For #CoffeeWithACodex on February 19, curator Dot Porter will bring out Ms. Codex 201, a copy of the New Testament translated into Middle English by John Wycliffe. It was made in England in the late 14th or early 15th century. #medievalsky Register here: https://bit.ly/4rLzF9n

Starting on Wednesday at 8pm on Channel 5, watch Our Hospital Through Time. Tune in to see us showing @profaliceroberts.bsky.social our collection items and discussing the history of St Bartholomew's Hospital #History #Archives #HistMed #HistNursing

🗓️ Tuesday 17th March, 2026 1:30-3.30pm 📍 Brotherton Library, University of Leeds 🎟️ Tickets: £45 www.eventbrite.com/e/introducti...

Imagine your documents were marked up for editing with this guy. Terrifying! MS.B.2.25 mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/B... #marginaliamonday #medievalsky

📚 Historical Bibliography, 17th March, Leeds We'll cover all aspects of the mechanics of hand-press printing and assume no prior knowledge. Focusing on the early press, session one covers type, paper, composition, imposition, press work, decoration and illustration, bookbinding and bookselling.

Introducing the UCL Global Centre for Democratic Constitutionalism's (@gcdc-ucl.bsky.social) event: 🔴The State of the United States: Safeguarding Knowledge: When Memory Becomes Political 🗓️ 12th March, 18:30 📍St Pancras Church (Euston Road)

Today marks international day of women and girls in science. Louyse Bourgeois (1563-1636) was midwife to the French royal family & the first woman to publish on obstetrics. #WomenInScience

From rare book (physical) to 3D scan (digital) to cleaned-up 3D model (digital) to 3D printed object (physical). This was a really fun process to think through texture and materiality of a tactile book object. This was a test, and I learned a lot from the process. More to come later this year!

Our upcoming event on ✨Historical Bibliography✨ is live! 🗓️ Tuesday, March 17, 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm 📍 Brotherton Library, @universityofleeds.bsky.social 🧑‍🏫 Ed Potten This introduction to historical bibliography covers all aspects of the mechanics of hand-press printing (no prior knowledge assumed).

Our friends at @cilip.bsky.social Library & Information History Group (LIHG) are in search of a new Chair! LIHG is devoted to the history of libraries and librarianship; they promote the history of libraries and information and organise visits, talks and events for a wide and diverse audience.

Don't miss your chance to apply for a grant from @bibsoc.bsky.social! 🕛 Deadline: 16 January 2026, 11.59 pm (GMT) 📝 Requirements: Complete application and two letters of reference ✉️ Submit to: [email protected] More information on the Society's website: bibsoc.org.uk/fellowships/...

For the first time ever, @ransomcenter.bsky.social host @rarebookschool.bsky.social courses this summer, June 7–12: L-165: Literary Manuscripts w/ Stephen Enniss & Megan Barnard (this will be excellent) G-60: Evidence in Handpress-Era Books, 1450–1830 w/ yours truly rarebookschool.org/schedule/

Huguenot Correspondence Networks in France 1660-85. A talk by Dr Janée Allsman about her project on our 1st Keeper, Élie Bouhéreau of La Rochelle. Organised by The Huguenot Society in London. Via Zoom 8pm GMT Wed 14 Jan. To sign up, please email [email protected] before 10 Jan 2026.

Excited to share our event for this year's CILIP Members' Fest: 📚 Using Special Collections in Teaching 🧑‍🏫 🗓️ 4th March 2026 🕧 12.30pm - 1.30pm 🌐 Online webinar Register today to secure your spot: www.cilip.org.uk/event/member...

🎉Happy New Year from the Rare Books and Special Collections Group!🪩 If you're struggling to get back to concentrating on work this morning, why not ease yourself back in with a hot beverage and our Autumn Newsletter? cdn.ymaws.com/www.cilip.or...

Climate Change, Sustainability and Special Collections. Friday 28th November at National Library of Ireland. Further details and booking on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/climate-change-sustainability-and-special-collections-tickets-1589550039959

Don't miss this fascinating event @wienerlibrary.bsky.social tomorrow evening!

#EventNews: The Cranston Lecture 2025 📍St Mary's Church, Reigate 🗓️ Tuesday 21st October, 7.00pm 📚 Bountiful Benevolence: Recent Acquisitions By The Cranston Library by Andrea Thomas 📚 In All 113 Volumes Great & Small - John Seyliard And His Gift To Reigate Publick Library by Hilary Ely

This year's #PanizziLectures @britishlibrary.bsky.social are fast approaching! This year's theme is Books in their Element: Print Culture in the Age of Climate Change, and the lectures will be delivered by Isabel Hofmeyr, Professor Emeritus at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Ever wondered what stories lie behind Kew’s collections? 🌍 Today’s the day to find out – it’s #AskAnArchivist Day! Our archivists are here to answer your questions about rare books, explorers’ journals and the care of centuries-old plant records. Ask below 👇 #AskAnArchivist #KewArchives

Rare book vault flood. *a true story

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We are advertising for an Assistant Director to join us in Marsh's Library. Full details about this exciting post here: marshlibrary.ie/vacancy-for-...

This is a great example of ‘type bite,’ where the handpress operator has pulled the bar with such force that the type ‘bites’ the paper, leaving a raised impression on the verso. This example is from an 1824 court writ. I find this more often on job printed broadsheets than in codices 🗃️ #bookhistory

Who doesn't love a sewer? Book now to attend this free event at UCL Bloomsbury on Thursday October 23rd, 10:00 - 12:00. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ucl-specia...

MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

💀 Discover a skeleton working a printing press in the Peter Isaac Collection! Peter Isaac, an engineer turned printing enthusiast, focused on the English provincial book trade. The collection is being catalogued — more surprises to come! #RareBooks #PrintingHistory #Archives

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Don't miss the first talk in this year's series of the History Of Libraries Seminar, ✨ tonight ✨ online or in person @warburginstitute.bsky.social! Libraries and delinquency: the case of Charles Burney (1757-1817) Free of charge, but reservation is required: ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Booking is open for @cilip.bsky.social Library & Information History conference! It'll be at @natlibscot.bsky.social on 21 November! Featuring a genuinely stellar line-up, all in person. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/freedom-of... @cilipscotland.bsky.social @ciliprarebooks.bsky.social @arascot.bsky.social

Hecate, goddess of witchcraft, to usher in October! From Valeriano's 'Hieroglyphica' printed in 1602

For #CoffeeWithACodex (Zoom, 12pm Noon ET) On October 2, Curator Dot Porter will bring out Ms. Codex 1057, an illuminated Ferial psalter containing the psalms, antiphons, hymns, short chapter readings, and other prayers. It was written in Trento c. 1350. Register here: https://bit.ly/4pAYgx6

Introducing this year's Holden Lecture: 'Tickets and trifles: ephemeral print and Restoration England'. 🗓️ 30th October 🕕 6:00pm (lecture starts at 6.30pm) 🏫 @senatehouselib.bsky.social UCL Professor Jason Peacey will explore how ephemeral print materials can unlock crucial historical insights.

Our final speaker is Dr Anna-Maria Sichani from School of Advanced Study, University of London bringing us full circle with her presentation 'Operationalising responsible AI in cultural heritage: policies, practices and opportunities' #RBSCG25

Carly Richardson and Jennie-Claire Crate from @jisc.bsky.social are now joining us to talk about enhancing discoverability and access for special collections and the role of Jisc’s Archives Hub and Library Hub in metadata transformation and aggregation. #RBSCG25

Next up is Christine Megowan from the University of Edinburgh and Katie Birkwood from the Royal College of Physicians, London with their talk 'Interacting with and influencing international standards: Controlled Vocabulary for Rare Materials Cataloging and others'

So glad that I'm able to attend one day of #RBSCG25 to learn more about AI and cataloguing today. It's an important fixture in the Rare Books calendar! @ciliprarebooks.bsky.social

Welcome back for Day 3 of #RBSCG25 which is all about AI and metadata transformation 🤖 Kicking us off are Amelie Roper and Suzanne Paul from the University of Cambridge who are introducing us to the AI for Cultural Heritage Hub (ArCH)

You know the drill: 🕑 2.00pm today 💻 Online via Teams 📚 Day Three of #RBSCG25 We have to say, we've been absolutely loving all of the talks so far, and can't wait for the final four today!

Thank to all of today's speakers; you've certainly generated a lot of conversations with your talks! We're looking forward to continuing those conversations both at Day Three of the conference (from 2.00pm tomorrow) and in the meantime! #RBSCG25

Our final talk of today will be from Núria Ferran Ferrer and Miquel Centelles Velilla from @ub.edu on: HerStory-NeSyAI: Designing Inclusive Metadata with Hybrid AI for Discoverability and Epistemic Justice. #RBSCG25

Harriet Hale and Tabitha Tuckett from @uclspeccoll.bsky.social are up next, with the wonderfully-titled 'Hitting the MARC: cataloguing standards and the challenge of representation'. We all love a pun! #RBSCG25

Next up, Dan Sheehy of @natlibscot.bsky.social will tell us about 'Sensitivity in literary archives: making assessments and managing access'. #RBSCG25

First up, Karen Pierce and Vicky Stallard of @cardiffunilib.bsky.social will tell us about their efforts to make their library catalogue anti-racist and inclusive. #RBSCG25

Our Vice Chair, Sarah Cusk, of @lincoln.ox.ac.uk, welcomes us to another day of 'interesting and inspirational' talks! Remember to post any questions in the Teams chat for Sarah to pose them to our speakers. #RBSCG25

Everyone ready? Remember, it's the same Teams link as yesterday! #RBSCG25

Set your timepieces: #RBSCG25 will be back for Day Two at 2.00pm today, with four talks on the topic of 'Inclusive Cataloguing'. We can't wait!

A good question from Christine! If anyone is in this situation, please email our Conference Coordinator, Richard, at [email protected] #RBSCG25

What a brilliant series of talks to kick off Day One of #RBSCG25! Thank you so much to all of our wonderful speakers; we’ll be back at 2.00pm tomorrow for Day Two and we can’t wait!

For the final talk of today, @universityofleeds.bsky.social’s Alison Hazelaar, Kim Taylor and Trevor Hough will speak on ‘Embracing new approaches to enhance discoverability and use of rare print materials at the University of Leeds’. #RBSCG25