Brian Wilson

i am deeply, warmly, fantastically fortunate and grateful to have the team i do: library.yale.edu/news/accessi...

A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the historical treasures locked away on old floppy disks.

So this #SHOT2025 panel has nearly wrapped up. But if you want to read more about historical issues surrounding multimedia and the preservation of born-digital collections, check out this piece on #DigiPres at @theul.bsky.social.

(Thanks for bringing this to my attention, @rhiggitt.bsky.social!)

Which leads me to an absolutely desperate plea: is there anyone in Japan who can collect this bag (not from Oshima [probably from Kyoto]) for us and send us the contents?

Join us tomorrow at City Hall to celebrate Michigan’s first state historical marker honoring #LGBTQ history — which pays tribute to former #A2Council Members Kathy Kozachenko, Nancy Wechsler & Jerry DeGrieck, and community leader Jim Toy for their contributions to #AnnArbor #LGBT Rights & History.

Cataloging Sir Elton John’s photography book collection at Emory This summer, I had the extraordinary privilege of interning with Emory University’s Woodruff Library Resource Description team. As an undergraduate entering my final year and planning to pursue an …

Cataloging Sir Elton John’s photography book collection at Emory (Aug. 11)(Georgia) 📜
scholarblogs.emory.edu/woodruff/new...

Fully the case in archives and museums.

I remember when I started grad school we took a trip to DC, to see libraries and special collections, including behind secret doors in the Natural History Museum. One was run by a post-retirement entomology expert, who knew where all the journals and original species descriptions were. And...

Archival appraisal is a craft and it can be taught.

My and @boxreceiver.bsky.social 's chapter on archival appraisal is available as a pre-print here: digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/libr_pubs/77/. It's very, very practical and it centers our values. We would love your feedback!

*rings the "it's not that humans can't do it, it's that you have chosen to not allocate resources (time/money) to let humans do it!*

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 📜📚
www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...

Different logos for publications from their respective mastheads, put together as a collage for an article about union local publications. Caption reads, "Keep up with the news...read the press."

Collage of mastheads from @uaw.org west coast local newspapers. From News-Letter, publication for @uawregion6.bsky.social. Sept 1955. From the archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

Bubba Wallace!!!

Within the halls of U of M’s Hatcher Library, a wealth of transgender history • Michigan Advance For more than a century the Joseph A. Labadie Collection at the University of Michigan has been home to a wide collection of materials documenting social unrest, protest, and various movements that we...

Within the halls of U of M’s Hatcher Library, a wealth of transgender history 📜📚 (Michigan)
michiganadvance.com/2025/06/27/w...

This is heartbreaking on so many levels. #alaac25

Brown’s University Library is recruiting for a Rare Book Project Cataloger. 2-year term, full-time.

#LISjobs

#ArchivesAreAccessible. But only if you have a 'legitimate business need' apparently. Wtf

"Effective democratization can always be measured by this essential criterion: the participation in and the access to the archive, its constitution, and its interpretation." Derrida, footnote 1 from Archive Fever.

POV: You are a cat with seven children

Does anyone here have an NYPL card and a selfless desire to help a researcher out 🥺 sad to report that somehow NONE OF MY NYC FRIENDS HAVE ACTIVE NYPL CARDS (????!!!!). I need a scan from a book not held by UPenn. It’s all online!

Them: “LA is a full on insurrection”

Us at the protest:

The gravestone of comedian Roy Hudd OBE (1936-2020), which is laid out like a theatre poster in a nod to Hudd's work as a historian of music hall. The full text reads: Roy Hudd OBE Hudd's Here! 16 May 1936 Croydon | 15 Mar 2020 Crowfield Historian of Music Hall Author * Actor * Comedian Brother * Husband * Father Grandfather * Loved "Well it made me laugh!" "Hudd's Here" is a reference to Hudd's theatre show of the same name. Beside the scrolled banner carrying that title there is a little line-drawing of Hudd's round face.

The gravestone of comedian Roy Hudd OBE (1936-2020), which is laid out like a theatre poster in a nod to Hudd's work as a historian of music hall. The full text reads: Roy Hudd OBE Hudd's Here! 16 May 1936 Croydon | 15 Mar 2020 Crowfield Historian of Music Hall Author * Actor * Comedian Brother * Husband * Father Grandfather * Loved "Well it made me laugh!" "Hudd's Here" is a reference to Hudd's theatre show of the same name. Beside the scrolled banner carrying that title there is a little line-drawing of Hudd's round face.

A small church, with a little spirelet over a bell-cote and a half-timbered chancel.

Exploring some of the churches north of Ipswich today and called in at Crowfield, where Roy Hudd's gravestone is laid out like a theatre poster as a nod to his work as a historian of the music hall.

Exciting opportunity with the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust The British Motor Industry Heritage Trust (BMIHT ) is seeking an Archivist (Cataloguer) to play a key part in the collections information, development and management of the BMIHT Archive, ensuring tha...

📣Job opportunity in Warwickshire📣
The British Motor Industry Heritage Trust (BMIHT) is seeking an Archivist (Cataloguer) to play a key part in the collections information, development and management of the BMIHT Archive.
Closing date 29 June 2025.
For more details 👇

UNC Library isn’t on Bluesky
I guess so I’m sharing that they’re currently recruiting for the Hanes Curator of Rare Books: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/301...

This is an amazing opportunity! Happy to talk to anyone about my experiences when I held this role!

Historian here, holder of multiple degrees, previous holder of RA posts, co-author of book, journal articles, numerous essays and book reviews - attributes and skills seemingly unwanted by most employers. Seeks freelance work, writing, editing, researching, etc, in pursuit of paying bills.

GSU database of enslaved people’s names, locations now available to public A team of researchers from Georgia State University and Troy University in Alabama have worked on a research initiative that explores historical data—the names and locations—of more than 5,000 enslave...

Research Tools: GSU database of enslaved people’s names, locations now available to public (via @wabe.org) www.wabe.org/gsu-database...

YouTube video by Getty Research Institute Backstage: An Unfurling of the Johnson Publishing Company | Black Archives & Memory

At the request of @shannonmattern.bsky.social, here is a fun panel I was on last week my good friends and colleagues Steven Booth and Savannah Woods of @afrocharities.bsky.social

I ran home from the New Haven train and logged in about 5 before showtime!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sLF...

whitehouse post: This White House will NEVER betray our law enforcement officers. Not now. Not ever. We stand with the brave men and women who risk everything to keep our communities safe. #NationalPoliceWeek

Trump pardoned the Jan. 6 rioters who injured more than 140 police officers in one of the biggest mass attacks on law enforcement in American history

In honor of #EarthDay, we’re resharing A Green New Deal for Archives by Eira Tansey 🌎 — a call to action for sustainable, well-resourced archives in the face of climate change.

📘 Read here: www.clir.org/wp-content/u...

#EarthDay2025 #Archives #GreenNewDeal #ClimateAction #EiraTansey #CLIR