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May 9, 2025

Funding opportunities for libraries, archives, and special collections: May–December 2025

By Maria Papadouris, Content and Community Engagement Manager, ITHAKA
We've gathered some of the most reliable grants that prioritize digitization, collection development, preservation, access, open educational resources (OER), and new technologies.

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May 1, 2025

Reflections from ACRL 2025: Celebrating 30 years of partnership —and a new chapter in digital stewardship

By Maria Papadouris, Content and Community Engagement Manager, ITHAKA
At ACRL 2025, JSTOR marked its 30th anniversary while unveiling JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services—built to support libraries in managing and preserving digital collections using AI-assisted metadata creation and community-driven collaboration.

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Animating the archive

Managing and sharing digitized special collections with JSTOR’s services is an opportunity to illuminate valuable scholarship and engage students in collection stewardship.  When scholars and students engage with archival materials, they are able to give texture to their research that might not otherwise be available to… Read More

March 27, 2025

Preserving the past, building the future—together: Introducing JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services

By Kevin Guthrie, President, ITHAKA
JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services is a new platform designed to help libraries and archives scale their preservation efforts through a seamless, mission-aligned workflow. Built in collaboration with the library community, it combines digital asset management, AI-assisted metadata creation, and long-term preservation support.

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March 27, 2025

Introducing JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services

JSTOR announced today a new digital collection stewardship solution designed to help libraries and archives describe, preserve, manage, and share their unique collections at scale–—reducing backlogs and increasing discovery.

JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services integrates digital asset management, long-term preservation (powered by Portico), increased discovery through JSTOR, and a first-of-its-kind AI-assisted metadata generation tool that accelerates collection processing while maintaining expert oversight.

“Libraries and archives face significant challenges in stewarding existing and ever-growing digital collections,” said Rebecca Seger,… Read more»

March 20, 2025

Bringing hidden histories to light: An archivist reflects on AI, archives, and the future of digital stewardship

By Alex Houston, Senior Marketing Manager, ITHAKA
An archivist explores how AI can help surface hidden histories, improve metadata, and support digital stewardship while emphasizing the need for human expertise in shaping archival narratives.

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JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services

JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services Meet the integrated, cloud-hosted solution that helps you confidently scale digital stewardship efforts while ensuring your collections are preserved, and discoverable, for the future. Book a demo Community voices “[The] AI tool for processing digital records has been… Read More

March 19, 2025

Designed by the community, for the community: How archivists and librarians helped shape JSTOR Seeklight—an AI-powered technology for digital collections processing

By Alex Houston, Senior Marketing Manager, ITHAKA
Discover how archivists and librarians shaped JSTOR Seeklight, an AI-powered technology that streamlines collections processing and enhances digital stewardship.

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Skidmore College uses JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services to amplify and future-proof its special collections

Skidmore College’s custom landing page on JSTOR Many college and university libraries have amassed special collections that hold great value for students, faculty, and researchers, and a growing number are digitizing these collections in order to share them more widely and ensure long-term… Read More

Middlebury archives go global

Paper cutter painted by Sophia Thoreau and given to Eliza Hosmer. Abernethy Collection of American Literature. Middlebury College. In a way, it was a single image of a hand-painted letter opener that made Middlebury College librarian… Read More