I just bought a bunch of items from a collection of early modern women’s history, and I’ll post a few as I get them processed for payment. This is a book of portraits of great women of history. #newacquisition #newacq
As a librarian I resent the difficulty of searching for "Georgian" as an adjective for a country that can also refer to a US state or a reign of monarchs. This is just poor authority control of reality.
15th century block books, printed entirely from woodblocks rather than type, are rare—about 650 examples survive. Rarer still is one that’s lived for five and a half centuries in its original binding.
I ran into a beloved colleague tonight who allowed that she’s missing out on “the John Overholt experience” now that we’re both off Twitter and I was like, yeah, I didn’t move to Mastodon because I thought it was the key to social media superstardom, but because being on Twitter was genuinely injurious to my mental health.
If my understanding is correct, when I started here there were more employees in the library system than in development, and now it's the reverse. That feels like it points to broader trends in higher education, to say the least.
Digital Scriptorium, one of the earliest and most important book history digital humanities projects, has been reborn with a new catalog bringing together medieval manuscripts from libraries around the country. With a click of the "Has Images" button, it's a guide to more than 7000 fully or partially digitized manuscripts.
Since I trust you won’t cross the picket line to play Wordle while NYT’s tech workers are on strike, may I suggest instead you try out @npub102ht...90tr ‘s delightful Gisnep? It’s a daily word puzzle where you reconstruct a quotation from its component letters.
