Notices by Eira Tansey (teammidwest@glammr.us), page 3

We have over 6,000 archivists working in the United States and it is enormously frustrating to see the same 1-2 archivists cited in articles about digital archives. I am begging journalists to source some quotes from archivists who are not white men deeply embedded in Silicon Valley culture.

I've had to stay quiet about this news for WEEKS and I can finally announce it! My 2023 pub Green New Deal for Archives won the Waldo Gifford Leland award, which is the American archives profession's highest honor for excellent writing! Massive shout out to my wonderful friend and comrade @j_feral who helped coordinate letter writing in support! https://www2.archivists.org/recipients/2024/waldo-gifford-leland-award-eira-tansey

This has been an incredibly rough year and winning the Leland award means a lot - it's got a great history and a lot of previous super smart people have won it. Proud to be in their company.

One of the things that I still carry baggage around from my time in higher ed is how difficult and lonely it is to be the one who speaks out while others thank you in private for your "bravery." It takes a massive unbelievable toll on people. Truth tellers do not want to be thanked for their bravery, they want you at their side also adding your voice to the mix. United we bargain, divided we beg.

This is also why I believe the only fundamental change that can ever come through library organizations can be through workers collectively acting together. As I am fond of saying, leaders often aren't up to the task because they don't understand the stakes.

Man, we gotta talk about stuff like this. The tendency of library leaders to not speak out fearing further retaliation rarely proves to be a winning strategy, and in fact can be demoralizing for staff: "Library directors are seeking opportunities to speak to others at peer institutions about these issues without drawing public attention. They do not want organizations to speak for them or advocate on their behalf, out of fear that it will draw negative attention to their libraries."

Quote from the new Ithaka S+R report on self-censorship and academic libraries https://sr.ithaka.org/blog/new-report-on-self-censorship-and-public-university-libraries/

TIL that during the Siege of Leningrad, the scientists of Russia's largest seedbank died of starvation with the seeds under their care rather than eating them and I mean, wow. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-second-siege-saving-s_b_685867

I asked this a while ago and got no nibbles but let’s try again: I’m a librarian and archivist who will be visiting Iceland and Ireland in mid-October and I would LOVE to meet some library/archives/museum people/get some GLAM recommendations while I’m traveling. Please boost, thank you 💚💚💚💚

As an archivist I am begging, crying, pleading with everyone to put a date on literally anything you ever create no matter how benign. This brought to you by encountering a “third edition” of a state government authored publication with no date to be found anywhere on it.

you should be able to flip a secret switch in Outlook that automatically blocks your calendar from receiving any additional meeting invitations after X hours of meetings. I keep throwing "protecting my calendar" time blocks on here and it's not an ideal solution.

is anyone else noticing that the forthcoming 20 year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq is just like, being ignored? A reminder that for most of 2002, America was being prepped with "axis of evil" propaganda, and it feels like we've hardly looked back at this. https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/10/20021007-8.html