Kim Gianfrancesco
@kgianfran.bsky.social
Digital preservation librarian, among other things.
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Kim Gianfrancesco
@kgianfran.bsky.social
· Nov 21
"If you want to develop a Zen attitude about the inevitability of decay and death I recommend doing preservation work." - me brightening up this staff meeting
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When startups talk about "disrupting" things, this is what they mean.
This really struck me. If Uber were legally acknowledged as an employer, then it would be the biggest employer in the world, with over 9,000,000 employees globally. Think about how many taxes, wages, and protections are being lost b/c of their intransigence.
November 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
When startups talk about "disrupting" things, this is what they mean.
I'm tough on crime all of a sudden
No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison.
So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.
So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.
Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.
November 7, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I'm tough on crime all of a sudden
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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!
November 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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!
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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.
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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
November 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
#WDPD2025 The first four hours of MTV courtesy of @archive.org
My good deed of the day is turning my camera on in a Zoom meeting solely because my cat is visible in the background
October 31, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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
October 27, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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
June 13, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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
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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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...
Officials Are Denied Access to Library of Congress After Trump Names New Boss
www.nytimes.com
May 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...
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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"
May 1, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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"
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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).
Class of 1936 students doing a May Pole dance. Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection (05-11-1936).
May 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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).
Class of 1936 students doing a May Pole dance. Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection (05-11-1936).
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“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
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
April 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
“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
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
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'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 📜
I saw this at the Oak Spring Garden Foundation while taking a class with Rare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social.
#rarebooks 📜
April 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
'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 📜
I saw this at the Oak Spring Garden Foundation while taking a class with Rare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social.
#rarebooks 📜
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Ugh I’m getting so many of these
April 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Ugh I’m getting so many of these
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RIGHT? Fuck’s sake tell the government they have to submit their oversight requests in Workday.
If I thought this were code for "we're going to drag this process out in typical university fashion and never really move forward on this" I'd feel better about it
I don't believe they can't slow walk this the way they slow walk travel reimbursement
I don't believe they can't slow walk this the way they slow walk travel reimbursement
April 22, 2025 at 12:45 PM
RIGHT? Fuck’s sake tell the government they have to submit their oversight requests in Workday.
I decided historical house tours are my whole personality now
April 19, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I decided historical house tours are my whole personality now
I love attending job candidate presentations. I always learn something.
April 17, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I love attending job candidate presentations. I always learn something.
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More journalists need to talk about this the way Japanese articles do
April 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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.
April 11, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Do you ever just feel like banging your head against the wall? Marigold gets it.
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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...
April 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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...
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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?
Are we great and efficient yet?
April 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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?
Are we great and efficient yet?
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
April 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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
Me watching this administration creep closer to touching PSLF
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"
media.tenor.com
April 3, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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.
March 28, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Things I saw on my walk today: a pheasant, a lady in light up roller blades, and a giant tree that fell down.