The ACRL Board of Directors has approved funding to support one year of ALA and ACRL membership for up to 50 library workers who identify as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and/or a person with disabilities. 📚
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Terrific new article about how the idea of "neutrality" has been used for decades to deny the approval of #LCSH relating to marginalized people. Great description of how subject headings are created and how inordinate scrutiny is given to certain proposals in order to appear "unbiased." #critcat 📚
"DigitalArc (DA), was designed to support the creation of low-cost sustainable digital exhibits and archives built by and for communities who want to control how their histories are presented online."
Save the date May 7, for joint #OhioDIG / Ohio Preservation Council in-person meeting at Case Western Reserve University in CLE! Great tours too!
Panel on safe material handling during image capture (seeking 2 more speakers). Contact ohiodigroup@gmail.com to volunteer.
#digitization #archives
A great opportunity for #MLIS students or any library worker who doesn't have institutional support to attend ALA Annual in Chicago. 📚 A 3-hour volunteer shift gets you free access to the conference!!
Are you a student in archives, museum studies, or information studies? Do you know one?
@saa-snap.bsky.social, the Students section of the Society of American Archivists, has two calls open—poster proposals and committee nominations. 🧵
OHRAB #NHPRC archival fellowship! For grad students in public history, library science, etc.
Program: locating, IDing, describing manumission records held in Athens, Fairfield, Gallia, Hocking, Jackson, Lawrence, Meigs, Morgan, Perry, Vinton counties. Apply by April 20! ohrab.org/2026-ohrab-a...
Text heavy poster with images of five middle aged women, four of whom are white. The text reads: The Fresno State Library invites you to a FREE webinar! Critical Cataloging & Librarianship Today Ethics, Power, and Possibility Tuesday, April 14, 2026 10:00 am - 12:00 pm PT/ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm ET. Please join us for a conversation with four nationally known librarian leaders in the critical cataloging/critical librarianship movement. They will explore how we can continue to move forward with this important work in the shifting political landscape. The panel will also discuss why it matters in higher education and in society today more than ever. Speakers 1. Emily Drabinski Associate Professor and Chair, School of Information Studies, Queens College, City University of New York 2. Dr. Karen Snow Professor and Ph.D. Program Director, School of Information Studies, Dominican University, River Forest, Illinois 3. Violet Fox Creator of The Cataloging Lab, Minnesota 4. Billey Albina (FKA Amber Billey) Social justice rockstar librarian turned clinical social worker, Toronto, Canada. Host: Julie Renee Moore Special Collections Catalog Librarian, Fresno State Library, California State University, Fresno. Use the QR code to register! This webinar is sponsored by The Womack Lecture Series named for late librarian emeritus, Printise J. Womack, at Fresno State.
Join @edrabinski.bsky.social & Karen Snow & Billey Albina & me for a free webinar, "Critical Cataloging & Librarianship Today: Ethics, Power, and Possibility" on Tuesday April 14th. Part of the Womack Lecture Series sponsored by @fresnostatelibrary.bsky.social. 📚 #critcat
Many are the repositories whose digitized collections are held together by paper clips & twine paid for with an uncertain budget that may not get renewed in the next fiscal year because there’s long been a zeal to “just” digitize things but not to invest in their careful documentation & maintenance.
Dan from Saint Meinrad made our first delivery of manuscripts this morning for this second round of the project!
It is always such a fun time to see items again, and to get excited about digitizing and describing them!
#midwestmss #medievalsky #manuscripts
Interested in showcasing your Ohio institution on our #OhioDIG Instagram? (www.instagram.com/ohiodig/) We'd love for you to join us there!
And we have a form for that!
More info here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#OhioArchivists #DigitalArchives
This is very cool! "DIY Web Archiving" #zine
Ohio University #Libraries to Join Google #Books Library Project www.ohio.edu/news/2026/03... (via @ohiou.bsky.social) #libraries #digitization
New Manuscript Road Trip blogpost just dropped! Follow me as I (virtually) meander around the great state of Oregon identifying leaves sold by our old friend Otto Ege: manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2026/03/09/e...
Interested in showcasing your Ohio institution on our #OhioDIG Instagram? (www.instagram.com/ohiodig/) We'd love for you to join us there!
And we have a form for that!
More info here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#OhioArchivists #DigitalArchives
It’s Manorial Monday! 🗺️
Here’s a map mid-digitisation. With sizes that vary wildly, we scan them on our overhead camera or book scanner, relaxing and flattening each one to get the best images for georeferencing.
#OhioArchivists it's #OhioArchivesMonth poster time again! Seeking archival images related to the theme “America 250: Unique Ohio.” Due by April 4.
Details: ohioarchivists.org/archives-mon... #ArchivesMonth #Archives
Registration is open for the Midwest Archives Conference/ Society of Ohio Archivists Joint Annual Meeting in Columbus OH, May 14-16.
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#archives #OhioArchivists
Travel scholarships to Midwest Archives Conference/Society of Ohio Archivists joint annual meeting in Columbus, May 14-16. Applications due 3/13! Six available for students & new professionals.
Details: ohioarchivists.org/scholarships...
#OhioArchivists
Media Studies’ Dr. Josh Shepperd is completing the final project of the now-defunct CPB: the official history of US public media. Stay tuned.
My colleagues at ACRLog wrote short tributes to the life and work of Fobazi Ettarh @fobettarh.bsky.social. I wrote about her work on disability, which I think deserves more recognition. acrlog.org/2026/03/04/t...
Thanks @ezerrenner.bsky.social for coordinating. #CripLib #VocationalAwe
Today begins a fieldwide conversation about the status of the history workforce and how to improve it. Download our report at aaslh.org/history-workforce to learn how history practitioners find their work meaningful but also report low pay, burnout, barriers to advancement, and more.
Travel scholarships to Midwest Archives Conference/Society of Ohio Archivists joint annual meeting in Columbus, May 14-16. Applications due 3/13! Six available for students & new professionals.
Details: ohioarchivists.org/scholarships...
#OhioArchivists
#OhioArchivists it's #OhioArchivesMonth poster time again! Seeking archival images related to the theme “America 250: Unique Ohio.” Due by April 4.
Details: ohioarchivists.org/archives-mon... #ArchivesMonth #Archives
Passionate about #PublicHistory, journalism, #CulturalPreservation, #DigitalArchives, #HBCU radio?
HBCU Radio Preservation Project Summer Graduate #Internship (paid). Help preserve powerful HBCU radio legacy with hands-on work rooted in culture/community.
Close 3/27.
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And we’re LIVE! This episode of #BiteSizedBookHistory is all about bookbinding, and how judging a book by its cover can tell you about its history and where it came from. youtu.be/3aUdEy0Edf4?...
LMEC job! In the BPL and working with BPL collections, but not technically the BPL… and because of that, there’s no city of Boston residency requirement.
