Chris Ruotolo

Two individuals are viewing a case titled "Clemons's Correspondence" and holding numerous letters and photos, in an exhibition gallery. One is pointing at a display panel while the other looks on attentively. Other display cases and individuals can be seen in the background.

From "Artist's Books" and "Borges" to "Yearbooks" and "Zines" — the ABCs of the UVA Library is on display now! A host of entries are in Special Collections, with outposts at other libraries.
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for any UVA folks that follow me you should circulate this among your networks balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

Response to the ‘Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education’ | Office of the President

Dartmouth response to the Trump Administration Compact

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It's often overlooked, but PhilPapers is a hugely important project in the history of open humanities research. Its a really comprehensive archive with loads of open access materials, working papers, preprints, etc.

Crit Lib AI Book - Call for Proposals CALL FOR PROPOSALS

#CFP: Critical Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence in Librarianship

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#libraries #librarians #ai

They are up on a high shelf! And strategically cropped in this photo.

Poor Jane’s head keeps popping off 😢

I also inherited these guys from a colleague!

Just gave. Please consider helping if you can. Right now is an incredibly important time. Right now.

UPDATE: Thanks to @clancyny.bsky.social I am now able to read the ruling, which you too can read here. It's worth it because of how it details the consequences of NEH chair Michael McDonald's cruel and probably illegal actions.

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I've been Wowee Zoweeing hard lately as well

I've seen some talk about how we are witnessing the end of the professoriate as we know it and this may be true, but I think it's bigger: it's the decimation of the mission-oriented profession.

Want to make a middle-class living serving the public good? Capitalism doesn't want that for you.

Stop asking billionaires questions, recording their answers and sharing their uninformed and/or racist and/or otherwise bigoted and nonsense ideas as journalism. It’s ridiculous. They are the most boring people. Oh wah I am a white man who has more money than I can spend and I’m so mad about it!

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*sigh* It's too soon, but on the day of his retirement from public service, I think that it's important to recognize the contributions of Brett Bobley to the work of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the field. #ThanksBrett for your leadership, your good cheer & your home-baked goods.

This is really the perfect use of generative AI: to create a report whose purpose is solely to exist as A Report, which no one is supposed to read because no one involved in its creation even pretends to have the slightest genuine interest in the actual facts at issue.

The American Library Association praises servic of Dr. Carla Hayden, decries 'unjust dismissal' of Librarian of Congress. [Image of Dr. Carla Hayden standing in the stacks in a library]

NEW: ALA salutes Dr Carla Hayden for her exceptional service to the nation as the Librarian of Congress. We are deeply disappointed in Dr Hayden's abrupt & unjust dismissal last night, an insult to the scope & breadth of her work.

Read ALA Pres. Cindy Hohl's statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/05...

Sorry to be this way, but just one hundred more $10 donations would get us to our goal for the lawsuit defending the NEH. Please chip in if you can, and ask a friend to. Thanks for considering this.

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3 ways to fight for the NEH:

1) Talk loudly about humanities research and public programming

2) Join @modernlanguage.bsky.social and/or @historians.org because the more members we have, the more clout we have.

3) Help fund this lawsuit through Paving the Way: www.mla.org/About-Us/Sup...

Proud of MLA for standing up for its members, and for the humanities.

The MLA, @acls1919.bsky.social, and @historians.org have filed a lawsuit in federal district court today, seeking to reverse the recent actions to devastate the National Endowment for the Humanities. www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...

NEH just sent new guidance about terminated awards that includes the following: "7. Appeals--NEH is not offering a means of dispute resolution"

Yet that is clearly at odds with the Terms & Conditions for Orgs governing our awards. They are trying to discourage appeals. Submit them anyway.

Mellon Foundation The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.

So relieved to see that Mellon will be providing emergency relief funding the US’s state and jurisdictional humanities councils.

If I learned one thing during my years at NEH, it was how crucial these organizations are to our public humanities infrastructure.

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That’s awesome Brian— congrats!

NEH Grantees with Terminated Grants--the 30 day window for appeal is almost here. If your DOGE termination letter is dated April 2, then it is recommended to submit via eGMS by May 1. Having spoken w/ a number of sources, here's the best info I could gather on appealing your grant termination.

We're working hard to share the stories of #NEH grantees across the country and their incredible work. Please send more our way!

In the meantime, check out this article and tool "IMLS Matters" imls-matters.github.io/imlsmatters/ We continue to stand in solidarity with our #IMLS colleagues.

Trying to document harms of NEH grant cancellations for MLA members. Get in touch with your story. Pkrebs@mla.org

A drawing of a perfect phone that only has three buttons on it, one of them says IS HE DEAD one of them says AM I BROKE and the other one says RELAXING PUZZLE GAME

I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning