Wow, rude.

I was away from Mastodon this afternoon but from what I can gather scrolling back through the timeline I’m getting the sense the new Pope may be from Chicago.

This is out of my curatorial period, but Quaritch has something for sale I've never seen before--a large (more than 2 ft tall) liturgical manuscript on wheels.

Next week we're starting a process at work of 360-degree reviews, where you ask everybody you know to fill out a survey on how well you're doing your job. As an introvert with anxiety who obsessively reviews the most trivial social interactions to figure out if I screwed them up I could not be more excited to embark on this new adventure.

Weird flex but OK. https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/24/resources/3328

It’s only an 11th century missal leaf, just stick those bookplates anywhere.

I am a longtime loather of multilevel marketing scams, but this particular insight that @Cory Doctorow relays in a review of a new book on the subject was new to me and very apt.

Pluralistic: Bridget Read’s ‘Little Bosses Everywhere’ (05 May 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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The Electrical Handbook for Women combines empowerment with some fabulous Art Deco design:

Electrifying Women

The Electrical Handbook for Women - a transformative 20th century text - Electrifying Women

Graeme Gooday writes about the Electrical Association for Women's handbook, first produced in 1934, of which nothing of the sort had previousl...

Imagine getting lost in the vast labyrinthine stacks of the Library of Congress and opening a random door to this view.

The Library of Congress

Get Lost! (and Other Lessons I Learned from the Stacks Survey) | Guardians of Memory

Librarian in Residence, Kaila Brugger reminisces about conducting the stacks survey and the serendipitous lessons learned along the way.