Colleen [Redacted]
@librarycolleen.bsky.social
I read a lot of links; I post a lot of links. Mostly special collections, archives, libraries, museums, history, & technology. (#GLAM).
I teach in an MLIS program at [redacted]. Does not represent my employer.
#RBMS26 Conference Program Co-chair for 2026.
I teach in an MLIS program at [redacted]. Does not represent my employer.
#RBMS26 Conference Program Co-chair for 2026.
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RBMS 2026 CFP Collaboration
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The Rare Books and Manuscripts #SpecialCollections Conference CFP is live! web.cvent.com/event/0f0104...
Want to put together a panel? There is a planning for for that!
#RBMS26
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Want to put together a panel? There is a planning for for that!
#RBMS26
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
"Festival of Floppies" and "Copy that Floppy" are such good titles for outreach events, I can't get over it.
www.lib.cam.ac.uk/future-nosta...
www.lib.cam.ac.uk/future-nosta...
Future Nostalgia: Safeguarding the knowledge of floppy disks
Funded by British Academy/ Leverhulme Trust Small Grant
www.lib.cam.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
"Festival of Floppies" and "Copy that Floppy" are such good titles for outreach events, I can't get over it.
www.lib.cam.ac.uk/future-nosta...
www.lib.cam.ac.uk/future-nosta...
'Textured Stories’: The crêpe-paper books that brought Japanese culture to Western readers 📜
news.yale.edu/2025/11/06/t...
news.yale.edu/2025/11/06/t...
‘Textured Stories’: The crêpe-paper books that brought Japanese culture to Western readers
“Textured Stories,” an exhibit at the Beinecke Library, explores the history and influence of Japanese chirimen books that sought to familiarize Western audiences with Japan’s literature and culture.
news.yale.edu
November 8, 2025 at 1:22 AM
'Textured Stories’: The crêpe-paper books that brought Japanese culture to Western readers 📜
news.yale.edu/2025/11/06/t...
news.yale.edu/2025/11/06/t...
Reposted by Colleen [Redacted]
Good tribute obit by Deborah Solomon about Jackie Ferrara. I got to know her work at the Phillips Collection. She sounds like she would have been great to know. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/a...
Jackie Ferrara, Artist Who Brought Mystery to Minimalism, Dies at 95
www.nytimes.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Good tribute obit by Deborah Solomon about Jackie Ferrara. I got to know her work at the Phillips Collection. She sounds like she would have been great to know. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/a...
An Enslaved Man (David Drake) Made Thousands of Ceramic Pots. Now, a Boston Museum Has Returned Two of Them to His Descendants
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...
An Enslaved Man Made Thousands of Ceramic Pots. Now, a Boston Museum Has Returned Two of Them to His Descendants
Many of David Drake's large vessels featured his signature and inscriptions, even though he created them during a time when literacy among enslaved laborers was illegal
www.smithsonianmag.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:09 AM
An Enslaved Man (David Drake) Made Thousands of Ceramic Pots. Now, a Boston Museum Has Returned Two of Them to His Descendants
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...
Do Academic Libraries Have a Strategy for AI? 📚
"...while two-thirds of libraries are exploring AI features in vendor products, only about half are offering guidance to their communities on how to use AI responsibly in academic work."
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/30/g...
"...while two-thirds of libraries are exploring AI features in vendor products, only about half are offering guidance to their communities on how to use AI responsibly in academic work."
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/30/g...
Guest Post — Do Academic Libraries Have a Strategy for AI? - The Scholarly Kitchen
If libraries are civic institutions that structure society’s relationship to knowledge, and generative AI is poised to reshape discovery whether libraries act or not, will library leaders will develop...
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
November 7, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Do Academic Libraries Have a Strategy for AI? 📚
"...while two-thirds of libraries are exploring AI features in vendor products, only about half are offering guidance to their communities on how to use AI responsibly in academic work."
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/30/g...
"...while two-thirds of libraries are exploring AI features in vendor products, only about half are offering guidance to their communities on how to use AI responsibly in academic work."
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/30/g...
Does your Special Collections or archives have an email newsletter? I would love to subscribe! Point the way?
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November 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Does your Special Collections or archives have an email newsletter? I would love to subscribe! Point the way?
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Special Collections and Rare Book Librarianship as professions are strengthened and sustained with new ideas and new members, and that growth comes from scholarships. Those come from us. #rbms26
Donate now, if that is something that you are able to do: ec.ala.org/donation/ACR...
Donate now, if that is something that you are able to do: ec.ala.org/donation/ACR...
ACRL RBMS Scholarship Fund | ALA Membership
ec.ala.org
November 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Special Collections and Rare Book Librarianship as professions are strengthened and sustained with new ideas and new members, and that growth comes from scholarships. Those come from us. #rbms26
Donate now, if that is something that you are able to do: ec.ala.org/donation/ACR...
Donate now, if that is something that you are able to do: ec.ala.org/donation/ACR...
The Rare Books and Manuscripts #SpecialCollections Conference CFP is live! web.cvent.com/event/0f0104...
Want to put together a panel? There is a planning for for that!
#RBMS26
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Want to put together a panel? There is a planning for for that!
#RBMS26
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
RBMS 2026 CFP Collaboration
docs.google.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The Rare Books and Manuscripts #SpecialCollections Conference CFP is live! web.cvent.com/event/0f0104...
Want to put together a panel? There is a planning for for that!
#RBMS26
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Want to put together a panel? There is a planning for for that!
#RBMS26
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Zoë McLaughlin
Blogging by and for academic and research librarians
acrlog.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:57 PM
OneNote as Evergreen Documentation
Building out a Collaborative Operations Manual in a Special Collections and Archives Unit 📜 from @mgamm.bsky.social
crln.acrl.org/index.php/cr...
Building out a Collaborative Operations Manual in a Special Collections and Archives Unit 📜 from @mgamm.bsky.social
crln.acrl.org/index.php/cr...
OneNote as Evergreen Documentation: Building out a Collaborative Operations Manual in a Special Collections and Archives Unit | Gamm | College & Research Libraries News
OneNote as Evergreen Documentation: Building out a Collaborative Operations Manual in a Special Collections and Archives Unit
crln.acrl.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
OneNote as Evergreen Documentation
Building out a Collaborative Operations Manual in a Special Collections and Archives Unit 📜 from @mgamm.bsky.social
crln.acrl.org/index.php/cr...
Building out a Collaborative Operations Manual in a Special Collections and Archives Unit 📜 from @mgamm.bsky.social
crln.acrl.org/index.php/cr...
Washington State Library and the Talking Book and Braille Library are closing to the public, 12 jobs getting axed 📚https://washingtonstatestandard.com/briefs/washington-state-library-closing-to-the-public-12-jobs-getting-axed/
Washington State Library closing to the public, 12 jobs getting axed • Washington State Standard
Two state-run libraries in Washington will close July 1 due to a lack of funding. Twelve jobs will be eliminated too.
washingtonstatestandard.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Washington State Library and the Talking Book and Braille Library are closing to the public, 12 jobs getting axed 📚https://washingtonstatestandard.com/briefs/washington-state-library-closing-to-the-public-12-jobs-getting-axed/
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🧵(1) Why do we preserve photographic images of manuscripts?
Cultural losses continue to beset communities around the world, especially in areas subject to armed conflict. The loss can manifest in multiple ways: destruction and damage, dispossession, the displacement of individuals, and other forms.
Cultural losses continue to beset communities around the world, especially in areas subject to armed conflict. The loss can manifest in multiple ways: destruction and damage, dispossession, the displacement of individuals, and other forms.
November 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
🧵(1) Why do we preserve photographic images of manuscripts?
Cultural losses continue to beset communities around the world, especially in areas subject to armed conflict. The loss can manifest in multiple ways: destruction and damage, dispossession, the displacement of individuals, and other forms.
Cultural losses continue to beset communities around the world, especially in areas subject to armed conflict. The loss can manifest in multiple ways: destruction and damage, dispossession, the displacement of individuals, and other forms.
I would love one more guest for my Rare Book Cataloging class later in November. Let me know if you've worked in this area and if you would be interested in talking about a particularly challenging item you've tackled.
Let me know, thanks!
Let me know, thanks!
November 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I would love one more guest for my Rare Book Cataloging class later in November. Let me know if you've worked in this area and if you would be interested in talking about a particularly challenging item you've tackled.
Let me know, thanks!
Let me know, thanks!
Ended the day at QZap! @qzap.bsky.social That's it for me today. Leaving eith new ideas and new partners for #rbms26!
November 3, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Ended the day at QZap! @qzap.bsky.social That's it for me today. Leaving eith new ideas and new partners for #rbms26!
The visit to the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee today included a tour of some of Max Yela's favorite artist's books. Would you want a tour? #rbms26
November 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
The visit to the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee today included a tour of some of Max Yela's favorite artist's books. Would you want a tour? #rbms26
Our next stop is the Marquette University special collections. They have the original Tolkein manuscripts for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Plans are in the works for a tour! #rbms26
November 3, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Our next stop is the Marquette University special collections. They have the original Tolkein manuscripts for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Plans are in the works for a tour! #rbms26
The Milwaukee Historical Society is asking the important questions in their current exhibition. #rbms26 #Milwaukee
November 3, 2025 at 5:37 PM
The Milwaukee Historical Society is asking the important questions in their current exhibition. #rbms26 #Milwaukee
The view for the New Members Mixer and the scholarship breakfast at #rbms26 is pretty spectacular. #Milwaukee
November 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The view for the New Members Mixer and the scholarship breakfast at #rbms26 is pretty spectacular. #Milwaukee
Wistfully watching my last nearly 6pm sunset.
November 1, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Wistfully watching my last nearly 6pm sunset.
Reposted by Colleen [Redacted]
Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared
Google Scholar Is Doomed
Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?
hannahshelley.neocities.org
August 13, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared