Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Anne Frank’s diary is one of the most powerful historical texts of the 20th Century. It documents the persecution of Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe in a way that is both incredibly detailed and (rare for such pieces) easy for children to relate to. So, if there’s one text that deserves to be freely available to all of…
I’ve always been a big fan of libraries. I received my first library card on my 4th birthday, which my parents tricked me into thinking was the best birthday gift in the world. It wasn’t exactly a gift – you simply had to be 4 in order to get a library card. It was…
“There’s one thing that I have in common with every person in this room. We’re all trying really hard to figure out how to save the world.” The speaker, Cat Lavigne, paused for a second, and then she repeated herself. “We’re trying to change the world!” Lavigne was addressing attendees of the Effective Altruism Global…
As so often happens, a government attempt to quash the use of technology it doesn’t like has made that tech more popular than ever. A week after the Department of Homeland Security intimidated a New Hampshire public library into shutting down its Tor relay, about a dozen other libraries nationwide have shown interest in running…
The Please Touch Museum has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and has settled a long dispute with its bondholders. The bondholders are getting $11 million to settle roughly $60 million in debt. It’s the culmination of two years of negotiations between the museum and its creditors. DFP 300×250 ad tag //DFP 300×250 tag The museum is now…
Begin: WordPress Article Content Getting hacked is bad news… unless you’re a bunch of librarians. For three days “hackers” took over the American Library Association’s Facebook page and posted an endless stream of clickbaity articles and spam. The hackers had control of the page for three days and everything was returned to normal on Monday….
How NOT to number objects It all started on an early Friday morning when I opened a box and found a cast iron plate with its accession number as well as object title and year or production written down on a post-it and the post it secured all around with adhesive tape. I found this…
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – Harrisburg Mayor Eric Papenfuse said the city’s National Civil War Museum is “a monument to corruption” that should be shut down in the wake of a long list of criminal charges filed against the former mayor who was the moving force behind it. But the board chairman of the nonprofit that…
After rescuing over 50,000 manuals from destruction in a Maryland warehouse with a lot of help from volunteers, some of whom responded to a call on Twitter, the tenacious Jason Scott, filmmaker, archiver and good friend of Laughing Squid, has announced his new project Archive Corps, a volunteer collective that helps quickly save physical archives…
Can art museums — bastions of beauty, sanctuaries of culture — be intimidating to racial minorities? Do they qualify as “white spaces”? First Lady Michelle Obama said as much at the dedication of the $420 million Whitney Museum. “You see, there are so many kids in this country who look at places like museums and concert halls and other cultural…