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Best Practices Exchange 2026 Registration & Schedule

Courtade, Jenna — 2026-03-05T22:23:52+00:00

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Registration is now open for the Best Practices Exchange (Un)Conference, which will be held May 18-20, 2026, at the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering at Indiana University Indianapolis (in downtown Indianapolis, IN).

Please follow this link for more information about registering<https://bpexchange.wordpress.com/2026-registration/> for the 2026 Best Practices Exchange. Space is limited, so don’t delay! [...]

Primary Research Group Releases New Survey on Academic Library Facilities Management and Space Use Planning

Jose Mavarez — 2026-03-04T07:26:24-04:00

Primary Research Group has published a new research report, Survey of
Academic Library Facilities Management: Space Use Plans, ISBN
978-1-57440-025-0, providing a comprehensive, data driven look at how
academic libraries are allocating space, managing user demand, and planning
for future change. Based on survey responses from a wide range of U.S.
academic institutions, the report benchmarks seating capacity, study room
provision, space conflicts, print to user space conversions, and long range
planning practices. [...]

Re: Lighthouse: monitoring & testing for library online resources (off-campus testing now implemented)

Hussam Al Khudari — 2026-03-04T04:07:54+04:00

Dear colleagues,

Following up on my previous post, I’m pleased to share that off-campus
access testing is now implemented in Lighthouse.

For those who may have missed the earlier thread: Lighthouse is a
lightweight testing framework designed to help libraries proactively verify
access to subscribed electronic resources.

In the attached recording, you’ll see the agent running in a test
environment. The agent first establishes an OpenAthens session and then
proceeds to execute access tests for BMJ and AIP. This demonstrates the
full authentication flow prior to publisher verification. [...]

Code4Lib SE 2026 registration open!!!

Nicole B Lawrence — 2026-03-03T19:18:11+00:00

Hey everyone!

Registration for Code4Lib Southeast (July 16 in Athens, GA) is officially live! If you're interested in attending, please submit your registration using the link below. We're also accepting presentation proposals! Link below for that as well.

We'll be putting together a guide for visitors regarding travel, lodgings, things to do, etc. in the coming weeks. We'll let you know when that's added to the wiki. [...]

Reminder - Program Announcement: CORE Week Creative Ideas in Technical Services Thursday March 5 @ 11am CST

Szkirpan, Elizabeth — 2026-03-02T18:19:58+00:00

Apologies for cross-posting.

Just a reminder that the Creative Ideas in Technical Services (CITSIG) session during CORE week will take place on Thursday March 5 @ 11am Central Time.

All sessions are free, and you do not need to be a member of CORE to attend.

Registration and the complete CORE Week 2026 schedule is available here: https://www.ala.org/core/interest-group-week [...]

Primary Research Group releases Survey of Academic Library Facilities Management: Control of Decision Making, ISBN 978-1-57440-026-7

Jose Mavarez — 2026-03-02T07:08:47-04:00

Primary Research Group has released a new report, *Survey of Academic
Library Facilities Management: Control of Decision‑Making*, offering a
detailed look at how academic libraries and campus facilities units
share—or contest—authority over buildings, budgets, and operations.

Based on responses from academic libraries across institution types and
enrollment sizes, the study examines governance structures, satisfaction
with responsibility splits, service workflows, response times, and the
extent of library control over key facilities resources. The report
combines quantitative tables with extensive open‑ended commentary that
reveals how formal policies often diverge from day‑to‑day realities. [...]

Program Announcement: CORE Week Creative Ideas in Technical Services Thursday March 5 @ 11am CST

Szkirpan, Elizabeth — 2026-02-27T19:48:34+00:00

Apologies for cross-posting.

Please join the Creative Ideas in Technical Services Interest Group on Thursday March 5, 2026 from 11am-12pm Central time. We will have three presentations followed by a Q&A. This event is free and available to all.

Registration and the complete CORE Week 2026 schedule is available here: https://www.ala.org/core/test-interest-group-week#sked

1. Teamwork Can Still Make the Dream Work: Reconsidering Legacy Classification in the Academic Library's Juvenile Collection
Presented by: Kelsey Robertson and Summer Upton from the University of Alabama Birmingham
This proposed presentation will explore the challenges of a legacy classification scheme and the rationale for potential change in [...]

Re: [External] [CODE4LIB] Forward EZproxy request to OpenAthens

Klish, Heather J — 2026-02-27T18:21:59+00:00

Coral,

We've done both things: send users automatically to another URL and shown them a landing page (using login.htm). We’re using a landing page right now. One thing to be careful of when showing users a landing page is that anyone using the Zotero Connector browser extension with the proxy configured will repeatedly be brought back to the EZproxy landing page – essentially causing a loop. It took me a while to figure this out. It’s the proxy host entries in the extension that cause the issue. [...]

Re: Forward EZproxy request to OpenAthens

Brent Palmer — 2026-02-27T18:14:38+00:00

The approach seems sound to me. We did something similar (also using PHP) a few years ago when we migrated from one discovery interface to another. We had quite a few internal apps that linked to individual resources and of course the search engines kept trying to crawl it for a while. We didn't do a landing page; we just returned a 301 with the new URL and logged it. We were able to eventually find all our own links to fix and notify any external ones. As you say, eventually they dwindled down until we got rid of it. [...]

Re: Forward EZproxy request to OpenAthens

Margaret Alexander — 2026-02-27T17:48:58+00:00

Hi,
We moved from self-hosted to OCLC-hosted EZProxy a few years ago, and we did set up forwarding from the old self-hosted instance, but we also made a spreadsheet and going by most to least use, worked to update the address with each vendor.
It was a bit of a pain, and we do still find the occasional database that has the old address, but other than that it’s worked out well.
We did also send out a message to all our departmental contacts that they would need to update their Canvas links to databases, and ran link-checker in our [...]

Re: Forward EZproxy request to OpenAthens

Xavier Tilley — 2026-02-27T17:47:58+00:00

Hi Coral,

We considered that switch too but decided against it due to the cost and our preference for self-hosted options. EZProxy config management was the driving factor in considering the switch though, so I started working on a project to make that easier. Our e-resources team has started using it to audit our stanzas, but the app still needs a lot of work. I'm hoping to open source it sometime in 2026. [...]

Forward EZproxy request to OpenAthens

Coral Sheldon-Hess — 2026-02-27T12:40:41-05:00

Hi!

We're considering a move away from self-hosted EZproxy and one-off Shibboleth SSO connections to our vendors, to OpenAthens. People are, understandably, concerned about the migration. Obviously, we'll change the links we control, but we don't control our faculty colleagues' Canvas shells, for instance.

Since we host (and control, down to Apache settings) our own proxy server, is there some fundamental reason why we couldn't do some kind of forwarding, rewriting requests with our proxy prefix to have the OpenAthens prefix on the fly? Has anyone done this? [...]

Re: Code4Lib Journal Virtual Meeting CORRECTION

Jaime Taylor — 2026-02-27T16:40:48+00:00

Mark,

The meeting calendar event has the time as, for EDT, 11pm to 12:30am the next day, fyi.

Jaime Taylor
Discovery & Resource Management Systems Coordinator
W.E.B. Du Bois Library
University of Massachusetts

-----Original Message-----
From: Code for Libraries <CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG> On Behalf Of Mark Swenson
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2026 11:35 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Journal Virtual Meeting *CORRECTION* [...]

Code4Lib Journal Virtual Meeting CORRECTION

Mark Swenson — 2026-02-27T16:34:30+00:00

I sent out this message a few minutes ago and noticed afterwards that the date in the body of the message is wrong (the date on the registration page is correct). It is March 18, not March 19. Sorry for any confusion there. -- Mark

Hello everyone - it's us again.
Our workshop at Code4Lib was cancelled due to low registration. That said, the underlying situation hasn't changed. We remain unclear about our mandate and future direction, and we are still trying to determine the status and sustainability of our digital infrastructure. [...]

Code4Lib Journal Virtual Meeting

Mark Swenson — 2026-02-27T16:14:57+00:00

Hello everyone - it's us again.
Our workshop at Code4Lib was cancelled due to low registration. That said, the underlying situation hasn't changed. We remain unclear about our mandate and future direction, and we are still trying to determine the status and sustainability of our digital infrastructure.

If you're interested in helping shape the next steps, or if you want to express support for the journal's continued existence, we warmly encourage you to register for this one-hour virtual meeting. We're hoping for an open, constructive conversation about where we go from here. [...]

Next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, March 3, 2026

Radovsky, Susan Deborah — 2026-02-26T02:58:58+00:00

Hello, everyone –

We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, March 3 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__zonestamp.toolforge.org_1772557200&d=DwMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=ZKZdijZcvSwDlmLpUMf9GVdOigjGjnqPOHQla31EGfM&m=QyYjHwRcJxPXgydBtWiLD7DT6XKze2svu-aU3d371wJP9xvhQdfGApSNNIp2OSjw&s=2AxRh3_Q1fQi49ba9IAUvIzzpqxhNIyvbjfn4dJ4Tz0&e=>).

Wikiproject P244 maintenance uses SPARQL queries to identify and resolve two types of constraint violations in Wikidata: instances of Wikidata items with more than one LCNAF identifier and instances of the same LCNAF identifier existing on more than one Wikidata item. The February 17th session walked participants through how to resolve the former issue, while the March 3rd session will focus on the latter. This session will be more discussion-focused, [...]

[NASIG Webinar] Usage Metrics for AI, OA and More - March 24, 2026

NASIG Social Media Coordinator — 2026-02-25T17:13:08-05:00

*Apologies for cross-posting*

The NASIG Continuing Education Committee invites you to join us for our
upcoming webinar:

Usage Metrics for AI, OA and More Monday, March 24, 2026 | 1:00-2:00 PM ET |
Zoom

COUNTER has been the standard for usage metrics for more than two decades,
but the electronic resources landscape is shifting fast. Open access,
syndicated content, and AI-driven discovery are all challenging traditional
approaches to measuring engagement. How do you report usage when there's no
click to count? [...]

Re: nas -- network-accessible storage

Thomas Scharff — 2026-02-25T11:56:11-05:00

Cool!

Thanks,

*Thomas Scharff*
<https://library.wheatoncollege.edu/prf.php?account_id=205579> (he/him/his)

*Director of Discovery & Access*

Madeleine Clark Wallace Library <https://library.wheatoncollege.edu>, 125
Wheaton College <https://wheatoncollege.edu>
26 E. Main Street, Norton, MA 02766 <https://goo.gl/maps/d5JvoKZUEXy>
(508) 286-5601 <+15082865601>

On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 11:40 AM Eric Lease Morgan <
00000107b9c961ae-dmarc-request@lists.clir.org> wrote:

> On Feb 25, 2026, at 9:02 AM, Thomas Scharff <
> scharff_thomas@wheatoncollege.edu> wrote:
>
> > Eric, which one did you end up going with?
> >
> > --
> > Thomas Scharff
>
>
> I purchased a UGREEN NAS DXP4800 and four 4TB Seagate IronWolf disk
> drives. --Eric Morgan <emorgan@nd.edu>
>

Re: nas -- network-accessible storage

Eric Lease Morgan — 2026-02-25T11:38:50-05:00

On Feb 25, 2026, at 9:02 AM, Thomas Scharff <scharff_thomas@wheatoncollege.edu> wrote:

> Eric, which one did you end up going with?
>
> --
> Thomas Scharff

I purchased a UGREEN NAS DXP4800 and four 4TB Seagate IronWolf disk drives. --Eric Morgan <emorgan@nd.edu>

Re: nas -- network-accessible storage

Thomas Scharff — 2026-02-25T09:02:32-05:00

Thanks for the min.io recommendation, Tommy!

Eric, which one did you end up going with?

*Thomas Scharff*
<https://library.wheatoncollege.edu/prf.php?account_id=205579> (he/him/his)

*Director of Discovery & Access*

Madeleine Clark Wallace Library <https://library.wheatoncollege.edu>, 125
Wheaton College <https://wheatoncollege.edu>
26 E. Main Street, Norton, MA 02766 <https://goo.gl/maps/d5JvoKZUEXy>
(508) 286-5601 <+15082865601>

On Tue, Feb 24, 2026 at 7:39 PM Tommy Keswick <tkeswick@library.caltech.edu>
wrote:

> One of our 3-2-1 preservation pillars is a local Synology NAS set up with
> min.io so that we can write to it and our cloud pillar using the same S3
> protocol.
>
> --
> Tommy Keswick, MLIS
> Research Applications Developer
[...]

Re: nas -- network-accessible storage

Tommy Keswick — 2026-02-24T16:37:44-08:00

One of our 3-2-1 preservation pillars is a local Synology NAS set up with
min.io so that we can write to it and our cloud pillar using the same S3
protocol.

--
Tommy Keswick, MLIS
Research Applications Developer
Caltech Library

On Tue, Feb 24, 2026 at 3:54 PM Eric Lease Morgan <
00000107b9c961ae-dmarc-request@lists.clir.org> wrote:

> On Jan 23, 2026, at 11:34 AM, Eric Lease Morgan <emorgan@nd.edu> wrote:
>
> > I am now very serousluy considering NAS -- network-accessible storage. A
> NAS is essentically an appliance. It is a set of hard drives literally
> wrapped in hardware with proproetary operating [...]

Re: nas -- network-accessible storage

Eric Lease Morgan — 2026-02-24T18:53:28-05:00

On Jan 23, 2026, at 11:34 AM, Eric Lease Morgan <emorgan@nd.edu> wrote:

> I am now very serousluy considering NAS -- network-accessible storage. A NAS is essentically an appliance. It is a set of hard drives literally wrapped in hardware with proproetary operating system used to do I/O, provide access control, implement file transfer protocols, and to some degree, analyze the saved data. I could build my own, but then there is the convenience factor. [...]

Librarian Opportunity

2026-02-24T16:29:22-05:00

Come work with me at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.

The Digital Access Technology Librarian
<https://pcom.wd108.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/details/Digital-Access-
Technology-Librarian_JR64> will play a vital role in connecting our
community to library resources through technology, interlibrary loan
services, and user-centered design. This position combines technical
expertise with service excellence to enhance how users discover, access and
engage with library collections and services. [...]

2026 RDAP Summit Registration Is Open!

Kelly Burns Denny — 2026-02-24T20:50:21+00:00

Registration for the 2026 RDAP Summit is now open! We are so excited to welcome you all, virtually, to what we hope will be a great four days of education and community.

This year's theme is "Practical, Personalized, Impactful: Research Data in the Real World," and celebrates the nuanced work of research data professionals who transform idealistic visions into responsive, community-centered services. We recognize that effective data management isn't about universal solutions, but about deeply understanding and adapting to the specific needs of diverse research communities. The Summit will run Tuesday, April 14 through Thursday, April 16, 2026, with workshops [...]

[Updated Time] March 5, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. (CST) - Linking Data: Getty’s LOD transformation

Fraticelli, Irma — 2026-02-24T16:37:06+00:00

Posted in multiple channels. Updated time: March 5, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. CST

Please join the ALA Core Bibliographic Conceptual Models Interest Group on March 5, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. Central Standard Time (see other time zones here<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Linking+Data%3A+Getty%E2%80%99s+LOD+transformation&iso=20260305T14&p1=76&ah=1>) for the presentation Linking Data: Getty’s LOD transformation. Please register to attend online<https://events.zoom.us/ev/AiMtpXBpLKs6ohw9czqPxzwhSMgU22fywu-WSnPPrdCy4Tg4e8Jd~AooVRdqfHc-sNsACj8aZ_44aKVJyjyWIbNsn3KjDcw88y0ft3wFxAhlC7w>. [...]

The Internet Ecosystem Book

Carlston Bohman — 2026-02-24T11:05:37+04:00

I came across a highly intensive and inclusive book "The Internet
Ecosystem". The book englobes the whole Internet history, it was reviewed
by Vint Cerf, the founder of the Internet. I have just completed the
reading, I will highly recommend it. The Internet Ecosystem is available
via Payhip: https://payhip.com/b/hfvYg Use Coupon Code: INTECO10 to get
your discount. [...]

Core Interest Group Week March 2nd-6th

Amy Swartz — 2026-02-23T16:51:01-05:00

Please excuse cross postings.

Core's Interest Group week <https://www.ala.org/core/interest-group-week>
is next week, running in hourly blocks from 9am CT to 4pm CT each day. The
event is free and open, but registration is required. You can find the
schedule and the registration link on the website. Join for as much or as
little as you like. Interest groups are a great way to get introduced to a
topic or share best practices with colleagues who care about the same issue
as you.

Re: Nominate yourself or a colleague for SAA’s Emerging Leader Award!

Jen Litwin — 2026-02-23T15:53:09-05:00

Please see the announcement below encouraging nominations for SAA's Mark A.
Greene Emerging Leader Award. Please consider nominating yourself or a
colleague, and share widely. Last I heard, we have no or very few
nominations. As a reminder, the deadline is this Saturday, February 28,
2026 and the deadline will not be extended. We are hoping for a good
pool of nominees. Thank you! [...]

Early Bird Registration for Teaching and Learning with AI Conference, June 11-13, 2026 in Orlando, Florida

Lauren Kehoe — 2026-02-23T18:20:11+00:00

Apologies for cross-posting!

Greetings,

The 4th Annual Teaching and Learning with AI Conference will be held from June 11-13, 2026, in Orlando, Florida at the Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center. Professionals, educators, instructors, researchers, librarians, and policymakers are invited to attend.

Please be aware that early bird registration for the Teaching and Learning with AI Conference,<https://aiforall.ucf.edu/teachwithai/> sponsored by Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning, Division of Digital Learning, and UCF Libraries at the University of Central Florida, is set to close on Friday, March 13th. [...]

March 5, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. (CST) - Linking Data: Getty’s LOD transformation

Fraticelli, Irma — 2026-02-23T17:59:44+00:00

Posted in multiple channels

Please join the ALA Core Bibliographic Conceptual Models Interest Group on March 5, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. Central Standard Time (see other time zones here<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Linking+Data%3A+Getty%E2%80%99s+LOD+transformation&iso=20260305T10&p1=76&ah=1>) for the presentation Linking Data: Getty’s LOD transformation with David Newbury from the Getty. Please register to attend online<https://events.zoom.us/ev/AiMtpXBpLKs6ohw9czqPxzwhSMgU22fywu-WSnPPrdCy4Tg4e8Jd~AooVRdqfHc-sNsACj8aZ_44aKVJyjyWIbNsn3KjDcw88y0ft3wFxAhlC7w>.

Abstract

Over the past decade, Getty has been building the infrastructure and expertise to leverage Linked Data across its cross-disciplinary collections, working across archives, libraries, museum collections, taxonomy, and research data sets like the Provenance Index. In doing so, we’ve learned a bunch of things that work—and don’t work—when trying to operationalize [...]

OPF welcomes the University of Leeds Libraries as our latest member

Peadar Ó Raifeartaigh — 2026-02-23T14:00:00+00:00

Dear all,

The Open Preservation Foundation (OPF) is pleased to welcome the University
of Leeds <https://www.leeds.ac.uk/about> Libraries (UoL) as our latest
member.

Established in 1904, the University of Leeds is one of the largest
universities in the United Kingdom. The University of Leeds Libraries'
mission is to collect, create, deliver, and preserve huge digital and print
collections for current and future research, learning and teaching housing
over 3 million items. The Libraries have five designated collections deemed
internationally important - more than any other UK library. Their free,
public galleries present their exceptional collections of fine art,
artefacts, rare books [...]

Attend the Metadata Interest Group Week Webinar during Core Interest Group Week

Amber Jones — 2026-02-21T10:22:37-05:00

You are invited to attend the Core Metadata Interest Group's webinar during
the American Library Association's Core Interest Group Week.

Day: Monday, March 2, 2026

Time: 12:00pm Eastern / 11:00am Central / 10:00am Mountain / 9:00am Pacific

Registration Link (for entire Core Interest Group Week):
https://events.zoom.us/ev/AiMtpXBpLKs6ohw9czqPxzwhSMgU22fywu-WSnPPrdCy4Tg4e8Jd~AooVRdqfHc-sNsACj8aZ_44aKVJyjyWIbNsn3KjDcw88y0ft3wFxAhlC7w

Cost: Free for everyone (both ALA members and non-ALA members) [...]

Call for Proposals: 2026 ILiADS - Seeking Project Teams, Individual Digital Humanists, and Liaisons

Nicole Scalessa — 2026-02-19T16:36:48-05:00

The ILiADS Steering Committee welcomes project proposals and liaison
applications for the eleventh Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship!
This year’s Institute, hosted by Vassar College Libraries in Poughkeepsie,
New York, will be held in person July 26-31, 2026.

This year ILiADS offers a week-long intensive environment both for
collaborative project teams and for individuals:
*ILiADS Team Participation*
ILiADS team participants come as a group, typically composed of some mix of
researchers, librarians, archivists, technologists, and students to build
upon established digital pedagogy or scholarship projects and/or launch new
ones. To help get a new project started and/or clear hurdles, [...]

veraPDF and Arlington 1.30 release candidates out now!

Peadar Ó Raifeartaigh — 2026-02-19T13:00:00+01:00

Dear all,

The Open Preservation Foundation has an exciting double release for you
today: the v1.30 release candidates of veraPDF and Arlington are available
for community testing! veraPDF is an open-source, industry-supported PDF/A
and PDF/UA (Machine checks) validator and part of the OPF reference
toolset. The Arlington PDF Checker is an open-source PDF checker based on
the Arlington PDF Model. [...]

OPF welcomes Digital Archives Flanders as a new member

Peadar Ó Raifeartaigh — 2026-02-18T10:13:29+00:00

Dear all,

The Open Preservation Foundation (OPF) is pleased to welcome The Agency of
Facility Operations of the Flemish authorities (Digital Archives Flanders)
<https://www.vlaanderen.be/het-facilitair-bedrijf-informatiemanagement> as
a new member.

Digital Archives Flanders is a division of the Agency for Facility
Operations. They provide shared services for preservation, management and
dissemination of government information for both records and archives.
These shared services are available to all departments and agencies of the
Flemish public administration, as well as cities, municipalities, and other
government agencies in Flanders. [...]

4Science Academy Free webinar

Verlicchi, Federico — 2026-02-17T17:45:05+00:00

Dear Code4Lib community,
4Science is happy to invite you to a new 4Science Academy free webinar

Join us for the first free webinar of the year!

🎭Enhancing & Narrating Theatre and Film Archives with DSpace‑GLAM 🎞️

📽️ Can paratexts become the core of a digital archive?
Theatre and cinema histories are often traced through paratextual materials rather than through the works themselves. Discover how DSpace‑GLAM’s relation‑oriented data model supports the construction of digital archives centered on context, relationships, and cultural networks. 🎥 [...]

Registration Now Open: 2026 IIIF Annual Conference & Showcase

Caitlin Perry — 2026-02-17T10:58:43-05:00

Hello colleagues,

Registration <https://www.conftool.org/iiif2026> is now open for the
International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) Annual Conference and
Showcase, <https://conference2026.iiif.io/> to be held in the Netherlands
June 1–4, 2026. The event will be hosted by the IIIF Consortium with
support from the Dutch Digital Heritage Network.
<https://netwerkdigitaalerfgoed.nl/en/>

The IIIF Showcase (Amsterdam, June 1) is free to attend and aimed at
newcomers to IIIF and locals. Pre-registration is required and space is
limited to the first 200 registrants. Attendees will receive an
introduction to IIIF, including an overview of what it does, use cases, and
how a variety of institutions implement it. [...]

Re: User name email suffix stripping

Martin, Will — 2026-02-16T20:19:56+00:00

Our existing JavaScript was listening for the submit event, but somehow things would still slip by periodically. I'm not sure how. It's a mystery.

Moving the logic server-side means that we no longer need to worry about the vast profusion of possible interactions of user agent, device, extensions, password managers and so on. There's exactly one computer that needs to get it right, and that's the EZ Proxy server. [...]

Re: User name email suffix stripping

Eric Phetteplace — 2026-02-16T09:10:17-08:00

Just speculation, but the frontend JavaScript may be working less
frequently as password managers and autofill are used more. It's possible
some of those don't trigger the same events, like "blur", in an expected
way. If you're listening to the "submit" event and then stripping
the @domain.tld then this is less likely. Either way, making the fix on the
backend seems the most foolproof. [...]

Re: User name email suffix stripping

Hammer, Erich F — 2026-02-16T16:25:35+00:00

Why not just have javascript code to watch for an "@" and throw up a flag for the user and/or prevent submission?

On Friday, February 13, 2026 at 15:22, Will Martin eloquently inscribed:

> All,
>
> We've had a problem for years where people enter their email address as the
> user name, which fails because our current configuration assumes they're
> entering just their user name. We've had a JavaScript attached to our login
> pages for a long time which was designed to strip those suffixes off. But
> occasionally one would slip through anyway. I've never [...]

User name email suffix stripping

Martin, Will — 2026-02-13T20:22:43+00:00

All,

We've had a problem for years where people enter their email address as the user name, which fails because our current configuration assumes they're entering just their user name. We've had a JavaScript attached to our login pages for a long time which was designed to strip those suffixes off. But occasionally one would slip through anyway. I've never been clear on what set of circumstances led the JavaScript to fail, but it's been happening more frequently of late. [...]

Seeking nominations for 2026 The Noel Prize: A PACSCL award for excellence in open access projects

Emery, Doug — 2026-02-12T17:37:09+00:00

I’m writing to share a call for nominations for the 2026 Noel Prize from the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL). The prize recognizes outstanding work advancing open access to Special Collections materials and is open to US-based Special Collections Libraries and Archives. Please consider nominating a project — including your own — that reflects this commitment. [...]

Reminder: AI Discussions - Solutions Showcase Series

Arran Griffith — 2026-02-12T11:47:00-05:00

REMINDER!

Just over 10 days until our next Solutions Showcase! Join us to learn about JA4, Fingerprinting and Cloudflare WAF solutions being used by our amazing presenters from the Internet Archive and the Bodleian Libraries at Oxford University.

All details are below. Don’t miss out!
Cheers,
Arran
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Arran Griffith
Program Manager, Fedora Program

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Hi Everyone,
On behalf of the AI Discussions Working Group, I am excited to announce the first Solutions Showcase for 2026! We are thrilled to relaunch the Series this month by welcoming Michael Della Bitta from the Internet Archive and Tom Wrobel from the Bodleian [...]

Announcing the 2026 International VuFind® Summit at WOLFcon

Demian Katz — 2026-02-12T14:50:08+00:00

This year, the annual International VuFind® Summit will be incorporated into the WOLFcon conference, taking place August 31-September 3, 2026 in Prague, Czech Republic (and streaming online).

See below for the general WOLFcon announcement about registration and the Call for Papers, but please take note of these VuFind®-specific details:

* As in past years, talks will be scheduled to accommodate as much of the worldwide audience as practical, and all VuFind® Summit sessions will be available as a free stream for remote participants. The link will be shared at vufind.org and in the Open Library Foundation Slack #vufind-general channel during [...]

Next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Radovsky, Susan Deborah — 2026-02-11T23:25:56+00:00

Hello, everyone –

We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, February 17 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__zonestamp.toolforge.org_1771347600&d=DwMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=ZKZdijZcvSwDlmLpUMf9GVdOigjGjnqPOHQla31EGfM&m=RqXcvmAU__FLx9VJDqDa1dCRrN3anL00fbgIFW5jWE7YbpTTM5-JF3o75OP0VviF&s=dsLp-q8KGzJDTefuX7V2WgZC9XWIx48x515_1kt5fgo&e=>).
Wikiproject P244 maintenance uses SPARQL queries to identify and resolve two types of constraint violations in Wikidata: instances of Wikidata items with more than one LCNAF identifier and instances of the same LCNAF identifier existing on more than one Wikidata item. The February 17th session will walk participants through how to resolve the former issue, while the March 3rd session will focus on the latter. Attendees don’t have to be [...]

Conference Reminder - cut off date is Feb 10!

Jennifer Cummings — 2026-02-09T15:37:14-07:00

The cut off date to register at the early rate of $425 is tomorrow night, Feb 10, at midnight Pacific time. After this deadline registration will go up to $500 so, if you can, register now and save a little money. Tomorrow night is also the deadline for getting a t-shirt only. You won’t be able to purchase a shirt to be sent directly to you after tomorrow night. [...]

ALA Core Division Fundamentals web courses

Amy Swartz — 2026-02-09T09:04:00-05:00

Core is pleased to announce the release of the 2026 Core Fundamentals Web
Course <https://www.ala.org/core/continuing-education/courses> schedule.
This series of related online courses covers basic topics that enhance
skills in various areas of library work. These courses developed by library
professionals represent opportunities to grow from the knowledge of
experienced practitioners in specific areas of interest. [...]

Call for Participation: Survey on Digitization Labs in Academic Libraries

Mairelys Lemus-Rojas — 2026-02-09T00:47:08+00:00

This message is being distributed to multiple listservs. We appreciate you sharing it with colleagues at your institution for whom this call may be relevant.
Dear Colleagues,
The University of Central Florida (UCF) Libraries is conducting a research study to learn about the state of digitization labs in academic libraries. We invite participation from anyone working in an academic library who has knowledge of digitization workflows at their institution.
Link to survey: https://ucf.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1WT91qDqfnMWzNs [...]

Selected Jobs from This Week's DigitalKoans Posts

Charles Bailey — 2026-02-06T12:07:49-06:00

DigitalKoans: https://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/. Feed:
https://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/rss.

Digital Archivist at Johns Hopkins University, https://tinyurl.com/f3upa9xa

Digital Archivist at National Library of Ireland,
https://tinyurl.com/nhb5p4pw

Digital Research and Scholarship Director at Florida State University,
https://tinyurl.com/mvn36tct

Digital Stewardship Librarian at University of Miami,
https://tinyurl.com/44dumpjw

Institutional Repository and Business Librarian at University of
Missouri-St. Louis, https://tinyurl.com/33ha39uu

Library Partner Manager, Digitization at Google,
https://tinyurl.com/37e9m6u4

Repository Applications Librarian at Texas A&M University,
https://tinyurl.com/3j2w9sms

Supervisory Digital Collections Specialist at Library of Congress,
https://www.usajobs.gov/job/856563100 [...]

Understanding core competencies for data curation and data stewardship

Alexandra Chassanoff — 2026-02-04T11:25:12-05:00

Hello everyone,

I am writing to invite you to participate in a short survey aimed at understanding core competencies for data curation and data stewardship work. If you perform these activities or tasks in your work, please participate! We want to hear from you and appreciate your help. The official recruitment post is below, the survey can be found here: Core Competencies<https://utk.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_agiY0KyGvq1bj8y> [...]

AI Discussions Working Group - New Solutions Showcase Announced!

Arran Griffith — 2026-02-04T08:11:43-05:00

Hi Everyone,
On behalf of the AI Discussions Working Group, I am excited to announce the first Solutions Showcase for 2026! We are thrilled to relaunch the Series this month by welcoming Michael Della Bitta from the Internet Archive and Tom Wrobel from the Bodleian Libraries at Oxford University.

Join us Wednesday, February 25th, 2026 @ 10:00am Eastern for this 2026 kick off. This series is a regular virtual event, bringing together individuals and institutions from across the GLAM sector to demo practical solutions they've implemented to mitigate the negative impacts of AI bot harvesting on their systems, including repositories, [...]

Re: Lighthouse: monitoring & testing for library online resources (demos opening soon)

Hussam Al Khudari — 2026-02-04T13:20:58+04:00

Hi Patricia,

Thank you for your interest.

Off-campus access monitoring requires more extensive testing, and this
functionality is currently in development. We’re actively working toward a
test and demo-ready stage.

Once it’s available, I’d be happy to reach out so we can review and test it
together, if you’re still interested.

In the meantime, it would be very helpful if you could complete this short
survey (about 5 minutes). You can leave your email at the end, and I’ll
contact you as soon as the demo is ready. [...]

Re: Lighthouse: monitoring & testing for library online resources (demos opening soon)

Patricia Farnan — 2026-02-04T01:34:59+00:00

Hello Hussam
This is a very interesting project you're working on. I think for us it would be extremely valuable once it's extended to off-campus monitoring.

Kind regards,

Patricia Farnan (She / Her)
Application Administrator, Online Services
The University of Notre Dame Australia
Phone: +61 8 9433 0703 | University Library
Fremantle Campus, Nyungar boodjar
I respect and acknowledge the Traditional owners of the land on which I live and work as the First People and Custodians of this country. [...]

Introducing a Privacy-Focused Resume Portfolio Builder

Mark Pernotto — 2026-02-03T12:48:47-08:00

Hello colleagues,

I waited and debated announcing this here, because I respect everyone's
time and eyeballs. Sincerest apologies if I have overstepped my boundaries.
I'll try to make this a respectful solicitation / pitch.

Traditional wisdom may lead you to tailor your resume to the job you are
trying to land. Personally, this has left me with an unmanageable hierarchy
of slight variations of my resume. I've tried keeping a copy of the
position I apply to in a directory with the resume and cover letter I've
submitted. But once I've applied, the effort made to position myself as
that [...]

EPrints software: governance participation invited!

George Macgregor — 2026-02-03T19:51:49+00:00

Hello Code4Lib colleagues,

Those of you following developments of the EPrints software may be aware that there has recently been community adoption of minimum viable governance (MVG)<https://github.com/eprints/MVG>. A session at Open Repositories 2025<https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15758605> outlined the motivation behind improved software governance and better coordination of EPrints development activities. EPrints community adoption of MVG is intended to improve formal decision making and deliver strategic steering of the software. EPrints is a terrific and highly flexible repository software solution — and we want to promote its wider use and adoption! [...]

The future of FITS - signatures requested by 02/13/2026

Charlow, Aurora — 2026-02-03T17:34:36+00:00

Dear Digital Preservation Colleagues,

Late last year, Harvard Libraries announced to the digital preservation community that it will no longer be able to maintain its File Information Tool Set (FITS).

From its About<https://harvard-lts.github.io/fits/about> page:

The File Information Tool Set (FITS) identifies, validates and extracts technical metadata for a wide range of file formats. It acts as a wrapper, invoking and managing the output from several other open source tools. Output from these tools are converted into a common format, compared to one another and consolidated into a single XML output file. [...]

OPF Webinar: An introduction to Fixity Pro

Peadar Ó Raifeartaigh — 2026-02-03T14:50:49+00:00

Dear all,

The Open Preservation Foundation would like to invite you to our webinar
introducing Fixity Pro.

Fixity was released in 2013 and has become a valued tool for organisations
of all sizes, helping them to monitor and maintain the integrity of their
digital collections. Under the stewardship of the Open Preservation
Foundation, Fixity Pro will now become fully open-source and
community-driven. This aligns perfectly with the OPF’s mission to advance
digital preservation through collaborative, practical approaches and shared
solutions. [...]

Re: image annotation with WordPress

R. C. Miessler — 2026-02-03T14:11:32+00:00

Thanks. IIIF is overkill for what we need this for and honestly not something I want to have to deal with pivoting to for this semester. In the end I'm probably just going to install the H5P plugin on WP multisite and have them use the image hotspot tool if they are going to annotate an image as part of their dataset analysis presentations. [...]

Re: image annotation with WordPress

Trip Kirkpatrick (he/him) — 2026-02-03T08:42:27-05:00

R.C. --

I will co-sign Caitlin's comments about Glycerine and extend them to say looking at IIIF annotation options might be a fruitful part of your search. The IIIF Awesome list contains a number of tools for annotating, though unfortunately I don't know which ones other than Glycerine might have a WordPress plugin. [...]

Registration Open for Online Northwest (April 10, 2026 in Portland, OR)

Tamara Marnell — 2026-02-02T16:10:47-08:00

Registration is now open for Online Northwest 2026!

"Re: Community - Reimagining Connections, Reframing Communications, &
Redefining Collaboration"

April 10, 2026

We have an exciting program starting with our Keynote Speaker, Dr. Sandy
Littletree, with her presentation “Moving beyond Pondering: Relationality
and Indigenous Librarianship,” as well as many other topics. Please visit
our Online Northwest website <https://onlinenorthwest.org/> for the full
Conference Program. [...]

Re: image annotation with WordPress

Nicole Scalessa — 2026-02-02T14:52:59-05:00

Has anyone set up annotation on Omeka S? I have been successful using
Mirador but only the annotator can see their own annotations. I have yet to
see instructions on how to make annotations viewable by all. The type that
allows for a shape to be drawn on an area where you want to annotate. I
presume it requires some sort of server logging so it's not only in one's
personal browser. I have posted to the Omeka Forum but no detailed
implementation response yet. [...]

Re: image annotation with WordPress

R. C. Miessler — 2026-02-02T19:37:04+00:00

Unfortunately Neatline is pretty much dead at this point ... ☹

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Re: image annotation with WordPress

Lena G. Bohman — 2026-02-02T19:24:58+00:00

I did this as an undergrad with omeka and neatline. Neatline is a mapping application but you can set the background to be a static image and then add annotations.

I know it's not wordpress, however.

Lena

Lena Bohman
Senior Data Management and Research Impact Librarian
Long Island Jewish - Forest Hills Liaison
Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
[Learn to use Open Athens on the Library’s YouTube channel]<https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ7OuwLufMv1_8OtFC8xzRUAXpXTqYInG>

Re: image annotation with WordPress

R. C. Miessler — 2026-02-02T19:02:52+00:00

No, this placing a marker on an image on a website and having it be interactive for an end user.

https://storymap.knightlab.com/gigapixel/ - essentially this approach. Not metadata. The reason I'm not going with StoryMapJS's Gigapixel is because running all of their images through Zoomify is a giant pain.

R.C.

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Monday, February 2, 2026 12:47 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] image annotation with WordPress [...]

Re: image annotation with WordPress

Caitlin Perry — 2026-02-02T13:18:24-05:00

R.C.,

The Glycerine Annotation Workbench and wordpress plugin
<https://wordpress.org/plugins/glycerine/> might suit your needs. An
institutional account would be outside your budget, but if students only
need to annotate a handful of images, individual accounts might work.

On Mon, Feb 2, 2026 at 12:24 PM R. C. Miessler <
0000003d9a31e078-dmarc-request@lists.clir.org> wrote:

> Does anyone have any good recommendations for image annotation + WordPress
> solutions? I was using Thinglink but they changed their pricing structure
> ($35 -> $3500) for the same features. Either a plugin hosted on our
> multisite instance, or an embeddable option from another site is fine. I'm
[...]

Re: image annotation with WordPress

Joe Hourclé — 2026-02-02T12:47:01-05:00

> On Feb 2, 2026, at 12:24 PM, R. C. Miessler <0000003d9a31e078-dmarc-request@lists.clir.org> wrote:
>
> Does anyone have any good recommendations for image annotation + WordPress solutions? I was using Thinglink but they changed their pricing structure ($35 -> $3500) for the same features. Either a plugin hosted on our multisite instance, or an embeddable option from another site is fine. I'm fine with paying a little bit ($200 max would be best).
>
> For context - this is for undergraduate students who are creating research project websites using a WordPress multisite instance, and often used Thinglink to annotate images [...]

image annotation with WordPress

R. C. Miessler — 2026-02-02T17:24:06+00:00

Does anyone have any good recommendations for image annotation + WordPress solutions? I was using Thinglink but they changed their pricing structure ($35 -> $3500) for the same features. Either a plugin hosted on our multisite instance, or an embeddable option from another site is fine. I'm fine with paying a little bit ($200 max would be best). [...]

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Primary Research Group Releases New Survey on Academic Library Facilities Management and Space Use Planning

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Reminder - Program Announcement: CORE Week Creative Ideas in Technical Services Thursday March 5 @ 11am CST

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ALA Core Division Fundamentals web courses

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AI Discussions Working Group - New Solutions Showcase Announced!

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