Paraphrasing Christobel Underwood of the Australian National University's lightning talk: How to prioritise audio visual material for preservation 1. Magnetic tape!! 2. Reacting to a disaster and the damage caused 3. Items of historical or cultural significance 4. User Requests #iPRES2025

Great talk from @archivistkelsey.bsky.social on accessibility of born digital collections. She discusses the implicit, systemic, and unconscious biases built into hardware and software which can negatively impact users, and encourages us to prioritise the humanity of workers and users #ipres2025

Having some FOMO from not being in person at #iPRES2025 but am so grateful to the amazing program committee for making virtual attendance possible

We're always amazed by the creativity and talent of the iPRES community! 😍 One of our clever attendees, Ima Oduok, has created cross stitch patterns from the #iPRES2025 logo! 🪡 You can download the patterns here: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Everybodye sholde have to wryte emayles the olde fashioned waye -- entirelye usinge ASCII art

The wait is over! The #iPRES2025 Programme is finally here! 🎉 This year features a dynamic schedule with 7 parallel tracks: 3 hybrid, 3 in person, and 1 virtual. View the high-level programme as a PDF, or check out the programme spreadsheet for session times and details. www.ipres2025.nz/programme

We now have the details of the federal 2026 budget proposal, and it spells the end of IMLS. The request is $6,000,000 to "conduct an orderly closeout of IMLS." Whatever happens in the 2 court cases would be moot if this passes. bookriot.com/the-2026-fed...

Ways to take action to stop U.S. Government censorship of academic research www.defendresearch.org/home

NEW: Staff at the Institute of Museum & Library Services are returning to work thanks to an order from a federal judge in Rhode Island. Grants in plaintiff states have begun to be restored. Learn more: ala.org/IMLSBack (1/2)

"The President released his proposed budget for fiscal year 2026, which would begin October 1, 2025. That proposal includes a total annihilation of the budget for the IMLS." bookriot.com/the-latest-f...

We were very sad to hear this news. Dr Hayden has been an inspiration for many of our volunteer librarians. She will always be our Librarian of the People. ❤️🛟 www.datarescueproject.org/thank-you-ca...

The AHA is compiling resources developed by historians in response to recent actions by the federal governments. We welcome submissions from our members about op-eds, media appearances, or other resources they've contributed offering historical context and insight to the public. 🗃️

Kevin Young, director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), has been placed on personal leave indefinitely news.artnet.com/art-world/di...

@npr.org's 1A features an in depth explanation of the US National Archives the1a.org/segments/the...

It's hard to describe what a feat this is, and shouldered by a much smaller group than the folks who captured the data. @asegerberg.bsky.social has been chipping away at this database for years. Rescuing data is hard, but curating & publishing it is a much harder, lonely slog. Prepare for it.

Urgent - Feb 18, 2025 send in your comments today: classweb.org/tentative-su... send your comments to: mailto:[email protected]

Here is a template for the email

Email about the name change for the Gulf of Mexico and Denali

Looking for inspiration for your iPRES 2025 paper?? 👀 Take a look at what the Call to Community participants had to say about what topics are front of mind and what they'd like to see on the conference programme!

Archived Flash content can now be replayed on Arquivo.pt – sobre.arquivo.pt #digipres #webarchives sobre.arquivo.pt/en/flash-con...

These are smart dedicated people. In my 13 years of federal service, I hired roughly two dozen staff. We often had 200+ applicants for a single opening. Through a rigorous merit based process we would always hire on some of the country's best and brightest who often moved across the country to work.

Fighting the Great Federal Website Purge: Journalists, judges, and archivists are keeping government data online. New by Sarah Grevy Gotfredsen of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

Our group has been hard at work to release a new tool: The Data Rescue Tracker. The tool aims to provide a consolidated overview of who is downloading which dataset from which government websites. Please share! www.datarescueproject.org/data-rescue-...

For all my fellow librarians, data admins, and other university staff types, I spent today's laser cutter time playing with different materials and a message in the spirit of #LoveDataWeek. We're indirect costs. If the government cuts those rates, there goes our funding. #DHmakes

We are excited to let everyone know that we have a new website: www.datarescueproject.org/about-data-r... It includes the resources from the Google doc (that will stay live for a bit) and ways to stay in contact with us. Feel free to share! #LoveData25 #DataRescue

Thanks for the recommendation. #BurningtheBooks was written in part as a warning about the danger of allowing authoritarian regimes to have control of knowledge ... 'there is no political power without power over the archive'....

We're deep into work on the Glossary for the 3rd Edition of the #digipres Handbook. Interested to hear what people think are contentious terms in the community, e.g.:

"It is important to know that none of this is normal. No Archivist of the United States has ever been fired by a president, in almost 100 years since the position was created"

Libraries are essential. Support your local library, speak up for your local library, love your local library 💙📚 We can never express enough support for libraries!

Unexpected errors in the BagIt area: alexwlchan.net/2025/bagit-e... BagIt is a packaging format often used in digital archives, and I worked with it quite a lot in a previous job. I wrote up some of the ways a BagIt bag can be invalid, and how I think you should try to validate bags. #digipres

Report: Trump Fires Colleen Shogan, Archivist of the United States www.infodocket.com/2025/02/07/r...

Last year we started a project to download and preserve public data. lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/01... Since saving public data is in the news today — but is always needed — let’s talk about what you can do to help.

Next week I'll be speaking with my colleague, Veronica about our born-digital workflows at this DPC virtual event. Registration is now available www.dpconline.org/events/event...

Today the Archives and Records Association (UK & Ireland) and The UK National Archives have launched new guidance for archive professionals about rapid response collecting. Find out more here: www.archives.org.uk/news/rapid-r...

JSTOR has compiled a list of 2025 funding opportunities to help libraries digitize, describe, and preserve their collections. These programs support a range of initiatives, including audiovisual preservation and community archives. Explore the details here: bit.ly/4hlhQcf

how to save stuff on the internet? short, sweet & useful zine on diy web archiving by @bitarchivist.net @ilya.webrecorder.net @quinnanya.me @akijas.bsky.social @literaturegeek.bsky.social ✨💾🐢 zinebakery.com/homemade-zin... #webarchiving

Putting this out there for those of you who might need it - How to Respond to Law Enforcement Requests for Library Records and User Information: Suggested Guidelines

Applications are now open for Archives as Data. A FREE @NEHgov workshop @Columbia June 2-13, 2025. It's a crash course for historians and archivists in analyzing digital & digitized texts with an intro to AI for advanced beginners: lab.history.columbia.edu/content/work... #twitterstorians

EveryLibrary Statement on Proposed Elimination of the South Dakota State Library and HB 1041 📚 librarytechnology.org/pr/30983

I'm beginning a quest to recover data from damaged discs that may be the last remaining copy of a publication... No pressure #digipres

TONIGHT! 🎩👗There’s still time to get all dolled up & join the @InternetArchive’s #PublicDomainDay celebration. 1929 film mash-ups, Roaring 20s tracks & cocktails await! 📽️🥂🎶 🕕 6–10 PM PT 📍 300 Funston Ave, SF 🎟️ RSVP now: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1117297439719 #PublicDomain

For absolutely no reason at all... I'd like to collaborate with any #digipres folks and #archives / #archivists on developing more instruction, guidance, etc. on personal digital archiving resources Anybody already doing this I can join? Anyone want to start something additional/new? 💻

Evanston, IL: Director of McCormick Library of Special Collections & Archives, Northwestern University Link out to job announcement

#research 📚 www.nature.com/articles/d41...