A 3x3 grid titled "Is it a library? Alignment chart". Horizontal axis categories: Contents purist: Must contain books Contents neutral: Must contain information Contents rebel: Can contain anything Vertical axis categories: Curation purist: Must be managed by a professional librarian Curation neutral: Must be curated by someone Curation rebel: Can be managed by nobody Examples represented on the grid: Curation purist, contents purist: New York Public Library is a library Curation purist, contents neutral: A newspaper archive is a library Curation purist, contents rebel: A school information commons is a library Curation neutral, contents purist: A home bookshelf is a library Curation neutral, contents neutral: A Spotify playlist is a library Curation neutral, contents rebel: A zoo is a library Curation rebel, contents purist: A street library is a library Curation rebel, contents neutral: A PC downloads folder is a library Curation rebel, contents rebel: A junk drawer is a library

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Try checking possible mutations of the call or accession numbers? I often found items miss-shelved with the last two digits swapped

Women of Photography Join us to celebrate the contributions of women practitioners to the history and living present of photography.

4 weeks today we will be celebrating #InternationalWomen’sDay with our 2026 online Women of Photography conference-athon on 8th March.
Join 72 speakers over 24 hours travelling across the world beginning with photography of Antarctica. Registration is open and free.
womenofphoto.com

The Washington Post just laid off its entire award-winning photo team. They were our eyes in places we'll never see. It's a horrifying loss at a time when lying governments, propaganda and AI slop are on the rise.

Not my own, and not for any quality use, but when I'm looking through negs in others' archives I'll invert my screen and take photos that way just to have a record of what's there.

All this talk of the supposed benefits of AI for drug research, writing, art, music, and more. But with reports suggesting $1.5 trillion or more of investment in AI in the coming years, imagine directly investing a trillion dollars in medical research, writers, artists and musicians.

I talk about this sometimes to folks not in academic or archival spaces and they scoff, then they get 👀👀, then they drink

The problem with venture capitalism is you eventually run out of other people's money

a photo of Hannakin’s 2026 tea towel calendar design which has a dark background and is covered in little rosy-cheeked anthropomorphic garlic characters with bodies and legs but no arms and a garlic bulb for a head gathered around the calendar months along with green wibbly sprouts and sparkles all about. The tea towel has been cut out and sits on a green background.

🌱🧄It’s here! My 6th annual Calendar Tea Towel has just launched for pre-order for this 2026 design! 🧄🌱

www.hannakin.com.au

a picture of the characters from Hannakin's 2026 tea towel calendar. It has a dark background and is covered in little rosy-cheeked anthropomorphic garlic characters with bodies and legs but no arms and a garlic bulb for a head amongst green wibbly sprouts and sparkles all about.

A better look at the little garlic sprout friends from my 2026 tea towel calendar (orders are open now if that’s your jam www.hannakin.com.au 🌱)

Looks like they're at the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi

🧵Spotted in a Library in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A softly smiling man (20s?) is wandering around the shelves with a tiny new human snug against his chest in a sling. He's kissing the top of her head, tilting himself this way and that so she can see ALL the books she'll one day be able to read. (1)

More and more I am hearing from archivist pals who are receiving enquiries for records that don't exist because AI has somehow generated fake catalogue numbers and titles...

Andrea Gibson's, "Birthday" YouTube video by Andrea Gibson

"to wake the songbirds in our hands,
to wake the music in our bones"

I'm heartbroken to learn of Gibson's passing today.

"historians for the right to work"

Found it!

May I make a suggestion from the arts world?

a man in a blue shirt is holding a small frog in his hands . ALT: a man in a blue shirt is holding a small frog in his hands .

Happy birthday to David Attenborough.
99 today!

Expired b&w is usually more forgiving than expired colour negative film. If it's been stored well you can probably get away with shooting it at 100. If you're not sure, overexpose it by a stop?

Don’t change your subject headings. There is no library jail. Keep using the real names not these fake ones.

Obeying in advance is worse than those doing the change because when you obey with soenthing that is clearly wrong you are putting false information into official “fact” places.

You never know! We Richmond fans were feeling pretty hopeless in the first quarter last night

Uhhh dawg? Your gyre is widening

Happy #twinpeaksday to all that celebrate

Just a reminder that fascists, authoritarians, dictators of all stripes destroy archives— books, museums, databases, &c— because those things provide windows onto a plurality of other ways we might organize the world.

And so preserving, defending, and spreading that knowledge harms those regimes.

#InternationalWomensDay is 8th March. Please join me & Kris Belden-Adams in a unique 24hour online conference celebrating women of #photography.
60 speakers from 17 countries across multiple time zones from New Zealand to West coast USA. Registration here: egrove.olemiss.edu/womenofphotogr…

If you can get there, be there x transjustice.org.au/youth

The little backpack 😭😭😭

CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Topics cdc, government, united states, dataset, archive Language English Item Size 98.5G An archive of all CDC datasets uploaded to https://data.cdc.gov/browse before January 28th, 2025. Excludes corrupt datasets and data not publicly accessible.

The entire archive of all CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 has been backed up on Internet Archive.

Incredible work everyone. Science will never be silenced!

On May 10, 1933, Nazis burned the library of The Institute for Sexual Science.

The Institute was founded by Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld. Its community clinic pioneered healthcare for queer, trans, & intersex people.

The Institute was targeted & attacked as part of a Nazi government censorship program.

Open now at Letterform Archive! GOOD LUCK is a vibrant celebration of Lunar New Year, a tradition that honors renewal, connection, and happiness.

On view in the Reading Room during gallery hours; see letterformarchive.org/visit to plan your visit.

#ChineseNewYear #LunarNewYear #ThingsToDoInSF

Look at the Australian experience in Nauru and PNG for an idea of how hellish this will be. The writer Behrouz Boochani can tell you