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Jen
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mostly eclectic weirdness. and awkwardness, too. Maybe cat photos.

The Toast lurker-enjoyer in my former life.
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If we put half as much resources into metadata and cataloging as we do into dumb AI stuff, we’d way better off in terms of the info/data ecosystem
Panel at #Crossref2025 wonders if metadata has an image problem. Bianca Kramer says the word metadata not used in the Barcelona Declaration. Mariángela Napoli thinks perception of metadata is something too technical. Kazuhiro Hayashi describes metadata as "the unsung hero". Time for a rebrand ;)
October 23, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Was honoured to be part of this series, and to see so many thoughtful perspectives on this question! Check it out.
LIL fellow @maxy.bsky.social asked 14 scholars, archivists, designers, business leaders & engineers: "If you were given unlimited funding to design a system for storing and preserving digital information for at least a century, what would you do?"

Their answers:
lil.law.harvard.edu/generational...
Generational Data Interviews | Library Innovation Lab
14 Designs for Digital Preservation in 2025
lil.law.harvard.edu
October 16, 2025 at 12:07 AM
My brain at 1:30 AM after wind-down and quiet time that began 3 and 1/2 hours prior:
October 15, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Posting a cat picture instead of yelling on the internet about things. You're welcome.
October 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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The sanctuary supports more than 300 bird species from around the world.
Texas bird sanctuary faces development unless $3M is raised
The sanctuary supports more than 300 bird species from around the world.
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August 23, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Parent advocate and @txfreedomread.bsky.social co-founder explains why #txlege bills SB13 and HB3225 are problems for our students and their libraries. It makes no distinction between five year olds and high school students. Please call. youtu.be/rtZMtq9qAPs
Texas Press Conference for the Freedom to Read, May 19
YouTube video by technolibrary
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May 25, 2025 at 7:04 PM
LOL.
A cold front is likely to push into Texas on Sunday, bringing storms and possible severe weather to much of the Lone Star State on Memorial Day.
Texas cold front threatens hail for holiday weekend
A cold front is likely to push into Texas on Sunday, bringing storms and possible severe weather to much of the Lone Star State on Memorial Day.
bit.ly
May 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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At my library, our digital collections budget is astronomical precisely because of this- we pay multiple times more per ebook than what the average reader pays by design. What should be a godsend to making books easier to read and more accessible instead threatens to swallow our budget whole 🧵
“RAISE HELL!” ✊ Maria Bustillos (@mariabustillos.bsky.social) calls on writers & readers to defend libraries & demand ebook ownership, not rentals. Attacks on libraries are attacks on knowledge itself. 📚

Full video ➡️ youtu.be/lu8jK_27vF0

#LibraryAdvocacy #DigitalRights #InternetArchive
April 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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This is where your Harry Potter money goes
jk rowling funded a case going before the supreme court that argues it should be legal to discriminate against and persecute trans ppl.

yet still we have to listen to ‘centrists’ claiming she isn’t bigoted she just has ‘a difference of opinion’.

no trans ppl have a voice in these proceedings.
April 16, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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'From Easter Rising to Civil War: Ireland, 1916-1922'

Browse 82 pamphlets, reports, leaflets and postcards relating to the 1916 Easter Rising, Irish War of Independence and Irish Civil War.

Free and digitised in full at cdm21047.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...
April 16, 2025 at 11:54 AM
March 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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IMLS also only makes up 0.005% of the federal budget. Anyone claiming they're saving the government money or making things more efficient by cutting IMLS is lying through their teeth.
March 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Good time for a reminder:
February 9, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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🏳️‍🌈LGBTQ Her/His-Story for February 9th - click on photos to read more.
February 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Preserving digital archives is a crucial weapon in discrediting and defeating authoritarian regimes. foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/24/r...
Don’t Let Autocrats Erase the Internet
Preserving digital archives is a crucial weapon in discrediting and defeating authoritarian regimes.
foreignpolicy.com
February 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Introducing: SNAP Show and Tell

Have you ever come across something in the archives that made you stop in your tracks? Whether it was an unexpected document, a fascinating artifact, or a story hidden in the records, we want to hear about it! For our new SNAP blog series, SNAP Show and Tell, we’re…
Introducing: SNAP Show and Tell
Have you ever come across something in the archives that made you stop in your tracks? Whether it was an unexpected document, a fascinating artifact, or a story hidden in the records, we want to hear about it! For our new SNAP blog series, SNAP Show and Tell, we’re inviting students and new professionals to share one cool thing they’ve discovered in the archives.
snaproundtable.wordpress.com
February 9, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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I’m not saying this isn’t believable, but given this administration’s obsession with websites, it’s weird that Dr. Shogan is still listed on the NARA site and there hasn’t been an actual announcement.
February 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Remember Blockbuster? 📼📀 Once, there were over 9,000 stores across the globe; now only one remains. 🌎️ Blockbuster․com too is a shadow of its former self.
Explore the web's past with the #WaybackMachine ➡️ https://web.archive.org

#DotComEra #DigitalHistory #90snostaliga
February 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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After hours at the Treasury Department with Elon and the DOGE boys
February 3, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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For those that didn't know, we run a public archive of pre-release content for various games via archive.thedatadungeon.com which may be of interest to some! We also have an archive of technical documentation we're gradually building via library.thedatadungeon.com

#digipres #digitalpreservation
Root
archive.thedatadungeon.com
January 31, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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January 26, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Worried about how long your favorite art, stories, videos, and other media will remain online? You can do something about it. Archive it, put it on a flash drive, share it. Digital things are fragile, but you don't need serious tech skills to protect the digital things you care about. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
January 22, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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70 North American archives / library special collections have now made the move to Bluesky - from medieval manuscripts to zines

Help them build up their communities here and reconnect - you'll get excellent archive content in return!

go.bsky.app/MN9ZZ3M
January 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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On another note, if you know how to read script the National Archives could use your help transcribing documents because it’s apparently a skill that is going away since we don’t rely on handwriting much in the modern day.

www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Can you read cursive? It's a superpower the National Archives is looking for.
The National Archives looking for volunteers with an increasingly rare skill: Reading cursive.
www.usatoday.com
January 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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This is a good piece in some respects but a DVD collection comprising titles since deleted and not available to stream is not an ‘archive’ and neither does it truly count as ‘preservation’.

For that we still need, collectively, to pay professionals to look after original film and tape masters.
Richard Brody on why DVD owners shouldn’t throw out their collections just yet.
January 4, 2025 at 4:22 PM