Barbara Laufersweiler

Digital special collections & digitization, book history, project mgmt, org change, climate resilience. U.of Oklahoma. Knits self together. / Opinions her own.

[Barbara Laufersweiler @barbaraell]

@lynnemthomas And petticoat?! Imma just sayin 😍 🔥

[Dr. JoAnn Palmeri @PalmeriJoAnn]

Here comes the #Sun! Today we’re highlighting materials from the Special Research Collections
@OU_Libraries for #MuseumWeek2023’s final theme of #SunMW

De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (1543) by Copernicus https://t.co/AlJKyhUdfT

[Barbara Laufersweiler @barbaraell]

Seeing high-end cars - Alfa Romeo, Porsche, Audi - parked near the university administration building. Remembering my pay is well below market and in 2023 dollars lower than it's been since 2015 - no cost of living increases, few & minimal raises. Inequity made visible.

[Lawns are a grift meant to keep us subservient. @BRVogt]

Unlawn America. https://t.co/3yhLEyCQ8O

[Barbara Laufersweiler @barbaraell]

Matches my experience doing digitization of pre-1850 books and 19th-century documents @OU_Libraries

[Barbara Laufersweiler @barbaraell]

@lynnemthomas Same same!

[The Huntington @TheHuntington]

Wearing gloves can increase the risk of damage to rare books, especially when working with objects like this delicate, dragon-themed volvelle. 🐉 ☀️ Check out this video with our curator Dan to learn more.

[Fobazi Ettarh @Fobettarh]

This is beautiful. I encourage you all to read it!

“Once I internalized that my university cared more about its financial solvency than reducing a credible threat to my life, something broke in me.”

[National Endowment for the Humanities @NEHgov]

.@NEHgov has committed to $4 million to support the digitization of records from 408 federal Indian boarding schools in the U.S. to create an oral history collection of the experiences of Indigenous students who passed through the system. https://t.co/RTjK0ZX1Tv

[David Pizzo @PizzoHistorian]

So, y’all. I did a very dumb thing this morning. I went to the Bureau of Labor’s website and checked what the salary at which I was hired in 2007 would be in 2023. And what I discovered is that, despite 17 years of service, two awards that went on my base (back when that was a…

[Barbara Laufersweiler @barbaraell]

F.

[Colin McCarthy @US_Stormwatch]

Ocean temperatures have been at all-time record warm levels for 42 straight days.

This is completed unprecedented in the modern history of Earth.

[Barbara Laufersweiler @barbaraell]

Also state university staff, at least at my place of employment.

[heather froehlich @heatherfro]

good morning and I hope you will join me in rejoicing that someone has finally invented a decent and accessible guide to teaching regular expressions 🎉🎉🎉

https://t.co/fCFw4rdnuj

[Barbara Laufersweiler @barbaraell]

Lovely, lovely retelling of the medieval trickster tales

[Anne Louise Avery @AnneLouiseAvery]

🦊🌸Competition time! For Easter, I'm giving away a signed edition of my book, Reynard the Fox, a copy of my Fox for All Seasons lined journal, a chocolate bunny & egg & a charming fluffy companion! Simply like, retweet & follow to enter! 🌸🦊

[Joshua Doležal @JoshuaDolezal]

Academic librarians are like the engineers who maintain the electrical grid. Without them, many systems would go dark. But colleges often treat them more like convenience-store clerks.

@chronicle @insidehighered @AcademicChatter @AcaHumanities

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