The federal government just extended the deadline for enforcement for a full year. No one thought this through. www.federalregister.gov/public-inspe...

Thys ys a respite. Thys ys a quiet shore. Thys ys a forest full of lost songs. Thys ys a hope machine. Thys ys a treasurye of languages. Thys ys a beacon for wanderers. Thys ys a workshop for the broken heart. Thys ys wher we meet across tyme and space. Thys ys wher dreames begin. Thys ys a library.

I just read Michelle Caswell and Bergis Jules' on funding for community archives, and you should too. Their argument: we need a strategy for large-scale private philanthropy to sustain community archives and ensure the survival of the stories they tell. medium.com/community-ar...

Want to learn to embroider? I’ll teach on Saturday. Zoom. Pay-what-you-can www.eventbrite.com/e/1980879834...

There’s a lot of talk about #craftivism right now. Good thing I wrote a whole book about it and how to use it to organize community and create change. bookshop.org/beta-search?...

Remembir everye daye ys a goode daye to reach out to a friende and tell them how much you love them. Maybe buy them a booke. Bringe up an olde inside joke. All the sillye thinges and the serious thinges about friendeshippe, thei are all infinitelye valuable. Tyme spent thus wil nevir be regrettid.

Boudicca ❤️ www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

“The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 50,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience so people around the world can experience the beauty of the Quilt and witness the love and stories stitched into each panel.”

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...

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and @kpalex91.bsky.social for Reparative Metadata Assessment with MaRMAT: A New Tool for Identifying Harmful and Outdated Language today at 2:00 cdmcd.co/5n5ywB #ALAAC25 - session will demo the tool with time for you to get it up and running on your laptop!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

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.

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/...

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

🚨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.

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

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.