“Sparks Fly (The John Henry Song)” by Ra Le Bu channels a “never die, never quit” Bed-Stuy spirit ⚒️ A winner in the 2025 @WNYC Public Song Project, it reimagines the legend of John Henry as a deeply p…
Let's celebrate, today is World Book Day (athough some countries celebrate in a different day)! It's also known as World Book and Copyright Day or International Day of the Book. What are you currently…
🇨🇦 25 years of GovInfo Day is worth celebrating. 🎉 Registration is now open for a special Spring 2026 edition bringing together researchers, librarians, archivists & information professionals for two d…
Stitch Your Favorite Destinations with Jake Henzler’s ‘Knit the City’ "When we visit major hubs like Copenhagen or Paris, we often take a lot of photos and make sure to grab a little souvenir as a mem…
Publishers attempts to block AI scraping may limit access to the historical record, raising questions about how we preserve the web over time 📚 PRESERVING THE WEB IN THE AGE OF AI, a LIVE Future Knowl…
Hooray for #NationalLibraryWeek! 📚 Internet Archive's mission is Universal Access to All Knowledge, and we’re proud to be a Federal Depository Library. Books 📖, movies 🎞️, music 🎧, software 💾, web page…
I Love the Em Dash—Too Bad If AI Does Too I won’t abandon the controversial punctuation mark just to prove I’m human by Mihika Agarwal (from the archives) https://thewalrus.ca/i-love-the-em-dash-too-b…
There's still time to join us tomorrow night for the VANISHING CULTURE book launch! 📖 Celebrate, meet the contributors, and hear why corporate interests, shifting distribution models, and cyber attack…
#OTD in 1892, The Awakening by Kate Chopin is published. https://lithub.com/lit-hub-daily-april-22-2026/ Works by Chopin at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/100 #books #literature
The Man Who Invented the Future Are we the conflicted heirs of the world according to Francis Bacon? by Ed Simon https://hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/the-man-who-invented-the-future Bacon…
The covers of local government documents reveal how public institutions saw themselves and how they wanted to be seen. Earlier designs were text-heavy, formal, and purely functional. After the late 19…
The arguments behind every landmark Supreme Court ruling have never been freely available to the public… until now. Thanks to a gift from the Wolf Law Library at William & Mary Law School, more than 1…
This Week in Literary History: Mae West is Sentenced to Ten Days in Jail for Obscenity “She seemed to go to extremes in order to make the play as obscene and immoral as possible.” https://lithub.com/t…
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@mattdm A quote attributed to Robert Frost has been circulating in offices around the world for decades and remains unsettling for one reason: his explanation of when the brain stops thinking has lost…
Thought of the day by Robert Frost: 'The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.' By Gandharv Walia https://…
U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs: The Arguments That Shaped America, Now Freely Available Thanks to a generous gift of materials from the Wolf Law Library at the William & Mary Law School, and th…
"Liberty lends us her wings and Hope guides us by her star." Villette (1853) ~Charlotte Brontë (21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters, who firs…
🚨 LIVE ONLINE EVENT 🚨 Publishers vs. preservation: what happens when the web can’t be archived? Find out on PRESERVING THE WEB IN THE AGE OF AI, a LIVE Future Knowledge #podcast recording 🎙️ Join this …
📝 Planning your week, San Francisco Bay Area? 🌁 Consider joining us Thursday for the VANISHING CULTURE book launch! 📖 When digital materials are vulnerable to sudden removal, our collective memory is …
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