The comparison I heard was data centers using the same amount of water as golf courses, and for that I was all, my brother in Christ, let me tell you what I think we should do with golf courses

Seeing the GLAM news today

every single time I see a university announcement breathlessly pushing commercial gAI or partnerships with OpenAI, Microsoft, etc I have a moment of incredulous rage: how little the university values the work of its own.

Yes, it’s not exactly conservation but this is probably my favorite thing I do, professionally: Make big piles of #archives be smaller piles of archives (thanks to the magic of unframing, unmatting and refoldering) #conservator

I keep forgetting this platform exists! Anyway, if you like #publishersbindings, this is what I’ve been working on building over the last year or so: digitalcellulose.com/projects/s/p... It’s a compendium of #designers (and their monograms) of decorated #bookcovers, for the years 1890-1930.

What happens to democracy when government records vanish? James Jacobs, Jim Jacobs, & Shari Laster discuss how libraries, archivists & advocates protect public access in the latest Future Knowledge #podcast, PRESERVING GOVERNMENT INFORMATION. 🎧 Listen: futureknowledge.transistor.fm

We are likely about to see a mass purging of archival documents and restricted access to researchers. This will be part of the regime’s effort to rewrite history itself.

Do you think when Sisyphus gets the rock to the top of the hill, before it rolls back down, a little party horn goes off? Maybe a kazoo?

Librarians aren't going to save us. Librarians aren't superheroes. They're just people trying to keep largely underfunded and overwhelmed public services going. Praise is nice; realistic expectations are better; material support is best.

I wrote this thread last year during one of the worst periods in my life, and it helps me when the urge to worry and doomscroll for hours is particularly powerful

Can we please remember that very recently South Korea showed us all what we should do when the president does illegal shit

If you are in danger unless you comply with a regime, you are in danger whether you comply or not

Shout out to all the fuckwits who told me, two months ago, that scientists must strive to remain apolitical.

incredible things are happening on the federal employee subreddit

#BooksInThings #ManuscriptWaste

이렇게 수정된 짤 발견! 누가 만들었나 🤣

this genuinely, without exaggeration, healed a little fracture inside of me that has been broken my whole adult life

Well the country is in tumult but I successfully advocated for the deaccession (archival word for removal) of a 10 year old tube of #chapstick from our university #archives today. So I got that going for me! It was originally strawberry daiquiri flavored. It smells about as rancid as you’d expect.

I got a bigger #pond for Christmas, and had the genius idea to light it with a red light for maximum nightpond enjoyment

I think this platform needs more beautiful, marble-like gooseberries

Student: "what makes something archival?" Me: "I'm about to be really annoying, so bear with me" *steeples hands*

Today in the #archives: I found this fish!

We have a Historic Bean????? In an envelope?! #archives #foundinthearchives #beans #arizona

This is the archives equivalent of brushing your cat and ending up with a whole second cat’s worth of fluff The issues on the table are all the duplicates of the contents of what’s already in the box.

Ugh, no

Whenever I open an archival box that has folders that don’t match the box, this is what I see. #archives #preservation #specialcollections #boxes

My mother gave this to me, and I just found it pressed in a book, so now I'm sharing it with you

History: Q: Can you think of any reason to treat these sources with caution? A: the bayeux tapestry is really delicate.

Whenever I open an archival box that has folders that don’t match the box, this is what I see. #archives #preservation #specialcollections #boxes

WHEN I DRAW A NEW CARD I GET TO DISCARD ONE. IT APPLIES TO TASKS TOO. THOSE ARE THE RULES

Friend: so I fell down a niche topic research rabbit hole Me:

Today in #libraryproblems, someone has been ripping the covers off of random #journal issues in our science library. It’s a rather baffling example of #book #vandalism. The pages of each issue are untouched, but the covers have been neatly peeled off, never to be seen again.

Excuse me, you’re accusing me doing WHAT with my leftovers?!? #vintageads #outdatedverbage #vintageillustration

As much as I love job security, please stop shelving big #books like this in #libraries. Put them spine down! #librarylife #librarypreservation

Dear angry-tract-writer of 1648, this sort of nonsensical printing information will not be appreciated by historians 😄 “Printed in the year of blindness, the month of stupidness, the day of dulness, and the hour of unnaturalness” #earlymodern

Today, we move on to Duolingo section 43 'How to trigger the archivists'

Optimist: The cup is half full. Pessimist: The cup is half empty. Archives/LIS researcher: The cup is a document

Optimist: the cup is 1/2 full Pessimist: the cup is 1/2 empty Archivist: There’s no beverages allowed in the reading room

I wrote this because of this common question. peelarchivesblog.com/2017/05/31/w...

Every year Thanksgiving devolves into a huge argument between the family members that think Tom Bombadil is a superfluous tangent and those shouting he’s essential LOTR worldbuilding

Today in the #archives: I found this fish!

Yes, it’s not exactly conservation but this is probably my favorite thing I do, professionally: Make big piles of #archives be smaller piles of archives (thanks to the magic of unframing, unmatting and refoldering) #conservator

The Onion should buy Elsevier next

Have you purchased a weirdly low-quality paperback book lately? This may be why. https://buff.ly/3YQi2cK

recreating another twitter thread of mine: stock photo site search results on “librarian” that cause me varying degrees of discomfort 📚

Any of you library folks know who was making this buckram? of better yet…anyone have any sample books of it? I am OBSESSED, it is such a relic of its time, specifically a time when libraries had money to blow on aesthetic frivolities like fancy buckram for rebound circulating books