Building together: Reflections on JSTOR Seeklight and the 2025 C.F.W. Coker Award
How JSTOR Seeklight brings together archival expertise, AI, and community insight—reflections on winning the Coker Award and building values-driven tools.
Archive
JSTOR Seeklight honored with C.F.W. Coker Award for Description
The Society of American Archivists (SAA) has named JSTOR Seeklight, the AI-powered collections processing technology within JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services, the 2025 recipient of the C.F.W. Coker Award for Description.
Established in 1984, the award recognizes projects that advance archival description by setting national standards, modeling best practices, and reshaping how archival materials are made discoverable. Recipients are selected by an SAA-appointed subcommittee, including members of the organization’s Description Section. In its announcement, SAA praised JSTOR Seeklight… Read more»
Launching the JSTOR Access in Prison initiative blog series: Inside & Connected
At the beginning of 2025, we launched The Catalyst, a JSTOR Access in Prison newsletter that showcases people and projects working on prison education initiatives. We are now launching a new blog series, Inside & Connected, to build even more community connections in these liminal spaces.
Webinar
Navigating your transition from Forum to JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services
July 15, 2025
Virtual
Join us to learn about your institution’s transition from Forum to JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services and what you need to know about the updated platform.
This 60 minute webinar is appropriate for current participants of JSTOR Forum.
JSTOR and SCELC Announce Consortium-Wide Agreement to Offer Digital Stewardship Services to All Member Institutions
JSTOR and the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC) announced today a consortium-wide agreement to make JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services available to all SCELC Member institutions. Through this partnership, over 100 libraries will have the opportunity to access next-generation digital asset management (DAM) tools, long-term preservation, and AI-powered collections processing support.
JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services is a new initiative designed to help institutions overcome persistent obstacles in digital collection stewardship and describe, preserve, manage, and share their distinctive… Read more»
Small team, big reach
Ada Lea McCracken, Guilford College Entrance Card, Sep. 16, 1918. Guilford College. jstor.org/stable/community.23268322 Guilford College boasts a multi-faceted, varied archive spanning Quaker meeting records, 19th-century taxidermy, campus publications, art collections, and student theses. Managing it all is Gwen Erickson, a solo archivist who also serves as… Read More
Next-generation integration: Rethinking digital collection stewardship from start to finish
Senior Product Manager Ann Connolly shares how JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services addresses key collection management issues with a unique integration approach.
Engineering with purpose: How JSTOR Seeklight combines AI and human expertise to transform digital stewardship
Senior Product Manager Syed Amaanullah shares how JSTOR Seeklight blends technology and human expertise to deliver a purpose-built AI application for archives.
Roger Schonfeld named managing director, JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services
ITHAKA announced today that Roger Schonfeld will lead JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services as its managing director.
Launched in April 2025, JSTOR Digital Stewardship is a new digital collection stewardship solution designed to help libraries and archives describe, preserve, manage, and share their unique collections at scale. This service integrates next generation digital asset management with AI-powered collection processing using JSTOR Seeklight, long-term preservation powered by Portico, and paths for increased discovery through the JSTOR platform.
“JSTOR Digital Stewardship… Read more»
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