Dan Rudmann
@danrdmnn.bsky.social
Librarian at Utrecht University
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A treasure trove of rare and historic American music—including songs by Memphis Minnie, the Carter Family, Blind Willie Johnson, and more—is now freely available to the public thanks to a new collaboration between the UC Santa Barbara Library and Dust-to-Digital Foundation https://ow.ly/J8Bg50Xpuf2
Vast collection of historic American music released via UCSB Library partnership with Dust-to-Digital Foundation
Thousands of rare and uniquely American songs from the Jazz Age and the Great Depression are available for free listening thanks to a partnership between UCSB and the Dust-to-Digital Foundation.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
A treasure trove of rare and historic American music—including songs by Memphis Minnie, the Carter Family, Blind Willie Johnson, and more—is now freely available to the public thanks to a new collaboration between the UC Santa Barbara Library and Dust-to-Digital Foundation https://ow.ly/J8Bg50Xpuf2
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Currently doing some marking. A reminder to everyone involved in archives and collections: digitisation is not preservation. If I digitise a box of records and put the files on a USB stick I haven't preserved a thing. It's all about what you do with the files post-digitisation. #archives #digipres
November 10, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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Love after Love. Derek Walcott.
October 10, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Love after Love. Derek Walcott.
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Librarians *should* be exercising more judgement and objective expertise, looking at the whole picture, thinking about long term & bibliodiversity. Libraries do not receive budget to "buy content" they receive budget to "disseminate knowledge".
September 22, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Librarians *should* be exercising more judgement and objective expertise, looking at the whole picture, thinking about long term & bibliodiversity. Libraries do not receive budget to "buy content" they receive budget to "disseminate knowledge".
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oh for real, wow
September 19, 2025 at 5:39 PM
oh for real, wow
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The far-right majority in the Dutch parliament (BBB-FvD-JA21-PVV-SGP-VVD) has just designated “Antifa” a terrorist organization.
This is a dark day for Dutch democracy and the final nail in the coffin of the VVD as a serious liberal democratic party.
This is a dark day for Dutch democracy and the final nail in the coffin of the VVD as a serious liberal democratic party.
Kamermeerderheid vindt Antifa terroristische organisatie
Een meerderheid in de Tweede Kamer wil dat Nederland, in navolging van de Verenigde Staten, de extreemlinkse beweging Antifa aanmerkt als terroristische organisatie. Een motie daartoe van Lidewij de V...
www.rd.nl
September 18, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The far-right majority in the Dutch parliament (BBB-FvD-JA21-PVV-SGP-VVD) has just designated “Antifa” a terrorist organization.
This is a dark day for Dutch democracy and the final nail in the coffin of the VVD as a serious liberal democratic party.
This is a dark day for Dutch democracy and the final nail in the coffin of the VVD as a serious liberal democratic party.
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How will #openscience be effected by current politics? If you're at #OSFAIR2025, you can hear a great panel discussing this topic, moderated by @rouhiroo.bsky.social ! www.opensciencefair.eu/panels/how-t...
www.opensciencefair.eu
September 16, 2025 at 4:20 AM
How will #openscience be effected by current politics? If you're at #OSFAIR2025, you can hear a great panel discussing this topic, moderated by @rouhiroo.bsky.social ! www.opensciencefair.eu/panels/how-t...
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My job remains designing situations within which it is both desirable and possible to become more human, more capable of thinking and asking questions, more capable of being alive with others, on earth
August 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
My job remains designing situations within which it is both desirable and possible to become more human, more capable of thinking and asking questions, more capable of being alive with others, on earth
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I like that this piece argues for a democratising understanding of open science over the more neoliberal one they view as common. I've always felt that a more robust understanding of democratisation is needed for open movements, rather than just assuming that democracy is implied in free culture.
Open Science as Confused: Contradictory and Conflicting Discourses in Open Science Guidance to Researchers: https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/zr35u_v1
September 2, 2025 at 8:01 AM
I like that this piece argues for a democratising understanding of open science over the more neoliberal one they view as common. I've always felt that a more robust understanding of democratisation is needed for open movements, rather than just assuming that democracy is implied in free culture.
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We made you a rigorously cited timeline of major moves, cases, changes, and other wildass developments in the immigration system since January 20. This is one of the most complicated things I've ever worked on, but we think it needs to be done. The thread breaks down the kinds of things we found.
We have a new issue page up today, looking at the multi-pronged assault on both immigrants to the United States and the immigration system itself: unbreaking.org/issues/immig...
Immigration — Unbreaking
How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.
unbreaking.org
August 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
We made you a rigorously cited timeline of major moves, cases, changes, and other wildass developments in the immigration system since January 20. This is one of the most complicated things I've ever worked on, but we think it needs to be done. The thread breaks down the kinds of things we found.
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New open access book out from our MORPHSS project lead @samuelmoore.org:
"By deploying theoretical literature on science & technology studies, care ethics, & the commons, the book critically interrogates open access & reimagines a more ethical future for researcher-led publishing."
#OA #AHSS
"By deploying theoretical literature on science & technology studies, care ethics, & the commons, the book critically interrogates open access & reimagines a more ethical future for researcher-led publishing."
#OA #AHSS
August 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
New open access book out from our MORPHSS project lead @samuelmoore.org:
"By deploying theoretical literature on science & technology studies, care ethics, & the commons, the book critically interrogates open access & reimagines a more ethical future for researcher-led publishing."
#OA #AHSS
"By deploying theoretical literature on science & technology studies, care ethics, & the commons, the book critically interrogates open access & reimagines a more ethical future for researcher-led publishing."
#OA #AHSS
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lmao which one of you did this
Library Futures here and we're coming in hot with our very first ebook from library internet favorite @aj-boston.bsky.social.
My Consumer Autobiography examines what it means to read--and own--a book through the story of the books AJ read in 2024.
www.libraryfutures.net/post/my-cons...
My Consumer Autobiography examines what it means to read--and own--a book through the story of the books AJ read in 2024.
www.libraryfutures.net/post/my-cons...
My Consumer Autobiography: Reflections on a Year of Digital Reading
Research and advocacy for the future of libraries.
www.libraryfutures.net
August 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
lmao which one of you did this
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I'm not sure what can be done for staff, authors, books...But this is a real loss, and I hope there can be some collective effort at salvage and succor.
very much saddened to learn that bucknell university press will be closing. they took a chance on my first book when other presses said it was too short or too narrowly focused on minor authors.
www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...
www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...
Letter | Bucknell University Press to Close
This should alarm university presses nationwide, writes Aníbal González-Pérez.
www.chronicle.com
August 17, 2025 at 3:21 AM
I'm not sure what can be done for staff, authors, books...But this is a real loss, and I hope there can be some collective effort at salvage and succor.
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Efficiency is a demonic word justifying cutting out much that is pleasurable, meaningful, even essential in the name of speeding the productivity machine or maximizing profit (aka taking) while minimizing outlay (or giving).
July 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Efficiency is a demonic word justifying cutting out much that is pleasurable, meaningful, even essential in the name of speeding the productivity machine or maximizing profit (aka taking) while minimizing outlay (or giving).
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So, if you think it’s just about whether repros are “good” or “bad,” you get mired (as the combatants of the Facsimile Debate did) in some petty moral quicksand. It’s not the tech that’s good or bad, it’s the politics and cultural practices and economics in which a given tech is situated.
August 12, 2025 at 7:34 PM
So, if you think it’s just about whether repros are “good” or “bad,” you get mired (as the combatants of the Facsimile Debate did) in some petty moral quicksand. It’s not the tech that’s good or bad, it’s the politics and cultural practices and economics in which a given tech is situated.
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If anything, I think the point of the surveillance tech is to remove the need for basic human interaction so that profoundly antisocial people can still benefit from the transactional effects of having real human relationships
Like, the surveillance tech adds nothing that doesn’t exist with basic human interaction
August 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
If anything, I think the point of the surveillance tech is to remove the need for basic human interaction so that profoundly antisocial people can still benefit from the transactional effects of having real human relationships
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Doubling down on "believing in science" doesn't accurately acknowledge what "science" is: (constitutively) a messy social process of cultivating trust and accountability
Sorry, we can't moralize or strongarm our way out of that; and to recognize this will place us on stronger footing
Sorry, we can't moralize or strongarm our way out of that; and to recognize this will place us on stronger footing
August 9, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Doubling down on "believing in science" doesn't accurately acknowledge what "science" is: (constitutively) a messy social process of cultivating trust and accountability
Sorry, we can't moralize or strongarm our way out of that; and to recognize this will place us on stronger footing
Sorry, we can't moralize or strongarm our way out of that; and to recognize this will place us on stronger footing
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This 1942 pamphlet from the YMCA is quite instructive, and has a fantastic dramatic cover and title that makes me think of an educational film
umedia.lib.umn.edu/item/p16022c...
umedia.lib.umn.edu/item/p16022c...
August 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
This 1942 pamphlet from the YMCA is quite instructive, and has a fantastic dramatic cover and title that makes me think of an educational film
umedia.lib.umn.edu/item/p16022c...
umedia.lib.umn.edu/item/p16022c...
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This piece is about the value of music listings, but also about much more: the nature of criticism, the myth of the high/low divide, criticism itself. Read and share! www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
A Love Letter to Music Listings
Publications like 'Time Out New York' were my bible and my roadmap.
www.theatlantic.com
July 27, 2025 at 6:25 PM
This piece is about the value of music listings, but also about much more: the nature of criticism, the myth of the high/low divide, criticism itself. Read and share! www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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It is only mildly hyperbolic to drop a zero and suggest that "There is absolutely no way that any digital media that exists today will be accessible in 30 years."
I'm not kidding. What digital media do you have from 1995 that you can access easily right now?
I'm not kidding. What digital media do you have from 1995 that you can access easily right now?
I have books on my shelf right now that are nearly 300 years old. There is absolutely no way that any digital media that exists today will be accessible in 300 years.
Any updates on the "downsizing" of space for physical books in academic and public libraries?
theconversation.com/turning-a-pa...
theconversation.com/turning-a-pa...
July 23, 2025 at 2:49 PM
It is only mildly hyperbolic to drop a zero and suggest that "There is absolutely no way that any digital media that exists today will be accessible in 30 years."
I'm not kidding. What digital media do you have from 1995 that you can access easily right now?
I'm not kidding. What digital media do you have from 1995 that you can access easily right now?
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Ed tech has been snake oil from the start, designed to dilute expertise, cheapen relations between teacher and student, and line the pockets of people who have absolutely no interest in—and no useful contributions to offer to—education.
“…faculty members will be able to click an icon that connects them with various AI features…, like a grading tool, a discussion-post summarizer… Canvas’s parent company, Instructure, is also in partnership w/ OpenAI… so instructors can use generative-AI technology as part of their assignments.”
Instructors Will Now See AI Throughout a Widely Used Course Software
New features integrated into Canvas include a grading assistant, a discussion-post summarizer, and even a way to pair assignments with generative AI tools.
www.chronicle.com
July 23, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Ed tech has been snake oil from the start, designed to dilute expertise, cheapen relations between teacher and student, and line the pockets of people who have absolutely no interest in—and no useful contributions to offer to—education.
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"Science is a process, not an output" would look mighty fine crocheted
Science isn’t the output. Science is the method that is formalized as the output. But ya know.
July 21, 2025 at 3:53 PM
"Science is a process, not an output" would look mighty fine crocheted
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“I’m good at this job. Rather, I *was* good at this job—and I’ll become so again in an environment whose values align with those that animate my work: the small, the weird, the local, the public, the principled.” https://wordsinspace.net/2025/06/30/i-prefer-weeds-to-ivy/
I Prefer Weeds to Ivy
Words in Space is the work of Shannon Mattern.
wordsinspace.net
July 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
“I’m good at this job. Rather, I *was* good at this job—and I’ll become so again in an environment whose values align with those that animate my work: the small, the weird, the local, the public, the principled.” https://wordsinspace.net/2025/06/30/i-prefer-weeds-to-ivy/
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I'm so glad this happened. The uncritical aspect of Metascience proponents is precisely why I've not embraced the term
After two really enjoyable days at #Metascience2025, I wrote about how one 🌶️ moment encapsulated the controversy over metascience's issues 📑, inclusivity 🤗and future public value 🔮 #STS #AcademicSky
All feedback welcome on here, or by email 😀
warrenpearce.pika.page/posts/what-i...
All feedback welcome on here, or by email 😀
warrenpearce.pika.page/posts/what-i...
What *is* metascience? Issues, inclusion and future public value - Warren's blog: Publics, politics, science and technology
This week, the biennial Metascience Conference came to London’s “Knowledge Quarter” with around 800 participants from a wide range of roles, including researchers, librarians, research funders, publis...
warrenpearce.pika.page
July 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I'm so glad this happened. The uncritical aspect of Metascience proponents is precisely why I've not embraced the term
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This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.
June 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.