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A screenshot of a small section of an email. Black text on a white background which reads "Subject: Re: Urgently seeking copyright clearance Netflix TV series. Aren't you wonderful! Art Dept Coordinator." Some words have been whited out for privacy.

Thank you, Netflix. Yes, I am wonderful; I'm a librarian.

A screenshot of a section of an email inbox. The inbox is displayed as white and grey boxes in a classic Microsoft Outlook display style. The section shows two junk mail emails from "The Illuminati".

My librarian career is over, folks: I've finally been recruited by the Illuminati.
#dreamsdocometrue #spam

Photograph of a handmade doll against a white background. The doll has green hair which looks like parsley herb. It is wearing a purple floral dress and has a grumpy look on its face.

I am Lady Parsley because of course I am.

Inside 'The Vegetable Kingdom': From India to London

The London Museum exhibited THE sweetest handmade dolls in 2019 and you have to do the Buzzfeed-esque quiz t find out which Vegetable Kingdom doll you are: www.londonmuseum.org.uk/blog/una-maw...

a black and white photo of two men standing on a very large porch. Both men are dressed formally in black attire. The photo print has been stamped with a very large red stamp which reads "The Argus and Australasian Ltd, Elizabeth Street Melbourne."

Further proof of the tyranny of stamp addictions.
Yarralumlah, 1952, Argus Ltd H2002.199/749.
#librarian

Regional galleries 'not sexy enough' for funding Disproportionate funding discriminates against regional access to the arts in NSW.

Shocked and saddened for our NSW neighbours in the cultural sector after 18 regional art galleries have lost their 4-year government funding share.google/K1lphf4k7FEo...

If you’re submitting an AI-generated resume, at least make sure your LinkedIn URL isn’t a ChatGPT redirect link 🙄

Black and white photograph of a sea leopard in a recording studio, 'singing' into a microphone.

Ooh I've got something for that:

a black-and-white photo from 1936, photographed for a newspaper. The photo shows a very large sea lion on the left. It is lifting itself up to approximately 7 feet in height and is facing a human man on its right-hand side. the man is in a uniform and is holding his arm up outstretched towards the sea lion. The man appears calm and friendly towards the giant animal.

I assisted a reference librarian on a VERY important deep dive this morning, finding pictures of giant animals in our collection. This is Goliath, H2004.100/1087, Argus via Acme Newspictures, 1936.
#librarian #gooddog

A community alert of Nazis in the area. Shows black and red banners on the top of a page. Below the banners are thumbnail portraits of 15 cis men, with their names captioned under their portraits.

A community alert page in white on a black background. There is also a large red banner with white text at the top of the page. This page explains what actions to take against nazis in the Melbourne community.

Updated list of nazis in the Melbourne area (June). Please share with your community.

A highlighted excerpt from a news story, apparently about a new washroom in the city bus terminal: "A second person who checked out the women's restroom and who asked not to be identified because she has always wanted to be an anonymous source - reported her findings by email: "Black shiny granite..."

Best reason to go off the record.

Like a hot water bottle that randomly stabs you.

Picture shows a child sitting at a desk. Underneath is white text on a green background which reads "Interactive Exhibit Lets Kids Figure Out How To Manage Budget Shortfall That Will Otherwise Shutter Museum". Image is a pretend headline from the satirist website The Onion.

😬

Via @theonion.com
#librarian

Remembering Chevalière d'Éon for Pride. A transgender woman in the 1700s who was also a spy and who turned double agent, extorted an entire monarchy to get her gender marker changed, and lived her life as a woman in a time when such was thought impossible.

We have always been here.

A pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

Trump administration fires top copyright official days after firing Librarian of Congress The Trump administration has fired the nation’s top copyright official, Shira Perlmutter. The move comes days after the abrupt termination of the head of the Library of Congress, which oversees the U....

Trump administration fires top copyright official days after firing Librarian of Congress. apnews.com/article/copy...

Brass gong laid flat in a box with white padding inside it. A wooden striker is displayed inside it.

Library staff members striking the brass gong with the wooden striker. Staff member is wearing blue nitrile gloves and holding the gong above a white pillow. Another staff member in the background of the shot is watching and leaning against the wall.

From the late 1850s until the mid 1990s, this gong was struck to signal the closing of the library for the day. I was allowed to give it a little practice bash today and it's LOUD.
H98.208/1, LTRE262.
#librarian

I'm trying to support a Wikimedia researcher at my library but the Wiki moderators we're arguing with have names like DoctorWholock9486 and JediMasterKoth29 and the Tumblr flashbacks are killing me.

First Nations writer speaks out after being stripped of $15,000 State Library of Queensland award over Gaza tweet Library says it will review all its awards after last-minute cancellation of ceremony to present black&write! fellowship to Karen Wyld

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

It's fucking amazing to me that an author can be stripped of their prize money for *checks notes* tweeting against a genocide.

Shame on #QLDGovernment

This is not how we usually display such items! Hence the box taking a visit to both our Preservation and Conservation labs. Will be getting less daggy new housing shortly.

Photograph looking down into a grey cardboard box. Inside the box is white tissue paper and brown clumps of hair.

I spent the morning ferrying around little clumps of matted hair. My job is so glamorous. They're apparently from the camels that carried Burke and Wills on their great ill-fated expedition. H31978.
#burkeandwills #librarian

(Or maybe it was Alice's parents who disapproved. Relationships in high society England were complicated in the Victorian era.)

John Ruskin was an English polymath who was good at everything except for wooing the ladies: he was famously rejected by Alice Liddell; the real-life inspiration for Alice in Wonderland.

A photograph of chess pieces. The top two rows are a creamy white colour and the bottom two rows are red. The pieces are individually boxed in grey boxes with white padded undersides. They are positioned in four rows. Some pieces are larger than others and are positioned lying flat, whilst some pieces are positioned standing.

This week in the library: John Ruskin's chess set. RARESEF794.1R897J
#chess #librarian #rarebooks

This Book of Hours is from the Netherlands, ca 1490, titled 'Horae beatae Virginia Mariae ad usum Romanum, cum calendario'.
#rarebooks #librarian

Details of the right hand side marginalia from a 15th century manuscript. It shows a narrow panel of illustrations of pink flowers and green leaves. In the centre of the composition is an illustration of a blue snail wearing a red shell and a matching red bucket hat.

After listening to the @ologies.bsky.social episode on Weird Mediaeval Art, I rushed to my teammate and friend, our principal rare books curator, and asked about marginalia snails in our collection. She was so happy to show me this sweet snail wearing a hat ☺️ in a Book of Hours, RARES 096 R66HF.

Making Modern Melbourne – Old Treasury Building Princes Bridge, 1900 Reproduced courtesy Royal Historical Society Victoria In 1900 Melbourne was the largest city in Australia, a distinction it would hold for just one more year before Sydney […]

Our friends at the Old Treasury Building have just launched a great new exhibition Making Modern Melbourne, which I encourage everyone to go see (and not just because yours truly has his name on the acknowledgements wall.) www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/making-moder...

screenshot of an internet popup browser window with a white background and large blue title "Free Video Nude Anjelina Jolie" then a paragraph of text about MSN featured offers.

This fascinating cultural heritage was discovered by our Digital Preservationist on a USB stick. It dates back to 2008 when the internet was all sharp corners and serif fonts, but is still functioning Trojan malware which put our forensic acquisition workstation into lockdown for a day.
#FRED

21 States Sue Trump Over Attacks on Museums and Libraries Trump’s move to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services, which was established by Congress, is “illegal several times over,” says a new lawsuit.

21 US States are suing Trump over attacks on museums and libraries:
hyperallergic.com/1002017/21-s...
#library #trump

Looking down into a medium sized cardboard box. I side the box are various colourful packets of sweets, including a large amount of pink sticks.

Thanks for the musk sticks, Tim Ross 🥰
(If I were allowed to eat at my desk, the bowl would be empty by now. Only shame and mild inconvenience is stopping me.)