Julie Sorge Way

Tom Lehrer made all of his music 100% public domain so if seeing people sad about his death makes you want to check them out… it’s free. he wanted you to share them.

tomlehrersongs.com

Since the index expansion was supported by a Patrick Leary Field Development Grant in 2024 it was especially heartwarming to share it in person at #RSVP2025 among many colleagues whose work helped me in development, including @patrickleary.bsky.social himself of course. Great conference all around!

Of use to those working on 1852-1879, it includes a chronological index of open-access copies of the Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine, a widely read (affordable) secular early women’s monthly miscellany. jmsw.github.io/edm-index/

Now updated with a searchable spreadsheet of contents by category!

The project as a whole is available open access via @olddominionu.bsky.social repository at digitalcommons.odu.edu/english_etds... and there are some OER teaching tools and github data sets shared in the appendixes.

The Sally Mitchell Dissertation Prize – RSVP The Sally Mitchell Dissertation Prize is awarded annually to the best Ph.D. dissertation, defended in the previous calendar year, that explores the British periodical press of the long nineteenth cent...

Grateful to share that my PhD dissertation project was awarded the 2025 Sally Mitchell Prize from @rs4vp.org Just back from their conference in Chicago, where I learned so much, presented some of my own work, and most magically, met several of the folks whose work has influenced me most-a real joy.

"So hope for a great sea-change
On the far side of revenge.
Believe that a further shore
Is reachable from here.
Believe in miracles
And cures and healing wells.
[...]
It means once in a lifetime
That justice can rise up
And hope and history rhyme."

—Seamus Heaney

Like other forms of care work, library workers are always asked to extend care (through services, programs, collections, and so much more) to their communities without ever receiving care themselves. Material support is necessary to make this work sustainable in any way.

The National Archives launches guidance for archivists working in fast response situations - The National Archives Today The National Archives has launched new guidance for archivists about rapid response collecting. It’s designed to support archivists collecting material in situations like the aftermath of accide...

The (U.K.) National Archives launches guidance for archivists working in fast response situations 📜
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/t...

Hey if anyone is considering backing up any datasets for some reason today, the Open Science Framework has free storage up to 5G/private repository, and up to 50G/public repository.

(The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)

Fullllllll circle!

1 thing I love is the short 2007 satiric manifesto from George Saunders titled "People Reluctant to Kill for an Abstraction" - So important to remember our shared frailness.

Absolutely in for this 100%. Joy matters and always has.

1 like = 1 thing I love. And I’d love to hear yours, too.

Thanks! A friend elsewhere recommended Suzie Edge’s Mortal Monarchs and while the content is not exactly relaxing, I could listen to her voice forever.

Thank you! I do love Librivox, but also have some Libro.fm credits to use up!

Favorite audiobooks for falling asleep? Narrator recs also welcome! I’ve relistened to Lucy Worsley’s Jane Austen at Home about 8 times now. Before that was Juliet Stevenson reading Middlemarch, also several times over!

Honored to be even a tiny part of this great project!

So excited to read this!!

Archival joy moment of the day - the linen-embroidered autographs of some 1897 Colorado college students.

Congratulations!

I can't think of a better way to articulate how to approach the present moment than this: "Comprehension, in short, means the unpremeditated, attentive facing up to, and resisting of, reality--whatever it may be." --Hannah Arendt, 1950

Clearing out a drawer today I ran across this ancient iphone 3gs I last used in 2012. Have to admit that curved back and small size felt great compared to my current phone somehow.

I keep coming back to Diamine Earl Grey lately! Love how it shades differently within a word. Small joys.

That sounds lovely! I also love greens and greys.

Do you have a favorite ink at the moment?

Still think a retelling centering Mary Garth would be a fun read.

She is the ultimate narrator for this I am convinced!

You know, your own imagination is far more wonderful Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Than any computer could ever be. You know why? Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

You’re a living human being. And a computer is just a machine. Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Human beings are far more wonderful than machines. Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Mister Rogers never misses

I have a colleague (not on social media) who likes to say that works don't *fall* into the public domain, they *ascend* into the public domain. I really love that.

For Maths fans, 2025 is a square.
45² = 45 x 45 = 2025
Also,
9² x 5² = 2025
40² + 20² + 5² = 2025
My favourite?
1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ = 2025
#Mathematics #teaching #education

Magritte’s The Treachery of Images, featuring an image of a pipe with the words “Ceci n’est pas uni pipe” written beneath it

I love the wild randomness of public domain day. This is still not a pipe but you can reproduce it like crazy now.