Libraries & DH: Histories, Perspectives, Prospects Mini-Conference at DH2025 (Lisbon, Portugal)

When: Monday, 14 July 2025, 1:30pm-8:00pm (UTC+0)

Where: NOVA FCSH, Avenida de Berna, 26-C
and online (please contact Glen Layne-Worthey for information about remote participation)

What:

Co-sponsored by the ADHO Libraries & DH Special Interest Group (celebrating 10 years of existence), dh+lib (celebrating over 12 years of publication), the ACH DH in Libraries Special Interest Group (celebrating and reporting on its first year), and the Data Speculations National Forum on Library Digital Stewardship for Copyrighted Contemporary Culture, this full-day event will consist of presentations, roundtables, and discussions of the history and state of our shared interdisciplinary community of practice. Topics of special concern will include research with in-copyright or otherwise restricted data; the promise and perils of LLMs and other AI-enabled approaches and their impact on libraries; the recent sunsetting of some of the research infrastructures supporting our areas of work; and the organizational and cultural structures underpinning our shared profession. Remote participation is available.

Program:

Coming soon.

In-person attendees, please register for this mini-conference together with DH2025 at (https://dh2025.adho.org/conference-registration/).

Online participation is free and open to all regardless of DH2025 registration. Please contact Glen Layne-Worthey at gworthey@illinois.edu directly for information and a meeting link.