@rebeccacrist.bsky.social
I like libraries, weather, data, and news. General nerd.
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29.07.2025 19:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I really want us to sit and consider that the Department of Justice is using their time and resources to read faculty senate statements that support having a diverse faculty.
www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
🚨Conservative Group Requests Materials for Over 70 UNC Courses🚨
“It’s a violation of academic freedom…of individual free speech rights &… teaching…in the name of…a right-wing agenda.”
—Joan Scott, AAUP Committee on Academic Freedom
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
@unc-ch-aaup.bsky.social
We are ecstatic to share that we recently received a $280,000 grant from the Getty Foundation for the Black Visual Art Archives to process the Jim Alexander photograph collection! 🥳
news.emory.edu/stories/2025...
This consortium is dissolving over reciprocal borrowing. Because some board members don't want patrons being able to access information they don't control, 27 public libraries lose access to some part of the collection they've built together.
22.07.2025 18:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0TODAY!
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@womenknowhistory.bsky.social
Cover image of magazine Dark Fantasy No. 22, March 1980
@queensu Library has been collaborating with the @internetarchive.bsky.social on a digitization project that uses Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) to make copies of small print-run fanzines or zines of science fiction/fantasy/speculative fiction available.
internetarchivecanada.org/2025/07/15/s...
Gifting this article! I loved my time in Champaign-Urbana and in the University of Illinois's Political Science Department. It transformed my life & made me into the scholar I am today. My life wouldn't be the same without that department.
h/t: @avitallivny.bsky.social
In the middle of “The Cornfield”—their name for it, not mine—thousands of Chinese students turned Champaign-Urbana into one of the most vibrant regional Chinese food scenes in the U.S. Now, visa crackdowns could gut it. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/d...
14.07.2025 13:14 — 👍 2 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Collecting history while it happens is challenging. Any resources on archiving unfolding events?
Here's one: Project STAND Resource (Zine): Preserving the Fullness of Social Movements and Activists
publuu.com/flip-book/35...
Emory University, where I did my doctorate, has cleared the encampment after tasing, gassing, and arresting protestors. I have emailed the university president and contributed to the bail fund. Both bail fund links in thread below.
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