Happy World Digital Preservation Day! Why preserve? Did you know the Industry Documents Library has millions of documents that are considered an endangered digital species? To learn more, check out the @dpc-chat.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy Global 'Bit List' of Endangered Digital Species. #WDPD2025

Interested in global histories of medicine and technology? ⚕️ Archives like Nichibunken hold more than just Japanese sources! Explore their digitized archives of rare European medical books from 1508–1858 in the Noma Collection! shinku.nichibun.ac.jp/NOMA/new/ind...

🌟New Publication🌟 The Fourth Workshop on Scientific Archives proceedings, edited by Polina Ilieva & Venkat Srinivasan, is available now! Read global insights on preserving scientific records & the ethics of access this #AskAnArchivist day here: escholarship.org/uc/item/98r6...

The @ucsf-industrydocs.bsky.social houses over 4 million documents from Juul Labs. You can access this e-cigarette company’s internal emails, marketing presentations, financial reports, scientific research, Slack DM’s, videos, and more. #ArchivesMonth www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/tobacco/coll...

Did you know @ucsf-industrydocs.bsky.social archives publicly available documents from industries impacting public health?! #AskAnArchivist for tips on exploring the enhanced website, or watch our Website Open House recording for a quick intro to get started. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZSo...

Taylor Swift’s song Elizabeth Taylor has us revisiting the icon herself.✨ Here’s Ms. Taylor at the 1989 Art Against AIDS benefit w/ Tim Wolfred, former ED of sfaidsfound.bsky.social and former CA senator, Carole Migden from the San Francisco AIDS Foundation Collection. #AskAnArchivist #ArchivesMonth

🤔Ever wonder what's in #UCSF Archives and Special Collections? Take a quick tour inside our new Rare Books Vault with @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social Associate University Librarian/University Archivist Polina Ilieva this #AskAnArchivist Day! www.youtube.com/shorts/Q9vC-...

This #AskAnArchivist Day we are #UCSFproud to highlight the collection of AIDS and cancer research physician, Jay Levy, MD. Levy was one of the first to isolate HIV, the cause of AIDS. His collection spans 58 years & includes 87 linear feet of material! #ArchivesMonth oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:...

🎉 It’s #AskAnArchivist Day! We are spotlighting the Japanese Woodblock Print Collection that illustrate health-related topics and are a window into traditional Japanese attitudes toward illness, the body, religion, the West. 🖼️ Explore the collection: japanesewoodblockprints.library.ucsf.edu

Get ready to celebrate #AskAnArchivist Day with us on October 16! We will be answering one of our most frequently asked questions: "What do you have in the UCSF archives?"🤔 We can't wait to post some of ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social’s very special collections here on Bluesky#ArchivesMonthth

New UCSF Library Artist in Residence! 🎉 Meet Michelle Memran, filmmaker+advocate using the UCSF Archive #HIV/AIDS collection to reimagine the power of activism 2 transform how we talk about #Alzheimers & #dementia today. www.library.ucsf.edu/news/meet-th... @ucsf-archives.bsky.social #ArtForChange

Glass eyeballs, century-old prescriptions, a wealth of medical history live inside UCSF’s rare books and artifacts vault. Step inside the newly reconstructed, Gold LEED-certified treasure trove, brought to life through a partnership with UCSF Facilities Services www.instagram.com/ucsf.cls/ree...

The new UCSF Industry Documents Library website is going live August 18! 💻 🎉 Get ready for: 🔍 advanced search capability 📂 streamlined content organization ♿️ enhanced readability & accessibility 🔔 Set a reminder & explore industrydocuments.ucsf.edu #UCSFIndustryDocs

We were glad to hear that #Opioid #Archive advisory committee member Menzi Behrnd-Klodt is joining the ranks of the SAA Fellows (joining our own Polina Ilieva, who became a Fellow in 2024)! www2.archivists.org/recipients/2...

Congratulations @ucsf-industrydocs.bsky.social @ucsflibrary.bsky.social !! 🎉

Its document drop day! This month IDL staff uploaded 207,000+ documents produced in the multistate litigation against #Juul Labs. When complete, the Juul Labs collection will contain approx 7 million documents. www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/tobacco/coll... #archives #publichealth #libraries

📣 Join us online tomorrow at noon PT for a Digital Health Humanities Talk, Towards a Living Women’s History of HIV/AIDS with Jennifer Brier, PhD (University of Illinois at Chicago). Register here: calendars.library.ucsf.edu/event/14755381

Get excited for the 2025 International Archives Week! Check out the UCSF archives featured on the #ArchivesAreAccessible Map on the International Council on Archives’ website. #ICA #IAW2025 archives-are-accessible.ica.org/map#/fiche/U...

Happy International Archives Week! Join us online tomorrow at 14:30–15:30 CET to hear about the co-designed Opioid Crisis Community Archive. UCSF speakers: Polina Ilieva, Dan Kabella, Kelly Knight #IAW2025 ⚡ Register to attend this and other exciting ICA lightning talks: www.ica.org/event/iaw202...

We passed the 5 million documents mark in the #Opioid #Archive today! Check out the latest additions to the Teva and Allergan Documents and consider what you might research in this vast dataset. www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/opioids/coll...

Jay Levy, MD, helped change the course of HIV/AIDS research. Now, his huge professional archive is preserved at UCSF and available for the first time, offering a rare look into decades of work. @ucsflibrary.bsky.social tiny.ucsf.edu/Ynolrn