We are looking for an Open Publishing Applications Specialist. If you enjoy programming and feel strongly about making scholarly information more widely available, this job is for you! 📚 jobs.code4lib.org/jobs/65700-o... #libraryjobs #librarytech #oer

This year is the 400th anniversary of the death of Sofonisba, but ‘it seems that not a single exhibition is being held to mark the occasion. So, if you want to see Sofonisba’s paintings, you will have to do a good deal of travelling and pick them off one by one.’ Nick Trend provides an itinerary

So excited about this - yet so beyond my means. Yampol's library is absolutely spectacular ✨ #rarebooks #incunabula www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...

“I asked ChatGPT” “I asked Claude” I asked this horseshoe crab and he said your ass wouldn’t have lasted two seconds in the Triassic

Are you eager to connect communities with the Library’s collections, spaces, and expertise? Does providing welcoming and equitable access to information, resources, and learning opportunities get you up in the morning? Join us! theclaremontcolleges.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/TCCS_C... #Libraryjob

Love, love, love this from @nsousanis.bsky.social It speaks to so many of the ways tech has tried to unsuccessfully and reductively mediate some of the greatest parts about being human: learning, relationships, living

In the series #IlluminatingWomenArtists, there's a beautifully illustrated book about Sofonisba Anguissola (by Cecilia Gamberini) - Avail from Lund Humphries in UK/ROW, www.lundhumphries.com/collections/... - Avail from Getty Publications in North America, shop.getty.edu/products/sof...

JOB POSTING! 📚📜 Catalog/Metadata Librarian (Arabic Language) at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University The salary range is $68,000—$145,250 (depending on experience). careers.yale.edu/us/en/job/13...

Our Asian Library ordered a copy of this for the general collections. You can consult the #OA book at the link below!

Join us online on Thursday 13 Nov for the 5th CERL Provenance Seminar! 16:00–16:30 Marina Ruiz Fargas & Laia Navarro de Llobet (Univ. of Barcelona) 16:30–17:00 Mira Krall (Austrian National Library) 17:00 Discussion Register via [email protected] to receive link! #bookhistory

This is perhaps one of my favorite essays on AI and its impoverished assumption about what it means to be human. www.newyorker.com/humor/sketch...

Elon Musk’s new pay package would feed all forty million Americans on SNAP for the next ten years. He wouldn’t notice the difference but the country would.

Martha Rich, a commercial and fine artist based in Philadelphia #WomensArt

placesjournal.org/article/extr... fantastic article by @shannonmattern.bsky.social part love letter to libraries and all they represent, and part dream of the future libraries are building.

the dignity of dependence? o tempora o mores!

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"Did wommen ruine the worke place"?

This seems like a great opportunity for an #OER

are we great yet?

Typography for the win gdusa.com/mamdanis-cam...

How a misread Arabic tale misled generations of historians about the Black Death's rapid spread Paper: Mamluk Maqāmas on the Black Death. (2025). Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, 25(4), 151-181. doi.org/10.5617/jais...

Here’s something really frightening for Halloween 🎃 😱📚

To celebrate the publication of the 3rd already #BestSelling womensart book #ReframingWomenPrintmakers Sundays are all about women printmakers!

Updating my LEGO White House

This is heartbreaking - and a grim harbinger for graduate education in the U.S. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Author Cory Doctorow says specific policy choices led to the deterioration of the internet web — and that it’s within our power to repair the damage.

Join me, Ray Siemens @gworthey.bsky.social for our #digitalhumanities leadership seminar @ 2026 Digital Humanities Summer Institute. For a/o curious about or already in leadership around & about #DH! dhsi.org/2025/09/30/f... Intro Video: youtu.be/2dFWoeRs_pY... Scholarships: dhsi.org/scholarships/

When I presented recently on the manufacture of stereotyped plates, some of my audience had questions. This fantastic clip from OUP shows how the molds were made, the plates cast, and the prints produced (on what looks like an Adams powerpress!) 📚#bookhistory youtu.be/sW7wsXuw2cI?...

In Boston, every day is No Kings Day

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The 👏 power 👏 of 👏 primary 👏 source 👏 research 👏 in 👏 archives 👏 it's also known in some circles (though not all, alas) as intelligence.

Absolutely gutted over Susan Stamberg. An extraordinary journalist and an overall great human being: www.npr.org/2025/10/16/1... May her memory be an example.

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Add this to your reading lists!!📚

HAHAHAHAHA so cool and genius and delightful!

Partner with #DH2026! 🤝 Connect with ~1,000 digital humanities researchers from 60 countries at this landmark gathering in Daejeon, Korea. Sponsorship tiers from USD 3,000-10,000 Exceptional visibility • Global networking • Real impact Learn more: dh2026.adho.org/sponsorship-...

for all of my #dhmakes peeps: super excited about this new journal interlace-journal.org It builds on some of the fantastic work from Sarah-Marie Belcastro and Carolyn Yackel: www.toroidalsnark.net/mkbook.html 🧵🪡 💻

A reminder that we are accepting submissions for a themed issue at Computational Humanities Research journal 📙 Deadline is end of February 2026!

A preprint/author's original version of my review of @elikaortega.bsky.social's Binding Media. Posted under OUP's self-archiving policy academic.oup.com/pages/self_a... works.hcommons.org/records/kekj...

📚 Friends and bibliophiles, I will be speaking on translation, censorship and the fortunes (and misfortunes) of the Decameron in the U.S. at Berkeley next week. If you are in the area and want to learn more, please join us 😀 events.berkeley.edu/Italian/even...

Whoa 📚 🏴‍☠️ www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Our new and improved Bellingcat Toolkit is one-year-old today! If you haven't used it yet its a one-stop shop for discovering useful open source tools, maintained by an amazing group of volunteers. You can find use cases, guidance and honest reviews for each tool. bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit

www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the... 🎯🎯🎯

Spend the years of learning squandering Courage for the years of wandering Through a world politely turning From the loutishness of learning. - Samuel Beckett

I need you to understand something. The thing I need you to understand is that librarians like these are heroes. They've been slandered. They've been libeled. They've been threatened. They've been put in harm's way. And they keep fighting. 📚

While researching libertarian radicals of the mid-19th c., I came across this incredible project that maps the historical geography of social movements in the US from 19-21st c depts.washington.edu/moves/index.... What a fantastic resource!

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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu: “Silence in the face of oppression is not an option. The U.S. Attorney General asked for a response by today. So here it is…Stop attacking our cities to hide your administration's failures.”