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<subtitle>The long-running and erratically updated blog of Kathleen Fitzpatrick.</subtitle>
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<updated>2025-03-18T00:00:00Z</updated>
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<name>Kathleen Fitzpatrick</name>
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<title>On the NEH and Our Path Forward</title>
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<updated>2025-04-17T13:23:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/neh-path-forward/</id>
<content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Crossposted from the Knowledge Commons team blog.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Over the last several weeks, we&#39;ve seen colleagues of ours across the country posting about the direct impacts they&#39;re experiencing of the current attacks on the National Endowment for the Humanities, including sudden and extensive terminations of previously awarded grants. We hurt for everyone who&#39;s trying to figure out how to &lt;a href=&quot;https://rrchnm.org/news/carrying-on-when-the-grants-go-away&quot;&gt;carry on&lt;/a&gt;, not least because we&#39;re in that same space with you right now.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;On April 2, 2025, we received notification that our NEH Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grant, awarded in 2020, was terminated effective immediately. We had just celebrated in a &lt;a href=&quot;https://about.hcommons.org/2025/01/21/digital-scholar-donates-20000-to-support-knowledge-commonsand-helps-us-reach-a-major-milestone&quot;&gt;January post&lt;/a&gt; the completion of our fundraising match; the NEH grant offered us $500,000 to be released as we certified a 3:1 fundraising match. That combined $2 million in funding was to provide us with the runway necessary to bring the Commons to sustainability.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Insofar as there is good news here, it&#39;s that we&#39;d been certifying gifts annually, and so most of the NEH funds had already been &amp;quot;obligated&amp;quot; (for whatever meaning that term now holds), and we&#39;d been spending the receipts as needed over the last several years, with an expectation that the combined fund would be fully spent down in early 2027. In real numbers, the termination of the grant resulted in something less than $100,000 in losses for our budget – a significant amount for a small team operating on a shoestring, but not an insurmountable figure.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;However, on April 10, 2025, we received further -- if not yet formal -- notification that our contract to provide the &lt;a href=&quot;https://about.hcommons.org/2024/12/10/kcworks-named-designated-public-access-repository-of-the-national-endowment-for-the-humanities&quot;&gt;NEH&#39;s Designated Public-Access Repository&lt;/a&gt; was also being terminated, effective on that date. This loss is devastating for us, both for the financial impact it represents (another $200,000 loss over the same two years) but also for the unceremonious end to a goal we&#39;d set for ourselves years ago. There’s also a real, human impact involved: we’d just completed an extensive search to hire a developer to work with us on that project, and were deep in the process of putting together an offer letter to an amazing candidate when the funds disappeared.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Not to mention the bigger picture here: that designated public-access repository is no longer needed, because it is assumed that the NEH will no longer be funding research, and thus there will be no results of research to make publicly accessible.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And worse: a huge percentage of our friends and colleagues at the NEH, whose work on our behalf has helped shape knowledge production across our fields, have lost their jobs, and are seeing the decimation of everything that they built and maintained with such care and professionalism.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Back here on the Commons team, we&#39;re mourning our losses, but also trying to carve out a path forward, one that will allow us to keep doing the key work of supporting open-access scholarly collaboration, communication, and preservation. We&#39;ll be sharing pieces of this plan with you over the coming weeks, which will include seeking institutions who want to join us (hint: KC Works is ready to host repositories for colleges, universities, and other organizations), and as you might expect, we&#39;ll be asking for community support as well. We’re more determined than ever to ensure that we can continue to provide a community-governed, non-profit alternative to the corporate platforms that threaten to capture, &lt;a href=&quot;https://about.hcommons.org/2025/03/19/digital-preservation-in-a-time-of-disorder/&quot;&gt;or even silence&lt;/a&gt;, so much of the work that we care about.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please be in touch as you carve your own paths forward, and let us know how we might help.&lt;/p&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Writing Again</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/writing-again/" />
<updated>2025-03-18T00:00:00Z</updated>
<updated>2025-03-18T13:22:43Z</updated>
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<content type="html">&lt;p&gt;It happened this weekend.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the aftermath of turning in the final manuscript for &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12787/leading-generously&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Leading Generously&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, I &lt;a href=&quot;https://kfitz.info/recalibrating-again/&quot;&gt;promised myself&lt;/a&gt; that I would not start working on a new writing project until I had some idea that absolutely would not leave me alone, that I&#39;d instead spend at least a year reading as omnivorously as I could through the ideas of others and see whether anything worth saying surfaced. &lt;a href=&quot;https://kfitz.info/reading/&quot;&gt;Almost exactly a year later&lt;/a&gt;, I was still delighting in the reading, but feeling the first glimmerings of an urge to write, if not with the focus of a project.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;I will only say here that I have spent the better part of the last few months deep in a fret about what I want to be when I grow up, and this hits right at the heart of it. There&#39;s the thing I&#39;m trying so hard to build, and there&#39;s the thing that brings tangible rewards. There&#39;s the thing that I&#39;m most passionate about, and there&#39;s the thing that supports my community. There&#39;s the thing that could with a lot of effort and a bit of luck turn out to be a huge success, and there&#39;s the thing that serves as its own indicator of success.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Burkeman is forcing me to realize that no small part of the strain I&#39;ve been feeling of late is resulting from my trying to have it both ways, trying to keep all my options open, trying to avoid having a path not taken. But each option demands my attention in a way that can only prove a distraction from the others, and the others do not let up in their demands in the meantime.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So the challenge ahead in the new year is, I think, to figure out where I want to place my focus, what might be most meaningful for my life -- and then to find ways to make peace with the distractions, whether by compartmentalizing them or by letting them go entirely. It&#39;s not easy: many of those distractions have real appeal. But if they&#39;re not the thing I most want to do, that appeal might well have the same effect on me as an evening spent doom-scrolling. Rebuilding my attention span in this sense might be more a matter of reckoning with my real priorities than retraining my brain to do one thing at a time.&lt;/p&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Start by Admitting Defeat</title>
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<updated>2024-11-30T21:44:40Z</updated>
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<content type="html">&lt;p&gt;From Oliver Burkeman&#39;s &lt;em&gt;Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals&lt;/em&gt;, which I am reading for reasons:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Productivity is a trap. Becoming more efficient just makes you more rushed, and trying to clear the decks simply makes them fill up again faster. Nobody in the history of humanity has ever achieved &amp;quot;work-life balance,&amp;quot; whatever that might be, and you certainly won’t get there by copying the &amp;quot;six things successful people do before 7:00 a.m.&amp;quot; The day will never arrive when you finally have everything under control—when the flood of emails has been contained; when your to-do lists have stopped getting longer; when you’re meeting all your obligations at work and in your home life; when nobody’s angry with you for missing a deadline or dropping the ball; and when the fully optimized person you’ve become can turn, at long last, to the things life is really supposed to be about. Let’s start by admitting defeat: none of this is ever going to happen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But you know what? That&#39;s &lt;em&gt;excellent&lt;/em&gt; news. (16)&lt;/p&gt;
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<content type="html">Crossposted from the Knowledge Commons team blog.<br />
Over the last several weeks, we&#39;ve seen colleagues of ours across the country posting about the direct impacts they&#39;re experiencing of the current attacks on the National Endowment...</content>
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<title>Writing Again</title>
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<updated>2025-03-18T00:00:00Z</updated>
<updated>2025-03-18T13:22:43Z</updated>
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