Diane Shaw

A black and white Generative AI image of people dressed in circa 1940s attire examining a series of exhibitions affixed to a curved wall.

A black and white Generative AI image of people dressed in circa 1940s attire viewing a series of exhibitions.

A black and white Generative AI image of an exhibition on asbestos products.

A black and white Generative AI image of a statue wearing a fireproof suit atop a platform.

All of these images of the interior of the Johns-Manville Building, a pavilion at the 1939 NY World's Fair are made by Generative AI, and they've been shared across the internet. It didn't take long to make that determination that they are fake--but that's not the point.

Video game Relooted tasks you with reclaiming African artifacts in museums | CBC News Relooted, a new video game from African-based studio Nyamakop, tasks players with stealing real-life African artifacts from museums and private mansions to return them to their rightful historical own...

Here's my story on @nyamakop.co.za's Relooted, a game with the gotta-go-faster impulses of Trials but a heartfelt and emotional story at its core about reclaiming stolen African artifacts. www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...

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I’ll put it on my calendar. Congratulations on having a solo gallery show! 🎉

An abstract black & white print of a poster announcing an exhibition by Gordon Onslow Ford. The print has circles, straight lines and scratchings which somewhat resembles an overhead view of a landscape with trees and paths.

I like this! It almost looks like a collage, but it’s a drawing, I think? It reminds me of this poster I have by Gordon Onslow Ford.

African American museum building exterior seen from across the busy street of cars & SUVS

Shelving with a sign about the orchid exhibit and rows of orchid plats in bloom

Three Peach and maroon speckled pale lavender-pink lady slipper type orchids close up.

“Morning Song” Orchidaceae hybrid. white and magenta flowers in a pot on a black shelf

I love DC for all the amazing feee museums and the low cost shared bicycles and ever growing protected bike lanes. After weeks of rare frozen weather it was fun going to the national mall the to the orchid show at African American museum! No bikes today but soon the ice will melt away🍒

A naturally formed small snow and ice sculpture with 3 horizontal tiers, looking somewhat like a house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

I’m glad the snow and ice in the DMV is melting now and probably most of it will be gone next week when the temperatures will be warmer. In the meantime there are still marvels to be seen, like this multi-tiered snow & ice formation that resembles Frank Lloyd Wright’s Falling Water house a bit.

Girls don’t want flowers for Valentine’s Day.

They want you to book them a shark research experience that raises money for science outreach!

I can help. Let’s chat.

What’s particularly sad is that children who have been born since 2016 might feel this era of political strife, hatred and societal semi-collapse including people being “disappeared” is normal life. They won’t remember a time when the USA wasn’t this way.

Blasted? Yikes

I remember Reagan claimed CO2 benefited trees as well.

I just don’t understand some folks’ eagerness to destroy whole lines of useful employment especially without pairing that with universal basic income. Absolute nonsense indeed!

Perhaps this assumes every document etc. has been digitized but that will never be true and what is digitized needs a lot of added metadata and context. It’s clearly a fantasy made by those who don’t understand the work of historians.

As a librarian myself, I thought that omission was odd too. After all, the list includes Archivists.

The USA will need its own Stolpersteine project eventually, to mark the pavement in front of the homes where ICE & CBP took families away. www.stolpersteine.eu/en/the-art-m...

I am teaching my digital manuscripts seminar for the first time since the British Library hack that took all their digitized books offline and... it's a lot.

I kinda wish Canada would.

A detail from a 1591 German pamphlet about "Ketzerei", heresy. You see a man standing, carrying 7 cats. This detail is part of a title page: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/details/bsb00086437

Meet the 1591 cat man. I am counting 7 cats on and near him. #catcontent

Boyle’s “follow the money” video was especially enlightening. Just watching his latest video. I’m so glad he’s not deterred from pursuing this topic.

Ontario museum exhibit pays tribute Buffalo Soldiers, trailblazing US Army servicemembers An exhibit dedicated to the first African-American soldiers to join the U.S. Army is on display at the Ontario Museum of History and Art.

An exhibit dedicated to the first African American soldiers to join the U.S. Army (#USCT #BuffaloSoldiers) is on display at the Ontario Museum of History and Art in Ontario, California.
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I used to work at an Important Institution in the History of Medicine where we routinely displayed Vesalius’ very famous anatomy text, which was published in 1543. We showed lots of naked peeps.

Staff there now told me in 2023 that they were no longer to show naked pics! From 1543! To doctors!

That’s a huge missed opportunity, especially when you are willing to set up a NACO funnel. Clean, reliable headings & metadata are crucial to good findability but I guess employers think AI will handle all that.

I’m so sorry you were laid off, Violet. You ought to be a top candidate in any search. I wish you luck in getting a good position that you like and can stay at. Your advice to hiring committees is on point and will hopefully embraced widely by libraries.

Very true. My former employer (I’m retired) had over a dozen catalogers in the late 90s & early 2000s, now there’s only 1 not-yet-fully trained cataloger on staff. Another might be hired eventually but not likely soon. And this is at an employer with some of the most challenging items to describe.

Yes, and it’s wonderful that Corvids still hang around during cold winters.

I love those sassy Bluejays.

paid summer internship in our museum, it is in BOTANY but you cannot get in there without walking through the insect collection and being subjected to Beetle Facts drive.google.com/file/d/1jNNy...

Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist - Mississippi Today Among anticipated changes to a new visitor brochure for the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument is no longer using "racist" to describe the killer of the civil rights leader.

Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was shot in the back by a Klansman in 1963.

The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"

a black and white photo of a dog wearing headphones and a bow tie talking on a telephone . Alt: old timey footage of two dogs "talking" on old timey phones.

And if you are a librarian who has used MMM in the past & plan to use MMM in 2026- drop me a DM :-D #2026MMM

View of the lobby of the Milwaukee Art Museum.

View of Lake Michigan from the lobby of the Milwaukee Art Museum.

Selfie in the lobby of the Milwaukee Art Museum.

View of my friends in the lobby of the Milwaukee Art Museum.

Checked out the Milwaukee Art Museum mainly to see the building.