Dennis Clark
@dennistclark.bsky.social
Librarian of Virginia. Richmond VA. Alabama expat by way of TN, TX, AR, DC. Affirming Episcopalian, library and archives advocate, middling choral singer, rider of rails, and now, marathoner! Comments are mine.
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More things that make no sense...
Researchers dismayed as NASA's largest research library closes in Maryland 📜📚
www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/r...
www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/r...
Researchers dismayed as NASA's largest research library closes in Maryland
The large research library NASA has at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, was an incredibly important resource for space mission data and research. That resource is now closed.
www.nbcwashington.com
January 5, 2026 at 1:38 PM
More things that make no sense...
Reposted by Dennis Clark
finally, we're living through precedented times
January 4, 2026 at 6:56 AM
finally, we're living through precedented times
Yeah, those are libraries...
December 19, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Yeah, those are libraries...
And that copy of the Bill of Rights, one of 12 surviving, is under stewardship at the Library of Virginia in Richmond. You can see it here!
www.lva.virginia.gov/collections/...
www.lva.virginia.gov/collections/...
December 15, 2025 at 2:34 PM
And that copy of the Bill of Rights, one of 12 surviving, is under stewardship at the Library of Virginia in Richmond. You can see it here!
www.lva.virginia.gov/collections/...
www.lva.virginia.gov/collections/...
Go Navy! Beat Army!
(What can I say? My dad and brothers were Marines and my dad wanted one of us to end up at USNA...none did.)
(What can I say? My dad and brothers were Marines and my dad wanted one of us to end up at USNA...none did.)
December 13, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Go Navy! Beat Army!
(What can I say? My dad and brothers were Marines and my dad wanted one of us to end up at USNA...none did.)
(What can I say? My dad and brothers were Marines and my dad wanted one of us to end up at USNA...none did.)
Very excited to (finally) share the news that Richmond hq'd firm Baskervill and Boston hq'd firm Shepley Bullfinch will work with the Library of Virginia to redesign our public spaces!
www.lva.virginia.gov/about/news/p...
www.lva.virginia.gov/about/news/p...
Library of Virginia Selects Baskervill to Design Major Renovation of its Building | Library of Virginia
The Library has selected Richmond-based architectural firm Baskervill to lead the schematic design of a transformative renovation of its building in downtown Richmond, located at 800 East Broad Street...
www.lva.virginia.gov
December 9, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Very excited to (finally) share the news that Richmond hq'd firm Baskervill and Boston hq'd firm Shepley Bullfinch will work with the Library of Virginia to redesign our public spaces!
www.lva.virginia.gov/about/news/p...
www.lva.virginia.gov/about/news/p...
It appears that Richmond has gotten its entire snowfall for the year already, and more than the more northern I-94 cities. Not sure what that foretells!
December 9, 2025 at 1:17 PM
It appears that Richmond has gotten its entire snowfall for the year already, and more than the more northern I-94 cities. Not sure what that foretells!
I'm greatly pleased to join the standing committee for government libraries of @ifla.org ! Looking forward to continuing to learn from international colleagues at this amazing global organization after two years away. And really looking forward to #WLIC2026 in Busan, Korea this August!
December 4, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Y'all. TikTok's favorite episcopal nun <nunsenseforthepeople> continues her path to the priesthood today!
Hosting the ordination of Sr Monica Clare csjb to this transitional diaconate this afternoon. All is in readiness. Now all I have to do is let the M.C. direct. Oh - and sing the anthem... and preach. 😬 at All Saints', Millington, NJ. Deo gratias! ⚓️
November 30, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Y'all. TikTok's favorite episcopal nun <nunsenseforthepeople> continues her path to the priesthood today!
No one:
Me: Even in JROTC in the late 80s, we were taught that military members were not allowed follow illegal orders, only legal ones. It was never a question, 20 years after My Lai, that illegal orders were to be ignored.
Me: Even in JROTC in the late 80s, we were taught that military members were not allowed follow illegal orders, only legal ones. It was never a question, 20 years after My Lai, that illegal orders were to be ignored.
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
No one:
Me: Even in JROTC in the late 80s, we were taught that military members were not allowed follow illegal orders, only legal ones. It was never a question, 20 years after My Lai, that illegal orders were to be ignored.
Me: Even in JROTC in the late 80s, we were taught that military members were not allowed follow illegal orders, only legal ones. It was never a question, 20 years after My Lai, that illegal orders were to be ignored.
@dieworkwear.bsky.social is out here teaching CS Lewis on a Sunday and I'm here for it.
November 23, 2025 at 10:04 PM
@dieworkwear.bsky.social is out here teaching CS Lewis on a Sunday and I'm here for it.
Well, guess I better run a marathon on Saturday!
November 13, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Well, guess I better run a marathon on Saturday!
My #hottake (that no one asked for) since hearing the reactions to the fed shenanigans (LC, IMLS, etc) is that only a subset of librarians 1) knows that the IMLS does 2) knows what LOC is or does and 3) understands much about federal funding for GLAMs or higher ed. Library schools must do better.
November 11, 2025 at 10:34 PM
My #hottake (that no one asked for) since hearing the reactions to the fed shenanigans (LC, IMLS, etc) is that only a subset of librarians 1) knows that the IMLS does 2) knows what LOC is or does and 3) understands much about federal funding for GLAMs or higher ed. Library schools must do better.
You may THINK you know Virginia's lieut-gov elect @senatorhashmi.bsky.social, but for the library folks out there, did you know she's published about information literacy?
wacclearinghouse.org/books/perspe...
wacclearinghouse.org/books/perspe...
November 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM
You may THINK you know Virginia's lieut-gov elect @senatorhashmi.bsky.social, but for the library folks out there, did you know she's published about information literacy?
wacclearinghouse.org/books/perspe...
wacclearinghouse.org/books/perspe...
Quicktime is still a thing? I was today years' old when I realized I had it on my mac!
November 7, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Quicktime is still a thing? I was today years' old when I realized I had it on my mac!
That thing when you search for an email address for the chief executive of the @britishlibrary.bsky.social and then you realize she resigned just a few hours ago...
November 3, 2025 at 5:17 PM
That thing when you search for an email address for the chief executive of the @britishlibrary.bsky.social and then you realize she resigned just a few hours ago...
Meta, your algorithm is off
October 21, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Meta, your algorithm is off
Even Windsor Farms (v fancy neighborhood in Richmond where I often run) is getting into the #nokings act! The resistance hits differently when it's the millionaires resisting.
October 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Even Windsor Farms (v fancy neighborhood in Richmond where I often run) is getting into the #nokings act! The resistance hits differently when it's the millionaires resisting.
"Wherever the people are well informed they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights."
T. Jefferson, to Richard Price.
Jefferson just low key advocating for libraries and archives.
T. Jefferson, to Richard Price.
Jefferson just low key advocating for libraries and archives.
October 14, 2025 at 12:53 PM
"Wherever the people are well informed they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights."
T. Jefferson, to Richard Price.
Jefferson just low key advocating for libraries and archives.
T. Jefferson, to Richard Price.
Jefferson just low key advocating for libraries and archives.