Hannah Frost promoted to Assistant Director for Digital Services
I am pleased to announce Hannah Frost’s promotion to Assistant Director for Digital Services in DLSS.
Blog topic: Digital library
Lighting the Way Forum call for participation now open
Stanford University Libraries invites archives, library, and technology workers and those in related fields to self-nominate as participants for Lighting the Way: A National Forum on Archival Discovery and Delivery, funded by IMLS grant LG-35-19-0012-19. The forum event will take place over two and a half at Stanford University in Stanford, California from February 10-12, 2020, with approximately 50 participants. Grant funds will allow us to fund partial to full travel costs, meals during the event, and lodging for most participants.
To apply, please complete the application form. A 
PDF version of the application form is available for your reference.
The initial call for participation will be open from November 13 to December 15, 2019. The application form requests information about you, your responsibilities, and your work related to focus of the project. Our project team will be reviewing the nominations on a rolling basis, and will respond no later than January 10, 2020. Information gathered in the application form will be used to select participants for the Forum, to inform Forum planning, and to identify opportunities for the project team to follow up with you. Your responses will not be shared beyond the project team and its participant advisors.
Digital library services news - fall 2019
Welcome to the Fall 2019 Digital Library Services Newsletter, prepared by the Product and Service Management team! This newsletter includes contributions from: Cathy Aster, Hannah Frost, Dinah Handel, Andrew Berger, and Michael Olson.
Save the date - Lighting the Way: A National Forum on Archival Discovery and Delivery, February 10-12, 2020
Lighting the Way: A National Forum on Archival Discovery and Delivery
Monday, February 10 to Wednesday, February 12, 2020
Stanford University, Stanford, California
Call for participation opens November 13, 2019
Databases of the week: the reference multiverse of the Information Center (IC)
Here are several databases you can consult to find news, book reviews, dissertations, and general reference materials.
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Access World Newsprovides full-text articles from local, regional, national, and international sources. Access World News also features special reports and “hot topics” that focus on current issues.
Thinking about access and use on #AskAnArchivist Day
The Society of American Archivists has established October 2nd as #AskAnArchivist Day, focused on outreach through answering questions posted to Twitter with the hashtag #AskAnArchivist. The Lighting the Way project team sees this a great opportunity to reach out to the archives and special collections community around starting to think about the big questions facing our project.
Databases of the week: Holocaust survivor video testimonies
The purpose of oral history testimony is not only to gather facts, but also to gain a deeper understanding of events as they were lived and filtered through personal reflection. Unlike most documentation from th[e] period - written by the perpetrators – oral testimony gives a voice to the survivors and other witnesses, allowing them to speak directly about their personal experiences. [Source: Visual History Archive website.]
Authenticity Project update: preparing for DLF - by guest author Raquel Donahue
Stanford University’s Cathy Aster, Product and Service Manager in Digital Library Systems and Services graciously invited me to write a second guest blog post for the Digital Library Blog earlier this year, so here I am, belatedly taking her up on that generous offer.