Sheila A Brennan

Sign with word No and a drawing of a yellow crown with three jewels

Yesterday I held a sign designed by an anonymous furloughed fed.
Thank you!
They are still struggling as are the many more Feds who were unlawfully fired. This is a DC area focused sheet with resources, and you can add to it, docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

So much this.

The Aces did it in 4 straight, Wilson can’t be beat.

Re-type or Retype?

Congratulations, Matthew and your team! Great to see this body of work continue to expand.

💯

So many open seats, and current members’ terms have expired.

National Council on the Humanities

As of this morning, the National Council on the Humanities went from 21 members to 4: (Wayback machine from 9/16/25) web.archive.org/web/20250916... to today: www.neh.gov/about/nation...

Sending some love to federal employees and contractors out there who are stuck right now. This is messy (adding to the $*!t show). It creates unnecessary work and adds to the constant anxiety. And for contractors, no back pay. Hardships for citizens that you want to serve.

We stand in solidarity with our CPB colleagues and friends. So many incredible projects were made possible by and with them. ✊

Hoping the rain holds off for Ian’s show today.

The program for this online conf exploring the history & current landscape for museums, organized by National Gallery UK, looks great. It's tomorrow and Sat, still seems open for registration: www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/confe...

Pleased to be listening in, and sad that this is the final event for your group.

Review the most recent past awardees & the range of topics: postalmuseum.si.edu/past-award-w....

We haven't yet had a digital public history to review!

I especially love that there is a category for Digital public history projects - $1,000. These must be "non-commercial interpretative research project, designed primarily for non-academic audiences and presented online and freely available for the general public." Any topic within postal history.

The NPM Awards for Scholarship in Postal History are accepting nominations for different types of researchers, with a cash award: Grad students: $1,000; Professionals (faculty, philatelists, GLAM) - $2,000; postalmuseum.si.edu/the-national...

We are ecstatic to have @omeka.org become the first certified Integration Partner on the Local Contexts Hub. Read more: localcontexts.org/omeka-certif...

Life continues. I’m going to a funeral, a good friend is going to a wedding. We are participating in these ceremonies that celebrate life at different stages. There is much that angers me, and still much that brings some joy.

Librarians Are Being Asked to Find AI-Hallucinated Books It’s a trippy time to have a library card.

"The problem, she says, is these companies are rushing products to market, making the skills academic librarians are trying to teach students and researchers to use obsolete." www.404media.co/librarians-a...

If I was currently researching in DC-area archives, I would sign up. You may know some grad students, or someone in between jobs, who have their LC researcher cards, or are immersed in collections at one of the Smithsonian Libraries, who might be interested.

Thanks, glad to hear it!

Do you plan to publish the results of the survey, or share the results with those take the survey? You ask some good questions, I think others will be interested in the responses.

Survey on Serendipity and Information Seeking in Digital Collections Purpose of the Study We are seeking to understand the different methods of information seeking in digital collections. In addition, we would like to understand what the participants' perceptions of se...

My lab is running a study to investigate how serendipity relates to information seeking in digital collections. We're looking for researchers & practitioners who have used, designed, or stewarded digital collections to participate in our survey (<10 min): forms.gle/zGJDZZ14vx2M...

Fat Bear Week 2025 Fat Bear Week 2025

I really appreciate @ncph.bsky.social including this reminder in the latest newsletter, "In tough times, Fat Bear Week lifts us all up:" It's true, and thanks! explore.org/fat-bear-week

Postcard and Letter-Writing Campaign. September 17, 2025. 1:00 pm Eastern. Bring your postcard and letter-writing supplies, and we'll provide ideas, tips, and company while you write to your representatives. Co-hosted by the NCPH Advocacy Committee and Organization of American Historians. Postcard graphic with OAH and NCPH logos in top right corner like stamps.

Join @oah.org and the NCPH #Advocacy Committee to write our representatives to advocate for history, or write our support to institutions doing essential work in difficult times. Register: https://community.ncph.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?alias=PostcardCampaign

cc: @neh-odh.bsky.social @altnehgov.altgov.info

Thanks, Ben! It's nice to be working with these smart people again.

Check them out:

Omeka Classic: Sept 16 - Nov 4, 2025; Tuesdays, 7:30 to 9 pm EDT

Omeka S: Sept 17 - Nov 5, 2025; Wednesdays, 7:30 to 9 pm EDT

As I settle into @digitalscholar.bsky.social I am catching up on 7 years of development & resources for @tropy.bsky.social, @zotero.org, & @omeka.org--there is a lot! One of the coolest things is that the Omeka team now offers online courses for both Classic & S: omeka.org/services/tra...

Workers not Billionaires!
Small protest on the overpass. #LaborDay