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Newly available via American Archive of Public Broadcasting: A digitized collection of "Poetry Discovered," a WRVR-FM radio show in NYC including 43 episodes featuring readings by 85 poets in 1966: John Ashbery, Daisy Aldan, Helen Adam, Lorenzo Thomas, & more.

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CILIP RBSCG Conference 2025 Standards, Systems and Discoverability of Special Collections

We are delighted to announce that ✨booking is open✨ for #RBSCG25, the 2025 CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Group conference.

Theme: Systems, Standards and the Discoverability of Special Collections
Dates: 3-5 September, afternoons
Place: Online

rbscgconference2025.eventbrite.com

A grid of black-and-white, often askew photos of buildings and kids and a horse-drawn carriage.

Turns out the 1940s NYC Tax Department photographs (by WPA photogs) include outtakes, and they are so wonderful! 1940s.nyc/outtakes

Colored shadows on maculate concrete

As a fan of incongruity, I can never get enough of stained glass light on a dirty train platform

Man arrested for allegedly stealing rare Chinese manuscripts from UCLA libraries - Daily Bruin A man was arrested Tuesday after allegedly using false identities to steal over $200,000 worth of rare Chinese manuscripts from the UCLA Library system. Jeffrey Ying, a resident of Fremont, California...

I promise you, your local library has Chinese rare books cataloged as part of circulating collections. This guy, who has been an issue at the UCs, is likely one of a national scale scheme.

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if you can, please consider donating to fobazi's road to recovery. we love you, fobazi, and we are so grateful for all she's done as a friend, community member, writer and speaker, and library and information science worker ❤️

Resistance, Rebellion, Refusal: 7 Tips from Librarians for Navigating “AI” — Civics of Technology This is a special conference-themed blog contribution from Michelle Reed , Hayley Park , Justin White , and Mike Nason Communal resistance to artificial systems Join the Resistance Today a...

Artificial systems have "catapulted... into our inboxes, file storage, discovery systems, and nearly every element of our daily lives without our consent." How to resist? Library Futures and friends have tips!

www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/tips-fr...

simpsons don't make me tap the sign meme. panel 1 bus driver: don't make me tap the sign. panel 2 bus driver taps sign that reads "asking for help is a positive social skill"

librarians everywhere

Fobazi is a dear friend and amazing advocate for the LIS field. Right now, she needs our help. I’m thinking of her and sending her all my love. Please share, donate, and keep her in your thoughts.

Two folks (Fobazi and Elena) and their pup (Chloe) very deserving of any extra cash you have to toss their way! Fobazi's professional impact has been massive to many of us in the field and she's always been generous with her time and mind. Help them out through this intense, challenging time!

Hand drawn and written newsletter, The Gazabo Gazette, 1955. Headline reads, "Rainy Season Starts." Underneath are illustrations of rainy images.

Interior of The Gazabo Gazette with a table of contents, stories, and illustrations.

Cover of Bool's Journal, 1955. Headline reads, "First Edition" in pink all caps.

Newsletters created by a boy in the mid 1950s writing to a friend back in New York after he moved to Florida. News is about daily life, with stories like, "Charles and Billy went for a swim in the St. Petersburg Beach today and tried out Billy's new snorkel."

Donate to Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant, organized by Ysabel Gerrard Hello all, my name is Ysabel and I’m fundraising for my friends … Ysabel Gerrard needs your support for Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant

Fobazi is currently in the ICU and could use your support. Apologies to those I haven’t been able to reach out to yet. You can message me for more info and I will be posting updates to GoFundMe. Please share, send healing thoughts, prayers, etc. ❤️ -Elena

gofund.me/c8485b58

77 Barnard staff laid off today including two librarians and an archivist. Also 30 union members. Zine library staff are still here.

Three rows of Public Collectors booklets and zines installed on a wall at Quimby's Bookstore on 1854 W. North Ave. in Chicago.

I installed over 50 Public Collectors publications at @quimbysbookstore.bsky.social in Chicago today and you'll be able to come in and read them starting tomorrow (Thursday, 8/7/25). Many of these are out of print/hard to see. Saturday, August 9th from 6:30-8:00 PM I'll do a Show & Tell and reading.

Throughlines — Race in the premodern classroom Created by field-leading scholars, Throughlines’ pedagogical approaches offer accessible and critical ways to incorporate discussions of race in the premodern studies classroom.

I really needed this today.

Ayanna Thompson sent me a link to this jaw-dropping thing they built with a Mellon grant at @acmrs.bsky.social

You can get lost in it.

A spectacular reminder that digital resources don't have to be about surveillance, coercion, & disciplining the labor force.

The Black Memory Workers Founder Zakiya Collier on Audre Lorde Manuscripts and Memory Work Our Bright Young Librarians series continues today with Zakiya Collier, an archivist and memory worker in New York City:Please introduce us to your role as an archivist and memory worker:

The Black Memory Workers Founder Zakiya Collier on Audre Lorde Manuscripts and Memory Work 📜📚
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More discussion on the exciting news from my place of work! I can't wait for these records to be digitized and widely available!

Northeastern to digitize archive of Boston legend Elma Lewis' work, chronicling Black art and joy Northeastern archivists plan to digitize several collections of Boston legend Elma Lewis’ work, chronicling Black art and joy.

Helping to shine a light on Boston’s Black community and arts history, the @northeasternu.bsky.social library is digitizing a treasure trove of archival materials from Boston legend Elma Lewis.

11 more NYC libraries will soon open on Sundays A $2 million City Council deal will expand seven-day service to more than 30 branches citywide.

Eleven more libraries will reopen on Sundays, thanks to the leadership of the City Council. They never should've been closed in the first place.

As Mayor, I'll end this absurd budget dance that keeps our beloved libraries in limbo year after year.

California police misconduct records now available in public database A database of 1.5 million pages of records from 12,000 California officer-misconduct and use-of-force cases is now available online.

This is outstanding service journalism: 'roughly 1.5 million pages of records from 12,000 officer-misconduct and use-of-force cases' in California. Enjoy!

The We Reads Podcast: A Conversation with Imani Spence, Producer — we here Jennifer Arévalo Ferretti sits down with Imani Spence, We Reads Podcast Producer to learn what we can expect from the podcast dropping later this year.

we reads is dropping a podcast. what you can expect ~ a conversation with producer imani spence www.wehere.space/news/the-we-...

this very much counts.

Black Panther Party’s Illinois history recognized with heritage trail The Black Panther Party Heritage Trail in Illinois marks 13 locations in Chicago where it the political group made history.

I like this type of public history project. We need more. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/02/b... [gift link]

Taking Action in Higher Ed Taking Action for Higher Education is a workbook to assist university workers in assessing personal risk and making decisions about how and when to take action to resist fascism.

I just posted a free workbook that aims to help university workers better understand when and how to take risks in the fight against fascism in higher ed.

halperta.com/shalperta%20...

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Announcing the publication of two new #OpenAccess #BookReviews! "Review of Comic Books, Special Collections, and the Academic Library” by Nicholas Wantsala: elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol12/i... (1/2)

"WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations"

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FYI if you are interested/planning to seek appointment or run for your local library board in the near future, sign up to receive info about our forthcoming 2026 cohort: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

twin wedges, valley view mini-golf, great falls, montana, 1987

twin wedges, valley view mini-golf, great falls, montana, 1987

Robert Wilson, Provocative Playwright and Director, Is Dead at 83 He upended theatrical norms with his own stunningly visualized works and his collaborations with a wide range of artists, from Philip Glass (“Einstein on the Beach”) to Lady Gaga.

Robert Wilson, the acclaimed theater director, playwright and visual artist died on Thursday at 83. Wilson upended theatrical norms with wildly imaginative stagings of works like “Einstein on the Beach.”

CFP: Academizines Dr. Spencer D. C. Keralis and Professor Zach Frazier, editors Call for Proposals We invite proposals for Academizines, a special issue of Unbound: A Journal of Digital Scholarship. Zines have evolv…

This special issue invites contributors from across the disciplines to share their research and creative scholarship in zine form.
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