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Rebecca Crist
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I like libraries, weather, data, and news. General nerd.
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librarythingtim.bsky.social
Carnegie Mellon has cancelled hosting the Code4Lib conference this year because Code4Lib has scholarships supporting diverse attendees. Some lame fuckery indeed.
zen0effect.com Richard Higgins @zen0effect.com · 21d
Carnegie Mellon deciding at the last minute that they can't host the annual Code4Lib conference is some lame fuckery.
Text: Recently, the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR) ordered Carnegie Mellon University to review all third-party partnerships for compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. As part of this review, the university determined that aspects of Code4Lib's diversity scholarship program raised compliance concerns under Title VI and Title IX.
December 5, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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nws.noaa.gov
#Weather101 returns TONIGHT! Get your taste of some FREE weather education right from the source. Classes will run through mid-December so don't miss out! Check out weather.gov/ohx/weather101 to see the full list of remaining classes this fall.
National Weather Service Weather101 flyer listing free online weather classes for the week. Topics include Severe Storms tonight at 8 p.m., The Basics on Tuesday, Flash Flooding and Storm Damage Surveys on Wednesday, Rip Currents on Thursday, and Hurricanes on Friday. Classes are hosted by NWS meteorologists, open to all ages, and last about an hour with a Q&A. Registration link: weather.gov/ohx/weather101.
November 17, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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mrillinois.bsky.social
One of only 5 handwritten copies of the Gettysburg Address is on display at the Lincoln presidential library/museum thru this month in this protective smart glass case that is fully opaque unless you push a button.
Close up of Handwritten speech A look at the two page document A look at the case, a dimly lit black box
November 12, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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uncglibraries.bsky.social
Join us on Tuesday, 11/18 from 2:30pm to 4pm for a special celebration of Jackson Library's 75th anniversary!
November 12, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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willoremus.com
every company in 2025
comic strip with call and response text. who are we? CEOs what do we want? AI! AI to do what? We don't know! When do we want it? Right now!
November 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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unraveledpress.com
Heads up, Chicagoland—

ICE is OTG again, someone just spotted the Chicago ICE SRT guys (not National Guard, impt reminder) alongside other federal agents arresting someone in Cicero.

There's also a report of one arrest in Little Village.
September 9, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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librarycolleen.bsky.social
I keep going back and forth from being excited about this data to concerned. 📚
infodocket.bsky.social infoDOCKET @infodocket.bsky.social · Aug 20
New Research: "Seattle Public Library’s Open Checkout Data: What Can It Tell Us About #Readers and Book Popularity More Broadly" www.infodocket.com/2025/08/20/j... #libraries #publiclibraries #publishing #books @spl.org
August 21, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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johnxlibris.bsky.social
Duke University Libraries prepares faculty for some of the changes coming to library services 📚 blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2025/08...
Library Service Changes: What Duke Faculty Need to Know - Duke University Libraries Blogs
The following email was sent by the Provost’s Office to all Duke University faculty on August 15, 2025. Dear Colleagues, I’m writing to share some important updates from the Duke University Libraries....
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August 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
rebeccacrist.bsky.social
Well that sounds great.
anuncivilphd.bsky.social Dr. Carol Tilley 🏳️‍🌈 @anuncivilphd.bsky.social · Jul 28
"In a letter sent on Friday, the Trump administration said it would seek drafts of the faculty resolution, all written communications among the Faculty Senate members who drafted the resolution, & all communications between those faculty members and the office of the u’s president."

[Gift article]
Faculty Support of George Mason’s President Draws Federal Investigation
www.nytimes.com
July 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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feleciaelana.bsky.social
I really want us to sit and consider that the Department of Justice is using their time and resources to read faculty senate statements that support having a diverse faculty.
www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
Report: DOJ Investigating George Mason Faculty Senate
The Justice Department is now investigating the Faculty Senate at George Mason University after the panel backed the university president and affirmed that “diversity is our strength,” The New York Ti...
www.insidehighered.com
July 29, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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aaup.org
🚨Conservative Group Requests Materials for Over 70 UNC Courses🚨

“It’s a violation of academic freedom…of individual free speech rights &… teaching…in the name of…a right-wing agenda.”

—Joan Scott, AAUP Committee on Academic Freedom

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

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Conservative Org. Requests Materials for 70 Chapel Hill Courses
The Oversight Project, founded by the Heritage Foundation, is using an open records request to search for terms like “DEI” and “gender identity.” Faculty say it encroaches on academic freedom.
www.insidehighered.com
July 29, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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roselibraryemory.bsky.social
We are ecstatic to share that we recently received a $280,000 grant from the Getty Foundation for the Black Visual Art Archives to process the Jim Alexander photograph collection! 🥳

news.emory.edu/stories/2025...
Rose Library awarded Getty Foundation grant to process Jim Alexander photography collection | Emory University | Atlanta GA
Thousands of iconic images of African American authors, athletes, artists and activists, taken by documentary photographer Jim Alexander and housed at the Rose Library, will soon be easier to access a...
news.emory.edu
July 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM
rebeccacrist.bsky.social
This consortium is dissolving over reciprocal borrowing. Because some board members don't want patrons being able to access information they don't control, 27 public libraries lose access to some part of the collection they've built together.
July 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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rarebookschool.bsky.social
TODAY!

Join us in person or via Zoom livestream.

@womenknowhistory.bsky.social
rarebookschool.bsky.social Rare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social · Jul 11
E. M. Rose will give the 2025 NEH-SHARP Living American History in Primary Documents Lecture, “Books for Virginia 1620: America’s First Public Library?”, at 5:30 p.m. ET on 21 July in UVA’s Edgar Shannon Library, Room 330 or via Zoom.

Details: rarebookschool.org/programs/lectures
A vertically oriented rectangular graphic features the decorated title page of John Smith’s 1626 book “The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles” set against a dark red background. At the top of the page are inset portrait roundels of Elizabeth I, King James, and Charles I against a map of Virginia Territory. Heraldic crests flank either side of the title imprint, while the lower portion of the page features illustrations of the landscape of Virginia. The bottom of the graphic contains red and black text against white with information about E. M. Rose’s lecture.
July 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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internetarchiveca.bsky.social
@queensu Library has been collaborating with the @internetarchive.bsky.social on a digitization project that uses Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) to make copies of small print-run fanzines or zines of science fiction/fantasy/speculative fiction available.
internetarchivecanada.org/2025/07/15/s...
Cover image of magazine Dark Fantasy No. 22, March 1980
July 15, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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daviddarmofal.bsky.social
Gifting this article! I loved my time in Champaign-Urbana and in the University of Illinois's Political Science Department. It transformed my life & made me into the scholar I am today. My life wouldn't be the same without that department.
h/t: @avitallivny.bsky.social
Chinese Students Flocked to Central Illinois. Their Food Followed.
www.nytimes.com
July 15, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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rfhirschfeld.bsky.social
In the middle of “The Cornfield”—their name for it, not mine—thousands of Chinese students turned Champaign-Urbana into one of the most vibrant regional Chinese food scenes in the U.S. Now, visa crackdowns could gut it. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/d...
Chinese Students Flocked to Central Illinois. Their Food Followed.
www.nytimes.com
July 14, 2025 at 1:14 PM
rebeccacrist.bsky.social
Collecting history while it happens is challenging. Any resources on archiving unfolding events?

Here's one: Project STAND Resource (Zine): Preserving the Fullness of Social Movements and Activists
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Final Revised Project Stand Fellows 2023 Zine
Created by the Fellows of Project STANDS' Second Residency: - Iris Afantchao - Hannah McGurk - Mia Sturdivant - Wanda Hernández - Rebecca Wells - Jerrold Mobley - Eleena Ghosh - Kristy Li Puma
publuu.com
May 1, 2024 at 6:42 PM
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profcrunk.bsky.social
Emory University, where I did my doctorate, has cleared the encampment after tasing, gassing, and arresting protestors. I have emailed the university president and contributed to the bail fund. Both bail fund links in thread below.
April 25, 2024 at 6:20 PM