Sarah Osborne Bender

The Trump Administration’s Efforts to Reshape America’s Past Ahead of next year’s two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the White House has issued a directive to the Smithsonian.

Jill Lepore revisits the Smithsonian’s bicentennial 1976 “A Nation of Nations” festival, highlights some of its excellent content. Heartbreaking to consider in our current situation. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

If you give money to one of the premier big-city public radio or tv stations, consider becoming a regular contributor to a station in a smaller town where you may have once lived or grown up, or even just drove through once and tuned in. 📻

Dr. Carla Hayden has landed w/ @mellon.org as a Senior Fellow ... www.mellon.org/news/mellon-...

Oh my... not The Anthem. It was at The Atlantis. Confusion in the marketplace. Apologies.

Thank you for your service, Michael. Happy Pride to all.

John Roseboro seated on stage at a mic with a guitar, crowd in foreground.

Opening for the amazing Mei Semones, John Roseboro boldly gets the audience to sing the chorus to a song they’ve likely never heard, bringing the charm offensive and just great music tonight at The Anthem.

I'm gonna say 100% yes

Gonna quit my meditation practice and just watch this full screen for 10 minutes a day instead.

I’ve kept a profile of Dr. Carla Hayden pinned to my office wall for 8 years. She has been, and will always be, a hero and inspiration to me.

A photo of a series of 6 article corrections published in the New York Times

Special Section: Museums- free from pesky copy editing

Brings to mind Christina Ramberg drawings www.artic.edu/artworks/154...

An open book showing photo of a letter from 1601 with intricate folding pattern and diagrams of the constructed folded shape.

Way too interested in this new book that landed in my office: Letterlocking: The hidden history of the letter. Can I learn to perfect the dagger-trap letter fold??

Silver gelatin photographic papers (1890-2010) database, from Yale’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage:
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A Black-owned museum set to take its place in a city of mostly white counterparts, the Salvage Arc Museum has a distinctive goal. buff.ly/IOJtYvF

Shared 'Printer's Mark' with a few friends because who wouldn't enjoy a good poem in their texts compared to ...most anything else these days, really. 🖐️

Totally new to me, thank you! So wonderful!

A pleasure this morning to learn a bit about the fascinating Ursula Burghardt and Benjamin Patterson, Fluxus artists and subject of exhibition and fabulous catalog from Museum Ludwig, Köln. Exhib is up til Feb 5 www.museum-ludwig.de/en/home/exhi...

It's nice to hear Lorne Michaels *donated* his papers to the Harry Ransom Center. Lots of money in the "personal papers" business.

Thanks, truly, for threads like these. What a delightful reward for scrolling. It’s not all 🕳️

In which I, at 3:30pm on NYE, throw a search out to the internet for some thoughtful insight about MARC 022 $y "incorrect ISSN" and I find a full on blog post less than 6 months old from Ruth Kitchin Tillman. ruthtillman.com/post/marc-mi... 🌟 🙌

Facade of a small chapel, dark against a night sky, with blue-violet light glowing from inside, silhouetted people gather at the door.

2024 gratitude: experiencing sunset while inside of James Turrell’s light work at Chapel Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof in Berlin

National Gallery of Art Library is looking for a Systems Librarian! ExLibris Alma/Primo VE admin experience, service mindset, collaborative team, work in an IM Pei building! Closes 3/22 www.usajobs.gov/job/778895500 (fed posting www.usajobs.gov/job/778136200) Spread the word!

Second book of 2024. Happy new year!

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Good antidote to today's overspending tradition 🗳️

Extended a week since this is a busy time of year, now closes 9/8! Join one of the world's great art museum libraries as a cataloger! Apply here: www.usajobs.gov/job/742929800

Aaaand I've advertised a metadata-related job without knowing how hashtags work here. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Librarian <p>The primary purpose of the position is to provide original and complex derived descriptive and subject cataloging for monographs in European languages to facilitate access to the library&rsquo;s co...

National Gallery of Art is looking for an experienced cataloger with a love of art history and metadata. This is a great job!
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