Yes, what’s the point in re-skilling employees when those jobs will likely disappear because of AI and they’ll have to repeatedly re-skill for a vanishing number of jobs, without universal basic income.
@nycplan.org is inviting people to table at our Library Art and Propaganda Fair on June 13. Applications are due May 15.
Do you want to sell and giveaway art and propaganda related to public libraries and critical education? This is a good opportunity.
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This is great!
The American Archive of Public Broadcasting, to their eternal glory, have digitized more than 7,000 public radio and television programs from 1940 to the present.
It's a treasure trove of historic newsreels, interviews, speeches, and more.
americanarchive.org
Great news! I subscribe to the Baltimore Banner and it’s an excellent local newspaper.
Ex-libris bookplate featuring a shield with a chevron design and two flowers, and a knight’s helmet with plume and a motto banner reading ‘Je suis de Campagnon Bon Seigneur’.
Mystery Bookplate! I’m trying without any luck to identify this bookplate after checking through printed sources and online databases, and would be grateful for any advice! 📖🔎
I am so sorry about the loss of your mother, Sarah, and I hope your memories of her and how she loved her family (especially her grandkids) will comfort you. This is a lovely obituary and captured a fascinating life story. So cool about her classical languages and archaeology adventures!
The Library of Virginia in Richmond seeks a data engineer ($100k-$125k) to transform data practices at a 200-year-old cultural heritage org with an eye towards the future.
Looking for someone to imagine & collaboratively implement tomorrow's data infrastructure.
Apply by May 1! Tell your friends!
What I’d like to know is how some crypt0 company managed to trademark the term “Steampunk.”
This is a de facto declaration of war by robots and their quisling builders against humans. Enemies of art, music, literature, history and philosophy should have no place in polite society.
Saving local news also means saving the archives. #journalism www.poynter.org/reporting-ed...
I remember a couple of decades ago or so when there was a government-led effort to reduce teen pregnancy (which seems a sensible policy to me). Guess it worked too well.
Rachel Santarsiero on the chronology of disappearing data under the Trump administration that she has compiled for the National Security Archive
www.youtube.com/shorts/su2Lj...
The Huntington Library recently unveiled Sandy Rodriguez’s “Book 13,” which features a 20-foot-wide U.S. map of child migrant detention centers alongside federal Native-American boarding schools.
To reserve tickets to the full exhibit, visit huntington.org.
all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant
“National Geographic Museum of Exploration to Open on June 26, 2026 in Downtown DC”!! - Awesome. Read all about it here: www.popville.com/2026/03/nati...
I did not mean to imply that all politicians are carpetbaggers. As you note, bad politicians can be born in their states/districts and still be terrible. I just felt that it isn’t fair to single out a woman for this when it’s kind of a universal thing.
Men who do carpetbagging to run for Congessional office are seldom tagged as such.
Yes absolutely!
I immediately thought of the 3 stooges too. But they were comedy geniuses, not Witkoff, Kushner & Vance. Sigh.
A rectangular graphic with a black background is divided into upper and lower parts. In the upper half on the left, bold white text reads “Rare Book School 2026.” To the left of this is a photo of a dark-haired woman in glasses and a bright red-orange scarf. She is seated at a table and is holding a light up to a page of a rare book that is lying open before her. In the lower half of the graphic is a photo of two people seated at a table. On the left is a woman with dark curly hair and a red tank-top. To the right is a bearded man in glasses wearing a grayish-blue polo shirt. They are examining a small rare book that the woman has lifted off the table. The upper and lower halves of the graphic are divided by a red horizontal bar on which white text reads “rarebookschool.org/schedule” and a black horizontal bar with white text reading “Apply Now!”
Spaces are still available in many of our summer 2026 courses, but don’t wait, as classes are filling up!
To view this year's schedule and learn more about the application process, visit rarebookschool.org/schedule. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.
#RareBooks @uvalibrary.bsky.social
I hear them singing in the early morning now and it makes me so happy. Beautiful photo!
I also have an article in a scholarly journal but I think the publisher has the copyright.
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Sometimes if I’m visiting a permanent collection, I may pop in primarily to see my favorite objects again.
New blog post: I read the summative evaluation of the Deep Time hall at NMNH. Here are my takeaways, from the climate message to the allure of T. rex.
I talked with @prisonculture.bsky.social, Alison Macrina, and Katie Clark about libraries as public infrastructure, contested political terrain, and spaces of possibility—and about what it means to fight for them in this fascistic moment.
Ravel’s Bolero. Starts out very sweet, towards the end as the music surges I want to drive an ice pick through my ears.
University ethics approval has just gone off the deep end. Requiring a student to get ethics approval to do archival research and research in secondary material is pretty much ridiculous busy work and just a waste of time for everyone involved.
I don't really get why the push either.
the audacity of people who've never touched an archive telling archivists to "just use AI." like sir have you ever held a document that crumbles if you breathe wrong
