becca
@beccaquon.bsky.social
exploring gardens, gaming, mental health, history + culture. supporting research and education at the metro ny library council.
posting about 📚ny + 🌲pdx
posting about 📚ny + 🌲pdx
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one of my favorite duties is sitting on the review committee for our continuing education grants, which provide $500.00 toward conferences, classes, or courses for those working at libraries and archives in the metro ny area. the app is open now! www.surveymonkey.com/r/CEGrantWS26
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November 24, 2025 at 10:56 PM
one of my favorite duties is sitting on the review committee for our continuing education grants, which provide $500.00 toward conferences, classes, or courses for those working at libraries and archives in the metro ny area. the app is open now! www.surveymonkey.com/r/CEGrantWS26
trying to hype myself up to sign up for a beginner weight-lifting class at a very welcoming-sounding local gym and I am still SO SCARED! (letty for strength)
November 22, 2025 at 5:03 AM
trying to hype myself up to sign up for a beginner weight-lifting class at a very welcoming-sounding local gym and I am still SO SCARED! (letty for strength)
we’ve been in our house about 2 weeks now and Olive is really exploring *every* corner.
November 21, 2025 at 10:48 PM
we’ve been in our house about 2 weeks now and Olive is really exploring *every* corner.
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There's still time to sign up to resist the vendor machine! Join Library Futures, Stephanie "Cole" Adams, Samantha Teremi, Layla Maurer, and Hayley Park to talk AI and library contracts. That's this Thursday 11/20!
nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
There's still time to sign up to resist the vendor machine! Join Library Futures, Stephanie "Cole" Adams, Samantha Teremi, Layla Maurer, and Hayley Park to talk AI and library contracts. That's this Thursday 11/20!
nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
my new next door neighbor’s mother was a librarian in new york. the world is always smaller than it seems. ❤️
November 12, 2025 at 1:10 AM
my new next door neighbor’s mother was a librarian in new york. the world is always smaller than it seems. ❤️
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Our spring iteration of the Cross-Reference Coalition will focus on 🔎SEARCH + DISCOVERY💡 We'll work tgthr to design a scavenger hunt, map, or field guide that encourages defiantly-anti-AI exploration of NYC's knwldg resources + cultural heritage.
We'll distribute our call for apps early next week!
We'll distribute our call for apps early next week!
November 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Our spring iteration of the Cross-Reference Coalition will focus on 🔎SEARCH + DISCOVERY💡 We'll work tgthr to design a scavenger hunt, map, or field guide that encourages defiantly-anti-AI exploration of NYC's knwldg resources + cultural heritage.
We'll distribute our call for apps early next week!
We'll distribute our call for apps early next week!
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New survey researching how recent policy shifts within the U.S. in higher education are impacting DEI reparative metadata/cataloging efforts in academic libraries & archives in the U.S., Canada, or Mexico. 📚 #critcat uncg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Ramification of DEI shifts in higher education on reparative cataloging activity
Survey for "Ramification of DEI shifts in higher education on reparative cataloging activity".
uncg.qualtrics.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:36 PM
New survey researching how recent policy shifts within the U.S. in higher education are impacting DEI reparative metadata/cataloging efforts in academic libraries & archives in the U.S., Canada, or Mexico. 📚 #critcat uncg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
heard from someone at omaha public library today who designs escape rooms based on children's books as part of their programming 😍
omaha.bibliocommons.com/events/678aa...
omaha.bibliocommons.com/events/678aa...
Dragons Love Tacos Escape Room
Dragon needs your help! The tacos for the party are locked in a box. Come help Dragon get to the tacos before it’s too late in this escape room inspired by the best-selling Dragons Love Tacos books by...
omaha.bibliocommons.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
heard from someone at omaha public library today who designs escape rooms based on children's books as part of their programming 😍
omaha.bibliocommons.com/events/678aa...
omaha.bibliocommons.com/events/678aa...
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Job alert: the University of Illinois Library is hiring a Humanities Librarian to serve as liaison to African-American Studies and English Literatures. I’m sure someone here would be a great fit for this job—& we’ve got a pretty phenomenal community here
Please share!
Please share!
Humanities Librarian - (African American Studies and English Literature)
Duties & Responsibilities
illinois.csod.com
November 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Job alert: the University of Illinois Library is hiring a Humanities Librarian to serve as liaison to African-American Studies and English Literatures. I’m sure someone here would be a great fit for this job—& we’ve got a pretty phenomenal community here
Please share!
Please share!
four days before we were set to move into the house we’ve been renovating for 5 months, the first big rain of autumn hit and created a leak through the ceiling. 😬 a plumber and roofer working together ID’d a faulty 100-year-old lead pipe as the culprit. they‘re going in through the closet today.
October 28, 2025 at 9:39 PM
four days before we were set to move into the house we’ve been renovating for 5 months, the first big rain of autumn hit and created a leak through the ceiling. 😬 a plumber and roofer working together ID’d a faulty 100-year-old lead pipe as the culprit. they‘re going in through the closet today.
last week i learned my spouse donates to wikipedia every time he gets the little pop up requesting money. “it might be my favorite website.” he said as he hit the pay button on his phone.
a real green flag moment.
a real green flag moment.
October 28, 2025 at 8:24 PM
last week i learned my spouse donates to wikipedia every time he gets the little pop up requesting money. “it might be my favorite website.” he said as he hit the pay button on his phone.
a real green flag moment.
a real green flag moment.
spotted this flyer over the summer in portland and i’ve been occasionally pulling up the photo and cackling to myself, ever since. 💖
October 28, 2025 at 12:40 AM
spotted this flyer over the summer in portland and i’ve been occasionally pulling up the photo and cackling to myself, ever since. 💖
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Experimenting with a new concept using @queermedieval.bsky.social’s Portland Frog woodcut. Embracing goofiness as protest.
October 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Experimenting with a new concept using @queermedieval.bsky.social’s Portland Frog woodcut. Embracing goofiness as protest.
one bright spot on this friday: it's payday and my federal worker spouse is still working & getting paid, so I'm going to support a few lovely projects that've come my way this week. first: this family storytelling game from the South Asian American Digital Archive.
Memory Bucket
A game to uncover the stories you've always wished you knew.
www.kickstarter.com
October 10, 2025 at 7:19 PM
one bright spot on this friday: it's payday and my federal worker spouse is still working & getting paid, so I'm going to support a few lovely projects that've come my way this week. first: this family storytelling game from the South Asian American Digital Archive.
i love you, portland.
Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.
October 7, 2025 at 3:50 AM
i love you, portland.
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Kodak is officially selling their own film again for the first time in many years and will be selling directly to photography stores now.
🔗 www.404media.co/kodak-is-sel...
🔗 www.404media.co/kodak-is-sel...
Kodak Is Selling Its Own Film Again for the First Time in a Decade
Kodak announced two new types of film that it will sell directly to photography stores, sidestepping a bizarre distribution agreement that has been in place since its bankruptcy.
www.404media.co
October 1, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Kodak is officially selling their own film again for the first time in many years and will be selling directly to photography stores now.
🔗 www.404media.co/kodak-is-sel...
🔗 www.404media.co/kodak-is-sel...
METRO's offering a 4-session series for library staff who want to explore co-designing programs and services with their communities. It kicks off next week and there's still room to join! metro.org/events/desig...
Design with Community Series
Design with Community is a virtual, four-session learning series developed to build the capacity of library staff to co-design programs and services with their communities. Rooted in the principles of...
metro.org
September 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
METRO's offering a 4-session series for library staff who want to explore co-designing programs and services with their communities. It kicks off next week and there's still room to join! metro.org/events/desig...
I'm thrilled that this is kicking off, right now, all the way across the country from me but months in the making and close to my heart. Spend some time with the class website, if you have a moment, and follow Shannon for more on misfittery over the next 10 weeks.
Our first Misfits class is on Thursday! We've got 17 participants from across NYC's libraries, universities, municipal agencies + arts orgs; we're visiting Storefront, ABCNoRio, the NY Botanical Garden, the Ctr for BookArts, etc. Here's our website! 🤗
crossreference.wordsinspace.net/fall2025/
crossreference.wordsinspace.net/fall2025/
September 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I'm thrilled that this is kicking off, right now, all the way across the country from me but months in the making and close to my heart. Spend some time with the class website, if you have a moment, and follow Shannon for more on misfittery over the next 10 weeks.
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The digital age threatens our cultural memory. Can libraries, archives & museums create a just, sustainable future?
📖 Learn how in the #booktalk for AFTER DISRUPTION with Trevor Owens & Shannon Mattern.
📅 Thurs Sept 25
🕖 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍 ONLINE
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1633230118...
📖 Learn how in the #booktalk for AFTER DISRUPTION with Trevor Owens & Shannon Mattern.
📅 Thurs Sept 25
🕖 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍 ONLINE
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1633230118...
September 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The digital age threatens our cultural memory. Can libraries, archives & museums create a just, sustainable future?
📖 Learn how in the #booktalk for AFTER DISRUPTION with Trevor Owens & Shannon Mattern.
📅 Thurs Sept 25
🕖 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍 ONLINE
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1633230118...
📖 Learn how in the #booktalk for AFTER DISRUPTION with Trevor Owens & Shannon Mattern.
📅 Thurs Sept 25
🕖 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍 ONLINE
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1633230118...
every year I hire an artist to draw my family for our holiday card and the process makes me so happy! this year it feels even more meaningful because ai is everywhere.
here are 2021 + 2018. 💛 credit to @schrill-art.bsky.social + @ghost_puff on instagram
here are 2021 + 2018. 💛 credit to @schrill-art.bsky.social + @ghost_puff on instagram
September 23, 2025 at 12:32 AM
every year I hire an artist to draw my family for our holiday card and the process makes me so happy! this year it feels even more meaningful because ai is everywhere.
here are 2021 + 2018. 💛 credit to @schrill-art.bsky.social + @ghost_puff on instagram
here are 2021 + 2018. 💛 credit to @schrill-art.bsky.social + @ghost_puff on instagram
tomorrow! us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
METRO is hosting a webinar series this fall that's gonna be so useful to anyone doing collection development work:
pt 1: community-centered practice
pt 2: intellectual freedom
pt 3: finding balance on your shelves (and online)
pt 1: community-centered practice
pt 2: intellectual freedom
pt 3: finding balance on your shelves (and online)
September 18, 2025 at 7:04 PM
tomorrow! us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
our Library Field project, which recently found its home on a 26-acre site in Ossining NY, has an iNaturalist project. i get to go out for my first visit next month and can't wait to log some observations. 🌝🐛🍄
www.inaturalist.org/projects/the...
www.inaturalist.org/projects/the...
The Library Field
The Library Field is a 26 acre open-air laboratory administered by the Metropolitan New York Library Council. www.libraryfield.org www.metro.org While the Library Field is not publicly accessible at t...
www.inaturalist.org
September 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
our Library Field project, which recently found its home on a 26-acre site in Ossining NY, has an iNaturalist project. i get to go out for my first visit next month and can't wait to log some observations. 🌝🐛🍄
www.inaturalist.org/projects/the...
www.inaturalist.org/projects/the...
just found out about a bread company in Portland with a CSA model — members pick up one loaf a week from the assigned neighborhood drop-off location, which is a fellow member's porch. 😍
www.starterbread.com
www.starterbread.com
starter bread
zero-waste baker's choice community supported subscription bakery making organic, sourdough, long fermented breads with regional whole grains grown locally in the Pacific Northwest. based in north Por...
www.starterbread.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:27 AM
just found out about a bread company in Portland with a CSA model — members pick up one loaf a week from the assigned neighborhood drop-off location, which is a fellow member's porch. 😍
www.starterbread.com
www.starterbread.com
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Call for applications: Endangered Archives Programme
eap.bl.uk/applicants
eap.bl.uk/applicants
For Applicants
eap.bl.uk
September 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Call for applications: Endangered Archives Programme
eap.bl.uk/applicants
eap.bl.uk/applicants
last weekend at stardew valley: symphony of seasons, concernedape came onstage and thanked everyone for supporting the game. I will never recover? like never.
September 14, 2025 at 2:42 AM
last weekend at stardew valley: symphony of seasons, concernedape came onstage and thanked everyone for supporting the game. I will never recover? like never.