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Lost Recipes | Defector In 1991, Spin magazine took the Compton rap collective N.W.A out to eat for a profile at the Russian Tea Room in Manhattan. The white author presents gangsta rap as a cynical enterprise, no different ...

Really good read on digital preservation, archives, culture, race, and music. 📚📜

Tribute Post for Fobazi Ettarh - ACRLog With immense sadness, the writers of ACRLog acknowledge the passing of Fobazi Ettarh, library worker and influential LIS scholar. If you are able to contribute, there is a GoFundMe established for Fob...

My colleagues at ACRLog wrote short tributes to the life and work of Fobazi Ettarh @fobettarh.bsky.social. I wrote about her work on disability, which I think deserves more recognition. acrlog.org/2026/03/04/t...

Thanks @ezerrenner.bsky.social for coordinating. #CripLib #VocationalAwe

For all you fellow eggheads who know you need to do this but keep putting it off. It's time! www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...

The hip hop archive at UMass Boston is a model: a dynamic group of librarians, community members, and academics have worked together to develop a truly impressive protocol for collecting up hip hop related materials. Lots has been digitized--have a look!

openarchives.umb.edu/digital/coll...

Agentic AI Can Complete Whole Courses. Now What? A young tech entrepreneur launched the tool Einstein this week, marketing it as a way to free students from busywork—and triggering robust faculty debate. Einstein’s creator says that was the whole po...

Agentic AI Can Complete Whole Courses for Students. Now What?
www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

“Why Printing History Matters in 2026” [Dr. Elizabeth Savage, American Printing History Association] Dr. Elizabeth Savage delivered the 2026 American Printing History Association Individual Laureate Award acceptance speech on “Why Printing History Matters in 2026”–there is much application f…

“Why Printing History Matters in 2026” [Dr. Elizabeth Savage, American Printing History Association]
lhrt.news/2026/03/04/w...

The Historic Comic Books That Introduced Superman and Captain America Just Entered the Smithsonian in a Landmark Acquisition The National Museum of American History adds 'Action Comics No. 1' and 'Captain America Comics No. 1' to its vast pop culture and entertainment library

The Historic Comic Books That Introduced Superman and Captain America Just Entered the Smithsonian in a Landmark Acquisition 📜
www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...

Calling up books I used to teach with on the other side, as the librarian, feels like visiting old friends.

I got to teach a class session in Special Collections today. 🥰

Lost 19th century film by Méliès discovered at the Library | Timeless Library conservators recently made a startling discovery in a batch of decaying film reels -- a long-lost 1897 film by early cinema icon George Méliès. The French magician-turned-filmmaker's

Librarians help identify the film among those donated from the great-grandson of a Pennsylvania potato farmer who "drove his horse and buggy from town to town to dazzle the locals with a projector and some of the world’s first moving pictures" 📜
blogs.loc.gov/loc/2026/02/...

ALA denounces federal book banning bill The American Library Association denounced H.R. 7661, a federal bill targeting LGBTQ+ stories that would modify the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to restrict "sexually oriented" mater...

ALA denounces federal book banning bill 📚
www.ala.org/news/2026/02...

Airport Libraries Take Off | American Libraries Magazine Airport libraries, where travelers can pick up books before they board their flights. are becoming regular fixtures in US airports.

Airport Libraries Take Off 📚
americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2026/03/02/a...

Galileo’s handwritten notes found in ancient astronomy text Discovery sheds new light on how famed astronomer came to lead a scientific revolution

www.science.org/content/arti... 📜

📜 WOW

www.nedcc.org/audio-preser...

Every time the IRENE digitization tool is mentioned, I feel like there are lyrics to a ukulele song brewing, just out of reach in my mind.

🎶IRENE, you stitch the broken pieces of my life back together!🎶

International Studies Metadata Librarian at U. Michigan. "...including but not limited to: Hindi, Urdu,
Sanskrit, Bengali, Panjabi, Thai, Indonesian, Malay, or Tagalog."
#LISJobs
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Gleeson Library AI Taskforce Final Report 📚https://repository.usfca.edu/gli/1/

Librarian & Executive Director of the Lewis Walpole Library in Farmington, Connecticut, 06032 | Other at Yale University Apply for Librarian & Executive Director of the Lewis Walpole Library job with Yale University in Farmington, Connecticut, 06032. Other at Yale University

JOB ALERT 📜📚

Librarian & executive director of Yale’s Lewis Walpole Library (Farmington, CT)

•Research center for 18th-century Britain
•You’d report to the fabulous Michelle Light

careers.yale.edu/us/en/job/13...

Chicago’s DePaul Art Museum to Close The DePaul Art Museum in Chicago will close for good on June 30 as DePaul University, with which it is affiliated, struggles to slash its budget.

The DePaul Art Museum, the contemporary art museum of DePaul University in Chicago, will shutter permanently on June 30. (IL) 📜
www.artforum.com/news/chicago...

Michigan: Lenfest Institute Helping Ann Arbor District Library Explore Ann Arbor Observer’s Possible Future as Nonprofit News (via @mlive.com) www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb... #libraries #newspapers #journalism @aadl.org @lenfestinstitute.org

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Need to publish images as #IIIF — but have only 30 SECONDS to do it? tiny.iiif to the rescue! 🫨

• Drag & drop images → instant IIIF Image Service
• Create a folder → drag images in → instant presentation manifest!

Work in progress, but already a lot of fun. Ping me if you want to know more!

Conservator hands working on a mount for a very small book

Inside the UI Libraries with Bill Voss 📚📜
#conservation #LibraryConservation #Exhibitions blog.lib.uiowa.edu/news/2026/02...

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Is it finally time for the Guerrilla Girls to remove their masks? A new Getty show on the activists’ legacy points to the power and limits of anonymity

Is it finally time for the Guerrilla Girls to remove their masks?
www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/02/25/i...

What’s the Point of School When AI Can Do Your Homework? The creator of the AI agent “Einstein” wants to free humans from the burden of academic labor. Critics say that misses the point of education entirely.

"Einstein is explicit in its pitch: it will log into Canvas (one of the most popular and ubiquitous pieces of education software) and do your classwork for you"
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www.404media.co/whats-the-po...

National Geographic Society Bolsters Archival Access with Transformative $57 Million Grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to Illuminate the Richness of Our Shared Human Journey With support from Lilly Endowment Inc., “The Archives” exhibition at the Museum of Exploration and the Center for Human Histories and Cultures will foster global collaboration and expand knowledge of ...

news.nationalgeographic.org/lilly-endowm...

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YouTube video by WTOC Carnegie Library reopens with reimagined purpose

Savannah's Carnegie Library transformed to a Special Collections to share city's Black history (GA) 📜 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa9G...