Really enjoyed getting to share a unique aspect to working in the Russell Library at Maynooth 🦇🦇🦇

Members of the CONUL Board, including the Chair of CONUL ciara McCaffrey, with the brand new 2025-2029 Strategy "Shaping Tomorrow: The Next Chapter for Irish Research Libraries" conul.ie/conul-strate...

@richove.bsky.social on the cultural and social importance of ‘boring books’ @conulconference.bsky.social

Delighted to be at #CONUL25! 📚

Great to see such a wonderful array of papers from @mulibrary.bsky.social colleagues @conulconference.bsky.social . I’m sorry I can’t it make it this year. Massive congrats to @morleyfme.bsky.social who concludes her term as conference chair. Fiona & the committee have done fantastic work!

Sun selfie. Claws retracted so I could press the thingie.

Classification as Colonization: The Hidden Politics of Library Catalogs scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/03/25/g...

Interested in historical pamphlets? Have a 👀 at this blog post on some of the fascinating collection at the Russell Library #Maynooth mulibrarytreasures.wordpress.com/2025/05/05/e... @maynoothuniversity.ie @mulibrary.bsky.social

Sun is shining here in Dublin 🌞🌞🌞

"Painstaking work has commenced to conserve and digitise one of the oldest paper documents still in existence on the island of Ireland." www.rte.ie/news/2024/12...

When Christmas trees were multiplication tables, Gent, 1760s (via Plantin-Moretus)

Christmas Eve sunrise swim on Killiney beach was magical this year 🎄🌊

Happy #WinterSolstice 🌅 www.ireland.ie/en/visit/iri...

Updated special collections and bookish humans. Last before parsing into two lists. 🤘🏻🤘🏻 go.bsky.app/BqYVT2p

A fascinating detail in my 1607 Graduale Romanum, printed in Antwerp: a correction pinned directly onto the sheet music with a brass pin! A 17th-century "Typo-fix" to adapt the liturgical chant to correct a printing error. I 😍 these details! #BookHistory #RareBooks #MusicHistory

✍️ Are you interested in #palaeography but feeling intimidated or not sure how to begin? #medievalsky 💻@danielsawyer.bsky.social has shared some helpful tips and recommended resources on @drlauravarnam.bsky.social's excellent blog: drlauravarnam.wordpress.com/2019/10/03/top

Love an Advent calendar🎄Here’s one showcasing some festive gift giving from the collections at Maynooth 🎁 app.cloudpano.com/tours/YwT3Wy... @mulibrarymaker.bsky.social

Decoration from O Curry Gaelic #manuscript, C 98 housed in the Russell Library @maynoothuni.bsky.social

How Kurt Vonnegut's board game was revived from IU's Lilly Library to store shelves 📜 www.tmnews.com/story/news/l...

Thinking about rare books and manuscripts in online catalog(ue)s. Special Collections materials often get buried in institutional online search systems. Do you have any favorite online portals for rare materials that really work well (easy to use, accurate, intuitive)? Models that we can learn from?

North Central Michigan College library decolonization project reorganizes Indigenous collection 📜📚 www.9and10news.com/2024/12/02/n...

At Maynooth University library we have Irish poet Pearse Hutchinson’s archive and book collections. Here is a post about an interesting find from his library 📚 mulibrarytreasures.wordpress.com/2024/12/02/h...

Shiny, Bookish PRESENTS For... YOU! Now in its fifth year, for this #NewberryLibrary Advent Calendar, we'll look at SO MANY pretty packages from our Henry Probasco collection. For instance, this stunning 18th c. fore-edge binding I didn't know we had... December 1 (1/24) bsky.app/profile/drka...

For several years now, UCDA, UCD Special Collections and the National Folklore Collection UCD, have rotated posts each day during Advent, to make a #UCDAdventCalendar. As our colleagues are not (yet) here, we'll post their contributions as well as ours. 1. Special Collections

Elephants and trains together; 🐘🚂 CIÉ's "Anything, Anywhere, Anytime" slogan @ Kingsbridge (Heuston), Dublin, 1961. #ExploreYourArchive #EYAAnimals #irishrailarchives

Huzzah for Archives and Archivists! Let me know if you want to be added, if I missed anyone, or if you'd like to nominate anyone! go.bsky.app/N1ZB3eT

Very modest starter pack for accounts that post mainly about medieval manuscripts and libraries - let me know how many I missed and I'll be happy to add you / your suggestions #MedievalMSS go.bsky.app/7EkwHVJ

For today’s Explore Your Archive theme of #EYAFamily, we just don't know where to start... Families in @msp-archive.bsky.social are everywhere. Families together, formed through local marriages, emigrated, divided, forgotten and found again.

🥮 A 19th century cake has prompted #archivists at @nlireland.bsky.social to uncover more about Ireland's #culinary heritage and traditions. 🧑‍🍳 (Via @irishtimes.bsky.social) ⭐ Read more: www.irishtimes.com/food/2024/11...

We are excited to announce the launch of our well-loved London Rare Books School for 2025! 📖Discover a range of captivating courses on all things rare books!📖 Learn more and secure your spot here: buff.ly/4ejU2mT #SummerSchool #RareBooks

Day 7: #ExploreYourArchive College Week Times 1980s advertising student Rag Week events #EYADisco Lá 7: #CuardaighDoChartlann College Week Times 1980í -fógraíocht ar imeachtaí seachtain na ngiobal #EYADioscó @araireland.bsky.social

🔔 Only 1️⃣ week to go to the 𝗢𝗹𝗱 𝗜𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰, brought to you again by @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social & myself. The 2️⃣ of us will guide you through 3️⃣ millennia of ogam (4ᵗʰ-21ˢᵗ centuries) to celebrate 4️⃣ years of the OG(H)AM Project (ogham.glasgow.ac.uk). 🔔 📷: T. O'Neill

For today’s #disco theme a segment entitled ‘Ball Room Scraps’ from the naturalist Richard Owen’s sketchbook. One particular scene depicts a couple who have fallen to the floor, captioned: ‘The gentleman who dances after taking too much Lobster Salad at supper’. #Disco #EYA

More to discover - #Marginalia starter pack 📜

Another great special collections starter pack go.bsky.app/BqYVT2p

Some rare books and special collections goodness 📜 I ❤️ the starter packs feature on Bluesky go.bsky.app/4fvc2XS

The height of 1851 fashion for a lady about town? Leather glove painted with a map design showing London at the time of the Great Exhibition. [The National Archives (UK), EXT 11/159.] #EYAFashion #ExploreYourArchive

View from the cloister @maynoothuni.bsky.social

The Paradoxa section in Systema Naturae is all about #mythical creatures, such as the Unicorn, Phoenix and Dragon. Also held in our Linnaeus collections, is this wonderful watercolour drawing of a #mythical dragon by an unknown artist. #EYAMythical #Mythical #ExploreYourArchives

Went to the launch of the latest volumes in the wonderful Maynooth Studies in Local History series. These short books are often based on MA theses in local history & very much embrace the "micro-history" approach, finding diversity & change in the particular & local. I bought this one 👇

The director of AHI @annahm.bsky.social is giving this talk tomorrow. All welcome! #maynooth #disability #cripstudies #criptime

We're a bit late to the #EYA party. We will try to catch up. But for now, today's prompt is #EYAFaisean #EYAFashion. This is an excuse to show off the amazing designs for new judicial robes commissioned from Kitty MacCormack, Dun Emer Guild, by Ireland's first Chief Justice, Hugh Kennedy.

University Libraries celebrates tribal librarian Doobiigen classification system 📚 www.michigandaily.com/news/campus-...

Here is the Manuscript and Book History starter pack, with experts working on Latin, Chinese, Syriac, Arabic, Hebrew, Old English, Slavic, Ethiopian and many more manuscript and book traditions! go.bsky.app/AN9pLVo

Rainbow after the storm! Love these diagrams of the twelve winds and a rainbow above clouds from a 12th-century astronomical treatise #StormBert ⛈️🌈 @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social MS. Bodl. 614, fols 34v-35r

Some huge (and long) items in our collections are scrolls created by traditional scroll painters from Naya Village in West Bengal as part of the AHRC project 'Famine and Dearth in India and Britain, 1550-1800'. Here is archivist Hollie unrolling a scroll! 🎥 EUL MS 485 #EYAHuge #ExploreYourArchive

This microscope was used by the botanist Robert Brown to observe the ceaseless jostling of microscopic particles in 1827, known as ‘Brownian motion’. Brown also found the cell nucleus of an orchid tissue through his microscope, as seen reproduced in this drawing. #Tiny #EYA

Really enjoying all the #exploreyourarchives celebrations here on blue sky. 🎉📜📝 Thought I’d share this display and blog post from @maynoothuni.bsky.social library on the 2nd Marquess of Sligo mulibrarytreasures.wordpress.com/2024/11/21/a...

For Day 3 of Explore Your Archive Week, we have something very tiny - but also very large! The Hudson Transparencies are large paintings on paper screens, used as visual aids in the 19th century to teach about microscopic organisms. 📷 EUL MS 442 #EYATiny #ExploreYourArchive

#EYAHeroes Explore the newly released Mary Mulvihill Collection @dculibrary.bsky.social. Mulvihill was an Irish scientist, author, educator & founder of WITS (Women in Technology and Science) access.dcu.arkivum.net/ie-dcua-c32 #EYAHeroes #EYA2024 #ExploreYourArchive