Adam Kriesberg
@adamkriesberg.bsky.social
Library School/Information Science faculty, archives/digital preservation/ data management/information researcher. Like a castle in the corner of a medieval game, I foresee terrible trouble but I stay here just the same…
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Hath the Count all this intelligence?
October 27, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Hath the Count all this intelligence?
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"Kathy, Ich am lost," Ich seyde, thogh methoughte she was sleepinge,
"Ich am hollowe and hurtinge and knowe not wherfor"
Countinge the cars on the Newe Jersey Turnpyke
Thei have all come to looke for America
"Ich am hollowe and hurtinge and knowe not wherfor"
Countinge the cars on the Newe Jersey Turnpyke
Thei have all come to looke for America
October 1, 2025 at 11:24 PM
"Kathy, Ich am lost," Ich seyde, thogh methoughte she was sleepinge,
"Ich am hollowe and hurtinge and knowe not wherfor"
Countinge the cars on the Newe Jersey Turnpyke
Thei have all come to looke for America
"Ich am hollowe and hurtinge and knowe not wherfor"
Countinge the cars on the Newe Jersey Turnpyke
Thei have all come to looke for America
Going to listen to this song 810 times in a row open.spotify.com/track/6n6EXI...
The General
open.spotify.com
September 26, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Going to listen to this song 810 times in a row open.spotify.com/track/6n6EXI...
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Through her creative platform, Saint Heron, Solange has launched The Saint Heron Library, a digital archive dedicated to making rare and out-of-print works by Black authors, poets, and artists accessible to all.
🔗 library.saintheron.com
🔗 library.saintheron.com
September 26, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Through her creative platform, Saint Heron, Solange has launched The Saint Heron Library, a digital archive dedicated to making rare and out-of-print works by Black authors, poets, and artists accessible to all.
🔗 library.saintheron.com
🔗 library.saintheron.com
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Happy first day of autumn!!! (In the northern hemisphere at least... and those west of UTC-02:00).
Pictured here: Maple Trees at Mama (1857) by Utagawa Hiroshige.
More works by Hiroshige → https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/utagawa-hiroshige-last-great-master-of-ukiyo-e
Pictured here: Maple Trees at Mama (1857) by Utagawa Hiroshige.
More works by Hiroshige → https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/utagawa-hiroshige-last-great-master-of-ukiyo-e
September 22, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Happy first day of autumn!!! (In the northern hemisphere at least... and those west of UTC-02:00).
Pictured here: Maple Trees at Mama (1857) by Utagawa Hiroshige.
More works by Hiroshige → https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/utagawa-hiroshige-last-great-master-of-ukiyo-e
Pictured here: Maple Trees at Mama (1857) by Utagawa Hiroshige.
More works by Hiroshige → https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/utagawa-hiroshige-last-great-master-of-ukiyo-e
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walter's hot dog stand sign, mamaroneck, new york, 1982
August 17, 2025 at 1:36 AM
walter's hot dog stand sign, mamaroneck, new york, 1982
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corn palace, mitchell, south dakota, 1987
July 13, 2025 at 1:36 AM
corn palace, mitchell, south dakota, 1987
My HS biology teacher had a laser disc set with all these science videos about things like mitosis, photosynthesis, etc that I remember watching. Also watching Gladiator in Latin class and having to point out historical inaccuracies, fun times
July 12, 2025 at 1:04 AM
My HS biology teacher had a laser disc set with all these science videos about things like mitosis, photosynthesis, etc that I remember watching. Also watching Gladiator in Latin class and having to point out historical inaccuracies, fun times
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The hip-hop duo delivers its best live performance ever recorded and one of the hardest Tiny Desks of all time.
Clipse: Tiny Desk Concert
The hip-hop duo delivers its best live performance ever recorded and one of the hardest Tiny Desks of all time.
n.pr
July 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The hip-hop duo delivers its best live performance ever recorded and one of the hardest Tiny Desks of all time.
The new Clipse album dropping alongside their Tiny Desk concert speaks to my white boy suburban millennial soul on a very deep level. So happy to see these guys back together and making music #grindin
July 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The new Clipse album dropping alongside their Tiny Desk concert speaks to my white boy suburban millennial soul on a very deep level. So happy to see these guys back together and making music #grindin
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“There is no more crucial time than now to speak up on behalf of libraries + the IMLS than now. There are 17 members on the Labor, Health + Human Services, Education, + Related Agencies Subcommittee... Each and every one of them should be contacted over the next couple of weeks”
We Can Still Save the Institute for Museum and Library Services
Act now to help save the Institute for Museum and Library Services and ensure the well-being of public libraries nationwide.
bookriot.com
July 8, 2025 at 1:50 PM
“There is no more crucial time than now to speak up on behalf of libraries + the IMLS than now. There are 17 members on the Labor, Health + Human Services, Education, + Related Agencies Subcommittee... Each and every one of them should be contacted over the next couple of weeks”
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Tiny pet dog credited with helping to save hiker trapped in Swiss glacier
Tiny pet dog credited with helping to save hiker trapped in Swiss glacier
Dog stayed by his master, who was wedged in an 8-metre-deep crevasse, and was spotted by helicopter crew
A small pet dog is being hailed as a “four-legged hero” for helping to save his owner’s life after he fell down an icy crevasse in the Swiss Alps.
The Air Zermatt helicopter company credited the pint-sized pooch with drawing their attention to the location of the hiker, who he was extracted and taken to hospital. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
July 8, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Tiny pet dog credited with helping to save hiker trapped in Swiss glacier
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@usnatarchives.bsky.social post on X:
June 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
@usnatarchives.bsky.social post on X:
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I've never met a more disappointing group of people, and our fate rests in their hands
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | I testified at a congressional hearing on the JFK files — that was a mistake
As a historian invited to speak before Congress, I expected to converse with serious people. That's not what happened.
www.msnbc.com
June 5, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I've never met a more disappointing group of people, and our fate rests in their hands
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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How profoundly sad. The kids deprived of reading Calvin and Hobbes are the kids who need them the most. My brother put it best: "We know we’re fucked when they come for your cartoon stuffed tigers."
Let's go sit in the grass and crack open "The Days are Just Packed."
pen.org/magic-tree-h...
Let's go sit in the grass and crack open "The Days are Just Packed."
pen.org/magic-tree-h...
‘Magic Tree House’ Author, ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ among hundreds of Tennessee book bans - PEN America
The removals in Tennessee are the result of a growing political movement to control information through book banning.
pen.org
June 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
How profoundly sad. The kids deprived of reading Calvin and Hobbes are the kids who need them the most. My brother put it best: "We know we’re fucked when they come for your cartoon stuffed tigers."
Let's go sit in the grass and crack open "The Days are Just Packed."
pen.org/magic-tree-h...
Let's go sit in the grass and crack open "The Days are Just Packed."
pen.org/magic-tree-h...
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President Declines Gift (1925)
May 16, 2025 at 11:16 PM
President Declines Gift (1925)
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You are askinge chatgpt questions. Ich am wavinge a cheerye hello to the local crowes. We are not the same.
May 13, 2025 at 3:44 PM
You are askinge chatgpt questions. Ich am wavinge a cheerye hello to the local crowes. We are not the same.
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11 APRIL 1775, WHITE PLAINS, NEW YORK: A meeting to select delegates to the provincial convention for the “preservation of the Union of the Colonies and rights and liberties of America” attracts about a hundred of the “principal freeholders” of Westchester County.
April 11, 2025 at 10:40 PM
11 APRIL 1775, WHITE PLAINS, NEW YORK: A meeting to select delegates to the provincial convention for the “preservation of the Union of the Colonies and rights and liberties of America” attracts about a hundred of the “principal freeholders” of Westchester County.
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The deletion of websites and other government data is a dangerous attack on knowledge, harming democracy. My colleague @nannathylstrup.bsky.social & I contribute a guest essay in @nytimes.com today: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/o...
Opinion | The Trump Administration’s Data Purges Weaken America
The Trump administration has started purging the government’s digital memory. Democracies die without proper archiving and public records.
www.nytimes.com
April 11, 2025 at 9:56 AM
The deletion of websites and other government data is a dangerous attack on knowledge, harming democracy. My colleague @nannathylstrup.bsky.social & I contribute a guest essay in @nytimes.com today: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/o...
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From AI research to historical preservation, programs funded by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities reach every corner of the U.S. Now, the government has terminated those grants.
Where did U.S. humanities grants go? To projects from a baseball film to AI research
From AI research to historical preservation, programs funded by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities reach every corner of the U.S. Now the government has terminated those grants.
www.npr.org
April 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM
From AI research to historical preservation, programs funded by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities reach every corner of the U.S. Now, the government has terminated those grants.
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The Maine State Library laid off 13 staff members Wednesday — nearly one-third of its staff — and announced that it would close for two weeks to restructure its operations after the Trump administration indefinitely suspended certain federal funds.
www.pressherald.com/2025/04/09/s...
www.pressherald.com/2025/04/09/s...
Maine State Library lays off 13 workers, will restructure after losing federal funds
The library last received funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services on March 24 and has not gotten any updates on when — or whether — payments may resume.
www.pressherald.com
April 10, 2025 at 1:24 AM
The Maine State Library laid off 13 staff members Wednesday — nearly one-third of its staff — and announced that it would close for two weeks to restructure its operations after the Trump administration indefinitely suspended certain federal funds.
www.pressherald.com/2025/04/09/s...
www.pressherald.com/2025/04/09/s...
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Get this: Commerce is slashing $ to Princeton's world-renowned climate research b/c modeling changes to Earth systems is "contributing to a phenomenon known as 'climate anxiety,' which has increased significantly among America’s youth."
No research, no problem! www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...
No research, no problem! www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...
Ending Cooperative Agreements’ Funding to Princeton University
On Tuesday, April 8, 2025, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick announced that nearly $4 million in funding is ending to Princeton University after a detailed, careful, and thorough review of the...
www.commerce.gov
April 9, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Get this: Commerce is slashing $ to Princeton's world-renowned climate research b/c modeling changes to Earth systems is "contributing to a phenomenon known as 'climate anxiety,' which has increased significantly among America’s youth."
No research, no problem! www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...
No research, no problem! www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...