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Corinne Forstot-Burke @corinne-isabel.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

So happy that this purchase is getting a moment in the spotlight!

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Corinne Forstot-Burke @corinne-isabel.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Lovely little mushroom find this morning by the lake #fungifriends 🍄🍄‍🟫

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Corinne Forstot-Burke @corinne-isabel.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Anyone had any luck securing Romanian citizenship by descent? Need to track down vital records, but those family members have all passed. Recommendations welcome!

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Corinne Forstot-Burke @corinne-isabel.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Hey, #AcademicSky - thoughts? #AcademicChatter “He’s telling us not to use it, and then he’s using it himself,” she said. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...

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The Professors Are Using ChatGPT, and Some Students Aren’t Happy About It

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Corinne Forstot-Burke @corinne-isabel.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I think, as an academic librarian, if you help x number of students get their PhD or x number of faculty get tenure, you should receive an honorary doctorate. #academicsky

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University of Michigan Music Library @umichmusiclibrary.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Before we had Shazam for naming that tune, we had Thematic Catalogs. These reference works list compositions often with incipits (opening notes of a piece or movement), form, medium, location of manuscript, editions, and so much more. Check ‘em out!

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Corinne Forstot-Burke @corinne-isabel.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Do you still use mini scores? Do your library patrons still check them out? I feel like they’ve been forgotten.

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Library Futures @libraryfutures.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

As we write, DOGE is reportedly inside the gates of the IMLS (Institute for Museum and Library Services), where Keith Sonderling, Deputy Secretary of Labor and “somehow now Acting Director” of IMLS is dismantling the agency that helps libraries be libraries. /1 www.reddit.com/r/fednews/s/...

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From the fednews community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the fednews community

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Corinne Forstot-Burke @corinne-isabel.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I have several articles that were included. Check the data set - you may be surprised (or not) to find that your work is included too 😔 #academicsky

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Corinne Forstot-Burke @corinne-isabel.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Spending time with dance scholarship in the @umich collection. Gorgeous volumes of history, choreography, costume design, photography. #dance #academicsky

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Corinne Forstot-Burke @corinne-isabel.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

What we’re talking about when we talk about backlogs. Want to discover more historical content? Fund technical services positions and project staff. These are not internship projects, this is not student work. Managing big collections requires staff.

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Corinne Forstot-Burke @corinne-isabel.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Learning about the relationship of synaptic pruning and #autism. Have there been studies on synaptic pruning, or lack thereof, in autistic mothers during and after pregnancy? Postpartum should be a time for synaptic pruning, but, what if it isn’t for these women? #psychology #neurodivergence

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

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Corinne Forstot-Burke @corinne-isabel.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

For Black History Month, what can we do in the #academiclibrary beyond exhibits and short-lived nods of appreciation? Add Black creators to our approval plans, add them to our instruction examples, create guides that show students and faculty how to find them. Make lasting change. #academicsky

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Corinne Forstot-Burke @corinne-isabel.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

When will I learn to stop reading series that aren’t completely written/published!! Waiting for book 4 is going to be torturous. 😫 #booksky 💙📚

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Corinne Forstot-Burke @corinne-isabel.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Have any academic librarians analyzed the effect that user preference for online resources has had on space issues in the stacks? Less physical items checked out means less room on our shelves for new material. #academicsky #academicchatter #academiclibrary #highered

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Corinne Forstot-Burke @corinne-isabel.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Collection development is my favorite activity. New acquisitions by Puerto Rican-born composer and multi-instrumentalist Angélica Negrón featured here. 🇵🇷 #newmusic #womencomposers #musiclibrary

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Corinne Forstot-Burke @corinne-isabel.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Dear music publishers and composers: I implore you to stop using comb bindings. Did you know that many libraries won’t purchase works with comb bindings? They rip the pages. To rebind, we need more room in the margin. Cutting off the comb results in loss of clef, time signature, and key at minimum.

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Rob Deemer @robdeemer.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Six years ago today, the Institute for Composer Diversity was launched, and in celebration of its birthday, we're (finally) launching our Chamber Database! 16K+ total works with 9K+ by women composers and 8.7K+ by composers of color and searchable by over 200 instruments…Enjoy!

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Chamber Search — Institute for Composer Diversity

This Chamber Search page lets you search for music for 1-9+ performers by composers from historically excluded groups.

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University of Michigan Music Library @umichmusiclibrary.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

In 1954, U-M Library made the purchase of the music collection of Jean Auguste Stellfeld, a Belgian musicologist who had amassed one of the most significant music collections in Europe, providing a basis for the U-M Department of Musicology and the study of European music from the 16th century on.

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Corinne Forstot-Burke @corinne-isabel.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

From the rare book room: National nursery rhymes and nursery songs / set to original music by J.W. Elliott, with illustrations engraved by the brothers Dalziel. @umichmusiclibrary.bsky.social

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M. Walker @schmeeglez.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

ICE raids across Austin today. Confirmed by local news and DEA Houston office. Keep your head on a swivel, know your rights, help your neighbors prepare for it as well.

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Corinne Forstot-Burke @corinne-isabel.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Elementary schools, hospitals… heads-up library workers, we’re going to see some shit.

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Corinne Forstot-Burke @corinne-isabel.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Some of the DEIA work I’ve done in collection development over the years is to un-anthologize the works of Black, Asian, Indigenous, Latin, and Latin American composers in our collections. Adding individual works and adding names to our approval profiles. Representation on our shelves matters.

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Corinne Forstot-Burke @corinne-isabel.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Nearly 40,000 pieces from the Edison Sheet Music Collection, including all American publications from 1800 through 1869, are cataloged and have been digitized -they can be searched or browsed as a collection in HathiTrust. We’ll need to secure another grant to finish the project. It’s huge!

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Corinne Forstot-Burke @corinne-isabel.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Let’s go!!! I’m so excited to dig into this! #BookSky 💙📚

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Corinne Forstot-Burke @corinne-isabel.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Dark urban fantasy, filled with Slavic folklore. It’s a short read - a beautiful novella teeming with regret. #BookSky 💙📚

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

AOC: I don’t care what Elon Musk is doing behind the presidential seal, but in this country we hate Nazis. Kind of like a foundational defining thing. Two of the foundational things about American history is that we beat the confederates and we beat the Nazis.

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Corinne Forstot-Burke @corinne-isabel.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Oooh, this was a slow, dark, lonely, grief-laden story. So many beautiful moments. #booksky 💙📚

Book cover for The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years, by Shubnum Khan.

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Corinne Forstot-Burke @corinne-isabel.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Ok #HigherEd, time to bulk up our humanities departments again. We have nazis to fight. #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter

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Corinne Forstot-Burke @corinne-isabel.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Listening to Miranda July narrate her book “No one belongs here more than you” and loving every second of it #booksky

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ACLU @aclu.org · 21/01/2025

President Trump's executive order requires government offices to discriminate against transgender people, and attempts to deny the existence of trans people and put the federal government in charge of their gender.

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Corinne Forstot-Burke @corinne-isabel.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Logged out of the meta sphere. Feel like going into a 4 year media blackout, but it’s just not wise, or possible.

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Corinne Forstot-Burke @corinne-isabel.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Alternative bio: neurodivergent perimenopausal woman with history of complex trauma doing her best to raise confident and emotionally aware neurodivergent children in an imperfect world while trying not to drown financially. Loves books, cats, waking in the woods, and calm afternoons.

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Corinne Forstot-Burke @corinne-isabel.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Went out for happy hour and drank coffee instead of alcohol. Honestly? The most fun buzz I’ve had in ages. Caffeine?! After 5pm?!

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Corinne Forstot-Burke @corinne-isabel.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

High Jinks - implies the existence of low jinks, average jinks. Perhaps even simply “jinks”

As produced under the direction of
ARTHUR HAMMERSTEIN
At the CASINO THEATRE, NEW YORK
HIGH JINKS
A MUSICAL FARCE
THE BOOK AND LYRICS BY
OTTO HAUERBACH
THE MUSIC BY
RUDOLF FRIML
(Authors of "The Firefly")
SELECTIONS FOR PIANO SOLO, ARR. BY D. SAVINO 75c. NET PUBLISHED SEPARATELY
Net a-c
FOR VOICE AND PIANO
SOMETHING SEEMS TINGLE-INGLEING
LOVE'S OWN KISS. Waltz-Song
THE BUBBLE
WHEN SAMMY SANG THE MARSEILLAISE
JIM
I'M THROUGH WITH ROAMING ROMEOS HIGH JINKS TANGO, "That Alters the Matter"
NOT NOW, BUT LATER. Duet
THE DIXIANA RISE
THE CODE OF HONOR
FOR PIANO SOLO
HIGH JINKS ONE-STEP
HIGH JINKS WALTZES
SOMETHING SEEMS TINGLE-INGLEING
60 cents each
Vocal Score, $2.00 net

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Corinne Forstot-Burke @corinne-isabel.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Hey @bidenpotus.bsky.social, how about public service loan forgiveness for all librarians as a parting gift?? Who knows what the next administration is going to do with us.

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Corinne Forstot-Burke @corinne-isabel.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Václav Hálek, the mushroom composer. The Musical Atlas of Mushrooms: How mushrooms sing contains scores of 42 songs. Hálek said that he did not compose songs for the mushrooms, rather he “heard” the mushroom’s music. A mushroom medium 🍄 #fungifriends

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Rebekah Weatherspoon @rdotspoon.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Imma need some of you to think about thriving out of spite. I had big plans for 2025 and I’m definitely not gonna pre-derail them for likes of Elin and Tromp. I’m getting more involved. Loving harder. Writing hornier. Having more fun. I’m gonna be so kind to my neighbors, bitch.

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Corinne Forstot-Burke @corinne-isabel.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Sharing this oldie-but-goodie. Václav Hálek, the mushroom medium 🍄 #fungifriends youtu.be/pEEgCQJ0Gck?...

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Meet The Mushroom Composer

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Corinne Forstot-Burke @corinne-isabel.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I read at least one book per week. That’s not a flex. The flex is that all the books I read are from the public library. Circulation matters. Check out books. #library #books

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Corinne Forstot-Burke @corinne-isabel.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Starting to investigate sustainability in academic libraries from a collection building perspective. Financial sustainability, preservation and access, physical and digital infrastructure. Considering philosophies of just in case collecting, just in time collecting, and rightsizing. #academicsky

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