Diane Shaw
@museocat.bsky.social
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Retired museum library cataloger in Washington, DC area. Fond of birds and travel.
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Karl Bode
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listen, what could possibly go wrong when you don't respect preservation of all meaningful knowledge in a corrupt corporatist country with low education standards
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More than 340 local news outlets are limiting the Internet Archiveâs access to their journalism
McClatchy, Advance Local, Tribune Publishing and other major newspaper chains are restricting the nonprofit's archiving bots.
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/05/more-than-340-local-news-outlets-are-limiting-the-internet-archives-access-to-their-journalism/
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Ryan Cordell
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During his talk at RBS, James Malinânot on Bskyâshowed this title page from a 19th-century catalog for Alfred Nobelâs Nitro-Glycerin Company Iâd like to nominate this image for the most metal cut in print historyâwe need to make something with it for Halloween
@skeuomorphpress.org
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Lux đ¸ Alptraum
2 days ago
I just went to the Iris Van Herpen exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum and if the impractical looks spotted at the Met Gala upset you then this show will give you a rage aneurysm
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James Neal
8 days ago
"Why did Arturo 'Arthur' Schomburg have such a passion for collecting books about Black people?"
amsterdamnews.com/news/2026/05...
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Exhibit reveals how Arturo Schomburg discovered his priceless treasures
The new exhibit âTo Uncover and Reveal to the World: Arturo Schomburgâs Library,â a highlights Schomburg's passion about collecting books.
https://amsterdamnews.com/news/2026/05/14/exhibit-reveals-how-arturo-schomburg-discovered-his-treasures/
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I didnât realize that Baker & Taylor went out of business. They were a major supplier of books to libraries. Also, the company used to have a couple of adorable Scottish Fold cats as mascots.
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anil oza
8 days ago
wow â the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations đ¤
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist
8 days ago
At the point where the internet's sunfish slander has me annoyed enough to do a whole rant about it
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ian says DC statehood now
14 days ago
i'm now 2 for 2 in getting dcpl to acquire books on canonical dc artists who for some reason had nothing in the collection. library workers rule, thank you <3
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Jim Wald
15 days ago
creative idea, compelling message about The art of birds Curated by historian Simon Schama, the Mauritshuis's 'BIRDS' brings together five centuries of art exploring mankind's relationship with the avian world.
engelsbergideas.com/reviews/the-...
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The art of birds
Curated by historian Simon Schama, the Mauritshuis's 'BIRDS' brings together five centuries of art exploring mankind's relationship with the avian world.
https://engelsbergideas.com/reviews/the-art-of-birds/
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Kathleen E. Kennedy
17 days ago
welp, I've now seen it done. Folks, people are using AI to generate manuscript descriptions. If you're in the trade DON'T TRUST A DAMNED THING unless you know the seller's cataloguer. If you're a buyer, for god's sake use a trusted, expert agent rather than hope the description is real. jfc.
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Prisonculture
18 days ago
If you know people in NYC, can you please help us to spread the word that Black Zine Fair is on Saturday and that they should register to come?
pools.events/event/WFzHwJ...
- It's free but donations are always appreciated. We have 4 days to let folks know about it.
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Sat, May 9 - Black Zine Fair by Sojourners for Justice Press
Learn more, get tickets, and follow this event
https://pools.events/event/WFzHwJSD/black-zine-fair/
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Dr. Damien P. Williams is under the vast indifference of heaven
20 days ago
This is one of the most quietly revolutionary things any city can do to improve kids' lives & outcomes. If you genuinely care about kids having access to education or safe after school spaces & activities, then fund your libraries, staff your libraries, & make every public school ID a library card.
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Prisonculture
23 days ago
Something that more people need to embrace about the importance of public library organizing is that it's a good foundation to organize for other public goods. We need to explicitly connect library organizing with parks organizing as just one example and so on and so forth...
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Jared Dahl Aldern
23 days ago
âThe Trump administration is trying to rewrite our history⌠Right now, long-term access to public information isnât a guarantee.â
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Will Trump's Forest Service upheaval erase a century of precious historical documents?
Amid restructuring, the agency says it will retain records, but outside experts are wary.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/trump-us-forest-service-restructuring-historical-documents-archive-preservation-rewrite-history/
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NHM Library and Archives
23 days ago
Light Brown Spots on Guinea Pig, Dead Leaves of green Panic Grass, Mineral Pitch -- What's your Werner Brown colour today? Follow the link in our bio to see more of Werner's Nomenclature of Colours in our Digitised Special Collections.
#NatureInArt
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Movies Silently
26 days ago
Some modern people have a vision of contented 1950s housewives merrily whipping up meals for their husbands from scratch. In reality, there was Peg Bracken. A busy copywriter, she wasn't the vision of the perfect housewife and knew she wasn't alone, so she wrote a book. Male editors passed.
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Michael Lobel
about 1 month ago
This show closes Saturday. I went yesterday just to take it in again. Definitely worth it if you haven't seen it already
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Prisonculture
about 1 month ago
@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.
forms.gle/9BsYJ1jzpDTc...
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Rima I Anabtawi
about 1 month ago
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
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American Archive of Public Broadcasting
A collaboration between GBH and the Library of Congress with a long-term vision to preserve and make accessible significant historical content created by public media.
https://americanarchive.org/
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Dr Alison Ray
about 1 month ago
Mystery Bookplate! Iâm trying without any luck to identify this bookplate after checking through printed sources and online databases, and would be grateful for any advice! đđ
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Brandon Friedman
about 1 month ago
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.
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Palantir CEO says AI 'will destroy' humanities jobs, but there will be 'more than enough jobs' for people with vocational training | Fortune
Alex Karp said he struggled to market his humanities skills to get his first job.
https://fortune.com/article/palantir-ceo-alex-karp-ai-humanities-jobs-vocational-training/
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Dan Kennedy
about 1 month ago
Saving local news also means saving the archives.
#journalism
www.poynter.org/reporting-ed...
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Saving local news also means saving the archives - Poynter
From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their car...
https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2026/saving-local-news-also-means-saving-the-archives/
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National Security Archive
about 2 months ago
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...
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A Disappearing Data Chronology
YouTube video by nsarchive
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/su2Lj9C_Zw8
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L.A. TACO
about 1 month ago
The Huntington Library recently unveiled Sandy Rodriguezâs âBook 13,â 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
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madeline odent
about 1 month ago
all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant
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PoPville
about 2 months ago
âNational Geographic Museum of Exploration to Open on June 26, 2026 in Downtown DCâ!! - Awesome. Read all about it here:
www.popville.com/2026/03/nati...
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âNational Geographic Museum of Exploration to Open on June 26, 2026 in Downtown DCâ!! - PoPville
Exciting news from an email: "The National Geographic Society will open the National Geographic Museum of Exploration at its global headquarters in downtown D.C. on June 26, featuring 100,000 square f...
https://www.popville.com/2026/03/national-geographic-museum-of-exploration-open-june-26-2026-downtown-dc/
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Rare Book School
2 months ago
Spaces are still available in many of our summer 2026 courses, but donât 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
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Hudsonette
2 months ago
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FAREWELL, DINOSAUR A Joyful Send-Off Party For the Pigeon Sculpture at the HIGH LINE New York City
YouTube video by NYC loves NYC
https://youtube.com/shorts/nR3BPTApH10?si=f4cli3UOywTtUrlT
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Ben Miller
2 months ago
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.
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Lessons from the Deep Time evaluation
Jurassic dinosaurs in the Deep Time exhibition. Photo by the author. Iâm a big fan of Deep Time, the recently overhauled paleontology hall at the National Museum of Natural History. On this bâŚ
https://extinctmonsters.net/2026/03/19/lessons-from-the-deep-time-evaluation/
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Edward Perez
2 months ago
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Puff the Magic Hater
2 months ago
I talked with
@prisonculture.bsky.social
, Alison Macrina, and Katie Clark about libraries as public infrastructure, contested political terrain, and spaces of possibilityâand about what it means to fight for them in this fascistic moment.
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Why Libraries Matter in a Fascist Moment
âIf we lose this as a public good and as a free public service, we will have lost everything,â says Mariame Kaba.
https://truthout.org/audio/why-libraries-matter-in-a-fascist-moment/
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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS
2 months ago
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.
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Dan Steffen
2 months ago
Here are the complete DOGE depositions in the MLA-ACLS-AHA lawsuit that were taken down off of YouTube yesterday. I uploaded them to archive dot org.
archive.org/details/adam...
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DOGE Depositions : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Members of the Department of Government Efficiency being deposed in the Modern Language Association (MLA), American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), and...
https://archive.org/details/adam-wolfson
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Jonathan C Slaght
2 months ago
Olive branch removed from the 2026 US 10-cent coin: "For a nation whose founding symbols were carefully engineered around the balance of peace and war, that omission is hard to read as accidental"
fortune.com/2026/03/12/u...
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The U.S. Mint dropped the olive branch from the dime. What does that mean for the country? | Fortune
The eagle turned to the olive branch to show the nation's preference for peace over war.
https://fortune.com/2026/03/12/us-mint-drops-olive-branch-dime-peace-war/
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Manning Krull
2 months ago
I'm gonna post some of my favorite costumes from this year's Mardi Gras shamble with Cryptique! Dav was a stunning insectoid thing! đ§ľ
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Sonja Drimmer
2 months ago
When I give talks about the exploitation of GLAM by the AI industry Iâm always asked âhow can we defend ourselves from bots scraping our metadata?â I have no idea. Thatâs a question for an engineer. What I can and do say is that we shouldnât be supporting this industry in the first place.
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Tony Clark
3 months ago
Good. Now who will sue to have all of Jimmy Byron's actions as the ineligible and illegally appointed head of the National Archives declared null and void? (And discovery could tell us how long after Rubio's statutory eligibility ended he continued to serve as Acting Archivist, unlawfully.) đđ
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Matt Zoller Seitz
3 months ago
THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now
mzs.press
bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!
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John Levin
3 months ago
Also worth noting for the âeverything is onlineâ crowd that the numbers of archives being destroyed means that an increasing proportion cannot ever be online.
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Emily Wood
3 months ago
Check it out:
museums.fivecolleges.edu
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Groundbreaking collaboration: New Five College museums website unlocks access to more than 100,000 objects online - Daily Hampshire Gazette
NORTHAMPTON â More than 100,000 objects in the shared collections of the five college campus art museums in Northampton, Amherst and South Hadley, and at Historic Deerfield, are accessible to the publ...
https://gazettenet.com/2026/03/03/groundbreaking-collaboration-new-five-college-museums-website-unlocks-access-to-more-than-100000-objects-online/?fbclid=IwY2xjawQVsWBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeaQFoWLW3DvD9DIfCSVL-wxwX5IYwN9imyQXKvhMbxGArc7oW9X6C9adlJNo_aem_3tMUlWjlGZdpbY4BJrnyNg
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James Poniewozik
3 months ago
Your timeline told me it wanted some pictures from the delightful Wes Anderson show at the Design Museum In London
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Diane Zorich
3 months ago
Job posting: Assoc Dir for Interpretation, Learning & Public Programs @ Smithsonian Nat'l Museum of Asian Art. Closes 03/16; Salary: $143,913-$158,306. Onsite, Washington, DC.
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Associate Director for Interpretation, Learning, and Public Programs (IS-1001-14)
Job Opening: Associate Director for Interpretation, Learning, and Public Programs (IS-1001-14) at National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, DC.
https://trustcareers.si.edu/en/postings/6c813b32-c96f-4b64-b113-c46afc470a58
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Stephen West
3 months ago
the state of public history, 2026: with one eye on the Trump administration, NPS staff worries that describing the murder of an abolitionist "might denigrate the murderers"
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Aaron Rupar
3 months ago
the Trump administration is flying historic American documents around the country, and administration officials are asking you to pray for the pilots and plane
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Peter Ricketts
3 months ago
The Bayeux Tapestry up in lights at Piccadilly Circus! Tickets on sale from 1 July for the exhibition at the British Museum, opening in September. First chance in 1,000 years to see this iconic object back on British soil.
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franz
5 months ago
People keep telling me they're "not good enough to submit" - I say, we don't gatekeep skill levels. Sure, I use the books to scout for artists to hire/forward projects to, but our goal is to *encourage people to celebrate nature*. This is why I insist on having kid & amateur artists each season.
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Gina Murrell
3 months ago
#NYC
Trans Archives is a ânew, independent, community-based archive dedicated to trans liberation and social justice.â Expanding their collections, theyâre seeking: photos, art, posters, signs,
#zines
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transarchives.org/acquisitions/
#activism
#archives
#LGBTQIA
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Caroline (was secretthirdthing)
3 months ago
I folded zines last night for my kids' classes and watched this documentary on book bannings. Wanted to pass it along.
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Banned Books and the Librarians Caught in the Political Battle | Full Documentary | Independent Lens
YouTube video by PBS
https://youtu.be/ywQOCY-qDzE?si=sN_nXJzpFk_ncZKK
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