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Watching Meg Ford's 2020 Presidential Address to the @bibsoc.bsky.social : a strong reminder of the proud traditions of cataloging and bibliography - not two separate activities, but threads in the same rich cloth. #speccolls📜 www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQtg...

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It’s one month since I started at Spencer Library( @kulibraries.bsky.social ) so here’s some snaps: a manuscript psalter, the books from William F. Wu’s papers, a new Arion Press Gilgamesh, with St Jerome keeping an eye on me. Feeling really grateful to be here, more soon!

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A Good Thread:

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I saw a preliminary version of this talk at the NY book fair last year, and it's well worth attending! Insights into format and print run decisions!

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"Learn to code" was always bad advice, unless you actually like to code. College students have the best chance of professional success if they major in topics that interest them. Today in @startribune.com. Please tell high school students and parents. www.startribune.com/what-should-...

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From the archives, for Pride Month: Pay a visit to the Texas Gay Rodeo Association, which has been busting stereotypes since 1985 ...

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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

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@lynnemthomas.com Low key hoping you're responsible for ISFDB being in standard citation forms...

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(1/3) Stolen Relations has been launched for a month! Thanks to the hard work of hundreds of partners and researchers, stolenrelations.org currently has records of upwards of 7,000 individuals and many pieces of art and storytelling that help to flesh out the stories of unfree Indigenous people.

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Coming to #RBMS2025 this week? Interested in queer and LGBTQ+ library work and bibliography? Join us for a casual meet up on Thursday afternoon at the Blue Orchid! Please repost and share the flyer widely! #QueerBibliography 📚

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Really wish I could go see the "Native Pop!" exhibition at the Newberry, but this great video tour is a nice substitute! www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA_Y...

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“Totally inaccurate rendering—& that is not surprising." Today's #histSTM lunch read, HT @petapixel.bsky.social: Reddit users asked #ChatGPT to restore the Niépce heliograph, which is on display here @ransomcenter.bsky.social. It didn't turn out well... #ArtificialIntelligence #photography #AI 🗃️📜📷

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Outstanding new release! Really love Raphaël Feuillâtre’s recordings! open.spotify.com/album/6vj2ue...

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Friends, I am seeking your recommendations for a single volume, narrative history of Mexico. My current frontrunner is Gibson's "El Norte" but am keen to get your suggestions!

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Our lecture from May is now online: Nicholas Pickwoad, Entitled: The Choice, Purpose and Placing of Titles on Early-Modern Bookbindings www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMcN...

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Bloomsday is a celebration of the life of Irish writer James Joyce, held annually on June 16. Spencer Research Library's blog highlights letters between Sylvia Beach, publisher of "Ulysses," and Jane van Meter, Beach's assistant, friend and KU figure. 📝 rockcha.lk/ksrlblog

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Wes Anderson makes Superhero movies for people who read the New Yorker and apologize when they come and I’m frankly sick of pretending otherwise.

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Pulitzer prize for this Jay L. Clenendin image of LAPD stormtroopers in front of Barbara Kruger's "Untitled (Questions)"

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Good that studies are done on stuff but anyone with any critical thinking left really doesn't need to be told this

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Correct.

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This is what happens when you add a fancy fore edge title, then 150 years later someone realises the book was misbound and moves the last 100 pages to the front. Should look like the first pic, actually looks like the second 🤦

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If you’re into harpsichord music, don’t sleep on this, gang. Really good. open.spotify.com/album/1rP7Du...

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must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

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Cistercians preferred seals! A high proportion (63%) of the C12/13th manuscripts from the monastery at Clairvaux were bound in sealskin, mostly harbor & harp seals from Scandinavia, Scotland, Iceland & Greenland, perhaps chosen to match their white habits. www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/medieva...

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#BookSky #MedievalSky #BookHistory

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Some lovely ampersands here! I think the fourth one, down at the bottom, is my favourite. (And of course, the ampersand′s birth and evolution are covered at Shady Characters: shadycharacters.co.uk/series/the-a...)

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