A gentle reminder: libraries are still here, still free, still open to everyone. No appointment required. No subscription fee. Just walk in.

Top-tier episode of a really excellent podcast! My 1.5 hr commute thanks you @americanmedieval.bsky.social 🙏

Christopher Nolan's The Blazing World.

Hey sexy 😍

I HAVE NEWS! You asked, and now it’s time for me to answer! This August, I’m teaching a crash course on creative nonfiction!! We will meet once a week over zoom and students will have access to the recorded sessions afterwards! Go here for more info:

Celebrity sighting yesterday! 🤩

‘Web’ ornaments by Barnhart Bros. & Spindler after a good lye soak and scrubbing. Almost new, 130 years later! #letterpress

I am Toad

You can’t be in a bad mood when you spend three hours printing joy!

What is it with undergrad essays and the words "utmost" and "delve"? They're everywhere! And in papers that I'm fairly confident were not AI-written!

Not only is writing thinking but you don’t really know what you think until you start writing.

They're the same picture

Job: The Huntington Library is hiring a curator of early printed books huntingtonlibrary.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Huntin...

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: