A (tiny) recording of Amelia Earhart’s 1932 London speech, played for the first time | Timeless A reference librarian stumbled across a tiny recording of a speech by Amelia Earhart tucked inside a copy of her 1932 memoir, published soon after she became the first woman (and the second person) to...

I am enchanted by IRENE.
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10 new books in March offer mental vacations March is always a big one for books – this year is no different. We call out a handful of upcoming titles for readers to put on their radars — offering a good alternative to doomscrolling.

New books in March offer a mental vacation

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That’s tremendously disappointing.

Until I visited the site yesterday, I'd missed that an appeals court had stayed the ordered restoration of the slavery exhibit at the President's House in Independence NHP in Philly. It's now only partially restored, with some community-added supplements […]

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Slide-show slide with the following text: - What knowledge or skills are lost when we use Al to perform our own work and support the work of others? - In what ways are we undermining the capacity to engage in scholarship and conversations about cultural heritage? - How does Al usage contradict our institutional missions and values? - What legacy are we leaving for future library and archives workers, stewards, and patrons?

Amazing talk at #c4l26 by Yale’s Summer Shetenhelm on the ethics of AI within libraries

I live in west and can highly recommend: the gold standard, satellite cafe, Clark park, Fiume. Enjoy!

Home - The ArQuives The world's largest independent resource for those who strive for a future world where lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people are accepted, valued, and celebrated.

20 years of creating digital surrogates at the independently run, community focused queer archives in Canada- bit rot, human error/malice, natural disaster, viruses, and all the managed activities that work to preserve them against the tide of time and change #c4l26 #code4lib

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Watch along from home- 3 free days of excellent community driven skill sharing #code4lib #c4l26

Volunteering Monday/Wednesday if you’re on site in Philly (say hi!).

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Nightingale explicates the Black press as infrastructure (a robust system with redundancies, distribution) and explains how digitization has the potential to support or obscure that infrastructure. 📚 #code4lib #c4l26

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Judge Orders Trump Administration to Restore Displays About Slavery at Washington’s House

Judge Orders Trump Administration to Restore Displays About Slavery at Washington’s House 📚 (Gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/u...

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“The Fireside Angel is a picture I painted after the [fascist] defeat of the Republicans in Spain…an ironical title for a kind of clumsy oaf which destroys everything that gets in the way. That was my impression in those days of the things that might happen in the world. And I was right."

This week in existential art:

Max Earnst’s stunning Triumph of Surrealism (1937) as seen at the PMA compliments the vibes of this student work on campus.

Newly acquired Louisa May Alcott collections at the Concord Free Public Library (MA) 📜concordlibrary.org/events/library-news/from...

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Having foundational fiction ruined is not more important than the lives impacted by ethically ruinous rich and powerful people.

Read -other books-
Love -other universes-
Reject -predatory people-

Key to my new home office seems a touch big but hey! Can’t beat the natural light and cute coworker:

Yes the dog is pleased 🐕❄️❄️❄️

Humanities Endowment Awarding Millions to Western Civilization Programs

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/a...

As seen in recent library tourism:

Eve going to apple town while hanging with serpent Lilith was the best part of the gender & sexuality show at my favorite place on the east coast 🍎🐍

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During WWII Kay McNulty was one of the women who devised processing routines for the ENIAC machine, establishing how artificial intelligence developed. At the public launch in 1946 the women programmers were relegated to the role of hostesses. www.dib.ie/biography/mc...

What will 2026 bring? We asked eight friends of Understanding AI to contribute predictions, and threw another nine in ourselves. We give a confidence score for each prediction; a prediction with 90% confidence should be right nine times out of ten. We don't believe Al is a bubble on the verge of popping, but neither do we think we're close to a "fast takeoff" driven by the invention of artificial general intelligence. Rather, we expect models to continue improving their capabilities - but we think it will take a while for the full impact to be felt across the economy.

17 predictions for AI in 2026 - Timothy B Lee & others www.understandingai.org/p/17-predictio… (interesting predictions)