NOBODY HAS EVER HEARD THIS FAMOUS CRYSTAL FLUTE BEFORE NOW YOU HAVE IM THE FIRST & ONLY PERSON TO EVER PLAY THIS PRESIDENTIAL 200-YEAR-OLD CRYSTAL FLUTE— THANK YOU Library of Congress ❤️

Historical instruments being played & remaining functional >>> historical clothing being worn & damaged 👏🏻

Today, we address a historic injustice by returning the Benin Bronzes, magnificent examples of Benin's culture and history. Through this repatriation, we acknowledge a legacy of cultural theft and do our part to return African culture to Africans. Shown here: bronze plaque.

"The legacy of the movies is … that my children's generation will show them to their children. So you could be watching it in 50 years' time, easy. I'll not be here, sadly, but... Hagrid will, yes” Thank you Robbie Coltrane 🙏

Today is World Digital Preservation Day and time for my annual reminder (with a new graphic) that #Digitisation is not #DigitalPreservation. A thread 1/5 #WDPD2022

67% of library book snowmen are named MARC

Digital archives are wonderful but also fragile and terrifying. wapo.st/3HUu0tP

Why don’t rare book professionals wear white gloves when handling books? Short answer: to protect them! 🙌 To learn more about why – and where the white glove myth came from – check out my new episode of #BiteSizedBookHistory 📚 youtu.be/cDMpuIlxKPg

Based on work I did as a graduate student with Diana Marsh at the @iSchoolUMD, I'm very excited my first peer-reviewed paper is out!

Diana Marsh, Travis Wagner, & recent MLIS graduate Selena St. Andre published an article that showcases possible (re)uses of important primary source data in archives, but also highlights that barriers to access create a gap in exploiting that potential. fal.cn/3vX3Y

Our audio cassette digitization station is up and running again! Today we digitized parts 1 and 2 of Alex Haley's speech at the 1972 NEA convention.

With the Carrier Library renovation and expansion getting closer everyday...this poem hits different. Feeling nostalgic, sentimental, and excited for the future! A Library / Nikki Giovanni search.lib.jmu.edu/permalink/01JM…

Shoutout to all library staff on National Library Workers Day! Thank you for all you do—today and every day—to make a powerful difference in people’s lives and communities. Libraries work because YOU do! #NLWD23 #NationalLibraryWeek

📣 Come work with me! #archivesjobs

Peak archives social media thread

Thank you to our new archivist friends for visiting us and the creepy George heads today! A great way to start #saa23

#DYK GW and the movie #Oppenheimer have a connection? Edward Teller, Robert Oppenheimer and other scientists were here for the Washington Conference on Theoretical Physics in 1947. GW University gelmanlibrary 🧵

On this #NationalBookLoversDay, we were pleased to see in this brochure from the NEA Collection that the American Library Association has a long history of supporting books for everybody, back in 1920 and today. Am Lib Assn Archives

We celebrate "improper" women every month over here, but ESPECIALLY during #WomensHistoryMonth 🧡 Our exhibition, Rising Up, highlights some of those very women who fought back against discriminatory policies at UMD in the 1920s.

WHOOOOO WANTS IT⁉️ RT for a chance to win (18+) Rules/Eligibility ➡️ Link in Bio