Erika Giddens
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rare books, reference, she/her, hi! views my own
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22 days ago
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Thrilled to be presenting at BSA in January!!! This book is so WEIRD I canāt wait to tell you about it
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3 months ago
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Dylan Lewis
4 months ago
I hate gay Halloween what do you mean youāre an uncataloged book someone tried to rebind with duct tape
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Honey & Wax Booksellers
5 months ago
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2025 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize! Stay tuned this week for more on the fascinating winning collection and honorable mentions:
themillions.com/2025/09/meet...
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Colleen T
6 months ago
I attended a talk from a museum professional last night who praised librarians for their organized systems of mentorship for new members of the profession. RBMS is in need of new mentors! THAT MEANS YOU. Invest the time to make that praise true! š
rbms.info/committees/m...
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RBMS Mentoring Program
The Mentoring Program, administered by the Membership and Professional Development Committee, is designed to facilitate communication between RBMS members and to support their professional developmā¦
https://rbms.info/committees/membership_and_professional/mentoring_program/
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Kate Ozment
6 months ago
Very exciting: the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography published a cluster of new entries on women stationers. See the intro by Valerie Wayne:
www.oxforddnb.com/newsitem/906...
ODNB entries are so helpful in identifying women from traces on printed material. So happy to see this work ā¤ļø
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https://www.oxforddnb.com/newsitem/906/whats-new-august-2025
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Joseph Rezek
7 months ago
When I say ātechnologyā I mean the codex
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Fobazi M. Ettarh
7 months ago
Fobazi is currently in the ICU and could use your support. Apologies to those I havenāt been able to reach out to yet. You can message me for more info and I will be posting updates to GoFundMe. Please share, send healing thoughts, prayers, etc. ā¤ļø -Elena
gofund.me/c8485b58
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Donate to Fobaziās road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant, organized by Ysabel Gerrard
Hello all, my name is Ysabel and Iām fundraising for my friends ⦠Ysabel Gerrard needs your support for Fobaziās road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant
https://gofund.me/c8485b58
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Dr. Emily Friedman
7 months ago
Iām thinking a lot about what Fobazi Ettarh called āvocational aweā in librarianship, where the mythos & idealization of the āsacredā nature of the work leads to under-compensation (ānot for the moneyā), job creep, martyrdom & burnout, silences marginalized folks, & more.
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Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies We Tell Ourselves ā In the Library with the Lead Pipe
https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2018/vocational-awe/
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Allie Alvis š·
7 months ago
Hello, Iām a special collections librarian in a film. I canāt go two appearances without shushing someone, and I insist people handle the collections with white gloves. I use the Dewey Decimal System for the manuscripts. I am either a spinster or a bombshell.
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Carly Goodman
7 months ago
Historians! What are your favorite things to give grad students on how to read?
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Sam Cross (she/her)
7 months ago
Me whenever I watch a piece of media where people have archival materials or records and there's nary an
#archivist
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#GLAMS
#archives
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DC comic cover of the day. If you see this post a DC comic cover you love. First romance comic I ever bought!
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7 months ago
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Capitol Hill Books
7 months ago
āTis the season!
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Steven Van Impe
7 months ago
Please apply, especially early career and independant scholars! Come visit
#Antwerp
and use our magnificent collections!
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Shannon K. Supple
8 months ago
Researchers! Short-term fellowships for working with Beinecke Library (and all Yale special collections) are open for applications. Deadline is July 31.
beinecke.library.yale.edu/programs/fel...
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Fellowships
https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/programs/fellowships
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Alex Wingate
8 months ago
If youāre at
#SHARP2025
this week and youāre interested in becoming the next SHARP bibliographer, come talk to me! Weāre going to start looking for the next bibliographer(s) soon!
#BookHistory
@sharpnews.bsky.social
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New blog post about my favorite book of doodles! āIn which a 16th century monk flips me off, and we all pick out our next tattoos.ā
www.folger.edu/blogs/collat...
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Adages and Annotations | Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...
https://www.folger.edu/blogs/collation/adages-and-annotations/
8 months ago
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Happy RBMS week! Iām tuning in virtually. If youāre attending in person, please do one of those elbow taps to everyone you see for me
8 months ago
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Jack Lynch
8 months ago
Reference librarians all have to take a course in omniscience as part of their training.
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Jordan Alexander Stein
8 months ago
"i asked grok" "i asked chagpt" yeah well I asked a rare books librarian and they found things I didnāt even know I was looking for, while answering questions about provenance
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November Kelly
9 months ago
old ads used to be so cool. baffling lie. four kinds of typesetting. ends in a demand
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Dr Ella Hawkins
9 months ago
Today is National Biscuit Day, and itās about time that I populated this account with biscuit (cookie) sets from the past few years. Here are some of my favourites. š§µ First up, a set inspired by the delicious designs of William Morris and John Henry Dearle.
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Colleen T
9 months ago
Fury. Rage.
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You turn 30 and you start fantasizing about investing in a really nice umbrella
9 months ago
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Opening emails from the professional listserv
9 months ago
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Anne Applebaum
10 months ago
Every book published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books.
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Alex Wingate
10 months ago
#BookHistory
friends! Work has begun on the LGBTQIA+ Book History bibliography, and the team is looking for you to share your citations! If you know of or have published something on LGBTQIA+ book history, submit it to this Google form!
forms.gle/c1pkNBPbbyCF...
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SHARP LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography
Submit citations for the SHARP LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography! We are accepting citations for many different types of resources having to do with LGBTQIA+ book history. There are no restrictions o...
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10 months ago
applying for jobs again
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Colleen Barrett
10 months ago
New full-time
#BookLab
job just dropped for the
#KingLibraryPress
:
ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/580...
Please share widely as you can, I am on the search committee and am also happy to chat about what it means to live in Kentucky.
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Head, King Library Press
The University of Kentucky Libraries is vital to fulfilling the goals of enhancing and expanding the universityās research and education enterprise. As part of that mission, we are looking for an enth...
https://ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/580962
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Shakespeareās birthday is very easy to remember because itās my momās birthday. Happy my momās birthday!
10 months ago
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Lisa Fagin Davis
11 months ago
In honor of tonight's First Seder, here's a thread about the magnificent Sarajevo Haggadah...
#MedievalSky
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Good Law Project
10 months ago
On what is a really difficult day, here are some resources for our trans friends and allies. Solidarity š
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Support resources for our trans friends and allies | Good Law Project
At a time when anti-trans discrimination is rife and hate crime has reached record levels, itās important to know what support is out there for trans, non-binary or gender-questioning individuals and ...
https://goodlawproject.org/resource/support-resources-for-trans/
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Ted Leo š
10 months ago
This is all going to get harder, but they literally cannot legislate you out of existence. When tomorrow arrives, you will still be here, you will still be who you are, and we will all still be here with you.
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Kate Ozment
11 months ago
Hi! Are you a US researcher who spent time thinking about humans? Then your work is in danger of censorship and loss. I'm here to walk you through basic self-archiving. Maybe you think I am being hyperbolic. You only worked on bacteria! Not your problem. Do me a favor and join me anyway.
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UCL Early Modern Exchanges
11 months ago
Call for Papers: āBuilt with books: shaping the shelves of the early modern libraryā Deadline 16th May 2025 9 ā10 September 2025 at UCL, London
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Bodleian Libraries
11 months ago
We did WHAT with our copy of
#Shakespeare
's
#FirstFolio
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Aaron
11 months ago
a primer on IMLS and implications of its closure.
www.libraryjournal.com/story/what-h...
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What Happens to Libraries if IMLS Goes Away?
On Friday night, March 14, President Trump issued an Executive Order that called for the elimination of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and six other agencies. In FY24, the IMLS bu...
https://www.libraryjournal.com/story/what-happens-to-libraries-if-imls-goes-away
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Marisa Kabas
11 months ago
SCOOP: DOGE notified the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) today that the entire staff is being put on administrative leave effective immediately, Iāve learned from an agency source. Theyāll be cancelling huge swaths of grants/contracts and starting a Reduction in Force (RIF).
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Eliza Skinner - comedian
11 months ago
I finally bullied my friend into getting a library card, and Iām coming for you next: Get a library card! Use it or lose it! They are terrific local resources in more ways than you think! And youāll find out how when you go get that library card!
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The Bibliographical Society of America
11 months ago
Hey there, we're the Bibliographical Society of America, aka The BSA. We're new here on BlueSky! Give us a follow to keep up with info about our programs for researchers & bibliophiles across the professional & disciplinary spectra.
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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her)
12 months ago
If youāre wondering what a spreadsheet looked like in 1800 BCE, here is one that tallies foodstuffs for cattle received by four cowherds. Three are named in the right hand column as Ubar-Shamash, Sin-iddinam, Sin-reāum, and the last one making the record simply writes āmineā
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Sarah Wingo
over 2 years ago
Pedro Pascal as Falvey Library Book Covers. A Thread.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet
12 months ago
Plese repost & share widelye: open access, free, scholar-produced resource for studyinge & teachinge *The Canterburye Tales* at the university level: THE OPEN ACCESS COMPANION TO THE CANTERBURY TALES
opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu
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The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales ā A new way to learn about old books
https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu/
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StƩise
about 1 year ago
Mood: š
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AndrƩs Gattinoni
about 1 year ago
I wrote for
@folgerlibrary.bsky.social
's The Collation about some curious items belonging to the antiquarian William Stukeley, which are held at the Folger Shakespeare Library. Check it out:
www.folger.edu/blogs/collat...
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The Curious Papers of the Curious Dr. Stukeley | Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...
https://www.folger.edu/blogs/collation/curious-dr-stukeley/
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TheAmazingNeena
about 1 year ago
Is it time for another round of free zines for our collective sanity?
forms.gle/gAQQSRVvemEZ...
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Ryan Cordell
about 1 year ago
Itās happening yāall! The students came & weāre printing the kissing booth coupons, using a form of type that was probably set 50-60 years ago Try doing that with a WordPerfect file you saved to Zip disk! More seriously, itās by far the tiniest thing Iāve ever printed
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