"The Muster at Marquette" is a brand-new short documentary on the quest underway at Raynor Library to preserve 6,000 #Tolkien fandom voices. Celebrate #HobbitDay by giving it a watch—or adding your voice to the muster! www.marquette.edu/library/news... @tolkiensociety.org

Happy #HobbitDay to all! On 22 September: Bilbo and Frodo Baggins were born. As Ring-bearers, born 78 years apart, their birthdays were honoured as Cormarë, and Tolkien societies worldwide continue to commemorate. How will you celebrate? #Tolkien #BookSky

Find out how much your state's libraries and museums are supported through federal IMLS funds. www.imls.gov/map

It's NEVER too late to return a library book! 😉 #overdue #LibraryLife #MarquetteU

It's NEVER too late to return a library book! 😉 #overdue #LibraryLife #MarquetteU

For #TolkienReadingDay, tune in to hear Tolkien archivist Dr. Bill Fliss and English professor Dr. Gerry Canavan on the What's On Tap radio show with Sandy Maxx. It streams live at 7 p.m. CDT tonight. #620WTMJ #MarquetteU

Happy #TolkienReadingDay to all who celebrate! Please enjoy this map of Middle Earth, annotated by the man himself and including several locations not mentioned in the books:

Coming up Friday 2/14: Douglass Day Transcribe-A-Thon! Stop by to transcribe a Library of Congress collection that documents African American history—and make Black history more accessible to all. No experience necessary. RSVP here: www.marquette.edu/library/news... #DouglassDay #MarquetteU

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Coming up Friday 2/14: Douglass Day Transcribe-A-Thon! Stop by to transcribe a Library of Congress collection that documents African American history—and make Black history more accessible to all. No experience necessary. RSVP here: www.marquette.edu/library/news... #DouglassDay #MarquetteU

If you're looking for government information during this unusual federal transition, University of Minnesota librarians have set up a hub to track efforts, including data rescue initiatives, reliable alternative sources, and more. Recommended. libguides.umn.edu/c.php?g=1449...

Well. I have been informed that it is the weekend, again. When you are ready to sit down together & figure out what just happened and what to do, we’ve got you: buttondown.com/liminalcreat... It’s also okay if you’re coming in hot! “What the actual fuck??” is a sensible start place at the moment.

my public library is releasing some archival footage recently processed and catalogued in honor of Black History Month, check out this oral history project filmed in 1991 featuring interviews with Black Milwaukeeans! content.mpl.org/digital/coll...

With classes canceled today, we're open noon to 6:30 pm today with limited services. It's mighty cold--stay warm, #MarquetteU!

Celebrate the ability to create more art with us and our friends @archive.org online and in person on January 22! blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/w...

Dreamt I indexed the fictional archives of LOTRs King Theoden! Elaborate & fun. (IRL, in the 1970s I processed the documents of & created the initial Finding Aid for the JRRT Manuscripts Collection at the @marquetteraynor.bsky.social Special Collections division.) #Booksky 💙📚

For those in Milwaukee, a reminder that the library, like the rest of #MarquetteU, is closed Dec. 24-Jan. 2. Wishing you the merriest of holiday weeks! Pictured: 1867 Harper's engraving with 4 kids parading noisily around their unamused parents' bed on Christmas morning.

My book 'Milwaukee Mayhem' can be read for free at the @archive.org and I am entirely at peace with that. Maybe if you really like it you can buy a copy or give it as a gift. But READ IT if you want to. That's why I wrote the fucking thing in the first place. archive.org/details/milw...

Everything that is in the heavens, on earth, and under the earth is penetrated with connectedness, penetrated with relatedness. -Hildegard von Bingen, b. 1098

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

A new interactive map is out from our #DigitalScholarship team: Unceded Milwaukee, which visualizes Indigenous Milwaukee in the age of empire—before and in the immediate aftermath of the 1833 Treaty of Chicago that ceded Indigenous homeland to the United States. today.marquette.edu/2024/12/unce...

Gonna have fun with this in class today: arstechnica.com/ai/2024/12/n...

the lay person can intuit the difference between Google Books and Gen AI but might not be able to put it into words. Ultimately, one adds legibility to social relations and empirical understanding; the other subtracts. In other words, one contributes to the public interest; the other detracts.

A fresh reminder to take care when choosing a publisher. "The company “Springer Global Publication” ... has published dozens of papers cloning the websites of ... Elsevier, Springer, the American Medical Association and more."

#MarquetteU will be participating! If you're on campus, mark your calendar to stop by and transcribe Feb. 14, 2025. Are you a Marquette instructor? Get in touch to include the transcribing activity in one of your classes.

My work features prominently in a Nature editorial today. Great to see digital preservation being taken seriously. "Millions of research articles are absent from major digital archives. This worrying finding, [...] was laid bare in a study by Martin Eve" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Book drive under way at #MarquetteU through Dec. 13! Clear out your shelves and donate books (for kids through adults) & magazines. * Raynor Lobby * AMU 1st Fl * Book Marq Donations go to inmates in MKE County's Community Reintegration Center and kids in Next Door's early head start.

Hello, world! Aerial view of the Marquette University campus from the corner of 11th St. and Wisconsin Ave., 1920s. See many more historical images documenting Marquette's history in our digital collections. cdm16280.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...