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Promotional image for an online book talk titled 'After Disruption.' Left side shows portraits of Trevor Owens and Shannon Mattern with text: 'After Disruption Book Talk, with Trevor Owens & Shannon Mattern.' Center panel reads: 'September 25th, 10am PT / 1pm ET, Online. Join us for a book talk with Trevor Owens, author of After Disruption: A Future for Cultural Memory, in conversation with Shannon Mattern, as they explore how libraries, archives, and museums can reclaim their role in shaping a just and sustainable digital present.' Logos of Internet Archive and Authors Alliance appear at the bottom. Right side shows the book cover for 'After Disruption: A Future for Cultural Memory' by Trevor Owens, featuring a photo of a grand library entrance.

The digital age threatens our cultural memory. Can libraries, archives & museums create a just, sustainable future?

📖 Learn how in the #booktalk for AFTER DISRUPTION with Trevor Owens & Shannon Mattern.

📅 Thurs Sept 25
🕖 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍 ONLINE
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1633230118...

Software Engineer (Full-stack) - ITHAKA ITHAKA’s mission is to expand access to knowledge and education around the world. Our services — Artstor, JSTOR, Portico, and Ithaka S+R — enable people everywhere to learn, to grow, and to overcome b...

I'm hiring a mid-level full-stack SWE! Our team at @jstor.bsky.social Labs is looking for yet another product-minded engineer to join our team. We come from all kinds of backgrounds, tech and non-tech alike.

Please apply or send to your awesome friends, and DM me with ?s: grnh.se/19o370345us

UMSI is running multiple searches this year, starting with the John Derby Evans Professor in Information, at the Assistant or Associate level!

This is open to anyone working at the intersection of tech and society, with a closing date of Nov 1, 2025. Please share!

www.si.umich.edu/people/facul...

Physical Science Careers Disrupted Documenting the Impact of Federal Funding & Policy Changes

📣 AIP's Niels Bohr Library and Archives is collecting personal stories from scientists, engineers, students & others in the physical sciences whose careers have been impacted by recent U.S. policy & funding changes. Learn more about how to get involved here ->
www.aip.org/library/ex-l...

#Vacancy: We are hiring a new Marking and Communications Officer.

You won't have to have all the #DigitalPreservation answers, but we hope you'll be curious, adaptable, and happy to roll up your sleeves in a small, supportive team.

openpreservation.org/news/vacancy...

We’re hiring! Join AIP’s research team as an Archives Fellow or Intern to help highlight women’s contributions to the physical sciences. Great part time opportunities for grad students.

Apply here:
- Fellow: workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...
- Intern: workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

📢#IDCC26 Submission deadlines extended📢

Deadlines have been extended to support our community submit proposals over the summer⬇️
📅3 August 2025 - Papers and Lightning Talks
📅14 September 2025 - Posters
📅30 September 2025 - Workshops

Learn more now and submit your proposal dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc2...

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

Mellon Foundation announces appointment of Dr. Carla Hayden as Mellon Senior Fellow 📚📜
librarytechnology.org/pr/31511

That bear is NOT friend. But he wants you to care about the endangered National Park signs. Snap a photo of any interpretive signs you see while visiting our national parks and submit them here: saveoursigns.org. #SaveOurSigns

The 2026 Federal Budget Proposal Shutters The Institute for Museum and Library Services The details of the 2026 federal budget proposal spell out the goal of shutting down the Institute for Museum and Library services.

We now have the details of the federal 2026 budget proposal, and it spells the end of IMLS. The request is $6,000,000 to "conduct an orderly closeout of IMLS."

Whatever happens in the 2 court cases would be moot if this passes.

bookriot.com/the-2026-fed...

JOB POSTING:
Catalog/metadata librarian

Reposting for broader reach. Come work with me!

📜📚

‘Archival intelligence’: A retrospective on retiring faculty member Elizabeth Yakel | umsi Yakel will retire this June, concluding a 25-year chapter at UMSI that has shaped the school’s direction and the archival field more broadly.

‘Archival intelligence’: A retrospective on retiring faculty member Elizabeth Yakel 📜 www.si.umich.edu/about-umsi/n...

Trump officials take steps toward a radically different NSF Efforts to shrink staff, budget, and focus have alarmed members of Congress

Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3
www.science.org/content/arti...

IDCC26 Call for submissions promotional banner Image of Zagreb national theatre

🚨#IDCC26 Call for Submissions is now open!

Theme: AI, austerity, and authoritarianism: contemporary challenges in digital curation

Submission formats:
✅ Papers
✅ Lightning Talks
✅ Posters
✅ Workshops

➡️https://dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc26/call-for-submissions
#DigitalCuration #OpenScience #Research

I've seen a lot of anger and sadness about terminated grants & am so angry & sad for those colleagues. I'd like to hear more about the junior scholars who submitted proposals that will never be reviewed & who do not have data to continue publishing from. I'm done wringing my hands - what can we do?

this. so much excitement. so much hope.

Carla Hayden was president of the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social when ours was one of few organized voices opposed to the USA PATRIOT Act.

Librarians have been fired all across the federal government, gutting not just ours but the world’s intellectual infrastructure. Devastating.

The Latest from the Institute of Museum and Library Services A temporary restraining order halts further dismantling of the only federal agency for libraries, but the 2026 federal budget calls for eliminating the IMLS completely.

HUGE NEWS.

The judge in the case where 21 state attorneys generals sued the Trump administration over dismantling the IMLS just issued an injunction in favor of the plaintiffs. This is good news & the judge further indicates that the plaintiffs have a STRONG case here.

bookriot.com/the-latest-f...

Federal Court halts dismantling of IMLS in ALA lawsuit. U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia grants temporary restraining order.

🚨 Today, a federal court granted a temporary restraining order to halt the administration’s dismantling of IMLS—a direct result of the lawsuit filed by ALA and @afscme.bsky.social.
www.ala.org/news/2025/05...

#ForOurLibraries #FundLibraries

More coverage of what is happening with IMLS.

National Library Workers Day. Libraries Work Because We Do. 4.8.25, #NLWD25, ALA-APA

Today is National Library Workers Day—a day to celebrate the hardworking professionals who keep our libraries thriving. Library workers are facing tough times, and it’s more important than ever to show our support.

Show some love to the library worker in your life today!
ala-apa.org/nlwd/
#NLWD25

Congress has the power to restore funding to the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Join me in calling your reps!

IMLS Matters Responses to this form will be published at https://imls-matters.github.io/imlsmatters/

Like many others I am dismayed by the effort to end IMLS. I know IMLS matters to so many people. I put together the following site to collect and share stories of how "IMLS matters" to people. Please consider submitting a story.

forms.gle/MAocZZMsoUu7...

imls-matters.github.io/imlsmatters/

Entire staff at federal agency that funds libraries and museums put on leave The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave Monday morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.

This is terribly alarming for all kinds of memory institutions, but also support from IMLS has been so important for so many scholars. I spent much of my time as a doctoral student working on IMLS-funded research projects that made my education and training possible.
www.npr.org/2025/03/31/n...

DOGE Descends on the Institute for Museum and Library Services DOGE employees and a new acting director showed up at the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) on Thursday for an intended 'raid'

This is the best piece of reporting I’ve seen so far on what is going on at IMLS. I encourage everyone who cares about the key role that libraries and museums play in the United States to read it. news.artnet.com/art-world/do...

SCOOP: DOGE notified the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) today that the entire staff is being put on administrative leave effective immediately, I’ve learned from an agency source.

They’ll be cancelling huge swaths of grants/contracts and starting a Reduction in Force (RIF).

I think the academic community can help US academics, as well as academia in general, by providing safe haven for datasets that are being targeted by the Trump administration.

Our #iconf25 paper is available now! Thrilled to share "Gallery walk as research method in information science" OA in Information Research -- publicera.kb.se/ir/article/v...

#iconference25 #academicsky