I worked on this on the Library of Congress project for about five years, and CBS was not interested in preserving their history!

Ruth Asawa, "Spring," 1965 www.moma.org/collection/w...

wrote about books as a key part of subcultural archival work (feat. @jrdarchivist.bsky.social’s work among others)

Also, cite working archivists when you're writing about this. If you didn't know about the Caswell test, now you do: orb.binghamton.edu/english_fac/4/ (end of thread, probably)

🧵My values are always growing and therefore changing, and so I try not to speak in absolutes unless I'm really sure. That being said, I am totally uninterested in techno-optimist visions of "AI in archives" that eliminate the social relationships between creators, collectors, GLAMs, and researchers.

Editorial from our student newspaper: "In its tireless support for AI, the University has essentially endorsed shortcuts and the outsourcing of academic thinking"

"I cld no longer compete with the size of the internet. So, rather than endlessly repackaging the web as literature, I migrated to paper. Since the pandemic, I’ve been working on a prjct called Retyping a Library. It’s exactly what it sounds like..." Reminds me of Paul Soulellis's The Printed Web :)

While zines can’t compete with the reach of mass media, they are distributed for free or cheap and are difficult to censor. baltimorebeat.com/a-teaching-t...

SO EXCITE!!!

if you were unable to attend Erin McGuirl's Winship Lecture, "No Modern Publishing Without Women" at Houghton Library, the recording is now live! 📜 www.youtube.com/watch?v=arCs...

This dreadful book banning bill, H.R. 7661, has made it out of committee and into the House. It's time to call your reps.

*breathing into a paper bag*

In the 1970s, incarcerated musicians across Texas formed bands and recorded music inside prison walls. The Marshall Project's Maurice Chammah and former prison musician Morgan White discuss the history, the recordings and what those experiences meant for the people involved.

Civil Rights icon, @doloreshuerta, made a brave move today, revealing a secret she had been holding for 60 years for the sake of the Farm Workers movement. You can read her letter here: medium.com/@dolores_hue...

Terrific new article about how the idea of "neutrality" has been used for decades to deny the approval of #LCSH relating to marginalized people. Great description of how subject headings are created and how inordinate scrutiny is given to certain proposals in order to appear "unbiased." #critcat 📚

Anyway love and power to these women who fought for themselves and each other and labor, they deserve better

I understand living in a misogynistic society that normalizes abuse against women and girls, that makes men not even think of it as abuse, means it's hard to make a hero of any man. But boy does it suck to be reminded of that again and again and again.

The Cesar Chavez story discussed yesterday is out, in the New York Times. Two women say that he sexually assaulted them as children, beginning when they were 12 and 13. And Dolores Huerta says he raped her in 1966.

new episode Wednesday!!! this week @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social joins the pod to talk with us about medieval print, why LLMs are crap (they are), and her former life as a stand-up comic... #medievalsky pca.st/1t8mhvg4

Encyclopedia Britannica sues OpenAI for copyright and trademark infringement www.engadget.com/ai/encyclope...

on the jim crow travesty that is the SAVE act (gift link)

Discover how queer studies, book history, and visual culture intersect in this fascinating essay collection, and how a variety of media have helped shape queer community – from zines, to romance novels, to social media. Order your copy today: bit.ly/4kvJE00 University of Pennsylvania #BookHistory

The Grolier Club has digitized the meeting minutes of the Hroswitha Club! The Hroswithians were a group of women collectors not allowed in the Grolier Club. These minutes are a treasure trove, and Im thrilled to see them digitized and not in my phone anymore! www.grolierclub.org/Default.aspx...

Lorena Bradford might not be a household name, but she really should be. The first head of Accessible Programs at the National Gallery of Art tells us about the winding path of her career and the future of museum accessibility.

Trump admin orders libraries to stop processing passport applications...at same time they want to require citizenship docs like passport to register to vote www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Union Yes at ALA! To support American Library Association employees forming their union with AFSCME, add your name here: actionnetwork.org/forms/union-...

We’re gathering outside City Hall to send a clear message: New Yorkers deem libraries essential, and our city’s budget should reflect that! Join us and make your voice heard! 📅 Tuesday, March 18 ⏰ 9:00 AM 📍 Outside City Hall actionnetwork.org/events/budge...

Good morning, I am excited to share a project today that I've been working on for the past few months. The Warehouse Exhibition Opens in NYC at Bedford Library on April 4 - www.thewarehousenyc.com

Pleased to be quoted here. This is the first request for a conversation I've accepted from a journalist who emailed me abt AI bc the journalist, Kathryn Palmer, didn't approach me as a stenographer for industry but instead to provide visibility for a movement.We had a great substantive conversation

So thrilled to see this--Barbara Smith's collections include the records of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, handwritten drafts of the Combahee River Collective Statement, and Smith’s own electric JCPenney typewriter. (Maybe some Albany, NY records too?) www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news-and-ide...

Join us for a behind-the-scenes visit to the Woodman Family Foundation. The Woodman Family Foundation stewards the artwork and legacies of three artists: Betty Woodman (1930 – 2018); Francesca Woodman (1958 – 1981); and George Woodman (1932 – 2017). Register: nycarchivists.org/event-6616897

Garfield hates Mondays joke

Signs of spring, ranked. An older comic. Feel free to argue with my ranking.

Join us for a book launch event (part 1 of 2) for Resisting Erasure: Libraries in Palestine and Palestine in Libraries March 24, 12 Eastern https://libraryjuiceconnections.org/events/resisting-erasure-libraries-in-palestine-and-palestine-in-libraries/

Booklet Bundle! A set of 8 Public Collectors booklets for the discounted price of $40.00 postpaid in the US. Start a Public Collectors mini library and help me clear out some space for new publications. I'll make 20 of these sets available. Payment link: www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/...

Look at the great poster the U of Connecticut made for me--incorporating the witty trade card of Elizabeth Griffin, mid #18thc London map & printseller. Immodest of me--but I believe my talk (3/26, 4pm) will be live-streamed, so pls let me know, farflung Bsky pals, if you'd like more info'.

Queer Bibliography 2027 will be in the UK, and I'm one of the co-organizers! We're looking for people to help with all aspects of conference organization. Interested? Contact me on here, or at my university email address, or via telegraph/pigeon/cryptic cloud patterns. The sky's the limit!

Very exciting to hear an archivist get a shout out at the academy awards tonight.

A reminder that the Academy shamelessly and wrongly fired a lot of its archivists variety.com/2024/film/ne...

I wrote about the emboldened Christian nationalists who are reshaping politics in Texas and nationwide -- and the cracks that are beginning to show in their political dominance The New Faces of Christian Nationalism www.newyorker.com/magazine/let...

If you read the actual text of the bill it seems perfectly boilerplate until the very last line, where it bans any mention of "homosexuality or transgenderism". This is a nazi book burning bill, plain and simple.

LOCKSS

The doge bros are specifically cutting humanities programs because they believe understanding history and culture is a threat to fascism and white supremacy. They are right.

This verdict in particular is an egregious threat to the First Amendment. He was convicted of "corruptly concealing a document or record" for transporting a box of anarchist zines. In other words, transporting printed essays that featured political speech.

Albrecht Dürer: historical hottie, partial inspiration for Pentiment’s protagonist, woodcut artist 🪵 Learn more about the first book he worked on in this episode of Bite Sized Book History! youtu.be/GDLoDjjCJY4?...

Mitch Freedman was a mensch and someone who did extraordinarily good things for the library profession. Here's two of my favorite things that he did. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice... We were lucky to have him. 📚

Once again LinkedIn-posting to say, Selecting and Appraising Archives and Manuscripts is in hand 🗃📦🎉

Legitimately every time some bloodthirsty ghouls start advocating for another cruel and useless war, everyone with a conscience should say no and demand at least this much money be used for social services thanks to the savings.

Lovely to be able to share this 18th-century bound herbarium for a workshop on botany and the book, funded by the Isaac Newton Trust and Trinity College, Cambridge. We’ve also digitised the volumes, so everyone can take a look! cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-...