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Join us to learn more about JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services and what’s next in your institution’s transition from Forum. We’ll review the updated transition timeline and dual access period, outline what to expect as you begin working in JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services, and provide a detailed walkthrough of the platform.
This 60 minute webinar is appropriate for current participants of JSTOR Forum.
Small team, big reach: How Guilford College uses JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services to scale digital collections, empower students, and share Quaker history See how Guilford College’s solo archivist scales a multifaceted archive with JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services. A flexible, cloud-hosted platform streamlines metadata, publishing, and discovery; empowers students as… Read More
JSTOR has launched transcript generation within JSTOR Seeklight, expanding its AI-assisted collection processing capabilities beyond metadata to include full-text transcription of handwritten, typed, and mixed-media documents. The new feature is now available to all Tier 3 charter participants in JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services.
Developed in collaboration with librarians and archivists, this new functionality enhances discoverability, supports compliance with accessibility requirements, and maximizes the research value of digital collections. Transcripts can be generated during upload or on demand, reviewed… Read more»
JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services managing director Roger Schonfeld sat down with Library Journal executive editor, Lisa Peet to talk technology, innovation, and what’s next for library archives and special collections. New Tools for Stewardship: Q&A with JSTOR’s Roger Schonfeld reveals an evolving field with improved infrastructure, human-centered use of generative artificial intelligence, and community engagement. Roger reflects how JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services and JSTOR Seeklight are enabling this shift: helping libraries and archives tackle backlogs, preserve collections, and… Read more»
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How can stewards of distinctive collections use emerging technologies in service of description and discovery? In this webinar, Emilie Hardman shares how values-aligned AI, including JSTOR Seeklight, can support reparative description at scale. Learn from real-world examples how emerging tools deepen representation, surface under-described materials, and center community values.
SCELC Community Digital Collections represent many perspectives chronicling the academic, cultural, and historical record of our member libraries. Through the SCELC JSTOR Digital Stewardship Program, SCELC enables our member libraries to tell their individual stories but also to contribute to the preservation and accessibility of our shared culture across… Read More
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Institutions have often turned to locally supported systems to manage digital collections, drawn to their flexibility and community-driven roots. Yet as staffing capacity shifts and technical upkeep becomes more demanding, many libraries and archives are rethinking what sustainability looks like at scale. In this webinar, Zachary Johnson (Vanderbilt University) and Michael Fitzgerald (University of the District of Columbia) share how they transitioned from in-house systems to JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services, offering insights into infrastructure, decision-making, and team impact.