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Libraries, Archives and Collective Grief Libraries, Archives and Collective Grief; This collection explores grief and memorialization through librarianship. International contributors highlight how information professionals contribute to dea...

Libraries, Archives and Collective Grief is now available for pre-order through @brisunipress.bsky.social!

bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/libraries-ar...

These are all incredible!

And… sent! ✅ Just shy of 2 years since @librarianchef.bsky.social first reached out about a potential collab, the final typescript for Libraries, Archives and Collective Grief is officially off to Bristol UP. Immense gratitude to all our contributors—stay tuned for updates! 📚🪦

@librarianchef.bsky.social just informed me that my 2nd book, 'Daisy Wheel, Hexfoil, Hexafoil, Rosette', is in 169 libraries around the world! And our edited volume is already in 53 libraries, and it only came out 18 days ago! Amazing! 😍🏺

DEATH, COMMEMORATION, AND CULTURAL MEANING: Past and Present, edited by Robert Spinelli @librarianchef.bsky.social and Robyn S. Lacy @graveyardarch.bsky.social has now been published!

Find out more here: bit.ly/4oq7xqO

#CulturalStudies #History #Archaeology

Thank you to everyone for their hard work!

Coming out Monday, December 1st!

@kpalex91.bsky.social

I'm excited to work on this new upcoming volume. If you are interested in conspiracy research please consider submitting an abstract.

Kaylee Alexander, PhD (@kpalex91.bsky.social) 📚🪦 Research Data Librarian at the University of Utah. Historian of visual culture, monuments, and cemeteries. Digital Humanities x Data & Information Science. 🏳️‍🌈♾️

@katewoody.bsky.social
@ericaborgstrom.bsky.social
@deathandculture.bsky.social
@brisunipress.bsky.social

Libraries, Archives and Collective Grief (2026) will be released with Bristol University Press. This volume explores the ways in which grief permeates collections, objects and stories within library settings.

@kpalex91.bsky.social

Death, Commemoration, and Cultural Meaning: Past and Present | Berghahn Books Independent Publishing since 1994

The volume that @librarianchef.bsky.social and I have been working on since like 2022, 'Death, Commemoration, and Cultural Meaning: Past and Present', is being published on Dec 1st, 2025! Just in time for Christmas! Thank you to all the wonderful authors!!
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Spinel...

The stars in the sky don't know we exist and I think that's nice for them

Today is the official release day!

I Sat Next To An Anti-Vax Conspiracy Theorist On A Plane. Then I Told Him What I Do For A Living. "As someone who recently completed 15 years of training to become an infectious diseases physician-scientist, I can’t avoid these conversations."

I applaud Dr. Morgan Goheen for her willingness to engage infectious disease skeptics...especially when they are sitting next to you on a flight & you can't get up and leave!!!

#MedSky

www.huffpost.com/entry/infect...

Donuts with names that sound like prostitutes

Open box displaying author copies of a book.

This is what I came home to after work today. A bit creepy to see those eyes staring, but exciting nonetheless!

For #EAA2025 @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social, browse our #Archaeology titles: bit.ly/4nawpls

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@cbwolff.bsky.social
@graveyardarch.bsky.social
@librarianchef.bsky.social
@creightonavery.bsky.social

Anyone local should come say hello if you are able to attend.

nice

The white nationalist ambitions of this regime are just plain as day. Anyone from that world would recognize these images or the Manifest Destiny references employed by DHS as a call to genocide in service of a white nation.

Thank you to everyone who has helped work on and encouraged the creation of this book!

That could be incredibly valuable right now.

Exactly what I was thinking about.

Wait till they hear about Superman fighting Nazis and the KKK in the early comic book days...

We have been working hard on this volume for the past few years. It has been a great collaboration and it's incredibly rewarding to see a final product emerging!

Please consider submitting a paper to this panel that I will be chairing at the SAMLA conference in November.

samla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19363

I echo this feeling quite deeply. It makes it difficult to go back to The X-Files as entertainment sometimes.

The volume I am putting together with @cultarchaeo.bsky.social has a few more weeks left accepting submissions. If you've been considering sending along an abstract, there's still time!

www.robert-spinelli.com/call-for-pap...

"'It will present evidence that suggests ancient serpent or lizard-like aliens came to earth thousands of years ago,' the narrator says." 😐 It won't because there is no evidence for this. Unsurprising, but still disappointing, to see pseudoarchaeology themes taking top spots on this media platform: