"Our love letter to the future." #WesternU researcher B. M. Watson's ( @brimwats.com ) personal experiences helped shape their work in building on and improving cataloguing – a system that is largely unseen but touches everyone. @westernufims.bsky.social

Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development

Holy Cool – “Smithsonian Dreams” Projections on the Castle this weekend!! – “Smithsonian Dreams” Projections on the Castle this weekend!! - PoPville www.popville.com/2026/07/smit...

To the inevitable cries of “just digitize everything, then;” not an answer. Making digital facsimiles accessible requires huge investment: staff, metadata, preservation. Orgs are currently not funded to meet these needs. While digital objects are great, they’ll never replace looking at originals.

🚨 HEADS UP Every library with climate literature & pre-2026 government documents needs to figure out how they will protect them. bsky.app/profile/davi...

Did I commission a watercolor painting of the algae-filled reflecting pool from the incomparable @artologica.net? Yes. Yes, I did. It is just as amazing as you'd expect. Now to build a frame for it.

FYI: For the first time this year, free tickets will be required for festival entry, but not for individual programs within the festival. Tickets can be reserved at loc.gov/bookfest!

Job posting: Prints and Photographs Librarian @ Howard Univ. Salary: $75,000 - $85,000

Excited to share this 250th project that has been long in the making, created by some of the best writers and historians of religion in America. Since its inception, the United States has been shaped by an endless variety of beliefs; together they have made us who we are. www.undergods.org

DEVELOPING: It does appear that DOJ and DOI might be working overtime to be able to take action against the slavery materials at the President's House in Philadelphia before July 4. Information follows ...

FYI, Mass Historical @mhs1791.bsky.social has an exhibition of rare manuscripts and artifacts from Independence open right now through December 19. It's called “1776: Declaring Independence." It's very cool. See: www.masshist.org/exhibitions

Curator of Vertebrates Position at the Smithsonian! www.usajobs.gov/job/873849000

You asked for it: metal heron tshirts are up for preorder for the next 7 days. Preorders come with a sticker! topatoco.com/collections/...

Two papers by Max Planck, the legendary Nobel laureate in physics, were retracted by Springer Nature in 2011, likely due to an algorithm flagging the papers for self-plagiarism and copyright infringement. Read on for how stupid it all is. 🧪

Y'all - the Smithsonian is hiring three new curators - herpetology, ichthyology, and ornithology! Notably, this is a 2nd fish curator position - i.e., not the same as the one advertised last month. So if you applied for that one apply again. www.usajobs.gov/job/873849000

Just three more days until Met Museum Raphael show closes. I was at the Met yesterday and went for one last viewing, and spent a very long time with this drawing of two apostles, from @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social's collection. Really think it's one of the most remarkable drawings I've ever seen

News — University of Central Florida (UCF) abruptly shut down two of its three libraries today, plus an important resource desk within the main library. Staff were given no warning. UCF is the 2nd largest public university in the country w/ ~70k students. Library hours page confirming closures:

JOB POSTING 📜📚 The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University seeks a research (reference) librarian: yale.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/external_car...

BREAKING: over the next few years NARA will close: National Archives at Chicago Chicago Federal Records Center (FRC) National Archives at San Francisco San Bruno FRC NARA COO Jay Trainer told agency staff he knows this will be "unsettling" and "challenging" for them. In addition, NARA will move 🧵

Let me draw your attention to a few. First, Geena Davis with Backlash, and it’s SIGNED movieposters.ha.com/itm/movie-po...

Go the @bldigischol.bsky.social 's UV team and IIIF! 'switch between the visible light, ultraviolet and infrared images of a single folio in the same canvas. You can also pan out, zoom in and rotate the images and change their brightness and contrast to study the fragments in closer detail'

Before I dig down into the details, I wanted to *heavily* recommend 'The Etruscans: From the Heart of Ancient Italy', currently on exhibition at San Francisco's Legion of Honor museum. Over 150 excellent pieces from the Vatican, the Getty Villa, the Villa Giulia (Rome), etc. #Etruscans 🏺 📸 me

The collab you didn’t know you needed! To celebrate the start of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, @garlab.bsky.social presents to you the 7 gar species of North America! ⚽️🐟🌎 1/5

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Hello! 👋 I'm hoping to raise money for two Bay Area cat rescues. If you post a screenshot of you donating at least $20, I will answer a style-related question for you. But first, let me tell you about the rescues, why they're worthy of your support, and hopefully get you to adopt a cat. 🧵

OMG YOU GUYS! Library peeps, look at the game my lawyer came up with! She represents artists, musicians & cultural orgs such as libraries & museums. 📚

Oh my, does someone want to buy me this "feathered commonplace book" (as it is described), from 1853, currently on offer at Christian White Rare Books? It speaks so well to my current obsessions I might have to treat myself. (But perhaps mutuals at the Houghton Library will read this in time?)

FYI avoid Springer Nature as much as possible. It's pioneering new avenues for slop, such as this book, translated with AI: link.springer.com/book/10.1007.... Complete with an AI cover, which of course is nonsense. Also includes a 4 page chapter on millipedes which includes a misidentified photo.

Museums do things. Like construct value by, for example, turning one person's excess crap into Our irreplaceable & precious national heritage. free to all new post on nationalist display & processes of waste, disposal, & transformation at National Museum of Nuclear Science & History #PhDLIfe

If you’re looking for something to do this Saturday, come on by the Winterthur Library for our second annual Tattoo Inspiration Open House! 💪 It runs 11-2, and dozens of gorgeous special collections items will be on show: www.winterthur.org/calendar/art...

I'm getting the NICEST messages about my book! Shipping a new load tomorrow, if anyone wants one superfast.

Have you, like me, spent the last 26 years worrying if the Canadian Potato Museum STILL has the display of various potato diseases with potatoes in little coffins? Stop worrying. I checked today. Still there.

Paleontologists and other field scientists: have you ever been advised on best practices for taking photos, video, etc at your field sites that would be most useful for exhibits and other outreach? Is that something you'd be interested in?

Historian here so honored to have curated the 250th exhibition, The Second American Revolution, at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield based on my new book #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic starting next week. presidentlincoln.illinois.gov/News/135/New...

Whoop whoop! My first book, Animal Kingdom: A Natural History in 100 Objects is out again in a new reprint! 🤩 It explores the *astonishing* things we can learn about the natural world from incredible specimens in natural history #museums. Go get your hands on it! #OneHundredAnimals

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...