Diane Dias De Fazio. MDes, MSHP, MSLIS, MA (and soon: MBA)
@archibrarian.bsky.social
Editor, RBM journal. Special collections librarian, JCU.
#Escalator historian.
Architecture, art, special collections. Important #LakeErieReport🌊 pics.
📚📜 #BookSky
Cover: Agnes Denes at Socrates Sculpture Park.
#Escalator historian.
Architecture, art, special collections. Important #LakeErieReport🌊 pics.
📚📜 #BookSky
Cover: Agnes Denes at Socrates Sculpture Park.
Pinned
Pete Seeger - This Land is Your Land
YouTube video by fful
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Decided this might get me through, and maybe it'll help you, too.
Pete Seeger, every (?) day. Day 1 of ?: This Land Is Your Land, with "all the lyrics"
youtu.be/HE4H0k8TDgw?...
Pete Seeger, every (?) day. Day 1 of ?: This Land Is Your Land, with "all the lyrics"
youtu.be/HE4H0k8TDgw?...
#LakeErieReport🌊, part II: New friend
August 17, 2025 at 12:12 AM
#LakeErieReport🌊, part II: New friend
#LakeErieReport🌊, part I: on a clear day
August 17, 2025 at 12:08 AM
#LakeErieReport🌊, part I: on a clear day
#SomeNews: This is the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Oakland.
Something really cool happened, and next month, I start a new job there, as Library Services Manager for Rare Books and Special Collections! 🖤💛
Something really cool happened, and next month, I start a new job there, as Library Services Manager for Rare Books and Special Collections! 🖤💛
July 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
#SomeNews: This is the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Oakland.
Something really cool happened, and next month, I start a new job there, as Library Services Manager for Rare Books and Special Collections! 🖤💛
Something really cool happened, and next month, I start a new job there, as Library Services Manager for Rare Books and Special Collections! 🖤💛
I'm going to 🇨🇱 next week—ay, dio!
Gobsmacked by the support for my #escalator conference so far; thank you! You have a special place in my heart (and my acknowledgements). 🖤#ICYMI, I was persuaded to start a little thing: ⬇️
gofund.me/c594f0f2
Gobsmacked by the support for my #escalator conference so far; thank you! You have a special place in my heart (and my acknowledgements). 🖤#ICYMI, I was persuaded to start a little thing: ⬇️
gofund.me/c594f0f2
Donate to Escalator Conference & Mom's 80th: Support a Special Trip!, organized by Diane Dias De Fazio
Way back in 2007, I wrote the first complete history of… Diane Dias De Fazio needs your support for Escalator Conference & Mom's 80th: Support a Special Trip!
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July 1, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I'm going to 🇨🇱 next week—ay, dio!
Gobsmacked by the support for my #escalator conference so far; thank you! You have a special place in my heart (and my acknowledgements). 🖤#ICYMI, I was persuaded to start a little thing: ⬇️
gofund.me/c594f0f2
Gobsmacked by the support for my #escalator conference so far; thank you! You have a special place in my heart (and my acknowledgements). 🖤#ICYMI, I was persuaded to start a little thing: ⬇️
gofund.me/c594f0f2
Fireflies. Fireflies on the Solstice.
June 21, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Fireflies. Fireflies on the Solstice.
Oh, hey! Rememberhow I got asked to present on #EscalatorHistory at a conference in Chile? It's next month! I started a GoFundMe to defray costs (and bring my 80-year-old Mom on the trip of a lifetime)! 🙏 Thanks for considering!
gofund.me/c594f0f2
gofund.me/c594f0f2
Donate to Support a Santiago Escalator Conference Trip: a Gift for Mom, organized by Diane Dias De Fazio
Way back in 2007, I wrote the first complete history of the e… Diane Dias De Fazio needs your support for Support a Santiago Escalator Conference Trip: a Gift for Mom
gofund.me
June 19, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Oh, hey! Rememberhow I got asked to present on #EscalatorHistory at a conference in Chile? It's next month! I started a GoFundMe to defray costs (and bring my 80-year-old Mom on the trip of a lifetime)! 🙏 Thanks for considering!
gofund.me/c594f0f2
gofund.me/c594f0f2
I feel seen.
"i asked grok" "i asked chagpt" yeah well I asked a rare books librarian and they found things I didn’t even know I was looking for, while answering questions about provenance
June 15, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I feel seen.
June 15, 2025 at 11:32 AM
June 15, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Some block-printed (?) endpapers, to politely interrupt your doomscroll....
#Skybrarians #BookSky #Long18thCentury
#Skybrarians #BookSky #Long18thCentury
June 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Some block-printed (?) endpapers, to politely interrupt your doomscroll....
#Skybrarians #BookSky #Long18thCentury
#Skybrarians #BookSky #Long18thCentury
📣 Hot off the presses! Print copies of RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage now arriving! (Online open access available soon, too!) #Skybrarians #RBMSSky
June 9, 2025 at 2:45 PM
📣 Hot off the presses! Print copies of RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage now arriving! (Online open access available soon, too!) #Skybrarians #RBMSSky
We did a thing!
#Publishing #ArtistsBooks #Zines #SpecialCollections #Instruction @ emilymartin
@oldslyboots.bsky.social
#Publishing #ArtistsBooks #Zines #SpecialCollections #Instruction @ emilymartin
@oldslyboots.bsky.social
May 23, 2025 at 8:37 PM
We did a thing!
#Publishing #ArtistsBooks #Zines #SpecialCollections #Instruction @ emilymartin
@oldslyboots.bsky.social
#Publishing #ArtistsBooks #Zines #SpecialCollections #Instruction @ emilymartin
@oldslyboots.bsky.social
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It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.
May 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.
Yeah, but are we sure the cardinals didn't think they were voting for Stanley Tucci?
a bald man wearing glasses and a red cape
ALT: a bald man wearing glasses and a red cape
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May 8, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Yeah, but are we sure the cardinals didn't think they were voting for Stanley Tucci?
Question: How many Master's degrees would one need to have successfully completed before they can start calling themselves "ABD"? Four? Five?
Asking because folx who never finish their dissertation, but have 2 or fewer Master's degrees are out there doing so (and for a friend with 3 MSes and 1 MA).
Asking because folx who never finish their dissertation, but have 2 or fewer Master's degrees are out there doing so (and for a friend with 3 MSes and 1 MA).
May 8, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Question: How many Master's degrees would one need to have successfully completed before they can start calling themselves "ABD"? Four? Five?
Asking because folx who never finish their dissertation, but have 2 or fewer Master's degrees are out there doing so (and for a friend with 3 MSes and 1 MA).
Asking because folx who never finish their dissertation, but have 2 or fewer Master's degrees are out there doing so (and for a friend with 3 MSes and 1 MA).
What's better and more relevant than Papal coins, medals, and medallions? ⬇️⬇️⬇️ #IYKYK
CONCLAVE! 🗝️
As we await white smoke, read about some rare printed objects from early modern conclaves preserved in @natlibscot.bsky.social! In this post, USTC postdoc, @ciaokatet.bsky.social, explores blank conclave vote tallying sheets and sample ballots. #conclave2025 www.ustc.ac.uk/news/conclave
As we await white smoke, read about some rare printed objects from early modern conclaves preserved in @natlibscot.bsky.social! In this post, USTC postdoc, @ciaokatet.bsky.social, explores blank conclave vote tallying sheets and sample ballots. #conclave2025 www.ustc.ac.uk/news/conclave
![Detail of two of the [Four voting slips for the election of a Pope]. [Rome?: Reverenda Camera Apostolica?, 16--?], National Library of Scotland, Crawford.B.41(15). Reproduced with permission from materials on loan to the National Library of Scotland from the Balcarres Heritage Trust.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cbfln5waxom3kmwcggh3wc2n/bafkreibjvh43lrk7z6h7y5wuffcdnvhstxr6c3nd4q7ra7mx2jg46tgr5y@jpeg)
May 8, 2025 at 12:10 AM
What's better and more relevant than Papal coins, medals, and medallions? ⬇️⬇️⬇️ #IYKYK
Columbia alumni magazine: making bold choices then, now (?), and ?
The first issue of Columbia's alumni magazine, 50 years ago. The '70s hairstyles! The bold choice of featuring how bad the job market is for your graduates magazine.columbia.edu/article/50-y...
May 5, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Columbia alumni magazine: making bold choices then, now (?), and ?
Please enjoy a break from your doomscrolling and celebrate the arrival of this year's first Baltimore Oriole. 🧡
May 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Please enjoy a break from your doomscrolling and celebrate the arrival of this year's first Baltimore Oriole. 🧡
Great balls of fire!
We hope you guys find this interesting.
‘Guy,’ meaning “person,” comes from Guy Fawkes.
Boom.
‘Guy,’ meaning “person,” comes from Guy Fawkes.
Boom.
April 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Great balls of fire!
April 22, 2025 at 10:25 AM