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Janet Carleton
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Archivist doing digital stuff at Ohio University in Athens | State Library of Ohio Board | She/her | @aldenlibdigital.bsky.social | https://media.library.ohio.edu
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Archives & Museums club visited Digital Initiatives and Mahn Center yesterday! Always happy to make new friends and share our work 🥰

Caption: Students view archives materials in Digital Initiatives.

#OHIOUniversity #OHIOUniversityArchives #ForeverOHIO #archives #tour #ArchivesDive
November 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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As we come to the end of our @edicaucus.bsky.social funded 'Divergent Minds in the Archive' project, we're delighted to invite you to 'Accessing Archives and Collections: Disability, Neurodivergence, Chronic Illness' - a free online symposium on 17th and 18th November. 1/n
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October 30, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Coming up in #OhioDIG free events:
-Nov 12 (virt) Tech Tools for Transcription
-Jan (virt) Image Quality Assessment
-Mar (virt) Digital Preservation
-May (in person) TBD Joint w/ OPC @ CWRU CLE
-Jul (in person) TBD @ WSU Dayton
-Sep (in person) TBD seeking host
#digitalarchives ohiodig.org/meetings
OhioDIG MEETINGS – Ohio Digitization Interest Group – OhioDIG
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October 29, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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PRE-ORDER WEDNESDAY!! ❤️‍🔥 Pre-order the 2nd printing of The House Archives Built & Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities by @dorothyjberry.bsky.social starting Wednesday, 10/29, 3p Eastern USA. www.weherepress.org
Pre-order graphic with book cover art, title, author, and information about when pre-orders open from post.
October 28, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Register for 11/12 #OhioDIG "Tech Tools for Transcription" virtual meeting. Text/audio transcription, incl #Transkribus, Generative AI tools, Open AI’s Whisper, vendor services. FREE, thx to our panelists 👇, hosts, volunteers! 1/2
#transcription #digitization
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OhioDIG Meeting Registration--Virtual--2025-11-12
Please join the Ohio Digitization Interest Group for our November meeting (virtual) at 10:30am on Wednesday, November 12, 2025 for a panel discussion. Registration: Please register by Monday, Novembe...
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October 29, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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#NationalCatDay 🐈Ever used a #cat as a telephone?
2 Athens State Hospital staff tried it out ca #1920s! 📞😸
Full image https://bit.ly/ou-amhc-cat
From the collections of Southeast Ohio History Center in our Athens Mental Health Center Collection online.
#throwback #cats #archives #AthensOhio
Two women in white medical uniforms and caps hold up cat and pretend to use it as telephone.
October 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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#Top10 #HalloweenSongs🎃🎵
The Post newspaper's top 10 essential #Halloween Songs, #2000.
How does this list fare 25 years later?
Oct 26, 2000, The Post: https://bit.ly/ou-ua-top10halloweensongs
#OHIOUniversityArchives #OHIOUniversity #Top10 #HalloweenMusic #2000s #archives #FromTheArchives
”The Top 10 Essential Halloween Songs” written by Steve Kehnel. Ohio University Archives, Mahn Center for Archives & Special Collections. 10. “Ghostbusters” by Ray Parker Jr. 9. "Nightmare on My Street” by DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince. 8. “Rock You to Hell” by Grim Reaper. 7. “Bark at the Moon” by Ozzy Osbourne. 6. “Zombie Apocalypse” by Mortician. 5. “Halloween” by The Misfits. 4. “Thriller” by Michael Jackson. 3. “Black Sabbath” by Black Sabbath. 2. “Black No. 1” by Type O Negative. 1. “The Monster Mash” by Bobby Boris Picket.
October 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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WE SOLD OUT IN 4 DAYS. a second printing is coming and sales for it will open soon. to hear when, sign up for our newsletter www.wehere.space/newsletter
graphic that says SOLD OUT over the cover of the house archives built by dorothy berry with title, author, and how to sign up for our newsletter
October 21, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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I am beyond excited (and nervous!) to announce that my first book, "The House Archives Built and Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities" is available for sale!

This series of essay includes reworked talks, new reflections, and a lot of my heart

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light skinned Black woman with natural hair parted down the middle (me!) wearing gold earrings and an orange-red dress, holding a small paperback book with a mint green-blue cover and a variety of vintage + antique photos
October 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Register for 11/12 #OhioDIG virtual meeting "Tech Tools for Transcription." Will cover text/audio transcription, incl #Transkribus, Generative AI tools, Open AI’s Whisper, vendor services. FREE, thx to our panelists, hosts, volunteers!
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#transcription #digitization
OhioDIG Meeting Registration--Virtual--2025-11-12
Please join the Ohio Digitization Interest Group for our November meeting (virtual) at 10:30am on Wednesday, November 12, 2025 for a panel discussion. Registration: Please register by Monday, Novembe...
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October 16, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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aldenlibdigital.bsky.social Archives & Special Collections @ Ohio University @aldenlibdigital.bsky.social · Sep 29
Tiny heart💕 in comb pattern #marbled #endpapers, in vol 4 of set. All 4: red morocco binding, heavily tooled, decorated in gold.
L. Annæi Senecæ philosophi opera omnia, Elsevier, 1649.
https://bit.ly/seneca-1649-catalog
#MarbledMonday #MarbledPaper #MarbledEndpapers #FineBindings #RareBooks
Close-up of the white heart amidst the marbling. View of the front cover and decorated binding. View of comb pattern marbled endpapers in red, blue, white, and green. View of the spines of all 4 volumes standing together.
October 1, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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This was such a valuable thought provoking meeting. So many takeaways. #ODNFest
ohiodig.bsky.social OhioDIG (Ohio Digitization Interest Group) @ohiodig.bsky.social · Sep 30
We are attending the annual #ODNFest at the State Library of Ohio, Ohio's #DPLA hub today! Evan Struble welcomes us and pitches available IMLS grants.
Man with brown hair and glasses speaks from podium.
October 1, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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#90s fashion! Geometric patterns, plaid, and baseball caps scream 90s in this #1992 #throwback for #FashionFriday!
Full image: https://bit.ly/ou-ua-1992fashion
#OHIOUniversityArchives #OHIOUniversity #fashion #1990s
4 students converse on College Green, 2 in foreground and 2 behind. 2 students in front wear oversized plaid & geometric-patterned collared shirts. 2 students behind wear baseball caps. 1992.
September 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Underwater hybrid creatures in medieval times?🫣
Hortus Sanitatis - Jacob Meydenbach
First published in Latin 1491, Mainz Germany.
This leaf, or page, is from very first printing.
https://bit.ly/farfel371
#WoodcutWednesday #Herbals #HortusSanitatis #IllustratedBooks #Incunabula #15thCentury
Close-up of woodcut illustration of a rabbit-faced creature covered in scales in the water. Close-up of a woodcut illustration of a lion-faced creature covered in scales in the water. Close-up of a woodcut illustration of a bull-faced creature covered in scales in the water View of the full first page of Hortus Sanitatis including these three illustrations and the surrounding text.
September 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Fall 2025 issue of the Ohio Archivist, from Society of Ohio Archivists now available!
Find recap of SOA spring meeting "Show Me the Money," award recipients, articles on interactive displays, archives and mental health & much more!
ohioarchivists.org/ohioarchivist/
#OhioArchivists #archives
Front page of the Ohio Archivist publication. Free download for the full text.
September 19, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Take a virtual stroll down Court Street ca 1885-1923 with our interactive #SanbornMaps viewer: https://bit.ly/athens-sanborn-maps.
See what businesses & manufacturers occupied uptown #AthensOhio & help tag historical buildings by adding info to the map.
#LocalHistory #archives #mapsky #maps
September 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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It's us! 💚
"Mahn Center Archives makes array of materials available to students, public." From The Post, #OHIOUniversity student newspaper.

www.thepostathens.com/article/2025...
#archives #DigitalArchives #OHIOUniversityArchives #OHIOUniversityLibraries #RareBooks
Mahn Center Archives makes array of materials available to students, public
The Mahn Center at Alden Library houses part of Ohio University’s archives. They contain millions of pieces which are accessible to everyone, both in person and online.
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September 15, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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My lab is running a study to investigate how serendipity relates to information seeking in digital collections. We're looking for researchers & practitioners who have used, designed, or stewarded digital collections to participate in our survey (<10 min): forms.gle/zGJDZZ14vx2M...
Survey on Serendipity and Information Seeking in Digital Collections
Purpose of the Study We are seeking to understand the different methods of information seeking in digital collections. In addition, we would like to understand what the participants' perceptions of se...
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September 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Society of Ohio Archivists #ArchivesMonth poster unveiling virtual event 9/25.
2026 theme “Ohio-born companies."
Speakers: Pam Speis, Mahoning HS & Grace Ethier, Wright State U.
Trivia on Ohio companies past & present!
Register: ohioarchivists.org/archives-mon...
#OhioArchivists #OhioArchivesMonth
Archives Month Poster Unveiling on Sept 25 | Society of Ohio Archivists
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September 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Save the date: Society of Ohio Archivists & Midwest Archives Conference Joint Annual Meeting, May 14-16, 2026, Columbus Ohio.
#archives #OhioArchivists
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Save the Date: SOA & MAC Joint Annual Meeting 2026 | Society of Ohio Archivists
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September 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Nov #OhioDIG meeting Call for Speakers!
Seeking practitioner speakers for VIRTUAL panel about #transcription and/or #OCR in #digitization. Experiences good/bad? Software/processes? Ethical issues/concerns?
Date TBD, 10min talk & group Q+A.
Contact ohiodigroup@gmail.com
ohiodig.org/meetings #archives
OhioDIG MEETINGS – Ohio Digitization Interest Group – OhioDIG
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September 12, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Come check us out today!
aldenlibdigital.bsky.social Archives & Special Collections @ Ohio University @aldenlibdigital.bsky.social · Sep 6
We're tabling at annual Little Cities of Black Diamonds Day today (9/6, 10:30-5)!

Stop by Stuarts Opera House in #NelsonvilleOhio & learn about our #LocalHistory mapping projects & #CoalMining #Archives!

LCBD: www.lcbdohio.org/littlecities...

(Try out our #AthensOhio 1885-1923 Sanborn Map Viewer)
Colorful graphic card with Sanborn map overlaid on current map. Text: Athens, Ohio 1885-1923 Sanborn Map Viewer. Access the interactive map to view historical insurance maps alongside present-day geography. Identify historical Athens businesses & manufacturers and help tag local buildings with this information! A project of Ohio University Libraries Digital Initiatives.
September 6, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation made a three-year commitment, promising $750,000 for general operating needs for Amistad Research Center in New Orleans. www.nola.com/opinions/ami...
Editorial: Thanks to private donors, the work of the Amistad Research Center goes on
The nationally-recognized Amistad Research Center, based at Tulane University in New Orleans, had its budget slashed by 40% in June. Half of its staff was released. Funders stepped up. Staffers have r...
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September 3, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Upcoming #OhioDIG meetings (after Thurs)
Nov: OCR & Transcription (virtual)
Jan: Imaging Quality Management (virtual)
Mar: Digital Preservation Basics (virtual)
May: TBD @ CWRU in Cleveland (in person)
July: TBD (in person)
Sept: TBD (in person)
ohiodig.org/meetings
OhioDIG MEETINGS – Ohio Digitization Interest Group – OhioDIG
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September 2, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Join @nearchivists.bsky.social Wed 9/24 1pm for free, virtual reading group event to discuss article "Beyond the Grant: Cultivating Sustainable Next Steps" from @jcasonline.bsky.social.
Authors incl #OhioDIG members Ginnie Dressler/Nick Pavlik!
newenglandarchivists.org/event-6301787
#archives
New England Archivists - Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies Reading Group - "Beyond the Grant"
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September 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM