Society of American Archivists Statement on Changes Being Made at National Parks and Monuments 📜www2.archivists.org/news/2026/saa-statement-...

Ohio's public universities are eliminating nearly 90 degree programs as a result of Senate Bill 1 • Ohio Capital Journal Nearly 90 degree programs have been identified to be cut at Ohio’s public universities since Senate Bill 1 was signed into law a year ago.

Ohio's public universities are eliminating nearly 90 degree programs as a result of Senate Bill 1 share.google/L47zrL7GUg67...

What Publishing Leaders Say About AI When They're Not on Panels: A Pulse on All Things AI - The Scholarly Kitchen Today's post explores issues facing scholarly publishers around AI — using it, layering it, competing against it, and licensing to it.

By Todd Toler, Angela Cochran (From Wiley) 📚 scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/03/11/w...

Collection Deep Dive: The Weld-Grimké Quilt - UM Clements Library There are some things the written word just will not tell us, which is why we’ve always been so drawn to the material objects that get saved alongside them. The exquisite, oversized quilt that came to...

Collection Deep Dive: The Weld-Grimké Quilt
Clement Library (Michigan) 📜
clements.umich.edu/weld-grimke-...

Here’s a short video showing what digital preservation involves. In this case, a file only works from a CD and can’t just be copied to our network—so we have to convert it into a playable format.

#Archive30 #DigitalPreservation

Walking through the Rita Benton Music Library This is an installment in a multi-part series.  Located on the first floor of Voxman Music Building is a library with large glass windows. Sunlight streams from the panes of glass, illuminating studen...

Walking through the Rita Benton Music Library #Iowa 📜(Heavily features collections from the rare book room) dailyiowan.com/2026/04/14/w...

‘An incalculable loss’: Hampshire College to close doors after fall semester Massachusetts liberal arts college laments ‘heartbreaking reality’ and says financial pressures to blame

An incalculable loss’: Hampshire College (MA) to close doors after fall.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Here is a phrase that just came up in RBMS planning: Cheese curd food truck.

Observing Collections a Micron at a Time: A Tools of the Trade Post | Guardians of Memory Ever wonder what all those intriguing looking instruments in science labs actually do? This first reimagined installment of our “Tools of the Trade” series takes an up-close look at microscopy. Learn ...

Observing Collections a Micron at a Time: A Tools of the Trade Post by Megan Zins, Library of Congress 📜
blogs.loc.gov/preservation...

Lost-Lost Film by French Cinema Pioneer Turns Up in Michigan | Artnet News The 45-second Georges Méliès film, "Gugusse and the Automaton", was donated to the Library of Congress last year.

Gugusse et l'Automate by Georges Méliès 1897 news.artnet.com/art-world/lo...

The University of Iowa Powwow is returning to campus, in spite of state's anti-DEI push - Little Village The University of Iowa’s inaugural powwow was held at Iowa City’s Robert A. Lee Recreation Center in April 1990. Organized by the American Indian Student Association — renamed the Native American Stud...

The University of Iowa Powwow is returning to campus, in spite of state’s anti-DEI push
littlevillagemag.com/the-universi...

Our final keynote speakers for RBMS wrote the description for their talks and I got chills. I think the message of advocacy will be affirming and sustaining right when many of us need it.

"The nonprofit that runs Meals on Wheels will open a cafe at Cedar Rapids Public Library, with profits benefitting the nonprofit’s other initiatives to feed the community." #EngagedLibraries @librarycolleen.bsky.social www.thegazette.com/lifestyles/h...

"concern about being qualified... was not the main barrier to [non-Māori librarians' willingness to engage with Māori issues]... much of the time, the knowledge required was at the level of attempting a basic reference desk request or consulting an online dictionary."

Many U.S. Museum Buildings Are in Disrepair, Threatening Collections and Visitors’ Safety "85% of museums (13,700) have deferred maintenance." - U.S. Government Accountability Office 📜
www.gao.gov/blog/many-u....

Opinion | Project 2025’s Quiet Weapon Against Universities The fight over accreditation is really about who controls higher education.

Project 2025’s Quiet Weapon Against Universities
The fight over accreditation is really about who controls higher education.
www.chronicle.com/article/proj...

DIY History is no more, and I'm feeling quite sad about it. #crowdsourcing
diyhistory.lib.uiowa.edu

Photo of Tamika Barnes, a Black woman wearing a bright red cardigan. Text over photo reads "Tamika Barnes wins 2027-2028 ALA Presidency" ALA150 American Library Association

ALA election results are in!

Congratulations to 2026-2027 President-Elect Tamika Barnes and to all of our newly elected leaders. Thank you to all the great candidates who stood for election this year and all the members who voted.

Read the announcement: https://bit.ly/48y7RxM

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What the Wright Museum’s Viral Series Teaches Us About Museum Content When the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History launched its now-viral sitcom-style social media series, it didn’t come from a large team, or a Hollywood budget, or a long-term conten…

What the Wright Museum’s Viral Series Teaches Us About Museum Content 📜
www.aam-us.org/2026/03/30/w...

Faith Bradham, @mauraseale.bsky.social , and I have a new article out! The Illusion of Opportunity: Reimbursement Policies and the Academic Librarian furthers our research into the costs of professional enagement activities. (spoiler: reimbursement culture sucks) doi.org/10.1353/pla.... 📚📜

I feel like I inadvertently wandered into another, "Which Narnia book is book one?" issue without realizing it.

Oh? It doesn't make me dizzy. I guess that is why both forms persist.

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Statement From American #Libraries Association: White House FY27 Budget Proposal Repeats Threats to Eliminate #IMLS (via @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social) www.ala.org/news/2026/04... #funding

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Microfilm is so much more intuitive! But all will be well, this particular case is some preliminary inventory before moving on to other things.

Unrelated to this story, it has become increasingly more interesting that the random exemplar that came my way is a microfiche of an article from 1978 about "Recent Research in Artificial Intelligence."

I had to think about this statement for far longer than necessary before I got it.

Sitting in on a first meeting for an archives student and their potential supervisor for a project.
Supervisor says, "Much of the collection will be microfiche, do you know what that looks like?
"No," the students says.
Me: Oh! I have one in my desk drawer, look!"
#MyWeirdFlex