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Jeremy<p>This is so incredibly short sighted and intentionally ignorant, too. Laying off so many staff - and the entire evaluation department (!!!) - in response to fascist-led federal cuts will hurt the museum and surrounding communities for years. Evaluation staff at SMM did all kinds of good and thoughtful work all around the state and were committed to equitable evaluation principles.</p><p><a href="https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/07/09/science-museum-of-minnesota-lays-off-43-employees" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">mprnews.org/story/2025/07/09/s</span><span class="invisible">cience-museum-of-minnesota-lays-off-43-employees</span></a></p><p><a href="https://glammr.us/tags/museums" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>museums</span></a> <a href="https://glammr.us/tags/glam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>glam</span></a> <a href="https://glammr.us/tags/EquitableEvaluation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EquitableEvaluation</span></a> <a href="https://glammr.us/tags/FundingCuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FundingCuts</span></a> <a href="https://glammr.us/tags/UnforcedError" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnforcedError</span></a> <a href="https://glammr.us/tags/RealEvalTalk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RealEvalTalk</span></a> <a href="https://glammr.us/tags/imls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>imls</span></a> <a href="https://glammr.us/tags/nsf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nsf</span></a></p>
Tim Sherratt<p>My 'People Inside' userscript that displays the faces of people living under the White Australia policy alongside file details in RecordSearch is working again! <a href="https://gist.github.com/wragge/2941e473ee70152f4de7" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gist.github.com/wragge/2941e47</span><span class="invisible">3ee70152f4de7</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/archives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>archives</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/GLAM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GLAM</span></a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>RÚV: Museum dedicated to the Icelandic Sheepdog opens in North Iceland. “Evelyn Ýr Kuhne, a cultural studies expert from Skagafjörður, decided it was time to introduce the Icelandic Sheepdog to a wider audience. That’s why she opened a museum devoted entirely to this exceptional breed. In its first month, it was visited by numerous groups of tourists from both Iceland and abroad.”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/10/ruv-museum-dedicated-to-the-icelandic-sheepdog-opens-in-north-iceland/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/10/ruv-museum-dedicated-to-the-icelandic-sheepdog-opens-in-north-iceland/</a></p>
Hiring Librarians<p>"we lost all of our FT positions with no replacement at all." <a href="https://glammr.us/tags/LIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LIS</span></a> <a href="https://glammr.us/tags/GLAM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GLAM</span></a> <a href="https://glammr.us/tags/Libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Libraries</span></a> <a href="https://glammr.us/tags/LibraryJobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LibraryJobs</span></a></p><p><a href="http://hiringlibrarians.com/2025/07/10/its-not-dying-its-being-murdered-by-shortsighted-college-administrators-who-have-no-respect-for-us-or-what-we-do/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">hiringlibrarians.com/2025/07/1</span><span class="invisible">0/its-not-dying-its-being-murdered-by-shortsighted-college-administrators-who-have-no-respect-for-us-or-what-we-do/</span></a></p>

Is anyone out there already using #anubis to fight #AIBots scraping your sites? anubis.techaro.lol/ I heard about it yesterday (thanks to the @404mediaco podcast), and it seems like a good possibility to deal with AI bots scraping #GLAM sites. But I have a stupid question: would this also interfere with content being found through Google search results, etc? I'm really unfamiliar with this, and I'd want to know if there are any major drawbacks to using it (other than it uses Javascript)

anubis.techaro.lolAnubis: self hostable scraper defense software | AnubisWeigh the soul of incoming HTTP requests using proof-of-work to stop AI crawlers

#DH2025 in Lisbon is around the corner! I'll be chairing a session on "#Accessibility, #CARE and #FAIR Principles in #GLAM Collections" on Friday, July 18, starting at 2:00pm in room B203.

With papers by Hamidreza Nassiri on the "accessibility paradox" in digital archiving, by Reynaldo Thompson on "Humanizing AI Art" and by Victoria Van Hyning and Thea Lindquist on FAIR principles at the Journal of Open Humanities.

I'm sure it'll be great!

Details: conftool.pro/dh2025/index.php?

On Saturday it was Liverpool Makefest at Liverpool Central Library and we were taking part. At a rough count, three MiaB were there, two of ours and one that belonged to the Library, showing the #Unearthed collection.

But, what a fantastic day and so lovely to be able to tell so many people, the story behind MiaB.