. Newspapers, 1863–1921.”
📅 Friday, Feb. 6 | 🕦 11:30 AM–1 PM
📍 The Corner, Main Library (Room 220)
Open to all.
▶️ bit.ly/4toC5we
From 2021
The top 10 movies to watch if you're a Catherine O'Hara fan
www.cbc.ca/comedy/the-t...
Professor Emerita and Senior Dean’s Fellow Linda Smith speaking at a podium at the 130th celebration of the iSchool at the American Writers Museum
Happy birthday to Professor Emerita Linda Smith! 🎉 Learn why she is a 'Renaissance scholar of Library and Information Science' in Library Trends 71 (1): A Festschrift in Honor of Linda C. Smith ▶️ bit.ly/3NzGyvF
Snow fort time!
The new NSF public access policy adds software to what must be publicly shared, and must be described in the data management and sharing plan (DSMP)
www.nsf.gov/policies/doc...
Digital Humanities people -- positionally I feel like I could maybe write something useful/interesting here as someone who moved from running a DH program to CTO-ing an AI startup -- any questions you'd conceivably read if I answered them?
Call for Papers for ISMIR 2026, Nov 8-12 in Abu Dhabi: ismir2026.ismir.net/authors/call....
Also, if your company is interested in being a Sponsor for the conference, talk to me! (ismir2026.ismir.net/about/organi...)
Local friends & colleagues, our 1st first event @skeuomorphpress.org this spring will be a "Making Artist's Books" workshop with printer & artist Ben Blount, from 3-5 on Wed, February 4th. Spots are limited so please register if you're interested!
skeuomorph.ischool.illinois.edu/making-an-ar...
Took me about an hour to tie the tie.
Really looking forward to this roundtable on "Digital Humanities and Contemporary Book Studies"! It's one of the most exciting research areas out there, in my very biased opinion.
And I *might* even share a hot take about Heated Rivalry...
