Leslie Johnston
@lljohnston.bsky.social
Digital Preservation at US National Archives, born-digital/digitized records/web archives. Personal: Food, Crafts, Urban Fantasy, Horror, Tech History, Fandom, Costuming (ICG Vice President and Archives)
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Breaking news: The government will shut down at 12:01 a.m., after Senate Democrats blocked a Republican bill to extend the funding deadline.
It’s the first shutdown since 2018-2019.
It’s the first shutdown since 2018-2019.
Government will shut down overnight after Senate blocks funding extension
Government funding will run out at the end of the day, and lawmakers do not have a bipartisan solution.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 30, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Breaking news: The government will shut down at 12:01 a.m., after Senate Democrats blocked a Republican bill to extend the funding deadline.
It’s the first shutdown since 2018-2019.
It’s the first shutdown since 2018-2019.
It has now been determined by my RPG group that the collective noun for a group of elves is a Keebler.
July 30, 2025 at 12:43 AM
It has now been determined by my RPG group that the collective noun for a group of elves is a Keebler.
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I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later I opened its door. Neuromancer is in production.
July 1, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later I opened its door. Neuromancer is in production.
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I put together this mini-site for @webrecorder.net showcasing our US Government web archives
Replace “.gov” with “.govarchive.us” on any of the supported government sites to seamlessly browse archived versions, including sites like USAID that are now gone
Blog post in the quoted post!
Replace “.gov” with “.govarchive.us” on any of the supported government sites to seamlessly browse archived versions, including sites like USAID that are now gone
Blog post in the quoted post!
March 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I put together this mini-site for @webrecorder.net showcasing our US Government web archives
Replace “.gov” with “.govarchive.us” on any of the supported government sites to seamlessly browse archived versions, including sites like USAID that are now gone
Blog post in the quoted post!
Replace “.gov” with “.govarchive.us” on any of the supported government sites to seamlessly browse archived versions, including sites like USAID that are now gone
Blog post in the quoted post!
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John Overholt leading a video on gloves and special collections materials. 📜
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March 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
John Overholt leading a video on gloves and special collections materials. 📜
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FADGI Still Image 101 For Beginners webinar from the Library of Congress is available here:
#library #archives #digitization 📚
www.loc.gov/item/webcast...
#library #archives #digitization 📚
www.loc.gov/item/webcast...
FADGI 101
This webinar introduces the Federal Agency Digitization Guideline Initiative guidelines to beginners both in the field and support staff.
www.loc.gov
March 3, 2025 at 10:19 PM
FADGI Still Image 101 For Beginners webinar from the Library of Congress is available here:
#library #archives #digitization 📚
www.loc.gov/item/webcast...
#library #archives #digitization 📚
www.loc.gov/item/webcast...
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We went on our very first #HiddenLondon tour today, deep under the bowels of Piccadilly Circus. Old signage, original Victorian-era brickwork, shades of the Blitz and creepy metal shafts. Ghosts everywhere. Thoroughly recommend, link to more info here www.ltmuseum.co.uk/hidden-london
February 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
We went on our very first #HiddenLondon tour today, deep under the bowels of Piccadilly Circus. Old signage, original Victorian-era brickwork, shades of the Blitz and creepy metal shafts. Ghosts everywhere. Thoroughly recommend, link to more info here www.ltmuseum.co.uk/hidden-london
These goofballs
February 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
These goofballs
Every single Joann's Fabrics in my region of Maryland and Pennsylvania is closing. Only 1 of their stores will remain in the state.
Joann to close about 500 fabric and craft stores nationwide. Here's where stores are closing.
Fabric and crafts retailer Joann has announced it will be closing approximately 500 stores nationwide, almost a year after filing for bankruptcy.
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February 12, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Every single Joann's Fabrics in my region of Maryland and Pennsylvania is closing. Only 1 of their stores will remain in the state.
Today I had a conversation with a colleague about people we know in common and key technology initiatives and research in the LAM tech community over the past 50 years. I mentioned that I'd thought about writing a book on the topic and he encouraged me. Are we the only 2 people who'd be interested?
February 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Today I had a conversation with a colleague about people we know in common and key technology initiatives and research in the LAM tech community over the past 50 years. I mentioned that I'd thought about writing a book on the topic and he encouraged me. Are we the only 2 people who'd be interested?
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Here it is, the longest piece of nonfiction I’ve ever written, CENTURY-SCALE STORAGE. The kind folks at @harvardlil.bsky.social let me investigate the present and future of digital storage, and how we steward and preserve our most treasured cultural objects lil.law.harvard.edu/century-scal...
Century-Scale Storage
If you had to store something for 100 years, how would you do it?
lil.law.harvard.edu
December 11, 2024 at 2:04 PM
Here it is, the longest piece of nonfiction I’ve ever written, CENTURY-SCALE STORAGE. The kind folks at @harvardlil.bsky.social let me investigate the present and future of digital storage, and how we steward and preserve our most treasured cultural objects lil.law.harvard.edu/century-scal...
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We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.
Announcing the Data.gov Archive | Library Innovation Lab
Today we released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complet...
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February 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.
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Discover our latest book, published with @ies-sas.bsky.social, edited by Karen Attar and Andrew Nash, and then read it online, download the PDF from our website or order it in print:
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#OpenAccess #AcademicSky #Literature #Books #Libraries
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#OpenAccess #AcademicSky #Literature #Books #Libraries
New book explores the depiction of libraries in fiction, from Don Quixote to Discworld - University of London Press
Our latest title, Books, Readers and Libraries in Fiction looks at how texts and reading spaces have been represented in popular culture throughout history. The new book presents chronological essays...
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February 4, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Discover our latest book, published with @ies-sas.bsky.social, edited by Karen Attar and Andrew Nash, and then read it online, download the PDF from our website or order it in print:
uolpress.co.uk/2025/02/new-...
#OpenAccess #AcademicSky #Literature #Books #Libraries
uolpress.co.uk/2025/02/new-...
#OpenAccess #AcademicSky #Literature #Books #Libraries
Excerpt from summary: "Copyright protects the original expression in a work created by a human author, even if the work also includes AI-generated material. Copyright does not extend to purely AI-generated material, or material where there is insufficient human control over the expressive elements."
The Copyright Office just dropped its report on AI output copyrightability, as if this week wasn't busy enough already.
www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright...
www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright...
www.copyright.gov
January 29, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Excerpt from summary: "Copyright protects the original expression in a work created by a human author, even if the work also includes AI-generated material. Copyright does not extend to purely AI-generated material, or material where there is insufficient human control over the expressive elements."
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Enjoying seeing people love the David Lynch shrine I set up at Magfest. He influenced so many of my favorite games and made some of my all time favorite films.
Btw, I don't care for credit or anything. This was a tribute to a special artist at a special event. Keep paying respects all!
#Magfest
Btw, I don't care for credit or anything. This was a tribute to a special artist at a special event. Keep paying respects all!
#Magfest
January 24, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Enjoying seeing people love the David Lynch shrine I set up at Magfest. He influenced so many of my favorite games and made some of my all time favorite films.
Btw, I don't care for credit or anything. This was a tribute to a special artist at a special event. Keep paying respects all!
#Magfest
Btw, I don't care for credit or anything. This was a tribute to a special artist at a special event. Keep paying respects all!
#Magfest
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Internet Archive's founder, @brewster.kahle.org, spoke with @wbur.org's Megna Chakrabarti about the lawsuits against the Internet Archive, the importance of archiving the web, and the "constantly renewed mythological goal" of the Library of Alexandria.
🎧 Listen now: www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025...
🎧 Listen now: www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025...
The Internet Archive is in danger
More than 900 billion webpages are preserved on The Wayback Machine, a history of humanity online. Now, copyright lawsuits could wipe it out.
www.wbur.org
January 9, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Internet Archive's founder, @brewster.kahle.org, spoke with @wbur.org's Megna Chakrabarti about the lawsuits against the Internet Archive, the importance of archiving the web, and the "constantly renewed mythological goal" of the Library of Alexandria.
🎧 Listen now: www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025...
🎧 Listen now: www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025...
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Report: "Inside the Library of Congress’s Artificial-Aging Lab" (via @washingtonian.bsky.social) www.washingtonian.com/2025/01/09/i... #libraries
Inside the Library of Congress’s Artificial-Aging Lab
Using technology to preserve media for the future.
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January 10, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Report: "Inside the Library of Congress’s Artificial-Aging Lab" (via @washingtonian.bsky.social) www.washingtonian.com/2025/01/09/i... #libraries
Accurate
January 1, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Accurate
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Have you ever heard of Mummers?
Christmas Mummers' Plays were once a familiar part of festive celebrations in Britain. Performed during the twelve days of Christmas, these lively performances by 'Mummers' are now almost forgotten.
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Christmas Mummers' Plays were once a familiar part of festive celebrations in Britain. Performed during the twelve days of Christmas, these lively performances by 'Mummers' are now almost forgotten.
#CambridgeUniversityLibrary
December 21, 2024 at 7:10 PM
Have you ever heard of Mummers?
Christmas Mummers' Plays were once a familiar part of festive celebrations in Britain. Performed during the twelve days of Christmas, these lively performances by 'Mummers' are now almost forgotten.
#CambridgeUniversityLibrary
Christmas Mummers' Plays were once a familiar part of festive celebrations in Britain. Performed during the twelve days of Christmas, these lively performances by 'Mummers' are now almost forgotten.
#CambridgeUniversityLibrary
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Some feel the Long Neolithic as an absence of its builders. This isn't my way. For all of those barrows, all those portal tombs and stones are not uninhabited in the now. They are filled with folklore. In the Long Neolthic's shadow, a crowding of stories. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday
December 15, 2024 at 12:59 PM
Some feel the Long Neolithic as an absence of its builders. This isn't my way. For all of those barrows, all those portal tombs and stones are not uninhabited in the now. They are filled with folklore. In the Long Neolthic's shadow, a crowding of stories. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday
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Now Notre Dame reverberates with light: it’s impossible not to be moved
Now Notre Dame reverberates with light: it’s impossible not to be moved
An extraordinary restoration has swept away the lead dust and made the cathedral vivid, but thankfully not kitsch. Our architecture critic takes a look inside
“This cathedral is a happy metaphor of what a nation is and what the world should be,” said…
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December 15, 2024 at 10:11 AM
Now Notre Dame reverberates with light: it’s impossible not to be moved
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Good to see Michael John Goodman's The Charles Dickens Illustrated Gallery getting some festive attention. Completely open-access & reusable & remixable & with a range of Dickens's illustrators beyond the familiar original ones including Fred Barnard, Charles Green & Harry Furniss 👇.
Explore an Online Archive of 2,100+ Rare Illustrations from Charles Dickens’ Novels
As Christmastime approaches, few novelists come to mind as readily as Charles Dickens. This owes mainly, of course, to A Christmas Carol, and even more so to its many adaptations, most of which draw i...
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December 14, 2024 at 3:12 PM
Good to see Michael John Goodman's The Charles Dickens Illustrated Gallery getting some festive attention. Completely open-access & reusable & remixable & with a range of Dickens's illustrators beyond the familiar original ones including Fred Barnard, Charles Green & Harry Furniss 👇.
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Getty Images holds the only or the best copy of thousands of public domain images and videos. They charge a fee for access, and make you promise by contract that you won't share them, even though the copyright law makes these materials free for all. www.ahistoryoftheworldaccordingtogettyimages.com
A History Of The World According To Getty Images
Website for the documentary film 'A History Of The World According To Getty Images' by Richard Misek
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December 4, 2024 at 7:37 PM
Getty Images holds the only or the best copy of thousands of public domain images and videos. They charge a fee for access, and make you promise by contract that you won't share them, even though the copyright law makes these materials free for all. www.ahistoryoftheworldaccordingtogettyimages.com
In Frederick, Maryland, we're lucky to have the wonderful Curious Iguana Bookstore
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December 4, 2024 at 7:40 PM
In Frederick, Maryland, we're lucky to have the wonderful Curious Iguana Bookstore
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curiousiguana.com
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Cookies are the holidays’ greatest gift — and what better time to celebrate them than Cookie Week, our annual tradition, in which we create seven dazzling, delicious recipes and videos to accompany them. Make one or all, but do get going. You’ve got some baking to do! nyti.ms/3AYuaPV
December 2, 2024 at 7:33 PM
Cookies are the holidays’ greatest gift — and what better time to celebrate them than Cookie Week, our annual tradition, in which we create seven dazzling, delicious recipes and videos to accompany them. Make one or all, but do get going. You’ve got some baking to do! nyti.ms/3AYuaPV