The aggressive workplace spam filter has refused delivery of an email titled “Genealogical research, Quakers.” It’s just like me!

You aren't future proofing a library while eliminating library jobs.

Librarians who co-sign deliteracy & deskilling can go straight to hell, which is an infinite slidedeck presentation of inaccurate AI summaries of books deaccessioned into oblivion.

Our staff summer reading challenge is four days old and at 8,600 pages so looks like somebody is gonna be seconded to the “leaf drawing department”

I used to really enjoy strategic planning (I know many disagree!) but it turns out with enough ego, silos, and micromanagement, anything can be made painful!!

Read Kiki Arantia's article about Shakespeare in the Kitchen in @inquirer.com today! @phillyinqfood.bsky.social share.inquirer.com/GE1MCw

Audited one of my favourite drawers today. As far as I can tell there was an entire generation of past mollusc curators who communicated entirely by means of passive-aggressive drawer notes to each other

sorry all our infrastructure is so bad, but i want you to know our admin had a lot of fun drinking with the vendors of this software product! <3

Who will be the leftist of 2026 to create the next schlock collection? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Petition to bring back The Demon Lady font

It’s a great day to take your job and shove it!

this is the practitioner-facing underbelly of the fact that unis don’t build infrastructure, jusy digital CV lines that rapidly create technical debt

Silly art for morale: my project for international Print Day is a "California Pizza Case" print mashup of California Pizza Kitchen 🍕 + the California Job Case (popular letterpress type case layout). Lasercut print blocks for cheese, CA Pizza Prints altered logo, California typecase grid #DHmakes +

For me, always with whatever tools I'm teaching, I just want students to feel equipped to make these decisions for themselves. I want them to operate in the info ecosystem with a sense of empowerment, not fear.

Calling all catalogs! Submit your printed or digital exhibition catalog of library and archival materials for the RBMS Leab Exhibition Catalog Awards. Learn more on the award website and submit your catalogs by April 30! https://bit.ly/4ttmzP1

You know the exhibit is almost done when the poster arrives 😅

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

I searched "data center coloring book" because I was trying to decide if I should make one and found this, from a power management company, and I don't think I can top this www.eaton.com/explore/_pfc...

If you come at lunchtime I’ll be insulting Frenchmen and making butt jokes in chapter 91: The Pequod Meets the Rose-Bud

There is a disturbing amount of computer-based work in elementary school now and it’s just … not good for kids brains, bodies, or eyes

Are you a student in archives, museum studies, or information studies? Do you know one? @saa-snap.bsky.social, the Students section of the Society of American Archivists, has two calls open—poster proposals and committee nominations. 🧵

It’s the greatest day of the year: ENGLISH MAJORS COLLOQUIUM DAY!!!! The first half is material text stations: typecasting/setting, substrates, imposition 😍😍😍, illustration technologies, and signs of use. Then we make books but I’ll be too busy bansheeing to document that…

“I have the memory of a goldfish,” I say apologetically to my coworkers, who cannot see me remember-singing every word to “Out of the Races and Onto the Tracks”

“You used to be able to do something nice online, and now you can’t” is definitely a starting point for analysis that resonates well with the young people

Remember Google Search? Damn. That was actually pretty useful.

white supremacist academic don’t look like dr. bunsen honeydew challenge

Garfield hates Mondays joke

Here is my best Habermas story. I am grad student waiting in LONG line for Habermas talk. There is a tall man waiting in front of me. Line moves so we are eventually visible to organizers, a woman looks over & makes horrified face. Runs out: "Prof Habermas! You don't have to wait in line!"

I’m sorry, Habermas was ALIVE???

False spring trojan horsed me into washing and storing all our flannel sheets. goddamn Odysseus-ass 80 degree Wednesday.

When I give talks about the exploitation of GLAM by the AI industry I’m always asked “how can we defend ourselves from bots scraping our metadata?” I have no idea. That’s a question for an engineer. What I can and do say is that we shouldn’t be supporting this industry in the first place.

My favorite part of the group chat is where we team read the latest Chotiner murder

Jury’s still out on whether undergrads find me cool (…) but let me say that today they were definitely impressed by my 4yo’s elite taste in Charli XCX tracks

Oh heck yes

Between politically motivated take-downs, the things going behind log-ins due to AI scraping, and the things being taken offline because they're PDFs, 2026 is going to be a record year for collections loss online.

Knowing who to be mad at really is praxis.

Truly a cursed move for a student to choose this for their Aesthetics class out of a portfolio of nearly 700 artifacts, most of which are not objectively haunted.

Last semester Art History students put together an (awesome!) exhibit on the history of McCabe Library and with @shannonmattern.bsky.social here this afternoon I thought it fitting to take one last lunch in this Original Library Chair (TM)

Talking to students this week about physically making zines & sharing some masters & printed zines of Nancy's Magazine so they can see the process of creation for this pub. Love the use of graph paper, white out, & glued bits of paper.

@jgarc.bsky.social I missed your talk last night but gonna catch the video when it’s up - mind if I email you with a q about identifying Crukshank sammelbands?

“This spreadsheet is scary long” - one of our student workers this morning, but also me all the time

Happy to pre-announce my upcoming book, Flong Time, No See! www.kickstarter.com/projects/gle... I’ve gathered my most interesting reported stories and essays of the last seven years, and will revise and expand them for this print and ebook collection!

Nothing goes better than cake + old books!!!!

I can’t believe @dhm.bsky.social died before I got this #newacq in the mail. Sending out Nazi Frank Rizzo in his honor

I love library books too but please keep your lips to yourself. (First edition, first printing of The New Negro (1925), in library binding with plenty of highlighter and thankfully not as many kisses)

AWS generates an estimated 50-70% of Amazon’s income according to most sources, which I feel compelled to remind people trying to organize an Amazon retail boycott meant for Bezos. We have to think more critically about how we apply pressure to corporate powers.

Yet again failed the “Caitlin don’t teach with Armed Services Editions”challenge

journalists are workers who deserve to be paid fairly for our labor and I think that far too few consumers of media recognize or even care about this fact

Nothing amps me up like a stupid little craft