NEW Black Press in the U.S. Research Guide: libguides.tulane.edu/black_press/ with detailed section on *Louisiana Black Press.* Many resources behind paywalls, so check your library's database lists. Not the only such resource out there, but we hope it's of use!

Putting together a blog post of new acquisitions and this Aleph-bet chart from Frankfurt c.1730 with lots of woodcuts (familiar from Sifre Minhagim!) and beautiful big type is just making me very happy. Also, I've always loved the word melupum :)

This is related to the imminent launch of a White Paper on Judaica Provenance providing guidance to libraries and book collections. We've been working for 3 years now to provide best practices for working with Judaic books and manuscripts in a field rife with complications.

Library folks: please share, apply, and come work with us. It's a good spot, as universities go. I'm on the search committee and happy to talk to anyone.

Would love to know what keeps more academics from organizing like this. It took the publisher being egregious and meddling with the editorial process—but trust, these publishers are being egregious in their pricing, and we normalize it. Why?

📢 Join us at #MLA24 in Philadelphia for a roundtable sponsored by the CLSC Global Hispanophone Forum & a panel co-sponsored with the LLC Colonial Latin America Forum. Don't miss out on thought-provoking discussions! @bibliophilenick.bsky.social @cristinaele.bsky.social @jorgetellez.bsky.social et al

Hey, lunatics, want to get insufferably deep into collation, debates about bibliographical format, the difference between issue and state? Join me for Descriptive Bibliography at @CalRBS this coming August. www.calrbs.org/program/cour...