ARL Daily Intelligence (March 2–4) — Association of Research Libraries The ARL Daily Intelligence is the trusted source of news and analysis for library leaders and advocates. Released Monday through Thursday, the ARL Daily Intelligence is curated by Gary D. Price, co-fo...

The #ARLDailyIntelligence brings you today’s essential news and analysis for library leaders and advocates. Check out today’s top stories!

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#Research #Libraries #HigherEd #OpenData #OpenScience #AI #Librarianship #PublicPolicy #Misinformation #Archives #SpecColls

If you're interested in learning more about the history of magic, be sure to check out @ransomcenter.bsky.social's upcoming exhibition exploring the treasures of Houdini's library!

Further details: www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/...

#speccolls #rarebooks
#Houdini #BookCollecting 🗃️📜

ARL Daily Intelligence (February 23–26) — Association of Research Libraries The ARL Daily Intelligence is the trusted source of news and analysis for library leaders and advocates. Released Monday through Thursday, the ARL Daily Intelligence is curated by Gary D. Price, co-fo...

The #ARLDailyIntelligence brings you today’s essential news and analysis for library leaders and advocates. Check out today’s top stories!

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#Research #Libraries #HigherEd #OA #AI #ScholComm #PublicPolicy #Copyright #FairUse #Archives #OralHistory #SpecColls

There is a hole in the world...or at least in this book about it.

#booksky #RareBooks #speccolls 🗃️📜📚

Guests from UT's Cockrell School of Engineering are excited to see some of the rare history of science & technology materials in the Harry Ransom Center's collections.

Pleasantly surprised to see my rare book presentation for @cockrellschool.bsky.social featured in a gallery of memorable moments from the past year at the Harry Ransom Center.

See the other photos & follow @ransomcenter.bsky.social on IG: www.instagram.com/p/DS2nHXSD4h...

#RareBooks #speccolls 🗃️📜🤘

APHA Awards 2026 - American Printing History Association The American Printing History Association’s Awards Committee proudly announces the recipients of its 2026 Individual and Institutional awards: Dr. Elizabeth Savage(University of London) and…

Congratulations to Elizabeth Savage (Univ. of London), winner of @printinghistory.bsky.social's 2026 Individual Award! Elizabeth is an incredible scholar, whose investigations of early modern color printing bridge the divide b/w science, art & the humanities.

#RareBooks #SpecColls #PrintHistory 🗃️📜

1. Sketchbook, 1964-1971. Billy Collins Papers, Box 23, Folder 1.

3. Typescript and handwritten notes, draft, and quotations for inaugural reading as Poet Laureate, 2001. Billy Collins Papers, Box 24, Folder 18.

Yesterday, @ransomcenter.bsky.social hosted a reading by former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins. We also launched a new teaching guide inspired by digitized material from Collins's personal archive.

Check it out here: www.hrc.utexas.edu/teaching/bil...

#poetry #booksky #speccolls 🗃️📜

Digitizing the Materiality of the Premodern Book - YouTube This playlist is part of the project "Digitizing the Materiality of the Premodern Book" ( https://dha.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/de/digitizing-materiality-premodern-boo...

Lang has also created a YouTube class for curators, instructors & collectors who are interested in digitizing the materiality of pre-modern books.

You can watch the full playlist here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

#HSS2025 #RareBooks #SpecColls

Want to learn more about Villanova's copy of Botanologia? Piorko made a video showing what it's like to engage with the text & inserted plant specimens, which you can watch here: sciencefromthestacks.library.villanova.edu/collections-...

#HSS2025 #RareBooks #SpecColls

homer simpson is holding a bell and a sign that says the end is near ALT: homer simpson is holding a bell and a sign that says the end is near

OK, friends---Only a few hours remain to submit research proposals for @ransomcenter.bsky.social's 2026-2027 #fellowships!

We will accept applications until 5:00 PM CST (UTC-6) this afternoon.

www.hrc.utexas.edu/fellowships/

#humanities #SpecColls 🗃️📜

"I WANT MYSTERIOUS GLYPHS AND SIGILS!"

(Me too, Calvin....Me too.)

#RareBooks #speccolls #CalvinAndHobbes
#VoynichManuscript #Voynich 🗃️📜

One of the cool things about visiting @ransomcenter.bsky.social is walking past the Niépce Heliograph *and* a Gutenberg Bible before entering our exhibit galleries!

More on the heliograph, which was created in 1827: www.hrc.utexas.edu/niepce-helio...

#photography #photosky #histSTM #speccolls 🗃️📜📷

"Newest Old Glory" (published #OnThisDay in 1960): The new American flag with Hawaii's 50th star is unfurled by a Boy Scout patrol atop Mt. Marcy in the Adirondacks.

norman.hrc.utexas.edu/nyjadc/ItemD...

#31DaysOfNYJA #BoyScouts #AmericanFlag 🇺🇸
#speccolls #photography #photosky 🗃️📜📷

Detail from "Mons. Blondin's walk across the cataract" [undated] Circus Collection Harry Ransom Center

#OnThisDay in 1859, French funambulist Charles Blondin became an international celebrity after successfully crossing the #Niagara River on a #tightrope.

This illustration of that event comes from @ransomcenter.bsky.social's #Circus Collection🎪: hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

#speccolls 🗃️📜

Order of Chaeronea seal in wax, undated. George Cecil Ives Papers (5.11). Harry Ransom Center.

What can this cryptic wax seal reveal about the history of #LGBT activism?

Read more about the Order of Chaeronea and its founder, George Cecil Ives, whose papers can be found @ransomcenter.bsky.social!

www.instagram.com/p/DLakoCuhTH...

#speccolls #QueerHistory
#PrideMonth #Pride #LGBTQ+🗃️📜🌈

https://x.com/USNatArchives/status/1937872088934883624 June 25, 2025 We caused a misunderstanding yesterday in the way we communicated long overdue enhanced security standards that are going into effect at the National Archives at College Park, M.D. First things first: For those who want to come to College Park and look through the records, the research rooms were, are and will ALWAYS remain open to the public. Ensuring public access to records in the archives is part of NARA's core mission and the new security standards do not - and would never- change this. The National Archives is implementing long overdue enhanced security standards at College Park due to several recent incidents that have left those in the building- including researchers- and our nation's records vulnerable to threats. In addition to other measures, NARA is increasing video surveillance and mandating that traffic bollards stay up closer to the building. Many of these measures mirror security standards that have been in place for many years at the research rooms at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. and research facilities at presidential libraries. We look forward to continuing to always welcome researchers to College Park. ###

"Ensuring public access to records in the #archives is part of #NARA's core mission and the new security standards do not--and would never--change this."

(X update from the National Archives re: College Park, HT @anthonyclark.bsky.social, link in alt-text)

#ArchivesAreForEveryone #speccolls 🗃️📜

Just went to the #NationalArchives website, and the announcement shared below has been removed.

It seems the question of whether historical research is a "legitimate business need" is moot, at least for now...

www.archives.gov/college-park

#Archives #NARA #ArchivesAreForEveryone #speccolls 🗃️📜

Access to the historical record should not be restricted to "visitors with a legitimate business need."

Archives belong to everyone!

#NationalArchives #speccolls
#archives #skystorians 🗃️📜

Where were you the night the bots came for @hagleycenter.bsky.social?

(cc: @businesshistoryc.bsky.social)

#BusinessHistory #Hagley
#BizHist #speccolls 🗃️📜

#Bloomsday has arrived! Did you know that @ransomcenter.bsky.social is home to the final first edition page proofs of #Ulysses, complete w/Joyce's handwritten corrections?

More details on the Center's #JamesJoyce Collection: norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/fin...

#literature #booksky #speccolls 🗃️📜📚

Spotted during this afternoon’s reference shift @ransomcenter.bsky.social: T.E. Lawrence’s copy of #Ulysses, signed by #JamesJoyce! (A bit early for #Bloomsday, but impressive nevertheless…)

#humanities #literature
#modernism #speccolls
#LawrenceOfArabia #booksky 🗃️📜📚

In the Studio Is it March, spring, winter, autumn, twilight, noon Told in this distant sound of cuckoo clocks? Sunday it is—five lilies in swoon Decay against your wall, aggressive flocks Of alley-starlings aggravate a mood. The rain drops pensively. ‘If one could paint, Combine the abstract with a certain rude Individual form, knot passion with restraint… If one could use the murk that fills a brain, Undo old symbols and beget again Fresh meaning on dead emblem…’ so one lies Here timeless, while the lilies’ withering skin Attests the hours, and rain sweeps from the skies, The bird sits on the chimney, looking in. Nancy Cunard (British, 1896–1965), “In the Studio,” 1923, unpublished poem. Unpublished scrapbook 1921–1927, Nancy Cunard Collection, 26.3, Harry Ransom Center.

Fun fact: Cunard composed a poem while sitting for McCown's 1923 portrait. Her unpublished typescript can also be found in @ransomcenter.bsky.social's collections.

For further details, check out Tracy Bonfitto's blog post from last March: sites.utexas.edu/ransomcenter...

#speccolls #humanities 🗃️📜📚

For those who are curious, here's the finding aid for the Tim O'Brien Papers: norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/fin...

#archives #literature
#MilHist #MilitaryHistory
#VietnamWar #speccolls

Event information card with event title and date and headshot photos of speakers Rebecca Wade, Jie Xu, Jonathan Bush, and Ailie O'Hagan

🟠 #RLUKICIL | Towards equity & inclusion thru special collections & archives | 🗓️ 24 June

Join us to hear from @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social @dulib.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social on how #speccolls #archives help research libraries & institutions meet their EDI goals

🎟️ bit.ly/RLUKICIL

Bring history to life at the Harry Ransom Center YouTube video by Harry Ransom Center

Coming to @ransomcenter.bsky.social in April 2026: Lives and Literacy in Ancient Egypt, an exhibit developed in partnership w/@thejohnrylands.bsky.social that will explore life in Greco-Roman #Egypt using #papyrus manuscripts!

Learn more: www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/...

#SpecColls #Papyri📜🗃️

Me (yesterday): HORNBOOK COASTERS!

Me (earlier today): Maybe some people don't know what hornbooks are...

Me (right now): Good thing @aarontpratt.bsky.social prepared a video to answer everyone's hornbook-related questions!

#Hornbooks #ChildrensBooks #WordsAndWonder
#RareBooks #SpecColls 🗃️📜📚

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#ChildrensLiterature #ChildrensBooks #KidLit
#BookHistory #SpecColls #RareBooks
#WordsAndWonder #RansomCenter 🗃️📜📚

Elizabeth Bathurst Old Library H.20.178. Bathurst, Elizabeth: Truth Vindicated… London: Mary Hinde, 1773. For International Women’s Day 2025, we are showcasing a book with a unique trail of female authorship, p…

A new blog post for International Women's Day, featuring a book from the Old Library which was written, printed, and owned by three different women across three centuries. #Internationalwomensday #IWD2025 #rarebooks #speccolls #camlibs

Title page of a book with a large woodcut printer’s device of Jehan Petit showing a coat of arms supported by a lion and a leopard set among trees (DUL SB 2552).

A page from a book with handwritten notes between the lines of printed text (DUL SB 2552).

A pastedown in a book with handwritten doodles (DUL SB 2552) 

Handwritten index at the beginning of the book (DUL SB 2552)

To support a @durhamuniversity.bsky.social and Uppsala research project on marginalia and machine-learning we acquired some annotated early printed books. There is a LOT going on with this history poem. (DUL SB 2552) #newacq #speccolls #marginalia #rarebooks

"Who'd have thought learning about religion could be fun?"

#Simpsons #speccolls 📜