Alexandra Chassanoff

NEW PUBLICATION. The Stories We Can Tell: Using Digital Primary Sources in the Archival Studies Classroom. UNC School of Information and Library Science. Photos of Alexandra, Elliott, and Eliscia.

🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Alexandra Chassanoff, Dr. Elliott Kuecker, & Dr. Eliscia Kinder on their recent publication in The American Archivist:
📰 “The Stories We Can Tell: Using Digital Primary Sources in the Archival Studies Classroom.” 🔗 american-archivist.kglmeridian.com/view/journal...

Introducing the 2025-2026 Carolina Academic Library Associates - School of Information and Library Science The School of Information and Library Science graduate students will get real-world experience by working hands-on with the Libraries.

✨ Welcome to the 2025–2026 Carolina Academic Library Associates (CALAs)! Now in its 25th year, CALA gives SILS graduate students the chance to enhance their education with experience working in an academic library. The program is a collaboration between UNC Libraries & SILS. go.unc.edu/CALA2025-2026

UNC School of Information and Library Science. We’re Hiring! Associate or Full Professor-Archives & Records Management. Applications Due November 24, 2025. Learn more at go.unc.edu/archivesfaculty. Photo of the Old Well on UNC campus in the background.

📣 Join the SILS faculty at UNC!
We’re seeking a tenure-track Associate or Full Professor in Archives & Records Management to join our internationally recognized faculty.

Apply by November 24: go.unc.edu/archivesfaculty
#Hiring #UNC #SILS #LibraryScience

I got my degree at SILS. It’s one of the top library and information science programs in the US. With no faculty consideration there’s no planning in the best interests of the program or students. 😶

I note that SILS has a very well respected archival science track. It would be disastrous for this to be discontinued or degraded. Archival science education is poorly represented in the United States, with UNC being one of the major exceptions.

Pamela McCorduck “Machines Who Think” (pub in 1979) might fit the bill!

Guest Post: Eggs Don’t Grow on Trees and Neither Does Data: How to Teach K-12 Students Where Data Comes From Second in a series of posts about federal data and the Federal Statistical System.

New post! It's the second installment in our series on the significance of federal data. This one on teaching students where data comes from! 🐣

#FederalData

Caught Between States as an Empire Dissolved A Dutch-Indonesian family’s documents from the mid-20th century reveal a painful story of separation and an administrative nightmare that prefigures today’s xenophobic politics

"For years, I wondered why some of our family lived in Indonesia while we — my parents, grandparents and an aunt — were in the Netherlands, and why my surname didn’t match the rest of the family. The answer was not uncommon for children of refugees. It’s complicated." newlinesmag.com/first-person...

I'm always up for screaming into the void that 'NO: NO WHITE GLOVES!' lesleyahall.blogspot.com/2022/11/whit... but I'd also like to point out that only a tiny % of all archives have yet been digitised, that digitisation is not a preservation medium, that archives are woefully under-resourced....

if you thought archives were problematic, wait till you see no archives

Echoing (!) @ktmac.bsky.social — very glad to be bringing together three panels tomorrow at #4S2025 on #dataloss. We will be tracing how erasure, disappearance, and dispossession work as privative and constitutive forces and modes of resistance in digital systems. Please join us online or in-room!

Do you know an intellectual freedom fighter in New York state? Nominate them for this year's Intellectual Freedom Award from the New York Library Association! I can't wait to read your stories! Due October 3!

www.nyla.org/intellectual...

Records continuum model - Wikipedia

Shout out to who(m)ever wrote the Wikipedia entry for the Records Continuum Model. Truly a work of art! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Records...

New article out in The American Archivist: "The Stories We Can Tell: Using Digital Primary Sources in the Archival Studies Classroom" american-archivist.kglmeridian.com/view/journal...

The Jameson Tapes, Side A with Isabel Bartholomew, Anna Kornbluh, Caleb Smith, Robert Tally, & Fredric Jameson

NEW!
1st of 2 installments contextualizing Jameson's lectures at the 1977 Institute On Culture & Society, discusses "Marxism & Historicism," historicizing the lectures, recovering them, the commodity as its own ideology, long arc of Jameson's influence

theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/the-jameso...

Early Closure of House Leaves IMLS Future Hanging; What This Means & What You Can Do The abrupt early recess in the House of Representatives means the future of IMLS funding remains a question mark. Use this time to act.

Early Closure of House Leaves IMLS Future Hanging; What This Means & What You Can Do (7-29-2025) 📚
bookriot.com/imls-funding...

Digital POWRR has released a White Paper: Beyond the Checklist, which includes a new assessment framework:

#digipres #DigitalPreservation #archives #library 📚

repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150...

I hope IMLS and NEH survive. They are so critical. And I hope Digital POWRR does too- it helps practitioners on both sides of the border 💗

A Timeline of IMLS Cuts, Lawsuits, Impact to Libraries, and More A Timeline of the IMLS Gutting and Impact If you’ve been personally or professionally impacted by cuts at the IMLS when it comes to the world of libraries, please leave your story on this timeline. Us...

The giant document outlining everything happening with the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has been updated. There's not a lot of news about the IMLS itself yet, but the impact of IMLS news has, well, continued to grow.

Multiple tabs: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Checking In on Federal Library Funding | American Libraries Magazine Now is the time to take stock of progress on library priorities, particularly federal funding and the upcoming budget showdown.

New in @amlibraries.bsky.social: What's the current state of play for federal library funding?

ALA's Kevin Maher breaks down the latest news and developments, including the appropriations process, IMLS authorization, and more: americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-sc... #ForOurLibraries

Big news! I'm heading to the National Humanities Center as the next president. I'm proud to be the first woman, the first Black person, and the first person of color to lead it. Honored to start this new chapter. #Humanities #BlackWomenLead #BlackSky

🔔 Join us tomorrow for a conversation about using public records to push back on government secrecy, featuring
@foianate.bsky.social, @morisy.bsky.social, @mirandaspivack.bsky.social, and FPF's Lauren Harper.

🕒 1 p.m. EDT/10 a.m. PDT

RSVP: freedom.press/fight-gov-se...

really enjoying reading _The AI Con_ which just came out! "To put it bluntly, 'AI' is a marketing term. It doesn't refer to a coherent set of technologies. Instead, the phrase 'artificial intelligence' is deployed when the people building or selling a particular set of technologies + 1/2

NDSA to Hold Open Conversation on the Federal Funding Crisis The National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) invites all members of the digital preservation community to a Community Town Hall on the Federal Funding Crisis, taking place Tuesday, June 24, 202...

The National Digital Stewardship Alliance invites all members of the digital preservation community to a Community Town Hall on the Federal Funding Crisis, on Tuesday, June 24, 2025, at 2:00 PM ET / 11:00 AM PT via Zoom.

#digipres #archives #library 📚

Link here: ndsa.org/2025/06/03/n...

humiliating all the way down

Libraries, Criminalization and Organizing "Loving" Public Libraries is NOT Enough

@prisonculture.bsky.social writes: "Public libraries are institutions that we’ve made together over generations. They offer us a canvas for practicing new worlds while we inhabit the current one."

shorturl.at/tDQOy

loving them is not enough--they are sites of struggle...read the post for actions

Poland to open world’s first ‘Twin Peaks’ museum honoring David Lynch A museum dedicated to the late filmmaker David Lynch is set to open in the Polish city of Toruń, featuring 13 shipping containers of memorabilia donated by the director himself before his death.

It will be in the Polish city of Torún www.polskieradio.pl/395/7791/art...

Reading this bits.ashleyblewer.com/halt-and-cat...
While listening to this www.youtube.com/watch?v=Drmp...
Thanks @ashleyblewer.com

Policy and Research Staff Technologist ...

The greatest job alert! My team at EFF is hiring and you could be on it: www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.p...