Yay! Librarians will save us, I’m telling you..

This is the best shade posted on blue sky bar none.

Is there another carillon in Richmond? (Not bells, but the musical instrument that can be played.) Is there a carilloneur in Richmond? richmondmagazine.com/news/carillo...

250 years ago TODAY was the last meeting of the VA House of Burgesses. Est. in 1619, the House was the first representative body in colonial North America, and is the forerunner of the current Virginia General Assembly. The 5th Virgina Convention - which declared independence, began the same day.

Today's the official release date for my new book about free people of color in Virginia. I have an interview about the book coming soon on the podcast Ancestor's Footprints with Bernice Alexander Bennett. I will be discussing the book at the Library of Virginia on 6/17. I'm still scheduling events.

Of course it did, because rail in Virginia is approaching a minimal level. Imagine what the usage would be if we invested in rail with something approaching parity with cars... www.wric.com/news/virgini...

The takeaways: 1) IMLS has proven to be immune from exec branch-only action; 2) It matters that IMLS has a statutory role; 3) ALA may not be perfect, but it knows how & when to throw a punch 4) We'll still have to fight for libraries and museums, that's ok - it's the game we're in so lace up. 2/2

Your bright spot for the day: The federal government has settled the case brought against it by ALA/AFSCME and has or will restore all grants and programs of IMLS, including all RIFs and The federal government withdrew its appeal in RI v Trump. 1/2

VCU was an 11 seed back in 2011, btw

Co-authors to discuss book “The Belgian Friendship Building: From the New York World’s Fair to a Virginia HBCU” at Library of Virginia.

Name an album you've heard on cassette... Easy, I'm from the 80s: Ice Cream Castle, The Time... Licensed to Ill, Beastie Boys... Phantom of the Opera cast... I could go on.

We're thrilled to bring Meghan Guthon (back) to Richmond as deputy state librarian!

Yeah we did!

It was an honor to speak alongside Chief Stephen Adkins of the Chickahominy Tribe at the Library of Virginia. As stewards of Virginia’s history, our museums honor the people and moments whose contributions have defined the social and cultural fabric of the Commonwealth.

Lucky enough to have this as a view from my office - the 1790 home built by John Marshall, the "great chief justice."

Geez, they pulled the CIA World Facebook? What the what? www.cia.gov/stories/stor...

A must-read for Richmond VA folks. A wonderful piece regarding the late Bill Martin and his legacy. www.richmonder.org/bill-martin-...

"And it all starts with the American people understanding that our freedoms are now bound up in who controls our data" - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social . (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/o...

Monk's Walk for Peace ☮️ outside of City Hall in Richmond.

1. Orchestration 2. Counterpoint 3. History of the Christian Church 4. Astronomy 5. Choral Conducting

I was in 8th grade, and watched this, live, in Coach Joiner's PE class. I was a space-nerd kid, and spent months cutting out newspaper articles about it.

That my feed has clergy discussions of what color liturgical stole to wear during protests is the Most. Episcopal. Thing. Ever. and I'm here for it.

This helpful information brought to you by 75 year of building infrastructure to make driving cars ubiquitous, and ignoring actual humans with feet.

IMLS appropriates in the proposed fiscal year 2026 budget from Congress keep it a viable agency, even with a $3 million cut. federalnewsnetwork.com/congress/202...

Hallelujah! After 20 sessions, I am done - DONE! - with radiation therapy! And I even got to ring the bell! I spent each of those sessions in an MRI tube rigged up to a linear accelerator - I know what a torpedo feel like now. Thanks for the support and God save @vcumassey.bsky.social !

The money.

Watchingamerica.com “…makes available in English articles written about the U.S. by foreigners, often for foreign audiences, and often in other languages. We are a unique window into world opinion.”

Is there, anywhere on this series of tubes, a digest of foreign reporting or commentary on the US, in translation? Such a thing might be useful (and mortifying) in the present moment.

Got a new boss this weekend...

Maybe @dieworkwear.bsky.social can opine about the men's fashions at the inauguration of Abigail Spanberger in Virginia.

"Oh, I can't forget to text the [Virginia] attorney general this morning" is something I just said to myself... #LibrarianLife

Apropos of nothing... www.bbc.com/news/world-u...

Basically, the last 150 years of Alabama history in one post right here.

Elizabethan printers - particularly John Day - began adding "solfège" devices to psalmbook music notation, likely to teach music reading as a post-reformation concept where congregational singing was still a new and evolving practice. Follow me for more hot takes like this.

More things that make no sense...

finally, we're living through precedented times

Yeah, those are libraries...

It begins...

And that copy of the Bill of Rights, one of 12 surviving, is under stewardship at the Library of Virginia in Richmond. You can see it here! www.lva.virginia.gov/collections/...

Go Navy! Beat Army! (What can I say? My dad and brothers were Marines and my dad wanted one of us to end up at USNA...none did.)

Very excited to (finally) share the news that Richmond hq'd firm Baskervill and Boston hq'd firm Shepley Bullfinch will work with the Library of Virginia to redesign our public spaces! www.lva.virginia.gov/about/news/p...

It appears that Richmond has gotten its entire snowfall for the year already, and more than the more northern I-94 cities. Not sure what that foretells!

Listen:

I'm greatly pleased to join the standing committee for government libraries of @ifla.org ! Looking forward to continuing to learn from international colleagues at this amazing global organization after two years away. And really looking forward to #WLIC2026 in Busan, Korea this August!

Y'all. TikTok's favorite episcopal nun <nunsenseforthepeople> continues her path to the priesthood today!

No one: Me: Even in JROTC in the late 80s, we were taught that military members were not allowed follow illegal orders, only legal ones. It was never a question, 20 years after My Lai, that illegal orders were to be ignored.