Marie Williams Chant
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Marie Williams Chant
@mwchant.bsky.social
digital archivist! specializing in artist archives, digital preservation, and new funding initiatives. philadelphian in seattle (go birds).
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As 2025 comes to an end, we’re digging back into our archives to revisit some of our favorite stories of the year. 🎉

Here are just a few we've posted so far...

www.thestranger.com/arts/2025/05...
Magnetic Tapes Hold Decades of Our History, and They’re Disintegrating
Libby Hopfauf and Annalise Nicholson are in a race against time, and against tape.
www.thestranger.com
December 27, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I have been working at the Museum of Glass since 2023 (first as a consultant, now as staff). We were so thrilled to receive IMLS funding last September for this project. I’m genuinely devastated to see two years of work destroyed in the blink of an eye.
The Institute of Museum and Library Services is among several federal agencies whose functions and workforce were effectively dismantled through Trump’s latest executive order.
Trump Moves to Dismantle Institute of Museum and Library Services
An executive order demands workforce and operation reductions “that the President has determined are unnecessary” at the IMLS and several agencies.
hyperallergic.com
March 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.
Announcing the Data.gov Archive | Library Innovation Lab
Today we released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complet...
lil.law.harvard.edu
February 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
wow smiling through it all, can't believe this is my life (going to vancouver to see rilo kiley)
February 5, 2025 at 7:45 PM