The Pudding publishes interactive data storytelling stories on a variety of subjects and topics.

Most recent articles include, “Happy Map,” “Sizing Chaos,” and “Musical Motifs,” although past articles show a range of topics including political, social, pop-culture, sports, and food. Stories often mix custom imagery with dynamic data visualizations to create engaging visual journalism stories.

From their about page:

We believe in journalism that denounces false equivalence, one that can explicitly say Black Lives Matter, one that never views human rights as partisan issues, and one that believes a person’s own experiences are central to strong storytelling.

We hope to be a place that centers and amplifies voices that have long been ignored. We strive for our journalism to be one of key making, not gate keeping, and we won’t shy away from stories that tackle racism, sexism, and classism head on.

We are committed to listening, learning, making changes, and being proactive in the fight for equity, inclusion, and racial and social justice.

Pudding articles are great for classroom instruction either as an introduction to the topic the article explores, as examples of data storytelling, or as inspiration for zine or data visualization/physicalization activities. With over 200 articles to explore across a range of subjects students are sure to find a topic that speaks to them in the archives. Pudding articles are great examples of creating publicly accessible and engaging research-based articles online that can be emulated in many ways both digitally and physically.

The Pudding also holds a yearly competition, The Pudding Cup, which all are encourage to enter with accessible and flexible rules about platforms and tools used to create submissions.

You can also find an open repository of the data used to create Pudding articles on their github.

The Pudding also publishes a newsletter that you can sign-up for to stay in touch about most recent articles, Pudding Cup awards, and more from the team.

Archiving the Black Web’s (ATBW) Freedom School 2026 Webinar Series: Digital Literacy & Cultural Stewardship is presenting three talks across the spring months. The webinars are free and serve ATBW’s mission to provide accessible training and “opportunities for archivists and other memory workers interested in documenting the contemporary Black experience” in web archiving practices.

“Images of Blackness on the Web: Representation and Reclamation in Digital Culture” on Tuesday, March 24 at 2pm EDT.

“Digital Archives Ecosystems” on Monday, April 15 at 2pm EDT.

“Archive Careers & Opportunities for Growth” on Wednesday, May 6 at 2pm EDT.

Registration links for all events can be found on ATBW’s event page. Registration is free and once registered you will receive a zoom link to the event.

ATBW launched their Freedom School Series in 2025 inspired by the Freedom Schools of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960’s. From their event page:

The Freedom School 2026 Series: Digital Literacy & Cultural Stewardship is dedicated to strengthening digital literacy, advancing archival practices, and safeguarding the web as a vital site of cultural memory. As our histories, identities, and movements increasingly live online, this series convenes scholars, information professionals, technologists, and community members to critically examine how we engage with, interpret, document, and preserve digital culture.

Across several dynamic sessions, participants will explore visual analysis, representation, and power in digital spaces, preservation frameworks, emerging technologies, artificial intelligence, and the evolving practices shaping web archiving and digital stewardship.

This series frames cultural stewardship as more than digital access or curation—it is an intentional practice grounded in critical analysis, ethical responsibility, technological fluency, and long-term preservation. Whether you are a creative, student, educator, memory worker, or technologist, the Freedom School 2026 Series offers practical tools and accessible frameworks to help you critically analyze, preserve, and responsibly shape our digital present for future generations.

The University of Central Florida’s (UCF) Teaching and Learning Center, Libraries, and Digital Learning Center are hosting the 4th Annual Teaching and Learning with AI Conference. The conference “aims to discuss how AI tools continue to evolve and change the way educators instruct students, as well as how students can effectively use these tools in their learning journey” and encourages “the use of AI for instruction to prepare students for their future workplace.”

The conference runs from June 11-13 in-person at the Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center in Florida. Early registration is open until March 13 for $625, and regular registration runs until May 28 for $650.

The agenda includes two keynote speakers:

C. Edward Watson, Ph.D., is the Vice President for Digital Innovation at the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). He is also the founding director of AAC&U’s Institute on AI, Pedagogy, and the Curriculum. Prior to joining AAC&U, Dr. Watson was the Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Georgia (UGA) where he led university efforts associated with faculty development, TA development, learning technologies, and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. He continues to serve as a Fellow in the Louise McBee Institute of Higher Education at UGA and recently stepped down after more than a decade as the Executive Editor of the International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. His most recent publications are Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning (second edition) (Johns Hopkins University Press, December 2025), Leading Through Disruption: Higher Education Executives Assess AI’s Impacts on Teaching and Learning (AAC&U, 2025), and the Student Guide to AI (Elon University & AAC&U, 2025). Dr. Watson been quoted in the New York Times, Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, Campus Technology, EdSurge, Newsweek, Forbes, U.S. News, EdTech, Consumer Reports, UK Financial Times, and University Business Magazine and by the AP, CNN and NPR regarding current teaching and learning issues and trends in higher education.

and

Bryan Alexander is an award-winning futurist, researcher, writer, speaker, consultant, and educator focused on the future of higher education. After earning a PhD in English from the University of Michigan, he taught literature, writing, multimedia, and information technology at Centenary College of Louisiana, where he also led interdisciplinary and information-literacy initiatives. He later spent twelve years with the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education, guiding digital-technology integration across small colleges through leadership, research, and network building. In 2013 he founded Bryan Alexander Consulting, advising institutions worldwide while contributing widely to major media outlets. The author of several influential books—including Academia Next, Universities on Fire, and the forthcoming Peak Higher Ed—he is currently a senior scholar at Georgetown University, teaching in its Learning, Design, and Technology graduate program.

Hosted at Maktaba Kuu, Kenya National Library Service in Nairobi, the conference “Connecting Codes: AI, Digital Humanities, and the Future of Information” will take place 16-19 June 2026. From the call:

Connecting Codes brings together scholars, librarians, heritage professionals, technologists, and students to explore the evolving relationships between artificial intelligence, digital humanities, and information institutions, with a particular emphasis on African contexts and perspectives. The conference title reflects the work of connecting multiple kinds of “codes”: technical systems such as software, data, and AI models; cultural and linguistic knowledge systems; and the institutional, ethical, and professional frameworks through which information is created, interpreted, preserved, and shared.

The conference builds on a growing body of Africa-centered digital humanities and library work, including earlier convenings at the Technical University of Kenya and the Kenya National Library Service, as well as digital humanities initiatives at the University of Kansas that foreground Africa-based scholarship and diasporic perspectives.

We welcome regional and international contributions that engage meaningfully with African knowledge systems, languages, infrastructures, and communities. While AI is a central lens, Connecting Codes also invites broader digital humanities and information-centered approaches that attend to context, equity, sustainability, and human expertise.

Early-career scholars and practitioners, as well as professionals working in libraries, archives, museums, and related information and cultural institutions, are especially encouraged to participate.

Conference themes include:

• Human–AI Collaboration and the Future of Knowledge Work
• Methods and Practices in Digital Humanities and Information Studies
• Equity, Ethics, and Responsibility in Digital and AI-Enabled Scholarship
• Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Digital Heritage
• Digital Pedagogy: Teaching, Learning, and Capacity Building

Submission formats can be in the form of individual papers, panels or roundtables, posters, workshops or tutorials, and project demonstrations or showcases. Proposal abstracts are due soon on 15 March 2026.

The Black Scholar, the leading research journal on modern Black studies in the United States, invites submissions for a special issue on “Black Nights,” which “probes the intersection between blackness and the night.” The dh+lib community may find intersections in our work related to critical digital humanities, data privacy and surveillance, critical media practices, radical pedagogy, and decolonial digital methods and approaches. From the call:

Within distinct and heterogenous regimes of racialization across the globe, nighttime and nightspaces often figure as a critical double-edge: on the one hand, sites of intensified surveillance, policing and repression of Black life, on the other hand, sites of survival, assembly, subversion of established orders and experiments in modes of living in excess to Enlightenment modes of conquest-knowledges and the spatial and temporal enclosures they entail. “Black Nights” aims to probe further the multiple ways in which nighttime and nightspaces emerge as not just a background of Black life, but critical terrains of meaning, contestation, resistance and possibility that both illuminate logics of racialization and their political economy, but also gesture at alternative forms of worldmaking.

We are especially interested in submissions exploring:

• Black ecologies and nighttime
• political economy and the materiality of darkness
• policing, surveillance, nighttime and Black life
• the night as metaphor for blackness or Black life
• rural nightlife, Black nightlife beyond the paradigm of the urban
• Black night workers and the labor of producing/curating nightlife
• Black sound studies and the night
• Queerness and/of Black nighttime/nightspaces
• Black visual and material cultures and nighttime/nightspaces

We encourage submissions from across the Black world, as we aim to tie together multiple and heterogeneous sites of Black life in diaspora and on the continent. In the spirit of Black studies, we also encourage submissions from various fields, within, in-between and beyond disciplines, as well as from practitioners of Black nightlife (i.e. DJs, sound and visual artists, night venue workers…). We encourage the inclusion of other forms of media. We welcome QR codes in papers or in multimedia submissions that link with playlists, film, interviews or other media. Please note that all media included through QR codes must link to official, legitimate material/ original source material per the copyright requirements of the publisher. Authors are responsible for ensuring the codes work.

Full manuscripts are due by 1 July 2026 for peer review. Email questions to guest editors Chrystel Oloukoï (coloukoi[at]uw.edu) and T. Roane (j.t.roane[at]rutgers.edu).

The Southern Quarterly regularly publish submissions of interdisciplinary scholarly articles; interviews with major Southern writers, composers, and artists; unpublished archival materials; photo essays; and poems anchored in the ethos of the South. Guest editors Andrew McSorley and Jamie O’Quinn (both from the Mississippi Digital Humanities Hub at the University of Southern Mississippi) invite submissions for a special issue on Digitization and Southern history and culture. From the call:

This issue seeks to explore how digital technologies – and specifically the act of digitization – are reshaping the histories, imagination, and storytelling experiences of the South. Digitization processes have transformed how stories are preserved, circulated, and reinvented. We welcome interdisciplinary and creative scholarship that examines digitization as both a material process and a force of cultural imagination, preservation, and change. Submissions may address, but are not limited to:

• Case studies of community archives, oral history initiatives, or grassroots digital preservation
• Literary, or artistic responses to technology in the south
• Digital archives and digitization projects in southern contexts
• The politics and labor of preservation
• Public history, memory, and heritage in digital spaces

We encourage submissions from scholars, artists, archivists, and practitioners whose work engages with the promises and limitations of digitization, especially in the ways that digitization intersects with Southern history, as well as its future.

Submissions are due by 31 May 2026 for the October/November 2026 issue and should include “Special Issue: Digitization” in their title. Visit the journal’s website for full submission guidelines. Email general questions SouthernQuarterly[at]usm.edu.

The new diamond open access journal, Humanities Methods in Librarianship, has released their first call for papers. Hosted on Manifold Press, published by the City University of New York, the editorial board hails from across the United States and Canada, and includes professionals with expertise in digital humanities librarianship. The journal offers an intervention that broadens disciplinary conversation in librarianship “by encouraging submissions that deploy methods from the humanities to address current or salient questions related to libraries, librarians, and librarianship” through a variety of submissions and approaches, including oral histories, research and scholarship, book reviews, and creative non-fiction and fiction. Examples from the call for papers:

• Explorations of the concept(s) of ‘library’, ‘librarians’, or ‘librarianship’, especially as they relate to humanities disciplines (religion, history, literature, political theory, etc.)
• Disciplinary investigations of topics significant to librarianship. Examples might include: cultural studies interpretations of library policies or debates; philosophical analyses of librarianship; or art history perspectives on library imagery or architecture
• Humanistic analyses of library-related practices and infrastructures, such as theories of bibliographic description, classification, library technology, or library spaces
• Autoethnographic scholarship, oral histories, or interviews related to librarians or library workers

To be considered for the first issues, submit full works by 24 April 2026. Beyond this date, articles are published on a rolling basis.

Title: Born-Digital Collections Coordinator #00220

State Role Title: Library Specialist III

Hiring Range: $78,000 – $88,000

Pay Band: 5

Agency: The Library of Virginia

Location: The Library of Virginia

Agency Website: https://www.lva.virginia.gov

Recruitment Type: General Public – G

Job Duties

The Library of Virginia seeks a Born-Digital Collections Coordinator to lead agency-wide planning and technical management of its born-digital government and manuscript records. As part of the Digital Initiatives & Web Services division, the ideal candidate will bring a collaborative and intellectually curious spirit to the development of the proper policies, procedures, technologies, and documentation that supports sustainability and public access to these records.

This role helps the Library of Virginia catch up and stay ahead on born-digital records—particularly state government records. To make this modern content accessible, we’re hiring a technical expert to strengthen how we collect, manage, preserve, and make these records available to the public.

Core responsibilities:

Responsibilities include thorough needs analysis of the current backlog of born-digital records and the development of effective workflows and procedures for the transfer, accessioning, technical processing, and public access to the records. This work will be done in collaboration with archivists tasked with the appraisal and descriptive processing of the records. The person in this position will also serve as the administrator for the Library’s Archive-It web archiving collections and will participate as part of a team that manages the Library’s digital preservation system, Ex Libris’ Rosetta.

The job:

Support and improve workflows to accession, process, and describe electronic records especially in collaboration with the Government Records Services team
Test and help select tools that make the work scalable and reliable
Help move content toward public availability/access
Support collection management and preservation planning for long-term stewardship
Even those who have never had “archivist” in their job title are encouraged to apply. The work can be done by those with experience such as:

Digital archives / digital preservation work
Records management (especially electronic records)
Managing digital collections, metadata, or repositories
IT/data roles involving repeatable workflows, file management at scale, tool evaluation, documentation, or process improvement, especially for libraries or cultural heritage organizations
Minimum Qualifications

Demonstrated experience in repeatable technical workflows, digital file management at scale, application and tool evaluation, documentation, or process improvement, preferably for libraries or cultural heritage organizations.
Comprehensive knowledge of records management and archival standards, practices, and procedures.
Considerable knowledge of descriptive, technical, preservation, and structural metadata standards, including the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) model, PRONOM, Dublin Core, METS, and the like.
Digital asset management systems and open-source technologies related to the delivery of born-digital and digitized library and archival collections.
Emerging standards and professional issues related to the long-term management of and access to born-digital collections.
Experience using various third-party and/or open-source tools related to the processing, management, and preservation of born-digital records, such as Archive-It, ePADD, DROID, BitCurator, Brunnhilde, and BagIt.
Excellent writing, communication, and interpersonal skills required.
Demonstrated ability to conduct research, analyze trends, develop and write policies and guidelines.
Understand and organize complex workflows and exercise a high level of independence, decisiveness, leadership, and consensus-building.
Formal training or experience in archives administration and processing, born-digital records and digitized collection creation and management, or information technology.
Additional Considerations

Knowledge of legal and professional issues impacting born-digital records management, such as record authenticity and integrity, is highly desirable.
Understanding of public access needs and public service functions in archival repositories, highly desirable.

Salary Range: $70,000.00 To $75,000.00 Annually

Drew University is seeking a Head, Librarian for AI, Digital Initiatives, and Scholarship in the University Libraries. The Librarian for Digital Initiatives, AI, and Scholarship serve as a key bridge between traditional research practices and evolving digital methods, helping position the library as a hub for interdisciplinary inquiry, experimentation, and scholarly innovation. This position leads and advances the Library’s digital services, with a focus on knowledge design, data-informed research, and the responsible integration of artificial intelligence across the research and teaching lifecycle. The incumbent collaborates closely with faculty, students, and campus partners to design, support, and sustain innovative digital projects while ensuring ethical, inclusive, and pedagogically grounded use of emerging technologies. This is primarily an on-site, in-person position scheduled to begin on July 1, 2026.

Key Responsibilities:

Digital Scholarship & Cultural Analytics

Lead and support computational cultural initiatives, including text analysis, digital exhibits, spatial humanities, digital archives, and multimodal scholarship.
Consult with faculty and students on project design, tool selection, workflows, metadata, copyright, and sustainability.
Support digital publishing platforms (e.g., Omeka, Scalar, Pressbooks, Reclaim, or comparable tools).
Partner with Special Collections and Archives to develop digitally enhanced research projects using primary sources.
Artificial Intelligence in Research & Teaching

In coordination with other members of the Instructional Technology team, develop and lead workshops, guides, and training that foster AI literacy and encourage the thoughtful and responsible integration of AI tools into research design and academic writing.
Support the ethical and effective use of AI tools across the research lifecycle, including discovery, analysis, writing, data visualization, and digital creation.
Provide guidance on responsible AI use, including transparency, attribution, bias, copyright, and academic integrity.
Collaborate with faculty to integrate AI-informed research methods into coursework and assignments.
Stay current with emerging AI technologies relevant to libraries, scholarship, and pedagogy, and evaluate their applicability.
Instruction & Consultation

Develop learning materials, tutorials, and documentation that support scalable and inclusive access to digital scholarship tools.
Collaborate with subject librarians to embed digital and AI literacies into the curriculum.
Digital Infrastructure & Project Development

Participate in the selection, implementation, and assessment of digital platforms, tools, and services supporting scholarship.
Contribute to project planning, grant development, and external funding opportunities related to digital scholarship and digital humanities.
Advocate for sustainable, accessible, and interoperable digital infrastructure.
Collaboration & Campus Engagement

Work closely with partners across campus, including University Technology, Instructional Design, and Academic Divisions.
Lead the Technology Fellows project, providing supervision and mentoring a team of (5-8) student workers who provide support for digital tools in the classroom.
Participate in library-wide planning related to digital strategy, emerging technologies, and research support services.
Contribute to professional service, assessment, and ongoing program development.
Other duties as assigned.
Required Qualifications

Master’s degree in library and information science (ALA-accredited) or equivalent terminal degree in a relevant field.
Demonstrated experience engaging with evolving AI tools to support faculty and students in thoughtful, ethical adoption.
Demonstrated experience supporting digital scholarship, Digital Humanities, or related digital research initiatives.
Experience providing instruction, consultations, or workshops in an academic setting.
Strong collaborative, communication, and project management skills.
Preferred Qualifications

Strong knowledge of AI platforms and concepts (such as vibe coding and bot construction) as they apply to academic research, teaching, or libraries.
Knowledge of program languages (e.g. Python, R) and frameworks such as scikit-learn, Hugging Face, TensorFlow).
Experience working with Special Collections, archives, or primary source materials in digital contexts.
Knowledge of copyright, intellectual property, and ethical considerations in digital and AI-enabled scholarship.
Experience with Digital Humanities or cultural analytic tools such as text mining, data visualization, GIS, digital exhibits, computational analysis, Photogrammetry, Storymaps, Deepfakes, podcasting, image analysis, Timelinejs, Zotero, Wikipedia, photoshop/gimp/inkscape, omeka, github, srt files, audacity, R, text analysis, python, and open refine.
Ability to contribute to a Digital Humanities curriculum.
Experience collaborating with instructional/learning designers.
How to Apply:

To apply, submit the following materials.

● Cover letter

● CV/Resume

The first round of applications will be reviewed on April 13, 2026, and continue until the position is filled.

The Doris Z. Stone Latin American Library and Research Center at Tulane University has launched the Frans Blom Collection of Documents, Maps, and Images, a new digital collection available through the Tulane University Digital Library. Curated from physical materials held in Tulane’s special collections, the collection brings together documents created by—and documenting the career of—archaeologist Frans Blom (1893–1963).

Blom led archaeological expeditions across Maya regions of southern Mexico and Central America, and the collection traces his work and research networks through correspondence, field diaries, expedition notes, maps, publications, and photographs. Together, these materials provide a detailed view into early professional archaeological research in southern Mesoamerica and the landscapes and communities Blom helped bring into scholarly focus. DH practitioners whose focus is Central and Latinx American studies may find particular interest in this resource’s maps, letters, photographs, field notes, and more.

Access the collection here. 

Digital Humanities @ Guelph (DH@Guelph) announces its 2026 Summer Workshops, taking place in person May 19–22, 2026, in the McLaughlin Library at the University of Guelph (Guelph, Ontario, Canada). All workshops run for four days, and each participant may register for one workshop.

Workshop options include:

• Introduction to Database Design (Harvey Quamen and Jon Bath)
• UX for Digital Humanities: Designing Inclusive and Engaging User Experiences (Ahlam Bavi)
• TEI and Digital Edition Production with LEAF Commons (Diane Jakacki)
• Rest as Resistance: Embodied Digital Humanities for Collective Liberation (TIKA)
• Dead Media, Living Data: Hacking the Archive (Arun Jacob and Dr. Paula Nunez de Villavicencio)
• Humanities Pedagogy in the Age of AI: Critical Frameworks & Practical Strategies (Lisa Baer-Tsarfati)
• Making: A Feminist Praxis (Theme: Refusal and Complaint) (Kim Martin and Kiera Obbard)
• Building Multimodal Generative AI Agents for Humanities (Yadira Lizama Mué)
• Intro to Soundscapes: Listening, Scoring, Field Recording, and Remixing (Danica Evering, Subhanya Sivajothy, Chelsea Miya, Kim McLeod)

DH@Guelph Summer Workshops are partnered with the Canadian Certificate in Digital Humanities (CC:DH). Registration is handled via Eventbrite. Earlybird rates (register before April 15) are $200 (students/sessionals/postdocs), $350 (Guelph faculty/staff), and $500 (other faculty/staff). Regular rates (register after April 15) are $300, $500, and $650, respectively. Withdrawal prior to May 1 is eligible for a refund minus a $75 administration fee.

The week also features a free, open keynote by TIKA, “Rest as Resistance in Distressing Times: Embodied Digital Humanities for Collective Liberation,” on Tuesday, May 19 at 5:30pm (location TBD). Registration is required.