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Bonhams Will Sell 30 Original Paintings By Bob Ross To Support Public TV Stations Proceeds from the sales support rural and small television stations affected by federal cuts to public broadcasting.

Bonhams Will Sell 30 Original Paintings By Bob Ross To Support Public TV Stations
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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.

Woohoo! Great #DigiPres story @makethecatwise
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251009-rescuing-knowledge-trapped-on-old-floppy-disks

UI Museum of Natural History Awarded NSF Grant IOWA CITY, Iowa (9/1/25) — The University of Iowa Museum of Natural History has received a grant award of over $1 million from the National Science Foundation—the largest ever awarded to the Pentacres...

"The collection was recovered from Iowa Wesleyan University following its 2023 closure and has since been housed in a temporary environment." 📜
pentacrestmuseums.uiowa.edu/news/2025/09...

Librarian Fired in Books Dispute to Receive $700,000 Settlement

Librarian Fired in Books Dispute to Receive $700,000 Settlement (Wyoming) 📚
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Bridging archives: The role of IIIF in global manuscript preservation India’s manuscript tradition is among the richest in the world, spanning centuries, languages, and disciplines. Yet, much of this vast repository remains fragmented, fragile, and inaccessible. The tec...

@rarebookschool.bsky.social doesn't generally accept high school students but they made an exception for Gauri in my Fragmentology class last summer. I am so proud of her! LOOK WHAT SHE DID! #IIIF #MedievalSky timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/voices...

‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk

‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

Baker & Taylor Prepares Plan to Shut Down At a town hall yesterday, B&T owner and CEO Aman Kochar announced that following the termination of the ReaderLink acquisition deal, he does not see a path to keep the library wholesaler in business.

Baker & Taylor Prepares Plan to Shut Down
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Libraries Can’t Get Their Loaned Books Back Because of Trump’s Tariffs Libraries have shared their collections internationally for decades. Trump’s tariffs are throwing that system into chaos and can ‘hinder academic progress.’

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A messy desk strewn with books and notes, with a rare book in a cradle in the center.

Sometimes bibliography looks like this, and by extension, rare book cataloging. 4 OCLC records, 3 secondary sources, flashlight for watermarks, etc: all to determine that our copy of “Cryes of London” is from 1689, from the fifth edition, first impression: 📜 #bookhistory #booksky #libsky #rarebooks

Dating is straightforward, map dating that is. Visit Central Library to check out some of the maps seen here or explore more in our collection. #lapubliclibrary #librarytiktok #librarytok #lapl TikTok video by Los Angeles Public Library

Dating advice. Hahaha.
LAPL is punny.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMkt7Nuq/

Planning for RBMS 2026 right now is making me smile. I hope all of these ideas can come to life.

A delightful copy of the Seven Penitential Psalms (Les sept pseaumes penitentiaux) written in France in 1681. The binding is embroidered silk, interior decoration includes vignettes and illuminated initials. (UPenn Ms. Codex 1564)

🔗: https://bit.ly/4c0KGg5

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight Presidential Libraries: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

The explanation of what presidential libraries are and how they work starts at 3:50.
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Are you teaching a humanities class and you are trying to revise how you approach assignments due to students using AI? I would love to start a Zoom chat with someone or a few someones who are trying to revise course and assignment structures.

Call for Proposals: MAC/SOA Annual Meeting 2026 The Program Committee for the Midwest Archives Conference (MAC) and Society of Ohio Archivists (SOA) are seeking session proposals for the 2026 joint annual meeting. MAC and SOA will hold a joint 2…

Midwest Archives Conference proposals due Oct 17th. 📜
archivespublishing.com/2025/09/24/c...

Historians, professors, donors sue over closure of State Historical Society's Iowa City facility Seventeen historians, archivists, professors, authors, and donors with decades of public service are suing the State Historical Society of Iowa for haphazardly and without public input closing its Iow...

Historians, professors, donors sue over closure of State Historical Society's Iowa City facility 📜https://www.thegazette.com/crime-courts/historians-professors-donors-sue-over-closure-of-state-historical-societys-iowa-city-facility/

“The Iowa Code explicitly requires the State of Iowa to maintain history research centers in both Des Moines and Iowa City... Yet, without public input or a clear plan, state officials have begun dismantling the Iowa City archive, laying off staff, and removing collections...”

Historians, professors, donors sue over closure of State Historical Society's Iowa City facility Seventeen historians, archivists, professors, authors, and donors with decades of public service are suing the State Historical Society of Iowa for haphazardly and without public input closing its Iow...

Historians, professors, donors sue over closure of State Historical Society's Iowa City facility 📜https://www.thegazette.com/crime-courts/historians-professors-donors-sue-over-closure-of-state-historical-societys-iowa-city-facility/

Wary of changes under Trump, 'citizen historians' are documenting the Smithsonian Historians and citizens who say they are concerned about the Trump administration's pressure on the Smithsonian are working to document exhibits, as they exist today, throughout the museum network.

Historians and citizens who say they are concerned about the Trump administration's pressure on the Smithsonian are working to document exhibits, as they exist today, throughout the museum network. n.pr/3Kdrsdy

Halloween costumes available for check-out at Ellsworth Public Library Libraries are known to be hubs of access, whether you need a book, computer, printer, or more. And in Ellsworth, they’re making sure you have everything you need for Halloween.

Halloween costumes available for check-out at Ellsworth Public Library (Maine) #LibraryOfThings www.wabi.tv/2025/10/01/h...

Cooling issues shuttered more than half of Philly's libraries this summer The libraries closed due to cooling issues for a collective 3,900 hours — more than for staff shortages, July’s city workers strike or other building issues.

"More than half of Philadelphia’s public library branches — 31 of them — closed at some point this summer because their air conditioning was broken or not working well enough to keep the building a safe and comfortable temperature..." 📚 whyy.org/articles/fre...

‘Impossible not to feel the loss’: Duke Libraries address cost-cutting process, faculty governance At Thursday’s Academic Council meeting, Joseph Salem, vice provost for library affairs, defended the cost-cutting process, which included voluntary separation incentives, cuts to print collections and...

‘Impossible not to feel the loss’: Duke Libraries address cost-cutting process, faculty governance (North Carolina) 📚
#AcademicLibraries dukechronicle.com/article/duke...

Head of Eisenhower library resigns after sword spat with Trump administration A dispute over a gift given by President Trump to King Charles forced out the museum boss, sources say.

"Arrington argued against giving away an artifact that had been accepted as a donation and had become the property of the American people." 📜 www.cbsnews.com/news/sword-t...

Jane Goodall, Legendary Primatologist and Anthropologist, Dies at 91 She was considered the world’s leading expert on chimpanzees and was renowned for her global conservation efforts

Jane Goodall, Legendary Primatologist and Anthropologist, Dies at 91
www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

Why I gave the world wide web away for free | Tim Berners-Lee My vision was based on sharing, not exploitation – and here’s why it’s still worth fighting for

Why I gave the world wide web away for free
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Amazing! Thank you!

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Here's the digitized copy of the one at U. Iowa if you need a good receipt "For the Perrilous cough" or if you need "To Expell Wind" diyhistory.lib.uiowa.edu/items/show/1...

It sure was exciting to recognize an item so similar to what I had seen just this morning, but maybe they are common! I'm a generalist.

I gasped when I saw this item (1710-1711?) for sale today from Dean Cooke Rare Books on Ex Libris. The second photo is Francis Smith Medical Recipe book that I had out in class this morning at U. Iowa (1704). I didn't expect to see one so similar! Are these common? Have you ever seen one before?

The Ann Arbor District Library Plans to Acquire the Ann Arbor Observer 📚
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