User experience research surrounding a complex flow with multiple roles- this session was a lot of fun and uncovered MVP tacit user expectations. Throwback to any Choose Your Own Adventure nerds #TBT #UX

I am enchanted by IRENE. blogs.loc.gov/loc/2026/04/...

A (tiny) recording of Amelia Earhart’s 1932 London speech, played for the first time | Timeless

A reference librarian stumbled across a tiny recording of a speech by Amelia Earhart tucked inside a copy of her 1932 memoir, published soon after she became the first woman (and the second person) to...

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#c4l26

New books in March offer a mental vacation www.npr.org/2026/03/03/n...

10 new books in March offer mental vacations

March is always a big one for books – this year is no different. We call out a handful of upcoming titles for readers to put on their radars — offering a good alternative to doomscrolling.

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Until I visited the site yesterday, I'd missed that an appeals court had stayed the ordered restoration of the slavery exhibit at the President's House in Independence NHP in Philly. It's now only partially restored, with some community-added supplements […]

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J. Nathan Matias@natematias.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Attending Code4Lib remotely & I am *impressed* by how accessible they have made this conference. They had a venue canceled by CMU for politics, moved cities, & are still putting many orgs to shame by how inclusive it is to people with disabilities. Librarians y'all 💪🏼📚🌈 code4lib.org/conference/2...

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Denali@denali.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Oh and also LLMs steal people's work while libraries index and archive things so you can trace the lineage of an idea or an argument and understand it in context.

Amazing talk at #c4l26 by Yale’s Summer Shetenhelm on the ethics of AI within libraries

20 years of creating digital surrogates at the independently run, community focused queer archives in Canada- bit rot, human error/malice, natural disaster, viruses, and all the managed activities that work to preserve them against the tide of time and change #c4l26 #code4lib arquives.ca

Home - The ArQuives

The world's largest independent resource for those who strive for a future world where lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people are accepted, valued, and celebrated.

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Watch along from home- 3 free days of excellent community driven skill sharing #code4lib #c4l26 Volunteering Monday/Wednesday if you’re on site in Philly (say hi!). 2026.code4lib.org

Nightingale explicates the Black press as infrastructure (a robust system with redundancies, distribution) and explains how digitization has the potential to support or obscure that infrastructure. 📚 #code4lib #c4l26

❄️🐕❄️

Judge Orders Trump Administration to Restore Displays About Slavery at Washington’s House 📚 (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/u...

Judge Orders Trump Administration to Restore Displays About Slavery at Washington’s House

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This week in existential art: Max Earnst’s stunning Triumph of Surrealism (1937) as seen at the PMA compliments the vibes of this student work on campus.

Newly acquired Louisa May Alcott collections at the Concord Free Public Library (MA) 📜https://concordlibrary.org/events/library-news/from-a-new-eden-in-concord-to-little-women-unveiling-the-new-alcott-collections

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology

She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

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Having foundational fiction ruined is not more important than the lives impacted by ethically ruinous rich and powerful people. Read -other books- Love -other universes- Reject -predatory people-

Marty Cahill@mcflycahill90.bsky.social · 9mo ago

ICYMI, Gai*man is slinking out of the shadows and posting again, trying to scuttle his way back into the public's good graces. Please take care of yourselves, believe women, believe survivors, and fuck that guy.

Key to my new home office seems a touch big but hey! Can’t beat the natural light and cute coworker:

Yes the dog is pleased 🐕❄️❄️❄️

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/a...

Humanities Endowment Awarding Millions to Western Civilization Programs

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As seen in recent library tourism:

Eve going to apple town while hanging with serpent Lilith was the best part of the gender & sexuality show at my favorite place on the east coast 🍎🐍

#NollaignamBan During WWII Kay McNulty was one of the women who devised processing routines for the ENIAC machine, establishing how artificial intelligence developed. At the public launch in 1946 the women programmers were relegated to the role of hostesses. www.dib.ie/biography/mc...

17 predictions for AI in 2026 - Timothy B Lee & others www.understandingai.org/p/17-predictio… (interesting predictions)

Critical Ignoring as a Core Competence for Digital Citizens pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC76… #InformationLiteracy

Critical Ignoring as a Core Competence for Digital Citizens

Low-quality and misleading information online can hijack people’s attention, often by evoking curiosity, outrage, or anger. Resisting certain types of information and actors online requires people to adopt new mental habits that help them avoid ...

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Well at least no one’s dying anymore… oh

Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA@michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The U.S. is in the middle of a 12th wave of COVID. Career scientists at the CDC summarized this week in JAMA Internal Medicine that COVID continues to directly cause >100,000 deaths/year, with many excess deaths on top of that. More at pmc19.com/data

Texas A&M Warns Professor Not to Teach Plato Because of Gender Rules www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...

Texas A&M, Under New Curriculum Limits, Warns Professor Not to Teach Plato

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