I am once again asking. Any frameworks out there for evaluating faculty allocation of effort on (refereed) data work?

Low public visibility and disconnectedness as a preservation strategy. (Geographically isolated monasteries’ manuscript holdings serving as the foundation for the revival of classical knowledge)

On ransomware and under-funded GLAMs: 'At no point was the British Library particularly negligent or unprepared. Instead, it was hindered by vulnerabilities shared by the majority of cultural institutions. ...the attack [is] a warning to the whole sector.' informationsecuritybuzz.com/the-cyberatt...

In case anyone needed a neat encapsulation of how archives are power, in all its messy and dubious ways. (gift link for non-subscribers)

Infosec used to be serious

Dream big, my friends. Dream Big. www.newyorkupstate.com/albany/2026/...

Join @dlocaribbean.bsky.social for "Legal & Ethical Oral Histories" on Thurs, Feb. 12 11 - noon. Featuring Arnetta Giradeau, UNC Charlotte, & Christina Boyles, UI Bloomington, facilitated by @perrycollins.bsky.social, UF. Register dloc.domains.uflib.ufl.edu/workshops/. Bring your questions!

Join dLOC partner ISPAN tomorrow for this great event! 🇭🇹 Register here: columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

👀 What if I told you there was a hidden art gallery scattered across the country? What if I told you some of its treasures had vanished? What if I told you that I found them? A project three years in the making (🎁 gift link):

"First Monday will cease publication, after 30 years, with the May 2026 issue, volume 31, number 6, scheduled for release around the first Monday of May, 4 May 2026" firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

Digitization in countries beyond Europe and North America is often a fine balance between standards and realities on the ground. Several institutions provide digitization guidelines (and grants) that have been developed for projects in such locations. Here I point to some:

Speed running the decline. www.wcjb.com/2026/02/05/u...

Medieval Monks Wrote Over a Copy of an Ancient Star Catalog. Now, a Particle Accelerator is Revealing the Long-Lost Original Text www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/m...

So much of this is relatable "Personally, I am growing tired of archives, or rather of the over-romanticization of them as infinite sources of liberatory politics" is very much the motto of my career but once again I wish someone writing about archives would read/reference an archivist

Libraries Break Digital Lending Records in 2025 with Over 820 Million Checkouts and Over 1 Billion Minutes Streamed 📚 company.overdrive.com/2026/01/21/l...

Librarians sometimes can be weird as hell. ask.library.harvard.edu/faq/82313

Seven BIPOC curators, focusing on Native American, Islamic, and fashion collections…

Licensing Is Speedrunning the Destruction of the Historical Record (Again) 📚📜 copyrightfightclub.substack.com/p/licensing-...

Great article that doubles as a powerful testament to film preservation. Kudos to Katie Trainor, Greg Pierce, and the crew at Colorlab.

🚀 Big news!! The first papers from our AI & Archives SI are up!!!

Your Libby rental was free for you, but did you know it cost the D.C. Public Library $59.99? The e-book boom (and a complicated pricing model from publishers) has left library systems strapped for cash. But D.C. lawmakers have a plan to fight back. 51st.news/ebooks-are-e...

All the blockbuster IP franchises you love today only exist because of mass market paperbacks. How can we stop this? goodereader.com/blog/digital...

Emory libraries cancel Elsevier journals due to rising journal costs www.emorywheel.com/article/2026... #OA #OpenAccess

Indentures are contracts, usually for terms of labor, that were written in duplicate on a single sheet that was cut in half, creating the indentations that give them their name. Each party kept one half. These are from 1797 & 1800 and were issued by the Boston Overseers of the Poor 🗃️

Truly one of the coolest library spaces out there. Any of my DC nerds need a fun night out where you feel like you’re actually making something better?

Who's a good boy? Detail of a dog on a 16th-century blind-tooled leather binding. #earlymodern #bookhistory #rarebooks 💙📚📜

Spent some time with this beauty today. 1650s King's Bench Plea Roll. TNA KB 27/1777

Bookplate!? Who needs a stinking bookplate when you can mark your books with a red-hot branding iron? Here are two 17th c. “Marcas de Fuego” showing that the book was owned by the Great Convent of St. Francisco in Mexico City - S. FRAN.CO d MEX. CO. The second mark AP refers to the apostolica sedes.

After a successful election, staff at the Metropolitan Museum of Art are officially unionized. The new union will represent workers across 50 departments, including curators, librarians, conservators, visitor experience, and archivists.

V&A East Storehouses, London E20 Storehouse lockers and utility conduit and rigging #reference #buildingreference

The National Gallery of Art (one of my favorite places in the world thh) has been doing this series where one of their preservationists breaks down their collection in Zoomer speak www.instagram.com/reel/DTeBJnB...

University of Arizona Libraries is hiring for a RARE BOOK LIBRARIAN! 1st review of applications February 9, 2026. arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... We have great collections and great people here. Not on the committee, happy to chat.

Congratulations to @mayorwu.boston.gov for celebrating her second inaugural yesterday! We were honored to be a part of this historic moment, as she again chose the “Bible of the Revolution” from our Special Collections for her second swearing-in ceremony.

Catastrophe bond market records that were broken in 2025 #climaterisk www.artemis.bm/news/catastr...

An arsonist hit a Mississippi synagogue Saturday. Seven Torahs were damaged or destroyed in the fire. One Torah, from the Holocaust, was in a glass case and wasn't touched. The same synagogue was bombed by the KKK in 1967. mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...

Mississippi’s largest synagogue was set on fire before dawn Saturday. Fire department ruled it arson, and a suspect has been arrested. It is the same synagogue that the Ku Klux Klan bombed in 1967 because the rabbi supported civil rights. mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...

It's January, which means we're all telling ourselves to "read more," right? How about these titles that dive into the history and culture of our city? To help build The 51st's bookshelf, we asked our readers for their favorite books about D.C. Let us know what you'd add! 51st.news/what-to-read...

Love this quote from the article: “I characterize science as a bunch of 5-year-olds playing soccer,” says another researcher [Sam Goldman]. “They all go where the ball is, running around the field in a herd.” www.wired.com/story/scient...

'The British Pamphlet Press and the American Controversy 1764-1783" By Thomas R. Adams www.americanantiquarian.org/proceedings/...

Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.

I'm really looking forward to the wonderful exhibition on the Hereford Gospels later this year. I'll also be giving a talk and hosting an ink making workshop if you are in the area in May! www.herefordcathedral.org/Event/from-p... www.herefordcathedral.org/Event/making... @bibliojenni.bsky.social

Lincoln Parish Library's slideshow of all the bookmarks left in returned books in 2025. #ThingsLeftInBooks

A small library is made of wood. Zoom in, you see woodblocks simulating paper books. This art piece dealing, among other aspects, with the materiality of books is owned by the Swedish writer Sven Nordqvist of Pettson and Findus fame. #booksky #bookhistory

Last year I was asked to give the keynote at the Conference of European National Librarians (CENL) meeting on AI and Libraries, and here it is! "Be More Library: Upholding Library Values in a Tech Industry World". In short, we need to define what WE want, and go get it! www.cenl.org/wp-content/u...

University archives are home to many under-described hazards. Especially if they have or had medical or dental programs.

Please join @dlocaribbean.bsky.social for a series of workshops focused on Copyright and Ethical Reuse facilitated by copyright expert @perrycollins.bsky.social. Register here, dloc.domains.uflib.ufl.edu/workshops/, to receive the Zoom links.

The power of ephemera! These things will have been mass-produced to be disposable, thousands manufactured and tossed out straight away; I suspect many will be the only surviving example. Everyday "rubbish" becomes a time-capsule if you just wait long enough.

One of the chief virtues of the book is that it’s nearly the only remaining form of media that isn’t constantly being interrupted by ads. Between the covers is the last place on earth where no one is trying to sell you shit, a place where you can still be a human being rather than a mark.