*laughs in archivist* It always amuses me at how little historical material is actually not only digitized but also made available online compared to what lay people think.

NSCC was affected by the Houston government’s recent budget cuts, the college’s answer to the deficit from these funding losses was to cut jobs. Yesterday, myself and all my librarian colleagues found out that we were losing our jobs, that there would no longer be librarians at NSCC campuses.

The cuts at NSCC are also cuts for Novanet, the consortium for public post-secondary institutions in Nova Scotia, and Mount Allison in New Brunswick. We share resources. We pool together to have catalogue software that serves the province. We work together. This is devastating in so many ways.

Of course any collection of Victorian photographs will undoubtedly contain at least one Eldritch Terror. This should not put you off from collecting. You will adjust to the phantom ailments and rogue scratch marks and occasional visions of hell. They'll soon become like old friends.

I don't think people fully understand yet just how fragile university-hosted digital resources are after external funding ends (especially if the lead academic retires or moves or is made redundant).

Digital Preservation Coalition Free Online Course -- Novice to Know-How: Advocacy #archives #library 📚 www.dpconline.org/news/dpc-lau...

Mudie's Select Circulating Library lay at the heart of the Victorian publishing system. Karen Wade's site, now at a new URL, makes it possible to explore the library's catalogues as never before, with an index of 22,000 novels by 6000 authors. curatr.ucd.ie/mudies/ #victorian #bookhistory

legend has it he's still out there diverting traffic to this very day....

Scritchy has returned, with helpers! #BikeHfx #PylonWars

Happy National Canadian Film Day! The ACA Presentation of David Hartford's Back to God's Country is now available for the next 48 hours. www.canfilmday.ca/event/association-of-canadian-archivists-presents-back-to-gods-country #CanFilmDay

The way people state a casual guess/ hunch/ paranoid suspicion/ accusation as a fact, and the way that has become normalized and widespread, is how a lot of people participate in truth decay. Here, there, and everywhere. Across the political spectrum.

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

there's just no way that strange women lying in ponds distributing swords could be even half as bad as this

My one-hour special “Rick Steves Iran: Yesterday and Today,” which helps humanize 90 million Iranian people, is streaming free and ad-free at www.ricksteves.com/watch-iran.

Scritchy, the raccone, has been vandalised. I shouldn't be so surprised. The #PylonWars are shining a stark headlight on the people we share the roads with, who have no compunction in breaking the law to save a few minutes. This is #ZeroVisionHFX #CarBrain that #BikeHFX & people walking experience

Save the date and register! Join us May 7 for the African Nova Scotian Archival Gathering, hosted in partnership with Dalhousie’s African Nova Scotian Strategy, which focuses on understanding and strengthening African Nova Scotian archives across the province: events.dal.ca/event/5759-a...

Intriguing, but I think I'll wait until after the beta testing because cake should be a long-term preservation format.

From Marginalization to Visibility: 2SLGBTQ+ Archives and Public Memory is a queer and trans history and archives hybrid conference takes place in Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 15-17, 2026. Presentations are in both English and French. https://arquives.ca/fmv2026/

The Mayor is touting the importance of literacy and early access to books, after having led efforts to: 1) spend the library reserve fund on non-library items; 2) reduce library staffing/funding; 3) cut school library staff.

Call for archives professionals Link to full call: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Virginia Woolf and the Hogarth Press at Charleston www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...

Gonna be a massive music day for me, with new albums from several of my favourite artists with new releases from Courtney Barnett, Snail Mail, Robyn, and Jose Gonzalez. Wealth of options for the commute.

Because people sang a song in the gallery…

Image from Halifax Reddit. Sometimes it feels like HRM is *trying* to kill pedestrians in crosswalks

Many are the repositories whose digitized collections are held together by paper clips & twine paid for with an uncertain budget that may not get renewed in the next fiscal year because there’s long been a zeal to “just” digitize things but not to invest in their careful documentation & maintenance.

The hack of the British Library, from which it has still not fully recovered, should have been a warning that we cannot rely on digital books alone, but that would require the people making decisions on these topics to be even mildly informed on the subject.

Everyone stop what you're doing, the Mariners are selling fries, nachos, and fish and chips in ferries now. www.mlb.com/mariners/bal...

If your library is designed as a safe space for bigots, you have made it unsafe for literally everyone else in your community You've made a Nazi bar You never make a Nazi bar

I am angry, because if Houston did not remove 1% of the HST and the toll removals for the bridges and Cobequid Pass, we would have the revenue to keep all of these programs for the Arts, Tourism, Culture in Nova Scotia. #NovaScotia #HoustonFail /1 thread www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Don’t let this government tell you this was just a small group of “professional protestors.” This was massive collective action. Keep going #nspoli

Pissing off the arts and culture community always spurs the creative protest juices.

The worst kept secret in librarianship is that we are actually the worst patrons, especially when it comes to returning things on time.

My maternal grandfather was a midlevel lifer in the RN & saw action in Korea. My paternal grandfather was a Pacific theater vet turned librarian & author. Fun libraries fact: he was library director at Dewey's alma mater. Under his direction, they eliminated Dewey Decimal Classification for LCSH.

Incredible turnout at the rally in support of arts, culture, and community funding in front of the provincial legislature in Halifax, Nova Scotia

Angry about the NS budget? There are rallies across the province this week. Find your rally here: www.nsarts.ca/join-a-rally...

NS cut arts funding by 32% The 2026-27 budget slashes $14M from arts and culture—closing museums, killing or gutting 72 programs, and putting nearly 14,000 culture jobs at risk. Musicians, theatres, festivals—all on the chopping block. Tell your MLA to reverse course halifamous.ca/speak-up

New: With over 100 cyclists injuries last year, not to mention 67 vehicle-cyclist collisions between 2024-2025, the Halifax Cycling Coalition addressed the city's transportation standing committee this week. They were met with silence. My latest for @thechronicleherald.bsky.social.

Technicians spent more than a week scanning and stabilizing “Gugusse and the Automaton" – which features, by the way, the first known moving image of what might be called a robot – so that it can now be enjoyed by anyone online!

The PC Party want to close 12 of 28 Nova Scotian museums: Cossit House Lawrence House McCulloch House Perkins House Prescott House Ross-Thomson House Shand House Barrington Woolen Mill Sutherland Steam Mill Wile Carding Mill Fisherman’s Life Museum North Hills Museum #Halifax #HaliSky #NovaScotia

The archivist preserving decaying floppy disks 📜 www.popsci.com/technology/f...

Make it make sense #nspoli

They had enough room in the budget to get rid of bridge and highway tolls but can’t afford bus passes for kids?

old library catalogues: here are the results of your precisely formulated search library catalogues since ai:

City Council:

NO FUCKING WAY!!!!!! THIS "SCIENTIFIC STUDY" IS THE FUCKING LAND LORD POLL!!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHH AAHAHAHAHAHAhAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

Between this and the austerity at city hall it's nihilism only from here on out.

Cripes. One has disagreed with Mr. Coyne so violently over so many issues over so many years, and yet … Here he is so bloody incisive (yet again) in skewering today’s Conservative Party of Canada on a spit. 🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁

This hurts. Devastated to learn of the impending closure of 2 Crows brewing in Halifax. Few brewers are able to experiment with myriad styles & turn out a quality product every time: they were one of them. A stellar fleet of IPAs, among the top sours & wilds in NS, even strong old-world styles. 1/3