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This is unreal. The 2026 code4lib conference has been cancelled unilaterally by Carnegie Mellon University because the Department of Education raised issues with the diversity scholarships:
> An applicant must be a member of a group not well-represented within the code4lib community, including […]
> An applicant must be a member of a group not well-represented within the code4lib community, including […]
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merveilles.town
December 4, 2025 at 10:25 PM
This is unreal. The 2026 code4lib conference has been cancelled unilaterally by Carnegie Mellon University because the Department of Education raised issues with the diversity scholarships:
> An applicant must be a member of a group not well-represented within the code4lib community, including […]
> An applicant must be a member of a group not well-represented within the code4lib community, including […]
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LISTSERV 16.5 - CODE4LIB Archives
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December 5, 2025 at 2:36 AM
what the fuuuuuck lists.clir.org/cgi-bin/wa?A...
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Director of Barnard Archives and Special Collections barnard.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Staff/... Salary range: $120,000–$125,000 annually, commensurate with experience. Please submit your application by January 5, 2026 to be considered.
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Director of Barnard Archives and Special Collections
If you are a current Barnard College employee, please use the internal career site to apply for this position. Job: Director of Barnard Archives and Special Collections Position Summary The Director o...
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December 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Director of Barnard Archives and Special Collections barnard.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Staff/... Salary range: $120,000–$125,000 annually, commensurate with experience. Please submit your application by January 5, 2026 to be considered.
PASS IT ON 📚 📜
PASS IT ON 📚 📜
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This! Take time to plan and fortify and relish the world we want to build. Libraries can be such a central piece of that.
If you are a justice-minded person in Chicago, there's a good chance you are exhausted and catching your breath in the wake of the CBP surges here in recent months, but we can't just fight what's evil in these times. We must also fortify and defend what's good. We must defend our libraries.
You Can’t Fight Fascism While Defunding Libraries
“Libraries embody everything that we need right now to fight back against fascism," says Sara Heymann.
organizingmythoughts.org
December 4, 2025 at 1:20 AM
This! Take time to plan and fortify and relish the world we want to build. Libraries can be such a central piece of that.
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This is really important. Both in the fact of IMLS reinstating grants. (Which have been *crucial* for libraries and civic life across the country. Notably in rural areas.)
And in the example that the overall stalwartness and rigor of federal district/circuit courts has made a huge difference.
And in the example that the overall stalwartness and rigor of federal district/circuit courts has made a huge difference.
IMLS announces "upon further review" that it is reinstating all federal grants to libraries. It leaves out that it's doing this because a federal court told them a few weeks ago that the Trump admin's decision to destroy libraries was not legal.
www.imls.gov/news/stateme...
www.imls.gov/news/stateme...
Statement of Agency’s Reinstatement of Terminated IMLS Grants
Statement of Agency’s Reinstatement of Terminated IMLS Grants Washington, DC– Upon further review, the Institute of Museum and Library Services has reinstated all federal grants. This action supersede...
www.imls.gov
December 3, 2025 at 10:43 PM
This is really important. Both in the fact of IMLS reinstating grants. (Which have been *crucial* for libraries and civic life across the country. Notably in rural areas.)
And in the example that the overall stalwartness and rigor of federal district/circuit courts has made a huge difference.
And in the example that the overall stalwartness and rigor of federal district/circuit courts has made a huge difference.
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The Huntington Library was established over 100 years ago, and now the new Valerie J. Bower exhibit is opening long-awaited doors for L.A. artists.
The full story: lataco.com/valeriej-bow...
By Nya Manneh
The full story: lataco.com/valeriej-bow...
By Nya Manneh
December 2, 2025 at 9:43 PM
The Huntington Library was established over 100 years ago, and now the new Valerie J. Bower exhibit is opening long-awaited doors for L.A. artists.
The full story: lataco.com/valeriej-bow...
By Nya Manneh
The full story: lataco.com/valeriej-bow...
By Nya Manneh
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"In the scattered, freelance-heavy world of audio archivists, Iron Mountain is seen more as the big gorilla of the business than as a collaborative partner. 'If they have some magic formula,... it’d be nice for the rest of us to find out what it is so we can help other people’s tapes.'"
The ‘Race Against Time’ to Save Music Legends’ Decaying Tapes
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:23 AM
"In the scattered, freelance-heavy world of audio archivists, Iron Mountain is seen more as the big gorilla of the business than as a collaborative partner. 'If they have some magic formula,... it’d be nice for the rest of us to find out what it is so we can help other people’s tapes.'"
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Barton Lidice Beneš, AIDS Museum (Reliquarium), 1999, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum #WorldAIDSDay
December 1, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Barton Lidice Beneš, AIDS Museum (Reliquarium), 1999, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum #WorldAIDSDay
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I wrote a workbook earlier this year about taking risks in higher ed. The premise is that the current moment requires us to take action to advance our principles in a context of repression and fear. The reality is this can put our jobs and our safety at risk.
halperta.com/shalperta%20...
halperta.com/shalperta%20...
Taking Action in Higher Ed
Taking Action for Higher Education is a workbook to assist university workers in assessing personal risk and making decisions about how and when to take action to resist fascism.
halperta.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I wrote a workbook earlier this year about taking risks in higher ed. The premise is that the current moment requires us to take action to advance our principles in a context of repression and fear. The reality is this can put our jobs and our safety at risk.
halperta.com/shalperta%20...
halperta.com/shalperta%20...
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A new show at Miami's Museum of Graffiti traces the origins and development of street art. What began in the 1970s with teenagers tagging New York subway cars has grown into a worldwide art movement. n.pr/44J1CFs
From subways to galleries: Miami's Museum of Graffiti traces the appeal of street art
A new show at Miami's Museum of Graffiti traces the origins and development of street art. What began in the 1970s with teenagers tagging New York subway cars has grown into a worldwide art movement.
n.pr
December 1, 2025 at 8:38 PM
A new show at Miami's Museum of Graffiti traces the origins and development of street art. What began in the 1970s with teenagers tagging New York subway cars has grown into a worldwide art movement. n.pr/44J1CFs
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Northwestern University offered bland reassurance to trans students and faculty after signing a deal with the Trump administration that sacrificed them for restored funding.
More here from the peerless @valorievandieman.bsky.social:
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
More here from the peerless @valorievandieman.bsky.social:
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Northwestern Folds to Pressure, Betraying Trans Students — Assigned
Leading Off: Northwestern University reached an agreement with the Department of Education on Friday to restore federal funding which would remove virtually all protections for transgender students an...
www.assignedmedia.org
December 1, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Northwestern University offered bland reassurance to trans students and faculty after signing a deal with the Trump administration that sacrificed them for restored funding.
More here from the peerless @valorievandieman.bsky.social:
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
More here from the peerless @valorievandieman.bsky.social:
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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The Los Angeles Press Club is hosting their annual National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards this week, and my February piece on the HEA is nominated in the “Online Commentary/Trend, Other Arts” category! Im very proud of it! www.zocalopublicsquare.org/romance-genr...
Happily Ever After Is for Everyone | Essay
The romance genre has a single set-in-stone rule: The main characters of the story will end up happily in a relationship. The HEA (Happily Ever After) or the HFN (Happy for Now) is the expectation of ...
www.zocalopublicsquare.org
December 1, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The Los Angeles Press Club is hosting their annual National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards this week, and my February piece on the HEA is nominated in the “Online Commentary/Trend, Other Arts” category! Im very proud of it! www.zocalopublicsquare.org/romance-genr...
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"Q: Does the @librarycongress.bsky.social replacement of MEXICO, GULF OF and DENALI, Mount (ALASKA) as subject terms following a Trumpian decree represent a case of abrogation of professional judgment and autonomy?"
preview of Sandy Berman's auto-interview coming soon to my website 📚 #sandynistas
preview of Sandy Berman's auto-interview coming soon to my website 📚 #sandynistas
December 1, 2025 at 1:23 AM
"Q: Does the @librarycongress.bsky.social replacement of MEXICO, GULF OF and DENALI, Mount (ALASKA) as subject terms following a Trumpian decree represent a case of abrogation of professional judgment and autonomy?"
preview of Sandy Berman's auto-interview coming soon to my website 📚 #sandynistas
preview of Sandy Berman's auto-interview coming soon to my website 📚 #sandynistas
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University of Iowa Center for the Book fosters annual kozo tree harvest for Japanese-style paper 📜
www.thegazette.com/news/univers...
www.thegazette.com/news/univers...
This special paper is used to preserve the Constitution — and it's made in Coralville.
Every fall in Coralville, the University of Iowa's Center for the Book hosts one of only two mulberry harvests by universities in the country. The ancient Japanese tradition remains a key to preservin...
www.thegazette.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
University of Iowa Center for the Book fosters annual kozo tree harvest for Japanese-style paper 📜
www.thegazette.com/news/univers...
www.thegazette.com/news/univers...
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So I just went through and put all of the 2025 contingent-authored pieces from a journal in my subfield on the list. You can do the same if you want to boost contingent scholars in your subfield! It only took me 10 minutes.
Today's the last day to submit for our end-of-year publication lists. We're soliciting monographs, journal articles, and book chapters by contingent historians with a 2025 pub date! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
November 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
So I just went through and put all of the 2025 contingent-authored pieces from a journal in my subfield on the list. You can do the same if you want to boost contingent scholars in your subfield! It only took me 10 minutes.
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TODAY: Carrie Frye has some VERY good news about the archives of The Hairpin after a "horrifying zombie afterlife"!!!! flaminghydra.com/women-laughi...
Women Laughing Again On The Internet
Sometime last year the online archives of The Awl—the influential blog that ran from 2009-2018, and former home of many a Flaming Hydra contributor—went out, like a light switching off. Meanwhile, the...
flaminghydra.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:26 AM
TODAY: Carrie Frye has some VERY good news about the archives of The Hairpin after a "horrifying zombie afterlife"!!!! flaminghydra.com/women-laughi...
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Please share widely! 📜
RBMS 2026 CFP (with some changes this year to session formats): web.cvent.com/event/0f0104...
The planning spreadsheet is in the re-blogged post.
RBMS 2026 CFP (with some changes this year to session formats): web.cvent.com/event/0f0104...
The planning spreadsheet is in the re-blogged post.
November 24, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Please share widely! 📜
RBMS 2026 CFP (with some changes this year to session formats): web.cvent.com/event/0f0104...
The planning spreadsheet is in the re-blogged post.
RBMS 2026 CFP (with some changes this year to session formats): web.cvent.com/event/0f0104...
The planning spreadsheet is in the re-blogged post.
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"Ongoing digitization and cataloging work not only serves the interests of scholars and manuscript communities—it also creates crucial, publicly-accessible provenance records that provide an increasingly robust bulwark against manuscript theft and trafficking."
hmml.org/stories/reve...
hmml.org/stories/reve...
Reversal of Fates: Access Through Photographs can be a Counterbalance
“Cultural losses continue to beset communities around the world, especially in areas subject to armed conflict...”
hmml.org
November 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
"Ongoing digitization and cataloging work not only serves the interests of scholars and manuscript communities—it also creates crucial, publicly-accessible provenance records that provide an increasingly robust bulwark against manuscript theft and trafficking."
hmml.org/stories/reve...
hmml.org/stories/reve...
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Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
Books Not Bars 2025 Holiday Campaign
BOOKS NOT BARS FOR THE HOLIDAYS
Haymarket Books is committed to making our books available for free to people who are incarcerated.
In an effort to support those inside who are dealing with the imm...
haymarketbooks.app.neoncrm.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
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Amidst so much that is lamentable, I’d like to share this wonderful film I learned about last night, via Anthology Film Archives 🥰
OMG! In 1970 Hiler + Dorsky "collaborated on... an industrial film commissioned by NJ’s Sussex County Area Reference Library, whose local branch Dorsky and Hiler frequented first as patrons, then eventually as projectionists and programmers for the library’s 16mm screenings" - ft Tony Conrad :)
Library (1970) by Nathaniel Dorsky & Jerome Hiler
YouTube video by For All People
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Amidst so much that is lamentable, I’d like to share this wonderful film I learned about last night, via Anthology Film Archives 🥰
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We announced yesterday that the Black Zine Fair will be back on May 9, 2026. We'll be hosted for the 3rd year by @powerhousearts.bsky.social. Save the Date!
November 23, 2025 at 5:14 PM
We announced yesterday that the Black Zine Fair will be back on May 9, 2026. We'll be hosted for the 3rd year by @powerhousearts.bsky.social. Save the Date!
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The African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund at the National Trust for Historic Preservation has completed the full rehabilitation of the humble, three-room clapboard house in Tryon, NC, where singer & civil rights activist Nina Simone was born. savingplaces.org/stories/nina...
5 Things to Know About the Nina Simone Childhood Home Project | National Trust for Historic Preservation
Explore the newly restored home of singer and civil rights activist Nina Simone in Tryon, North Carolina.
savingplaces.org
November 22, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund at the National Trust for Historic Preservation has completed the full rehabilitation of the humble, three-room clapboard house in Tryon, NC, where singer & civil rights activist Nina Simone was born. savingplaces.org/stories/nina...
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Remember: www.ms.now/opinion/msnb...
November 22, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Remember: www.ms.now/opinion/msnb...