anna l.
@annabe.bsky.social
rare book cataloger in baltimore; reading, crafting, walking
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Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
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Performatively reading in the cafe, but wearing white gloves so I'm still venerating the Book As Object, with a t-shirt saying "I know archivists don't wear gloves" so people know the gloves are performative.
October 14, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Performatively reading in the cafe, but wearing white gloves so I'm still venerating the Book As Object, with a t-shirt saying "I know archivists don't wear gloves" so people know the gloves are performative.
This is ridiculous and embarrassing.
UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’
SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.
www.dailytarheel.com
October 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
This is ridiculous and embarrassing.
new Patricia Lockwood and Mona Awad today? consider me raptured
September 23, 2025 at 11:07 PM
new Patricia Lockwood and Mona Awad today? consider me raptured
perfect end to Turnstile summer!
September 22, 2025 at 7:38 PM
perfect end to Turnstile summer!
Baltimore Book Festival and SPX being the same weekend is very rude to the nerds of Maryland
September 12, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Baltimore Book Festival and SPX being the same weekend is very rude to the nerds of Maryland
a monarch butterfly showed up on the milkweed I planted this spring!!
August 5, 2025 at 2:45 PM
a monarch butterfly showed up on the milkweed I planted this spring!!
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Did you know that the National Library of Ireland has digitised a first edition copy of Ulysses (Alan Clodd copy, number 120), which can be viewed in full online?
Read it here: catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls0...
Read it here: catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls0...
June 16, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Did you know that the National Library of Ireland has digitised a first edition copy of Ulysses (Alan Clodd copy, number 120), which can be viewed in full online?
Read it here: catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls0...
Read it here: catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls0...
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New blog post at ACRLog: Targeting Books for Removal at U.S. Military Libraries acrlog.org/2025/05/11/t.... I talk about how painful it is that LCSH are being used for this dirty work. #critcat 📚
Targeting Books for Removal at U.S. Military Libraries - ACRLog
In the course of looking for resources relating to critical cataloging, I stumbled on a new memorandum from the U.S. Office of the Secretary of Defense, dated May 9th and titled “Reviewing the Departm...
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May 11, 2025 at 11:31 PM
New blog post at ACRLog: Targeting Books for Removal at U.S. Military Libraries acrlog.org/2025/05/11/t.... I talk about how painful it is that LCSH are being used for this dirty work. #critcat 📚
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Dr. Carla Hayden has served as Librarian of Congress with honor and distinction, bringing our prized institution to new heights.
Trump’s outrageous, politically-motivated move to fire her is despicable. The Library of Congress belongs to the American people — NOT to Trump.
Trump’s outrageous, politically-motivated move to fire her is despicable. The Library of Congress belongs to the American people — NOT to Trump.
Trump fires Librarian of Congress and Baltimorean Carla Hayden
President Donald Trump fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden on Thursday, according to statements from House Democrats.
www.baltimoresun.com
May 9, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Dr. Carla Hayden has served as Librarian of Congress with honor and distinction, bringing our prized institution to new heights.
Trump’s outrageous, politically-motivated move to fire her is despicable. The Library of Congress belongs to the American people — NOT to Trump.
Trump’s outrageous, politically-motivated move to fire her is despicable. The Library of Congress belongs to the American people — NOT to Trump.
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If you’re in line to buy books on Indie Bookstore Day stay in line!
April 26, 2025 at 6:51 PM
If you’re in line to buy books on Indie Bookstore Day stay in line!
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I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
April 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
I recently checked on some baby trees I helped plant last month on the streets of Baltimore, and they are growing and blooming! Happy spring!
April 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I recently checked on some baby trees I helped plant last month on the streets of Baltimore, and they are growing and blooming! Happy spring!
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Lori Beth Denberg reprised her All That librarian character to do a pro-library, anti-book banning reel and I love it so much??? www.instagram.com/reel/DIK0_bD...
April 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Lori Beth Denberg reprised her All That librarian character to do a pro-library, anti-book banning reel and I love it so much??? www.instagram.com/reel/DIK0_bD...
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SCOOP: "Approximately a dozen" graduate students and recent grads at Johns Hopkins University have had their student visas revoked by the federal government, a spokesperson confirmed to @thebaltimorebanner.com this morning. Read our exclusive:
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...
Johns Hopkins: About a dozen students have visas revoked by government
The university confirmed to The Baltimore Banner on Tuesday morning that "approximately a dozen" international students have had their visas revoked.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
April 8, 2025 at 10:46 AM
SCOOP: "Approximately a dozen" graduate students and recent grads at Johns Hopkins University have had their student visas revoked by the federal government, a spokesperson confirmed to @thebaltimorebanner.com this morning. Read our exclusive:
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...
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Medieval writer Christine de Pizan is often characterized as the first professional female author.
Learn how her pioneering feminist writing championed women’s moral and intellectual power in a new acquisition to Getty's medieval manuscripts holdings: gty.art/4hQL0iZ
Learn how her pioneering feminist writing championed women’s moral and intellectual power in a new acquisition to Getty's medieval manuscripts holdings: gty.art/4hQL0iZ
March 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Medieval writer Christine de Pizan is often characterized as the first professional female author.
Learn how her pioneering feminist writing championed women’s moral and intellectual power in a new acquisition to Getty's medieval manuscripts holdings: gty.art/4hQL0iZ
Learn how her pioneering feminist writing championed women’s moral and intellectual power in a new acquisition to Getty's medieval manuscripts holdings: gty.art/4hQL0iZ
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I attended a library vendor AI demo/upsell today and I wish I could explain to them that everything they are selling could be achieved by hiring like two more people in our library
March 27, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I attended a library vendor AI demo/upsell today and I wish I could explain to them that everything they are selling could be achieved by hiring like two more people in our library
cover design of the day: Raising Frogs for $$$
March 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
cover design of the day: Raising Frogs for $$$
My first job out of library school was funded by IMLS. So many resources described and digitized are accessible because of IMLS grants funding the often invisible labor that takes.
🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen.
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
March 15, 2025 at 6:11 PM
My first job out of library school was funded by IMLS. So many resources described and digitized are accessible because of IMLS grants funding the often invisible labor that takes.
Great woodcut of the Visconti arms, which shows the biscione: a man either emerging from or being devoured by a crowned serpent (glass half full/half empty sort of situation I guess).
From Vita della venerabil serva di Dio suor Alessandra Sabini da Rocca Contrada, 1733, JHU BX4705.S116 V58 1733.
From Vita della venerabil serva di Dio suor Alessandra Sabini da Rocca Contrada, 1733, JHU BX4705.S116 V58 1733.
March 7, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Great woodcut of the Visconti arms, which shows the biscione: a man either emerging from or being devoured by a crowned serpent (glass half full/half empty sort of situation I guess).
From Vita della venerabil serva di Dio suor Alessandra Sabini da Rocca Contrada, 1733, JHU BX4705.S116 V58 1733.
From Vita della venerabil serva di Dio suor Alessandra Sabini da Rocca Contrada, 1733, JHU BX4705.S116 V58 1733.
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when you interrupt my collation of an unsigned incunable
how it feels when you interrupt my reading
February 27, 2025 at 2:05 PM
when you interrupt my collation of an unsigned incunable
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In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…
February 24, 2025 at 1:07 AM
In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…
oh no, found some bugs in a book!
from Cibus solidus perfectorum, 1670
JHU BX4312.A3 D47 1670
from Cibus solidus perfectorum, 1670
JHU BX4312.A3 D47 1670
February 21, 2025 at 11:09 PM
oh no, found some bugs in a book!
from Cibus solidus perfectorum, 1670
JHU BX4312.A3 D47 1670
from Cibus solidus perfectorum, 1670
JHU BX4312.A3 D47 1670
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LC published a tentative list to change #LCSH Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America & Mt Denali to Mt McKinley. Comments on the proposed changes can be sent to [email protected] by Tues. February 18, 2025 (which is TODAY). If you oppose the change, please email! #critcat (classweb.org/tentative-su...
Tentative Monthly List 12 LCSH 2 (February 13, 2025)
classweb.org
February 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
LC published a tentative list to change #LCSH Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America & Mt Denali to Mt McKinley. Comments on the proposed changes can be sent to [email protected] by Tues. February 18, 2025 (which is TODAY). If you oppose the change, please email! #critcat (classweb.org/tentative-su...
Hand coloring an engraved portrait may not always be the best choice.
Vida de la beata María de la Encarnacion, Madrid 1791.
JHU BX4700.M34 M657 1791
Vida de la beata María de la Encarnacion, Madrid 1791.
JHU BX4700.M34 M657 1791
February 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Hand coloring an engraved portrait may not always be the best choice.
Vida de la beata María de la Encarnacion, Madrid 1791.
JHU BX4700.M34 M657 1791
Vida de la beata María de la Encarnacion, Madrid 1791.
JHU BX4700.M34 M657 1791