Teaching history of the book is, no question, the most immediately gratifying part of my job. I am grumpy midcareer faculty through and through but it is a privilege every single time I get to place a 500-year-old book in the hands of a college freshman. - ThreadSky

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meganlcook.bsky.social • 17 days ago

Teaching history of the book is, no question, the most immediately gratifying part of my job. I am grumpy midcareer faculty through and through but it is a privilege every single time I get to place a 500-year-old book in the hands of a college freshman.

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aktange.bsky.social•17 days ago

Bringing a giant stack of periodicals from 1859 to my class tomorrow and can hardly wait to watch their minds being slowly blown.

jacklynch000.bsky.social•16 days ago

(Ixnay on the idcareermay! Since your degree came thirteen years after mine, it’d force me to realize I now count as late-career!)

jacklynch000.bsky.social•16 days ago

But yes, there’s nothing quite like seeing students’ eyes open wide when they’re handling things older than their country. I plan to bring in some fourteenth- and fifteenth-century MS leaves tomorrow.

jbd1.bsky.social•17 days ago

Every time!

ilikeoldbooks.bsky.social•17 days ago

every time.

davidmwhitford.bsky.social•16 days ago

We head to the RBR next Monday. It is always the week, we will spend the week there, they mention the most at the end of the semester evals. It is, I hope, a week they will still remember in 30 years.

historecluse.bsky.social•16 days ago

My students got to hold Ramusio, 1550s today, the famous Hochelaga described by Jacques Cartier, amongst other treasures. A huge treat for us and also a treat I think for the librarians and archivists and curators.