Diane Zorich

He truly is.

#a11y #accessibility #inclusivedsign #m4c | Sina Bahram | 20 comments I am currently on a Lufthansa flight heading to Athens, Greece for the week. Super excited about that. Never been.   As a blind passenger, I quickly ran into something that is still far too common in ...

A post illustrating how inclusive design does it have to be an engineering challenge. Sina Bahram, a visually impaired engineer & expert on accessibility, talks of his own experience on a flight where he & a flight attendant made seat controls accessible with some low-key, MacGyver-like ingenuity.

That's so great! Thank you for sharing. I'm glad that event was a source of such an inspired post. It was great to work with you as well. Best wishes to you.

An array of 3 black, 1 red, 1 white and 1 Blue tshirt with varying images of the Smithsonian Castle, the Smithsonian sunburst logo, and one tshirt that says "Keep Calm and Digitize On"

Today was my last day as Director of the Digitization Program Office @ Smithsonian. After an expansive work career, I am retiring to take up some long-deferred projects. Immense gratitude to all my colleagues in cultural heritage for the work you do. Keep at it. You are needed more than ever.

Associate Director for Interpretation, Learning, and Public Programs (IS-1001-14) Job Opening: Associate Director for Interpretation, Learning, and Public Programs (IS-1001-14) at National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, DC.

Job posting: Assoc Dir for Interpretation, Learning & Public Programs @ Smithsonian Nat'l Museum of Asian Art. Closes 03/16; Salary: $143,913-$158,306. Onsite, Washington, DC.

The Archivist Who Followed the Problem A decade of Lise Jaillant — from modernist bookshops to born-digital government archives, and everything she learned along the way.

A really interesting read with many important points, the most critical of which is how to change a profession entrenched in traditions that are at odds with users' needs.

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Calling all technologists, artists and other creative visionaries:

The Library of Congress has opened the call for the next Innovator in Residence!

Apply by 2pm ET April 10

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One year later, seven fired federal workers share where they are now The Trump administration fundamentally altered the trajectories of hundreds of thousands of lives.

NEW: The Trump administration's federal layoffs left our region teetering on the edge of a recession, altering the trajectories of thousands of our neighbors’ lives.

The 51st spoke to seven former federal workers about what they've been up to in the year since — and where they hope to go next.

Transition Update #8: The Field Museum to Host BHL’s Technical Infrastructure With the Biodiversity Heritage Library now officially operating in its new chapter following its transition away from the Smithsonian Institution, we are delighted to announce that the Field Museum…

This is such fabulous news for @biodivlibrary.bsky.social! A huge thank you to the #FieldMuseum for hosting BHL's technical infrastructure. blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/02/tran...

HAPPENING NOW: Thousands of DC high schools students have walked out to demand ICE OUT of our communities. They’re gathering at the Lincoln Memorial in an incredible show of power and unity. #ICEout #endtheoccupation #stopcooperation

DePaul Art Museum to close this June As the university continues to struggle with financial challenges it has decided to close the museum at the end of the academic year.

Truly a shameful decision by @depauluniversity.bsky.social - the closing of DPAM will be a tremendous loss to the university but also the broader arts community in Chicago depauliaonline.com/83058/news/d...

Need to publish images as #IIIF — but have only 30 SECONDS to do it? tiny.iiif to the rescue! 🫨

• Drag & drop images → instant IIIF Image Service
• Create a folder → drag images in → instant presentation manifest!

Work in progress, but already a lot of fun. Ping me if you want to know more!

Job Posting: Authorities and Entity Mgmt Metadata Specialist at the Getty Research Institute (GRI). Based at the Getty Center in LA. Position in within the newly established Digital Stewardship and Metadata Optimization team. No salary posted.

Lost 19th century film by Méliès discovered at the Library | Timeless Library conservators recently made a startling discovery in a batch of decaying film reels -- a long-lost 1897 film by early cinema icon George Méliès. The French magician-turned-filmmaker's

In September, a box of old film reels was donated to the Library's National Audio-Visual Conservation Center. One of them was a nearly 130-year-old, long-lost film by iconic French filmmaker George Méliès. It had not been seen by anyone in likely more than a century. 🧵
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Interesting new job at Yale Divinity Library.

LIBER Launches a Webinar Series on Artificial Intelligence: AI Pulse - LIBER Europe LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche – Association of European Research Libraries) is the voice of Europe’s research library community.

The LIBER AI Taskforce has launched a series of short seminars! Friday's first seminar is very much a listening exercise to learn where European research libraries are with AI in libraries from participants libereurope.eu/article/libe...

#AI4LAM

Legal Issues in Museum Administration conference, to be held April 29 - May 1 in Denver, Colorado.
Registration information and the conference schedule no available. The conference addresses developments in the legislative/regulatory landscape, immigration law, IP, AI policy, & more.

USAJOBS connects job seekers with federal jobs across the United States and around the world as the official employment site for the federal government <p>The Smithsonian Institution is the world&rsquo;s largest museum, education, and research complex, with 21 museums and the National Zoo.&nbsp; This position is located within the Digital Collections...

Job posting: Head of Digital Collections @ Smithsonian National Museum of American History. Closing: 03/13/26; $143,910-$187,093 (GS 14). Located w/in Digital Collections team, Digital Access & Archives Dept, Public History Div. To lead NMAH’s efforts to expand te impact of its digital collections

For those not located in DC, there is a similar banner already hanging on the front of the Dept of Labor (and I believe also on the Dept of Agriculture - though not sure if that one is still up?)

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.

And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

The 2026 International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) Annual Conference will be held in the Netherlands June 1–4, 2026, and will be hosted by the IIIF Consortium with support from the Dutch Digital Heritage Network.

Registration now open for the June 1-4 IIIF Conference in the Netherlands (with events in Amsterdam, Leiden, and The Hague

Getty Does It ‘All for Art’ and Reveals Refreshed Brand Identity | Getty News Evolution of Getty’s design and messaging captures its mission of advancing art’s meaning and impact.

Uh oh you guys, we have another museum rebrand and it looks like a microchip company logo (which is fine because Richard Meier's Getty Center looks like a microchip plant).
www.getty.edu/news/getty-u...

Attention fellow museum nerds; I built a GPT to help construct usable queries for @artinstitutechi.bsky.social's public API. It saves me a bunch of time, and I hope others find it useful as well. chatgpt.com/g/g-695edcd0...

Graphic listing book event schedule for "The House Archives Built" book tour. There are stops in Chapel Hill, Baltimore, Atlanta, Bethlehem PA New Haven CT, Baltimore again, Chicago, and Charleston

Thanks to @wehere.bsky.social I have this pretty graphic to show my scheduled book events. I will post specifics on each when I have them, and thanks to everyone who has sent me an invite! I'm open to other possibilities so feel free to reach out (more info on how to do that dorothy-berry.com/thab)

💠 Meet our #RLUK26 Keynote 🎙️

Dr Carla Hayden was 14th Librarian of Congress, 1st woman & African American to lead LoC. Dr Hayden is currently Senior Fellow @mellon.org advising on opportunities to support + advance libraries & archives

#RLUK26 is a virtual event on 25-26 March

ℹ️ 🎟 bit.ly/RLUKconf

Beyond Digitization: Open Digital Curation of Collections-based Biodiversity Data Open digital curation can be a continuous, inclusive process that explicitly incorporates annotations, enhancements, and round-tripping across the biodiversity data lifecycle. This issue aims to illus...

📢 Call for submissions: "Beyond Digitization: Open Digital Curation of Collections-based Biodiversity Data."

This topical collection aims to explore how #AI and human annotations can enhance #biodiversity #data and flow back to source systems.

📅 Deadline: 1 Sept 2026
Details 👇

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🔎 From biodiversity observations to insights: Hands-on training 🤝

Over the upcoming Fridays at 15:00 CET, @b-cubed.eu is hosting a training series to showcase emerging approaches that help make biodiversity data more actionable in practice.

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Thousands of people joined the 2024 Library of Congress National Book Festival at the Washington Convention Center. Photo by Shawn Miller, Library of Congress.

SAVE THE DATE! The Library of Congress will host the 2026 National Book Festival on Saturday, Aug. 22, at the Washington Convention Center. newsroom.loc.gov/news/library...

CALL FOR PAPERS: ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage Special Issue on Visual Heritage. Contributions on novel computing approaches for the documentation, analysis, & dissemination of cultural heritage. Submissions from practitioners & researchers at all career stages welcome. 03/01/26