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Molly Hardy

@mollyhardy.bsky.social

Public Data at Harvard's Library Innovation Lab. Preservation, Critical Cataloging, Herbaria, Bibliography, Archives, Old News, Book History, Copyright, Early America’s fictions. Gardening for Native Habitat. Opinions mine. She/Her

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Library Innovation Lab@harvardlil.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New blogpost from the #PublicDataProject! Project Lead Molly Hardy reflects on our #AI benchmarking exercise, which grew out of our partnership with @dataindex.us and is part of our efforts to build a data monitoring tool. Read more on the LIL blog: lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2026/06...

An Automated Data Monitoring Toolkit and the AI Benchmarking Exercise at the Public Data Project | Library Innovation Lab

The Library Innovation Lab is growing knowledge and community by bringing library principles to technological frontiers.

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James R Jacobs@freegovinfo.bsky.social · 3mo ago

“Libraries and Public Access to Federal Data”. @csmarcum.bsky.social interviewed by Public Data Project. Thanks @harvardlil.bsky.social for posting this great interview. freegovinfo.info/node/15026/

“Libraries and Public Access to Federal Data”. Chris Marcum interviewed by Public Data Project - Free Government Information (FGI)

(full disclosure: I am a board member on the Public Data Project) On May 7, 2026, Molly Hardy, Project Lead for the Public Data Project, sat down for an interview with Chris Marcum, Senior Fellow for ...

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Molly Hardy@mollyhardy.bsky.social · 8mo ago

So grateful to have brilliant historian comrades and friends to think through these ideas w @ldicuirci.bsky.social & @andy-schocket.bsky.social as well as a-mazing colleagues @harvardlil.bsky.social

Library Innovation Lab@harvardlil.bsky.social · 8mo ago

When might digital provenance matter? Could we imagine it being used to right past wrongs, to return objects to their rightful places, to restore justice? Our Public Data Project's @mollyhardy.bsky.social reflects on copying gov data & principles of provenance lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/12...

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 9mo ago

You were blonde woman, thick head of hair, maybe late 40s or early 50s at RDU TSA checkpoint this morning. Traveling with your parents. Handling the luggage, their spatial awareness & strangers’. Got them to the lounge. Just want to say, I know an eldest/only daughter GOAT when I see one 🫡

Molly Hardy@mollyhardy.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Come for this pitcher commemorating the first Federal Census and stay for my plea for rethinking data. Thanks to @jmheberling.bsky.social for the inspiration and to @kawulf.bsky.social for the encouragement.

Guest Post - Rethinking Disciplinary Data Regimes - The Scholarly Kitchen

Between a political policy environment focused on defunding and deleting data collections – an environment in which little can be trusted – and an onslaught of new AI tools that feed indiscriminately ...

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Kelly Smith@kellylsmith.bsky.social · 11mo ago

As a government information librarian who archives a lot of federal web pages, I strongly recommend this approach. The Internet Archive and similar tools are great, but, as mentioned here, are imperfect tools and there is just too much uncertainty about continued access to federal resources.

Sarah J. Jackson@sjjphd.bsky.social · 11mo ago

This moment is disturbing even in the mundane: I’ve started taking screenshots of historical sources I’m using in research from the national park service, the smithsonian, and the national archives, just in case they get taken down. It’s now a part of my process and takes time I have to plan for.

Data Rescue Project #DataRescue@datarescueproject.org · last yr.

The Data Rescue Project has launched the Data Rescue Project Portal (www.datarescueproject.org/data-rescue-...). It is a dashboard for our tracker and provide more visibility for data rescues across the DR community. It is still in beta & we welcome any feedback. We hope that you find it useful. ❤️🛟

Data Rescue Project Launches New Portal

The Data Rescue Project (DRP) is excited to announce the launch of the DRP Portal—a milestone in our collective effort to protect and preserve at-risk public information. As of June 2025, DRP voluntee...

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NEH Union - AFGE L3403@nehafge3403.bsky.social · last yr.

Every grant listed here represents hundreds of hours of work: from our applicants who submit proposals, to the program staff and peer reviewers who read them, to the grant managers who oversee awards. Are we just supposed to accept the abrupt termination of all this labor? #NEH #humanities

Jessica Otis@jmotis.bsky.social · last yr.

Want to see the scope of what the NEH grant terminations is? The ACH ( @ach.bsky.social ) has compiled a database: impact.ach.org

Lindsay DiCuirci@ldicuirci.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨At midnight DOGE terminated all #NEH grants via a letter that claims they “no longer effectuate the agency’s needs and priorities” & adds “the termination of your grant represents an urgent priority for the administration.” Unreal & enraging. Flood the phones, join #HandsOff on Saturday

Jason Rhody@jasonrhody.bsky.social · last yr.

A few tips for NEH grantees: 1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP. 2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,

NEH Union - AFGE L3403@nehafge3403.bsky.social · last yr.

We had planned to make a post this morning celebrating 100+ bluesky followers for the #NEH union #AFGE 3403. Instead, we are learning that a large number of our members were placed on Administrative Leave at almost midnight last night, cut off from our systems, and facing unknown days ahead.

Deidre Lynch@drbibliomane.bsky.social · last yr.

Just finished rereading Charlotte Brontë's Villette, & this time round, its ending strikes me as one of the most romantic ever, maybe b/c I inhabit an age of hiring freezes & academic precarity. M. Paul loves Lucy Snowe, & to demonstrate it, he gives her a classroom in which to teach. Swoon! #19thc

Illustration to Villette--showing a young woman in 19th century dress, swept by the wind, in front of the double door of an imposing building; the words "Pensionnat de Demoiselles" carved above the doorway.
Sean Vanatta@seanvanatta.bsky.social · last yr.

Thrilled my book, Plastic Capitalism, was named a finalist for the Business History Conference's (@businesshistoryc.bsky.social) 2025 Hagley Prize and received an honourable mention for the 2025 Ralph Gomory Prize. @yalebooks.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Plastic Capitalism

How bankers created the modern consumer credit economy and destroyed financial stability in the process   “As much as it enriches our scholarship, Vanatta...

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Natalie Davis@nataliedavis.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · last yr.

A St Patrick’s Day Socialist Guide to Irish Film and TV https://jacobin.com/2025/03/st-patricks-day-irish-film/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #socialism

A St Patrick’s Day Socialist Guide to Irish Film and TV

From Dancing at Lughnasa to The Wind That Shakes the Barley, from Peaky Blinders to Kneecap, here’s a list of Irish-themed films and TV shows for the discerning left-wing viewer — including the time Jackie Chan took on the IRA.

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pam lach@plach.bsky.social · last yr.

Here’s an explainer re possible impacts to the Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS). It “enumerates which programs are "shall" programs and duties, meaning that they are mandated by Congress, and which programs are "may" programs, meaning that they are discretionary for IMLS”

Understanding IMLS's “Shall” and “May” Language

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