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People are harshing on some “diverse reading challenge” thing that’s going around, and I get it, but looking at what you read and asking yourself “what isn’t represented here?” is imo a good and healthy practice
December 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
People are harshing on some “diverse reading challenge” thing that’s going around, and I get it, but looking at what you read and asking yourself “what isn’t represented here?” is imo a good and healthy practice
2025 Wrapped! 🎉
📚 We acquired 579 new titles, totaling 1,600 copies, for our national collection.
🧑💻🖥️ We updated our catalog to include over 1,000 text searchable items excluding periodicals.
🏛️ We visited over 30 public libraries and provided them with brand new books.
📚 We acquired 579 new titles, totaling 1,600 copies, for our national collection.
🧑💻🖥️ We updated our catalog to include over 1,000 text searchable items excluding periodicals.
🏛️ We visited over 30 public libraries and provided them with brand new books.
December 26, 2025 at 4:57 PM
2025 Wrapped! 🎉
📚 We acquired 579 new titles, totaling 1,600 copies, for our national collection.
🧑💻🖥️ We updated our catalog to include over 1,000 text searchable items excluding periodicals.
🏛️ We visited over 30 public libraries and provided them with brand new books.
📚 We acquired 579 new titles, totaling 1,600 copies, for our national collection.
🧑💻🖥️ We updated our catalog to include over 1,000 text searchable items excluding periodicals.
🏛️ We visited over 30 public libraries and provided them with brand new books.
Greetings from Lisbon: My GLAM Wiki Story. diff.wikimedia.org/2025/11/26/g...
Greetings from Lisbon: My GLAM Wiki Story.
I was thrilled to receive a scholarship to attend the GLAM Wiki 2025 in Lisbon. It was my very first GLAM conference, which made the opportunity even more exciting. In case you’re wondering, GLAM s…
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November 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Greetings from Lisbon: My GLAM Wiki Story. diff.wikimedia.org/2025/11/26/g...
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Welcome to our three-part series on book rebinding, where Library of Congress advanced book conservation interns Brittany and Devon will take you through all the steps of rebinding a book from the Library's Thomas Jefferson Library Collection. Stay tuned for parts two and three!
November 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Welcome to our three-part series on book rebinding, where Library of Congress advanced book conservation interns Brittany and Devon will take you through all the steps of rebinding a book from the Library's Thomas Jefferson Library Collection. Stay tuned for parts two and three!
In a space like this, what can I possibly say? – My reflections on GLAM Wiki 2025 diff.wikimedia.org/2025/11/22/i...
In a space like this, what can I possibly say? – My reflections on GLAM Wiki 2025
This year, I attended a GLAM event for the first time in my life, and I’d like to share some learnings and reflections as someone relatively new to this world, despite my long history as a Wi…
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November 22, 2025 at 9:14 PM
In a space like this, what can I possibly say? – My reflections on GLAM Wiki 2025 diff.wikimedia.org/2025/11/22/i...
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Even though I have not read all of my books, I bought more books: The never-ending story.
November 8, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Even though I have not read all of my books, I bought more books: The never-ending story.
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November is #ManateeAwarenessMonth! This beautiful Manatee #SciArt is from Biologia Centrali-Americana (1879-1882), illustrated by Josef Wolf. www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/570882 #ILoveBHL #OpenAccess #SaveTheManatee #SeaCow 🧪 🌎 📖 🌱
November 8, 2025 at 6:32 AM
November is #ManateeAwarenessMonth! This beautiful Manatee #SciArt is from Biologia Centrali-Americana (1879-1882), illustrated by Josef Wolf. www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/570882 #ILoveBHL #OpenAccess #SaveTheManatee #SeaCow 🧪 🌎 📖 🌱
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🎉 Celebrating Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web & recipient of the 2025 Internet Archive Hero Award.
Learn about Sir Tim's work & legacy:
blog.archive.org/2025/11/05/c...
#Wayback1T @timbl.bsky.social
Learn about Sir Tim's work & legacy:
blog.archive.org/2025/11/05/c...
#Wayback1T @timbl.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM
🎉 Celebrating Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web & recipient of the 2025 Internet Archive Hero Award.
Learn about Sir Tim's work & legacy:
blog.archive.org/2025/11/05/c...
#Wayback1T @timbl.bsky.social
Learn about Sir Tim's work & legacy:
blog.archive.org/2025/11/05/c...
#Wayback1T @timbl.bsky.social
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Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, & @BrewsterKahle chat with Wired’s @LaurenGoode.bsky.social on the Future Knowledge #podcast about the web’s rise, its impact, & why preserving it is vital for cultural history.
🎧 Listen & subscribe ⬇️
futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/bui...
🎧 Listen & subscribe ⬇️
futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/bui...
November 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, & @BrewsterKahle chat with Wired’s @LaurenGoode.bsky.social on the Future Knowledge #podcast about the web’s rise, its impact, & why preserving it is vital for cultural history.
🎧 Listen & subscribe ⬇️
futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/bui...
🎧 Listen & subscribe ⬇️
futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/bui...
Day 3.
Meet the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees - Natalia Szafran, Lorenzo Losa, Maryana Iskander and Mike Peel
#GLAMWikiPT
Meet the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees - Natalia Szafran, Lorenzo Losa, Maryana Iskander and Mike Peel
#GLAMWikiPT
November 1, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Day 3.
Meet the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees - Natalia Szafran, Lorenzo Losa, Maryana Iskander and Mike Peel
#GLAMWikiPT
Meet the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees - Natalia Szafran, Lorenzo Losa, Maryana Iskander and Mike Peel
#GLAMWikiPT
Day 3.
Nominating Wikipedia for UNESCO Memory of the World. The Never Told Before Story - Liam Wyatt.
Nominating Wikipedia for UNESCO Memory of the World. The Never Told Before Story - Liam Wyatt.
November 1, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Day 3.
Nominating Wikipedia for UNESCO Memory of the World. The Never Told Before Story - Liam Wyatt.
Nominating Wikipedia for UNESCO Memory of the World. The Never Told Before Story - Liam Wyatt.
The museum of the future will be a community before it is an institution - Filipa Oliviera.
#GLAMWikiPT
#GLAMWikiPT
November 1, 2025 at 10:15 AM
The museum of the future will be a community before it is an institution - Filipa Oliviera.
#GLAMWikiPT
#GLAMWikiPT
Day 3
Community Resilience - Farida El-Gueretly, Fiona Romeo, Dee Harris, Alice Kibombo, Flavia Doria, Karin Glasemann.
#GLAMWikiPT
Community Resilience - Farida El-Gueretly, Fiona Romeo, Dee Harris, Alice Kibombo, Flavia Doria, Karin Glasemann.
#GLAMWikiPT
November 1, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Day 3
Community Resilience - Farida El-Gueretly, Fiona Romeo, Dee Harris, Alice Kibombo, Flavia Doria, Karin Glasemann.
#GLAMWikiPT
Community Resilience - Farida El-Gueretly, Fiona Romeo, Dee Harris, Alice Kibombo, Flavia Doria, Karin Glasemann.
#GLAMWikiPT
Female researchers in the National Archives of Spain - Isabel Zapico & Patricia Horillo.
#GLAMWikiPT
#GLAMWikiPT
November 1, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Female researchers in the National Archives of Spain - Isabel Zapico & Patricia Horillo.
#GLAMWikiPT
#GLAMWikiPT
November 1, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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This afternoon (but 4 AM NZ time) I'm giving a lightning talk at #GLAMWikiPT about developing a Wikimedia strategy for a museum. I don’t think it’s recorded, but the slides are here: docs.google.com/presentation...
Dickison• Developing a Wikimedia Strategy for a Museum
Developing a Wikimedia Strategy for a Museum Mike Dickison • [email protected] (nine ideas)
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October 31, 2025 at 9:07 AM
This afternoon (but 4 AM NZ time) I'm giving a lightning talk at #GLAMWikiPT about developing a Wikimedia strategy for a museum. I don’t think it’s recorded, but the slides are here: docs.google.com/presentation...
Images humanize biographies on #Wikimedia - @cameliaboban.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Images humanize biographies on #Wikimedia - @cameliaboban.bsky.social
Greetings,
We are in Lisbon for the GLAM Wiki Conference.
GLAM stands for "Galleries Libraries Archives and Museums."
We are in Lisbon for the GLAM Wiki Conference.
GLAM stands for "Galleries Libraries Archives and Museums."
October 30, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Greetings,
We are in Lisbon for the GLAM Wiki Conference.
GLAM stands for "Galleries Libraries Archives and Museums."
We are in Lisbon for the GLAM Wiki Conference.
GLAM stands for "Galleries Libraries Archives and Museums."
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🎉 Happy Birthday, #IFLA!
Today, we celebrate not just #libraries, but the vibrant cultures they protect, share, and inspire worldwide.
Check out our latest newsletter, themed “Celebrating Cultures”
🔗 mailchi.mp/ifla/vol-5-n...
Today, we celebrate not just #libraries, but the vibrant cultures they protect, share, and inspire worldwide.
Check out our latest newsletter, themed “Celebrating Cultures”
🔗 mailchi.mp/ifla/vol-5-n...
September 30, 2025 at 1:27 PM
🎉 Happy Birthday, #IFLA!
Today, we celebrate not just #libraries, but the vibrant cultures they protect, share, and inspire worldwide.
Check out our latest newsletter, themed “Celebrating Cultures”
🔗 mailchi.mp/ifla/vol-5-n...
Today, we celebrate not just #libraries, but the vibrant cultures they protect, share, and inspire worldwide.
Check out our latest newsletter, themed “Celebrating Cultures”
🔗 mailchi.mp/ifla/vol-5-n...
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New Jersey is the number one producer of eggplant in the United States.
It produces 26 million pounds of eggplant every year, and is sometimes called “the eggplant capital of the world.”
Don’t make us use the emoji.
It produces 26 million pounds of eggplant every year, and is sometimes called “the eggplant capital of the world.”
Don’t make us use the emoji.
October 9, 2025 at 5:39 PM
New Jersey is the number one producer of eggplant in the United States.
It produces 26 million pounds of eggplant every year, and is sometimes called “the eggplant capital of the world.”
Don’t make us use the emoji.
It produces 26 million pounds of eggplant every year, and is sometimes called “the eggplant capital of the world.”
Don’t make us use the emoji.
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Since its launch in 2023, our Generation Reader campaign has benefitted 426,288 young people across Africa, providing them with access to 141,601 brand-new books and opening 72 new reading spaces where learning can thrive.
Find out more here⤵️ bookaid.org/blog/educati...
#BookSky
Find out more here⤵️ bookaid.org/blog/educati...
#BookSky
September 12, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Since its launch in 2023, our Generation Reader campaign has benefitted 426,288 young people across Africa, providing them with access to 141,601 brand-new books and opening 72 new reading spaces where learning can thrive.
Find out more here⤵️ bookaid.org/blog/educati...
#BookSky
Find out more here⤵️ bookaid.org/blog/educati...
#BookSky
His Highness Sir Daudi Chwa the Kabaka of Buganda.
📸 A.H. Wardle & Co Ltd.
The Uganda Teacher's Journal (1939).
📸 A.H. Wardle & Co Ltd.
The Uganda Teacher's Journal (1939).
September 1, 2025 at 11:53 AM
His Highness Sir Daudi Chwa the Kabaka of Buganda.
📸 A.H. Wardle & Co Ltd.
The Uganda Teacher's Journal (1939).
📸 A.H. Wardle & Co Ltd.
The Uganda Teacher's Journal (1939).
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Proud to announce our a grant from BMA Giving which is supporting our work providing medical books across Uganda. Find out more about our health education work ➡️ bit.ly/463zr56 and about BMA Giving ➡️https://bit.ly/4mWj28p
A huge thank you to everyone at @bma.org.uk!
📷UPMB / Cynthia R Matonhodze
A huge thank you to everyone at @bma.org.uk!
📷UPMB / Cynthia R Matonhodze
August 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Proud to announce our a grant from BMA Giving which is supporting our work providing medical books across Uganda. Find out more about our health education work ➡️ bit.ly/463zr56 and about BMA Giving ➡️https://bit.ly/4mWj28p
A huge thank you to everyone at @bma.org.uk!
📷UPMB / Cynthia R Matonhodze
A huge thank you to everyone at @bma.org.uk!
📷UPMB / Cynthia R Matonhodze
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#IFLA selects #Busan, #Southkorea to host the 2026 World Library and Information Congress. We look forward to welcoming you there! #WLIC2026
Read IFLA's press release: tr.ee/Nnk5ml
Read IFLA's press release: tr.ee/Nnk5ml
IFLA selects Busan, South Korea to host the 2026 World Library and Information Congress
The Hague, Netherlands – 22 July 2025 – The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) has selected Busan, South Korea, to host the 2026 World Li...
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July 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
#IFLA selects #Busan, #Southkorea to host the 2026 World Library and Information Congress. We look forward to welcoming you there! #WLIC2026
Read IFLA's press release: tr.ee/Nnk5ml
Read IFLA's press release: tr.ee/Nnk5ml