Reposted by Krystal AppiahNatalie Oschrin, Charlottesville City Council @nat4cville.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Take a video tour of the low barrier shelter at Holiday Drive:youtube.com2000 Holiday Drive TourYouTube video by Cville Communications 065
Reposted by Krystal AppiahLivable Cville @livablecville.bsky.social · 22/08/2026ACTION 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...mailchi.mpAction Alert: Community input to UVa Strategic Plan 3158
Reposted by Krystal AppiahUniversity of Virginia Library @uvalibrary.bsky.social · 19/08/2026This 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/ 2168
Reposted by Krystal AppiahKEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 13/08/2026If 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 #eduskysearchablemuseum.comHomepageA museum that seeks to understand American history through the lens of the African American experience. 06741
Reposted by Krystal AppiahBOO! k HistoriAAAH 🎃 @book-historia.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Are 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... 26131
Reposted by Krystal AppiahDorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 01/08/2026The Society of American Archivists is my disciplinary home, and it's really nice to be honored by my sweet colleagues for my book 71144
Krystal Appiah @kappiah.bsky.social · 23/07/2026There is! search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_...search.lib.virginia.eduVirgo 030
Krystal Appiah @kappiah.bsky.social · 23/07/2026I 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! 130
Reposted by Krystal AppiahSonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 18/07/2026We 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 1383110
Reposted by Krystal AppiahKatie Hodges-Kluck, PhD @klhkhistorian.bsky.social · 10/07/2026A 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.)news.virginia.eduHow UVA conservators bring books back to lifeA medieval choir book offers a behind-the-scenes look at the painstaking work required to protect the University’s rare collections. 13012
Reposted by Krystal AppiahColored Conventions Project @ccp-org.bsky.social · 04/07/2026What 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 17750
Reposted by Krystal AppiahJoseph M. Adelman @jmadelman.bsky.social · 29/06/2026If 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...declarationstories.orgOn View in 2026 — Declaration StoriesA roundup of some of the museums, libraries, and historical societies where you can see early handwritten and printed copies of the Declaration of Independence 0107
Reposted by Krystal AppiahCharlottesville Tomorrow @cvilletomorrow.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Strewn 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:cvilletomorrow.orgICE 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… 47765
Reposted by Krystal AppiahRose Library @ Emory University @roselibraryemory.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Who 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? 121
Reposted by Krystal AppiahViolet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 13/05/2026I'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? 52415
Reposted by Krystal AppiahBergis Jules 🇱🇨 @bergisjules.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Join @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/ 0118
Krystal Appiah @kappiah.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Thanks 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. 030
Reposted by Krystal AppiahScholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 03/04/2026We 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:elaboratories.orgRevolutions and Reflections: A Conference for Editing and Recovery PractitionersFrom 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... 075
Reposted by Krystal AppiahJennifer Serventi @jenserventi.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Perhaps of interest? 161
Reposted by Krystal Appiah"Michael Monaco" @mmonaco.bsky.social · 15/03/2026If 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. 173
Reposted by Krystal AppiahKatie Hodges-Kluck, PhD @klhkhistorian.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Did 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: 22511
Reposted by Krystal AppiahBergis Jules 🇱🇨 @bergisjules.bsky.social · 26/02/2026The @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/ 199
Krystal Appiah @kappiah.bsky.social · 18/02/2026That explains the ambulance and fire truck out there yesterday afternoon. I hope the person is okay. 130
Reposted by Krystal AppiahAlbert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library @rareuva.bsky.social · 14/02/2026In 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... 122
Reposted by Krystal AppiahColleen T @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 26/01/2026DCL, 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...blogs.library.duke.eduDurham Colored Library Begins New Chapter, with New Name, at Duke - Duke University Libraries BlogsMellon 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... 094
Reposted by Krystal AppiahJames 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... 02014
Krystal Appiah @kappiah.bsky.social · 23/12/2025I 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. 0172
Reposted by Krystal AppiahMatthew Gillikin @mtgillikin.bsky.social · 21/12/2025As 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.” 48719
Reposted by Krystal AppiahEveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · 09/12/2025A 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 0146
Reposted by Krystal AppiahMartha S. Jones @marthasjones.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Charlottesville! Coming through with The Trouble of Color, Wednesday! 0113
Reposted by Krystal AppiahAlbert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library @rareuva.bsky.social · 21/10/2025New 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.... 187
Reposted by Krystal AppiahAlbert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library @rareuva.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Join 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! 112
Reposted by Krystal AppiahUniversity of Virginia Library @uvalibrary.bsky.social · 15/09/2025This 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! 0111
Reposted by Krystal AppiahScholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Local 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:abc-vqr.eventbrite.comFall 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 064
Reposted by Krystal AppiahJohn Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Please 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 17975
Reposted by Krystal AppiahRare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social · 22/08/2025Thanks 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. 032
Reposted by Krystal AppiahJohn Schmitt @jschmittwdc.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Some useful advice fromt he the ACLU. 19676355
Reposted by Krystal AppiahKate Crowe @kcrowe.bsky.social · 08/07/2025librarytechnology.org/pr/31511librarytechnology.orgMellon Foundation announces appointment of Dr. Carla Hayden as Mellon Senior FellowPress 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 ... 1163
Reposted by Krystal AppiahDeborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 28/06/2025A 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/ 10860265
Krystal Appiah @kappiah.bsky.social · 27/06/2025@dem8z.bsky.social Thanks for your speech. Both your words and the Douglass quote were energizing. 152
Reposted by Krystal AppiahJoseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 26/06/2025BREAKING: 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 523375
Reposted by Krystal AppiahNEH Union - AFGE L3403 @nehafge3403.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Woke 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/staffneh.govStaff 14252137
Reposted by Krystal AppiahJedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Here'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...regulations.govRegulations.gov 25451
Reposted by Krystal AppiahJason Rhody @jasonrhody.bsky.social · 02/04/2025A 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, 17461322
Reposted by Krystal AppiahDCMediaGroup @dcmediagroup.us · 12/02/2025The 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...guides.lib.virginia.eduLibGuides: Government Information Data Rescue: HomeA guide linking to trusted repositories that have rescued U.S. government data 682129893
Reposted by Krystal AppiahGetty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 28/01/2025ATTN: 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 05636
Reposted by Krystal AppiahNational 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 03610
Reposted by Krystal AppiahKathryn @kathrynlaughon.bsky.social · 25/01/2025In case folks haven’t seen this, we have a rapid response hotline in Virginia for concerns about ICE activity 12017