🤩We love a conservation highlight!! The Metropolitan Museum of Art
nytimes.com/2024/04/18/boo…

There is something especially tactile and enjoyable about handling a delightful & well printed book such as 'Singing Aloud', just printed & published by Incline Press in Oldham Incline Press It's a little treasure & in a Bawden Curwen Press pattern paper. #books NUL Preservation

Several NUP authors have just been awarded Guggenheim Fellowships! Infinite congratulations to David Mura and Vievee Francis.

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Deering Library, which has enchanted students, scholars and visitors for more than 90 years, is slated for a major renovation that will markedly improve the facility while preserving its history. After years of planning, the renovation will begin in June. libraries.nu/dnews24

Join us on Thurs, 4/11 at noon for the AI & Humanities Research Working Group! This session will be facilitated by Shekhar Pradhan Brown Data Science Institute. Pradhan has an interesting background in the humanities and CS. Reg: tinyurl.com/4xkfhcuv #BrownUniversity

Celebrate 25 years of CPL's #PoetryFest ! This year's headliners include Ada Limón (24th U.S. Poet Laureate), avery r. young (avery r. young, Chicago Poet Laureate), Daniel Borzutzky (National Book Award Winner) and more. Learn more: bit.ly/cplpoetry24

'Union Women Build the Future' Poster by Lincoln Cushing

From the Kheel Center Poster Collection, a great resource for studying the iconography of labor through time. #LaborHistory #Unions #KheelCenter

It was our honor to host the cast of “Shirley” including Regina King who portrays Rep. Shirley Chisholm, first African American woman to be elected to Congress.
During their visit to the Library of Congress they saw items from the Library’s Chisholm collection.
#WomensHistoryMonth

At The Washington Post, Philip Bump takes a deep dive into ALA's censorship data (with visualizations).
'...it’s not just that books are being targeted more often. It’s that they are being targeted en masse, often by a small group of people.'
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#UniteAgainstBookBans

👉New Blog Post Alert!
Learn about the treatment of a 15th C. illuminated choir book - reattaching flaking media using fish bladders, using a nebulizer, and looking at shiny things under a microscope!
sites.northwestern.edu/northwesternli…

The American Prison Writing Archive contains first-person writings of incarcerated individuals, including documentation of the major issues with information and library access.
Search for 'librar' to read experiences.
prisonwitness.org/about-the-arch…

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Let us help! Watch for details on our next free digitization program. More info At TexasArchive.org/round-up
#texas #80s #bighair #archives #TAMITurns20

We are two weeks away from our final Works in Progress series on March 27that 5:30 pm est. Join us to learn more about the archiving and the evolution of the Black Press.
See link to register. zoom.us/meeting/regist…

We've extended the nationally touring exhibition 'Evicted' by two weeks!  Drop in Thursdays & Fridays, 12-6 p.m. and Fridays & Saturdays, 12-5 p.m.

Learn more: nphm.org/programs/exhib…

Thanks to Newcity Chicago for their pick of our upcoming show 'A Little Truth: Fact and Fiction in Family Photography' art.newcity.com/2024/02/27/art…

It’s #FragileFriday , a hashtag we just made up to describe this brittle paper. Were hoping it just fixed itself?

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You will not want to miss the BMRC COMMUNITY SYMPOSIUM on March 13 at 11:30 am CT. Join us onsite or virtually! See flyer for more details.

If planning to attend virtually, please register using the QR code provided

Today’s #ArchivesHashtagParty is #ArchivesWomenInSTEM !
Here’s a sampling of the sciencey things out mostly-women dept deals with daily: paper pH, carbon, cellulose acetate, aspergillus, lignin, and multispectral imaging.

More art + science at the link:
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Enjoy the Dune-centric collection items in this thread!

And today's Fun Film Fact: those blobby white lines between the picture and the sprocket holes of the 35mm film is the optical soundtrack. 🎶🗨️🏜️🪱