Gosh this is a cool project! 🦋
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Gosh this is a cool project! 🦋
We've put together a starter pack of official museum accounts on Bluesky! Who are we missing? go.bsky.app/Ko2Bvky
For emerging or established historians, journalists, authors, or grad students w/ writing skills, passion for women’s history, & ability to perform in-person research @ a Nat'l Archives facility. Applicants can be based anywhere in U.S. Award up to $12,500; Deadline: 4/15/26.
The @atbw.bsky.social Freedom School 2026 Series: Digital Literacy & Cultural Stewardship is dedicated to strengthening digital literacy, advancing archival practices, and safeguarding the web as a vital site of cultural memory. Register for the spring sessions: www.archivingtheblackweb.org/events/
Come for the Times article but stay for the motion. If you want to learn the details of how DOGE took over #NEH, click on the “view the motion” link here.
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He truly is.
A post illustrating how inclusive design does it have to be an engineering challenge. Sina Bahram, a visually impaired engineer & expert on accessibility, talks of his own experience on a flight where he & a flight attendant made seat controls accessible with some low-key, MacGyver-like ingenuity.
That's so great! Thank you for sharing. I'm glad that event was a source of such an inspired post. It was great to work with you as well. Best wishes to you.
An array of 3 black, 1 red, 1 white and 1 Blue tshirt with varying images of the Smithsonian Castle, the Smithsonian sunburst logo, and one tshirt that says "Keep Calm and Digitize On"
Today was my last day as Director of the Digitization Program Office @ Smithsonian. After an expansive work career, I am retiring to take up some long-deferred projects. Immense gratitude to all my colleagues in cultural heritage for the work you do. Keep at it. You are needed more than ever.
Job posting: Assoc Dir for Interpretation, Learning & Public Programs @ Smithsonian Nat'l Museum of Asian Art. Closes 03/16; Salary: $143,913-$158,306. Onsite, Washington, DC.
A really interesting read with many important points, the most critical of which is how to change a profession entrenched in traditions that are at odds with users' needs.
Library of Congress Innovator in Residence graphic
Calling all technologists, artists and other creative visionaries:
The Library of Congress has opened the call for the next Innovator in Residence!
Apply by 2pm ET April 10
newsroom.loc.gov/news/library...
NEW: The Trump administration's federal layoffs left our region teetering on the edge of a recession, altering the trajectories of thousands of our neighbors’ lives.
The 51st spoke to seven former federal workers about what they've been up to in the year since — and where they hope to go next.
This is such fabulous news for @biodivlibrary.bsky.social! A huge thank you to the #FieldMuseum for hosting BHL's technical infrastructure. blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/02/tran...
HAPPENING NOW: Thousands of DC high schools students have walked out to demand ICE OUT of our communities. They’re gathering at the Lincoln Memorial in an incredible show of power and unity. #ICEout #endtheoccupation #stopcooperation
Truly a shameful decision by @depauluniversity.bsky.social - the closing of DPAM will be a tremendous loss to the university but also the broader arts community in Chicago depauliaonline.com/83058/news/d...
Need to publish images as #IIIF — but have only 30 SECONDS to do it? tiny.iiif to the rescue! 🫨
• Drag & drop images → instant IIIF Image Service
• Create a folder → drag images in → instant presentation manifest!
Work in progress, but already a lot of fun. Ping me if you want to know more!
Job Posting: Authorities and Entity Mgmt Metadata Specialist at the Getty Research Institute (GRI). Based at the Getty Center in LA. Position in within the newly established Digital Stewardship and Metadata Optimization team. No salary posted.
In September, a box of old film reels was donated to the Library's National Audio-Visual Conservation Center. One of them was a nearly 130-year-old, long-lost film by iconic French filmmaker George Méliès. It had not been seen by anyone in likely more than a century. 🧵
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The LIBER AI Taskforce has launched a series of short seminars! Friday's first seminar is very much a listening exercise to learn where European research libraries are with AI in libraries from participants libereurope.eu/article/libe...
#AI4LAM
Legal Issues in Museum Administration conference, to be held April 29 - May 1 in Denver, Colorado.
Registration information and the conference schedule no available. The conference addresses developments in the legislative/regulatory landscape, immigration law, IP, AI policy, & more.
Job posting: Head of Digital Collections @ Smithsonian National Museum of American History. Closing: 03/13/26; $143,910-$187,093 (GS 14). Located w/in Digital Collections team, Digital Access & Archives Dept, Public History Div. To lead NMAH’s efforts to expand te impact of its digital collections
For those not located in DC, there is a similar banner already hanging on the front of the Dept of Labor (and I believe also on the Dept of Agriculture - though not sure if that one is still up?)
I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.
And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.
Registration now open for the June 1-4 IIIF Conference in the Netherlands (with events in Amsterdam, Leiden, and The Hague
Uh oh you guys, we have another museum rebrand and it looks like a microchip company logo (which is fine because Richard Meier's Getty Center looks like a microchip plant).
www.getty.edu/news/getty-u...
Attention fellow museum nerds; I built a GPT to help construct usable queries for @artinstitutechi.bsky.social's public API. It saves me a bunch of time, and I hope others find it useful as well. chatgpt.com/g/g-695edcd0...
Graphic listing book event schedule for "The House Archives Built" book tour. There are stops in Chapel Hill, Baltimore, Atlanta, Bethlehem PA New Haven CT, Baltimore again, Chicago, and Charleston
Thanks to @wehere.bsky.social I have this pretty graphic to show my scheduled book events. I will post specifics on each when I have them, and thanks to everyone who has sent me an invite! I'm open to other possibilities so feel free to reach out (more info on how to do that dorothy-berry.com/thab)
