Diane Dias De Fazio. MDes, MSHP, MSLIS, MA (soon: MBA)

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Editor, RBM journal. Manager, Rare Books, Special Collections & Collections Care, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh #Escalator historian. Architecture, art, special collections. #LakeErieReport🌊 pics. 📚📜 #BookSky Cover: Agnes Denes at Socrates Sculpture Park.

Perspective photo from the center line of a road with traffic in both directions. At the far end is a large visible orange sculpture and the "wings" of the Milwaukee Art Museum, spread open.
Two scrapbooks with newspaper clippings celebrating the Pittsburgh Steelers football organization. In a vitrine. With CLP custom stickers for the 2026 NFL Draft
A vitrine with an assortment of books on American football and football players, including biographies of Jim Thorpe, Joe Namath, Mean Joe Greene, Franco Harris, Mike Ditka, Terry Bradshaw; a football fan's memoir by Stephen Dubner of Freakonomics Radio; NFL photobooks; a locally produced history: and programs from Super Bowls IX and X.
Partial view of a lanyard, designed with green side to evoke a football field, and yellow side with Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh motto, Free to the People, and NFL Draft 2026 logo
Francis bacon painting of the three furies
Aforementioned van, next to Richard Serra's Pittsburgh, and near a Henry Moore sculpture and fountain
Aforementioned van, now with suspicious orange cones
Sweet, yet self-contradictory painted 1968 Chevy Suburban with pastoral landscape and Southwestern Native American-inspired design detailing.
View looking up at faux ceiling in stairwell
Neoclassical building with large entrance staircase illuminated with a light that doesn't seem to match the sky.
A short video clip of a suburban landscaped yard where small floating flashes of light appear and disappear (aka "lightning bugs" aka "fireflies")
Gentle waves come to shore as sunlight fades in from the right
A small bird stands on the flat ground. It is brown with short feathers and no visible (but short) tail.
Zig zags and dots in green, yellow, and white on a book "preserved" by book tape
Two partial pages of a two-page infographic spread of results from the 2024 RBMS membership survey. Title: "Moving Forward: Membership and the Future of RBMS." In color! With line, bar, pie, and other charts and data visualizations.
Cover of RBM with address label. Graphic: "careers ahead" poster for the WPA, ca. 1939.
Book held together by book tape, with torn endleaf, featuring a mimeographed note, glued onto the title page, which reads "This is a valuable HISTORICAL SOURCE"
First page of the book chapter we wrote in artists books and zines in special collections instruction.
Bertrand Smith's acres of books, Cincinnati. Blue book-shaped sticker.
Many waves crashing on the coast as the sun rises in the far right corner
A bright orange and black bird pauses between sips of jelly at an orange feeder.
Coastline strewn with rounded rocks, bricks, and driftwood over sand. A wave crashes midground, as the sun nears the horizon in the background under increasing clouds.
Nautical twilight, with orangish-red coloring on the sky at the horizon beneath a lifting cloud cover. A wave crashes at the concrete breaker in the mid ground near a rocky coastline.
Close up of cherry blossoms with tree trunk in the background
Not like the Roman graffiti, I know. Scratches in the wood paneling (of letters?)
When it was still quiet, around 6 PM, Thursday. Wood wall paneling on the left of a carpeted staircase leading toward a landing with a cast iron torchiere.
A small, mostly white cat, seated amongst fern fronds, near a vintage chartreuse jaguar lamp.
Aerial view of Brooklyn, looking west down Flatbush Avenue past the Williamsburg Savings Bank and the Eye of Sauron, toward the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation ©️, across the Sound River to Manhattan.
Vertical-format poster with illustration of men and women seated in a waiting room outside a door marked "PRIVATE." Text: "What would you do? / . . . with a good suggestion, if you had to / present it personally to the chief ... and found a/dozen people waiting to see him ahead of you? / You'd probably say, 'Oh, well—I'll see / him some other time!' . . . And then—most/likely—you'd forget all about it.../ That's why we have our suggestion system!/ USE • THE • CABINET"
Nearly still waters to the horizon reveal rounded rocks beneath, tide line visible on concrete breakers, lightly cloudy sky above
Coast with concrete breakers and rapid succession of waves, with faint raking light from the lower right.
Concrete breakers and slow waves rising and falling upon a brick-and-stone coastline beneath a cloudless blue sky.
Coastline with concrete breakers, breaking waves, and brick-and-stone shore.
Tumbled rock and brick coastline, concrete breakers in the background. Amongst the rocks and brick are a few frozen freshwater fish.
Nearly full moon reflected in dark water. Illuminated staircase in foreground.
Clutch of daffodils reaching through fallen oak leaves.
Waves hitting the shore in quick succession near a concrete jetty with a small pile of snow.
Panorama of Lake Erie coast from a pier, showing some open water.
Snowdrop flowers emerge from a patch of dark mulch and dirt.
Detail, Abraham Lincoln's eye, in photographic print.
Two black and white portraits of Abraham Lincoln in "the Gettsyburg portrait" by Alexander Gardner, 1863. Original is a matte collodion print.
Dry shoreline overlooking Lake Erie, showing four levels of ice, expanded toward the horizon, marked only by a small blue streak between the water and otherwise cloudy skies.
The last leaf on which there is writing or any kind of marking. It appears to be a summary of the author's life (?)
Art print called "Twowls," by Charley Harper. Abstracted duo of snowy owls in front of a grey background with white polka dots.
Skeptical author wearing black winter coat with faux fur trimmed hood and red leather gloves leans against a yellow metal hand rail in front of large boulders and coast coated in fast ice and hummocks of ice in peaks. Visible pack ice beyond, under blue sky with cirrus clouds.
Concrete pathway leading down to shore. Frozen ice chunks are visible at the shoreline, while water flows beyond to the horizon. A leafless tree emerges from the right side of the frame, and the ground shows evidence of light snow and frost. The top third of the image is comprised of sky with light clouds and patches of blue.
Hand holding a small cake with a snake on the top