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Diane Dias De Fazio. MDes, MSHP, MSLIS, MA (and soon: MBA)
@archibrarian.bsky.social
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Editor, RBM journal. Special collections librarian, JCU.
#Escalator historian.
Architecture, art, special collections. Important #LakeErieReport🌊 pics.
📚📜 #BookSky
Cover: Agnes Denes at Socrates Sculpture Park.
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#LakeErieReport🌊, part II: New friend
August 17, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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#LakeErieReport🌊, part I: on a clear day
August 17, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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#SomeNews: This is the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Oakland.

Something really cool happened, and next month, I start a new job there, as Library Services Manager for Rare Books and Special Collections! 🖤💛
Neoclassical building with large entrance staircase illuminated with a light that doesn't seem to match the sky.
July 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Fireflies. Fireflies on the Solstice.
June 21, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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#LakeErieReport🌊
June 15, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Good morning, bebbeh.
(Juvenile red-winged blackbird.)
#Birdsky
A small bird stands on the flat ground. It is brown with short feathers and no visible (but short) tail.
June 15, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Some block-printed (?) endpapers, to politely interrupt your doomscroll....
#Skybrarians #BookSky #Long18thCentury
Zig zags and dots in green, yellow, and white on a book "preserved" by book tape Stamped horizontal lines and a floral inspired pattern, in blue, red, and green (that kinda look like music notes) Brown and reddish brown blobs that kinda look like aliens with 6 legs (or amoebas), in vertical stripes. Book tape applied with reckless but good intentioned abandon over a yellow patterned all-over stamping
June 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Featuring: papers from the Power of New Voices, investigations about library materials marking practices, an analysis of EDIA verbiage in special collections job postings, an article on the impact of chronic illness and disability, author interview of Deborah Parker, updates, and this! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Two partial pages of a two-page infographic spread of results from the 2024 RBMS membership survey. Title: "Moving Forward: Membership and the Future of RBMS." In color! With line, bar, pie, and other charts and data visualizations.
June 9, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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📣 Hot off the presses! Print copies of RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage now arriving! (Online open access available soon, too!) #Skybrarians #RBMSSky
Cover of RBM with address label. Graphic: "careers ahead" poster for the WPA, ca. 1939.
June 9, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Lolz. #Skybrarians
Book held together by book tape, with torn endleaf, featuring a mimeographed note, glued onto the title page, which reads "This is a valuable HISTORICAL SOURCE"
June 8, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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We did a thing!
#Publishing #ArtistsBooks #Zines #SpecialCollections #Instruction @ emilymartin
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First page of the book chapter we wrote in artists books and zines in special collections instruction. Cover of the book in which we wrote a chapter Spread from the contents from the book in which we wrote a chapter! So very honored to be amongst such fabulous folx!
May 23, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Some nice booksellers' tickets I found this week. 📚 #BookSky
Bertrand Smith's acres of books, Cincinnati. Blue book-shaped sticker. Gustav E Stechert, 828 Broadway, New York The Adair Book Store. New & old books Bought, sold, and exchanged. No. 43 E. Van Buren St. Chicago, Ill. Phone Hap 2565 C. E. Rappaport Libri rari Roma
May 21, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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#LakeErieReport🌊
May 10, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Please enjoy a break from your doomscrolling and celebrate the arrival of this year's first Baltimore Oriole. 🧡
A bright orange and black bird pauses between sips of jelly at an orange feeder.
May 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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#LakeErieReport🌊
Coastline strewn with rounded rocks, bricks, and driftwood over sand. A wave crashes midground, as the sun nears the horizon in the background under increasing clouds.
May 1, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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#LakeErieReport🌊
Nautical twilight, with orangish-red coloring on the sky at the horizon beneath a lifting cloud cover. A wave crashes at the concrete breaker in the mid ground near a rocky coastline.
April 22, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Finally.🌸
Close up of cherry blossoms with tree trunk in the background Hand for scale with cherry blossom Blazing pink spray of cherry blossoms ascending toward the blue sky
April 21, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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#LakeErieReport🌊
April 20, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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#LakeErieReport🌊.
April 17, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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(I mean ... *part* of the stairs. And, by 2 PM on the first full day, there was a fire hazard situation of step sitting.)
Not like the Roman graffiti, I know. Scratches in the wood paneling (of letters?) View down the stairs during a quiet moment with no people Another view of the stairs opposite, looking down above the wood floor
April 5, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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First, THE STAIRS ARE OPEN! The staiiiiiiiirs!
When it was still quiet, around 6 PM, Thursday. Wood wall paneling on the left of a carpeted staircase leading toward a landing with a cast iron torchiere. Reverse, on the aforesaid landing, looking up toward additional levels and more stairs. In 2020, I rang that bell (there's a cord on the main level). Detail from mid-staircase, overlooking the main level and brass bell. Sgraffiti on the wood bases.
April 5, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Stormy amidst the ferns, to pause your doomscrolling.

(See also: Störmi, Størmē, Stürmë)
#Cats
A small, mostly white cat, seated amongst fern fronds, near a vintage chartreuse jaguar lamp.
April 3, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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Hi.
Aerial view of Brooklyn, looking west down Flatbush Avenue past the Williamsburg Savings Bank and the Eye of Sauron, toward the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation ©️, across the Sound River to Manhattan.
April 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Serious Lumon energy, here.

Found in mom's cedar chest, we have no idea of their origin.

Care to take them off our hands? 😊
#UseTheCabinet #HangInThere #Booksellers #Ephemera #BookSky
Vertical-format poster with illustration of men and women seated in a waiting room outside a door marked "PRIVATE." Text: "What would you do? / . . . with a good suggestion, if you had to / present it personally to the chief ... and found a/dozen people waiting to see him ahead of you? / You'd probably say, 'Oh, well—I'll see / him some other time!' . . . And then—most/likely—you'd forget all about it.../ That's why we have our suggestion system!/ USE • THE • CABINET" Vertical-format poster with central illustration of steam train and earlier engine. Text: PROGRESS / The gap between these two types of locomo-/tive was bridged by ideas!/ One improvement led to another, and finally a / great, steel, power-giant grew out of the crude / mechanism of years ago./ Suggestions played a vital part—for ideas and/suggestions go hand in hand. / THINK!" Vertical-format poster with illustration of junk hauler and horse-drawn cart. Text: JUNK/ What is our contribution to the junk pile through /WASTE?/ How can we save material and/cut down needless expense?/SEND IN A Practical SUGGESTION" detail of corner of poster with copyright symbol and 1929 Morton Mfg. Co., Chicago. includes mysterious combination of letters and numbers, "CIRH-12"
April 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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#LakeErieReport🌊: tide's out.
March 29, 2025 at 8:39 PM