Sometimes all you can do is peak in an archival envelope, sigh to yourself, and close the archival envelope

🚨 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 July (11 weeks away!) Learn more & apply today 👉 bibsocamer.org/events/funding-opportunities

I'm honestly not sure you can

Happy nerd holiday

It’s that time of year when all my friends are hanging out at the ABAA New York International Antiquarian Book Fair without me

I'm probably gonna have to start a bookstore/dispensary called Leaves of Grass

This follows a retirement. #lisjobs 📜https://phxc3c.rfer.us/UIOWA7gaVOl

Another #IndieBookstoreDay is in the books! Thanks for being a good sport @pumpkin-pisces.bsky.social.

Hi! It's over two months until our online global book history festival and we already have 177 registrants! Want to see what all the fuss is about? Join SHARP and register now (click through the link to see program details). events.zoom.us/ev/Ap9iEZwmC...

#DisabilityStudies friends: I'm looking for sources that discuss disability and independence. Most of what I'm finding is specifically within the context of aging, but I'm looking for sources that discuss independence more generally for any disability context.

VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means? ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

We're hiring a fundraising manager! If you have business development or non-profit fundraising experience, consider joining our team! Extremely proud that, in a field that struggles with funding and stability, we're offering a competitive salary with benefits!!

While next week we'll celebrate National Library Week with @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social ... April 16th is National Librarian Day, so be sure to do something kind to your favorite librarians today!

Chaos Monster reporting for curatorial duty!

Serious query: Did anyone out there subscribe to Neopets The Official Magazine and keep their issues?

Each and every person on my RBMS task force is a gem and I'm so lucky to be able to work with them.

CFP: Edinburgh Bibliographical Seminar & Workshop, 20-24 July, on library catalogs & registers as evidence in the history of math, science, and tech! Deadline 21 April. Please share widely. Generous travel funding available, so don't be put off applying: sigma.mathsworlds.org/activities/e....

📢 Calling all special collections oomfs! I’m doing a very informal survey of how different American universities staff their special collections reading rooms. If you’re willing to answer a few questions, please DM me! (You don’t need to work in the RR, you just need to know how the RR is run)

CFP! Edinburgh Bibliographical Seminar and Workshop: 'Catalogues and Registers as Evidence in the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology': networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

In space no one can hear you on Teams

Grief is weird but I've been thinking about my mom a lot lately so of course I'm bringing deviled eggs to a work potluck this week. God I miss being able to tell her this kind of stuff on the phone on my walk in. #CookingWithColleen

I like printed books

🌟 So thrilled to announce that @jochargrave.bsky.social is the incoming @sharpnews.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief! Help us welcome her into the role!

Asking the big questions over here!

This one semester, Book Arts position may be of interest to you or someone you know. 📚🎨 ☀️ www.scrippscollege.edu/hr/faculty/v...

Do I know any archivists who are interested in becoming journal editors? (It is ok to DM if yes)

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!