A wonderful, timeless slogan.
(Thanks to @stwajda.bsky.social for posting this great WWI piece by Dan Smith.)
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The DOGE Axe Comes for Libraries and Museums
The Institute of Museum and Library Services has long received bipartisan support. But after years of trying, President Donald Trump has delivered it a crushing blow.
The Trump administration, with Elon Muskβs so-called Department of Government Efficiency, has gutted a small federal agency that provides funding to libraries and museums nationwide.
This threatens student field trips, classes for seniors, and access to digital library services.
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Argh!
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A pair of hands holding a tablet displaying a black-and-white image of a snowy landscape with water and bare trees, against the backdrop of bookshelves filled with books. The top of the tablet screen shows text "Getty Research Journal."
We're thrilled to announce that all 247 backlist articles published in "Getty Research Journal" are now available for free.
You can access the articles via:
Project MUSE gty.art/408czi2 or JSTOR gty.art/40I2tol
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#USA #Canada #tariffs #Trump
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End of Term Web Archive β Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
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A collector of things worth knowing and things not worth knowing. Freelance software developer. Web/UI/Maps/Visualization/Image Annotation/Open Source. https://rainersimon.io
You have a diskette, and you want to start fresh. So you run βINIT HELLOβ on your Apple II and you get a clean slate.
A new Apple II conference is coming to the System Source Computer Museum north of Baltimore, Maryland, this July 26β27, 2025.
cute little weirdo ΰ·΄ designer, software eng @webrecorder.net, & noisemaker οΉ
Filecoin Foundation (FF) facilitates governance of the Filecoin network, funds research and development projects for decentralized web technologies, and supports the growth of the Filecoin ecosystem and community.
Filecoin β¨ is the largest decentralized data storage marketplace, protocol, & cryptocurrency. Follow for retweets, news and updates from the Filecoin ecosystem.
Weβre the national library of the UK.
We are a non-ministerial department, and the official archive and publisher for the UK Government, and for England and Wales.
[bridged from https://nationalarchives.gov.uk/ on the web: https://fed.brid.gy/web/nationalarchives.gov.uk ]
International Image Interoperability Framework #iiif
www.iiif.io
Pratt Institute School of Information (iSchool) - We reimagine information and technology to design more equitable, resilient and diverse futures.
Representing more than 300 archivists, librarians, and records managers in the New York metropolitan area. Volunteer-led. linktr.ee/nycarchivists
Digital Preservation Outreach & Education Network supports digital preservation education and outreach in the nationβs libraries, archives and museums.
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Principal Research Scientist at the Common Crawl Foundation. Weird coffee person βοΈ, runner ππ»ββοΈ. (he/him) π«π·πͺπΊπ¨π΄
Using social media for all things Digital Preservation since 2021.
Testing the Bluesky waters. Still.
More often scrolling in Mastodon than here. π€·ββοΈ
Doing things with @bibliohack. Books, computers, sci-fi, manga.
@ScholarsLab Director β¨π»ππ³οΈβπ just+joyful, critical+creative tech+culture
*Experimental/DH/library futures & community
*DIY scholcom=letterpress+zines+blog+code
*Bookadjacent data+making
3 neon !s in a hoodie; abolitionist
Dr! π³οΈββ§οΈ They/Them
AmandaVisconti.com
Music librarian, historian, digital humanist. SUCHO co-founder. First-gen Polish-American immigrant. Pronouns: she series
Multilingual digital humanities, founder of the Textile Makerspace at Stanford & the Data-Sitters Club, teaches data visualization with textiles. SUCHO πΊπ¦ co-founder, archiving at-risk cultural heritage. π³οΈβππ³οΈββ§οΈ Signal: quinnanya.823
