Check out this new article—"The Invisible Default: Examining Representation in Digital Collections"—that Dorothy Terry, Jasmine S. Kirby, @racheljwittmann.bsky.social, and @annaneat.bsky.social just published in ITAL! ital.corejournals.org/index.php/it...

More of this plz 🍦

Lora Webb Nichols’s photographs of boom and bust in her small Wyoming town might be the largest photographic record of the era and region.

Tune in to #NISOPlus25 on September 16 at 3pm ET to hear more about what the MaRMAT team has been up to! @racheljwittmann.bsky.social @annaneat.bsky.social

Excelling in … Excel? Inside the high-stakes, secretive world of competitive spreadsheeting

Please join @racheljwittmann.bsky.social and @kpalex91.bsky.social for Reparative Metadata Assessment with MaRMAT: A New Tool for Identifying Harmful and Outdated Language today at 2:00 cdmcd.co/5n5ywB #ALAAC25 - session will demo the tool with time for you to get it up and running on your laptop!

We're presenting in just a few minutes as part of the Metadata Interest Group program on Assessing Metadata for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in Cultural Heritage Institutions cdmcd.co/LE4qmd #ALAAC25 @kpalex91.bsky.social @racheljwittmann.bsky.social

Our great team at the University of Utah is presenting at ALA on a new, free open source tool that helps with reparative metadata projects! #ALAAC25 www.marmatproject.org

We are absolutely heartbroken by the loss of Arthur Folasa Ah Loo. A gofundme has been set up to support his family in this unimaginable time. If you can, please donate. If not, please share. www.gofundme.com/f/help-laura...

Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss

The closure of this trail without community input is a slap in the face to the residents of Ogden who use and love our trail system. Shame on everyone who let this happen! Sign the petition in the story.

Salt Lake City, Utah, and Boise, Idaho, adopted official Pride flags on Tuesday in response to state laws barring the display of any nonofficial flags at schools and government buildings.

Looking forward to my first #ALAAnnual Conference this June! @racheljwittmann.bsky.social, @annaneat.bsky.social, and I will be sharing the new and improved MaRMAT, our open-source software for assessing collections metadata. Until then, check out MaRMAT (Beta) on GitHub: github.com/marriott-lib...!

The Omeka Team is here for you and your work. omeka.org/news/2025/...

Copyright protection under 17 U.S. Code § 105 is not available for any work of the United States Government. The White House is the People’s House. Content for every @WhiteHouse is in the public domain, never copyrighted with “All Rights Reserved.” Small stuff vs human rights violations, but BS.

For some reason this cut really hits me the hardest

The #LetFreedomRead Dress is out of the closet and on display for Shannon Downey’s Joy & Fury teach in this evening

Help stop Trump's EO to defund libraries. Take a second to sign, & then call your reps. We need vocal supporters reminding our legislators that people love libraries and museums, that these provide info & vital services for lower income Americans! action.everylibrary.org/emaileo2025?...

🚨The Institute of Museum and Library Services is the largest federal funder of museums and libraries, and museums and libraries across the nation rely on their grant support. 🚨 IMLS is not "unnecessary" and must not be shut down.

Funding cuts aren't the only threat to digital rights globally. At RightsCon, speakers highlighted how the US government “has gone from taking the leading role in supporting an open and safe internet to demonstrating how to dismantle it.” www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/04/1...

Happy to announce this great new digital exhibit from @drelib.bsky.social and team, Utah SOUL: A History of Black Students at the University of Utah, exhibits.lib.utah.edu/s/utahsoul/p...

Also encourage people to email LC to oppose this proposed revision, which was announced a few hours ago (with comments deadline of today 😡). Your email can be short (1-3 sentences) and can focus on impact to your patrons. #critcat #LCSH #cataloging 📚

If you're in New York and you care about libraries, check out this film series at BAM! www.bam.org/film/2025/ai...

USAID friends are asking this video be shared on social media at 5:30pm eastern, as E**n M**k has spent $40M on a Super Bowl ad to trash USAID, which accounts for 1% of the federal budget. Please spread the word. youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models. In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.

We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.