“…rare books and type specimens live in the stacks alongside punk flyers and chopstick sleeves. Few cultural institutions treat both valuable and everyday objects with equal reverence. At the Archive, ephemera are no longer quite so ephemeral.”
letterformarchive.org/news/this-ju...
#Design #Museums
As Kids These Days™ rediscover CDs, a good project would be a CD liner notes archive. High resolution pictures and descriptions & transcriptions of album art, lyrics, thanks, track personnel, all of it. Get living artists to comment on their choices and process. Think it'd be kind of dope.
New Report From IFLA: “Weak Signals: Emergent and Potential #Trends Shaping the Future of #Libraries” www.infodocket.com/2026/02/25/i... @ifla.org #technology #librarytechnology
one year ago. i think it (and constellation) has aged fairly well :)
A woman stands in front a podium with a screen behind her preparing for a presentation.
@larissaakemi.bsky.social is ready for her presentation “Internet Archive: Research & Method Use Cases”. If you cannot join us in person, join the online event 🧵
Back when the internet was wonderful, the Fancy Parking website may have been the most wonderful site of all.
web.archive.org/web/20240417...
From the "from the libraries-matter dept" of @techdirt.com
An important development facing the Internet Archive by @mark.bsky.social, Director of the Wayback Machine
Stanford Love Data Week 2026
Feb 1–14. Two weeks of hands-on data, libraries, science, & creativity. From BioBlitz species tracking to coding with AI lessons, solar data, Wikidata, and no-code projects.
lovedataweek.stanford.edu
Led on campus by @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social
A screenshot of a zoomed-out webpage, showing wide colorful photos of 9 hand-knit or hand-crocheted scarves. The scarves were made by Fibery Library project members, library staff who use craft methods to explore metadata visualization at the intersection of physical and digital. The scarves have visible vertical striping in irregular widths, corresponding to library checkout data for particular constituencies such as faculty
"Fibery Library" by @stellesky.bsky.social @awgusz.bsky.social +more, shared in data quilt event chat: library staff knit+crocheters create+blog process of library checkout viz & more combining metadata viz+craft to explore digital+physical: exhibits.library.dartmouth.edu/s/fibery/pag... #DHmakes
Stanford Libraries is doing a TON for #lovedata week. Some events are in-person, some are virtual, all are open to all! Check out the cool events!! lovedataweek.stanford.edu
Incase you missed the discussion: It will be turned into Future Knowledge Podcast coming mid February
futureknowledge.transistor.fm
Live discussion on “AI as Normal Technology” happening now.
A conversation with
@sayash.bsky.social and @kevintfrazier.bsky.social
(Hosted by the Future Knowledge podcast.)
Points of joy: Festival of Floppies and of course the knitted floppies on that sweater!
The National Weather Service (NWS) hosts a 3 day Probabilistic Precipitation Portal www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/Prob_Precip/
This year’s contest received over 270 submissions from creators across 35 U.S. states, as well as Puerto Rico and Washington, DC, and 28 countries worldwide. 🌐
And thanks to @npr.org for shining a light on these fantastic creators!
🔗 Read the NPR piece ⤵️
www.npr.org/2026/01/21/n...
#publicdomain
Hey who's going to the @archive.org Public Domain Day 2026 celebration? blog.archive.org/event/the-ca...
The short film Public Domain Film Remix Contest still open!
Two days left to send in a your music & video mix!
There are the prizes (USD):
1st prize: $1500
2nd prize: $1000
3rd prize: $500
I love seeing the fun things that creative people build on #Bluesky like this flag mashup bot
A preview of coming attractions! In addition to our January 1 countdown, look out for our Public Domain Day celebration, in person and virtually!
I am on the committee for the SAA Brenda S. Banks Travel Award given annually to archivists of color who would like to become active in SAA. It provides generous travel support and a years membership in SAA.
Please share in your networks and with those that might be our next recipient!
Screenshot from the Websites of the Netherlands Xmas Edition, with a small Internet Archive Europe logo at the top of a dense photomosaic composed of millions of tiny Dutch website captures. On-screen interface includes a reset button, a Zoom in for more indicator, and a Search field/
🧵1️⃣ How do you visualize & explore millions of archived web pages?
@InternetArchive.EU partnered with software engineers & the Internet Archive to make a navigable mosaic you can explore with a joystick, buttons, or voice.
Learn more ⤵️
blog.archive.org/2025/12/16/f...
Something else that visitors to a national library might enjoy 😃 bsky.app/profile/ant....
These new library kiosks are a fun visual way to explore web collections!
Visitors to the National Library of the Netherlands used a physical joystick and buttons to explore a variety of webpages in a game-like experience.
blog.archive.org/2025/12/16/f...
Thank you @kb.nl & @internetarchive.eu
An example of Democracy's Library in action, thanks to the Institute of Governmental Studies (IGS) UC Berkeley. Over 6,000 municipal documents digitized and available in @archive.org - "essential sources for understanding California’s civic past and present."
igs.berkeley.edu/news/library...
Image of a library card ID with a portrait photo and 4 extra printed portrait photos
Free Christmas gift: Get a National Library of Ireland card @nlireland.bsky.social stick the extra photos to holiday cards for your fam
The most unique bookshop I've been in yet. Boekhandel Dominicanen is in a 13th century Dominican Church in Maastricht, and it is beautiful. Good range of books too! 📚 #books #bookshop #photography #architecture #RepurposedBuildings
Just making sure I was seeing the same issue you were. It’ll get fixed this week 😃 thanks again!
Thank you!!!
Within the Democracy's Library collection search you found this collection archive.org/details/usda...
Which has an outdated link in the collection description.
It looks like you are 100% correct the external link should be updated to direct to the archived capture.
Meet Merrilee the new Internet Archive 🏛️ Director of Democracy’s Library.
She’s here on Bluesky: @merrileeiam.bsky.social
