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Krystal Appiah

@kappiah.bsky.social
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Libraries, archives, African American history, public humanities. She/her

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Natalie Oschrin, Charlottesville City Council @nat4cville.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Take a video tour of the low barrier shelter at Holiday Drive:
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2000 Holiday Drive Tour
YouTube video by Cville Communications
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Livable Cville @livablecville.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
ACTION ALERT: UVA is seeking community input on its strategic plan. This is an opportunity to shape UVA’s vision and actions moving forward. We out together a guide to help you provide input. The deadline for filling out their survey has been pushed to August 30th. 🧵 mailchi.mp/livablecvill...
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Action Alert: Community input to UVa Strategic Plan
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University of Virginia Library @uvalibrary.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This is from the @rarebookschool.bsky.social Objects of Poetry exhibition in the second floor. The cases are full of truly lovely material and everyone should go view it! rarebookschool.org/exhibitions/
A framed poster titled "Objects in Poetry" is displayed in a glass case. The poster features abstract artwork with mountain imagery and a red textured area with text. Below, there are shelves displaying various books and pamphlets.A spacious indoor hallway with polished floors and illuminated display cases lining the walls, showcasing various items. A glass display case showcasing an open book with sketches of mountain ranges. The book is titled "Range" by Denise Levertov. The sketches span across the pages, capturing detailed landscapes in black and white.A display case containing various books and printed materials, some open to show pages with text and images. Each item has a small label with printed information. The display is neatly arranged on two glass shelves.
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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 13/08/2026
If you're prepping your syllabi and other class materials on African American history and culture, don't forget about the NMAAHC's amazing 'Searchable Museum,' which uses artifacts from Smithsonian collections. It even includes resources for teaching this history. www.searchablemuseum.com #edusky
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A museum that seeks to understand American history through the lens of the African American experience.
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BOO! k HistoriAAAH 🎃 @book-historia.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Are you interested in pursuing a career in the antiquarian book trade? Apply to the @abaararebooks.bsky.social Diversity Initiative Discovery Program! 📚 You’ll gain insights from ABAA members, get in-depth tours of the Boston fair, a $2500 stipend, and more: www.abaa.org/general-cont...
Antiquarian books in a display case
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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The Society of American Archivists is my disciplinary home, and it's really nice to be honored by my sweet colleagues for my book
A very happy woman in a black dress holding open a stamped award certificate
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Krystal Appiah @kappiah.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
There is! search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_...
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Virgo
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Krystal Appiah @kappiah.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I just bought that. I thought it was a suspicious shade of green but didn’t know the result of the arsenic testing. Thanks for posting!
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
We don’t need education about ethical *use* of AI; we need more education in how it is being *used on* and against us. 2/n
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Katie Hodges-Kluck, PhD @klhkhistorian.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
A nice story about the work that @rareuva.bsky's Sue Donovan, who works down the hall from @rarebookschool.bsky.social, has done to restore a late medieval Italian choirbook. news.virginia.edu/content/how-... (I'm pictured at the end of the article.)
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How UVA conservators bring books back to life
A medieval choir book offers a behind-the-scenes look at the painstaking work required to protect the University’s rare collections.
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Colored Conventions Project @ccp-org.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
What to the Colored Conventions was the Declaration of Independence? Normally we hear Frederick Douglass on the 4th of July. This year, we are trying something new. From now until Monday night, we are posting quotes every half hour from the Colored Conventions movement. coloredconventions.org
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Joseph M. Adelman @jmadelman.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
If you're hoping to see a copy of the Declaration of Independence in this #America250 week, @emilysneff.bsky.social has put together a list of some of the many museums and historic sites with editions on display. www.declarationstories.org/stories/on-v...
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On View in 2026 — Declaration Stories
A roundup of some of the museums, libraries, and historical societies where you can see early handwritten and printed copies of the Declaration of Independence
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Charlottesville Tomorrow @cvilletomorrow.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Strewn along roadways throughout Ruckersville, dozens of abandoned vehicles sat empty Tuesday as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and Greene County Sheriff’s deputies stopped motorists and made arrests across the community. Here's what we know:
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ICE and Greene County Sheriff's deputies arrest numerous people in Ruckersville operation
"What will haunt me is that there were so many empty vans and cars on the side of the road from people that they had taken," said attorney Andrew Wilder Young. "That's going to stick with me for the…
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Rose Library @ Emory University @roselibraryemory.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Who let the dogs (and cat and horse) into the library?! 🐾 What do y'all think - should we let the pets run Rose Library for a day?
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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
I'd love to see LaVonnia Moore reach her goal, the fundraiser has raised $33,563 and there's less than $1,500 to go. 📚 I've donated $20 this time around, which is a lot for me since I've been unemployed for ten months. Would anyone be willing to match me?
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Bergis Jules 🇱🇨 @bergisjules.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Join @atbw.bsky.social for our next series of webinars about the human costs of AI. We want to create a space where cultural memory workers can engage in critical and caring discussions about the broader impact of AI technology development. Register here: www.archivingtheblackweb.org/events/
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Krystal Appiah @kappiah.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Thanks for posting this. Shannon has a copy on the New Books shelf but I just ordered a copy through the bookstore for Special Collections. The bookstore will also be ordering a few copies to have in stock.
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Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
We see UVA's Ctr for Digital Editing's CFP (due 5/10) for editing+recovery practitioners on e.g. power of editions, archives, research collections to construct/contest/reframe intellectual/political revolutions; amplify voices historically marginalized+silenced; invisible labor. Travel/hotel funded:
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Revolutions and Reflections: A Conference for Editing and Recovery Practitioners
From August 8–9, the Center for Digital Editing’s eLaboratories will host its first annual conference in Charlottesville, Virginia, under the theme “Revolutions and Reflections.” We invite editors, re...
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Krystal Appiah @kappiah.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Congratulations! It’s definitely our loss.
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Jennifer Serventi @jenserventi.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Perhaps of interest?
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"Michael Monaco" @mmonaco.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
If you live in the County, please do take some time to think about this & advocate for funding affordable housing. A one-cent increase would cost the median household $4 a month, but would go a long way to creating *reliable* public money available for affordable housing.
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Katie Hodges-Kluck, PhD @klhkhistorian.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Did you know that, without a court order, I can't get a certified copy of my own original birth certificate listing my name at birth? 🧵 A thread:
Screenshot of a portion of a parent's copy of a live birth certificate, reading "Dear Parents: Your child's birth certificate is one of the most important records he will have and use during his lifetime. It is to your advantage and his that it be correct in every way. Errors made now will be difficult to correct in later years."
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Bergis Jules 🇱🇨 @bergisjules.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The @atbw.bsky.social Freedom School 2026 Series: Digital Literacy & Cultural Stewardship is dedicated to strengthening digital literacy, advancing archival practices, and safeguarding the web as a vital site of cultural memory. Register for the spring sessions: www.archivingtheblackweb.org/events/
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Krystal Appiah @kappiah.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
That explains the ambulance and fire truck out there yesterday afternoon. I hope the person is okay.
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Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library @rareuva.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
In celebration of #ValentinesDay, UVA Today took a look at love letters, lithographs, poetry and first edition books, among other items, that document love that was sometimes hidden. news.virginia.edu/content/deep...
Sheet with 40 portrait illustrations of an individual and a large coffee stain. Printed text: “Tom Phillips. Pella on Saturdays.” Corner of a letter featuring signed initials “AH.”Book open to title page for White Fire by Michael Laurie with embellishments in red ink.
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Colleen T @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
DCL, one of North Carolina’s oldest Black-led nonprofit organizations, will enter a new era through a formal partnership and merger with the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University 📜 blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2026/01...
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Durham Colored Library Begins New Chapter, with New Name, at Duke - Duke University Libraries Blogs
Mellon Foundation Provides Three-Year Grant to Launch “DCL at Duke”   The Durham Colored Library (DCL), one of North Carolina’s oldest Black-led nonprofit organizations, will enter a new era through a...
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James Neal @james3neal.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
"The Library Company of Philadelphia, in partnership with American Philosophical Society, presents: Black Declarations of Independence: Before and After 1776" librarycompany.org/academic-pro...
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Krystal Appiah @kappiah.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
I was just giving a tour to non-Special Collections library colleagues & those tiki torches brought back unpleasant memories. Before the cross got its current housing, it was visible to those working in the stacks & it both traumatized & fascinated a student worker who later became a history prof.
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Matthew Gillikin @mtgillikin.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
As a public service, I am reading Scott Beardsley’s book on higher education. Just as Beardsley sacrificed a lucrative career at McKinsey to take a $700k a year job as Dean of Darden on his way to the very sketchy appointment as UVA president, I paid $12 for the kindle edition of “Higher Calling.”
The Rise of Nontraditional
Leaders in Academia
HIGHER CALLING
SCOTT C.
BEARDSLEY
ONE PERSON'S JOURNEY FROM MCKINSEY TO MONTICELLO
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EveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
A new issue of our open-access journal, The Political Librarian, includes ‘Inclusive Collection Development Doesn't Stop at the Statement: Access and Reference Service at Schlesinger Library as Case Study’ by Mimosa Shah and Madeleine Murphy. buff.ly/FfhU61W
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Martha S. Jones @marthasjones.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Charlottesville! Coming through with The Trouble of Color, Wednesday!
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Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library @rareuva.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
New on our blog: Senior Imaging Specialist Stacey Evans reflects on the process of re-digitizing African American portraits in the Holsinger Studio Collection for our 2022-23 Visions of Progress: exhibition. Read her post here: smallnotes.library.virginia.edu/2025/10/21/h....
A screenshot from working with Capture One software showing a 4”x5” black-and-white film target and object, content, and speculative artist’s intent versions of two plates featuring African American women.
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Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library @rareuva.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Join the Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society, @johnedwinmason.bsky.social, the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, and @uvalibrary.bsky.social in revisiting these beautiful portraits during the exhibition catalog launch celebration October 25, 3-5pm @ JMRL’s Swanson Room!
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University of Virginia Library @uvalibrary.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
This morning we welcomed Leo S. Lo to the Library as the 16th University Librarian, as he begins his tenure as University Librarian and Dean of Libraries, Professor of Education, and Advisor to the Provost for AI Literacy. Welcome to UVA and the Library, Dean Lo!
An individual seated at a desk in a well-appointed office with bookshelves, a large window, and a computer.
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Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Local folks, Wed 9/17 5:30pm visit UVA Special Collections for the catered opening of a new exhibit of microexhibits. 48 of our library staff curated quick+deep dives into an "A-Z" of topics they care about in our collections, from Artist Books to Zines, Sea Monsters to Pandemic Books. Pls register:
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Fall Exhibitions Celebration: 100 Years of VQR + ABCs of the UVA Library!
Be the first to view two new major exhibitions: a centennial retrospective of the Virginia Quarterly Review and the ABCs of the UVA Library
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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Please spread the word—The Scholars’ Workshop in Early African American Print at AAS Jan. 12-15, 2026. A writing workshop and intro to archives for junior scholars working on the dissertation or first book. Fully funded. Apply by Oct. 15 2025. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD
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Rare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Thanks to the RBS Board of Directors, all gifts made to the Annual Fund before September 30 will be matched dollar-for-dollar, up to $150,000. The Annual Fund is essential to our work, funding scholarships and fellowships to support RBS students. You can help now. Visit rarebookschool.org/donate.
A vertical graphic shows a photo of a man in glasses and a black t-shirt looking up to examine a small piece of parchment that he is holding raised between two fingers. A black horizontal band across the top of the image bears the RBS logo and, in white text, “$150K Matching Challenge,” while below this, in black and red text, it reads, “Double your impact today! Rarebookschool.org/donate"
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John Schmitt @jschmittwdc.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Some useful advice fromt he the ACLU.
Know your rights if stopped by police in D.C.

* Ask: “Am I free to leave?” and “Am I under arrest?”

 * If police stop you, they might ask if they can search you. You do not have to give the officers permission to conduct a frisk or a search, though in some circumstances they can do so anyway. Telling police that you do not consent to a search is a good way to protect your rights to the greatest extent possible.

* You do not have to answer questions that police ask you, except to give your name and address if asked in some situations.

* If you are arrested, you should tell the police that you are invoking your right to remain silent (say so explicitly) and that you want to speak with a lawyer. From there, you should not answer any other questions, except your name and address if asked.

* If you are detained by ICE or Border Patrol, you have the right to hire a lawyer, but the government does not have to provide one for you. Ask for a list of free or low-cost alternatives.

* It can be dangerous for people to argue about police misconduct in the street, especially for Black and Brown people. Keep yourself safe and file a complaint later.
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Kate Crowe @kcrowe.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
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Mellon Foundation announces appointment of Dr. Carla Hayden as Mellon Senior Fellow
Press Release: Mellon Foundation announces appointment of Dr. Carla Hayden as Mellon Senior Fellow. The Mellon Foundation announced the appointment of Dr. Carla Hayden as a senior fellow. As part of ...
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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
A few folks have DM’d me abt the Frederick Douglass passage I excerpted at the rally. Here it is: “Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; 1/
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Krystal Appiah @kappiah.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
@dem8z.bsky.social Thanks for your speech. Both your words and the Douglass quote were energizing.
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
BREAKING: Justice Jackson cites the Colored Conventions Project Digital Archive her dissent in Medina v. Planned Parenthood. These public collective digital projects MATTER and they WILL be heard. 👏👏👏 @ccp-org.bsky.social @profgabrielle.bsky.social @jimccasey1.bsky.social
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NEH Union - AFGE L3403 @nehafge3403.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Woke up this morning unemployed from our federal government positions. Might we make a small request? Please spend a few minutes today browsing the names & bios of #NEH staff, most of whom are now without jobs, before the agency erases us from its memory. #humanities www.neh.gov/about/staff
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Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Here's the FDA's public comment portal. There's still time to provide feedback on their plan to restrict those under 65 from receiving the COVID-19 booster. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
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Jason Rhody @jasonrhody.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
A few tips for NEH grantees: 1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP. 2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,
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DCMediaGroup @dcmediagroup.us · 12/02/2025
The University of Virginia has created a website of archived government websites—bookmark it—you’re going to need it later. guides.lib.virginia.edu/c.php?g=1451...
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LibGuides: Government Information Data Rescue: Home
A guide linking to trusted repositories that have rescued U.S. government data
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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
ATTN: artists and art workers impacted by the Palisades or Eaton Fires in Los Angeles. The LA Arts Community Fire Relief Fund was organized by Getty and a coalition of arts supporters, and is at $14M and counting. Apply at cciarts.org now for up to $10,000 of aid through February 18 at 5:00 pm PST
LA Arts Community Fire Relief Fund. For artists and art workers impacted by the Los Angeles fires. Visit cciarts.org to check eligibility and apply for an emergency grant through February 18, 2025 at 5pm PST.
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National Endowment for the Humanities @nehgov.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Born #OTD in 1892, Bessie Coleman was the first African American woman and Native American woman to earn a pilot’s license. Denied entry to pilot programs in the U.S., Coleman moved to France and learned French to fulfill her dream. Watch the NEH-supported series UNLADYLIKE2020: ow.ly/WIBL50ULlzi
A painting of pilot Bessie Coleman. She is in front of a plane and wears a flying hat and googles, a white shirt and a brown jacket.
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Kathryn @kathrynlaughon.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
In case folks haven’t seen this, we have a rapid response hotline in Virginia for concerns about ICE activity
855 298 3271 immigration rapid response hotline Virginia network if ICE is at your door, don’t open! Call! If you see ICE on the street, stay away! Call us! In all cases, keep silent and don’t sign anything!
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