Kim Gianfrancesco

I'm tough on crime all of a sudden

something i've started doing that i really recommend other educators do is to DOWNLOAD all of your key youtube video examples so that you have a local file on hand instead of relying on youtube to host it in perpetuity!

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

#WDPD2025 The first four hours of MTV courtesy of @archive.org

#WDPD2025 is music themed at Vassar this year!

A picture of me in the foreground with my cat on top of a cat tree in the background

A closeup of my cat. She is very cutely snoozing with her back leg extended to show off her toe beans.

My good deed of the day is turning my camera on in a Zoom meeting solely because my cat is visible in the background

I wish I loved anything as much as my cat loves chewing on packing tape

Enjoying #NYAC2025 at @senylrc.org! Didn't have "another reason to be mad at Robert Moses" on my bingo card but I should have known better

Officials Are Denied Access to Library of Congress After Trump Names New Boss

Librarians, the toughest of all. “Staff members at the library called the U.S. Capitol Police as well as their general counsel, Meg Williams, who told the men they were not allowed access to the Copyright Office and asked them to leave,” which they did.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...

Feels concerning to me that the era of "do your own research" as policy is coinciding with the era of "all the highest quality research is paywalled and there's an absolute fountain of true and reliable sounding garbage floating around in fake journals available for free"

Gray scale glass plate negative of women from the class of 1936 in light colored ankle length dresses intertwining colorful ribbons around a May pole in a field of grass.

Happy May Day! We hope this unofficial mark of the beginning of summer brings you sunshine and moments of joy as we see in this 1936 May pole scene from our Digital Library. digitallibrary.vassar.edu

Class of 1936 students doing a May Pole dance. Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection (05-11-1936).

NYT headline: “Kennedy Advises New Parents to ‘Do Your Own Research’ on Vaccines” Subheader: “In an interview with Dr. Phil, the health secretary offered false information about vaccine oversight and revealed a lack of basic understanding of new drug approvals.”

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

'Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris, or, A garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers' by English herbalist and botanist John Parkinson (1567-1650). London, 1629.

I saw this at the Oak Spring Garden Foundation while taking a class with Rare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social.

#rarebooks 📜

Ugh I’m getting so many of these

RIGHT? Fuck’s sake tell the government they have to submit their oversight requests in Workday.

A photo of the Armour-Stiner House, a pink, ornate Victorian style octagon house in Irvington, NY.

I decided historical house tours are my whole personality now

I love attending job candidate presentations. I always learn something.

More journalists need to talk about this the way Japanese articles do

Do you ever just feel like banging your head against the wall? Marigold gets it.

Lori Beth Denberg reprised her All That librarian character to do a pro-library, anti-book banning reel and I love it so much??? www.instagram.com/reel/DIK0_bD...

The new IMLS director is busy sending termination letters to grants that are already completed. It’s not like there’s a pile of unspent funds, everything is already paid for.

Are we great and efficient yet?

☹️ I'm so sorry. I immediately thought of Digital POWRR when IMLS got targeted. I wouldn't have my current job or be able to do the work I do without it.

Working in higher ed isn't all sunshine and rainbows but sometimes you get to see a live chamber music performance on your lunch break and that's p cool

a man in a suit and tie stands in front of two other men Alt: Gif of Michael Scott from The Office saying "don't you dare"

Me watching this administration creep closer to touching PSLF

Things I saw on my walk today: a pheasant, a lady in light up roller blades, and a giant tree that fell down.

Thank you!! 💖

I regret to inform everyone that committing to taking a little walk outside most days has, in fact, noticably improved my mental health

The same folks telling me to stop fighting against AI because it’s here to stay and humans are obsolete also told me ebooks were gonna be the end of physical books, the MiniDisc was the future of sound, I should invest all my money on NFTs, and crypto would quickly replace money.

Screenshot from EO at https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/improving-education-outcomes-by-empowering-parents-states-and-communities/ : “The Department of Education currently manages a student loan debt portfolio of more than $1.6 trillion. This means the Federal student aid program is roughly the size of one of the Nation's largest banks, Wells Fargo. But although Wells Fargo has more than 200,000 employees, the Department of Education has fewer than 1,500 in its Office of Federal Student Aid.”

When you unintentionally highlight how efficient the U.S. Department of Education’s Federal Student Aid office is

funniest highlights of the philly police scanner, a thread