Join us on 10 June for the 2026 Kenneth W. Rendell Endowed Lecture, "Women's Libraries & Their Afterlives" by Elizabeth Canning, at 5:30 p.m. ET in UVA’s Special Collections Auditorium or via Zoom. Details: rarebookschool.org/events/elizabeth-canning-rendell-lecture @womenknowhistory.bsky.social

THIS is your sign to come and do #bookhistory research in Antwerp in the outstanding collections of Museum Plantin-Moretus and the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library. Apply here for the Nottebohm Fellowship by Oct 1: sl1nk.com/i61nfmk 💙📚 📜 Come and join us... It’s pretty great here! 😉

Best moments in different kinds of research activities: Reading other scholars: "Woah woah, I'm understanding this in a whole new way!" Archival/historical work: "Hold on, wait a minute, WTF?!" DH + creative making stuff: "It worked!!!"

Frisket Fragment Find Friday 🎉 
Fragment of a frisket reused in a 17th-c. religious binding. Red printed text meant to be excluded remains visible, pointing to a liturgical context. The frisket itself is recycled from a liturgical manuscript. Also present: other fragments of printed binder’s waste.

I love walking into @skeuomorphpress.org & finding amazing things that our students & patrons made!

"But AI can transcribe quickly for me!" The lack of time for transcription in the archives is not natural, it is created. The time to transcribe, which is also time to read and think about material, has been taken from us by those with the power to fund our work. Now they want it without funding it.

Historical research does not need to be done faster or in greater volume for any social or intellectual purpose whatever; if anything, it needs to be done more slowly and deliberately than at present, by people allowed the training, time, space, and resources to do it that way.

SUPPORT THESE DATA CENTERS {from Magic City Books magiccitybooks.com }

wonderful a 1937 book on printing type turned into a website www.c82.net/printing-typ...

#CFP for #earlymodern folks! @hannah-historian.bsky.social and I are putting together a special edition of the Journal of Epistolary Studies on "Letters as Paratexts in the Early Modern World"!

My girl in the Nuremberg Chronicle.

So proud to have contributed to this!

Got my first Pampered Chef invite, does this mean I’m officially an adult??

Inside of you(r interlibrary-loan account) there are two wolves

Print history fun facts are the best fun facts 😍

Just the type of thing to find in our collections: a sheet with rows of characters probably printed as a working proof to assess wear & damage. This would explain why no frisket was used: the sheet was not a type specimen intended for presentation to potential clients. #bookhistory #rarebooks 📚💙📜

“Use AI to brainstorm but not to write.” “Use AI to help you outline but not to write.” These are commonly proposed as “ethical” ways for undergrad students to use AI, but I’m sorry, brainstorming & outlining are just as integral to writing as the actual construction of sentences.

How gorgeous is this!

I may have gone a little overboard with the lockup for a group of elementary school students’ visit to @skeuomorphpress.org today, but I really wanted to experiment with our new wood borders. The name will get subbed out for each student. Idea borrowed (I’m pretty sure) from @jsench.bsky.social

Being a grad student + new parent 😅

In the last 15 years I’ve been a student worker, then a library assistant, then a librarian, and now back to a student worker, and still my ask is: use the library!

The Bibliographical Society of America is participating in a social media campaign with ACLS this week, and we invite you to join in! The message is simple and proactive: we need more humanities and social sciences scholars and research. #TalkAboutHumanities

The longer I spend in digital humanities, the more I am obsessively drawn to analog technologies and convinced we must actively and intently teach them or the digital world loses its color, texture, and depth.

Are you looking for an online global book history festival that features work on ancient through contemporary textual cultures? Look no further! Registration is open now! events.zoom.us/ev/Ap9iEZwmC...

Full-on crying at this!

Proofreading is important before you proceed #letterpress

I’ve posted the text of my talk from today’s DH Day at Purdue: “Anemoia, AI, & Skeuomorphism” is part of a longer piece I’m working on that tries to theorize the current “Material Turn in Digital Humanities”—essentially: why are so many DH folks printing & making & crafting? #dhmakes

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

Are you, too, interested in how rare books come to be valued and wondering why we keep honoring their collectors? Pay attention to @oldfortunatus.bsky.social and @christianalgar.bsky.social (among others). It's a key area of feminist bibliography and something we're interested in at PBSA

Today is National School Librarian Day. THANK YOU, school librarians & school library workers. We celebrate you. For so many library kids, the school library is the only place they have access to books. It is where they learn to believe that stories are for them. Thank you for your library joy 💛📚🥹🤟🏽

Making 🏳️‍⚧️ gradient on press:

This one semester, Book Arts position may be of interest to you or someone you know. 📚🎨 ☀️ www.scrippscollege.edu/hr/faculty/v...

REMINDER Help us build the SHARP 2025 Annual Bibliography! Submit citation information for titles you published/contributed to/edited (etc) in 2025 that are "book historical" (think broadly!) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

It’s leg day at work. Just printing up some promotional material…

Pretty cool thing in a Newcastle imprint from 1760: a paper tear repaired before printing

Q: what is the most Tragical TRAGEDY that was ever tragedized by any comical Company of Tragical TRAGEDIANS? A:

Just came across The Oyster; Where, How and When to Find, Breed, Cook and Eat (1861) in a dealer listing & am in love with the illustrations on the title page & frontispiece: archive.org/details/oyst....

It's all true, the prints are all up! If you want some (joyful | just | trans | critical tech | 🌈 ) art made by hand w/a big printing press & real technicolor inky inks, I'm saving funds to buy a decent home press, which will let me print more accessibly + do way more art for mutual aid & for free

This article is so good it quite literally led me to create a folder on my desktop titled "academic inspo"

Listening to MIKA during a book arts studio shift — is this #queerbibliography ?

Ever wondered how pressmen and compositors at the early-modern Plantin Press structured their careers? 📘🕰️ Join the University of Antwerp as a PhD fellow and dive into the rhythms of labour between 1580–1840 Apply by 1 July 2026 👇 #PhDPosition #EarlyModern #PlantinPress #PrintingHistory #Antwerp

Come think about Feminist Bibliography with me this summer! I’m teaching a one-week online course for @calrbs.bsky.social—I love this class and am excited to do it again. Description below; priority deadline April 15; all details at www.calrbs.org/feminist-bib...

Part of the "decline of reading" may have something to do with the forms of these readings we are (or are not) making available to possible readers

These are the same "book"

Fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership project: 'Rediscovering a Woman Collector at the British Library: New Sources and Perspectives on Sarah Sophia Banks' - BL & UCL Dep of Information Studies www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit... Now open for student applications! Deadline: 14 April

Can’t wait!

The scream I screamed when Palencar agreed…

Here is a cool call for the #bookhistory communities: “Women Printing for Institutions in Early Modern Europe”, at the HAB Wolfenbüttel (and organized by Saskia Limbach) in November 2026. CFP: www.hab.de/wp-content/u...

1) letterpress vs other possible ways to make movable letter art 2) how to do yr 1st typeset+print w/a Vandercook 3-4) how to access or buy yr 1st type & press for free or least $? Emphasize physical+financial accessibility, why/how print under fascism (protest, infoshare, persuasion, joy, hope).+