When taking in the full scope of the history of humanity, it's a genuine miracle that we exist in the same moment in time as Cinnamon Toast Crunch

Submit citation information for your 2025 publications to be included in the SHARP News 2025 Bibliography! #BookHistory #Bibliography

Now more than ever I’m convinced losing Anthony Bourdain meant we lost probably the biggest person on tv who advocated for the wonders of meeting new people and calling anyone online who hated learning new cultures the children they were, ruthlessly to the camera.

We have two lonely titles, desperately waiting to find the one who will sweep them off their feet, take them home and lovingly craft a review for the RBSCG Newsletter. Could it be you they're looking for? Let us play matchmaker; get in touch with Jane & Katherine (details below) today 💞

How much time do you have on this earth How much the time are you going to spend not wearing funny socks Now is the time to wear funny socks

Great news: we are not in fact special and are now hiking with at least half of Lexington

I'm planning #RBMS26 and I've been raising money to offer a reception beyond the Bookseller's Showcase, so we can have one at the Milwaukee Historical Society on Thurs. Please let me know if you represent an organization that would be able to help! web.cvent.com/event/0f0104...

Wishing a happy National Margarita Day to all who celebrate. It was another good one over here.

Heroes don't wear capes. They write footnotes.

Hemingway was once bet that he couldn’t write the world’s happiest short story in just 5 words. He replied,

Trains. The answer is and always will be trains.

Do I know anyone from Australia who's going to GDC this year?

I just took action with @theactionnetwork.bsky.social: Protect Our Services: Stop Facilities Outsourcing and "Beyond Blue" Reassignment at UK . Take action here: actionnetwork.org/forms/protec...

🚨 Funding Alert! 🚨 Are you passionate about book history, bibliography, or book arts? Submit your proposal today for financial support for upcoming events in your community! 📖✨ 📅 Deadline: 1 April (7 weeks away!) Learn more & apply today 👉 bibsocamer.org/events/funding-opportunities

Application review officially begins on Valentine's Day, come check us out and see if you'd be a good fit: ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/614... Dewey belong together? (Yes, there are still some collections in Dewey) #SpecCollJobs

After missing only four actual days of work (plus two weekends, one holiday, and three snow days), inbox 333. That is a lot of work email!

Liked this read, you might too: www.choice360.org/tie-post/hop...

Hello #comics and #kidlit fam! Today’s the day that my 2nd graphic novel for kids, ZEB AND BEL: A CASE OF BIRD PROBLEMS flies to the shelves. Pick up your copy here, and thanks for your support! @harperkids.bsky.social bookshop.org/p/books/zeb-...

Really enjoying my time in Ohio.

Hey #BibWeek, help me promote this job? ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/614... (I'm not there because I'm in Spain but you'll work with me a lot and I'm happy to chat)

Central Kentuckians, definitely get ready to be stuck at home for a couple of days, probably a good idea to lay in some bottled water, food that doesn't require heating, hand warmers, and lanterns.

Can confirm. Same goes for Rare Book Libraries!

Inbox 30, for later

Come work with me! We have really cool collections that are still growing! ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/614... #SpecialCollectionsJobs #RareBookCataloging

Join us in July for the SHARPIES (a global, book history festival!). The program is now live and features interviews, conversations, social events, author talks, book clubs, and more! sharpweb.org/conferences/...

hey you -- yes, you! Are you an academic, librarian, or other academia-adject professional? Do you owe someone writing? Are you ever actually going to do the writing? If not, email them and back out! You will feel better, and the people on the other end will finally have some clarity!!

Cocaine Bear will return.... in Avengers Doomsday

Attend the #BibWeek26 orientation session! Held online, our orientation session provides an overview of this mainstay in the book world, taking place at the end of January each year. Coming this year? Join us! Thinking about coming some time in the future? This is the great way to learn more!

Applications due January 16th! Apply for research fellowships at Houghton Library! Work with collections including Printing & Graphic Arts! Bother me irl with your ideas, questions, and quandaries! (It’s not a bother.)

Doing this challenge called “January” where I try to make it through the whole month of January

Was too busy over the holidays to organize an official watch party, but if any bookish book club folks want to watch desk set tonight or another night this weekend hmu!

YOU ARE A TRUE WARRIOR. I AM PROUD OF YOU.

I have successfully once again watched It's A Wonderful Life in a theater, Christmas season is basically over for me. This was the first year I realized that you need to read cursive for the ending to make sense.

Having a cat is so cool. There is a little creature in my bed who loves me and vibrates like a tiny motorcycle and is so fuzzy and wants to snuggle. How could I want anything else

Some carts need a warning label

WEAR YOUR FAVORITE SHINY THING.

There's little that's more relatable than watching someone in a bookstore negotiate with themselves over a fat stack of books

Last class of the semester on the last day of the semester, we made it through another fall semester, fam.

American Uncial can surely solve all of our problems!

At least once a year I think about the fact I got all sorts of great leadership training from my time in Alpha Phi Omega, they told us we were getting it, and I totally didn't get how much it was going to help me in the long run. Anyways, at a University training, why do you ask?

Wine bar is showing different versions of Little Shop of Horrors and once again I have zero idea how my parents decided what was or wasn't an appropriate thing for me to watch as a child. Because this was a movie I watched a lot from what I remember.

Happy Friday to me. #CookingWithColleen #LasagnaDreamsAchieved

Reminder: I'm chairing the search committee for a Music and Performing Arts Special Collections Diversity Resident Librarian, and applications close Dec 12. ALSO NOTE: Application review for this role will BEGIN in mid-January. Speed of academia, y'all. www.library.illinois.edu/geninfo/resi...

Congrats everyone, we are officially at “circle back in the new year” o clock, we have survived the year, good work team

This holiday season, serve your curious Cat mind with low-calorie, high-flavor snacks straight from ExploreUK.uky.edu, the portal to UK Libraries' vast collections of archival and primary source materials that document the history and culture of Kentucky, Appalachia, and beyond.

Make a @uklibraries.bsky.social calendar, they said. It'll be fun, they said. #KingLibraryPress (It was and I definitely didn't do most of the work, so I'm not taking credit for this success)

2 Library Diversity Residency positions are still open here at Illinois! Deadlines are coming for applications, though... www.library.illinois.edu/geninfo/resi... #libraryjobs

Thankful to have made it from last Thanksgiving to this one. Also old friends and new ones, family that cares about me, a spouse that makes me a better person, and entertainment like Lower Decks. Looking forward to finding out what happens this coming year and the new ways I can be thankful.