Question for the #archive#library#specialcollections#rarebooks people out there. Choosing between a MIS in Archive Management vs MLIS. For career goals in special collections, would you recommend one over the other? The MLIS seems ubiquitous but the Archive courses are more appealing. Help!
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Okay, the beads have been purchased. #GLAM#rarebooks#archives#library#museum#specialcollections#digitalhumanities fam: Which words do you want to see in bracelet form first?
Some more from my workplace haiku therapy bank: I want all these files. Can you narrow it down, please? No, I just want them. Can you help find this? Sure, but what’s the deadline? Uh, in ten minutes… #rarebooks#specialcollections#GLAM folks, please join in too!
One of the best ways I've found to temporarily tame workplace frustrations on the company dime has been to write scathing #archives & #library haikus. Vocational awe Backbone of GLAM professions Death by thousand cuts Archivist Wanted! Legacy preservation, Short term grant project Share yours!
Alt: scene from wayne's world where wayne identifies that Garth's dialogue was a haiku
Anyone have some recommendations for #archives#libraries#specialcollections#rarebooks repositories to follow here on BSky? If you are an archivist, librarian, special collections specialist, or rare bookseller, please reply for a follow as well!
Alt: library patron conga line with the caption 'where all da books at?!'
Maybe lots of you have this too, but I love how easy it is to book a virtual reading room session at the University of Washington Special Collections. #SpecialCollectionscal.lib.uw.edu/space/123219....
Today I strolled by the U. Iowa Special Collections and they have a fanzine exhibition right now. Then I saw the early 1970s handmade Sarek doll and I became deceased. #SpecialCollections Both are from the Mary Jennara Wenk Star Trek Collection MsC1031.
This is a must read, both for the subject and for the analysis of archival discovery. 📜#specialcollections #archives#rarebooksacademic.oup.com/sq/advance-a...
Before staging its 2011 exhibition, “Fame, Fortune, & Theft: The Shakespeare First Folio,” the Folger Shakespeare Library requested the loan of an unus
So, I remembered this copy of Aldobrandino from when I was surveying ♀️'s medical book ownership in the late '90s. I see that a very fine blogpost was pub'd about it last year: specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk?p=26511cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-II-0...