Caitlin Goodman

On this day where librarians consider the closing of Baker & Taylor, I would like to remind you that Sandy Berman still walks this earth and today is his birthday.

www.sanfordberman.org

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two core planks of 21st c. librarianship:
• nationalize OCLC
• protracted people’s war against
clarivate

Sojourner Truth’s portrait in the 1853 edition of her narrative. “Sojourner Truth” on the cover of the 1971 Avon Books popularization.

Just as well the cover illustrator was uncredited

a woman in a black dress is sitting at a table with wine glasses Alt: a woman in a black dress is sitting at a table with wine glasses, and furiously flips the table

“A.I. stated that a previously undetected record might be found at Swarthmore.”

There are 1500+ objects in our artifact collection and I know almost nothing about any of them so I’m very excited to learn with the ten students doing a semester-long object study (and exhibit!)

One student picked the cutest lil scale (it includes weights mapped to international currencies)

manuscripts reading room: do not bring anything in, including yourself. place your internal organs in a clear plastic bag and keep it on the table at all times

office at rare books seller: hold manuscript at least 20cm away from your face if eating a hotdog. ashtrays must be kept on the windowsill

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep:

1. Literally just say something and let me run
2. I can rant for hours
3. I'm not angry, really; I just have a lot of thoughts

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Today’s work bright spot:

Does it have to be by an archivist? Because book historians talk about how digital surrogates are not the thing itself a lot, like @wynkenhimself.bsky.social

So this is 40. Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In My Lane. Focused. Flourishing.

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Dan has set me up for success with his early morning text. May all library workers have a Dan!

“I think your instinct is correct that Grok is not able to provide you a real reference” is an email I just sent to a patron :(

Got to teach about friendship albums yesterday and ended up a little sad that a contemporary parallel one of the students suggested was “shared Spotify playlists”

The same student said “slam books” though so I guess the vibe also endures in a vendor-nonspecific way

Golden manuscript face inside green leaves, triangular.

Homer in the bush.

They're The Same Picture.

Wittgenstein: It is impossible to use words without making meaning.

Vogue:

“Hope this helps!” is the Mortal Kombat “FATALITY!” of email signoffs

a man in a suit is sitting at a desk using a laptop . Alt: a man in a suit is sitting at a desk using a laptop, he pauses for a moment and then closes the laptop

When the shelf location field says "Ask [Former Employee]"

Slightly diminish a book.

Hypnerotomachia Monophili

I think with this one you’ve invented the Savannah Bananas

I don’t know anything about Duke’s library governance (or budget) but I work at a college library and I love our faculty and yet I also do not want them having one more inch of control over the library’s operations.

Yeah well whose fault is that??

A page in the album: A pen and ink drawing of a cat wearing a top hat and carrying a cane, with the caption ‘Dandy Tom’

A page from the album: A beautiful watercolour painting of a vine with purple flowers, with a poem, the song of hope, copied out beneath it. ‘Though the cold brown earth be sodden / By the cheerless winter rain / Soon the violets will be trodden / By the feet of Spring again

A page from the album, dated 1916, a quote from Robert Louis Stevenson (I’m writing this alt text on my phone in transit and can’t see the text, sorry!!)

A graphic novel style page from the album, a series of drawings of a schoolteacher titled ‘Our Headmaster: A reminiscence of a memorable Euclid lesson’

I’m lucky to have a mother with diverse interests who found this lovely early c20 friendship album in a thrift store a few years ago and gave it to me for my birthday. Looking forward to sharing it with my students next week!

I love this! I’m doing a class session on friendship albums next week, but none of ours have anything so dapper as Tom.

Don’t tell Burton’s, but someone printed their ad plate upside down.

(Amesbury News, 1892-09-09, very crispy)

Having now read it I encourage everyone to read it - ESPECIALLY those with curatorial authority over records who may not think of donor cultivation as appraisal (and vice versa).

I trust that those of us with acquisition responsibilities will embrace that appraisal is a core and ongoing practice.

I’m so excited to read this Maureen!!

Archival appraisal is a craft and it can be taught.

My and @boxreceiver.bsky.social 's chapter on archival appraisal is available as a pre-print here: digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/libr_pubs/77/. It's very, very practical and it centers our values. We would love your feedback!