Case full of horrors for spooky season (Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Vampyre, Wagner the Wehr-Wolf, & The Raven)

Just read this - it was shared on LinkedIn. ‘To my users, “we couldn’t generate an answer for your question” translates to “your topic is not worthy of pursuing—change it.”’ While it’s nice to think that students will come & ask when they don’t find results, many won’t. And the blocking of content…

This is a dance of the dead movie created out of the dozens of woodcuts from the 1520 Munich print "Der todten dantz mit figuren vnd schrifften" www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/details/b... #bookhistory #earlymodern

In honour of Joy Division's iconic album Unknown Pleasures being released on this day in 1979, I'm again sharing one of my favourite ever video clips (Peanuts vs Joy Division dance party)...

RWES Online Symposium 4/13 @ 10 AM – Noon (central time) We welcome all to attend an online symposium of graduate student works in progress on the subjects of Emerson and transcendentalism. If you are interested in attending contact Nicholas Guardiano at [email protected] for log-in information.

German Micky Mouse comic book

New from the BJPS Review of Books: Philosophy, Bullshit, and Peer Review —Neil Levy (@neillevy.bsky.social) Reviewed by Joshua Habgood-Coote (@impractknow.bsky.social) Read it here: www.thebsps.org/reviewofbook... #philsci #philsky

This one didn't make the cut for the exhibit

1598 Chaucer that's mostly annotated in Boethius

"And I like large parties. They're so intimate." - The Great Gatsby Thank you to everyone who came out to our Jazz Night Celebrating our Great Gatsby exhibit!! Watching these @uscjazz students perform was truly incredible. It was certainly a night to remember. #thegreatgatsby #jazzmusic #jazznight

Students getting excited about archives, books, and history www.dailygamecock.com/article/2025...

Jazz Students in the Rare Books Library

Join us for a night of music as University Libraries collaborates with our colleagues in the Jazz program to celebrate The Great Gatsby! USC Jazz's premiere jazz combo will be performing at the exhibit. Swing by, hear some great music, and see the exhibit for yourself!

"Gatsby and Daisy danced. I remember being surprised by his conservative foxtrot . . . " - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Dancing in the new exhibit

With just a handful of things we have laying around

Installing the next exhibition

Sprucing up the hallways and walls

Another great #mla25 panel including Michael Jonik on Thoreau and Merleau-Ponte; and @weisenburg.bsky.social on Thoreau and trash. Dude littered!

100 years ago, in December of 1924, Zelda Fitzgerald sat down to write a Christmas card to her "own dearest Mamma." Zelda & Scott spent Christmas 1924 in Rome. She writes, "Wish you could see the steps full of bright priests and all the flower markets . . . "

For those of you at the University of South Carolina, come help preserve our comic books! 10 am - 4 pm in the Hollings Program Room

I reviewed Neale Barnholden’s book From Gum Wrappers to Richie Rich for IJOCA @mrhode.bsky.social @weisenburg.bsky.social ijoca.blogspot.com/2024/11/book...

Because when I think of the natural history of trees and fruit, the first thing that comes to mind is Hercules. Historiae naturalis de arboribus et fructibus (Frankfurt, 1662)

Why yes, that is the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Players Handbook on the overhead screen in the background, I was comparing D&D books to our medieval bestiary & Topsell's History of Four-Footed Beasts & the History of Serpents.

Introducing The Dial. Many thanks to our roster of contributors to Issue 1: @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social, @jamieljones.bsky.social, @jlb.bsky.social, Kristen Treen, Russ Castronovo, Elise Lemire, Richard B. Primack, Maria Madison, and Abraham J. Miller-Rushing. thedialjournal.org

Introducing The Dial, a new open access journal. thedialjournal.org Many thanks to our roster of contributors to Issue 1: @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social, Jamie L. Jones, Kristen Treen, John Levi Barnard, Russ Castronovo, Elise Lemire, Richard B. Primack, Maria Madison, and Abraham J. Miller-Rushing.

Ever wanted to hear a medieval manuscript? exhibits.library.sc.edu/singing-the-...

Who's a good boy? Is Cerberus a good boy? Yes he is. from a copy of P. Virgilii Maronis Opera omnia (Venetiis : Apud Iuntas, 1552) pascal-usc.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01...

Happy Wonder Woman Day We are thrilled to announce the new addition of scripts for the 1970s "Wonder Woman" TV series to our University of South Carolina Rare Books and Special Collections holdings. www.sc.edu/about/office...

Column by Andrew Van Dam: After digging ourselves out from under an avalanche of your queries about libraries, we gathered detailed data on the size of their collections, their budgets and the populations they serve.

Happy Birthday to F. Scott Fitzgerald who was born on September 24, 1896, at 3:30 pm. He recorded the information in his ledger book. You can see the page and read through other entries in Fitzgerald’s ledger over at our Digital Collections: digital.tcl.sc.edu/digital/coll...

Seriously, there's an entire channel of these: www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9Pj...

How did I not already know about this and why has everyone been hiding it from me‽ www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6Am...

It's James Baldwin's centennial today

Welcome to the Rabbit Hole: a brand-new, decade-in-the-making museum of children’s literature founded by former bookstore owners, who transformed an old building into a series of settings lifted straight from the pages of beloved picture books. nyti.ms/3VHCbjX

Never get tired of this headline + image arstechnica.com/science/2019...

"April is the cruellest month" T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land (Hogarth Press, 1923). [The 1st journal appearance is out at the Annex]

The Ides of March are come. I Caesar, but not gone. Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 1 #Shakespeare #rarebooks

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Codex Pokemonus

A porcelain doll meant to represent Daisy Buchanan from The Great Gatsby