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Have We Reached the Final Days of the Mass-Market Paperback? — Smithsonian Magazine One of the largest paperback distributors has decided to stop supporting the format, which has been making reading accessible to the masses since the 1930s

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Congrats to the fine folks at the Data Rescue Project on this well-deserved award--and huge thanks to their 900 volunteers who saved over 2500 datasets from over 90 government agencies in 2025.

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Grant Guidelines for Libraries and Museums Take “Chilling” Political Turn Under Trump Former Institute of Museum and Library Services leaders from both political parties expressed concern that the new funding guidelines could encourage a more constrained or distorted view of American h...

NEW: The Institute of Museum and Library Services is now accepting applications for its 2026 grant cycle.

But this time, it has unusually specific criteria: It “particularly welcomes” projects that align with President Donald Trump’s vision for America.

Want! 😍

Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive YouTube video by Michael John Goodman

The Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive contains over 3000 illustrations from significant editions of Shakespeare's plays in the Victorian period.

by Michael John Goodman (thanks @rossolson.com )

shakespeareillustration.org

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#books #literature

For #PublicDomain in 2026 …

✨This book was once owned by Jane Austen! ✨

There are very few books that Jane Austen is known to have owned, making this one at the UL incredibly special. We're delighted to show it to you today, on her 250th birthday!

#JaneAusten250

This museum image shows an ancient Egyptian linen shirt displayed on a mannequin against a black background. The linen is a yellowy colour from age. The shirt has long pleated sleeves, a pleated bodice, and a V-shaped neckline. Beneath the pleated bodice the fabric is plain woven. The hem is missing so it's not possible to know the precise length of the garment. The fabric has deteriorated in places with some areas frayed or partially missing especially along the sleeves and lower edges. The mannequin underneath is smooth and white, clearly visible where the fabric has deteriorated.

Wow, this ancient Egyptian linen shirt is the world’s oldest known complex woven garment. Known as the Tarkhan Dress, it was cut and tailored to fit some 5,000 years ago!

📷 Petrie Museum. : antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/ste...

#Archaeology

Person viewing an exhibition related to Jane Austen, featuring displays of historical clothing and documents.

Jane Austen was born 250 years ago today ✨

Our new display, Dancing with Austen, explores how dance shaped her social world and drove the plots of her novels.

Now on display at the Weston Library.

#JaneAusten

Canada loses measles-free status amid resurgence of virus in Americas Canada virtually eliminated measles in 1998. Now, a disease that doctors in the country knew only from textbooks is back.

Nearly three decades after eliminating the virus, Canada has lost its measles-free status, making it the first nation in the Americas to lose it since 2019 amid a broader resurgence of the vaccine-preventable respiratory virus around the world.

Did you know @margaretatwood.bsky.social donated an unpublished manuscript to the Future Library in Norway? In a hundred years they'll publish it! www.futurelibrary.no#/

Photo of a small valley between rising hills in a green mountainous landscape, a soft blue loch just poking round the corner in the distance. A person in walking gear trudges along a path. The sky is partly grey and moody, but opening into a cloudy blueness in the distance. Golden sunlight spreads over some of the landscape.

Walked 15 miles from Kinloch Hourn to Inverie, and have a greater understanding of why the Romans never managed to conquer Scotland 😰

Trump’s AI plan is here. What's in it, what does it leave out, and what happens to your job?

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AIPolicy #Jobs #Policy #DigitalEconomy #News #Explained #TechNews #OpenAI #Politics

What a recent policy reversal by Attorney General Pam Bondi on confidential sources means and why it threatens press freedom—and, in turn, democracy. Through rigorous, fair, and factual reporting, we can make the world more informed. @newyorker.com #journalism #news #US #press #pressfreedom

I got an encrypted email from a prosecutor who told me she was desperately trying to apprehend a serial rapist and encountering obstruction: “I believe there is a possibility that this person is being protected.” Catch up on my latest @newyorker.com investigation: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

small gray gravestone with deeply carved letters Here lyeth the Body of Hannah Fitzhugh Dyed Janury 9th 1722/1 aged nere 79 Years column borders, an hourglass in the tympanum flanked by fronds

Here lyeth
the Body of
Hannah Fitzhugh
Dyed Janury 9th
1722/1 aged nere
79 Years

A wonderful example of John Stevens I's mature style. Note the columns for borders—not confined to the post-1780 period! The tympanum design features an hourglass rather than a skull or winged effigy.

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Pneumonic Plague Infections in Modern Times Show the Black Death Isn’t Dead A person in Arizona recently died of pneumonic plague—a rare and severe form of the disease. An expert explains how the bacteria that spurred the Black Death centuries ago continues to claim lives

For infectious disease experts (& those who follow them), the Arizona plague death seems to have gotten notice in nearly every news outlet around the world by now. Most of it is repetitive & uninformative. This interview w/ plague expert David Wagner is not www.scientificamerican.com/article/pneu...

Former Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden speaks out on her firing by Trump Last month, Carla Hayden, the first woman and first African American to serve as Librarian of Congress, received an email announcing her dismissal. She talks about libraries as bastions of democracy, ...

“Democracy is under attack. Democracies are not to be taken for granted. And the institutions that support democracy should not be taken for granted. And so, that's what the concern is about libraries and museums…"
— Carla Hayden, the former Librarian of Congress

www.cbsnews.com/news/former-...

Weary from COVID deaths, Hispanic Texans embraced vaccines. It saved their lives. In the deadly summer of 2020, Hispanics in Texas were half of all COVID-19 deaths, spurring many to vaccinate. Today, in a startling flip, Hispanics make up less than a quarter of deaths from the dise...

Five years into COVID, the disproportionate impact of the virus has flipped.

In 2020, about half of deaths were among Hispanics and 38% were among whites.

Last year, 23% were Hispanic and 63% were white.

Experts blame differing attitudes about vaccination. www.texastribune.org/2025/05/01/t...

Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’ — Guardian US President calls films ‘national security threat’ and claims he called on commerce department to immediately enact tariff

“Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands”

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French Resistance Steps in After AP Banned From Trump-Macron Presser The Paris Press Corps today ensured that an AP reporter could enter and ask a question.

After American AP journalists were banned from the Macron-Trump press conference, French reporters stepped in to ensure a Paris-based AP reporter could ask their first question.

Association of Research Libraries Calls for Protection of US National Archives and Records Administration — Association of Research Libraries The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) sent letters urging congressional committees that provide oversight and appropriations for the US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to pro...

In response to recent news, @arlnews.bsky.social calls for protection of US National Archives and Records Administration.

Read our statement.
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I don’t ever watch hockey (or most sports really 😂) but it’s #USAvsCanada and it’s crazy. Just started and already like 3 fights.

#NHL

Internet Archive played crucial role in tracking shady CDC data removals Internet Archive makes it easier to track changes in CDC data online.

Internet Archive played crucial role in tracking shady CDC data removals

Internet Archive makes it easier to track changes in CDC data online.

By Ashley Belanger

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#DataProtection #internet

Hi! Sorry this isn’t a dm, I tried messaging but it said “can’t be messaged”. I would really like to read this pdf article (no acces there either) though🤓

In an Archive of Fragments: ThE LOUD SILENCES Of COO, SANG. 1394 Abstract: Fragments are collected in various forms of archives. This essay investigates a particularly vexing archive of fragments, the Cod. Sang. 1394, compiled at the beginning of the nineteenth century in the monastery of St. Gallen. Fragments in the collection represent a wide spectrum of chirographic production and include Latin, Hebrew, and German texts ranging from the fifth to the fifteenth century in date. By analyzing a selection of Latin and Hebrew case studies from this archive, the article aims to reevaluate the nature of refragmentation and the problems arising from selective cataloguing of fragments. It proposes an identification of previously neglected fragments and discusses the nature of Cod. Sang. 1394 as a codex on its own. Finally, it problematizes how fragments exist today in the state of disjoined digital existence, and what consequences does this bring for our research.

What happens when a codex is made out of fragments and then stops being a codex? Do fragments come back from the dead? Manuscripts in the digital world are often looking for their narrative and for fragments this can be a wild ride! A paper on loss and digital memory:

muse.jhu.edu/article/940700

Libraries & Well-Being: A Case Study from The New York Public Library By Daphna Blatt & Dr. E.K. Maloney, The New York Public LibraryDr. James O. Pawelski & Dr. Katherine N. Cotter, University of Pennsylvania In today’s society, libraries stand out as among the last tru...

Libraries & Well-Being: A Case Study from The New York Public Library

By Daphna Blatt & Dr. E.K. Maloney
Dr. James O. Pawelski & Dr. Katherine N. Cotter

www.nypl.org/spotlight/li...

#libraries #publiclibrary

How an Obscure German Noblewoman Influenced the Way Anne Frank Wrote Her Diary As a biographer, I try to use every means possible to see the world through my subject’s eyes. While writing Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, I read the books that were important to Jackson,…

How an Obscure German Noblewoman Influenced the Way Anne Frank Wrote Her Diary

Biographer Ruth Franklin on the Value of a Careful Eye and Fresh Perspective

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