Washington State Library and the Talking Book and Braille Library are closing to the public, 12 jobs getting axed 📚https://washingtonstatestandard.com/briefs/washington-state-library-closing-to-the-public-12-jobs-getting-axed/

🧵(1) Why do we preserve photographic images of manuscripts? Cultural losses continue to beset communities around the world, especially in areas subject to armed conflict. The loss can manifest in multiple ways: destruction and damage, dispossession, the displacement of individuals, and other forms.

I would love one more guest for my Rare Book Cataloging class later in November. Let me know if you've worked in this area and if you would be interested in talking about a particularly challenging item you've tackled. Let me know, thanks!

Ended the day at QZap! @qzap.bsky.social That's it for me today. Leaving eith new ideas and new partners for #rbms26!

The visit to the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee today included a tour of some of Max Yela's favorite artist's books. Would you want a tour? #rbms26

Our next stop is the Marquette University special collections. They have the original Tolkein manuscripts for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Plans are in the works for a tour! #rbms26

Next up on our #RBMS26 planning tour is the Milwaukee Public Library. We are figuring out how to plan a tour.

The streetcars are free in Milwaukee, and there is a streetcar tour and it takes you to restaurants all over. #rbms26

Classic Milwaukee. #rbms26

Architecture boat tours pick up across the street from the hotel! Picnic tables in the park across the street in the summer. #rbms26

I spy some of the rare book stacks in the upper gallery at the Milwaukee Historical Society. #rbms26 There will be tours!

The Milwaukee Historical Society is asking the important questions in their current exhibition. #rbms26 #Milwaukee

The view for the New Members Mixer and the scholarship breakfast at #rbms26 is pretty spectacular. #Milwaukee

Wistfully watching my last nearly 6pm sunset.

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

Thanks to @librarycolleen.bsky.social for this thank you board for ACRL’s Tory Ondrla. If, like me, you’ve attended or otherwise benefitted from an @rbmsinfo.bsky.social conference in the past 20+ years, we have Tory to thank. #RBMS Post a thank you here: www.kudoboard.com/boards/t07uc...

📜 Friend-shaped.

Bookpeople! Does anyone know where I can buy uncut printed sheets to teach basic imposition and format (rather than the DIY sheets I typically print off on 8.5x11)? The Rare Book School's bibliographic format kits appear to be out of stock.

The first internet message was sent from UCLA fifty-six years ago 🌐 Watch PBS SoCal's "Lost L.A." host Nathan Masters visit UCLA Library Special Collections with internet pioneer, Prof. Leonard Kleinrock to see the logbook firsthand: www.pbssocal.org/shows/lost-l... @uclasamueli.bsky.social

I think it's amazing that this article I found today was inspired by a Discussion Session held at RBMS 2024. You should propose something for RBMS, and then turn it into a publication! (I'll have to put the citation for the article in the next comment, because it was too long to fit).

The 2026 RBMS Conference, "Advocacy" CFP is live! The conference will be in June in Milwaukee, and online. Submit your proposals by December 12th! 📜 #SpecialCollections #Archives web.cvent.com/event/0F0104...

Question from my rare book cataloging class! What is the longest amount of time you have spent working to catalogue one rare book? (You can DM if you don't want to admit it "out loud"). We are fascinated to hear your answers.📜

It's not what I was looking for in the journal I was searching, but this ad from 1999 does make it clear how much things have changed.

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

These "Teaching the Codex" blog posts introducing collation formulas from Dr. Sian Witherden @sianwitherden.bsky.social have particularly good illustrations that make it clear for students learning about it for the first time. 📜 teachingthecodex.com/author/teach...

The Incredible Story Behind the Largest African American Quilt Collection 📜 news.artnet.com/art-world/ba...

A Texas District Has Just Banned Students from Secondary School Libraries 📚 bookriot.com/new-braunfel...

Another bummer of a post from me, about how expensive it is to be laid off. 📚 acrlog.org/2025/10/24/t... I'm sorry to keep existing and keep being miserable so publicly. I wish I were not doing either of those.

(From back in May) Denmark’s museum objects at risk from ‘extreme’ new mould, say conservators | Denmark | The Guardian share.google/DyHV3gm2anpb...

Good news! 📚📜 www.press-citizen.com/story/news/2...

Requiring Book Sellers to Rate Content of Books Unconstitutional, Per Federal Judge 📚 bookriot.com/texas-reader...

📚 www.carnegie.org/news/article...

Presidential Library nonprofit dissolved just before Miami land transfer www.miamitimesonline.com/business/tru...

My calendar this morning says, "Urgent: finish grading" Amazon says, "No course sites for you."

Louvre Closed After Brazen Daylight Robbery 📜 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/w...

What do we mean when we say "Special Collections"? 📜 www.usforacle.com/2025/10/01/u...

Would you like to potentially host a Summer 2026 MLIS student for a 150 hour for-credit practicum placement? It is particularly difficult to find online options for students who are interested in gaining more library/cultural heritage work experience. Let me know if you have ideas! 📚📜

Indiana University fires the director of student media amid dispute over student newspaper's content www.indystar.com/story/news/e...

I showed up for my observation hours at Franklin Middle School when I was studying to be a teacher and stopped short in the hall, very surprised to see a real Grant Wood painting right in front of me. www.thegazette.com/k/heres-how-...

Arkansas Prepares to Move Forward with Reconstituted State Library Board, Revised Funding Rubric 📚 www.libraryjournal.com/story/news/a...

Would you like to potentially host a Summer 2026 MLIS student for a 150 hour for-credit practicum placement? It is particularly difficult to find online options for students who are interested in gaining more library/cultural heritage work experience. Let me know if you have ideas! 📚📜

📜 New blog post! I wrote about "contextless museums" and similar spaces and what they potentially mean for the future of the sector. animalarchaeology.com/2025/10/13/i...

MSS B.1.20, Instead of manicules, the reader of this 13th c manuscript used tiny faces to mark interesting points in the text. #marginaliamonday mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/B...

Coherent launches major archive of rare African magazines largely unknown among scholars 📚 librarytechnology.org/pr/31765

Hawaii library system bans displays that refer to 'Banned Books Week,' rebrands to 'Freedom to Read' 📚 apnews.com/article/cens...

UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’ www.dailytarheel.com/article/26e4...

Digital preservation needs reach the Louvre. 📜https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/13/louvre-acquires-first-ever-video-work

The Pushkin job: unmasking the thieves behind an international rare books heist As many as 170 rare and valuable editions of Russian classics were stolen from libraries across Europe. Were the thieves merely low-level opportunists, or were bigger forces at work? www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

For #CoffeeWithACodex on October 16, Curator @leoba.bsky.social will visit @rosenbachmuseum.bsky.social where she'll join Librarian Elizabeth Fuller for a look at MS 1004/29, a mid-fourteenth-century physician's belt book. #medievalsky #cwac Register here: https://bit.ly/4ohnEqu

Homegrown madder pigment. It's wonderful to create medieval pigment from something grown in your garden #bookhistory #medievalpigments #medievalsky