Rob πŸ“š

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Book Jockey
Curator - Internet Archivehttps://archive.org/details/digitaltransportation
Custodian - Retro Librarianhttps://worldkey.io/@LibrarianRA
Captain - Aviation Librarianhttps://mastodon.online/@Aviation_Librarian
Cinematographer - Aviation Commercialshttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXqNBLRoF81JDK7IDsK6EgQ

A postcard may not look like an important historical document.

But this view of the Savannah Airport captures details that researchers love: terminal design, airline operations, & even how airports presented themselves to the traveling public.

As the Digital Transportation Archive passes 40,000 items, it's a reminder that history isn't preserved only in official reports. Sometimes it's preserved on a postcard mailed home
https://tinyurl.com/54a252eb

#TransportationHistory #Digitalcollections

@jessamyn I read this too. I thought it was a very good book.

The MIT Rotch library was one of the finest architecture and engineering libraries in the country. This this a terrible loss.
@universalhub

https://fnl.mit.edu/may-june-2026/lament-for-the-mit-libraries/

Lament for the MIT Libraries - MIT Faculty Newsletter

MIT Faculty Newsletter
My nightmare is over - next Thursday I’ll be employed again (public librarian).
@jessamyn Just adding to the great responses. Depending on what they are looking for β€” you can scan something as a PDF, and then within the PDF extract each page as an image, and edit in your favorite editor. (Not an easy option for those not tech savvy.) Since losing my job, and access to Adobe, I have been using PDFgear with great success.
@jessamyn feel better!
@thefalcon @universalhub dads horse already scratched lol
@pixelfed some video/gifs upload and others don’t . One worked last week, but not this week.