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Performatively reading in the cafe, but wearing white gloves so I'm still venerating the Book As Object, with a t-shirt saying "I know archivists don't wear gloves" so people know the gloves are performative.

UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’ SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.

This is ridiculous and embarrassing.

new Patricia Lockwood and Mona Awad today? consider me raptured

The band Turnstile on stage.

perfect end to Turnstile summer!

Baltimore Book Festival and SPX being the same weekend is very rude to the nerds of Maryland

A monarch butterfly with wings open perched on pink flowers of swamp milkweed.

a monarch butterfly showed up on the milkweed I planted this spring!!

book cover: Ulysses

Did you know that the National Library of Ireland has digitised a first edition copy of Ulysses (Alan Clodd copy, number 120), which can be viewed in full online?

Read it here: catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls0...

Targeting Books for Removal at U.S. Military Libraries - ACRLog In the course of looking for resources relating to critical cataloging, I stumbled on a new memorandum from the U.S. Office of the Secretary of Defense, dated May 9th and titled “Reviewing the Departm...

New blog post at ACRLog: Targeting Books for Removal at U.S. Military Libraries acrlog.org/2025/05/11/t.... I talk about how painful it is that LCSH are being used for this dirty work. #critcat 📚

Trump fires Librarian of Congress and Baltimorean Carla Hayden President Donald Trump fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden on Thursday, according to statements from House Democrats.

Dr. Carla Hayden has served as Librarian of Congress with honor and distinction, bringing our prized institution to new heights.
 
Trump’s outrageous, politically-motivated move to fire her is despicable. The Library of Congress belongs to the American people — NOT to Trump.

If you’re in line to buy books on Indie Bookstore Day stay in line!

Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

Small eastern redbud with dark pink flowers tied to a stake and planted next to a city sidewalk.

Small tree with some green leaves planted between a city sidewalk and street.

I recently checked on some baby trees I helped plant last month on the streets of Baltimore, and they are growing and blooming! Happy spring!

Lori Beth Denberg reprised her All That librarian character to do a pro-library, anti-book banning reel and I love it so much??? www.instagram.com/reel/DIK0_bD...

Johns Hopkins: About a dozen students have visas revoked by government The university confirmed to The Baltimore Banner on Tuesday morning that "approximately a dozen" international students have had their visas revoked.

SCOOP: "Approximately a dozen" graduate students and recent grads at Johns Hopkins University have had their student visas revoked by the federal government, a spokesperson confirmed to @thebaltimorebanner.com this morning. Read our exclusive:
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...

A medieval manuscript with two women, one writes in a book and the other stands in front of her. Text overlayed reads: "Book by early feminist medieval writer joins Getty's collection."

Medieval writer Christine de Pizan is often characterized as the first professional female author.

Learn how her pioneering feminist writing championed women’s moral and intellectual power in a new acquisition to Getty's medieval manuscripts holdings: gty.art/4hQL0iZ

I attended a library vendor AI demo/upsell today and I wish I could explain to them that everything they are selling could be achieved by hiring like two more people in our library

Red book with cover design of a black and white frog and title "Raising Frogs for $$$."

cover design of the day: Raising Frogs for $$$

My first job out of library school was funded by IMLS. So many resources described and digitized are accessible because of IMLS grants funding the often invisible labor that takes.

Large woodcut of a coat of arms, at center is a man emerging from the mouth of a serpent wearing a crown.

Great woodcut of the Visconti arms, which shows the biscione: a man either emerging from or being devoured by a crowned serpent (glass half full/half empty sort of situation I guess).
From Vita della venerabil serva di Dio suor Alessandra Sabini da Rocca Contrada, 1733, JHU BX4705.S116 V58 1733.

when you interrupt my collation of an unsigned incunable

an archival black and white photograph of the KKK marching in Washington DC with the capitol behind them

In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

Small printed image of an insect at the end of a passage.

Small printed image of an insect at the end of a passage.

oh no, found some bugs in a book!
from Cibus solidus perfectorum, 1670
JHU BX4312.A3 D47 1670

LC published a tentative list to change #LCSH Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America & Mt Denali to Mt McKinley. Comments on the proposed changes can be sent to listcomments@loc.gov by Tues. February 18, 2025 (which is TODAY). If you oppose the change, please email! #critcat (classweb.org/tentative-su...

Engraved 18th century portrait of Marie de l'Incarnation with crude hand-coloring in blue, yellow, red, and green.

Hand coloring an engraved portrait may not always be the best choice.
Vida de la beata María de la Encarnacion, Madrid 1791.
JHU BX4700.M34 M657 1791

what I (somewhat fumblingly) told a group of students last year is that you are trying to “glimpse your own cryptid.” what appears to people later as a solid aesthetic vision just begins as that personal glitch between trees.

rip David Lynch, one of the greats, what an inspiration

Baltimore sidewalk with a tree turning yellow and orange and a city bus.

Baltimore row houses with a tree with red leaves and a red mini cooper.

Baltimore fall walks, featuring a favorite bus stop 🍂

Orange cloth binding with gilt design of a face and tree.

Yellow cloth binding with gilt design of a tree.

Green cloth binding with gilt nature design.

Orange cloth binding with gilt design of a tree.

Czech books with bindings designed by Toyen published 1933-1936 in the Edice Symposion series
#Toyen #bookbindings
JHU PQ2613.I57 R41 1933 catalyst.library.jhu.edu/discovery/se...

Ah that makes more sense, thanks for pointing that out!

Printed page of book with skull and crossbones and crossbones on either side of “HEDEN GROOT, MORGEN DOOD.”

Printed page of book with skull and crossbones and crossed sythes on either side of “HODIE MIHI, CRAS TIBI.”

I love these little woodcut skulls, crossbones, and scythes in De Wel-Meynende Boere-Dogter (1789?), a dialogue of religious instruction for daughters of farmers. #woodcuts #mementomori
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