#OhioArchivists it's #OhioArchivesMonth poster time again! Seeking archival images related to the theme “America 250: Unique Ohio.” Due by April 4.
Details: ohioarchivists.org/archives-mon... #ArchivesMonth #Archives
Travel scholarships to Midwest Archives Conference/Society of Ohio Archivists joint annual meeting in Columbus, May 14-16. Applications due 3/13! Six available for students & new professionals.
Details: ohioarchivists.org/scholarships...
#OhioArchivists
Processing the #OHIOUniversity Multicultural Center Records.📄
Interview with our fall semester #OHIOUniversityArchives interns Arden Wells (Classical Civ '27) & Danielle Rymer (Art History '26).
NEW Mahn Blog describing working w #archives of the now closed Center: https://bit.ly/mahnblog-mccrecords
Passionate about #PublicHistory, journalism, #CulturalPreservation, #DigitalArchives, #HBCU radio?
HBCU Radio Preservation Project Summer Graduate #Internship (paid). Help preserve powerful HBCU radio legacy with hands-on work rooted in culture/community.
Close 3/27.
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Save the date #OhioArchivists! Dr Colleen Shogan, 11th Archivist of the US, will be keynote speaker on 9/11/26 at Ohio University for CRHC Biennial Conference 250 Years: The Promises & Legacy of the Declaration of Independence. There's also a CFP: www.ohio.edu/cas/central-...
Check out this coverage of Ohio State University Libraries AV digitization in story 1 & 2!
1. One big thing: Reviving historic media.
2. 📽️ Cinema Revival showcases archival footage.
#Archives #digitization
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THIRD PRINTING ALERT: This is my first book and @wehere.bsky.social's first book. The response has been overwhelming (two small printing selling out in a matter of days), but also has meant a bit of lead time in-between. If you've read and enjoyed, please share this out so more folks can explore!
Register now for 3/25 #OhioDIG VIRTUAL "FADGI for the Rest of Us: Accessible Image Quality Management" w/ cochairs of our Phase One UG, Matt Carissimi & Erin Wilson.
Free as always thanks to volunteer presenters, programmers, hosts! 📷
#digitization #archives #FADGI
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With sorrow, we announce the passing of FOBAZI M. ETTARH 1989 - 2026. Fobazi changed so many lives with her friendship, love, and brilliance. She was so loved, and leaves behind a powerful legacy. We thank Fobazi's community for their support over the last several months of her illness. A private burial will be held for family. We will be in touch with further information about a future Celebration of Life event, as well as ways to support Fobazi's family and legacy.
POSTPONED. We'll reschedule this soon!
Heavy snowfall in this article, January 1884: “the deepest snow which has fallen here since 1818... next great snow storm was in 1856... [16 in] of snow fell.”
Anne Elizabeth Broadwell’s diary, 1883-1885.
Finding aid: https://bit.ly/aspace-hatch-frost-broadwell
#diary #snow #MariettaOhio #archives
If you have graduate students working with medieval manuscripts this free online training might be useful 👇
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Great read!
And check out our #OttoEge 50 Leaves online at bit.ly/ege-50origin...
![View looking at the open Archives doors into its lobby. Screens, signage, and office doors show. Text overlay: Welcome! Archives Spring Semester Hours. Visit M-F, 9AM-12PM & 1-4PM. Use our form to schedule appointments w/ curators [link]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:folqnlgeu5xlntyhz4lcx47e/bafkreicetnzezqldcal3xtkgezrzub26m37gsszwpmrkzsqhwfkggwcfti)
View looking at the open Archives doors into its lobby. Screens, signage, and office doors show. Text overlay: Welcome! Archives Spring Semester Hours. Visit M-F, 9AM-12PM & 1-4PM. Use our form to schedule appointments w/ curators [link]
Visit Archives & Special Collections M-F 9AM-12PM & 1-4PM to see our exhibits, browse reference collection, restful coloring/Legos break.
Everyone welcome! Find us: #OHIOUniversity @aldenlibrary.bsky.social on 5th fl.
Schedule appt for research/view materials: bit.ly/oulibraries-....
#Archives
Join us! Register by 5pm (Eastern) today (Fri 1/23). #DigiPres #OhioDIG
No surprise to librarians, but perhaps surprising to users, demands/prices for ebooks /audiobooks are killing public library budgets. David Szalay's book, Flesh,” costs DCPL:
$28.99 hardcopy
$59.99 ebook
$69.99 audiobook
DCPL owns hardcopy; rents & must repurchase ebook & audio book every 2 yrs.
Title page of Twas the night before Christmas, printed and illustrated in black and red.
Color illustration of a child sleeping under a thick quilt in a 4-poster bed with decorations hanging on the wall above.
Color illustration of Santa Claus standing on a stool next to his sack full of gifts, filling stockings hanging from the fireplace.
2-page spread color illustration of Santa Claus on his sleigh pulled by reindeer, flying away into the full moon night sky.
'Tis the day before Christmas... enjoy these sweet & festive illustrations from Twas the Night Before Christmas!
Clement C Moore, color illustrations by Jessie Wilcox Smith.
Catalog record: https://bit.ly/nightbeforechristmas-catalog
#Christmas #holidays #RareBooks #ColorIllustrations #illustrations
Register: 1/27 #OhioDIG virtual meeting w/ Alyssa Pierce, digital preservation librarian, Case Western Reserve U, on "Demystifying Digital Preservation"!
Free as always thx to our presenters, hosts, planners! #DigiPres #DigialPreservation #DigitalArchives #Archives
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When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
I feel once again compelled to emphasis the digitizing in the literal scanning sense is fairly unimportant if it is not accompanied with metadata providing context for discovery. Both humans and AI will make things up when they don't know what they are looking at.
Thick book spine with scraps of manuscript text visible between the sewn bands.
Close-up of manuscript text near the head (top) of spine.
Close-up of manuscript text near the tail (bottom) of spine.
Detached spine showing the impression of the manuscript text.
NEW FIND–Fragments of manuscript used as binder’s waste!
Early printing in Europe often used scraps from manuscripts for bookbinding.
Scraps can still be identified–ideas? Share!
https://bit.ly/anitii-manlii-catalog
#ManuscriptMonday #MedievalMonday #MedievalManuscript #16thC #Bookbinding #RareBooks
We’re Really Not Much Different From Each Other: Working in the #ManassehCutler Papers.
Hayden Sprance (Eng Lit, Culture & Writing BA ‘26) on her #archives internship experience. Cutler (1742-1823) is considered a founder of #OHIOUniversity.
#MahnBlog https://bit.ly/mahnblog-cutler-sprance
We’re thrilled to share that 6 Ohio University Press titles have recently earned top honors from leading scholarly organizations, including the African Studies Association, the American Historical Association, and others. Here's a rundown: www.ohio.edu/news/2025/12...
#AfricanStudies
Federal court decision spells win for State Library of Ohio, libraries nationwide.
"While the State Library of Ohio sees the court win as a positive sign, they are still struggling due to cuts the state made in its most recent operating budget."
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Front of brick federal style building exterior (Cutler Hall ) on snowy College Green, view up brick walkway with bare trees.
![WINTER . . .
Fresh fallen snow lies across the Campus like a ragged scarf, shadowy fingers caress the droppinq elm-shapes, and a scatter of shivering students chatter together at the gate. The walk to Cutler is now an obscured pathway to knowledge, for OU is winter-bound again. Students blow warm breath-puffs on frost-covered knuckles, bury their heads in gay mufflers, and troop down Putnam [Jeff] Hill with their sleds and cardboard slides.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:folqnlgeu5xlntyhz4lcx47e/bafkreih2nybv34gyevnrr6h4nneypogidz4xpvotin6se5hds4mkvufkxy)
WINTER . . . Fresh fallen snow lies across the Campus like a ragged scarf, shadowy fingers caress the droppinq elm-shapes, and a scatter of shivering students chatter together at the gate. The walk to Cutler is now an obscured pathway to knowledge, for OU is winter-bound again. Students blow warm breath-puffs on frost-covered knuckles, bury their heads in gay mufflers, and troop down Putnam [Jeff] Hill with their sleds and cardboard slides.
Cover of yearbook "Athena 1950"
Happy snowy December! ❄️
Our campus is beautiful in the snow! Yearbook editors have shared that over the years, this view from 1949-50.
Link in bio to yearbook spread: bit.ly/ou-ua-athena...
#OHIOUniversityArchives #OHIOUniversity #AthensOhio #oldyearbooks #winter #snow
Two students look at objects in the reading room at The Museum of English Rural Life.
Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
Screenshot of the 1st slide of the 4 presentations.
Recording & slides for 11/12 #OhioDIG "Tech Tools for Transcription" virtual meeting now online!
It covered text/audio transcription, #Transkribus, Generative AI tools, Open AI’s Whisper, vendor services. Thank you speakers!
Visit meetings page and scroll down to that meeting. ohiodig.org/meetings
Glass cat on stove, Chesapeake, Ohio, circa November 1990. Crop-in on cat and its shadow.
Full image placed on a black background.
#Caturday😻.
Lloyd E. Moore captured this golden hour moment with a decorative glass cat on a stove #DocumentaryPhotography.
Full quality image: https://bit.ly/dpa-moore-glasscat
#OHIOUniversity #documentary #photography #archives #photographs #cats #Ohio #cat #35mm #filmphotography #slides
#OhioDIG '26 Meetings
Jan– virtual– Digital Preservation
Mar– virtual– Image Quality, OD PhaseOne UG
May– inperson– Topic TBD– Case Western Reserve, CLE
July– inperson– Topic TBD– Wright State, Dayton
Sep– inperson– Topic TBD– Seeking Columbus host!
Nov– virtual– Topic TBD
ohiodig.org/meetings
Screenshot of Kent post on OD Insta. Desktop of digitization station on left, text post on right.
Screenshot of Kent posts on OD Insta grid.
ICYMI, our #OhioDIG Insta this week was a #KentStateLibraries take over!
Check it out: www.instagram.com/ohiodig/
And Ohio #digitization / #digipres folks, watch for a call soon to do your own take over!
#OhioArchivists #DigitalArchives
