I think I'm a combination of Grover and Ernie

If we put half as much resources into metadata and cataloging as we do into dumb AI stuff, we’d way better off in terms of the info/data ecosystem

Was honoured to be part of this series, and to see so many thoughtful perspectives on this question! Check it out.

My brain at 1:30 AM after wind-down and quiet time that began 3 and 1/2 hours prior:

Closeup of the face of a black and white or tuxedo colored cat with her ears pointed very straight up. She looks surprised or maybe confused.

Posting a cat picture instead of yelling on the internet about things. You're welcome.

Texas bird sanctuary faces development unless $3M is raised The sanctuary supports more than 300 bird species from around the world.

The sanctuary supports more than 300 bird species from around the world.

Texas Press Conference for the Freedom to Read, May 19 YouTube video by technolibrary

Parent advocate and @txfreedomread.bsky.social co-founder explains why #txlege bills SB13 and HB3225 are problems for our students and their libraries. It makes no distinction between five year olds and high school students. Please call. youtu.be/rtZMtq9qAPs

LOL.

At my library, our digital collections budget is astronomical precisely because of this- we pay multiple times more per ebook than what the average reader pays by design. What should be a godsend to making books easier to read and more accessible instead threatens to swallow our budget whole 🧵

This is where your Harry Potter money goes

Screenshot of the home page for 'From Easter Rising to Civil War: Ireland, 1916-1922', part of Warwick Digital Collections. It includes a photograph of Dublin, partly in ruins, with trams and carts crossing a bridge, and people gathering.

Front page of booklet: "The "Sinn Féin" REVOLT ILLUSTRATED. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY HELY'S LIMITED, DAME STREET &: ACME WORKS, DUBLIN. PRICE ONE SHILLING. [ photograph of O'Connell Bridge & Sackville St. Dublin.]"

Front page of Labour Party leaflet, 1921: "THE STRANGLING OF IRELAND An Appeal to British Women BY A British Woman. OUR RESPONSIBILITY. It is a pity that every British woman — Welsh, Scottish, and English — cannot go to Ireland and see for herself the abomination of British rule there. This cannot be. But ignorance of the facts cannot be accepted as an excuse for indifference. Quite enough has been published in all reputable newspapers to show British women that what the Government calls "law and order" in Ireland is in fact "anarchy and terrorism." The whole world is looking on in disgusted horror. Irish men and women can and will accept no plea of ignorance. British women, unless they stand out for justice and humanity in Ireland, will be branded before the world, and in the long memories of the Irish people, as callous or cruel, deaf to the call of liberty, narrow-minded, and slothful. If we keep silence, we tacitly condone the atrocities ordered or allowed by our Government. If we support the Government we are guilty in the first degree. Great Britain has for centuries ruled Ireland by force against the will of the enormous majority of the people. This, no doubt, is one of the reasons of our indifference to the wrongs of Ireland. They are so old! But every generation in turn is responsible for the wrongs done in its time, and the horror of wrong for which we, now living, are responsible in Ireland has never been surpassed. What is the state of affairs? TERRORISM. There have been many repetitions of sacking, looting, arson, and murder during the centuries of British rule in Ireland, but never worse than what has taken place during the past two years, with ever-increasing violence, culminating in the burning down of a large portion of Cork's main street, its Town Hall, and Carnegie Library."

Front cover of printed report: "THE AMERICAN COMMISSION ON CONDITIONS IN IRELAND INTERIM REPORT (BRITISH EDITION) Price ONE Shilling (Post Free is. 3d.) HARDING & MORE LTD. 119 HIGH HOLBORN LONDON, W.C.1 1921"

'From Easter Rising to Civil War: Ireland, 1916-1922'

Browse 82 pamphlets, reports, leaflets and postcards relating to the 1916 Easter Rising, Irish War of Independence and Irish Civil War.

Free and digitised in full at cdm21047.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

IMLS also only makes up 0.005% of the federal budget. Anyone claiming they're saving the government money or making things more efficient by cutting IMLS is lying through their teeth.

That sounds delicious! 👌 (need to check out your blog!)

That's a nice pen. 🧐 I think I need one as well.

Pink with ghosts speaks to me. ☕️

Good time for a reminder:

02-09-1874 - 05-12-1925 Amy Lowell - Born in Brookline, Massachusetts. She was an American poet of the imagist school. Lowell never attended college because her family considered it improper for a woman to do so. On her own, she became an avid reader and a book collector. Lowell lived as a socialite and became a world traveler. In 1902, after seeing a performance of Eleonora Duse in Europe, she began to write poetry. It was known that Lowell was a lesbian, and in 1912, she began a relationship with actress Ada Dwyer Russell. Lowell’s poems about Dwyer have been called the most explicit and elegant lesbian love poetry during the time between Sappho and the poets of the 1970s. The two women lived together for over a decade until Lowell’s death in 1925. Lowell posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926.

02-09-1938 - 12-31-2012 Jovette Marchessault - Born in Montreal, Quebec. She was a Canadian writer, poet, artist, and an important pioneer of lesbian and feminist literature and art in Canada. In 1980, with the publication of Triptyque lesbien, she risked her developing career by becoming the first Quebec novelist to declare her lesbianism. A portrait of Marchessault, by artist Robert Laliberté, is on exhibit in the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives’ National Portrait Collection, in honor of her role as a builder of LGBT culture and history in Canada.

02-09-1944 Alice Walker - Born in Putnam County, Georgia. She is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and activist. She wrote the novel The Color Purple (1982) which won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She was the youngest of eight children. Walker began writing when she was eight years old. “With my family, I had to hide things,” she said, “And I had to keep a lot in my mind.” In 1952 she was wounded in the right eye by a shot from a BB gun fired by one of her brothers. Because the family didn’t have a car, her parents couldn’t take her to the hospital. It was a week later before she saw a doctor and by that time she became permanently blind in that eye. Stared at and sometimes taunted, she felt like an outcast and turned for solace to reading and to writing poetry. The scar tissue was removed when she turned 14. She later became valedictorian and was voted most-popular girl, as well as queen of her senior class. Her injury allowed her to “really see people and things, really notice relationships and to learn to be patient enough to care about how they turned out.” In 1965, she met Melvyn Postman Leventhal, a Jewish civil rights lawyer. They were married in 1967, in New York City. Later that year the couple relocated to Jackson, Mississippi, becoming “the first legally married interracial couple in Mississippi”. They were harassed and threatened by whites, including the KKK. The couple had a daughter, Rebecca, in 1969. Walker and her husband divorced in 1976. In the mid-1990s, she was involved in a romantic relationship with singer Tracy Chapman. “It was delicious and lovely and wonderful and I totally enjoyed it and I was completely in love with her but it was nobody’s business but ours.” Walker wrote, “At one point I learned Transcendental Meditation. This was 30-something years ago. I was in that state on oneness with creation and it was as if I didn’t exist except as a part of everything.”

02-09-1941 Sheila Kuehl - Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She is best known for her role as Zelda Gilroy on the TV show The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis which aired on CBS from 1959 to 1963. She was also in the television series The Stu Erwin Show (also known as Trouble with Father) from 1950 to 1955. Her father was Catholic and her mother was Jewish. She was a member of the California State Assembly from 1994-2000 and California State Senate from 2000-2008. She the first openly gay member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors from District 3 and assumed office on December 1, 2014. In her fourteen years in the State Legislature, she authored 171 bills that were signed into law, including legislation to establish paid family leave, establish the rights contained in Roe vs. Wade in California statute, overhaul California’s child support services system; establish nurse to patient ratios in every hospital; further protect domestic violence victims and their children; prohibit discrimination on the basis of gender and disability in the workplace and sexual orientation in education; safeguard the environment and drinking water; and many other bills that protected the people of California. She is an advocate of single-payer health care.

🏳️‍🌈LGBTQ Her/His-Story for February 9th - click on photos to read more.

Don’t Let Autocrats Erase the Internet Preserving digital archives is a crucial weapon in discrediting and defeating authoritarian regimes.

Preserving digital archives is a crucial weapon in discrediting and defeating authoritarian regimes. foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/24/r...

Introducing: SNAP Show and Tell Have you ever come across something in the archives that made you stop in your tracks? Whether it was an unexpected document, a fascinating artifact, or a story hidden in the records, we want to hear about it! For our new SNAP blog series, SNAP Show and Tell, we’re inviting students and new professionals to share one cool thing they’ve discovered in the archives.

Introducing: SNAP Show and Tell

Have you ever come across something in the archives that made you stop in your tracks? Whether it was an unexpected document, a fascinating artifact, or a story hidden in the records, we want to hear about it! For our new SNAP blog series, SNAP Show and Tell, we’re…

I’m not saying this isn’t believable, but given this administration’s obsession with websites, it’s weird that Dr. Shogan is still listed on the NARA site and there hasn’t been an actual announcement.

Wayback Machine captures of the Blockbuster video rental site on December 24, 1996 and January 17, 2025.

Remember Blockbuster? 📼📀 Once, there were over 9,000 stores across the globe; now only one remains. 🌎️ Blockbuster․com too is a shadow of its former self.
Explore the web's past with the #WaybackMachine ➡️ https://web.archive.org

#DotComEra #DigitalHistory #90snostaliga

B&W film still from Ivan the Terrible: courtiers pour coins over the head of the Tsar

After hours at the Treasury Department with Elon and the DOGE boys

Root

For those that didn't know, we run a public archive of pre-release content for various games via archive.thedatadungeon.com which may be of interest to some! We also have an archive of technical documentation we're gradually building via library.thedatadungeon.com

#digipres #digitalpreservation

Worried about how long your favorite art, stories, videos, and other media will remain online? You can do something about it. Archive it, put it on a flash drive, share it. Digital things are fragile, but you don't need serious tech skills to protect the digital things you care about. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

70 North American archives / library special collections have now made the move to Bluesky - from medieval manuscripts to zines

Help them build up their communities here and reconnect - you'll get excellent archive content in return!

go.bsky.app/MN9ZZ3M

Can you read cursive? It's a superpower the National Archives is looking for. The National Archives looking for volunteers with an increasingly rare skill: Reading cursive.

On another note, if you know how to read script the National Archives could use your help transcribing documents because it’s apparently a skill that is going away since we don’t rely on handwriting much in the modern day.

www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

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