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move slow and repair things
My colleagues at ACRLog wrote short tributes to the life and work of Fobazi Ettarh @fobettarh.bsky.social. I wrote about her work on disability, which I think deserves more recognition. acrlog.org/2026/03/04/t...
Thanks @ezerrenner.bsky.social for coordinating. #CripLib #VocationalAwe
Did you know books have been bound in leather not just from cows, but from reindeer, seal, and even shark?🦈 Learn more about historic bookbindings in my new episode of Bite Sized Book History! youtu.be/3aUdEy0Edf4?...
AAAA THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR THANK YOU
*Bernie meme* I am once again asking for your light sheet recommendations
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Common misconception: you only use gloves to handle Minotaur-bound books, not narwhal books. This is of course due to The Curses
Did you know books have been bound in leather not just from cows, but from reindeer, seal, and even shark?🦈 Learn more about historic bookbindings in my new episode of Bite Sized Book History! youtu.be/3aUdEy0Edf4?...
(Col 838 box 230 at the Winterthur library)
Both covers of a seed catalog from Currie Bros of Milwaukee, Wis., featuring color illustrations of tulips and daffodils
Here’s an 1893 seed catalog to soothe the soul
@magic.wizards.com also let me promo a card for the previous Strixhaven set, which was so exciting and on-brand lol. I would love to do it again 😇
Codie is like the guardian angel of Pop Bibliography -- it was through engaging with this design that I realized not only is there some meat on this bibliographic bone, there's a whole bibliographic carcass to dissect
Art of a book with one eye in the center of its cover, walking along on a metal stand. He looks grumpy
If Codie comes back I might cry
*screams in #PopBibliography *
Preorders for the new @magic.wizards.com Stixhaven set just dropped and they have something called The Codex Bundle AND I AM HOLLERINGGGGGGG magic.wizards.com/en/products/...
And we’re LIVE! This episode of #BiteSizedBookHistory is all about bookbinding, and how judging a book by its cover can tell you about its history and where it came from. youtu.be/3aUdEy0Edf4?...
And we’re LIVE! This episode of #BiteSizedBookHistory is all about bookbinding, and how judging a book by its cover can tell you about its history and where it came from. youtu.be/3aUdEy0Edf4?...
Peep show in a small box (about the size of a large index card, showing an author in a red coat, manuscript in his hand, dog at his side surveying the workings of a print shop.)
Today, thanks to the Houghton Library, I got to introduce students to an #18thcentury German peepshow showing the interior of a printing house. Take a peek! (It was hard to photograph & the photo fails to include the cat who joins the dog in the foreground as 1 of the spectators.)
#BookHistory
Starting TOMORROW!! #BiteSizedBookHistory returns with a 5-episode season! BSBH is a series of 7-10 minute long videos about various book historical topics, aimed at a general audience. Catch up with previous episodes here: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
This season features episodes on bookbinding, woodblock printing, chromolithography, ephemera, and trade literature ✨
Starting TOMORROW!! #BiteSizedBookHistory returns with a 5-episode season! BSBH is a series of 7-10 minute long videos about various book historical topics, aimed at a general audience. Catch up with previous episodes here: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Books and paper people! What's your preferred light sheet for looking at watermarks and stuff? I think I bought one from University Products two jobs ago, but I can't seem to find any for sale anymore...
'Ideally, time in bibliography is no object, and if a certain task of large dimensions needs doing, it is worth a lifetime.'
I'm going to start citing Bowers whenever I'm asked to produce a timeline for a grant application.
A 3x3 grid titled "Is it a library? Alignment chart". Horizontal axis categories: Contents purist: Must contain books Contents neutral: Must contain information Contents rebel: Can contain anything Vertical axis categories: Curation purist: Must be managed by a professional librarian Curation neutral: Must be curated by someone Curation rebel: Can be managed by nobody Examples represented on the grid: Curation purist, contents purist: New York Public Library is a library Curation purist, contents neutral: A newspaper archive is a library Curation purist, contents rebel: A school information commons is a library Curation neutral, contents purist: A home bookshelf is a library Curation neutral, contents neutral: A Spotify playlist is a library Curation neutral, contents rebel: A zoo is a library Curation rebel, contents purist: A street library is a library Curation rebel, contents neutral: A PC downloads folder is a library Curation rebel, contents rebel: A junk drawer is a library
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Anywho, there's no better time than now to put your ideas out there and invite other people to do things with you. Might as well try. You don't have to know everything before starting. You can just start.
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I want to start posting new Bite Sized Book History episodes next week, but I also don’t want to come off as insensitively promoting them while the world fucking burns
I remember when trying to forgive student loans was massive overreach of Presidential power.
JOB ALERT! 📜📚
Who wants to be director & curator of special collections & archives at Middlebury College (Vermont!) — & work for a wonderful boss (& one of my favorite people), Rebekah Irwin?
apply.workable.com/middleburyco...
