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Diane Shaw
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It’s beautiful and an inspirational model for re-using the incredible images captured by NASA.
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Retired museum library cataloger in Washington, DC area. Fond of birds and travel.
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Diane Shaw
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It’s beautiful and an inspirational model for re-using the incredible images captured by NASA.
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Diane Shaw
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They are very sassy & bold birds. Which curiously makes them all the more lovable, I think.
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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast)
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In all seriousness people need to take that we are already in a coup and it’s accelerating. The courts are fractured. The republicans have fully retreated from rule of law and shared society and the democrats are asleep or worse at the wheel. Really don’t know how to say it any clearer
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Tom Gauld
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A cartoon about libraries for the Guardian.
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Megan L. Cook
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This does a very nice job laying out both the details of the BL cyberattack and the implications thereof
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James Neal
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"The Field Museum’s decision relates to a provision that requires institutions to “obtain free, prior and informed consent” from tribes before exhibiting cultural items or human remains, or allowing research of them." www.nytimes.com/2024/01/11/a...
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Sarah Werner
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I don’t in theory disagree with the decision not to pay the ransom. But also the umpteenth times more now required to rebuild is not something many places can afford
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Diane Shaw
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The Devlin show runs till August so you have time to go back. I should post some photos of it here later.
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Diane Shaw
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I wish I’d seen that show too. What did you think of the Cooper Hewitt show on Es Devlin? Her studies of the natural world were particularly mind-blowing for me.
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Diane Shaw
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I saw the Liebes exhibition last month & loved the mix of colors & demonstrations of how her workshop incorporated new synthetic fibers. An excellent show highlighting the contributions of women to the mid century modern interior design aesthetic.
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Shannon Mattern
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Dorothy Liebes at the Cooper Hewitt
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Diane Zorich
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If you don't have time/inclination to read this article, at least take time to listen to the audio file (embedded in this article) documenting what may have been the last time anyone heard the song of the Hawaiian Kauaʻi ʻōʻō bird in 1984. Hauntingly beautiful.
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Diane Shaw
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Wonderful photo. The heron’s ghostly reflection in the water is sublime.
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Mel Gillman
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I had the privilege of getting to design the Portland Public Library's holiday card this year. Really pleased with how this turned out <3
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Diane Shaw
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So good to see you here too! I miss so many of my tweeps (and I still haven't abandoned there, but Bluesky is getting more comfortable).
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Dr. SkySkull
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Very much this, and post a few things. You may think nobody will read your first posts, but folks who are deciding whether to follow you will.
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Gwen C. Katz
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This is the real threat. A DDOS attack on human connection.
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Diane Shaw
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That youngster looks like a miniature bear 🐻! Adorable.
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Carolina A. Miranda
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So all these museums raise ticket prices, but then cut staff when admission drops. If only there was a solution to that. (Cough cough, board members, cough cough.)
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Dan Chibnall
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Anybody on 🪶 know if there's a hashtag or feed or list for posts about the NYC owl Flaco?
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Diane Shaw
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I think one of the main reasons why I haven't abandoned my Twitter/X account entirely yet is because I keep going back there for Flaco and Central Park birding updates. I wish more of those accounts posted here.
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Diane Shaw
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I remember our Special Collections staff arguing so hard to keep getting printed catalog cards & we tech services folks reassured them that the cloud storage would be fine, backed up by yearly CD-Rom copies (not made I think). I hope we didn’t make a huge mistake.
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Diane Shaw
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It's the season for holiday markets and crowded shops etc. So of course people will go out even if they have "just a little cough." 🙄
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Diane Shaw
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I was a rare materials cataloger at a US museum complex and delighted in creating detailed records for the collections. It's horrifying to think all those years of work could be basically inaccessible because of some ransomware attack.
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Diane Shaw
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I just checked the British Library website a couple of days ago for a status update and assumed that the sites had been restored. Sadly, as you note, that's not the case and it looks like this terrible situation will be ongoing for way too long.
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Alan Allport
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The largest library in the UK and one of the biggest in the world has effectively been turned into a cafe and gift shop indefinitely. Extraordinary this hasn’t been a bigger story.
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Diane Shaw
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That's terrible! I hope whatever it is turns out to be fairly mild. It sometimes seems like the whole COVID epidemic never happened from the way some folks behave.
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Paris Marx
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I’m so excited for this! Make sure to join us on Sunday!
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Diane Shaw
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Perhaps The Waste Land is more appropriate here. (I confess that I actually found the "Cats" movie entertaining).
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Diane Shaw
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Poor squirrel probably thought the tree would be a good warm place to spend the winter. If the tree seemed rotted out (I don't know; why else would the city remove it?), it would have been good to leave part of it still standing for birds & squirrels.
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Diane Zorich
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As part of a multi-year project entitled, "Reckoning with Our Racial Past", the Smithsonian recently 3D scanned objects related to race, history and culture from its collections, which are now available online with interpretative information.
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Diane Shaw
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I was going to suggest Zone-tailed hawk, but I guess you'd consider that an "H" bird. I like the idea though!!
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Lesley Pitman
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Now the British Library confirms that some user data has been stolen and is available on the dark web. Hardly a surprise, but bad news all the same, and an indication there might be more to come. blogs.bl.uk/living-knowl...
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Mr. Am I Being Detained
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My dad sent me this and asked if it was a meme
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Lesley Pitman
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British Library data now apparently up for sale to the highest bidder. This screenshot now circulating in the other place.
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Fibonacci Sequins
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You'd think the metaverse JUST collapsing into flames less than a year ago after comparable hype and investment would induce like 2% skepticism over a technology that's rapidly wrecking entire industries without any evidence that it can improve them OR make them more profitable. But no.
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B-Side
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Hello! You are able to order four more free COVID tests from this website starting today! DO IT!
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Eileen Clancy
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Job: Archivist for the Sophia Smith collection of women’s history. This is an opening close to the rarity of a concertmaster at the NY Philharmonic retiring. Stewarding and growing an already magnificent collection in a storybook setting and encouraging the future of women's history.
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Diane Shaw
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I hope they aren't. The future political climate in the U.S. will help determine what gets covered in school textbooks, as it does currently. I'd like to be optimistic.
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Diane Shaw
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Here's a 2022 article from Scientific American that explains the situation; climate change and evolution are two of the most controversial topics for textbooks, not surprisingly. Subverting Climate Science in the Classroom | Scientific American
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Diane Shaw
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The Texas school textbook market is huge & influential with publishers and so the content decisions that Texas makes affects what gets taught in other states’ schools as well, unfortunately.
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Diane Shaw
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Well said, Dennis. I feel the same way. It was such an important part of my professional and personal life. It's hard to feel as much enthusiasm now for social media (but I'm trying to find a good replacement for Twitter/X still).
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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast)
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Exactly and that’s why the current digital environment is working so well to favor the authoritarian because of the information overload and novelty exhaustion we all experience, that is only growing. We need more librarians and we need more physical information and we need it to be free to anyone 
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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast)
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Yes absolutely I keep thinking about how libraries and functioning democracy are inextricably linked. Partially what has led me to be so loud about this now.
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Diane Shaw
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Yes, access to libraries and library workers is essential for a well-informed & functioning community. That's why the news that the public libraries in New York City will be closed on weekends is so discouraging. Funding for libraries is precarious in many places, even in prosperous ones.
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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast)
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It scares me as much as any of the politics that we are seeing, and the rise in the authoritarianism, because ultimately authoritarians look at knowledge as a threat, and the more we digitize the more we lose of ourselves and our understanding of each other, and fact, especially when it disappears 
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Diane Shaw
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Yes, authoritarians know that whoever controls knowledge has the big advantage. So they not only want to remove reliable information but also to create false information and widely share it.
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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast)
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The bigger conversation here that I hope starts to bubble into peoples conscious is the fact that the entire knowledge base that we have, and will have going forward is digital, and can disappear in the blink of an eye at the whims of any person who deems it fit, we need to protect the knowledge. 
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Diane Shaw
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So very true. I worry that the ransomware attack on the British Library's digital presence might be a glimpse of the future. Our information resources are very vulnerable.
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