Students are back on campus! 🥳 They’re vaccinated! 🥳 They forgot how to walk at NYC speed 😶

Unprocessed collections say trans rights 🤘🤘🤘

When a donor visits on short notice and everyone starts scrambling

Really appreciated @ChaitraPeezy 's thoughtful presentation on the UNC Library Community-Driven Archives project. Reflections on the practical and ethical impacts of grant-based project funding on community engagement work especially resonated. blogs.lib.unc.edu/community-driv…

My brother just sent this to me. Bah indeed!

Misread an Archival Outlook headline as “Deaccession the Police.” 🤔

Patrons being excited about work you did is pretty great, but coworkers responding “OMG YES” and CCing another colleague because they’re so excited feels like winning the lottery.

Professional ethics in action! Bravo Smithsonian washingtonpost.com/arts-entertain…

Far from my only quibble with the rare books and manuscripts market, but: I am *begging* dealers to create collection inventories in spreadsheets instead of Word documents. 😫

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It’s not always as easy as cold emailing someone to say “Hey, we have a thing you might be interested in using in your work, wanna come see it?” But sometimes it is, and it’s glorious!

Glad everyone here is also freaking out about how good Lizzo playing the Library of Congress crystal flute is. Just pure sunshine, a real day brightener and a serious accomplishment in outreach!