Diane Dias De Fazio. MDes, MSHP, MSLIS, MA (and soon: MBA)

#LakeErieReport🌊, part II: New friend

#LakeErieReport🌊, part I: on a clear day

Neoclassical building with large entrance staircase illuminated with a light that doesn't seem to match the sky.

#SomeNews: This is the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Oakland.

Something really cool happened, and next month, I start a new job there, as Library Services Manager for Rare Books and Special Collections! 🖤💛

Donate to Escalator Conference & Mom's 80th: Support a Special Trip!, organized by Diane Dias De Fazio Way back in 2007, I wrote the first complete history of… Diane Dias De Fazio needs your support for Escalator Conference & Mom's 80th: Support a Special Trip!

I'm going to 🇨🇱 next week—ay, dio!
Gobsmacked by the support for my #escalator conference so far; thank you! You have a special place in my heart (and my acknowledgements). 🖤#ICYMI, I was persuaded to start a little thing: ⬇️
gofund.me/c594f0f2

Fireflies. Fireflies on the Solstice.

Donate to Support a Santiago Escalator Conference Trip: a Gift for Mom, organized by Diane Dias De Fazio Way back in 2007, I wrote the first complete history of the e… Diane Dias De Fazio needs your support for Support a Santiago Escalator Conference Trip: a Gift for Mom

Oh, hey! Rememberhow I got asked to present on #EscalatorHistory at a conference in Chile? It's next month! I started a GoFundMe to defray costs (and bring my 80-year-old Mom on the trip of a lifetime)! 🙏 Thanks for considering!
gofund.me/c594f0f2

I feel seen.

#LakeErieReport🌊

A small bird stands on the flat ground. It is brown with short feathers and no visible (but short) tail.

Good morning, bebbeh.
(Juvenile red-winged blackbird.)
#Birdsky

Oh, hello.

Zig zags and dots in green, yellow, and white on a book "preserved" by book tape

Stamped horizontal lines and a floral inspired pattern, in blue, red, and green (that kinda look like music notes)

Brown and reddish brown blobs that kinda look like aliens with 6 legs (or amoebas), in vertical stripes.

Book tape applied with reckless but good intentioned abandon over a yellow patterned all-over stamping

Some block-printed (?) endpapers, to politely interrupt your doomscroll....
#Skybrarians #BookSky #Long18thCentury

Two partial pages of a two-page infographic spread of results from the 2024 RBMS membership survey. Title: "Moving Forward: Membership and the Future of RBMS." In color! With line, bar, pie, and other charts and data visualizations.

Featuring: papers from the Power of New Voices, investigations about library materials marking practices, an analysis of EDIA verbiage in special collections job postings, an article on the impact of chronic illness and disability, author interview of Deborah Parker, updates, and this! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Cover of RBM with address label. Graphic: "careers ahead" poster for the WPA, ca. 1939.

📣 Hot off the presses! Print copies of RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage now arriving! (Online open access available soon, too!) #Skybrarians #RBMSSky

Book held together by book tape, with torn endleaf, featuring a mimeographed note, glued onto the title page, which reads "This is a valuable HISTORICAL SOURCE"

Lolz. #Skybrarians

First page of the book chapter we wrote in artists books and zines in special collections instruction.

Cover of the book in which we wrote a chapter

Spread from the contents from the book in which we wrote a chapter! So very honored to be amongst such fabulous folx!

We did a thing!
#Publishing #ArtistsBooks #Zines #SpecialCollections #Instruction @ emilymartin
@oldslyboots.bsky.social

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

Bertrand Smith's acres of books, Cincinnati. Blue book-shaped sticker.

Gustav E Stechert, 828 Broadway, New York

The Adair Book Store. New & old books Bought, sold, and exchanged. No. 43 E. Van Buren St. Chicago, Ill. Phone Hap 2565

C. E. Rappaport Libri rari Roma

Some nice booksellers' tickets I found this week. 📚 #BookSky

🤣 that sounds fun! (And also very respectful of students'/researchers' needs!)

Dancing to the Beating Heart of a Library’s Collection

Oh my gawd, no. Just ... no.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/a...

#LakeErieReport🌊

a bald man wearing glasses and a red cape ALT: a bald man wearing glasses and a red cape

Yeah, but are we sure the cardinals didn't think they were voting for Stanley Tucci?

Question: How many Master's degrees would one need to have successfully completed before they can start calling themselves "ABD"? Four? Five?

Asking because folx who never finish their dissertation, but have 2 or fewer Master's degrees are out there doing so (and for a friend with 3 MSes and 1 MA).

What's better and more relevant than Papal coins, medals, and medallions? ⬇️⬇️⬇️ #IYKYK

Columbia alumni magazine: making bold choices then, now (?), and ?

A bright orange and black bird pauses between sips of jelly at an orange feeder.

Please enjoy a break from your doomscrolling and celebrate the arrival of this year's first Baltimore Oriole. 🧡

Coastline strewn with rounded rocks, bricks, and driftwood over sand. A wave crashes midground, as the sun nears the horizon in the background under increasing clouds.

#LakeErieReport🌊

Great balls of fire!

Nautical twilight, with orangish-red coloring on the sky at the horizon beneath a lifting cloud cover. A wave crashes at the concrete breaker in the mid ground near a rocky coastline.

#LakeErieReport🌊

Close up of cherry blossoms with tree trunk in the background

Hand for scale with cherry blossom

Blazing pink spray of cherry blossoms ascending toward the blue sky

Finally.🌸

#LakeErieReport🌊