Sheila A Brennan
@sheilaabrennan.bsky.social
digital public humanist, Digital Scholar 🙋♀️, former NEHer, pop culture consumer, outdoorsy, eater and maker of tasty foods
Submissions for the National Postal Museum Awards ($$) for Scholarship in Postal History are due by December 1st!
Articles, books, digital public history projects accepted. Grad students, professional historians, & philatelists are welcome.
postalmuseum.si.edu/the-national...
Articles, books, digital public history projects accepted. Grad students, professional historians, & philatelists are welcome.
postalmuseum.si.edu/the-national...
The NPM Awards for Scholarship in Postal History
postalmuseum.si.edu
November 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Submissions for the National Postal Museum Awards ($$) for Scholarship in Postal History are due by December 1st!
Articles, books, digital public history projects accepted. Grad students, professional historians, & philatelists are welcome.
postalmuseum.si.edu/the-national...
Articles, books, digital public history projects accepted. Grad students, professional historians, & philatelists are welcome.
postalmuseum.si.edu/the-national...
The world lost a very kind, smart, & curious person in David Weinstein. He served as an NEH Senior Program Officer in the Div of Public Programs for 25 years. www.washingtonjewishweek.com/david-weinst...
David Weinstein
On Nov. 14, David Michael Weinstein of Rockville, Maryland, devoted father, husband and friend, died peacefully at home.
www.washingtonjewishweek.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The world lost a very kind, smart, & curious person in David Weinstein. He served as an NEH Senior Program Officer in the Div of Public Programs for 25 years. www.washingtonjewishweek.com/david-weinst...
Librarians: Are students and researchers are still using your amazing LibGuides to learn digital tools and approaches to research? Or are they turning to ChatGPT or Claude instead?
And then need your assistance?
And then need your assistance?
October 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Librarians: Are students and researchers are still using your amazing LibGuides to learn digital tools and approaches to research? Or are they turning to ChatGPT or Claude instead?
And then need your assistance?
And then need your assistance?
Yesterday I held a sign designed by an anonymous furloughed fed.
Thank you!
They are still struggling as are the many more Feds who were unlawfully fired. This is a DC area focused sheet with resources, and you can add to it, docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Thank you!
They are still struggling as are the many more Feds who were unlawfully fired. This is a DC area focused sheet with resources, and you can add to it, docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
October 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Yesterday I held a sign designed by an anonymous furloughed fed.
Thank you!
They are still struggling as are the many more Feds who were unlawfully fired. This is a DC area focused sheet with resources, and you can add to it, docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Thank you!
They are still struggling as are the many more Feds who were unlawfully fired. This is a DC area focused sheet with resources, and you can add to it, docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
The Aces did it in 4 straight, Wilson can’t be beat.
October 11, 2025 at 2:35 AM
The Aces did it in 4 straight, Wilson can’t be beat.
Re-type or Retype?
October 8, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Re-type or Retype?
As of this morning, the National Council on the Humanities went from 21 members to 4: (Wayback machine from 9/16/25) web.archive.org/web/20250916... to today: www.neh.gov/about/nation...
National Council on the Humanities
web.archive.org
October 1, 2025 at 4:50 PM
As of this morning, the National Council on the Humanities went from 21 members to 4: (Wayback machine from 9/16/25) web.archive.org/web/20250916... to today: www.neh.gov/about/nation...
Sending some love to federal employees and contractors out there who are stuck right now. This is messy (adding to the $*!t show). It creates unnecessary work and adds to the constant anxiety. And for contractors, no back pay. Hardships for citizens that you want to serve.
October 1, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Sending some love to federal employees and contractors out there who are stuck right now. This is messy (adding to the $*!t show). It creates unnecessary work and adds to the constant anxiety. And for contractors, no back pay. Hardships for citizens that you want to serve.
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We stand in solidarity with our CPB colleagues and friends. So many incredible projects were made possible by and with them. ✊
Today is the last day for CPB staff. A team remains to sustain operations at a reduced scale until all obligations are fulfilled. This is a challenging moment for us. Our departing colleagues strengthened the impact of public media & made a profound difference in the lives of the American people. 😥
September 30, 2025 at 8:02 PM
We stand in solidarity with our CPB colleagues and friends. So many incredible projects were made possible by and with them. ✊
Hoping the rain holds off for Ian’s show today.
September 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Hoping the rain holds off for Ian’s show today.
The program for this online conf exploring the history & current landscape for museums, organized by National Gallery UK, looks great. It's tomorrow and Sat, still seems open for registration: www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/confe...
Creating the museum - Online: Exploring the museum impulse in local, regional and national contexts | Events | National Gallery, London
Creating the Museum - Online conference
www.nationalgallery.org.uk
September 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The program for this online conf exploring the history & current landscape for museums, organized by National Gallery UK, looks great. It's tomorrow and Sat, still seems open for registration: www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/confe...
The NPM Awards for Scholarship in Postal History are accepting nominations for different types of researchers, with a cash award: Grad students: $1,000; Professionals (faculty, philatelists, GLAM) - $2,000; postalmuseum.si.edu/the-national...
The NPM Awards for Scholarship in Postal History
postalmuseum.si.edu
September 25, 2025 at 12:46 PM
The NPM Awards for Scholarship in Postal History are accepting nominations for different types of researchers, with a cash award: Grad students: $1,000; Professionals (faculty, philatelists, GLAM) - $2,000; postalmuseum.si.edu/the-national...
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We are ecstatic to have @omeka.org become the first certified Integration Partner on the Local Contexts Hub. Read more: localcontexts.org/omeka-certif...
Omeka certified as first Integration Partner – Local Contexts
localcontexts.org
September 17, 2025 at 10:39 PM
We are ecstatic to have @omeka.org become the first certified Integration Partner on the Local Contexts Hub. Read more: localcontexts.org/omeka-certif...
Life continues. I’m going to a funeral, a good friend is going to a wedding. We are participating in these ceremonies that celebrate life at different stages. There is much that angers me, and still much that brings some joy.
September 18, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Life continues. I’m going to a funeral, a good friend is going to a wedding. We are participating in these ceremonies that celebrate life at different stages. There is much that angers me, and still much that brings some joy.
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"The problem, she says, is these companies are rushing products to market, making the skills academic librarians are trying to teach students and researchers to use obsolete." www.404media.co/librarians-a...
Librarians Are Being Asked to Find AI-Hallucinated Books
It’s a trippy time to have a library card.
www.404media.co
September 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
"The problem, she says, is these companies are rushing products to market, making the skills academic librarians are trying to teach students and researchers to use obsolete." www.404media.co/librarians-a...
If I was currently researching in DC-area archives, I would sign up. You may know some grad students, or someone in between jobs, who have their LC researcher cards, or are immersed in collections at one of the Smithsonian Libraries, who might be interested.
We’re hiring! We need people to get documents in DC and people who need documents in DC to help us with testing Sourcery ahead of launching in our third city.
sourceryapp.org/2025/09/17/j...
sourceryapp.org/2025/09/17/j...
Join Our Team! - Sourcery
Help Sourcery get better and get paid doing it! We’re currently recruiting for two positions: Are you an early career archivist or librarian? A current MLS/PhD/MS/MA student or recent graduate? Or may...
sourceryapp.org
September 18, 2025 at 2:08 PM
If I was currently researching in DC-area archives, I would sign up. You may know some grad students, or someone in between jobs, who have their LC researcher cards, or are immersed in collections at one of the Smithsonian Libraries, who might be interested.
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My lab is running a study to investigate how serendipity relates to information seeking in digital collections. We're looking for researchers & practitioners who have used, designed, or stewarded digital collections to participate in our survey (<10 min): forms.gle/zGJDZZ14vx2M...
Survey on Serendipity and Information Seeking in Digital Collections
Purpose of the Study
We are seeking to understand the different methods of information seeking in digital collections. In addition, we would like to understand what the participants' perceptions of se...
forms.gle
September 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
My lab is running a study to investigate how serendipity relates to information seeking in digital collections. We're looking for researchers & practitioners who have used, designed, or stewarded digital collections to participate in our survey (<10 min): forms.gle/zGJDZZ14vx2M...
I really appreciate @ncph.bsky.social including this reminder in the latest newsletter, "In tough times, Fat Bear Week lifts us all up:" It's true, and thanks! explore.org/fat-bear-week
Fat Bear Week 2025
Fat Bear Week 2025
explore.org
September 12, 2025 at 12:14 AM
I really appreciate @ncph.bsky.social including this reminder in the latest newsletter, "In tough times, Fat Bear Week lifts us all up:" It's true, and thanks! explore.org/fat-bear-week
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Join @oah.org and the NCPH #Advocacy Committee to write our representatives to advocate for history, or write our support to institutions doing essential work in difficult times. Register: https://community.ncph.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?alias=PostcardCampaign
September 9, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Join @oah.org and the NCPH #Advocacy Committee to write our representatives to advocate for history, or write our support to institutions doing essential work in difficult times. Register: https://community.ncph.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?alias=PostcardCampaign
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#iSchoolUI PhD student Owen Monroe spent his internship with the National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities studying the long-term sustainability of NEH-funded digital projects. His work helped NEH explore a new grant program for maintaining digital projects ▶️ bit.ly/3JKLnAj
September 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM
As I settle into @digitalscholar.bsky.social I am catching up on 7 years of development & resources for @tropy.bsky.social, @zotero.org, & @omeka.org--there is a lot! One of the coolest things is that the Omeka team now offers online courses for both Classic & S: omeka.org/services/tra...
Omeka
- Omeka Training
Omeka is a free, flexible, and open source web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions. Its five-minute setup makes launching an onl...
omeka.org
September 2, 2025 at 7:36 PM
As I settle into @digitalscholar.bsky.social I am catching up on 7 years of development & resources for @tropy.bsky.social, @zotero.org, & @omeka.org--there is a lot! One of the coolest things is that the Omeka team now offers online courses for both Classic & S: omeka.org/services/tra...
I, too, have been thinking a lot about Hurricane Katrina after 20 years, and all that has, and in some cases, has not changed along the Gulf Coast and in New Orleans proper. I browsed through some of the collections in the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, hurricanearchive.org 1/
Hurricane Digital Memory Bank
hurricanearchive.org
August 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I, too, have been thinking a lot about Hurricane Katrina after 20 years, and all that has, and in some cases, has not changed along the Gulf Coast and in New Orleans proper. I browsed through some of the collections in the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, hurricanearchive.org 1/
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Omeka’s intensive course offerings have something for everyone! Whether you are new to Omeka or an experienced user, we're here to help. Learn more here:
Omeka
- Omeka Training
Omeka is a free, flexible, and open source web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions. Its five-minute setup makes launching an online archive or exhibition as easy as launching a blog.
omeka.org
August 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Omeka’s intensive course offerings have something for everyone! Whether you are new to Omeka or an experienced user, we're here to help. Learn more here:
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@ncph.bsky.social is looking to contract Tribal Engagement Specialist(s) in the first phase of 2 admin histories for Chaco Culture NHP & Petroglyphs NM. The Specialist will ensure meaningful inclusion of Indigenous perspectives for both admin histories. Submit by 9/15. ncph.org/what-is-publ...
National Park Service Projects | National Council on Public History
NCPH-NPS COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT In 2020 the National Council on Public History signed a cooperative agreement with the National Park Service. On this page we’ll be occasionally releasing RFPs or Reques...
ncph.org
August 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
@ncph.bsky.social is looking to contract Tribal Engagement Specialist(s) in the first phase of 2 admin histories for Chaco Culture NHP & Petroglyphs NM. The Specialist will ensure meaningful inclusion of Indigenous perspectives for both admin histories. Submit by 9/15. ncph.org/what-is-publ...