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Blog Tag: Librarians

August 25, 2025

Advancing discovery, access, and stewardship together: An ALA 2025 reflection

By Maria Papadouris, Content and Community Engagement Manager, ITHAKA
This year’s American Library Association (ALA) Conference in Philadelphia offered an opportunity to share how JSTOR is addressing two interconnected needs: helping researchers navigate trusted content more intuitively, and helping libraries manage, preserve, and activate distinctive collections at scale.

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August 20, 2025

A new model for scholarly ebooks: Publisher Collections built with, and for, librarians and publishers, to serve readers today and tomorrow

By John Lenahan, Vice President of Published Content, Licensed Collections, JSTOR, part of the nonprofit ITHAKA
A new nonprofit-led model from JSTOR offers libraries and publishers a more sustainable, equitable, and integrated ecosystem for scholarly ebooks.

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July 24, 2025

Building together: Reflections on JSTOR Seeklight and the 2025 C.F.W. Coker Award

By Emilie Hardman, Research Lead, Archives & Special Collections, and Sr. Curator, Reveal Digital, ITHAKA and Syed Amaanullah, Senior Product Manager, ITHAKA
How JSTOR Seeklight brings together archival expertise, AI, and community insight—reflections on winning the Coker Award and building values-driven tools.

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June 5, 2025

Next-generation integration: Rethinking digital collection stewardship from start to finish

By Ann Connolly, Senior Product Manager, ITHAKA
Senior Product Manager Ann Connolly shares how JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services addresses key collection management issues with a unique integration approach.

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May 30, 2025

Engineering with purpose: How JSTOR Seeklight combines AI and human expertise to transform digital stewardship

By Syed Amaanullah, Senior Product Manager, ITHAKA
Senior Product Manager Syed Amaanullah shares how JSTOR Seeklight blends technology and human expertise to deliver a purpose-built AI application for archives.

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May 19, 2025

Guidance for special collections preservation: Using JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services to support your long-term goals

By Lee Dotson, Senior Digital Collections Success Manager, ITHAKA
Preserving digital collections is essential to safeguarding cultural memory. Discover how JSTOR’s Digital Stewardship Services help libraries and archives maintain accessible, durable, and meaningful collections for generations to come.

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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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