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

During his talk at RBS, James Malin—not on Bsky—showed this title page from a 19th-century catalog for Alfred Nobel’s Nitro-Glycerin Company I’d like to nominate this image for the most metal cut in print history—we need to make something with it for Halloween @skeuomorphpress.org

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

"Why did Arturo 'Arthur' Schomburg have such a passion for collecting books about Black people?" amsterdamnews.com/news/2026/05...

I didn’t 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.

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

At the point where the internet's sunfish slander has me annoyed enough to do a whole rant about it

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

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-...

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.

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.

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.

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...

“The Trump administration is trying to rewrite our history… Right now, long-term access to public information isn’t a guarantee.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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

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.

This show closes Saturday. I went yesterday just to take it in again. Definitely worth it if you haven't seen it already

@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...

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

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! 📖🔎

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...

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...

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

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.

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.

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...

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...

I'm gonna post some of my favorite costumes from this year's Mardi Gras shamble with Cryptique! Dav was a stunning insectoid thing! 🧵

When I give talks about the exploitation of GLAM by the AI industry I’m always asked “how can we defend ourselves from bots scraping our metadata?” I have no idea. That’s a question for an engineer. What I can and do say is that we shouldn’t be supporting this industry in the first place.

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.) 🔗👇

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!

Also worth noting for the ‘everything is online’ crowd that the numbers of archives being destroyed means that an increasing proportion cannot ever be online.

Check it out: museums.fivecolleges.edu

Your timeline told me it wanted some pictures from the delightful Wes Anderson show at the Design Museum In London

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.

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"

the Trump administration is flying historic American documents around the country, and administration officials are asking you to pray for the pilots and plane

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.

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.

#NYC Trans Archives is a “new, independent, community-based archive dedicated to trans liberation and social justice.” Expanding their collections, they’re seeking: photos, art, posters, signs, #zines, news articles, magazines, and more. 🏳️‍⚧️ transarchives.org/acquisitions/ #activism #archives #LGBTQIA

I folded zines last night for my kids' classes and watched this documentary on book bannings. Wanted to pass it along.