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Colleen [Redacted] @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 1d

Would you like to potentially host a Summer 2026 MLIS student for a 150 hour for-credit practicum placement?
It is particularly difficult to find online options for students who are interested in gaining more library/cultural heritage work experience. Let me know if you have ideas! 📚📜

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 1d

📜 New blog post! I wrote about "contextless museums" and similar spaces and what they potentially mean for the future of the sector.

animalarchaeology.com/2025/10/13/i...

Is the Museum of the Future Contextless?

A photo of four paper museum labels reading (clockwise from top left): Oland. Thomson. Coll., Tetrastictus terminalis Thomson 1878 Lectotype, MZLU Type No 4922, and Loan 444 (Photo Credit: Biologic…

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge @trincolllibcam.bsky.social · 1d

MSS B.1.20, Instead of manicules, the reader of this 13th c manuscript used tiny faces to mark interesting points in the text. #marginaliamonday

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I small drawing of a face in the margin of a manuscript to mark part of the text.

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Colleen [Redacted] @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 1d

Coherent launches major archive of rare African magazines largely unknown among scholars 📚
librarytechnology.org/pr/31765

Coherent launches major archive of rare African magazines largely unknown among scholars

Press Release: Coherent launches major archive of rare African magazines largely unknown among scholars. Coherent Digital launched Pan-African Magazines, making some of Africa's rarest and most impor...

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Colleen [Redacted] @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 1d

Hawaii library system bans displays that refer to 'Banned Books Week,' rebrands to 'Freedom to Read' 📚
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Hawaii library system bans displays that refer to 'Banned Books Week,' rebrands to 'Freedom to Read'

Last week Lani Kawahara, who oversees the young adult section at Kauai’s largest library, set up her annual display to mark Banned Books Week, a national campaign that kicked off Sunday to spotlight t...

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Colleen [Redacted] @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 1d

UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’
www.dailytarheel.com/article/26e4...

UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.

www.dailytarheel.com

Colleen [Redacted] @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 1d

Digital preservation needs reach the Louvre. 📜https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/13/louvre-acquires-first-ever-video-work

Louvre acquires first-ever video work

The work, ‘Les 4 temps’, by the Algeria-born artist Mohamed Bourouissa, will go on display later this month

www.theartnewspaper.com

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Chasing Aphrodite @chasingaphrodite.bsky.social · 2d

The Pushkin job: unmasking the thieves behind an international rare books heist

As many as 170 rare and valuable editions of Russian classics were stolen from libraries across Europe. Were the thieves merely low-level opportunists, or were bigger forces at work?

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

The Pushkin job: unmasking the thieves behind an international rare books heist

The long read: Between 2022 and 2023, as many as 170 rare and valuable editions of Russian classics were stolen from libraries across Europe. Were the thieves merely low-level opportunists, or were bi...

www.theguardian.com

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Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies @sims-mss.bsky.social · 2d

For #CoffeeWithACodex on October 16, Curator @leoba.bsky.social will visit @rosenbachmuseum.bsky.social where she'll join Librarian Elizabeth Fuller for a look at MS 1004/29, a mid-fourteenth-century physician's belt book. #medievalsky #cwac

Register here: https://bit.ly/4ohnEqu

Coffee with a Codex On The Road: Bat Book at the Rosenbach

An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different...

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Sara Charles @saracharles.bsky.social · 2d

Homegrown madder pigment. It's wonderful to create medieval pigment from something grown in your garden #bookhistory #medievalpigments #medievalsky

Dried madder roots in a bowl on some scales

Madder pigment being mulled on a glass slab

Madder pigment surrounded by examples of dried paint on paper and parchment

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Colleen [Redacted] @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 2d

Ugh, I'm clearly procrastinating by reading and posting here when I need to be grading. Yell at me if I post anything else here in the next two hours. 😭

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Colleen [Redacted] @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 2d

This was a delight to stuble across. @petermusser.com! I still assign one of your videos in class. We just watched it last week.
alacorenews.org/2025/10/03/i...

#IAmCore: Peter Musser – Core News

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Colleen [Redacted] @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 2d

I taught an evening course in an LIS program, and other librarians have taught subject courses in their disciplines at my academic library while I was a librarian, and that didn't seem to quite fit in what they were investigating either.

Colleen [Redacted] @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 2d

"The Unity Conference," called "Redacted: Navigating the Complexities of Censorship," was canceled at Weber State University. (Utah) 📚
www.ksl.com/article/5138...

Weber State cracks down on censorship conference

Weber State University abruptly canceled a conference dealing with the complexities of censorship, citing a need to comply with Utah's diversity, equity and inclusion law, which prohibits government e...

www.ksl.com

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Colleen [Redacted] @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 2d

Google Books. It's still going on. Still new libraries working on it. 📚 (Tennessee)
newsonline.library.vanderbilt.edu/2025/09/2600...

260,000 volumes from Vanderbilt’s Heard Libraries to be digitized by Google Books

A new collaboration between the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries and the Google Books initiative will make it possible for users worldwide to access works that are rare, out of print, or generally u...

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Colleen [Redacted] @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 2d

For-Credit Library Instruction: Exploring the Experiences of Academic Librarians Serving as Instructors of Record 📚 #AcademicLibraries #AcademicLibrarians #LibraryInstruction
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For-Credit Library Instruction: Exploring the Experiences of Academic Librarians Serving as Instructors of Record | Nelson | College & Research Libraries

For-Credit Library Instruction: Exploring the Experiences of Academic Librarians Serving as Instructors of Record

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Colleen [Redacted] @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 2d

Instead of librarians, schools staff libraries with teachers, aides- or close them (New York State)
www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Instead of librarians, schools staff libraries with teachers, aides- or close them

For more than a decade, districts have cut back on librarians and quietly closed school libraries as well.

www.yahoo.com

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Colleen [Redacted] @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 2d

W. Elmo Reavis: Library Bookbinder 📜
(From last July)(California)
www.lapl.org/collections-...

W. Elmo Reavis: Library Bookbinder

W. Elmo Reavis was a man who wore many hats, including bookbinder, instructor, inventor, manufacturer, editor, and advocate. He established the Pacific Library Binding Company in Los Angeles in 1912 t...

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Colleen [Redacted] @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 2d

From Niche to Norm: A Case Study of Zines in a Circulating Collection (UIUC - Illinois) journals.ala.org/index.php/lr...

From Niche to Norm: A Case Study of Zines in a Circulating Collection | Mathews | Library Resources & Technical Services

From Niche to Norm: A Case Study of Zines in a Circulating Collection

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Colleen [Redacted] @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 2d

How Close Did We Come to Losing Beowulf Forever? 📜
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How Close Did We Come to Losing Beowulf Forever?

There are cases of important literary and historical works that survive in only one or two manuscripts. If they had suﬀered some accident, then our picture of the past might be altered in important…

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Colleen [Redacted] @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 2d

"Generative AI’s impact on the internship market comes from the uncanny alignment between AI’s strengths, including summarizing, data entry, and other basic knowledge work, and the kind of work that many internships involve."
sr.ithaka.org/blog/the-imp...

The Impact of Generative AI on the College Internship - Ithaka S+R

Beneath the headlines of white collar lay-offs as companies explore the potential of generative AI to do entry-level office work, another change to the workforce is happening that may be of more immed...

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Colleen [Redacted] @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 2d

'Collections are fragile,' but conservationists say they're being ignored as the State Historical Society moves out of Iowa City using prison labor - Little Village (Iowa)
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'Collections are fragile,' but conservationists say they're being ignored as the State Historical Society moves out of Iowa City using prison labor - Little Village

Behind the Centennial Building in downtown Iowa City on Monday morning, workers began to load a truck with parts of the collections housed in the research facility and archives of […]

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Colleen [Redacted] @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 2d

If we can only celebrate women’s achievements in secret, is that really a celebration at all?https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/wa-author-my-book-about-a-cyclist-was-too-radical-for-storytime/