National Library Workers Day sign
Library workers are a special kind of civil servant. Our mandate is to give you and everyone else free access to some of the best things you can have: learning, self-enrichment, community, contemplation, fun, and simple peace and quiet. the best way to appreciate us is to come use us. 🙂 📚
Airmail envelope with Mario Vargas Llosa’s return address
Sometimes you’re sorting through a box of random bits of paper and you find a letter from Mario Vargas Llosa
Love to see the bit about “adjustments to staffing levels” tucked in there
Airmail envelope with Mario Vargas Llosa’s return address
Sometimes you’re sorting through a box of random bits of paper and you find a letter from Mario Vargas Llosa
Víctor Fragoso was a Puerto Rican writer & poet living in NYC during the 70s who dared to write from an unapologetically political & gay perspective. The special 50th anniversary edition of his book, ser islas/being islands, is available for purchase today.
Buy now--> https://ow.ly/ARU450YMQa9
Ugh. I know we all get too much email but accepting the AI invitation to summarize everything is an insult to those writing
Love that I have to turn Copilot off every day first thing on my workplace Outlook because it apparently turns itself back on every night.
These same boards are the same ones pushing “AI literacy” into every corner of our institutions, so the convergence-effect Ted describes in this thread—increasingly powerful boards filled w/ rich ppl whose anti-intellectual, airport-book obsessions drive research & teaching—is also the story of “AI”
Registration is open for ACH 2026, taking place virtually June 24–26! This year's theme centers transnationalism and solidarity in the Americas, with bilingual participation in English and Spanish. Register now: ach2026.ach.org
The Trump administration deported more than 200 Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador’s CECOT mega-prison, even though most had no gang ties.
What did both governments gain from this? @frontlinepbs.bsky.social and El Faro teamed up to find out.
Watch “The Deal” now on @PBS.
shorturl.at/zvNxT
Calling AI a “tool for learning” is like a film major where they teach you how to operate a remote
Graphic with orchids growing on block of ice
On our free graphics page: this beautiful design by Chi Nwosu justseeds.org/graphic/our-...
Looking for contributions on colonial legacies in contemporary cultural production from a transatlantic perspective.
Topics include slavery, empire, colonial archives, public memory, and plantation legacies.
If this resonates, feel free to reach out — happy to share more details 👇
Call for editorial board members We have received a substantial increase in archives-related submissions over the past year. We are currently seeking editorial board members with archival experience and knowledge of current conversations in archives. We invite archivists who are able to meet deadlines, participate in a thoughtful manner in the peer review process, and creatively contribute to the journal to apply. Please submit the following to itlwtlp AT gmail DOT com by May 1, 2026: Letter of interest CV or Resume In your letter, consider answering the following questions: What do you see as the direction for the journal? What is your publishing experience, as an author, reviewer, and/or editor? (We welcome applications from people who want to develop their skills in this area but recommend that you have at least some experience with academic publishing in one of these areas prior to applying.) About Lead Pipe + Vision In the Library with the Lead Pipe is an open access, open peer-reviewed journal founded and run by a team of library workers working in various types of GLAM environments. Lead Pipe believes libraries and library workers can change the world for the better. We improve libraries, archives, professional organizations, and our communities of practice by exploring new ideas, starting conversations, documenting our concerns, and arguing for solutions. We encourage creative thinking, envelope-pushing, and constructive criticism.
Call for archives professionals
Link to full call: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Screenshot depicts the "Ebook Central Research Assistant. This Ai-powered feature can help you with time-consuming research tasks."
F*&G^&* ProQuest
NEW: For the first time, ProPublica has been able to quantify how many U.S. citizen children have been directly affected by Trump’s immigration crackdown: more than 11,000 kids had a parent detained — and that’s an undercount. 1/ 🧵
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
NEW: El Faro obtained documents confirming Guatemala’s current AG signed papers in at least eight irregular adoptions in the early 1980s. This year, a record of the position in which she signed off on them is absent from her reelection portfolio. beta.elfaro.net/en/central-a...
Philly area folks, this is tomorrow!
Thrilled to announce the world premiere of our new documentary, *Becoming Benjamin Lay*, Sat., Apr. 11, 2026, 4:00 pm, Carnegie Library, 419 Library St., Braddock, PA. Please help us spread the word by social media/personal contacts. Tickets ($10) available here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/becoming-b...
the documentation & archives team at @afterviolence.bsky.social is looking to hire a paid intern for may - december 🌈 app closes 4/12 afterviolenceproject.org/opportunities/
One week from today!
One week from today!
In times of social and political strife, we often proclaim, “History will not look upon this moment kindly.” But how will history remember us if the historians are executed?
www.rogerebert.com/women-writer...
Agreed! Um filme incrível.
"Syreeta Gates, an archivist from Jamaica, QNS, founded The Gates Preserve, a digital record of Black youth culture media so complete that the photographers + writers... from that era often hit her up to ask for clips of their own work. Gates has dedicated her life to the [clxn] of this history..."
Two weeks from today!
Oh cool well anyway I actually like thinking and having ideas
