Diane Dias De Fazio. MDes, MSHP, MSLIS, MA (soon: MBA)
@archibrarian.bsky.social
Editor, RBM journal. Appraiser-in-training, AAoA. #Escalator historian. Architecture, art, special collections. #LakeErieReport🌊 pics. 📚📜 #BookSky Cover: Agnes Denes at Socrates Sculpture Park.
#BookSky Grolier Club public virtual event! Centuries of the Black Press in America: Alvin Patrick, Frankie Hutton (The Early Black Press in America, 1827–1860), and Mark Whitaker, fm. editor of Newsweek and first African American to lead a national newsmagazine. www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-ex...
[Virtual] Exhibition Program | Centuries of the Black Press in America
With Alvin Patrick, Frankie Hutton, Mark Whitaker
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#LakeErieReport 🌊: Late-summer sunset, followed by morning coffee, monarch butterfly migrations, and a surprise B-29 flyover.
I stood in the middle of E. Wisconsin Avenue so I could get this shot for you, America. * Mark di Suvero ("The Calling," 1981–2), and Santiago Calatrava (Quadracci Pavilion, Milwaukee Art Museum, 2001). #ArchibrarianOnTheRoad
#LakeErieReport🌊: double header edition—mom's 81st and Mother's Day. (I told her she couldn't squint or make a face.)
Some drawings related to the cartoon below: last panel/sketchbook doodles/original art.
Tom Gauld@tomgauld.bsky.social · 6mo agomy latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
It's #DraftDay, and what else could Pittsburgh special collections do to celebrate, but share Steelers scrapbooks, contributed by a former member of the organization? Of course. #NFLDraft #Steelers #EveryStoryBeginsWithADraft
Pulled a display out of thin air in about a half hour at work this morning, in the name of #SPORTS and NFL Draft Week:
Hashtag Library NFL Draft Swag.
Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion Francis Bacon, 1944. Oil paint and pastel on fiberboard 94 cm Ă— 74 cm (37 in Ă— 29 in)
Odds are, there's a visiting charismatic expert on megaflora—or maybe just an artist—in the Museum today....
Tracing an Application Timeline: #RBM Board hopefuls, your applications were delivered today! Next, we read! Then, ACRL editors write "a one-paragraph explanation for how each potential appointee will contribute to the work of your particular board,
Who do I know who has access to Curtis' North American Indian? Bonus question: does any institution have an incomplete set? If so, how do they address that?
#SomeNews: This is the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Oakland. Something really cool happened, and next month, I start a new job there, as Library Services Manager for Rare Books and Special Collections! 🖤💛
I'm going to 🇨🇱 next week—ay, dio! Gobsmacked by the support for my #escalator conference so far; thank you! You have a special place in my heart (and my acknowledgements). 🖤#ICYMI, I was persuaded to start a little thing: ⬇️ gofund.me/c594f0f2
Donate to Escalator Conference & Mom's 80th: Support a Special Trip!, organized by Diane Dias De Fazio
Way back in 2007, I wrote the first complete history of… Diane Dias De Fazio needs your support for Escalator Conference & Mom's 80th: Support a Special Trip!
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Fireflies. Fireflies on the Solstice.
Oh, hey! Rememberhow I got asked to present on #EscalatorHistory at a conference in Chile? It's next month! I started a GoFundMe to defray costs (and bring my 80-year-old Mom on the trip of a lifetime)! 🙏 Thanks for considering! gofund.me/c594f0f2
Donate to Support a Santiago Escalator Conference Trip: a Gift for Mom, organized by Diane Dias De Fazio
Way back in 2007, I wrote the first complete history of the e… Diane Dias De Fazio needs your support for Support a Santiago Escalator Conference Trip: a Gift for Mom
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Some block-printed (?) endpapers, to politely interrupt your doomscroll.... #Skybrarians #BookSky #Long18thCentury
đź“Ł Hot off the presses! Print copies of RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage now arriving! (Online open access available soon, too!) #Skybrarians #RBMSSky
It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.
