Read it, add to it, enjoy it!

Spirit of discovery: Greg Prickman on what makes the Folger’s exhibition halls unique 📜 www.folger.edu/blogs/folger...

Saving Lost Feminist Video Letters (Getty)(From Nov) 📜 www.getty.edu/news/saving-...

UNC cuts all six area studies research centers, effective 2026 dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

"The agreement is similar to an interlibrary loan in practice..." www.thegazette.com/state-govern...

AAUP Raises Alarm Over Palantir’s Work for Ed Department www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

🚀 New article in JASIST! 
 We review the current challenges and future directions of institutional #OpenAccess repositories – from funding & staffing to technology & researcher engagement. 
👉 doi.org/10.1002/asi.... #OpenScience @ibi-hu.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social @ztirfhtor.bsky.social

@petermusser.com I had a student cite one of your videos in a final paper! It was so fun to see your work show up in their discussion.

Me: "I'll take a 10 min break from grading and watch a video or two." First video: Laminate all of your grandmother's recipe cards, it's the best option. /cry /cry /cry

Kennedy Center board votes to rename it ‘Trump Kennedy Center’ 📜 www.cnn.com/2025/12/18/p...

tfw students start saying "recto" and "verso" naturally even in their other classes.

Block books. The Huntington. 📜 youtube.com/shorts/ebxrG...

Conserving a medieval book binding found in the Thames London Museum video. 📜 youtu.be/8K2FgTUE9p4?...

This is indeed what I contain. Maybe not the last one. (Democratic Ladies Cookbook from the Democratic Women's Club of Johnson County, IA, 1965.)

Chicagoan of the Year in Books: If you’re into horror, thank the librarian Becky Spratford 📚 www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/16/c...

I had to answer questions about a broken link in our citations today for our upcoming article in American Archivist and I was happy to do it! It means they are checking. AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don’t Exist — And They’re Being Cited in Real Journals www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Unhappy about the decision by @acm.org to add AI-generated summaries to papers? I just noticed that they are on Bluesky. Please share your views.

Lewis Carroll’s Personal Copy of ‘Alice in Wonderland’ Finds New Owners 📜 news.artnet.com/art-world/le...

This was a nice use of trending sounds/memes. It's such a pretty library. #Syracuse 📚 www.facebook.com/share/r/17qc...

John and Hank Green’s vlog is a multimillion-dollar philanthropy machine www.ft.com/content/9d79...

When Saving Becomes Loss - Archival Memory in the Digital Age. National Archives UK. 📜 #AnnualDigitalLecture youtu.be/aWWrrhrIdYk?...

Libraries in Alaska - and across the country - have had their federal funding reinstated by the Administration. We can't tell you how important this is: www.kyuk.org/alaska-state... Take action, tell Congress to #FundLibraries in next year's budget: app.oneclickpolitics.com/campaign-pag...

John Overholt and Molly Schwartzburg 📜https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1QNkWlkt5M

"Lust for Life was the longest book produced as an Armed Forces Edition." 📜 www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/12/12/l...

Hot mixing. news.artnet.com/art-world/po...

Endangered Frank Lloyd Wright Home in Chicago Faces Uncertain Future After Foreclosure (Chicago) news.artnet.com/art-world/fr...

"...the eventual plan is to close the library" #depaul #Chicao (Illinois) 📚📜 depauliaonline.com/80758/news/d...

Meet the Archival ‘Magician’ Restoring Massively Degraded Tape Recordings Before They’re Lost to Time 📜 www.vice.com/en/article/m...

Updated AI policy, in effect starting with the January 2026 open submission window www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/ai-policy/

News Track: What's happening with Iowa's school book ban law? Latest on appeals www.thegazette.com/state-govern...

Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...

Amazon changes how copyright protection is applied to Kindle Direct’s self-published e-books techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/a...

I honestly think that many people don't know what their public libraries offer besides books. I think that everyone should go on a public library treasure hunt in 2026. Go explore what your library systems offer at no cost to you. Report back to me :)

Elizabeth Call named head of Eberly Family Special Collections Library 📜 www.psu.edu/news/univers...

More than 600 artifacts stolen from museum collection, say police 📜 www.cnn.com/2025/12/11/s...

The Library Company of Philadelphia will become part of Temple Libraries now.temple.edu/news/2025-12...

Fans Have Made ‘Dungeon Crawler Carl’ Into a Global Blockbuster 📚 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/b...

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Archives & Special Collections' Elizabeth Joffrion to retire Dec. 15 (Western Washington University) 📜 news.wwu.edu/archives-spe...

The women who revolutionized libraries in the midst of the Great War 🗃️📚 en.ara.cat/culture/the-...

This is one of the most important documents produced this year. At a time when many of our professional organizations are punting, @aaup.org has been leading on EdTech, AI, academic freedom & faculty governance. I'm humbled to be joining the team that authored this report.

When we look back on how stupid this era is, I hope we remember to emphasize that 41% of the books in this case (7 of 17) were picture books with butt or fart jokes, like "Larry the Farting Leprechaun." www.newsweek.com/supreme-cour...

Bookmobile librarians lending 'lifelines' to Billings and beyond for 75 years (Montana) 📚 www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/bookmob...

Federal grant funding restored for Iowa libraries, museums (Iowa) www.thegazette.com/article/fede...

Let’s Talk About It: AI and the Academic Librarian Job Search by Eleanor Ball. 📚 acrlog.org/2025/12/09/a...

Rare Books and Rare Opportunities: A Summer Internship in General Collections Care 📜 blogs.loc.gov/preservation...

This is horrific - "The plans had been sent to a company in Scotland for digitisation when the vehicle they were in was stolen and set alight." 📜 www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...

It's died down now, but at the start of rhe school year, I was at about this rate for student requests as well. Besides the writing style, the material they were asking for, if it existed at all, often had little to do with the topic they were exploring or question they were answering.

“Her library estimates that 15 percent of emailed reference questions it receives are now ChatGPT-generated…”