you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

Today I learned there are AT LEAST 29 active antique bottle clubs across Australia. At a previous online auction this sealed bottle of Tasmanian Fanta sold for AU$45.

A colleague shared their favourite artwork in our little library with me today and I just adore it: Onions [art original] by Caroline Peebles, [ca. 1870-ca. 1910], H2010.77/18. We don't know much about Peebles' life but she passed away in 1911, making all her watercolours out of copyright.

Thank you, Netflix. Yes, I am wonderful; I'm a librarian.

My librarian career is over, folks: I've finally been recruited by the Illuminati. #dreamsdocometrue #spam

The London Museum exhibited THE sweetest handmade dolls in 2019 and you have to do the Buzzfeed-esque quiz t find out which Vegetable Kingdom doll you are: www.londonmuseum.org.uk/blog/una-maw...

Further proof of the tyranny of stamp addictions. Yarralumlah, 1952, Argus Ltd H2002.199/749. #librarian

Shocked and saddened for our NSW neighbours in the cultural sector after 18 regional art galleries have lost their 4-year government funding share.google/K1lphf4k7FEo...

If you’re submitting an AI-generated resume, at least make sure your LinkedIn URL isn’t a ChatGPT redirect link 🙄

I assisted a reference librarian on a VERY important deep dive this morning, finding pictures of giant animals in our collection. This is Goliath, H2004.100/1087, Argus via Acme Newspictures, 1936. #librarian #gooddog

Updated list of nazis in the Melbourne area (June). Please share with your community.

Best reason to go off the record.

😬 Via @theonion.com #librarian

Remembering Chevalière d'Éon for Pride. A transgender woman in the 1700s who was also a spy and who turned double agent, extorted an entire monarchy to get her gender marker changed, and lived her life as a woman in a time when such was thought impossible. We have always been here.

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

Trump administration fires top copyright official days after firing Librarian of Congress. apnews.com/article/copy...

From the late 1850s until the mid 1990s, this gong was struck to signal the closing of the library for the day. I was allowed to give it a little practice bash today and it's LOUD. H98.208/1, LTRE262. #librarian

I'm trying to support a Wikimedia researcher at my library but the Wiki moderators we're arguing with have names like DoctorWholock9486 and JediMasterKoth29 and the Tumblr flashbacks are killing me.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... It's fucking amazing to me that an author can be stripped of their prize money for *checks notes* tweeting against a genocide. Shame on #QLDGovernment

I spent the morning ferrying around little clumps of matted hair. My job is so glamorous. They're apparently from the camels that carried Burke and Wills on their great ill-fated expedition. H31978. #burkeandwills #librarian

This week in the library: John Ruskin's chess set. RARESEF794.1R897J #chess #librarian #rarebooks

After listening to the @ologies.bsky.social episode on Weird Mediaeval Art, I rushed to my teammate and friend, our principal rare books curator, and asked about marginalia snails in our collection. She was so happy to show me this sweet snail wearing a hat ☺️ in a Book of Hours, RARES 096 R66HF.

Our friends at the Old Treasury Building have just launched a great new exhibition Making Modern Melbourne, which I encourage everyone to go see (and not just because yours truly has his name on the acknowledgements wall.) www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/making-moder...

This fascinating cultural heritage was discovered by our Digital Preservationist on a USB stick. It dates back to 2008 when the internet was all sharp corners and serif fonts, but is still functioning Trojan malware which put our forensic acquisition workstation into lockdown for a day. #FRED

21 US States are suing Trump over attacks on museums and libraries: hyperallergic.com/1002017/21-s... #library #trump

Thanks for the musk sticks, Tim Ross 🥰 (If I were allowed to eat at my desk, the bowl would be empty by now. Only shame and mild inconvenience is stopping me.)

A new digital exhibition has just been released on Ned Kelly, titled Mouthful of Dust: www.slv.vic.gov.au/mouthful-of-... presenting 3D photography of armour, boot, rifle, death mask and the Letter, and new writing from Grace Chan, Cameron Hurst, Wesley Enoch, Sarah Krasnostein, and Nam Le.

Victoria Legal Aid is looking for a law librarian in Naarm: jobs.careers.vic.gov.au/jobtools/jnc...

To help us all through our Friday-itis, I present this tidy lil guy and his... well, whatever it is, he's looking at it so adoringly that I can't even bare to insult it. It's his baby; his treasure; his pride and joy. Look at our little guy swoon over it!

Great presentation by Flinders Uni and UniSA this afternoon at the tail end of #InfoOnline25 on the security threats of AI, warning us of the very real threat of both the integrity of data used to train LMs (data in) and the malicious use of generated content (data out).

A warm welcome to all my new followers via ALIA's #InfoOnline25. I hope you've all enjoyed the conference so far. Please stick around for my childlike wonder at all the bizarre little things tucked away in a certain little library in Melbourne. 👋

Attending ALIA's Information Online conference today, learning about the NLA's ICIP Protocol implementation. Really liked this quote by James Baldwin, shared in the presentation. #InfoOnline25

Interesting tagging technique... #italianitalianitalianitalianitalian

Federal Education Minister's idiotic (Coalition replicating) idea to create new "study hubs" rather than support and expand public libraries. futurecampus.com.au/2025/03/04/l...

Here it is; the talk of the town. The Whole Pantry by Belle Gibson. Held in my library as Legal Deposit and this week transferred to our Rare collection to prevent it being stolen.

A piece I've wanted to read ever since I heard of her fascination with the subject. Sally Rooney in superb form, on Ronnie O'Sullivan and the darkly mysterious, mathematical glamour of snooker at its best. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

As seen on Instagram by Sam Wallman @ourmembersbeunited and featured by Overland Magazine #librarian www.instagram.com/ourmembersbe...

My colleague @terrihonk.bsky.social gave a presentation for Women's History Month today and I'd like to highlight a project she discussed. Our special collections cataloguers are identifying and updating our records to make women's names easier to find, rightfully highlighting their contributions.

I love Bluesky 🥰 #cjcregg #westwing

The thing that everyone thinks is nuts, but I absolutely think would work: a presentation that looked like an Apple keynote product launch, but for all the cool shit that the government makes for people. Cancer treatments, national parks, space discoveries, free tax filing, cool new airports.

"If anyone take away this book, let him die the death; let him be fried in a pan; let the falling sickness and fever seize him; let him be broken on the wheel, and hanged. Amen." - Arnstein Bible, W. Germany (Arnstein), c. 1172 Harley MS 2798, f. 235v, British Library.

Determining copyright permission can sometimes be like pulling teeth, but today for the first time ever I had to ask the question "But what is it?"

A petition has been released to persuade my library to relocate Ned Kelly's armour: www.change.org/p/relocate-n... stating it's disrespectful to display it in the reading room named after the judge who sentenced him to death. Said judge was also the founder of my library.

Congrats to (suprise DILF of the year) Tim Ross on his new show, The Australian Dream, supported heavily by my team for access to our archives at the library.

I've been able to brush off most of the erasure of trans people from government websites, but this one is REALLY getting under my skin. It's just complete revisionist history. How fucking dare they Old vs. new

It's an old building, so I guess ghost stairs were inevitable.

On Saturday February 14th 1880, the first and only edition of FIREBRAND was published in Melbourne. Almost all of the paper were swiftly rounded up and by the 21st of February, the editor George Sawkins was in court, charged and convicted with publishing obscenities. 937 copies were burned.

Too many names to list.

@terrihonk.bsky.social a little old bogan lady called me "Possum" this morning so I'm officially blessed. Nothing can haunt me today. I'm invincible.