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Action News 5: Memphis Public Libraries to dedicate music lab to Tay Keith. “Tay Keith, the Grammy-nominated artist and music producer worked with some of the biggest stars in the industry, including superstars like Beyonce and Drake. He passed away at 29 years old in Nashville from an accidental overdose.”

Action News 5: Memphis Public Libraries to dedicate music lab to Tay Keith. “Tay Keith, the Grammy-nominated artist and music producer worked with some of the biggest stars in the industry, including superstars like Beyonce and Drake. He passed away at 29 years old in Nashville from an accidental overdose.”

Action News 5: Memphis Public Libraries to dedicate music lab to Tay Keith. “Tay Keith, the Grammy-nominated artist and music producer worked with some of the biggest stars in the industry, including superstars like Beyonce and Drake. He passed away at 29 years old in Nashville from an accidental overdose.”

Action News 5: Memphis Public Libraries to dedicate music lab to Tay Keith. “Tay Keith, the Grammy-nominated artist and music producer worked with some of the biggest stars in the industry, including superstars like Beyonce and Drake. He passed away at 29 years old in Nashville from an accidental overdose.”

Action News 5: Memphis Public Libraries to dedicate music lab to Tay Keith. “Tay Keith, the Grammy-nominated artist and music producer worked with some of the biggest stars in the industry, including superstars like Beyonce and Drake. He passed away at 29 years old in Nashville from an accidental overdose.”

Museums Journal: Government launches review of human remains guidance for museums. “The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has announced a review of its Guidance for the Care of Human Remains in Museums, which was published in 2005. In a written statement to parliament on 16 September, arts minister Ruth Mackenzie, who is reportedly taking over the museums brief at DCMS, […]

Museums Journal: Government launches review of human remains guidance for museums. “The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has announced a review of its Guidance for the Care of Human Remains in Museums, which was published in 2005. In a written statement to parliament on 16 September, arts minister Ruth Mackenzie, who is reportedly taking over the museums brief at DCMS, […]

Museums Journal: Government launches review of human remains guidance for museums. “The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has announced a review of its Guidance for the Care of Human Remains in Museums, which was published in 2005. In a written statement to parliament on 16 September, arts minister Ruth Mackenzie, who is reportedly taking over the museums brief at DCMS, […]

Museums Journal: Government launches review of human remains guidance for museums. “The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has announced a review of its Guidance for the Care of Human Remains in Museums, which was published in 2005. In a written statement to parliament on 16 September, arts minister Ruth Mackenzie, who is reportedly taking over the museums brief at DCMS, […]

Museums Journal: Government launches review of human remains guidance for museums. “The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has announced a review of its Guidance for the Care of Human Remains in Museums, which was published in 2005. In a written statement to parliament on 16 September, arts minister Ruth Mackenzie, who is reportedly taking over the museums brief at DCMS, […]

Recollection Wisconsin: The Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative by the Numbers. “Since launching in Fall 2024, the Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative (RWDI) has connected graduate students with cultural heritage organizations across Wisconsin to digitize and share local history collections. So far, the numbers tell a pretty exciting story.”

Recollection Wisconsin: The Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative by the Numbers. “Since launching in Fall 2024, the Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative (RWDI) has connected graduate students with cultural heritage organizations across Wisconsin to digitize and share local history collections. So far, the numbers tell a pretty exciting story.”

Recollection Wisconsin: The Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative by the Numbers. “Since launching in Fall 2024, the Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative (RWDI) has connected graduate students with cultural heritage organizations across Wisconsin to digitize and share local history collections. So far, the numbers tell a pretty exciting story.”

Recollection Wisconsin: The Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative by the Numbers. “Since launching in Fall 2024, the Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative (RWDI) has connected graduate students with cultural heritage organizations across Wisconsin to digitize and share local history collections. So far, the numbers tell a pretty exciting story.”

Recollection Wisconsin: The Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative by the Numbers. “Since launching in Fall 2024, the Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative (RWDI) has connected graduate students with cultural heritage organizations across Wisconsin to digitize and share local history collections. So far, the numbers tell a pretty exciting story.”

McGill University: History, art and science join forces to unlock the mysteries of a 400-year-old book. “A major grant will enable McGill University Libraries to delve into the Libro di Piume, or Feather Book, an exceptional artifact created in Italy more than 400 years ago. This unique object contains 156 illustrations made from feathers and other organic materials, including approximately 100 […]

McGill University: History, art and science join forces to unlock the mysteries of a 400-year-old book. “A major grant will enable McGill University Libraries to delve into the Libro di Piume, or Feather Book, an exceptional artifact created in Italy more than 400 years ago. This unique object contains 156 illustrations made from feathers and other organic materials, including approximately 100 […]

McGill University: History, art and science join forces to unlock the mysteries of a 400-year-old book. “A major grant will enable McGill University Libraries to delve into the Libro di Piume, or Feather Book, an exceptional artifact created in Italy more than 400 years ago. This unique object contains 156 illustrations made from feathers and other organic materials, including approximately 100 […]

McGill University: History, art and science join forces to unlock the mysteries of a 400-year-old book. “A major grant will enable McGill University Libraries to delve into the Libro di Piume, or Feather Book, an exceptional artifact created in Italy more than 400 years ago. This unique object contains 156 illustrations made from feathers and other organic materials, including approximately 100 […]

McGill University: History, art and science join forces to unlock the mysteries of a 400-year-old book. “A major grant will enable McGill University Libraries to delve into the Libro di Piume, or Feather Book, an exceptional artifact created in Italy more than 400 years ago. This unique object contains 156 illustrations made from feathers and other organic materials, including approximately 100 […]

Breaking Belize News: Belize National Library Service and Information System and Amandala sign agreement to preserve and digitize Belize’s Documentary Heritage. “The Belize National Library Service and Information System (BNLSIS) and The Amandala Newspaper have signed a Digitization and Public Access Agreement aimed at preserving and expanding access to the newspaper’s historic records. The […]

UNESCO: UNESCO- ICOM Global Survey finds museums embracing AI, but governance and capacity lag behind. “Surveying more than 400 museums across 90 countries, the study finds that 57% of responding museums are already using AI, while 55% have no internal AI policy, strategy or guidelines.”

Smithsonian Transcription Center: Welcome to the new Smithsonian Transcription Center!. “Today, we’re revealing a redesigned website for the first time since Smithsonian Transcription Center was created in 2013. In the last 13 years, over 100,000 people have worked together to transcribe more than 1.5 million pages of Smithsonian collections. This refresh is rooted in our gratitude for […]

Digital Public Library of America: Cleveland Public Library Takes the Helm of The National Digital Collection. “We’re excited to share that Cleveland Public Library (CPL) now maintains the digital collection of American cultural heritage. This vital program brings together over 50 million books, photos, maps, videos and more, contributed by more than 6,000 libraries, archives, and museums […]

BBC: Why museum’s last mummy has been taken off display. “The mummified body of an ancient Egyptian woman has been removed from a museum exhibition after more than 200 years on display as part of efforts to respect “the wishes of the dead”, curators have said.”

Spoon & Tamago: Tadao Ando Designed & Donated a Floating Library that Delivers Books to Children. “Cutting through the white-capped waves of the Seto Inland Sea is a one-of-kind ‘floating library’. This is Hon no Mori-go (ほんのもり号) created to give children living on remote islands the opportunity to discover books and nurture their creativity. Inside the ship are shelves lined with […]

Courthouse News: California museum sued over Renaissance painting looted by Nazis. “The Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California, faces a new lawsuit to recover a pair of life-size Renaissance paintings confiscated by the Nazis when the Jewish owners had to flee the Netherlands in 1940.”

Unsplash: The Met is now on Unsplash. “The Met launch includes 1000 images, and highlights a range of its museums and archives, each bringing a completely different lens on art history, costume and textile history and cultures. These 10 collections span some of hundreds of the institution’s most iconic departments and artists.”

Infovaticana: The Vatican Library and Apostolic Archive will have a new building inside Vatican City. “Pope Leo XIV has ordered the construction of a new building within Vatican City primarily intended to expand the spaces of the Vatican Apostolic Library and the Vatican Apostolic Archive, after the growth of their collections has rendered the currently available facilities insufficient.”

Museums Journal: Record number of museums awarded Designated status. “A record nine museums, libraries and archives have been awarded Designated status for their collections – which span film memorabilia, the archive of a medieval monastery and documents detailing the design, construction and operation of the world’s first underwater tunnel. The Designation scheme was first launched in 1997 […]

Gothamist: Brooklyn Public Library launches first ever craft library. “The Brooklyn Public Library will launch its first-ever craft library on Wednesday, allowing library cardholders to borrow art supplies for a variety of activities, including screen printing, bookbinding, metal stamping and hand embroidery. The program is the passion project of Jess Harwick, a craft-loving BPL librarian of […]

Hromadske: Ukrainian Olympian’s ‘Helmet of Memory’ to become online museum for athletes killed in Russia’s war. “The helmet that Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych wore to honor athletes killed in Russia’s war – and that led to him being barred from competing at the 2026 Winter Olympics – will become the centerpiece of an online museum telling the stories of the 22 people […]

New York Times: English Museum to Repatriate Colonial-Era Human Remains. “After years of negotiations, a British museum has agreed to return a colonial-era collection of human remains to the Indigenous Naga people of the Indian subcontinent, Naga representatives said on Saturday. The partial remains — a warrior’s cranium, a woman’s skull, a young person’s jaw and many others — have […]

Discovered on LinkedIn: the Indigenous Collections Care Guide. “The Indigenous Collections Care Guide provides a framework to respect and recenter collections stewardship practices around the needs and knowledge of Native American and Indigenous community members.”

American Libraries: Dismantling Disinformation. “Library workers are well aware of the effects of book bans and censorship. Propaganda and disinformation are the flipside of the same coin. Understanding the complex relationships among these interrelated processes is more critical than ever, especially as libraries explore possible solutions and responses. The following books show how […]

American Libraries: 2026 Library Design Showcase. “Welcome to American Libraries’ 2026 Library Design Showcase, our annual celebration of new and renovated libraries across the US and Canada. The word welcome appeared in many of this year’s submissions, reflecting a growing understanding that in anxious times, the library is a place that should feel good: safe, comfortable, well-lit, […]

Drexel University: Preserving the Academy of Natural Sciences’ Legacy and Collections for the Future. “As part of this broader effort and following careful consideration, grounded in deep respect for the Academy’s extraordinary legacy, Academy and Drexel leadership have made the difficult decision to close the Academy’s museum as of September 30. While the museum will close, the Academy […]

Museums Association: Science Museum ends BP sponsorship after 25 years. “The Science Museum and BP have ended their commercial relationship, following years of high-profile protests by environmental groups. In a statement, the chief executive of the Science Museum Group (SMG), Ian Blatchford, said its partnership with the company had “drawn to a close” at the end of the current contract […]

Tulane University Libraries: New Digital Collections Now Available. “Digital Initiatives has recently added three new collections to the Tulane University Digital Collections (TUDC), expanding access to materials documenting Louisiana history, Central American political history, and New Orleans music.”

Portland Press Herald: Biddeford library to archive memorial items honoring ICE shooting victim. “Since [Sebastián] Durán Guerrero’s death on July 13, community members have left cards, flowers, notes, art and other items at two memorial sites. Archiving those items will preserve an important part of Biddeford history, the library said. Archivist and reference librarian Rose Dionne said […]

Adirondack Explorer: The Wild Center commits to net zero emissions, a first of its kind. “The Wild Center has become the first cultural institution in the world to commit to achieving net zero carbon emissions. In collaboration with Global Network for Zero, the Tupper Lake natural history museum moved to align its climate-centered values with its actions and outputs.”

Smithsonian: New National Air and Space Museum Video Series Brings Aerospace Learning Into Classrooms. “Each month of the school year, the museum will release a collection of videos focused on a specific topic. Every collection contains four videos under 10 minutes in length and an accompanying educator guide featuring classroom resources, student activities and full lesson plans. The topics […]

Los Angeles Times: In first major ufology acquisition, Huntington puts Integratron’s eccentric history on display. “The collection, announced by the museum Tuesday, is deep and vast, with materials dating from the 1910s through the 1990s. It includes an architectural model and original blueprints of the Integratron, as well as nearly 630 photographs, negatives and slides, more than 250 audio […]

Radio New Zealand: Almost 50 jobs could go at National Library and Archives, PSA warns. “A proposal to cut 12 percent of the workforce at the National Library and Archives NZ will decimate both organisations and have a significant impact on service levels, says the Public Service Association (PSA).”

PEN America: Out of Circulation: Expanding Censorship in Public Libraries. “As pillars of civil society, public libraries are places of voluntary inquiry and should serve as unfettered gateways to the universe of knowledge. But since 2021, they have faced significant pressure to restrict access to information about race, sexuality, and gender as part of a larger movement that is chilling the […]

Reuters: Smithsonian to put Latino museum in existing building, bypassing Congress approval. “The Smithsonian Institution approved on Monday the conversion of one of its buildings into the ​National Museum of the American Latino, which will ‌enable it to bypass congressional approval for a new site.”