On artists’ book as vehicle for weird, wonderful, and expansive rarity!

Feeling like I was in (Emily Brontë’s) Wuthering Heights with last night’s LA weather.

I know I should report the spam and move along but…

My first-ever SHARP this summer was a grand time! Extra thanks to the organizers and to Malcolm Noble for his profile on my (first day, first slot) panel “Transforming Libraries.”

At least, in the last 20 minutes at my new local library branch, I’ve overheard 4 people (not including me!) sign up for their library cards.

oh to be this many years old living in LA and for it to just click that the number after the theater name refers to the number of screens

As Colleen captured, I was looking forward to presenting at my first #sharp2025 but I didn’t anticipate the serendipitous topic overlaps and the q&a that turned into a delightful discussion group!

Imagining a world in which I react like my parent’s small dog when it is time for a walk.

Watching the Vatican livestreams I want international romances to blossom among these crowds

“That’s our homie William! We ride!” overheard Blake during an undergrad special collections session on Dante’s Inferno

Pi(e) Day slices

can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

ok oc!!!

Overheard special collections instruction: “It’s crazy that this was all in newspapers. Like this would be on Instagram.”

the two drink in urge to go up to random bald men in Miami with “omg pitbull!!”

A wearying time to be an Angeleno, a woman in the US, a human. Was resenting an early Saturday wake-up for an event, and yet. Latinx and Chicanx alumni finding themselves and their siblings in photos. Elders grateful for the preservation of the heritage. Homegrown citrus. Now a bright morning.

New dream: host a New Year’s Eve Party that might live up to the fête this early 1930’s frame, designed by Irene Saltern Salinger, invites. From MS.P.059, UC Irvine Special Collections & Archives.

Was looking for slices of good-lumpia, free beverages, and a few book purchases including Peg Bracken’s follow-up to her 1960 work (which I found at a half price books few years back) with a pal made for a lovely Friday eve at a local bookshop fête.

western astrology girlies at it since at least 1499

Someone I babysat once upon a time just posted “the vitriol coming from the left is astonishing” and it’s not worth holding up the mirror it’s not worth holding up the mirror it’s

Scenes from our recent sessions with first-quarter Italian students celebrating the Week of Italian Language in the World.

From our 1989-1990 Special Collections report: “The Department’s principal concerns focus on (1) space (already inadequate for both its collections and its staff); (2) money (its book fund allocation is inadequate); and (3) staff (with additional support needed especially to aid in ms. processing)🫠

This Series is also about which city sells the most caps to tourists.

A selection of UFW materials we shared during a pop-up prior to the on-campus screening of ‘A Song for Cesar’ last night. Lovely to table next to current student work all while alumni reminisced about campus life, activism, and their own work in the fields.

I was wondering why all the activity from cool looking folks on my profile, should’ve known you would have something to do with it!💫

Who needs alarm clocks when there’s quakes!

Do aspiring actors answer telemarketers with screams or tears?

Um so spf number doesn’t mean the number of minutes after which you need to reapply?!

For any rare book people heading to RBMS, grab yourself a pin feat. Petr as rendered by one of my colleagues. Available during the UCI tour this afternoon or the Thursday afternoon beverage break💫

Tell me what you think will go down when AI is a topic on a large library meeting agenda …

Perfectly typical hazards.

This International Woman’s Day I pumped gas into my own car paid for with my own credit card✨

Summary of new gig: Looking up background info on Derrida while an episode of ‘Love is Blind’ plays in the reading room.

Worse things than leading multiple Malibu-focused instruction sessions with less than a week left in this role. Especially in this room.

On the horizon: UC Irvine as Rare Books & Special Collections Librarian! Cannot wait to jump into this community and these collections in a month.

Rifle Paper Co. does make it easy for people to find gifts for their bookish pals (I have two of these notepads)

I always forget one cold decimates a box of tissues

Outreach? Cataloging? Digital initiatives? Share your slow take alongside of us this summer in Orange County.

Props to Nancy Meyers for framing the Santa Ana’s as such a key character, I feel compelled to watch ‘The Holiday’ when they start up.

Teeny tiny yet tall (24mo!) volume of Scotch songs tucked into an archival collection and located by a student employee.

oat milk? $6:19. random vodka soda:

I’m at the historic train station. I’m at the rare book fair. I’m at the combination…

Overheard special collections: “Dude these books are older than America!”

Does anyone have that image visualizing the difference between intaglio and relief printing as different biscuits?

Yeah I’m adventurous. Sometimes I go to a different Trader Joe’s on my way home from work.

The undergraduates report that their phones try to read a map in the Geneva bible (from the book of Numbers) as a QR code.

Can I recall my backlog of type-able thoughts? No. Do I know they all were related to food? Yes.