Current* conditions near Buffalo, NY:

The free digital repository that few historical societies, museums, local governments, cultural orgs, and small nonprofits have heard of. Individuals may also open accounts and start sharing stuff. 🗃️📚📜

A patch of tulips at the Allen Street end of Days Park is today's #EveryDayAPhoto by Derek Gee: buffalonews.com/multimedia/c...

Though Louis Sullivan is not mentioned, Buffalo's claim that the Guaranty building is one of the first true skyscrapers holds up. 🗃️ #Buffalo

Anyone got a camera app for Android that doesn't arbitrarily rotate most of the pictures & documents that I need to photograph? 🗃️📜

To Erik Brady, the most surprising part is that anyone would be surprised that we know the Canadian national anthem. Yes, we know the words by heart hereabouts. Of course we do. And we feel them, too. buffalonews.com/news/local/c...

There is still time to register for Saturday's FREE Rabies Vaccine Clinic. Details below ⬇️ ▪️ Saturday, May 2 ▪️ 9 AM to 1 PM ▪️ 450 Woodward Avenue, Kenmore ▪️ Appointments required. Register at: erie.gov/raviesvaccine or call 716-961-6800 during business hours

Retail establishments should not be able to collect, store, and profit off of your biometric data just because you walk into a store, especially when we don't even know if they are collecting it. Furthermore,... 1/3 buffalonews.com/news/local/a...

Yep. When you digitize old stuff, you now have to look after the original artifact *and* it's digital surrogate. "Just put everything online" is not the labor-saving flex laypeople think it is.

House of the Seven Gables. In 5th grade

New York researchers, exciting news! FamilySearch is helping digitize NY family histories, local histories, deeds, wills, land grants, and more.

The Buffalo Trouser Guard! From Bearings magazine [for cyclists], April 5, 1895. Online at Archive.org. #Buffalo

If you're headed to the UB or Buff State campuses as a guest & expect to use your laptop or tablet, be forewarned that it is difficult to get on their guest WiFi. I gave up & used my phone's hotspot.

We sing it whenever we go to Freedom Park (formerly Broderick Park) and gaze across the river at Canada. #Buffalo

Help me out, Buffalo sports fans, at which games do we sing both anthems and at which games do we not? The ones I know for sure are the Sabres and the Bisons. What about football? College sports? Please don't revoke my Buffalonian card!

If there must be national anthems before games, let them all be the anthem of another country sung flawlessly by 19,000 Buffalonians.

We proudly fly the Canadian flag in front of City Hall, too. #Buffalo

#Buffalo, stand up! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.

Delaware North’s Scott Socha will not become the director of the National Park Service. But the executive of the Buffalo-headquartered hospitality and food service management company says that was his choice, withdrawing his name from consideration in March. buffalonews.com/news/local/a...

April 28, 1926: Bobby Leach, the second person and the first man to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel, dies at 67 in New Zealand of an injury from slipping on an orange peel. The English-born daredevil succumbs to gangrene two months after his accident.

Today is Workers' Memorial Day. Our friends in labor will hold a memorial at the Worker's Memorial tonight at 6pm at Chestnut Ridge Park, 6121 Chestnut Ridge Road, Orchard Park, NY. @wnycosh.bsky.social will also be livestreaming the event at facebook.com/wnycosh

Visitors take in the colorful sights of the Cherry Blossom Festival at the Buffalo Japanese Gardens in today's #EveryDayAPhoto by Joshua Bessex. https://buffalonews.com/multimedia/collection_1c4bf885-0fa0-446c-97ee-769a9040f2a6.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_ 

Trust in Archives Initiative has just released the initial version of its much-anticipated Toolkit. It helps archives navigate the evolving landscape of #GenAI and the urgent questions it raises for the heritage sector. #GLAMS

One thing that would improve the @buffalolibrary.bsky.social website is a list of the tech at *each branch.* Is there a color printer on site? Can I produce a PDF on a copy machine or only on a flatbed scanner? Any automatic document feed? Can I send a fax?

The Richardson Olmsted Campus in Buffalo, NY

What book would you saw in half out of spite? 📚🗃️

A family walks on the pathway beneath the Scajaquada Expressway near the Black Rock Canal in today's #EveryDayAPhoto by Joed Viera. https://buffalonews.com/multimedia/collection_1c4bf885-0fa0-446c-97ee-769a9040f2a6.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_ 

Current* conditions near Hamburg, NY:

At a memorial service yesterday, the next of kin brought out the deceased's books and asked people to take whatever interested them. I love this idea. 📚🗃️

Dolores Bustamante, 54, is a well-known advocate for migrant farmworkers in Wayne County. On Wednesday, she was detained by ICE when she attended a mandatory check-in regarding her ongoing deportation case.

New blog post, inspired by ideas I first posted here. #Buffalo #UrbanPlanning buffaloresearch.com/the-next-bes...

"Could that AI question be a regular search engine query?" needs to be the new "Could that meeting be an email?"

Yeah, Buffalo's Delaware North.

We're waiting on confirmation from NYS DEC, but based on the evidence, this may have been the cause of the smell - www.wkbw.com/news/local-n...

Happy 100th birthday to the Tilt-A-Whirl, the coolest amusement park ride ever invented.

In other words, being nonbinary is not new and upstate NY is one of its origins. 🗃️

Who Digitized your Sources? Exploitative Prison Labour and the Hidden Costs of Online Archives activehistory.ca/blog/2026/04...

Hey, catalogers and other librarians, have any of you seen any communications from OCLC about what's going on at WorldCat? 📚

Someone please test this out: go to WorldCat.org, search on something random. Does it return any results?

Why #Buffalo is still a good buy in spite of rising real estate values.

New blog post, inspired by ideas I first posted here. #Buffalo #UrbanPlanning buffaloresearch.com/the-next-bes...

I got time today, so let's dig into why this article is a crock of shit. There is no ethical use of genAI and any librarian arguing otherwise is lying to you, so ignorant they should be ignored, or drifting. 1/ www.choice360.org/libtech-insi...

Did someone break WorldCat? I plugged in a search query, went and made dinner, came back, and it is still hanging. @oclc.org

Michael Tilson Thomas left the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra to concentrate on a conducting job with the Los Angeles Symphony, but his legacy in Buffalo endured. buffalonews.com/news/local/a...

Wikipedia editing course! To mark the 250th anniversary of the founding of the US, Wiki Education is partnering with the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) to improve Wikipedia’s depth and coverage of American history. 🗃️📚📜 wikiedu.org/courses/250-...

Madeline Davis (1940-2021), a Buffalo librarian. May her memory be a blessing. 🏳️‍🌈 📚 bsky.app/profile/msma...

Spent a few hours going through someone's papers, looking for photos he may have taken, a pleasant task in a pleasant environment, but now I am...exhausted? Anyone else notice this after archival research? 🗃️📜

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According to Yelp, Black Rock/Riverside does not have an ice cream parlor. Seems like an opportunity for someone. #Buffalo