The decision from United States District Judge Allison D. Burroughs hands Harvard a summary judgment win on core constitutional grounds, finding that the administration’s freeze orders were retaliation for protected speech.

Judge Hands Victory to Harvard in Funding Lawsuit, Ruling Trump Administration’s Freeze Unconstitutional | News | The Harvard Crimson

A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration violated the Constitution when it froze more than $2.7 billion in research funding to Harvard, ...

The Curator of Printing and Graphic Arts posted on Teams “Come to the large classroom if you like type” so I hustled down there and got to help her sort a gorgeous font of wood type that l’s going to the printing studio.

Not sure what happened to my brain over the last few months but it was a bit of a shock to find the campus awash in students this morning.

This image reminds me of the fact that there used to be clippings services that you could pay to look through all the newspapers and cut out everything about a particular subject and organize them for you. (I never worked with such a service, unless you count my late father.)

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The bustle of Paris street life, a lace pattern book, and other new acquisitions at the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Beyond National Boundaries: A Season of New Acquisitions, Part I | Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library is the world

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When is a book not a book? When it's a blook--a book-like object. This summer's Rare Book School lecture by Mindell Dubansky, the world expert on these pseudo-books, is available on YouTube.

Next week marks my 21st anniversary at Houghton Library and I think the accomplishment I'm proudest of in that span is that I have never had to create a LinkedIn account.

Upon further reflection, at the point where I decided there wasn’t enough peanut butter in the jar to save and I should just start eating it straight, there was in actual fact enough peanut butter to save.

In fairness, I can’t believe it either.

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'Was 1995 30 years ago?' Google's AI overviews is having issues with a simple question

AI is struggling with simple math.

I don’t know if I’m neurodivergent or not, but I did just spend the last hour reverse engineering the call number of a 1657 postal law that a bookseller offered us for $2000 that secondary sources said we had already but wasn’t listed in our online catalog.