A great article that emerged out of the @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social project: openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....

Registration is now OPEN for #NEASpring26 in Portland, ME! Join us for three inspiring days of exciting virtual and in-person workshops, sessions, special events, and roundtable discussions by registering today! newenglandarchivists.org/spring-2026

The Harvard-Yenching Library is now accepting applications for 10 travel grants up to $2,000 each. Open to non-tenured faculty and Ph.D. candidates who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #sinology

The Plant Humanities Initiative at Dumbarton Oaks invites applications for two-week virtual faculty residencies in June 2026, concentrating on topics at the intersection of East Asia Studies and Plant Humanities.

The Library of Congress' Asian Division is now accepting applications for their 2026 Florence Tan Moeson Fellowship: up to $3,000 to support travel, lodging, and research expenses. Due January 11, 2026. #sinology #libraries blogs.loc.gov/internationa...

All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID. I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail

Great points made, and not just about AI: "Students are afraid to fail, and AI presents itself as a savior. But what we learn from history is that progress requires failure. It requires reflection. Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."

I roll my eyes every time a library job includes a salary range as wide as this. This is not the actual salary range. The HR included this only so they can advertise it to job boards that requires a salary range. This is the opposite of the pay transparency that our field has been advocating for.

CFP: 14th Annual ESPRit conference: “Periodicals and the World” 9-11 September 2026, Royal Library of Belgium (KBR), Brussels events.vub.be/periodicals-...

Bringing rare books to students of a Chinese language class that focused on Chinese food culture: >> 飲食須知, a manual for healthy diets; >> 宣和博古圖錄, an illustrated catalog of ancient bronze cookware; >> 熬波圖, a pictorial manuscript on salt production.

Justices decline case seeking to overturn landmark same-sex marriage ruling

ILS Panel on “New #BookHistory Research with Internet Data”: internet-based datasets have emerged related to books, reading habits, and reader communities—ranging from crowd-sourced genre tags and online reviews to platforms like BookTok ... events.iu.edu/siceiub/even...

Public libraries are receiving a clear mandate from voters this November: when presented with the choice, communities are willing to invest in their information infrastructure, programming, and future. www.everylibrary.org/what_a_week_... via @everylibrary.bsky.social

It's only Thursday morning and my grammar is already tanking.

"Can they read whole books anymore?" --> "How can we create the conditions that make reading whole books seem fun, easy, doable, rewarding?"

How did socialist projects of making antibiotics and building atom bombs amount to the primitive accumulation of "scientific capital" in the People's Republic? 🗓️ Tuesday, November 11 🕥 10:30–11:45 am Eastern Time 📍 Over Zoom Register: seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia #histstm #histsci #sts 🧪

In this as in so many other areas of American life, China has been the model

We are sad to share that Janet Theiss, historian of China at the University of Utah and AAS East & Inner Asia Council Chair, has passed away. Janet has been a longtime AAS member and a leader in the field of Qing Studies. Our deepest sympathies go out to her family & colleagues.

Mongolian Association for Manchu Studies is co-organizing a Manchu studies International conference w/ Eotvos Lorand University. Dunno if I mentioned it here, but National Library of Mongolia has a treasure trove of Manchu-language documents, w/out which "Manchu studies" is rather incomplete IMO 🤔

Radio Free Asia says it is halting its news operations due to funding troubles

The 2026 RBMS Conference, "Advocacy" CFP is live! The conference will be in June in Milwaukee, and online. Submit your proposals by December 12th! 📜 #SpecialCollections #Archives web.cvent.com/event/0F0104...

3 times in the past 2 weeks, a WashPost editorial "has taken on matters in which Bezos has a financial or corporate interest without noting his stake. In each case, the Post's editorial line landed in sync with its owner's interests" Via @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social www.npr.org/2025/10/28/n...

You know what ys the coolest thinge? Libraryes.

when I visited korea last year I went to haeinsa temple to see the tripitaka koreana, a set of 80k+ wooden printing blocks for buddhist scriptures, made in the 13th century en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripita...

"We recognize that some potential financial risks may lie ahead—but weakening the institution from within by eliminating staff before any major loss has occurred is not protection; it is self-inflicted harm." huctw.org/petition-to-...

JOB: Cartographic Cataloging Librarian at Osher Map Library, Portland, Maine fa-ewca-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... $53,000 salary cc @archivesgig.bsky.social #maps

Chinese ABC books...

Preservation nightmare.

Would you like to potentially host a Summer 2026 MLIS student for a 150 hour for-credit practicum placement? It is particularly difficult to find online options for students who are interested in gaining more library/cultural heritage work experience. Let me know if you have ideas! 📚📜

History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."

Additional duties as assigned

though Flower Bouquet in the Polished Mirror 品花寶鑑 (1849) is not, as is sometimes claimed, an "ancient gay encyclopedia," it is one of the greatest queer novels of the nineteenth century, and it still does not have an English-language wikipedia entry www.patreon.com/posts/reflec...

Back to Princeton. First stop:

Our librarian Mårten Söderblom Saarela will give three online talks for the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia, on November 8, 2025, 9:00am-1:30pm Eastern time. The theme of the talks is "The Jesuit Mission to China." For details and registration, see ncta.princeton.edu.

A little treat to myself for my 35th birthday. An illustrated 1920 pamplet on 'Bopomofo,' the Chinese transliteration system instituted by RoC and still in use in Taiwan. search.worldcat.org/title/26031012

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

It's a time for joyful bunnies! 🐇 This expression is joyful, right? 😅 Yesterday was #InternationalRabbitDay, so take a moment to appreciate this Imari dish from the 19th century of rabbits and pondweed. Held by the Tokyo National Museum: colbase.nich.go.jp/collection_i...

DS seeks to appoint an early career library professional or postdoctoral researcher with a background in premodern manuscript studies for a full-time, NEH-funded, 22-month Manuscript Data Curation Fellowship. To apply, please follow this link: wd1.myworkdaysite.com/recruiting/u...

It's Banned Books Week! Go read a book they don't want you to read!

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

Harvard paused plans to renovate four University libraries ahead of its 400th anniversary in 2036 as part of a temporary halt to capital projects amid its ongoing fight over federal funding. Sophie Gao and Alexandra M. Kluzak report.

#rarebooks & #bookhistory folks: in case this new Princeton exhibition on global book-making has gone under your radar, you should check it out now!

The Fourth Middle-Period China Humanities conference in Hong Kong, summer 2026. Hope to see many of you there!

The shooting of Charlie Kirk was the 46th school shooting of the year. The 47th one happened moments afterwards. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/u...

As always, Ted Chiang is great in this interview. cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...

Newly added to the special collections librarian's toolbox :)

Fobazi is currently in the ICU and could use your support. Apologies to those I haven’t 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. ❤️ -Elena gofund.me/c8485b58

Vale @babelstone.co.uk (reposted from Sinologists FB group). 嗚呼哀哉！

@universityofkansas.bsky.social KU East Asian Library is offering a travel grant for scholars and grad students who will use the the library's East Asian language collections in FY26. Apply by 9/19: guides.lib.ku.edu/c.php?g=9498... #Sinology #AsianStudies #libraries

My department at Williams College is hiring! Williams is a wonderful place to work and my colleagues in the Chinese program are great. Please feel free to contact me with any questions. Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Chinese apply.interfolio.com/169464