Our IMLS proposal to incorporate digital objects into Arclight got funded! Description and digital objects in one discovery interface so you can readily use existing description for digitization or describe born digital objects in aggregate.

We posted the CFP for our IMLS grant to build digital object discovery into ArcLight! We‘ll develop specifications to better define how digital objects relate to archival description. If you’ve worked in this space before in any context, please apply!

We're thrilled to announce the launch of our premier webarchiving platform Browsertrix! Archive websites & social media, curate collections and replay your webarchives for as little as $30 / month! https://t.co/3VbOV4HSEV

We also have funding to bring a bunch of people to Albany to spec out archival data structures for this! So be on the lookout for an opportunity to come to scenic Albany in the cold to nerd out about archival data!

Dear #library technology community, we need to talk about @OCLC. #libraries #code4lib #c4l24

My boss's boss position is open, which is probably the most important role in our R1 ARL library. I'm not on the committee and happy to talk about the role. Salary is not listed but was previously ~120k, though I would expect that would have to go up https://t.co/axd7qgy0cs

ArchivesSpace is looking for a Tech Lead! This is a really impactful position that helps archival repositories around the world manage and provide access to cultural heritage materials https://t.co/SqWSuxDiZJ

Yo Eira is so smart man, go read A Green New Deal For Archives #saa23

If you have docker, its now super easy to run mailbagit, just three commands! https://t.co/SuzVvSMxOW

mailbagit 0.5.1 is up, which now correctly recognizes mbox files exported from Mac Mail (which annoyingly doesn't use the .mbox file extension)

PNGs are good for preservation. You don't need to migrate/normalize them. I am team #PNGforPreservation If you got JPGs already they're fine too, you're not gaining anything by converting them. We gotta get rid of these "compression is not preservation" ideas

Join the party at the #EmailArchivingSymposium, starting right NOW! Don't worry if you haven't registered yet, because we've got you covered. Tune in to the live stream (w/ a 20 sec delay) on YouTube. #digipres #emailarchiving https://t.co/ycKGeIm7jE

I am very excited to share that findings from our research for the Building a National Finding Aid Network project are now available. This was a major effort to inform the future of archival discovery and I'm really proud of this work

📣 Attention email enthusiasts! The Email Archiving Symposium program is here! 🎉Don't miss out on the captivating world of email preservation and discovery. Check out the lineup and register now!📨 #EmailArchiving #digipres Have a look:  https://t.co/gdLjusuklu

I need to look at the ARL numbers more, but at a glance, the institutions that are feeling this the most are probably disproportionately more accessible, diverse, and broadly-focused. Its hard to see how this gets better.

State politicians and though them the public are just not valuing the mission of research libraries. This is a long term crisis for many research libraries. Our department is going to have great collections on NYS politics and the death penalty, until we're not.

So yes, this is austerity from 2008 and 2020, but its also worse than that. NY State has had a historically unique budget surplus and it invested in a big AI initiative that will add 49 TT lines to UAlbany. Libraries are getting zero of these lines.

We have good data at UAlbany to why this is happening. Admins are moving these lines towards efforts that more obviously impact recruitment/retention. While the Libraries have lost staff, other units in "Academic Affairs Support" have gained ~47 FTE in writing and advising.

I can't point to Eira Tansey's work enough here, as she was first to call out the ARL data and described this well as a "multi-decade cycle of poverty that stunts [our] ability to provide adequate care for records and services for users" https://t.co/Dr6RkPNk4u

This isn't feasible when research libraries are losing staff. The median ARL library has lost 24% of FTE since 2000. UAlbany has lost an even 50%, but is not really an outlier, as we're like in the ~10% percentile.