Brian Harrington
abbistani.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy
Brian Harrington
@abbistani.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy
Metadata wrangler. Sometime indexer/bibliographer. Minicomputer collector. Onetime early modernist. Baltimore, USA.

[bridged from https://digipres.club/@abbistani on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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Fact | You can't write something predicated in the utterly ludicrous assumption that white men are being excluded from publishing unless you are racist.
December 27, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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"ICE Patrol Observer Pocket Guide": Safe Streets Baltimore has a free #minizine you can read/print/share, teaching how to document ICE actions toward protecting our neighbors, your rights to observe & document (& if you've got riso access, there's split pink & black files):
ICE Observer Guide - Google Drive
drive.google.com
December 24, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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I clicked two library catalogue "permalinks" today, one 2 years old and one 15 years old, from different catalogues, and neither one worked. We really shouldn't call them that if we're not going to make it happen.
December 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Lyrasis, Big Ten Academic Alliance Libraries, and California Digital Library Receive Grant to Advance Diamond Open Access in the United States

great to see this work happening […]
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mastodon.social
November 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Born this day, 1934: C. Gordon Bell, computer pioneer & architect; founder of the Computer History Museum.

Pictured (left) with PDP-6.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Bell
August 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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PACSCLs Noel Prize, in memory of Will Noel, "will be issued annually to recognize an achievement in increasing the physical and/or digital accessibility of Special Collections materials. The awardee will be honored in the Special Collections community and will receive a small cash prize. In the […]
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mastodon.social
July 2, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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I saw the Whtiman's Leaves of Grass two-volume deluxe McSweeney’s edition in person yesterday and it is so gorgeous. I wish they included more pictures of it on their page. I don't think I have ever seen a book I liked the design of so much […]
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hcommons.social
March 6, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Penn also recently joined the Material Order consortium, which is a neat project working on building a materials union catalog. https://materialorder.org/collection/materials/search
https://mastodon.social/@JMarkOckerbloom/113889348286874252
Materials
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materialorder.org
January 26, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Pretty much. #maryland
January 5, 2025 at 6:56 PM