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Library Innovation Lab @harvardlil.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

New blogpost from the #PublicDataProject! Project Lead Molly Hardy reflects on our #AI benchmarking exercise, which grew out of our partnership with @dataindex.us and is part of our efforts to build a data monitoring tool. Read more on the LIL blog: lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2026/06...

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An Automated Data Monitoring Toolkit and the AI Benchmarking Exercise at the Public Data Project | Library Innovation Lab

The Library Innovation Lab is growing knowledge and community by bringing library principles to technological frontiers.

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Molly Hardy @mollyhardy.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Publication day! My article on how to read an 18C newspapers, on digital remediation, and on the unfree press out in the world. Thanks @andy-schocket.bsky.social @historymatterssyd.bsky.social & M. Karrs for making it all possible. @universitypress.cambridge.org lnkd.in/eEwbdbSw

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Molly Hardy @mollyhardy.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

So grateful to have brilliant historian comrades and friends to think through these ideas w @ldicuirci.bsky.social & @andy-schocket.bsky.social as well as a-mazing colleagues @harvardlil.bsky.social

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

You were blonde woman, thick head of hair, maybe late 40s or early 50s at RDU TSA checkpoint this morning. Traveling with your parents. Handling the luggage, their spatial awareness & strangers’. Got them to the lounge. Just want to say, I know an eldest/only daughter GOAT when I see one 🫡

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Molly Hardy @mollyhardy.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

For all my book nerd friends--also known as "all my friends"-- out there.

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Kelly Smith @kellylsmith.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

As a government information librarian who archives a lot of federal web pages, I strongly recommend this approach. The Internet Archive and similar tools are great, but, as mentioned here, are imperfect tools and there is just too much uncertainty about continued access to federal resources.

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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org · 26/08/2025

Hey #DataRescuers! Join us this Labor Day weekend to #SaveOurSigns The deadline is near and we have some priority locations. You can also connect with DRP members in NYC! Get out, spread the word, and help us #SaveOurSigns.

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Save Our Signs: Let’s Get It Done

Help us finish strong with #SaveOurSigns this Labor Day. Plus, if you’re in NYC, come see us in person!

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Library Innovation Lab @harvardlil.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

What insights emerge when a librarian, a software engineer, and a legal scholar come together to experiment with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to explore over 800,000 French legal articles 🇫🇷? Blog post: lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/01... Case study: lil.law.harvard.edu/open-french-...

Title "Open French Law RAG" overlaid on llama dressed in a French lawyer robe in front of an abstract background.

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Molly Hardy @mollyhardy.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Bonafide @harvardlil.bsky.social and so very happy to be the Project Lead for Public Data

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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org · 23/06/2025

The Data Rescue Project has launched the Data Rescue Project Portal (www.datarescueproject.org/data-rescue-...). It is a dashboard for our tracker and provide more visibility for data rescues across the DR community. It is still in beta & we welcome any feedback. We hope that you find it useful. ❤️🛟

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Data Rescue Project Launches New Portal

The Data Rescue Project (DRP) is excited to announce the launch of the DRP Portal—a milestone in our collective effort to protect and preserve at-risk public information. As of June 2025, DRP voluntee...

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NEH Union - AFGE L3403 @nehafge3403.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Every grant listed here represents hundreds of hours of work: from our applicants who submit proposals, to the program staff and peer reviewers who read them, to the grant managers who oversee awards. Are we just supposed to accept the abrupt termination of all this labor? #NEH #humanities

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 04/04/2025

If you are feeling discouraged, powerless, or terrified, it is so tempting to retreat into solitude, but you need to be in community right now. Come out tomorrow if you possibly can. handsoff2025.com

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Hands Off!

Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. They're taking everything they can get their hands on and daring the world to stop them. On Saturday, April 5th, we're taking to the stre...

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Lindsay DiCuirci @ldicuirci.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

🚨At midnight DOGE terminated all #NEH grants via a letter that claims they “no longer effectuate the agency’s needs and priorities” & adds “the termination of your grant represents an urgent priority for the administration.” Unreal & enraging. Flood the phones, join #HandsOff on Saturday

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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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NEH Union - AFGE L3403 @nehafge3403.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

We had planned to make a post this morning celebrating 100+ bluesky followers for the #NEH union #AFGE 3403. Instead, we are learning that a large number of our members were placed on Administrative Leave at almost midnight last night, cut off from our systems, and facing unknown days ahead.

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Just finished rereading Charlotte Brontë's Villette, & this time round, its ending strikes me as one of the most romantic ever, maybe b/c I inhabit an age of hiring freezes & academic precarity. M. Paul loves Lucy Snowe, & to demonstrate it, he gives her a classroom in which to teach. Swoon! #19thc

Illustration to Villette--showing a young woman in 19th century dress, swept by the wind, in front of the double door of an imposing building; the words "Pensionnat de Demoiselles" carved above the doorway.

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Nightmarica @n1ghtmarica.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

#OCCUPY IMLS! Starting Tomorrow! 955 L'Enfant Plaza North SW, Suite 4000, Washington, DC 20024-2135

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Sean Vanatta @seanvanatta.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Thrilled my book, Plastic Capitalism, was named a finalist for the Business History Conference's (@businesshistoryc.bsky.social) 2025 Hagley Prize and received an honourable mention for the 2025 Ralph Gomory Prize. @yalebooks.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

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Plastic Capitalism

How bankers created the modern consumer credit economy and destroyed financial stability in the process “As much as it enriches our scholarship, Vanatta...

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pam lach @plach.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Here’s an explainer re possible impacts to the Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS). It “enumerates which programs are "shall" programs and duties, meaning that they are mandated by Congress, and which programs are "may" programs, meaning that they are discretionary for IMLS”

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Understanding IMLS's “Shall” and “May” Language

EveryLibrary Institute is a 501c3 organization that supports library funding in the United States.

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National Endowment for the Humanities @nehgov.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

NEH’s Fellowships program is accepting applications. This program supports scholars in conducting #humanities research & producing books, monographs, peer-reviewed articles, e-books, born-digital materials, translations w/annotations or a critical apparatus, or critical editions. ow.ly/JBme50UV92u

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National Endowment for the Humanities @nehgov.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

NEH is celebrating “All The News That’s Fit to Print” Day with the #NEHgrant-funded #ChronAm database of digitized American newspapers between 1756-1963. Take tips from Eva Fay in this 1923 "Washington Times-Herald" article, a famous medium, on “how to talk with spirits": ow.ly/S4bC50UV8bl

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Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Libraries are great for the books, sure, but it's also nice to have a quiet and safe space to sit and think- a place where no one is trying to sell you anything.

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Molly Hardy @mollyhardy.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Disaster Capitalism, alive and well. 🤦‍♀️

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National Endowment for the Humanities @nehgov.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Today at 1:45! Getting Funded in the Humanities: An NEH Workshop ow.ly/4QE350UB0oG #MLA25

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Chris Warren @chriswarren.info · 08/01/2025

prepping for #mla25 panel on "Early Modern Social Media" and having way too much fun with my "whodunnit" slides

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National Endowment for the Humanities @nehgov.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

#NEHgov staff are at #MLA25! Stop by the Professional Development Hub to discuss your project ideas, or join us tomorrow for a presentation and workshop, Getting Funded in the Humanities. ow.ly/WVTx50UB0eU

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National Endowment for the Humanities @nehgov.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Heading to the MLA 2025 Convention in New Orleans? So are we! Check out the #NEHgov sessions on January 9 and 10 and be sure to stop and say hi at our table in the Professional Development Hub. We’ll see you there! #MLA2025

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Molly Hardy @mollyhardy.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

I love working at NEH w historical newspaper digitization and early American archives, and this is a great honor. Thank you to so many friends, colleagues, and comrades who have supported me in ways visible and less visible. I am so grateful to end a big year this way. 💕

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Molly Hardy @mollyhardy.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Congratulations, Nick! Well deserved

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Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

An exciting postdoc opportunity at the JCB!

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Mary Brandt, MD, MDiv @drmlb.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Sometimes the times call for a frog with a butterfly crown.

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Tega Brain @tega.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Thinking With Moss is a project I've been working on for the past few years w/ @eayers0.bsky.social‬ & @aansari86.bsky.social. In collab w/ NYBG, we explore the digitization of botanic collections, and the invisible or under attended histories of the natural sciences. www.thinkingwithmoss.net

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Why moss? We embrace moss' ambiguous, downtrodden place in botanic history as a starting point for developing questions of colonial worldviews, systems of classification, and representational challenges and opportunities.

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Laura Helton @lehelton.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Today my book won the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference's Arline Custer Memorial Book Prize. 🙏📚 I hoped the book would speak not only to readers new to histories of Black collections, but also to archivists & curators who collect and classify everyday. So I’m incredibly honored. Thank you!

Cover of Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History, by Laura E. Helton

Screenshot of award announcement at meeting of MARAC for the Arline Custer Memorial Book Award (to Laura Helton) and Article Award (to Katherine Lukaszewicz)

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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 24/02/2024

Wondering if I can sue PayPal for libel. They just sent an email saying they're "making changes to our user agreements that will affect you" and the changes are all regarding payer protection for NFTs. Not been so insulted since Netflix said I should watch a Ricky Gervais special.

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