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If I somehow had billions of dollars, I would spend as much as possible funding peopleās āunrealisticā dreams. I want you to buy that typewriter repair shop, to become an antiquarian book dealer, to create unimaginable good in this world.
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QZAP - The Queer Zine Archive Project
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Part of teaching about queer zines and queer history is talking about the affair between Secret Heart Ken and Earring Magic Ken in the mid 1990s. This officially licensed post card was produced in 1994, just one year after Ken came out. Happy Pride, Yāall
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Micro SF/F by O. Westin
1 day ago
At the eve of the summer solstice, I pick seven different flowers, in seven different fields, all in complete silence. I tie them into a bouquet and put it under my pillow. Doing so means that tonight, I will dream of my true love. I already live with her, but I like dreaming of her too.
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Katie Hodges-Kluck, PhD
17 days ago
Sure, the ladies in the Special Collections conservation lab take care of all sorts of neat old stuff, but I'm really here for their cats. šø
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Iām taking a break from my presentation because I have reached the point where I no longer know what my point is or why I am bothering to present at all.
2 days ago
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I canāt work through my writerās block for my presentation on object cataloging for rare book catalogers. Iāve never been this stuck on a presentation š¢
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This notebook is going on my shelf of notebooks and journals that are too pretty and precious for me to write in.
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Steven Van Impe
3 days ago
Loving the materiality of this paper, used in a book from 1784. Due to shortage of white rags, the raw material for paper, this paper maker added straw and some blue rags. EHC A 29985, vol. 1: C.F. Flƶgel, Geschichte der komischen Litteratur. Legnica (Liegnitz), Siegert, 1784-1787 (4 v.)
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Today was my last day with the libraryās conservation lab staff. Instead of tearful goodbyes, we made books. Iām really pleased with mine. Mens et manus (mind and hand)
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Josh Kantor
4 days ago
Scottish soccer fans in town for the World Cup made a side-trip to Fenway on Sunday and brought actual magic with them. It was such a delight and honor to get to accompany their singing.
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Josh Hadro
6 days ago
Calling library and general GLAM data people šš: If you were looking for training data related to historical city directories, where would you look? I'm considering fine-tuning a small GLAM model to parse 19th and early 20th century city directories, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel!
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Dr. Thrasher is watching the world cup
7 days ago
Last image from tonight (short film in the morning): this brother out here with his Singer sewing machine, gifting people a custom embroidery on their jerseys and hats with the name and the date, was more artistic than anything at Burning Man and ad gorgeous as a Caravaggio. Magic! Goodnight.
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Universal Hub
7 days ago
Here come the Haitians! Up Boylston, heading to the Common.
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Linda Holmes
8 days ago
I wonder if this is the most popular livestream of scaffolding construction of all time
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If I have Haitian and Scottish ancestry, should I feel torn over the upcoming World Cup match?
8 days ago
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I would buy this textbook if it existed. It would give me motivation to relearn everything Iāve forgotten about Classical Chinese.
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9 days ago
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On my birthday last year, I spent over an hour with a single painting at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Seeing artwork in person and being in awe is something we all should experience.
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9 days ago
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Monica Keane
11 days ago
"Metadata is not perfectly or consistently applied" should be a T-shirt
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Institute of English Studies
11 days ago
For both the London International School and the London Rare Books School we have hand-printed each individual name badge, using 3D-printed plates and our new 'Room 101 Press' - a merging of old and new technology beautifully displayed here by IES PhD student Miranda Rainbow!
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In cataloging there should be a unit on acquiring, securing, and maintaining book carts. I just negotiated for a cart for a cataloging project and am putting ownership signs on it today.
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Morgan M Page
11 days ago
ONE FROM THE VAULTS RETURNS! For a special Tenth Anniversary season! Ten brand new episodes of the original trans history podcast. In our first episode, we chart the life of tarot master, sci fi writer, and 70s trans activist Rachel Pollack! Please share!
m.soundcloud.com/onefromtheva...
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OFTV 40 - The High Priestess of Poughkeepsie
Play OFTV 40 - The High Priestess of Poughkeepsie by OneFromTheVaultspodcast on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud.
https://m.soundcloud.com/onefromthevaultspodcast/oftv-40-the-high-priestess-1
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drewtoothpaste
13 days ago
rainbows and the moon are incredible to see in person and the computer makes them look small, dim, insignificant. consider what other wonders the computer seeks to diminish, and what is prioritized in their place
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Elder Skunk of the North
15 days ago
The Fred Rogers Production has started uploading every episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood for free.
www.youtube.com/@misterroger...
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Mister Rogersā Neighborhood
Welcome to the official Mister Rogersā Neighborhood YouTube channel! For more than 30 years, Mister Rogers created a relationship with millions of children, each of whom felt like they were visiting ...
https://www.youtube.com/@misterrogersneighborhood
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Dr. Emily Friedman
16 days ago
Query: TTRPG zine culture is vibrant, thereās a lot of riso-printed material, etc. Talk to me about letterpress TTRPG.
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The Haunted Bookshop
16 days ago
We need some advice. Specifically from a) Catholics who have made arrangements for a burial, b) Iowans who have wound up the affairs of an intestate person, and/or c) anyone who knew a certain person from the University of Iowa community who attended every public lecture but wasn't in a department.
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B. Erin Cole
16 days ago
I turned my interpretive-sign art into a sticker, for all of you out there who stop to read every historic marker and sign on tripsā¦.
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Mary Burgess
17 days ago
Went to make a cup of tea and found one of my colleagues had evidently enjoyed themselves at the kid's Lego session yesterday. Not sure we've got enough lego to make a full size one though...
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective
17 days ago
To our dismay, the artist and author Marjane Satrapi has passed away. As she wrote, ordinary Americans and Iranians have more in common with each other than we do with either of our governments, which have far too much in common with each other. We honor her memory and oppose the war.
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The local black cat rescue has a gray tuxedo cat that I am so tempted to adopt. Iām not set up physically or emotionally for a cat at this moment, but ā¦
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I am dreading my upcoming RBMS conference presentation. I wanted to have my slides done by this date, but Iām still struggling to come up with something to say.
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Meredith Farkas
17 days ago
If you missed my CALM Keynote, Slow Management in a Fast World, it's now available on YouTube fully captioned.
youtu.be/frkgyhEERfs?...
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CALM 2026 Opening Keynote: Slow Management in a Fast World
YouTube video by CALM Conference
https://youtu.be/frkgyhEERfs?si=ngj_DpCy4CTBmwZi&t=1871
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Plasma Ring
25 days ago
also like, my measure of "wealth" now is how much of things going wrong you can bounce back from and maintain a basic standard of living. It is not about improving said standard of living. I want a house so I can't be priced out of my apartment. I want retirement money so I'm not homeless at 70.
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When I visited Iceland, I stepped out of the airport into rain blowing sideways. Umbrellas wonāt help with that.
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Lady Topham Catt
19 days ago
Hello from the endangered modernist masterpiece that is Pride Cleaners Architect: Gerald Siegwart, 1959
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lauren
21 days ago
you know social media isn't what it was a decade ago because back then The Masshole Meteor gimmick account would already have 30,000 followers
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I thought a tree had been blown into the apartment building.
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ChicagoVintageTileFloors
22 days ago
Bridges around The Mart are pretty cool too.
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Being a lone rare book/special collections cataloger among archivists can be incredibly lonely sometimes.
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Troy
25 days ago
Damn every one of us had our last brussels sprout sandwich without realizing it
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Writing my presentation for an upcoming conference has been a struggle. I am realizing that I donāt have as much to say about my topic as I originally thought :(
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Sarah Werner
23 days ago
Just one of the amazing things that conservators do: researching how people sealed letters before gummed envelopes. Letterlocking!! And where did this expertise come from? Jana Dambrogio. At MIT.
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Letterlocking
https://letterlocking.org/
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Rose Schmits
24 days ago
Love it. Love that the earring doesnt make sense cause its not attached to the ear even love it so here for vermeer nijntje
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Andromeda Yelton
23 days ago
So, the rank-and-file staff of the MIT Libraries is pretty uniformly excellent - capable, interesting, kind - and should you perhaps find a rĆ©sumĆ© cross your desk from one, you should give it serious consideration. š
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making art
6 months ago
the patterns of Sultan Ahmed mosque š
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Iām not directly affected, but it has been a stressful time to be someone working with tangible materials.
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I see that the source of much of my job stress over the past few months has entered the BlueSky discourse.
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Miriam Posner
24 days ago
How many undergraduate library science degrees are there? People know you need a masterās degree to be a librarian, right?
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The Public Domain Review
27 days ago
#SundayReads
: Tobiah Black on the history and afterlife of the Sanborn fire insurance maps:
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/sanborn-fire-insurance-maps/
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vortex egg, cyberoccult investigator
29 days ago
More people should study library and information science and there need to be many many many more jobs for people with, particularly, the perspective it enculturates.
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The labor librarian
30 days ago
āMany organizations struggle to hire trained librariansā aka āmany organizations refuse to pay someone with an advanced degree something even remotely approaching a living wage.ā
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This happened to me this week at a routine cardiology appointment in which everything was fine with my health, except my weight. I knew it was going to happen, but I was still annoyed.
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