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So happy that this purchase is getting a moment in the spotlight!
Lovely little mushroom find this morning by the lake #fungifriends 🍄🍄🟫
Anyone had any luck securing Romanian citizenship by descent? Need to track down vital records, but those family members have all passed. Recommendations welcome!
As faculty and staff, we’ve been encouraged to find ways to use AI, understand how it’s being used, gain familiarity, learn how to teach with it, learn how to identify when students are using it, conduct thought experiments on how it can be leveraged in our workflows. This was inevitable.
Hey, #AcademicSky - thoughts? #AcademicChatter
“He’s telling us not to use it, and then he’s using it himself,” she said.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...
You can ask your library to purchase or try to interlibrary loan a physical copy.
I think, as an academic librarian, if you help x number of students get their PhD or x number of faculty get tenure, you should receive an honorary doctorate. #academicsky
Before we had Shazam for naming that tune, we had Thematic Catalogs. These reference works list compositions often with incipits (opening notes of a piece or movement), form, medium, location of manuscript, editions, and so much more. Check ‘em out!
Do you still use mini scores? Do your library patrons still check them out? I feel like they’ve been forgotten.
As we write, DOGE is reportedly inside the gates of the IMLS (Institute for Museum and Library Services), where Keith Sonderling, Deputy Secretary of Labor and “somehow now Acting Director” of IMLS is dismantling the agency that helps libraries be libraries. /1
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I have several articles that were included. Check the data set - you may be surprised (or not) to find that your work is included too 😔 #academicsky
Spending time with dance scholarship in the @umich collection. Gorgeous volumes of history, choreography, costume design, photography. #dance #academicsky
What we’re talking about when we talk about backlogs. Want to discover more historical content? Fund technical services positions and project staff. These are not internship projects, this is not student work. Managing big collections requires staff.
Pop-up ads, 19th century style
Learning about the relationship of synaptic pruning and #autism. Have there been studies on synaptic pruning, or lack thereof, in autistic mothers during and after pregnancy? Postpartum should be a time for synaptic pruning, but, what if it isn’t for these women? #psychology #neurodivergence
When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.
For Black History Month, what can we do in the #academiclibrary beyond exhibits and short-lived nods of appreciation? Add Black creators to our approval plans, add them to our instruction examples, create guides that show students and faculty how to find them. Make lasting change. #academicsky
I did mean stick. Not stock. Obv 😂
Without the re-read, there are so many character names flying by in the first 1/3 of the book that it feels hard to lock in. Stock with it and it all comes together. It’s ok that some of the names fly by.
I don’t say that to be glib. We regularly order books for this reason, or have hundreds of titles checked out to folks prepping for exams. Loans, purchase requests, and interlibrary loan.
Have you checked the library?
I read it, I bought the books, hell - I even bought the t-shirt. I’m all in 🐉⚡️🔥❤️
When will I learn to stop reading series that aren’t completely written/published!! Waiting for book 4 is going to be torturous. 😫 #booksky 💙📚
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Have any academic librarians analyzed the effect that user preference for online resources has had on space issues in the stacks? Less physical items checked out means less room on our shelves for new material. #academicsky #academicchatter #academiclibrary #highered
Collection development is my favorite activity. New acquisitions by Puerto Rican-born composer and multi-instrumentalist Angélica Negrón featured here. 🇵🇷 #newmusic #womencomposers #musiclibrary
Dear music publishers and composers: I implore you to stop using comb bindings. Did you know that many libraries won’t purchase works with comb bindings? They rip the pages. To rebind, we need more room in the margin. Cutting off the comb results in loss of clef, time signature, and key at minimum.
Six years ago today, the Institute for Composer Diversity was launched, and in celebration of its birthday, we're (finally) launching our Chamber Database! 16K+ total works with 9K+ by women composers and 8.7K+ by composers of color and searchable by over 200 instruments…Enjoy!
In 1954, U-M Library made the purchase of the music collection of Jean Auguste Stellfeld, a Belgian musicologist who had amassed one of the most significant music collections in Europe, providing a basis for the U-M Department of Musicology and the study of European music from the 16th century on.
The publications range from the 16th-20th centuries and represent an extraordinary breadth of coverage. Strengths include 18th-century French opera, French and Italian violin music, pre-Classical symphonic works, early treatises of music, and works by the Bach family. #highered #academicsky
