A vitrine with an assortment of books on American football and football players, including biographies of Jim Thorpe, Joe Namath, Mean Joe Greene, Franco Harris, Mike Ditka, Terry Bradshaw; a football fan's memoir by Stephen Dubner of Freakonomics Radio; NFL photobooks; a locally produced history: and programs from Super Bowls IX and X.

Pulled a display out of thin air in about a half hour at work this morning, in the name of #SPORTS and NFL Draft Week:

Partial view of a lanyard, designed with green side to evoke a football field, and yellow side with Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh motto, Free to the People, and NFL Draft 2026 logo

Hashtag Library NFL Draft Swag.

Local Resort Reportedly Pays $45 M. for Rauschenberg’s Famed Captiva Island Property The South Seas resort reportedly paid $45 million for Robert Rauschenberg's 22-acre property on Captiva Island, Florida.

WTAF
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Francis bacon painting of the three furies

Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion
Francis Bacon, 1944.
Oil paint and pastel on fiberboard
94 cm × 74 cm (37 in × 29 in)

Aforementioned van, next to Richard Serra's Pittsburgh, and near a Henry Moore sculpture and fountain

Aforementioned van, in front of the Carnegie Museum of Art, near a Henry Moore sculpture and fountain, begging you to scan its QR code

Can confirm: #ThisIsArt

Aforementioned van, now with suspicious orange cones

UPDATE:
The van is still here, and I'm now convinced it is ART

Sweet, yet self-contradictory painted 1968 Chevy Suburban with pastoral landscape and Southwestern Native American-inspired design detailing.

Sweet, yet self-contradictory painted 1968 Chevy Suburban with pastoral landscape and Southwestern Native American-inspired design detailing. (View of passenger side)

Odds are, there's a visiting charismatic expert on megaflora—or maybe just an artist—in the Museum today....

View looking up at faux ceiling in stairwell

This place.

based on their qualifications, publishing history, etc. and also referencing how the candidates bring balance to the board in terms of types of libraries, geographic distribution, or other forms of diversity." —So sayeth our charge. These are due April 16.

Tracing an Application Timeline: #RBM Board hopefuls, your applications were delivered today!
Next, we read! Then, ACRL editors write "a one-paragraph explanation for how each potential appointee will contribute to the work of your particular board,

Who do I know who has access to Curtis' North American Indian?
Bonus question: does any institution have an incomplete set? If so, how do they address that?

#LakeErieReport🌊 Seiche edition. Brash ice and tundra-esque selfies.

#LakeErieReport🌊, part II: New friend

#LakeErieReport🌊, part I: on a clear day

Neoclassical building with large entrance staircase illuminated with a light that doesn't seem to match the sky.

#SomeNews: This is the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Oakland.

Something really cool happened, and next month, I start a new job there, as Library Services Manager for Rare Books and Special Collections! 🖤💛

Donate to Escalator Conference & Mom's 80th: Support a Special Trip!, organized by Diane Dias De Fazio Way back in 2007, I wrote the first complete history of… Diane Dias De Fazio needs your support for Escalator Conference & Mom's 80th: Support a Special Trip!

I'm going to 🇨🇱 next week—ay, dio!
Gobsmacked by the support for my #escalator conference so far; thank you! You have a special place in my heart (and my acknowledgements). 🖤#ICYMI, I was persuaded to start a little thing: ⬇️
gofund.me/c594f0f2

Fireflies. Fireflies on the Solstice.

Donate to Support a Santiago Escalator Conference Trip: a Gift for Mom, organized by Diane Dias De Fazio Way back in 2007, I wrote the first complete history of the e… Diane Dias De Fazio needs your support for Support a Santiago Escalator Conference Trip: a Gift for Mom

Oh, hey! Rememberhow I got asked to present on #EscalatorHistory at a conference in Chile? It's next month! I started a GoFundMe to defray costs (and bring my 80-year-old Mom on the trip of a lifetime)! 🙏 Thanks for considering!
gofund.me/c594f0f2

I feel seen.

#LakeErieReport🌊

A small bird stands on the flat ground. It is brown with short feathers and no visible (but short) tail.

Good morning, bebbeh.
(Juvenile red-winged blackbird.)
#Birdsky

Oh, hello.

Zig zags and dots in green, yellow, and white on a book "preserved" by book tape

Stamped horizontal lines and a floral inspired pattern, in blue, red, and green (that kinda look like music notes)

Brown and reddish brown blobs that kinda look like aliens with 6 legs (or amoebas), in vertical stripes.

Book tape applied with reckless but good intentioned abandon over a yellow patterned all-over stamping

Some block-printed (?) endpapers, to politely interrupt your doomscroll....
#Skybrarians #BookSky #Long18thCentury

Two partial pages of a two-page infographic spread of results from the 2024 RBMS membership survey. Title: "Moving Forward: Membership and the Future of RBMS." In color! With line, bar, pie, and other charts and data visualizations.

Featuring: papers from the Power of New Voices, investigations about library materials marking practices, an analysis of EDIA verbiage in special collections job postings, an article on the impact of chronic illness and disability, author interview of Deborah Parker, updates, and this! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Cover of RBM with address label. Graphic: "careers ahead" poster for the WPA, ca. 1939.

📣 Hot off the presses! Print copies of RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage now arriving! (Online open access available soon, too!) #Skybrarians #RBMSSky

Book held together by book tape, with torn endleaf, featuring a mimeographed note, glued onto the title page, which reads "This is a valuable HISTORICAL SOURCE"

Lolz. #Skybrarians

First page of the book chapter we wrote in artists books and zines in special collections instruction.

Cover of the book in which we wrote a chapter

Spread from the contents from the book in which we wrote a chapter! So very honored to be amongst such fabulous folx!

We did a thing!
#Publishing #ArtistsBooks #Zines #SpecialCollections #Instruction @ emilymartin
@oldslyboots.bsky.social

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

Bertrand Smith's acres of books, Cincinnati. Blue book-shaped sticker.

Gustav E Stechert, 828 Broadway, New York

The Adair Book Store. New & old books Bought, sold, and exchanged. No. 43 E. Van Buren St. Chicago, Ill. Phone Hap 2565

C. E. Rappaport Libri rari Roma

Some nice booksellers' tickets I found this week. 📚 #BookSky