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Critical Legal AI Literacies: The Challenges of Synthetic Media

The Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale Law School featured Clifford Anderson, Director of the Divinity Library at Yale University, in its Critical Legal AI Literacies speaker series. Anderson delivered a presentation on October 14, 2025, addressing the challenges arising from the proliferation of synthetic media.

Yale Divinity Library Announces New Director

Atla shared the news that Yale Divinity School’s library would have a new director starting May 1, 2024. At the time of the announcement, Clifford B. Anderson was Director of Digital Research at the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton, N.

Vanderbilt Archive Founded to Hold Media Accountable Turns 50

The Vanderbilt Television News Archive, founded in 1968 as a three-month ‘experiment’ to explore possible bias in network newscasts, will mark its 50th year of continuous operation on August 5th.

ATLA and Vanderbilt University Divinity Library Contribute Funds for New Open Access Publication in Forthcoming De Gruyter Series

Continuing a long-standing cooperative relationship, ATLA and Vanderbilt University’s Divinity Library have contributed funding to support the open access publication of an edited volume in De Gruyter’s series on Introductions to Digital Humanities: Religion.

Cultural Heritage in the Age of Big Data

A public symposium titled “Cultural Heritage in the Age of Big Data” will be hosted by Vanderbilt University Libraries Friday, June 1, bringing together archivists, librarians, digital humanists and public historians to discuss the ethical implications of preserving and providing access to culturally sensitive materials online.

Sustaining Television News for the Next Generation

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded funding to Vanderbilt University for a workshop and planning effort to examine and address the technical, legal and economic challenges of preserving broadcast television news in the 21st century.