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Written by Colleen Theisen on 2025-01-24 at 01:04

The Library of Congress has launched a professional development module designed to provide educators with an overview of how copyright relates to their use of primary sources. https://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/2025/01/copyright-and-primary-sources-self-paced-professional-development-module-now-available/?loclr=liloc #SpecialCollections #archives #copyright

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Written by Colleen Theisen on 2025-01-23 at 21:57

SAA announces, "...the first official set of recommended professional best practices on archival

accessioning published in the United States." The Archival Accessioning Best Practices are available online at:

https://accessioning.gitbook.io/archival-accessioning-best-practices

[#]archives #SpecialCollections #accessioning

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Written by Colleen Theisen on 2025-01-20 at 17:17

Illinois State University's Special Collections - Circus Wardrobe Collection open for research

Announcement:

https://news.illinoisstate.edu/2025/01/milner-librarys-circus-wardrobe-collection-open-for-research/

I'm always interested in how textiles fit in so here is their website where they define special collections:

https://library.illinoisstate.edu/services/special-collections/

[#]SpecialCollections #textiles #archives

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Written by Colleen Theisen on 2025-01-20 at 17:15

It looks like there might finally be remediation to this inaccessible library design?

You probably saw the photo years ago.

[#]PublicLibraries #Accessibility

Uodates here: https://licpost.com/queens-public-library-and-nyc-agree-to-make-hunters-point-branch-ada-compliant-feds

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Written by Colleen Theisen on 2025-01-20 at 17:10

Videos from the company that did the interactive spaces at the Folger Shakespear Library. Wow! ❤️ #SpecialCollections #museums #ExhibitionDesign

https://www.commarts.com/project/37500/folger-shakespeare-library-experiential-design

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Written by Colleen Theisen on 2025-01-20 at 17:08

Keyhole surgery on old books leads to discovery of medieval fragments

Here's where I saw it: https://phys.org/news/2025-01-keyhole-surgery-discovery-medieval-fragments.html

Here's the citation for the article they're discussing:

Thijs Porck et al, Medieval Fragments Revealed with FragmEndoscopy, Fragmentology (2025). DOI: 10.24446/h9ht

Here's the amazing YouTube video! https://youtu.be/39FMuUGuzZk?si=e7EpnXvLdmlz82n4

[#]archives #SpecialCollections #MedievalManuscripts #fragmentology

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Written by Colleen Theisen on 2025-01-17 at 00:34

Karen Wynn Fonstad was a cartographer who exhaustively mapped J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, the setting of “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/obituaries/karen-wynn-fonstad-overlooked.html

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Written by Colleen Theisen on 2025-01-15 at 02:07

I noted the convergence trend in this:

"...part museum and part laboratory for the Humanities..." #CarnegieMellon #SpecialCollections #museums #archives #DigitalHumanities #GLAMConvergence

https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2025/january/posner-center-renovation-reimagines-space-for-special-collections

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Written by Colleen Theisen on 2025-01-15 at 00:31

Will This $4 Million Declaration of Independence Make Auction History?

[#]archives #SpecialCollections #history

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/declaration-independence-sothebys-2597364

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Written by Colleen Theisen on 2025-01-15 at 00:23

Most Museum Directors Have Faced Pressure to Censor Art, Survey Finds #museums

https://hyperallergic.com/983345/most-museum-directors-have-faced-pressure-to-censor-art-survey-finds/

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Written by Colleen Theisen on 2024-12-15 at 15:59

Teens, Social Media and Technology 2024, Pew Research Center

[#]SocialMedia

https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2024/12/12/teens-social-media-and-technology-2024/

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Written by Colleen Theisen on 2024-12-15 at 15:58

A Curious Case in Conservation for Digitisation

[#]SpecialCollections #RareBooks #Conservation

https://blogs.bl.uk/collectioncare/2024/12/iorf41767-a-curious-case-in-conservation-for-digitisation-by-camille-dekeyser.html

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Written by Colleen Theisen on 2024-12-15 at 15:39

The Discovery of a Jewish Teenager’s Holocaust Diary Reveals How Songs, Jokes and Stories Served as Cultural Resistance

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/the-discovery-of-a-jewish-teenagers-holocaust-diary-reveals-how-songs-jokes-and-stories-served-as-cultural-resistance-180985604/

From @Smithsonianmag

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Written by Colleen Theisen on 2024-12-11 at 00:59

REMINDER!! The deadline for proposals and scholarship applications for the RBMS 2025 Conference is this Friday, December 13. 📜📚

[#]archives #SpecialCollections #RareBooks https://acrl.ala.org/acrlinsider/rbms-2025-call-for-proposals-and-scholarship-applications-now-available/

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Written by Colleen Theisen on 2024-12-05 at 02:12

I hadn't heard of this case but the article links to this amazing 2023 article from Creighton University!

Creighton's role in the case of the greatest book thief in American history

[#]SpecialCollections #Archives #theft #security #instruction

https://alumni.creighton.edu/news-events/news/book-bandit-Omaha-project-Creighton-detectives

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Written by Colleen Theisen on 2024-12-05 at 02:10

Peak Iowa: History’s most prolific book bandit is an Ottumwa man. Librarians helped bring him down #specialCollections #libraries #security https://littlevillagemag.com/peak-iowa-ottumwa-book-thief/

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Written by Colleen Theisen on 2024-12-03 at 18:55

Here's a review of the game that Dave Provost shared on BSky. https://spacebiff.com/2024/09/25/ghq/

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Written by Colleen Theisen on 2024-12-03 at 18:38

How Kurt Vonnegut's board game was revived from IU's Lilly Library to store shelves #SpecialCollections

https://www.tmnews.com/story/news/local/2024/12/02/kurt-vonneguts-lost-board-game-ghq-instructions-in-archive-at-indiana-university-bloomington/76600589007/

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Written by Colleen Theisen on 2024-12-02 at 13:01

I dont like how Google Books crops out the fingers of their technicians and fills the gap however they like. It is not labeled as edited, and my students can't always tell what it is that they are seeing. Is it a repair? Sometimes it blurs information like marginalia.

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Written by Colleen Theisen on 2024-11-25 at 16:16

The evolving public services landscape in special collections: Insights from an OCLC RLP leadership roundtable

[#]SpecialCollections #Archives #academicLibraries https://hangingtogether.org/the-evolving-public-services-landscape-in-special-collections-insights-from-an-oclc-rlp-leadership-roundtable/

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