Want to learn to embroider?
Iโll teach on Saturday. Zoom. Pay-what-you-can
www.eventbrite.com/e/1980879834...
@rjwcore.bsky.social
Librarian | Stress eating through this
Want to learn to embroider?
Iโll teach on Saturday. Zoom. Pay-what-you-can
www.eventbrite.com/e/1980879834...
Black book cover with white embroidery reading letโs move the needle
Thereโs a lot of talk about #craftivism right now. Good thing I wrote a whole book about it and how to use it to organize community and create change.
bookshop.org/beta-search?...
I'm so sorry, Anna! Thinking of you and your family.
19.01.2026 20:29 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Remembir everye daye ys a goode daye to reach out to a friende and tell them how much you love them. Maybe buy them a booke. Bringe up an olde inside joke. All the sillye thinges and the serious thinges about friendeshippe, thei are all infinitelye valuable. Tyme spent thus wil nevir be regrettid.
17.01.2026 23:02 โ ๐ 389 ๐ 83 ๐ฌ 7 ๐ 2๐ Congrats on your new baby! Heโs outrageously adorable.
10.01.2026 21:38 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Boudicca โค๏ธ
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
โThe National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 50,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience so people around the world can experience the beauty of the Quilt and witness the love and stories stitched into each panel.โ
01.12.2025 23:19 โ ๐ 1512 ๐ 819 ๐ฌ 14 ๐ 76Check out this new articleโ"The Invisible Default: Examining Representation in Digital Collections"โthat Dorothy Terry, Jasmine S. Kirby, @racheljwittmann.bsky.social, and @annaneat.bsky.social just published in ITAL!
ital.corejournals.org/index.php/it...
Lora Webb Nicholsโs photographs of boom and bust in her small Wyoming town might be the largest photographic record of the era and region.
02.09.2025 01:46 โ ๐ 2828 ๐ 496 ๐ฌ 44 ๐ 25Tune in to #NISOPlus25 on September 16 at 3pm ET to hear more about what the MaRMAT team has been up to!
@racheljwittmann.bsky.social
@annaneat.bsky.social
Excelling in โฆ Excel? Inside the high-stakes, secretive world of competitive spreadsheeting
02.08.2025 01:26 โ ๐ 117 ๐ 18 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 13Please join @racheljwittmann.bsky.social and @kpalex91.bsky.social for Reparative Metadata Assessment with MaRMAT: A New Tool for Identifying Harmful and Outdated Language today at 2:00 cdmcd.co/5n5ywB #ALAAC25 - session will demo the tool with time for you to get it up and running on your laptop!
30.06.2025 14:04 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 2We're presenting in just a few minutes as part of the Metadata Interest Group program on Assessing Metadata for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in Cultural Heritage Institutions cdmcd.co/LE4qmd #ALAAC25 @kpalex91.bsky.social @racheljwittmann.bsky.social
29.06.2025 16:53 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Our great team at the University of Utah is presenting at ALA on a new, free open source tool that helps with reparative metadata projects! #ALAAC25 www.marmatproject.org
27.06.2025 14:19 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last weekโthe National Digital Newspaper Programโwhich builds Chronicling Americaโhas been shut down
Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general publicโfor genealogy, local historyโitโs such a loss
The closure of this trail without community input is a slap in the face to the residents of Ogden who use and love our trail system. Shame on everyone who let this happen! Sign the petition in the story.
08.05.2025 21:57 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Looking forward to my first #ALAAnnual Conference this June! @racheljwittmann.bsky.social, @annaneat.bsky.social, and I will be sharing the new and improved MaRMAT, our open-source software for assessing collections metadata. Until then, check out MaRMAT (Beta) on GitHub: github.com/marriott-lib...!
24.04.2025 22:10 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The Omeka Team is here for you and your work.
omeka.org/news/2025/...
For some reason this cut really hits me the hardest
03.04.2025 16:37 โ ๐ 294 ๐ 89 ๐ฌ 13 ๐ 3The #LetFreedomRead Dress is out of the closet and on display for Shannon Downeyโs Joy & Fury teach in this evening
01.04.2025 02:00 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0๐จThe Institute of Museum and Library Services is the largest federal funder of museums and libraries, and museums and libraries across the nation rely on their grant support. ๐จ
IMLS is not "unnecessary" and must not be shut down.
Happy to announce this great new digital exhibit from @drelib.bsky.social and team, Utah SOUL: A History of Black Students at the University of Utah, exhibits.lib.utah.edu/s/utahsoul/p...
18.02.2025 19:34 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Also encourage people to email LC to oppose this proposed revision, which was announced a few hours ago (with comments deadline of today ๐ก).
Your email can be short (1-3 sentences) and can focus on impact to your patrons. #critcat #LCSH #cataloging ๐
If you're in New York and you care about libraries, check out this film series at BAM!
www.bam.org/film/2025/ai...
USAID friends are asking this video be shared on social media at 5:30pm eastern, as E**n M**k has spent $40M on a Super Bowl ad to trash USAID, which accounts for 1% of the federal budget. Please spread the word. youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8
09.02.2025 20:22 โ ๐ 215 ๐ 183 ๐ฌ 10 ๐ 14We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.
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