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Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · 4h
@rarebookschool.bsky.social doesn't generally accept high school students but they made an exception for Gauri in my Fragmentology class last summer. I am so proud of her! LOOK WHAT SHE DID! #IIIF #MedievalSky timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/voices...
Bridging archives: The role of IIIF in global manuscript preservation
India’s manuscript tradition is among the richest in the world, spanning centuries, languages, and disciplines. Yet, much of this vast repository remains fragmented, fragile, and inaccessible. The tec...
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 1d
Sister Corita Kent juggled duties as an art teacher, Roman Catholic nun, left-wing advocate, and artist — much to the dismay of Los Angeles’s conservative Cardinal James Francis McIntyre, who frequently clashed with her over her activist artwork and reform beliefs.
Sister Corita Kent Found the Sacred in the Profane
An installation of the artist’s never-before-seen photographs accumulates meaning through association rather than argument.
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Jolie Braun @joliebraun.bsky.social · 20h
"As punk received little mainstream media coverage by journalists who understood its nuances, the most comprehensive print record of its past is not made up of newspapers or magazines, but zines." contingentmagazine.org/2025/10/07/y...
You Can Study That?
What could be more satisfying than immersing yourself in the history of something you love?
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Joel Mathis @joelmathis.bsky.social · 1d
Abilene is a red town in a vastly red region. So this is ... interesting. (Gift link.) www.kansascity.com/news/politic...
Abilene residents slam Trump ouster of Eisenhower museum leader over sword: ‘It’s crap!’
“That’s not his,” said Abilene Wanda Bell, of an Eisenhower sword requested by the Trump administration. “It’s one of the treasures of our history. That’s not somebody else’s to walk in and demand.”
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we here®️ @wehere.bsky.social · 2d
GET YOUR CALENDAR OUT 🗓️ and write these two dates down…

10/16, 2p ET USA: Dorothy Berry’s (@dorothyjberry.bsky.social) The House Archives Built & Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities available for purchase. The first 50 copies sold will be signed 🫢 www.weherepress.org
Dorothy seated at a restaurant table signing books with plants to her right and a painting behind her.
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 6d
In two weeks!

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A poster for an event at T HE RIFKIND CENTER The City College of New York Title: Stripmining History: How the 'Al' Industry Extracts the Past & What Scholars in the Humanities Can Do to Stop It" IN-PERSON & VIA ZOOM OCTOBER 16 | 5:00PM - 6:30PM | NAC 6/316 Sonja Drimmer, Associate Professor, UMass Amherst more details in the link in the post
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Bergis Jules 🇱🇨 @bergisjules.bsky.social · 4d
@gdsolis.bsky.social of @afterviolence.bsky.social on "Resisting Erasure, Building Trust, and Cultivating Safety and Equity in Archives" medium.com/community-ar...
Plenary Snapshot: Resisting Erasure, Building Trust, and Cultivating Safety and Equity in Archives
This is an edited transcript of my portions of the plenary panel, “Resisting Erasure, Building Trust, and Cultivating Safety and Equity in…
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Invisible Institute @invisible.institute · 21d
We're excited to introduce the View from the Ground archive: a searchable collection of Jamie Kalven’s original reporting and Patricia Evans’ photography from the final chapter of high-rise public housing in Chicago.
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Bergis Jules 🇱🇨 @bergisjules.bsky.social · 4d
Building Queer Community-Based Digital Archives in the Caribbean. Many thanks to
Vidyaratha Kissoon for this post on the Sustainable Futures blog. medium.com/community-ar...
Building Queer Community-Based Digital Archives in the Caribbean
(I live and work in Guyana. I am the curator of the digital collections of the Caribbean IRN.)
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Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 5d
super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉
Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts
Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.
www.popsci.com
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Colleen @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 5d
Midwest Archives Conference proposals due Oct 17th. 📜
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Call for Proposals: MAC/SOA Annual Meeting 2026
The Program Committee for the Midwest Archives Conference (MAC) and Society of Ohio Archivists (SOA) are seeking session proposals for the 2026 joint annual meeting. MAC and SOA will hold a joint 2…
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SB @stephestellar.bsky.social · 5d
This will be interesting? I will echo @dorothyjberry.bsky.social and say, what if that was three-quarters of a million dollars on human labor. 📜
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James Neal @james3neal.bsky.social · 5d
"A $765,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation will support three case studies using AI to improve access to materials related to groups historically underrepresented in institutional collections" library.unc.edu/news/with-ne...
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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 5d
Stop what you’re doing and read this op ed by @ashleyhopeperez.bsky.social right now.

Gift link:
www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...
First Texas schools banned my book. Now it's 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'
The problem isn't just the new state law. It's how some school leaders are reacting to it.
www.houstonchronicle.com
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City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 5d
Dean of the UC Berkeley Law School has seen the Trump Administration’s “compact” for universities to receive preferable consideration for federal funding and says it amounts to First Amendment violations in blistering op-ed — www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion
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SAA SNAP @saa-snap.bsky.social · 5d
Call for Blog Submissions: Student Experiences

Are you an archives student or new archives professional with a story you want to share about your educational journey? We want to hear from you! We are currently seeking submissions for the SAA SNAP Blog’s: Student Experiences series. We are excited…
Call for Blog Submissions: Student Experiences
Are you an archives student or new archives professional with a story you want to share about your educational journey? We want to hear from you! We are currently seeking submissions for the SAA SNAP Blog’s: Student Experiences series. We are excited to refresh this series with new voices and stories about how archival education is shaping emerging professionals. When you reflect on your archives education, what class, project, or learning experience has had the most impact on you?
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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 6d
BREAKING: sources say NARA has forced out Dr. Todd Arrington, the federal director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, after he declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a sword from the library for a gift to King Charles

lastcampaign.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
EXCLUSIVE: NARA Ousts Eisenhower Library Director Over Proposed Trump Gift to King Charles
The director, a historian and Army veteran, declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a priceless artifact from the library's permanent collection
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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 12d
The beloved, embattled queer leftist bookstore announced it was closing its doors on Monday. Why?

Learn more about what’s going on with Bluestockings. hellgatenyc.com/what-is-happ...
What Is Happening at Bluestockings?
The beloved, embattled queer leftist bookstore announced it was closing its doors on Monday. Why?
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Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 9d
JOB ALERT: Assistant Professor of Art at Smith College, focusing on artists’ books and artist publications:

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 12d
doing an event on monday at the NY public library wow!! last event for a while before i sink beneath the waves once more for an undisclosed period of time www.nypl.org/events/progr...
7 Stories Up's Comic Book Club: An Evening with Mattie Lubchansky
Cartoonist Mattie Lubchansky sits down with NYPL Librarian Rachel Crook and 7 Stories Up's Comic Book Club to discuss her book Boys Weekend in preparation for her latest title, Simplicity.
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🜲 James @jamesskeets.blacksky.app · 12d
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
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NYC Public Library Action Network @nycplan.org · 12d
👋 Hi Bluesky!

We’re New York City Public Library Action Network (NYC PLAN) 📚

Our mission is to amplify, strengthen, and progress the futures of New York City’s three public library systems through community-led organizing, action, and increased funding.

Learn more about us at nycplan.org
NYC Public Library Action Network
Join NYC PLAN at our upcoming Public Library People’s Assembly It will be held at the New York Society for Ethical Culture on the Upper West Side on Saturday, October 4th from 12:45pm-4:30pm.
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Caroline (Carrie) T. Schroeder @ctschroeder.bsky.social · 13d
NEH Collaborative research grant program now explicitly prohibits digital projects. Output should be a book or journal issue. FFS
www.neh.gov/grants/resea...
Collaborative Research
Supports groups of two or more scholars engaging in significant and sustained research in the humanities.
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kay slater @kslater.bsky.social · Aug 27
In “Against AI: Critical Refusal in the Library,” I examine LIS as in need of a values-realignment, asking readers to refuse the technosolutionism we are so often offered in place of human-centered possibilities, like taking racism, climate change, and labor rights seriously

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Project MUSE - Against AI: Critical Refusal in the Library
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James Truitt @linguistory.bsky.social · 16d
Hello fellow archivists, can anyone think of a citable source for the fact that reformatting (digitization/microfilming) seldom obviates the need to care for the original?

Like, you and I know that we don't just throw out 19th-c letters when we take them off the scanner, but LIS profs need refs
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