Valerie Hawkins

Still seeking a #NonMLS library and/or social media job opportunity. See my Libraries by LibrariesVal website bit.ly/librariesval See my Social Media Portfolio librariesval.medium.com/social-media-p…

On Mother’s Day in 1968, less than 2 months after Dad's assassination, the Poor People’s Campaign began in Washington, D.C. My mother, Coretta Scott King, stood with thousands demanding dignity, jobs, and justice. She advanced my father’s vision that the fight for freedom must also confront poverty.

Happy 28th Birthday CSS2! On May 12, 1998, the W3C released the official recommendations for the CSS 2 specification. CSS 2 included a number of new features such as absolute, relative and fixed positioning of elements, etc. #WebDesignHistory

Before Detroit Techno, Chicago House Music landed in Detroit and it’s foundation was laid by these Detroit women #BlackAmericanCulture #BlackAmericanMusicGenres #Midwest

Chicago’s only pinball museum is moving from Pilsen to the Loop this summer. blockclubchi.co/4tnSz6p

Happy 30th Birthday Internet Archive! On May 10, 1996, Brewster Kahle founded a non-profit organization called the Internet Archive. #InternetHistory

News organizations are increasingly blocking the Wayback Machine even as their reporters still depend on it 📰 In PRESERVING THE WEB IN THE AGE OF AI, Mark Graham, Director of the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive, explains how major newsroom staff rely on archived web history because their internal archives often miss the deeper public record. That contradiction sits at the heart of the preservation crisis unfolding online. 🎧 Listen on the Future Knowledge #podcast ⤵️ futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/prese… 📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE free from the Internet Archive ⤵️ archive.org/details/vanish… #WaybackMachine #AI #WebArchive #FutureKnowledge @MarkGraham

Herbie Hancock is a genre-defying jazz icon and a Chicago legend. Throughout his six-decade career, he has pushed boundaries and his work has spanned jazz, R&B, pop, and more. It was my honor to present @herbiehancock with a Key to the City of @Chicago on International Jazz Day for his contributions to music, music education, and our city.

Nothing is "meant to be thrown away." Not the MTV News archive. Not Gawker. Not the penny press of the 1800s. 🕳️ Maria Bustillos argues that keeping the receipts is about more than nostalgia. It's about the raw material of history. 📚 Read Maria’s essay & more in VANISHING CULTURE from the #InternetArchive 📖 Download & read, FREE: archive.org/details/vanish… 🛒 Purchase in print: betterworldbooks.com/product/detail… #VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #OpenAccess #Preservation

Angela Bassett paying homage to iconic Harlem Renaissance artist, Laura Wheeler Waring! [Laura Wheeler Waring, Girl in Pink Dress, 1927]

The Chicago skyline, but put a double rainbow on it. #ilwx

RIP Ask Jeeves. The natural-language search engine founded in 1996 was rebranded as Ask in 2006, and officially shut down on May 1. Here are the Wayback Machine’s first and last captures of the site. When websites disappear, the historical record can disappear with them. The @WaybackMachine preserves that history – capturing the web so its past remains accessible. Explore 30 years of web history: web.archive.org #90s #90sNostalgia #WebHistory #WebDesign

Intense Double Rainbow over Sears Tower on Monday evening in Chicago.

Wow, Daniel Kraus wins Pulitzer (former ALA coworker). Well done!

Disappearing before our eyes: One photographer's passion project of capturing local newsrooms apnews.com/article/newspa…

"You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt Saint Peter don't you call me, 'cause I can't go I owe my soul to the company store..." Stevie Wonder covering Tennessee Ernie Ford's "16 Tons" #MayDay youtube.com/watch?v=NuGKGW…

Checkout this latest video from yours truly!! youtu.be/AjOfQ-Leu9s?si…

Voting Rights Act of 1965 | NAACP naacp.org/find-resources…

Pizza Hut's 'BOOK IT!' Summer Reading Program Returns to Provide Voracious Young Readers with Pizza Parties and More people.com/pizza-huts-boo…

Hot take: Pizza Hut could launch a BOOK IT for adults and raise the American literacy rate by full percentage points

Inside a Black Panther Family Album | Leigh Raiford Kathleen and Eldridge Cleaver’s family album depicts aspirational homemaking in diaspora, capturing the tension between rest and motion as they navigated exile with their children. hyperallergic.com/inside-a-black… | @hyperallergic