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The U.S. has two tsunami warning centers, both operated by NOAA. Employees were terminated from these centers today. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center covers Hawaiʻi, and now it is less safe to be near the beach. www.tsunami.gov

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Broke: Trying to collect everything your patrons need Woke: Making effective use of traditional interlibrary loan services Bespoke: Forming a robust library consortium that expedites the resource sharing process 📚

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Nominations open into February 28th. Get them in!

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First February tornado ever for the state of South Dakota. The image is from @costormchasers.bsky.social

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Spent some of my free time, now that I am barred from teleworking, submitting nominees for the SAA Preservation Publication Award. If you published a work on preservation this year, or even just read something good, make a nomination. It’s easy! www2.archivists.org/groups/prese...

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The Book of Kells, dating from around 800, has been digitized at @tcddublin.bsky.social: digitalcollections.tcd.ie/concern/works/hm50tr726?locale=en Enjoy the beauty of the insular majuscule script and the insular illuminations! #medievalsky

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In 3 days, the number of measles cases in a highly unvaccinated area of Texas has doubled. There are now 48 cases, all of whom are unvaccinated, and 13 of whom have been hospitalized so far, for a hospitalization rate of 27%. This is huge figure in epidemiology. This outbreak will keep spreading.

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A real possibility: your uni is classified as a govt contractor bc it takes grant funds. Govt says "everything in repository that uses 'DEI' language goes or we pull funding." Uni admin capitulates bc millions. Your work is gone. YOU NEED A COPY. Sorry if this overwhelms. I focused on action items

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😍 Archival materialities! "How do born-digital records transform our understanding of the materiality of the archive? How do digital techniques provide new insights into the materiality of older archives?" Looking forward to seeing this--what a great ToC. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Update: A tsunami has been confirmed by the US Tsunami Warning Center based on sea level observations in Isla Mujeres, Mexico a few minutes ago. Still expecting tsunami waves of 1-3m (3-10ft) along the southern coast of Cuba over the next few hours. These waves could be destructive.

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This thread and the embedded thread at the end are great if you want to know more about indirect costs. If carried out, this plan will GUT ALL UNIVERSITIES IN THE US. Public, private—doesn't matter. If you, your child, or other relatives attend or work at a university, this could have a huge impact.

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Cultural heritage…

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17 employees helped save the Getty Villa from the fires. They're telling other museums how it was done 📜 laist.com/news/arts-an...

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Current events are a good reminder that the biggest threat to digital assets and cultural heritage are human choices, not any "natural" disaster.

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So much for the whole "kids can still just buy the book themselves" thing eh? www.kuer.org/education/20...

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Crazy that United States public health guidance will now rely on something called the Wayback Machine

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What happens when a codex is made out of fragments and then stops being a codex? Do fragments come back from the dead? Manuscripts in the digital world are often looking for their narrative and for fragments this can be a wild ride! A paper on loss and digital memory: muse.jhu.edu/article/940700

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news.artnet.com/art-world/it... I feel like there's a couple of hurdles to this. Also, apparently just Mona Lisa's room will cost €400 million to renovate on its own?

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John Overholt on Mastodon pointed out this excellent series of blog posts from the Library of Congress on how papermaking, typecasting, and printing were done in the handpress era 📜 blogs.loc.gov/bibliomania/...

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“You are talking about a recession-level event if this is the new long-term norm,” he said.

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Super cool. It is always great to see commercial technology utilized for studying conservation and book history.

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Keyhole surgery on old books leads to discovery of medieval fragments 📜 phys.org/news/2025-01...

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Yep. We have been out of contract with Elsevier at MIT for 4.5 years now, at substantial savings to the Institute. Happy to share our experience with any library interested in following suit.

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LA fires destroy Theosophical Society library. 40,000 volumes. open.sub-stack.com/pub/kathleen...

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‘Staggering’ economic benefits from protecting #wetlands

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the ancient texts have been preserved: m.youtube.com/shorts/azOhW...

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I wrote about the LA wildfires, the GoFundMes of rich people, and the long history of disaster relief reproducing inequality.

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Remember this? A problem we didn't have in automated speech recognition tools until OpenAI decided they were going to do away with alignment (not the kind that so-called "AI safety" people do)? And they're giving us "artificial general intelligence" any day now right? apnews.com/article/ai-a...

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The question of how to preserve paywalled web content has a long history. CLOCKSS/LOCKSS (Lots Of Copies Kept Safely and Securely) is one model and the Way Back Machine/IA is another, but both of those rely on agreements with the publishers, and Substack will tell you that they are not a publisher.

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With really weird things happening to journalism, I see people turning to substacks or other newsletters (often paid). But I can't find anyone talking about how libraries can provide access to (or preserve) these resources. Anyone having these discussions?

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News organizations should link to actual legal decisions because I want to know whether there were any VARA arguments here! (Says just breach of contract.) www.iowapublicradio.org/arts-life/20...

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Heads up! Rare Deep South snow/ice storm seems more likely Tues-Wed AM. Even FL Panhandle may see accumulation. South of snow will be a layer of ice which can build up on trees/ powerlines. IF this happens widespread power outages & w/o salt, streets=skating rinks. It’s early, but prep just in case

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I took a entire semester of Schoenbergian analysis in undergrad, sang some of Cage's piece written under S.'s tutelage at my senior recital. While there is a practical reality that digitization isn't preservation in the traditional sense, when the data is gone- through fire, moth, virus- it's gone

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Think tanks are in fact what conservatives claim universities are

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FEMA has issued a guide on how to apply for federal aid if you've been impacted by the wildfires. Aid may include money for food, water, baby formula, breastfeeding supplies, medication, or even with basic home repairs and personal property losses. www.huffpost.com/entry/southe...

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In #mla25 #s422 "Old News"—celebrating the 20th anniversary of the NEH/LoC’s "Chronicling America" digitized newspaper archive Which means yes, we are now farther away in time from the founding of Chronicling America than the founding of Chronicling America was from the Challenger disaster

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Conservation Treatment and Workshop of oversized textile bunting by Storm Scott 📜 blogs.bl.uk/collectionca...

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