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November 26, 2025

Sustainable books models and digital stewardship at Charleston 2025

By Maria Papadouris, Content and Community Engagement Manager, ITHAKA
At this year’s Charleston Conference, JSTOR hosted two lunch events. Highlights included updates on Path to Open, Publisher Collections, and JSTOR Seeklight’s growing role in AI-assisted metadata generation.

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November 20, 2025

JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services charter program surpasses 30 participating institutions

JSTOR announced that more than 30 institutions have joined the JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services Tier 3 charter program. These institutions form a values-led community that, together, is shaping the future of scalable, AI-assisted collections processing.

The 33 libraries and archives participating in the charter program represent a diverse, global cohort of academic and cultural institutions, and each has chosen to adopt JSTOR Seeklight—a first-of-its-kind, AI-powered collections processing tool. JSTOR Seeklight is designed by and for theRead more»

November 19, 2025

What is a collections processing tool?

By Roger Schonfeld, Managing Director, JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services
Roger Schonfeld introduces the concept of a collections processing tool—a new, community-driven system that reimagines how special collections are described and discovered. With JSTOR Seeklight, this approach uses digitization and intelligent recognition to make archives more accessible and impactful.

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Get ready to explore what’s possible with JSTOR Stewardship

Thanks for your interest! A member of our team will be in touch soon to learn more about your institution’s goals. In the meantime, explore stories from institutions using JSTOR Stewardship to amplify the reach and impact of their digital collections: Small team, big reach: Guilford College A solo archivist… Read More

Reclaiming flexibility:
How Rollins College and the University of Puget Sound modernized digital stewardship with JSTOR

Across libraries and archives, a quiet reckoning is underway. Institutions are questioning whether the digital collections platforms they’ve relied on for years are still helping them advance their missions, or quietly working against them. At Rollins College in Florida and the University of Puget Sound in Washington, collection… Read More

Moving beyond DIY:
How Vanderbilt and UDC scaled stewardship with JSTOR

JML with Others. Documents, 1969–1999. Rev. James M. Lawson Papers. Vanderbilt University. At its core, distinctive collection stewardship is about care—for collections, for stories, and for access. Yet at many libraries, an outsized share of staff capacity goes toward caring for something else entirely: the self-hosted systems meant… Read More

Get ready to explore what’s possible with JSTOR Stewardship

Thanks for your interest! A member of our team will be in touch soon to learn more about your institution’s goals. In the meantime, explore stories from institutions using JSTOR Stewardship to amplify the reach and impact of their digital collections: Small team, big reach: Guilford College A solo archivist… Read More

Get ready to explore what’s possible with JSTOR Stewardship

Thanks for your interest! A member of our team will be in touch soon to learn more about your institution’s goals. In the meantime, explore stories from institutions using JSTOR Stewardship to amplify the reach and impact of their digital collections: Small team, big reach: Guilford College A solo archivist… Read More

Get ready to explore what’s possible with JSTOR Stewardship

Thanks for your interest! A member of our team will be in touch soon to learn more about your institution’s goals. In the meantime, explore stories from institutions using JSTOR Stewardship to amplify the reach and impact of their digital collections: Small team, big reach: Guilford College A solo archivist… Read More

Get ready to explore what’s possible with JSTOR Stewardship

Thanks for your interest! A member of our team will be in touch soon to learn more about your institution’s goals. In the meantime, explore stories from institutions using JSTOR Stewardship to amplify the reach and impact of their digital collections: Small team, big reach: Guilford College A solo archivist… Read More