Fletcher Durant

Memory lane stop 2: H.E.B.

This is the grocery store that Floridians and Georgians imagine they have in Publix.

A return to the manuscript tradition.

Don’t make me subscribe to Paramount to watch the Championship next year.

Also worth noting for the ‘everything is online’ crowd that the numbers of archives being destroyed means that an increasing proportion cannot ever be online.

Wake up, babe: New Waffle House Index just dropped.

Judging Books by Their Covers: Bookbinding! | Bite Sized Book History YouTube video by Book Historia

Did you know books have been bound in leather not just from cows, but from reindeer, seal, and even shark?🦈 Learn more about historic bookbindings in my new episode of Bite Sized Book History! youtu.be/3aUdEy0Edf4?...

The coffee was shockingly terrible, but the biscuit…🥰

Hark, a return to the South (an airport), where I may engage in traditional foodways (a Bojangles biscuit sandwich and Bo-rounds).

I get asked a lot about how you become a game preservationist. Almost none of us set out to do that! I hope stories like Flori's show all the interesting and unusual ways you can end up working with games in cultural heritage

Who called it the French museum director resigning instead of 50 ways to leave your Louvre?

For the "everything is online" crowd in the back:

Important to consider that "everything" cultural heritage related that is accessible online represents only 1% (one percent) of archives, libraries, and museum collections worldwide.

please don’t lick the archives

At-Risk and Displaced Academics and Artists (ARDAA) Program Through this program, the RSC invites candidacies for membership from academics and artists who have been displaced through war, conflicts or threats of violence and who, prior to their displacement, ...

With the expanding campaign in the Middle East, I'm thinking once again of the importance of programs like @scholarsatrisk.bsky.social and our own At-Risk and Displaced Academics and Artists program with the Royal Society of Canada.

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We are training undergrads (18-22) to digitize vcr tapes, cassettes, and vinyl. We introduce phrases like "rewind" into their vocab and made diagrams of what a tape looks like from 6 angles. And we get questions like "how do I rewind a record" which is understandable but turns my bones to dust.

10 Questions with an Art Conservator How exactly does one repair the crown damaged in the Louvre heist?

A good introduction to how conservation work on a complex item is considered.

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FUNERAL FOR A TREE YouTube video by Steve Parker

"When a 65-year-old tree in Parker’s front yard died of oak wilt, he cut the trunk into “wood cookies” + transformed them into playable records, each encoded with migratory birdsong... The project emerged from Parker’s recognition that his grief for the tree echoed the loss of his father to cancer"

Director and Curator, Special Collections and Archives - Middlebury College Reporting to the Dean of the Library, the Director and Curator of Special Collections provides leadership, vision, and budget oversight for Middlebury’s special collections, including its rare book an...

JOB ALERT! 📜📚

Who wants to be director & curator of special collections & archives at Middlebury College (Vermont!) — & work for a wonderful boss (& one of my favorite people), Rebekah Irwin?

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Cleaning out his mom's house, Boston man finds his ancestor's freedom papers Researchers in Boston are diving deep into his family tree to connect the missing links.

Great to see a conservator like Todd involved in this story.

www.wcvb.com/article/bost...

Tremendous heat in South Texas today! 104° F - in February - makes this the Hottest temperature ever recorded in winter in the US!

This is why we do this work. Support your local archivist.

This is SO COOL — a lost Méliès film from 1895 in which a person plays a briefly out of control robot. How timely. So glad some of my tax dollars are still going to stuff like this

👆🧵👇 🐑 🐑 Sheep disease evidence retrieved from parchment!

Also, didn’t the horses get sent to the glue factory?

You’ve hear of dos-a-dos but have you seen…..

DOS-DOS-A-DOS-A-DOS?!

🔥 The huge 25,000 acre #fire burning in the #Everglades has been sending smoke south. That will change overnight and Wednesday. Get ready for the smell of #smoke into Central #Florida tomorrow.
This fire is a preview of things to come this spring due to our worst #drought in 25 years. 🔥

Absolute shocker of a rights grab - academics may want to push back hard

Between politically motivated take-downs, the things going behind log-ins due to AI scraping, and the things being taken offline because they're PDFs, 2026 is going to be a record year for collections loss online.

Editorial: Florida’s fire risk keeps climbing. Don’t ignore it Florida is in the grip of a record drought. Floridians can see it in the withered tones of roadside vegetation and hear it in the dry crunch of their once-green lawns. But those who have been aroun…

"But many Floridians — particularly those who have moved here since 1998 and have no prior experience with wildfires on a massive scale — don’t see these signs and don’t comprehend the omens. They arrived ready to worry about hurricanes, but might not think of fire in the same hazardous terms."

Two people analyze a binder of slides. Text reads: New ways of working to protect cultural heritage. Read full story getty.edu/news

Archivists 🤝 conservators

Getty is working to bring these two historically siloed fields together to enrich collaboration and solve problems. gty.art/4tI2DIX

Oldest known whale song recordings discovered in Cape Cod archives The files, found on a bygone piece of audio recording equipment, may give scientists new evidence about how humans have changed the ocean.

The discovery trope, but this time the archivist is discovering. 📜
www.wbur.org/news/2026/02...