NOS/Nieuwsuur maakte vorige week een alarmistisch item over onvrije debatcultuur aan Nederlandse universiteiten. Mirko Tobias Schäfer en ik schreven er een opiniestuk over: 'Dat de academische vrijheid onder druk staat, komt niet door linkse cancelcultuur.' dub.uu.nl/nl/opinie/un...

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Tomáš Klimek of the National Library of the Czech Republic marks the 900th anniversary of the death of the Czech chronicler Cosmas, with new research, an exhibition and a catalogue - all coming out this year.

Dr Sarah Griffin of Lambeth Palace Library describes their experiences with a workshop that introduced children to medieval folded calendars

The Democratization of Library Heritage Collections By Louise Amazan, Daryl Green & Garrelt Verhoeven (IFLA RBSC) Introduction On April 24th 2025 the Standing Committee for Rare Books & Special Collections (RBSC) of IFLA and CERL’s Bookbinding group joined together for a seminar at the…

CERL - Consortium of European Research Libraries - is now on Blue Sky. Our mission is to connect European book heritage with the world. Expect to see news on rare books, manuscripts and events from our community. www.cerl.org Give us a follow!

Where do European early imprints pop up? Attend this online seminar and find out! Please obtain your zoom link from [email protected]

The next CERL event is only a month away! I warmly invite you to come to KBR Brussels for Mapping Knowledge: Collaboration of Retrospective National Bibliograhies with research and heritage projects The programme is here: www.cerl.org/services/sem... We aim to publish the papers

I'm looking forward to discussing 'What can heritage do for society in the future?' at the '20 years of Sustainable Heritage at UCL' celebration on June 12 Some tickets still available www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/eve...

Electronic Legal Deposit materials are back online in 5 legal deposit reading rooms after the British Library cyberattack! Hurrah. But not in London yet. ICYDK, this encompasses vast swathes of modern digital texts including journal papers & books, & other media. Great to see it back!

The English Short Title Catalogue is back online #ESTC datb.cerl.org/estc

Very true. And it's a sector with high economic benefits. Universities UK report an economic impact of £158bn, or £265bn including the impact of international students. Every £1 of public money invested into UK universities generates £14 of economic benefit. www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/latest/news/...

Dissolution of the Office of Digital Humanities is confirmed. #DigitalHumanities

Explore Pigment Analysis in Historical Manuscripts Online. in this CERL blog post, Charlotte Denoël, Head of the Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Service, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Manuscripts Department introduces the new database 'Fabrique de l' art.

We are increasingly concerned about the crisis in UK Higher Education. Read our joint statement with @royalhistsoc.bsky.social , History UK and the @histassoc.bsky.social https://buff.ly/4hSg16N #history #skystorians

the loss of @neh-odh.bsky.social @nehgov.bsky.social and IMLS will undoubtedly impact humanities and digital humanities research and teaching for decades to come. Worse is the separation of the incredible staffs at those agencies who have decades of stewardship and leadership in cultural heritage.

IMLS is required by law to administer their grants to states and grants to tribal libraries programs. ALA shared the letter the IMLS Board sent to the Acting Director—and quotint chapter and verse of the U.S. Code that delineates their authorities. Dear Congress www.ala.org/sites/defaul...

Our latest blog post is by Dr Matthias Reif, Senior Librarian at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek on his experiences with the International Library Leaders Programme of the British Library.

An important call to arms for the study of languages, cultures and society.

A Monday morning good news story: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Want some fragmentary fun? Then join us at the London Palaeography Seminar next Tuesday, 11th March, to hear Dr Fran Alvarez on 'The Importance of being a Host' with new finds from Exeter and Salamanca. 5:30pm Senate House and online. Sign up here: ies.sas.ac.uk/events/impor...

Any idea what this is? Medieval bird trap? Type of bird? Duck? Date? Similar images? Bronze, gilt, 3.5 x 4.5 cm. Thanks! #medievalbluesky #birds

Who's up for a challenge? Some 16th-century Middle English handwriting is proving quite difficult to decipher, as part of our historical context study of CUL MS Dd.15.25, a 15th-century Horae. Any help or insights would be greatly appreciated! #Paleography #BookofHours #MiddleEnglish

"The most important group of medieval manuscripts from the Special Collections of the University Libraries of Leiden (UBL), the Codices Vossiani Latini, is now available in open access via the Digital Collections." www.library.universiteitleiden.nl/news/2025/01...

Oxford University Press will be awarding as many as 10 ECRs the opportunity to publish their first book in fully open access as well as in hardback. Today the website was revised to make clear that independent/unaffiliated scholars are eligible. Deadline March 3. academic.oup.com/pages/early-...

Wikipedia has good financial reserves and isn’t in danger, but they’re a donation-funded non-profit with no ads so throwing them $5 once a year would be nice. One group very much in need of donations is the Internet Archive, who do great work but truly are under threat. Throw them a few bucks too.

Wat is goed leiderschap? Een les van Johan Huizinga uit de jaren dertig: bij leiders moet je kijken naar ‘wat voor grondhouding, wat voor deugden verspreiden ze’, stelt historica Beatrice de Graaf. ‘Als je zo handelt, komt het goed met de gemeenschap’ #buitenhof

Call for papers for the Sammelband 15-16 San Daniele conference entitled « In uno volumine » that will be organised from 10 to 12 April 2025: sammelband.hypotheses.org/2267 At the bottom of the page there is a pdf that has the text of the call in English, French and Italian.

#Tip | Huizinga-lezing @beatricedegraaf.bsky.social, Wij zijn de tijden 💧Teruglezen: tijdschriftnu.nl/products/wij... 💧Terugkijken, Buitenhof-interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8u8... 📷 M. Shaw/ www.universiteitleiden.nl/nieuws/2024/... (PS: de 7 deugden zijn: nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeven_d...)

Onfatsoen op onfatsoen: met naar commentaar van Albert Bos herhaalt het NOS journaal het fragment uit WNL op Zondag waar Pieter Omtzigt t even te kwaad kreeg en verzocht even te stoppen. Waarna de onfatsoenlijke Rick Nieman dat fragment triomfantelijk uitzond en niet knipte ( t was niet live)

'When Notre-Dame reopened on 7 December, it was thanks, in part, to the efforts of 175 researchers with expertise across a range of disciplines: acoustics, art, data, history, archaeology, anthropology.' Example of why blue-skies research matters for 'real-life' problems we've not yet imagined. 1/2

Delighted to announce that my second book, The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England, is coming out with Oxford University Press in April Details here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Please share the CFP for our Work, Authenticity, and Social Identity in Early Modern Britain Conference, to take place 10-11 June 2025 at the University of Warwick, with keynote addresses from Steve Hindle, @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social & @brodiewaddell.bsky.social!

Good morning. Bib Soc is still quite new to Bluesky. Please do help spread the word that we're here. Thank you! #PromotingBookHistory

We're probably going to see more of these sudden removals caused by panic-induced changes of policy further upstream. If you're using an online resource that's really important to your research, this is the moment to get your plan B in place. Eg: is there a data download, or an alternative source?

Act now to stop millions of research papers from disappearing #DigitalPresevation 📜 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

@woinactie.bsky.social CERL www.cerl.org steunbetuiging Bibliotheken in CERL hebben mensen nodig die boeken kunnen interpreteren en analyseren en in context kunnen presenteren Nodig: - talenkennis - modern en klassiek - sociaal / historisch besef - data skills - WO / HBO denkniveau

Starting now online! www.library.upenn.edu/events/lawre...

The advert for our Research Associate post in Victorian Cultural and Material History is now up on jobs.ac.uk - www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKS158/r... Please spread the word!!!!

I don't think I can properly or accurately describe the problems and risks here. And those risks aren't things to be navigated through or solved, they are fundamental and unavoidable if one starts down this path. It is a threat to the very structure and nature of how we manage knowledge.

Interested in seeing what the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) annual conference is like? Scholarships are available for first-time attendees. Apply by December 13th! Info: web.cvent.com/event/eec2eb...

We are working on machine transcribing English High Court of Admiralty depositions. Volume HCA 13/58 [1642 & 43] available to Commons end next week. 1500 pages. Please repost this message if you want to support our work, and make a small donation #skystorians www.gofundme.com/f/help-marin...

De maskers zijn er bijna af, nu de schellen van de ogen nog

Registration for the Collection Security Summer School is now open. Programme www.cerl.org/collaboratio.... We will explore - collection security and preservation - balancing security and access - balancing customer care and security Come join us in beautiful Vilnius (11-13 September)

Kathleen's not wrong. For a slightly expanded history, please see my "history of EEBO" lecture linked here www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/yf43v...

Lieve mensen in en om #Drenthe: ik ben supertrots op mijn studenten die een tentoonstelling organiseren bij De Proef in Frederiksoord: 'Beyond Human'. Ze hebben alles zelf georganiseerd én nieuw werk gemaakt. Te zien van 22 juni (opening) tot 7 juli. #kunst #tentoonstelling www.beyondhuman.site

This is an interesting call for papers for an upcoming online symposium, organized by the J.Paul Getty Museum and University of Amsterdam: If you are doing or have done research on #earlymodern blue paper, please consider sending an abstract. #PaperHistory for the win. #skystorians

If you want to work with an amazing team and an incredible collection, here’s the job for you (salary range $72-75k): amherst.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/FSL_Em...