Whatsthescoop18
@whatsthescoop.bsky.social
MLIS student. I love women, rare/out-of-print books, and cult films.
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Banner depicts women operating a switchboard in the 1940s.
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Banner depicts women operating a switchboard in the 1940s.
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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
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January 22, 2025 at 2:19 AM
SHARE WIDELY.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
(1/3)
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
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Internet Archive's founder, @brewster.kahle.org, spoke with @wbur.org's Megna Chakrabarti about the lawsuits against the Internet Archive, the importance of archiving the web, and the "constantly renewed mythological goal" of the Library of Alexandria.
🎧 Listen now: www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025...
🎧 Listen now: www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025...
The Internet Archive is in danger
More than 900 billion webpages are preserved on The Wayback Machine, a history of humanity online. Now, copyright lawsuits could wipe it out.
www.wbur.org
January 9, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Internet Archive's founder, @brewster.kahle.org, spoke with @wbur.org's Megna Chakrabarti about the lawsuits against the Internet Archive, the importance of archiving the web, and the "constantly renewed mythological goal" of the Library of Alexandria.
🎧 Listen now: www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025...
🎧 Listen now: www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025...
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Worth a read if you work in information literacy, #infolit 📚📚
Set out to write about deleting my Facebook account and ended up writing about our crumbling information ecosystem open.substack.com/pub/prettygo...
Looking it up
The dying art of research in a crumbling information ecosystem
open.substack.com
January 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Worth a read if you work in information literacy, #infolit 📚📚
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She’s on a roll! So much complying in advance!
December 18, 2024 at 4:31 AM
She’s on a roll! So much complying in advance!
Artifacts and documents were buried, hidden, or smuggled out of the country in the name of 'symbolic justice.' This is the work we do. 📜📚
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
An Afghan museum, that buried its artifacts after Taliban takeover, is reborn online
The Afghanistan Memory Home Museum shares details and belongings from those who've died in conflict. It shut its doors when the Taliban took power, buried much of its collection — but has now reemerged.
www.npr.org
December 11, 2024 at 4:29 AM
Artifacts and documents were buried, hidden, or smuggled out of the country in the name of 'symbolic justice.' This is the work we do. 📜📚
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
A mentor to my mentor has passed. Rest in power, Nikki Giovanni. And condolences to all who are affected by this loss.
Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin. This piece is crucial.
Tomorrow will have been the 100th birthday of James Baldwin, so (because no one is infallible) here's him getting gently, lovingly, firmly schooled on the intersectionality of race and gender by one Nikki Giovanni
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg2t...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg2t...
December 11, 2024 at 4:13 AM
A mentor to my mentor has passed. Rest in power, Nikki Giovanni. And condolences to all who are affected by this loss.
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🌹 This weekend, the Grateful Dead will be honored at the Kennedy Center. Join in the celebration by listening to one of the 17,000 #GratefulDead concert recordings preserved at the Internet Archive: blog.archive.org/2024/12/05/c...
What's the most popular recording? 👇
What's the most popular recording? 👇
December 5, 2024 at 8:48 PM
🌹 This weekend, the Grateful Dead will be honored at the Kennedy Center. Join in the celebration by listening to one of the 17,000 #GratefulDead concert recordings preserved at the Internet Archive: blog.archive.org/2024/12/05/c...
What's the most popular recording? 👇
What's the most popular recording? 👇
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1. No surprise to Dead fans, the legendary concert at Barton Hall, Cornell University, on May 8, 1977, has the most views. 👀 BUT...
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archive.org/details/gd77...
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archive.org/details/gd77...
Grateful Dead Live at Barton Hall, Cornell University on 1977-05-08 : Free Borrow & Streaming : Internet Archive
Minglewood Blues, Loser, El Paso, They Love Each Other, Jack Straw, Deal, Lazy Lightning-> Supplication, Brown Eyed Women, Mama Tried, Row Jimmy, Dancin' In...
archive.org
December 5, 2024 at 8:48 PM
1. No surprise to Dead fans, the legendary concert at Barton Hall, Cornell University, on May 8, 1977, has the most views. 👀 BUT...
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archive.org/details/gd77...
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archive.org/details/gd77...
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Listening to the Grateful Dead everyday thanks to @archive.org !
Don’t know what I’d do without you ❤️⚡️💙
Don’t know what I’d do without you ❤️⚡️💙
December 5, 2024 at 11:14 PM
Listening to the Grateful Dead everyday thanks to @archive.org !
Don’t know what I’d do without you ❤️⚡️💙
Don’t know what I’d do without you ❤️⚡️💙
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2. The show at Robert F. Kennedy Stadium on June 10, 1973, has the most favorites. ⭐
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archive.org/details/gd73...
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archive.org/details/gd73...
Grateful Dead Live at Robert F. Kennedy Stadium on 1973-06-10 : Free Borrow & Streaming : Internet Archive
Morning Dew, Beat It On Down The Line, Ramble On Rose, Jack Straw, Wave That Flag, Looks Like Rain, Box Of Rain, They Love Each Other, The Race is On, Row...
archive.org
December 5, 2024 at 8:48 PM
2. The show at Robert F. Kennedy Stadium on June 10, 1973, has the most favorites. ⭐
🎧👇
archive.org/details/gd73...
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archive.org/details/gd73...
As my final project for one of my classes, I'm writing a paper about how machine learning, generative AI, and robotics will improve the library experience overall for both workers and patrons. It's still early, but I've never been so excited to write a paper!
#Libraries #GLAMs
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#Libraries #GLAMs
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December 6, 2024 at 8:08 PM
As my final project for one of my classes, I'm writing a paper about how machine learning, generative AI, and robotics will improve the library experience overall for both workers and patrons. It's still early, but I've never been so excited to write a paper!
#Libraries #GLAMs
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#Libraries #GLAMs
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Bit of a shame to see a fellow "rescuer of the past" imprisoned for such a wholesome pursuit. Stealing is not within the purview of my archival ethic, but is he not also the archivist we all strive to be??? 📜
I hadn't heard of this case but the article links to this amazing 2023 article from Creighton University! 📜
Creighton's role in the case of the greatest book thief in American history
alumni.creighton.edu/news-events/...
Creighton's role in the case of the greatest book thief in American history
alumni.creighton.edu/news-events/...
Creighton's role in the case of the greatest book thief in American history
Here’s the story of the Iowa man who swiped somewhere between 23,000 and 26,000 rare books and papers from at least 300 university libraries across the U.S. (and Canada), and the FBI investigation (co...
alumni.creighton.edu
December 5, 2024 at 6:17 AM
Bit of a shame to see a fellow "rescuer of the past" imprisoned for such a wholesome pursuit. Stealing is not within the purview of my archival ethic, but is he not also the archivist we all strive to be??? 📜
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Harvard Puts Online a Huge Collection of Bauhaus Art Objects
Harvard Puts Online a Huge Collection of Bauhaus Art Objects
You may have first encountered the word Bauhaus as the name of a campy, arty post-punk band that influenced goth music and fashion. But you'll also know that the band took its name from an even more i...
www.openculture.com
November 28, 2024 at 12:23 AM
Harvard Puts Online a Huge Collection of Bauhaus Art Objects
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Online Workshop with @mauricemeilleur.bsky.social: Typographic Patterns and Animations with Python and DrawBot
For designers who code and love type, pattern, and motion, and want to incorporate them all in their work.
Dec 7–15, 10am–1pm PT (18:00–21:00 GMT)
letterformarchive.org/shop/typogra...
For designers who code and love type, pattern, and motion, and want to incorporate them all in their work.
Dec 7–15, 10am–1pm PT (18:00–21:00 GMT)
letterformarchive.org/shop/typogra...
November 23, 2024 at 7:50 PM
Online Workshop with @mauricemeilleur.bsky.social: Typographic Patterns and Animations with Python and DrawBot
For designers who code and love type, pattern, and motion, and want to incorporate them all in their work.
Dec 7–15, 10am–1pm PT (18:00–21:00 GMT)
letterformarchive.org/shop/typogra...
For designers who code and love type, pattern, and motion, and want to incorporate them all in their work.
Dec 7–15, 10am–1pm PT (18:00–21:00 GMT)
letterformarchive.org/shop/typogra...
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Yes, but no need to put the cup in a zoo.
It can be a document and still remain free
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It can be a document and still remain free
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Optimist: The cup is half full.
Pessimist: The cup is half empty.
Archives/LIS researcher: The cup is a document
Pessimist: The cup is half empty.
Archives/LIS researcher: The cup is a document
November 25, 2024 at 3:05 PM
Yes, but no need to put the cup in a zoo.
It can be a document and still remain free
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It can be a document and still remain free
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This one’s a keeper
November 24, 2024 at 2:15 AM
This one’s a keeper
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And this, from the always incisive @emilymfg.bsky.social - written in the wake of one (now 'retired') colourizer's alterations to prisoner photographs from Cambodia's S-21 camp. Photos don't show history: they made it – by mediating it. 🗃️📜📷📸
The Khmer Rouge controversy: Why colourising old photos is always a falsification of history
Matt Loughrey has falsely doctored photos from 1970s Cambodia – but all colourisation does that
www.irishtimes.com
November 21, 2024 at 9:37 AM
And this, from the always incisive @emilymfg.bsky.social - written in the wake of one (now 'retired') colourizer's alterations to prisoner photographs from Cambodia's S-21 camp. Photos don't show history: they made it – by mediating it. 🗃️📜📷📸
As a student studying digital preservation with an interest in restoration, I learned a lot from this article. And still have much to learn...
www.apollo-magazine.com/photography-...
www.apollo-magazine.com/photography-...
The problem with digital colourisation | Apollo Magazine
Turning black and white photos into colour – and vice versa – can be a harmless piece of fun, but the results can also mess with our sense of the past
www.apollo-magazine.com
November 22, 2024 at 6:40 AM
As a student studying digital preservation with an interest in restoration, I learned a lot from this article. And still have much to learn...
www.apollo-magazine.com/photography-...
www.apollo-magazine.com/photography-...
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The Final Days of Leo Tolstoy Captured in Rare Footage from 1910
www.openculture.com/2024/11/the-...
www.openculture.com/2024/11/the-...
The Final Days of Leo Tolstoy Captured in Rare Footage from 1910
Leo Tolstoy—the author who gave us two major Russian classics Anna Karenina and War & Peace—died at Astapovo, a small, remote train station in the heart of Russia. Pneumonia was the official cause. Hi...
www.openculture.com
November 20, 2024 at 7:45 PM
The Final Days of Leo Tolstoy Captured in Rare Footage from 1910
www.openculture.com/2024/11/the-...
www.openculture.com/2024/11/the-...