If you need a break from watching current coverage about the election and voting issues, explore an online exhibition from .Massachusetts Historical Society, "Who Counts? A Look at Voter Rights Through Political Cartoons": masshist.org/features/whoco…

Facts about "Facts are stubborn things" (Phrase used by John Adams and others) thanks to J. L. Bell: How Long Have Facts Been Stubborn Things? : boston1775.blogspot.com/2017/12/how-lo…

Thanks NH Public Radio! I really enjoyed this piece: Past Lives, Present Learnings: Preserving Black History Through Grave Sites tinyurl.com/y6cx4fgf

the cat staring at the camera kills me

Fun blog tour of Boston in 1846 inspired by Emily Dickinson, courtesy Massachusetts Historical Society! This piece has everything--lines of poetry, historical sources, and gives us a sense of what Dickinson saw as a traveler. masshist.org/beehiveblog/20…

An archivist’s work is never done! The MHS is seeking volunteers to help transcribe journals of an 1850s missionary to East Boston. Learn more and sign up at masshist.org/mymhs/

#DCCon22 Wow! @falpublib did so many creative projects with their collection of digitized postcards! So many great ways to engage the community

Exploring these projects thanks to #DCCon22 falmouthpubliclibrary.omeka.net/exhibits

#DCCon22 interesting walking tour project from University of Southern Maine combining local history collections, oral histories to tell the story of LGBTQ bars in Portland, Maine

#DCCon22 Just bookmarked this well-articulated work from Social Impact Lab on anti-oppreasive community engagement. Thanks to @gmecagni for presenting on this! cssh.northeastern.edu/impactlab/sil-…

#DCCon22 Great update from Boston Public Library about latest development work on (and usage of) Digital Commonwealth repository! Digital Commonwealth Good work BPL staff, Digital Commonwealth board/volunteers and contributing institutions!

While I hope many of you know that 7-11 is free slurpee day, please also remember to celebrate John Quincy Adams's birthday today! Read on for a link to a great article about his diaries, and keep following the tweets below for some quotes from his diaries!

Attending an interesting session about CAW (Community Archiving Workshop) #saa2022 Thank you Amy Sloper for sharing a quote from one of the participanta in a CAW workshop about AV preservation, "Working together as a group is how we should always be working."

The session re: Community Archiving Workshops has great ex of how the hands-on approach brings people together,helps kick-start ways to inventory & identify AV materials. One participant at a workshop said, "Working together as a group is how we should always be working." #saa22

My brain and eyes are experiencing Information and irony in #301, Reimaging Access session. As i was hearing about a great resource--Alt- Text as Poetry (website) the captions in the screen were: "All Texas Poetry"! #saa22

Want to know more about remote volunteer transcription, and how it really works? Read all in this Beehive blog: bit.ly/3SNBlwX #MHS1791 #Transcribe #Beehive #Blog

On days like today I wonder if my county or state could redesign the local "I Voted" sticker to look something like the new sticket from Ulster County, NY??

#DYK that #StPatricksDay is also #EvacuationDay in #Boston? Read about the British occupation of Boston & their "Evacuation" on 3.17.1776, in the diaries of John Rowe: bit.ly/3FtLwTG. Transcription project: masshist.org/mymhs/ #MHS1791

200 years ago JQA dined with Harrison Gray Otis in Boston and in 1823, that would have been the 3rd HGO house, current home to American Meteorological Society , if I am not mistaken.