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Fatima Darries PL (SA)

@FatimaDarries

Registered Professional Librarian, South Africa, earthling, woman, mother, and student again

 Pretoria, South Africa
Joined May 2009
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Gauteng Weather@tWeatherSAOct 15
🔴 BREAKING: FIRST OFFICIAL HEATWAVE OF 2026/2027 SEASON IN GAUTENG FROM FRIDAY UNTIL MONDAY 🔥🔥
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##WDPD2025 CEO of @NLSA develop specialists in digital preservation in partnership with universities. – at Pretoria, South Africa
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##WDPD2025 2nd regional conference starting soon.
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United Nations
@UN26 Jul 2025
📷: The original manuscript of the United Nations Charter. The creation of the UN was the result of a global commitment to “save succeeding generations from the scourge of war." 80 years later, the UN remains essential for advancing peace, prosperity & human rights. #UN80
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By popular demand, UMaine's Digital Curation graduate program is once again offering two summer courses on metadata. Learn more about how standards for describing files can improve access to libraries, archives, laboratories, and businesses—no prereqs. DigitalCuration.UMaine.edu🐘♻️
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City of Tshwane (@CityTshwane) profile picture
City of Tshwane@CityTshwane25 Feb 2025
Loadshedding Schedule 25 February 2025 *Stage 2* 06h00- 08h30 10,14 08h00-10h30 11,15 10h00 - 12h30 12,16 12h00 -14h30 13,1 14h00 -16h30 14,2 16h00 -18h30 15,3, 18h00 -20h30 16,4, 20h00 - 22h30 1,5, 22h00- 00h30 2,6,
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Phillip Rivers
@thePhilRivers9 Dec 2024
Steve Jobs was obsessed with hiring "the best people." But how do you actually spot exceptional talent? Here are 10 non-obvious signals to find high-performers:
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DPC Chatter@dpc_chat7 Nov 2024
World Digital Preservation Day 2024 is in full swing! Exciting #WDPD2024 events are happening globally: dpconline.org/events/world-d… How are you celebrating? Share photos of your #digipres decorations, workspace, or WDPD bakes! Join the global community in marking this special day!
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World Health Organization (WHO)
@WHO18 Oct 2024
Perimenopause can last several years and can affect physical, emotional, mental and social well-being bit.ly/3gk5B4U #WorldMenopauseDay #Menopause
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World Health Organization (WHO)
@WHO17 Oct 2024
Today is #WorldMenopauseDay #Menopause is a natural stage of a woman's life when monthly menstruation, also known as periods, ends - marking the end of the reproductive years bit.ly/3gk5B4U
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DPC Chatter@dpc_chat17 Oct 2024
🎉Only 3 more weeks until World Digital Preservation Day🎉 when we celebrate #digipres and raise global awareness for #digitalpreservation! If you're hosting an event on 7 November and could use an icebreaker, try out our brand new #WDPD2024 Bingo Card 👉🏿 dpconline.org/news/get-ready…
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This bonkers chart illustrates research from UMaine that no two digital curation job titles are the same blog.still-water.net/digital… — a conclusion reinforced by a new study from @dpc_chat , which found over 3/4 of titles were unique dpconline.org/docman/digital… 🐘♻️
Pie chart showing hundreds of distinct digital curation job titles

ALT Pie chart showing hundreds of distinct digital curation job titles

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Barack Obama
@BarackObama14 Oct 2024
Congratulations to Nihon Hidankyo, a group of survivors of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, for winning the Nobel Peace Prize. At a time when the threat of nuclear weapons is growing – and the taboo against threatening their use is weakening – Nihon Hidankyo’s work reminds us that these weapons have a terrible human cost, and that the pursuit of a world without nuclear weapons is an essential part of making sure we leave our children a safer, more secure world. Nihon Hidankyo built a powerful movement out of personal tragedy and insists upon our common humanity.
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@NobelPrize11 Oct 2024
BREAKING NEWS The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPeacePrize to the Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo. This grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha, is receiving the peace prize for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again. #NobelPrize
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Library of Congress
@librarycongress10 Oct 2024
Most silent-era film productions have been lost to time & hardly *any* material shot by Black filmmakers pre-1920 has survived. But recently, the earliest known footage produced by a Black film company was found, hiding in plain sight, in our collections. blogs.loc.gov/now-see-hear/2…
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Ingrid Thomson@ingridthomson7 Oct 2024
And every single one of those social justice principles relates to @Wikimedia projects @librarian_nkem @owakakalamu @v_hipangwa @c_mwaura
2nd Global Summit on Diamond Open Access (@GlobalDiamondOA) profile picture2nd Global Summit on Diamond Open Access@GlobalDiamondOA3 Oct 2024
Social justice is at the heart of Diamond Open Access. From equitable knowledge access to decolonizing scholarly communication, here are 6 principles that drive a more inclusive and barrier-free publishing ecosystem. #DiamondOpenAccess #SocialJustice #OpenAccess
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World Food Programme
@WFP28 Sep 2024
While we must meet today’s urgent humanitarian needs, the global community can't overlook the need to empower individuals and communities to achieve their own food security. It is time to transform our #FoodSystems - for people, for the planet, and for our future. 👏

It's time to transform our Food Systems? How? WFP Explains

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AfLIA@AfLIACon17 Sep 2024
Exciting Opportunity!! SPARC Africa, a section of AfLIA, is offering sponsorships for African delegates to attend the 2nd Global Summit on Diamond Open Access in Cape Town, South Africa from December 8-14, 2024! Details: web.aflia.net/call-for-appli… #SPARCAfrica @GlobalDiamondOA
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Calling all citizen archivists! Check out these crowdsourced archival initiatives working to preserve Palestinian heritage, memory, and narratives, compiled by Librarians and Archivists with Palestine. (1/3)
Calls for Citizen Archivists - Crowdsourced Archival Initiatives Preserving Palestine. Compiled by Librarians and Archivists with Palestine. Background image of books in storage with green filter. Logo of white book with kite strings attached.

ALT Calls for Citizen Archivists - Crowdsourced Archival Initiatives Preserving Palestine. Compiled by Librarians and Archivists with Palestine. Background image of books in storage with green filter. Logo of white book with kite strings attached.

Accountability Archive @accountability.archive. Accountability Archive is a crowdsourced record of journalists, politicians, and public figures endorsing or encouraging the ethnic cleansing of Gaza and/or defaming pro-Palestinian activists. The organization also seeks to collect and preserve materials from Gaza’s universities. Background image of text that reads “Preserving Gaza’s Universities: Help Us Rebuild Records” on red background. Logo of a red book on a gray background.

ALT Accountability Archive @accountability.archive. Accountability Archive is a crowdsourced record of journalists, politicians, and public figures endorsing or encouraging the ethnic cleansing of Gaza and/or defaming pro-Palestinian activists. The organization also seeks to collect and preserve materials from Gaza’s universities. Background image of text that reads “Preserving Gaza’s Universities: Help Us Rebuild Records” on red background. Logo of a red book on a gray background.

Arab American National Museum @arabamericanmuseum. The Arab American National Museum is collecting photos, documents, digital art, videos, and physical items related to contemporary stories of Arab Americans coming together in community in times of crisis and solidarity. Background text that reads “To contribute, please visit: bit.ly/AANM-activism-stories” over image of protestors with Palestinian flags. Logo of geometric white and blue design.

ALT Arab American National Museum @arabamericanmuseum. The Arab American National Museum is collecting photos, documents, digital art, videos, and physical items related to contemporary stories of Arab Americans coming together in community in times of crisis and solidarity. Background text that reads “To contribute, please visit: bit.ly/AANM-activism-stories” over image of protestors with Palestinian flags. Logo of geometric white and blue design.

Archive of Silence @archive_of_silence. Archive of Silence documents the alarming waves of erasure and violence directed at Palestinian advocacy in Germany. It aims to build a crowdsourced record of this violence, and gather evidence to hold institutions accountable for their complicity. Background text reads “Archive of Silence” on green fill. Logo of letter “A” formed from a keffiyeh pattern with a piece of tape over the letter.

ALT Archive of Silence @archive_of_silence. Archive of Silence documents the alarming waves of erasure and violence directed at Palestinian advocacy in Germany. It aims to build a crowdsourced record of this violence, and gather evidence to hold institutions accountable for their complicity. Background text reads “Archive of Silence” on green fill. Logo of letter “A” formed from a keffiyeh pattern with a piece of tape over the letter.

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Siobhan@SiobhanLeachman9 Aug 2024
Just found out at a Library meetup at #Wikimania that the @ExLibrisGroup Primo system now pulls from #Wikidata if the item uses the Wikidata property "archives at" wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P…

archives at

the institution holding the subject's archives

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Harvard Business Review
@HarvardBiz25 Jun 2024
When your job has blurry lines of when you’re on and when you’re off, it’s hard not to be distracted by work when you’re supposed to be resting and recharging. s.hbr.org/3qWz2ds
How to Leave Work at Work

How to Leave Work at Work

Some jobs have very clear lines between when you’re “on” and when you’re “off” while in others the lines are blurred — or potentially nonexistent. That makes not being distracted by work, especially...

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