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"Waddling pyramid you go,
Flounces flouncing in the snow;
Pretty lady do not rage,
When I say you're in a cage,
By a lot of hoops secured—
Of it, I am well assured.
Head, of course, is left outside,
Bonnet on your back doth ride;
Sweep away the sidewalks clean,
Of street sweepers, you're the queen."Yasss street sweeper queen!
Found this in an old scrapbook on eBay and it's already the best thing that'll happen to me all day.
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"Waddling pyramid you go,
Flounces flouncing in the snow;
Pretty lady do not rage,
When I say you're in a cage,
By a lot of hoops secured—
Of it, I am well assured.
Head, of course, is left outside,
Bonnet on your back doth ride;
Sweep away the sidewalks clean,
Of street sweepers, you're the queen."Yasss street sweeper queen!
Found this in an old scrapbook on eBay and it's already the best thing that'll happen to me all day.
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"Waddling pyramid you go,
Flounces flouncing in the snow;
Pretty lady do not rage,
When I say you're in a cage,
By a lot of hoops secured—
Of it, I am well assured.
Head, of course, is left outside,
Bonnet on your back doth ride;
Sweep away the sidewalks clean,
Of street sweepers, you're the queen."Yasss street sweeper queen!
Found this in an old scrapbook on eBay and it's already the best thing that'll happen to me all day.
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"Waddling pyramid you go,
Flounces flouncing in the snow;
Pretty lady do not rage,
When I say you're in a cage,
By a lot of hoops secured—
Of it, I am well assured.
Head, of course, is left outside,
Bonnet on your back doth ride;
Sweep away the sidewalks clean,
Of street sweepers, you're the queen."Yasss street sweeper queen!
Found this in an old scrapbook on eBay and it's already the best thing that'll happen to me all day.
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Why digital government #records are so hard to preserve | History depends on records that weren’t built to last
Chat apps, e-mail, and cloud files have become the primary record of how power is exercised. #Archivists are trying to preserve them before formats go dark or messages disappear without a trace
The #NationalArchives added 463 terabytes of #electronicrecords to its permanent collection in 2024 alone
By Steven Melendez edited by Eric Scientific American -
Why digital government #records are so hard to preserve | History depends on records that weren’t built to last
Chat apps, e-mail, and cloud files have become the primary record of how power is exercised. #Archivists are trying to preserve them before formats go dark or messages disappear without a trace
The #NationalArchives added 463 terabytes of #electronicrecords to its permanent collection in 2024 alone
By Steven Melendez edited by Eric Scientific American -
Why digital government #records are so hard to preserve | History depends on records that weren’t built to last
Chat apps, e-mail, and cloud files have become the primary record of how power is exercised. #Archivists are trying to preserve them before formats go dark or messages disappear without a trace
The #NationalArchives added 463 terabytes of #electronicrecords to its permanent collection in 2024 alone
By Steven Melendez edited by Eric Scientific American -
"The UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association is looking to appoint one funded Advocacy & Engagement Fellow for a period of 12 months to assist in the development of its advocacy plan. This year’s theme is Openness and Transparency" https://digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2026/07/06/2026-advocacy-engagement-fellowship/
#advocacy #DigitalHumanities #libraries #archivists #museums #GLAM
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"The UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association is looking to appoint one funded Advocacy & Engagement Fellow for a period of 12 months to assist in the development of its advocacy plan. This year’s theme is Openness and Transparency" https://digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2026/07/06/2026-advocacy-engagement-fellowship/
#advocacy #DigitalHumanities #libraries #archivists #museums #GLAM
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"The UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association is looking to appoint one funded Advocacy & Engagement Fellow for a period of 12 months to assist in the development of its advocacy plan. This year’s theme is Openness and Transparency" https://digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2026/07/06/2026-advocacy-engagement-fellowship/
#advocacy #DigitalHumanities #libraries #archivists #museums #GLAM
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"The UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association is looking to appoint one funded Advocacy & Engagement Fellow for a period of 12 months to assist in the development of its advocacy plan. This year’s theme is Openness and Transparency" https://digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2026/07/06/2026-advocacy-engagement-fellowship/
#advocacy #DigitalHumanities #libraries #archivists #museums #GLAM
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"The UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association is looking to appoint one funded Advocacy & Engagement Fellow for a period of 12 months to assist in the development of its advocacy plan. This year’s theme is Openness and Transparency" https://digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2026/07/06/2026-advocacy-engagement-fellowship/
#advocacy #DigitalHumanities #libraries #archivists #museums #GLAM
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#1314 John Warner-Davies (ed) - Archives: The Journal of the British Records Association, Vol XVII, No 75, April 1986. The British Records Association, London.
#Archives #Archivists #BritishRecordsAssociation #Art #Railways #BookOfTheDay
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#1314 John Warner-Davies (ed) - Archives: The Journal of the British Records Association, Vol XVII, No 75, April 1986. The British Records Association, London.
#Archives #Archivists #BritishRecordsAssociation #Art #Railways #BookOfTheDay
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#1314 John Warner-Davies (ed) - Archives: The Journal of the British Records Association, Vol XVII, No 75, April 1986. The British Records Association, London.
#Archives #Archivists #BritishRecordsAssociation #Art #Railways #BookOfTheDay
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#1314 John Warner-Davies (ed) - Archives: The Journal of the British Records Association, Vol XVII, No 75, April 1986. The British Records Association, London.
#Archives #Archivists #BritishRecordsAssociation #Art #Railways #BookOfTheDay
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#1314 John Warner-Davies (ed) - Archives: The Journal of the British Records Association, Vol XVII, No 75, April 1986. The British Records Association, London.
#Archives #Archivists #BritishRecordsAssociation #Art #Railways #BookOfTheDay
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Washington Blade: Fighting ‘Rainbow Panic’ in museums. “Please know the LGBTQ community will remember the hard truths we learned this past year — that we and our histories were expendable. If we can be cast aside, hidden, or disowned, whose histories are safe? How can (and can we) rebuild trust in the institutions that failed us this past year?”
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Washington Blade: Fighting ‘Rainbow Panic’ in museums. “Please know the LGBTQ community will remember the hard truths we learned this past year — that we and our histories were expendable. If we can be cast aside, hidden, or disowned, whose histories are safe? How can (and can we) rebuild trust in the institutions that failed us this past year?”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/05/washington-blade-fighting-rainbow-panic-in-museums/ -
Washington Blade: Fighting ‘Rainbow Panic’ in museums. “Please know the LGBTQ community will remember the hard truths we learned this past year — that we and our histories were expendable. If we can be cast aside, hidden, or disowned, whose histories are safe? How can (and can we) rebuild trust in the institutions that failed us this past year?”
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Washington Blade: Fighting ‘Rainbow Panic’ in museums. “Please know the LGBTQ community will remember the hard truths we learned this past year — that we and our histories were expendable. If we can be cast aside, hidden, or disowned, whose histories are safe? How can (and can we) rebuild trust in the institutions that failed us this past year?”
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Washington Blade: Fighting ‘Rainbow Panic’ in museums. “Please know the LGBTQ community will remember the hard truths we learned this past year — that we and our histories were expendable. If we can be cast aside, hidden, or disowned, whose histories are safe? How can (and can we) rebuild trust in the institutions that failed us this past year?”
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ABC News: An archaeologist is racing to preserve Sudan’s heritage as war threatens to erase its cultural past. “As the war between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) rages on, [Shadia Abdrabo] from Sudan’s National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums (NCAM) is on a yearlong research grant in France with one mission: to build an online database of the […]
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ABC News: An archaeologist is racing to preserve Sudan’s heritage as war threatens to erase its cultural past. “As the war between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) rages on, [Shadia Abdrabo] from Sudan’s National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums (NCAM) is on a yearlong research grant in France with one mission: to build an online database of the […]
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#1181 Andrew Cook (ed) - Archives: The Journal of the British Records Association, Vol XVI, No 70, October 1983. The British Records Association, London.
#Archives #Archivists #BritishRecordsAssociation #NoahsArk #Medieval #BookOfTheDay
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#1181 Andrew Cook (ed) - Archives: The Journal of the British Records Association, Vol XVI, No 70, October 1983. The British Records Association, London.
#Archives #Archivists #BritishRecordsAssociation #NoahsArk #Medieval #BookOfTheDay
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For the fans of Briet, I draw your attention to the Antelope Document Management System. #librarians #archivists #briet
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For the fans of Briet, I draw your attention to the Antelope Document Management System. #librarians #archivists #briet
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Inside the old church where one trillion webpages are stored – CNN Business
Inside the old church where one trillion webpages are being saved
By Hadas Gold, Updated 23 hr ago
See inside the old San Francisco church that houses nearly all of the internet’s history…
San Francisco — Just blocks from the Presidio of San Francisco, the national park at the base of the Golden Gate Bridge, stands a gleaming white building, its façade adorned with eight striking gothic columns.
But what was once the home of a Christian Scientist church, is now the holy grail of Internet history — the Internet Archive, a non-profit library run by a group of software engineers and librarians, who for nearly 30 years have been saving the web one page at a time.
Inside the stained-glass-adorned sanctuary, the sounds of church sermons have been replaced by the hum of servers, where the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine preserves web pages.
The Wayback Machine, a tool used by millions every day, has proven critical for academics and journalists searching for historical information on what corporations, people and governments have published online in the past, long after their websites have been updated or changed.
For many, the Wayback Machine is like a living history of the internet, and it just logged its trillionth page last month.
Archiving the web is more important and more challenging than ever before. The White House in January ordered vast amounts of government webpages to be taken down. Meanwhile, artificial intelligence is blurring the line between what’s real and what’s artificially generated — in some ways replacing the need to visit websites entirely. And more of the internet is now hidden behind paywalls or tucked in conversations with AI chatbots.
It’s the Internet Archive’s job to figure out how to preserve it all.
The Internet Archive also preserves music, television, newspapers, videogames and books, which archivists digitize page by page using bespoke machines. CNN“We are here to try to provide a record of what happened, so that people can learn and build on that to build a better future, or to build new ideas that are worthy of being in the (Internet Archive’s) library,” said Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle.
The internet’s library
Kahle created the archive in 1996 when a year’s worth of saved pages could fit on about 2 terabytes worth of hard drives, the amount of storage you can get today in an iPhone. Now, the archive is saving closer to 150 terabytes, or hundreds of millions worth of web pages, per day.
Kahle is the driving force and personality behind the archive, with the exuberance and energy of your favorite science teacher and like an evangelist whose religion is libraries and technology. Sitting for an interview on the original wooden pews of the church, Kahle said he was inspired to purchase the building because it resembles the group’s logo. But more importantly, he said it’s a symbol of permanence and a reference to the Library of Alexandria in Egypt.
“That was the first time somebody tried to go and collect everything ever written by humans,” Kahle said. “Of course, now that place is the internet, and the Internet Archive serves the whole internet as a library.”
Brewster Kahle created the archive in 1996 when a year’s worth of saved pages could fit on about 2 terabytes worth of hard drives, the amount of storage you can get today in an iPhone. CNNThe Wayback Machine tool does more than just screenshot the page. It also saves the technical architecture — the HTML, CSS, JavaScript codes and more — so that it can attempt to “replay the page as it existed” even if the server is no longer functioning, said Wayback Machine Director Mark Graham.
The rise of artificial intelligence and AI chatbots means the Internet Archive is changing how it records the history of the internet. In addition to web pages, the Internet Archive now captures AI-generated content, like ChatGPT answers and those summaries that appear at the top of Google search results.
Referred by: Library Link of the Day
http://www.tk421.net/librarylink/ (archive, rss, subscribe options)Continue/Read Original Article Here: Inside the old church where one trillion webpages are stored | CNN Business
#archivists #bespokeMachines #brewsterKahle #cnn #cnnBusiness #digitizeContent #hadasGold #holyGrail #internetArchive #libraryLinkOfTheDay #oldChurch #preservation #presidioOfSanFrancisco #sanFrancisco #theInternetsLibrary #waybackMachine
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Inside the old church where one trillion webpages are stored – CNN Business
Inside the old church where one trillion webpages are being saved
By Hadas Gold, Updated 23 hr ago
See inside the old San Francisco church that houses nearly all of the internet’s history…
San Francisco — Just blocks from the Presidio of San Francisco, the national park at the base of the Golden Gate Bridge, stands a gleaming white building, its façade adorned with eight striking gothic columns.
But what was once the home of a Christian Scientist church, is now the holy grail of Internet history — the Internet Archive, a non-profit library run by a group of software engineers and librarians, who for nearly 30 years have been saving the web one page at a time.
Inside the stained-glass-adorned sanctuary, the sounds of church sermons have been replaced by the hum of servers, where the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine preserves web pages.
The Wayback Machine, a tool used by millions every day, has proven critical for academics and journalists searching for historical information on what corporations, people and governments have published online in the past, long after their websites have been updated or changed.
For many, the Wayback Machine is like a living history of the internet, and it just logged its trillionth page last month.
Archiving the web is more important and more challenging than ever before. The White House in January ordered vast amounts of government webpages to be taken down. Meanwhile, artificial intelligence is blurring the line between what’s real and what’s artificially generated — in some ways replacing the need to visit websites entirely. And more of the internet is now hidden behind paywalls or tucked in conversations with AI chatbots.
It’s the Internet Archive’s job to figure out how to preserve it all.
The Internet Archive also preserves music, television, newspapers, videogames and books, which archivists digitize page by page using bespoke machines. CNN“We are here to try to provide a record of what happened, so that people can learn and build on that to build a better future, or to build new ideas that are worthy of being in the (Internet Archive’s) library,” said Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle.
The internet’s library
Kahle created the archive in 1996 when a year’s worth of saved pages could fit on about 2 terabytes worth of hard drives, the amount of storage you can get today in an iPhone. Now, the archive is saving closer to 150 terabytes, or hundreds of millions worth of web pages, per day.
Kahle is the driving force and personality behind the archive, with the exuberance and energy of your favorite science teacher and like an evangelist whose religion is libraries and technology. Sitting for an interview on the original wooden pews of the church, Kahle said he was inspired to purchase the building because it resembles the group’s logo. But more importantly, he said it’s a symbol of permanence and a reference to the Library of Alexandria in Egypt.
“That was the first time somebody tried to go and collect everything ever written by humans,” Kahle said. “Of course, now that place is the internet, and the Internet Archive serves the whole internet as a library.”
Brewster Kahle created the archive in 1996 when a year’s worth of saved pages could fit on about 2 terabytes worth of hard drives, the amount of storage you can get today in an iPhone. CNNThe Wayback Machine tool does more than just screenshot the page. It also saves the technical architecture — the HTML, CSS, JavaScript codes and more — so that it can attempt to “replay the page as it existed” even if the server is no longer functioning, said Wayback Machine Director Mark Graham.
The rise of artificial intelligence and AI chatbots means the Internet Archive is changing how it records the history of the internet. In addition to web pages, the Internet Archive now captures AI-generated content, like ChatGPT answers and those summaries that appear at the top of Google search results.
Referred by: Library Link of the Day
http://www.tk421.net/librarylink/ (archive, rss, subscribe options)Continue/Read Original Article Here: Inside the old church where one trillion webpages are stored | CNN Business
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KOLO: Archivist’s Alter Ego. “Archivist by day, rock star by night. Laura Rocke’s version of 9-5 at the University of Nevada as an archivist is contrasted by her life on stage. Rocke is the founder and lead singer of the 90s band As If!”
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KOLO: Archivist’s Alter Ego. “Archivist by day, rock star by night. Laura Rocke’s version of 9-5 at the University of Nevada as an archivist is contrasted by her life on stage. Rocke is the founder and lead singer of the 90s band As If!”
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My Mother's 1973 Christmas tree, with a cardboard diorama I created: "The DeWittes: Christmas on the Rhine." The diorama still exists. I'm a good archivist. #christmas #christmastime #christmasdecoration #christmasdecorations #christmasdecor #interiordecor #1970sdecor #1970s #twentiethcentury #twentiethcenturydesign #decor #decors #interior #interiors #christmastree #christmastrees #archive #archives #archivist #archivists #therhine #rhine #rhineriver #1973 #drapes #drapery
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My Mother's 1973 Christmas tree, with a cardboard diorama I created: "The DeWittes: Christmas on the Rhine." The diorama still exists. I'm a good archivist. #christmas #christmastime #christmasdecoration #christmasdecorations #christmasdecor #interiordecor #1970sdecor #1970s #twentiethcentury #twentiethcenturydesign #decor #decors #interior #interiors #christmastree #christmastrees #archive #archives #archivist #archivists #therhine #rhine #rhineriver #1973 #drapes #drapery
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We love this 6-panel zine from UPenn explaining how archives and archivists work!
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#Histodons #History #Archives #Archivists #Libraries #Librarians #Education #Homeschooling
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We love this 6-panel zine from UPenn explaining how archives and archivists work!
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#Histodons #History #Archives #Archivists #Libraries #Librarians #Education #Homeschooling
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#1279 John Warner-Davies (ed) - Archives: The Journal of the British Records Association, Vol XVII, No 73, April 1985. The British Records Association, London.
#Archives #Archivists #BritishRecordsAssociation #Ecclesiology #BookOfTheDay
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#1279 John Warner-Davies (ed) - Archives: The Journal of the British Records Association, Vol XVII, No 73, April 1985. The British Records Association, London.
#Archives #Archivists #BritishRecordsAssociation #Ecclesiology #BookOfTheDay
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Hey #archivists: #LostCanadians have made you all heroes in #Canada. I have seen at least 5 articles recently with various keepers of history.
It is really life-changing (and sometimes life-saving) work for us right now. Thank you from the bottom of our maple-flavored hearts. 🍁❤️🩹
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Hey #archivists: #LostCanadians have made you all heroes in #Canada. I have seen at least 5 articles recently with various keepers of history.
It is really life-changing (and sometimes life-saving) work for us right now. Thank you from the bottom of our maple-flavored hearts. 🍁❤️🩹
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The #AI Hard Drive Shortage Is Making It More Expensive and Harder for digital archivists, academics, #Wikipedia, and hobby data hoarders to save data and #Archive the Internet
https://www.404media.co/the-ai-hard-drive-shortage-is-making-it-more-expensive-and-harder-to-archive-the-internet
Specific drives favored by some high profile organizations like the #InternetArchive have become far more expensive or are difficult to find at all, #archivists said -
The #AI Hard Drive Shortage Is Making It More Expensive and Harder for digital archivists, academics, #Wikipedia, and hobby data hoarders to save data and #Archive the Internet
https://www.404media.co/the-ai-hard-drive-shortage-is-making-it-more-expensive-and-harder-to-archive-the-internet
Specific drives favored by some high profile organizations like the #InternetArchive have become far more expensive or are difficult to find at all, #archivists said -
Introducing Vanishing Culture: A New Book on the Loss of Our Digital Memory | #InternetArchive Blogs by #ChrisFreeland
At the same time, #libraries, #archivists, #preservationists are working to push back against this loss. The Internet Archive and its partners continue to build a #digitallibrary for the web: capturing, preserving, providing access to materials that might otherwise vanish -
@Geoffberner @accordionnoir
As a compulsive collector I advocate for putting the full date, including year, on event postersAs a little gift to future curators
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@Geoffberner @accordionnoir
As a compulsive collector I advocate for putting the full date, including year, on event postersAs a little gift to future curators
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Sidenote in a turbulent chaotic USA where the news tumbles... The president thinks his archive is not for the public 🧐
https://youtu.be/zI0cCGTF7SE -
Sidenote in a turbulent chaotic USA where the news tumbles... The president thinks his archive is not for the public 🧐
https://youtu.be/zI0cCGTF7SE -
Calling #mapstodon !!! Also #librarians and #archivists !!!
I used a lot of old maps in my work for York Library and Archive, which I'm proud to say are on permanent display.
But I'm running out of maps!
If anyone has any old sheet maps (see pic for examples) - not the folded retail sort - that need a new home, please could i have them?!?!
I would love to make you something from them in return, if you'd like.
Thank you!!!#maps #cartography #librariansofmastodon #oldMaps #archivistodon