No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Leeds Institute for Medieval Studies Research Seminar poster that says Elaine Treharne (Stanford): Small Details, Big Data: Male and Female Scribal Communities in a Thirteenth-century Mortuary Roll Key words: Professional scribes in the Middle Ages. Women scribes and women’s literacy. Handwriting. Layout, punctuation, abbreviation, style, and decoration. Digital tools for ‘everyday writing’. Communities of literacy. Tuesday 10 February, 5.30 pm, Laidlaw Library, University of Leeds, Level 1 Seminar Room (hybrid) To attend both online and in-person please register at https://forms.office.com/e/iP5qRb5GSk
All welcome to our next research seminar. Elaine Treharne (Stanford) on handwriting, women scribes, digital tools and manuscripts. 10 February 5.30 pm GMT, Laidlaw Library (hybrid). To register: forms.office.com/e/iP5qRb5GSk #medieval #manuscripts #palaeography #digitalhumanities
This is fantastic news. Congratulations!
🚨 Spring seminar alert!
The History of Material Texts series at Penn launches this Monday as we welcome Adrian Johns (Univ. of Chicago) who will speak on “Looking for Labels: The Science of Safety and the Defenders of Information.”
📍 In person + Zoom | January 26, 5:15pm EST
🔗 pennmaterialtexts.org
Poster for 'The Librarians' screening and Q&A. Features a stylised book image with a red curtain background, inviting virtual or in-person attendance
🎬 Limited spots available!
You’re invited to a special screening of The Librarians (2025), a powerful documentary on censorship in the U.S.
You can attend either in person or virtually! Visit tr.ee/E3nOxC for more information and registration
I curate the history series at public media's trade journal Current. We're looking for pieces on the history of NPR, PBS and its affiliates, with some space to imagine public media's future. We accept academic articles repurposed for wide readership. Plus, we pay. Please circulate!
Our Introduction to Systematic Reviews online class is Mon., Jan. 12th, at 3:30-4:30pm. Learn all the steps involved when conducting a systematic review. Register: zurl.co/vkprx #RLML #IUmedschool
A screenshot of a search input in the British Library's interim Explore Archives and Manuscripts catalogue.
An interim version of the Explore Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue is now available through the BL website: searcharchives.bl.uk
It contains all the catalogue data from the eve of the 2023 cyberattack, and features embedded links to all currently available digitised content within the records.
Today is publication day for PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE! Available in paper or digital form www.pennpress.org/978151282744... @pennpress.bsky.social
Backlogs and beyond: AI in primary cataloging workflows | hangingtogether.org/backlogs-and...
The first day of class can be scary even as an adult and even for something as fun as a @rarebookschool.bsky.social course on the Hand-Press period. We had our first class this afternoon and it was delightful. Not scary at all.
Center For Research #Libraries (#CRL) Pilots #AI to Accelerate #Metadata Production www.crl.edu/crl-pilots-a...
Happy birthday!
I don't dare interrupt you....
It is a bizarre ad. So dramatic. It makes me feel nauseous (as a very content single person). It seems so badly timed with the 'lonely childless cat lady' rhetoric flying around.
I just finished reading this essay (& Coffee with a Codex) &
my thought was similar - return both the original & a digitized copy to Ethiopia & the British Library can also make the digitized copy available for its users. This whole book would be excellent content for a book club discussion series.
I'm so sorry to hear.
A poster advertising the 'Wills Project Transcribathon' on Thursday 24 July, 1-4pm BST, in the Digital Humanities Lab at the University of Exeter, and on zoom. The poster features black text on green and yellow backgrounds, and three images - a box of folded will manuscripts, an unfolded will manuscript, and the painting Thomas Braithwaite of Ambleside making his will, Abbot Hall, 1607. Photo: Lakeland Arts. The poster text reads: ' - Transcribe on Zooniverse alongside like-minded volunteers, - Learn more about English wills from 1540-1790 during talks from the experts, - Share & discuss interesting discoveries, - Attend for all or part of the event, - Contribute to academic research & help make these remarkable documents more accessible for all'. Details of the event can be found at this address: https://willstranscribathon.eventbrite.com
We're delighted that so many people have already signed up for our @zooniverse.bsky.social historic wills transcribathon on Thursday 24 July! 📜✍️
⏳ Sign up for your free place at: willstranscribathon.eventbrite.com
#Skystorians #history #EarlyModern @uoearchhist.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk
It was an absolute treat to get to hear about Dr. Shogan's experiences with NARA and beyond. I look forward to reading her book.
Image: Photo of Dr. Carla Hayden Featured Speaker Register Now! SAVE with advance rates. ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition 2025 Philadelphia - June 26-30 FOR OUR LIBRARIES. American Library Association - ALAAnnual.org
#ALAAC25 🎉 We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Carla Hayden, former Librarian of Congress, as an ALA Annual Featured Speaker! She will be joined by author Kwame Alexander! Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from one of the most influential voices in our field!
Register Now! bit.ly/ALAAC25-Regi...
"Democracies are not to be taken for granted, and the institutions that support democracy should not be taken for granted."
#FreePeopleReadFreely
Spectacular interview with Dr. Carla Hayden on @cbssundaymorning.bsky.social today.
www.cbsnews.com/news/former-...
We're delighted that our project has been featured in a brand new @zooniverse.bsky.social video! 📽️📼
Researchers @jwhittle.bsky.social @lsangha.bsky.social & @bhamhistory.bsky.social explain what it's all about📜
@uniofexeternews.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYkN...
Build banana great again.
Some lovely ampersands here! I think the fourth one, down at the bottom, is my favourite. (And of course, the ampersand′s birth and evolution are covered at Shady Characters: shadycharacters.co.uk/series/the-a...)
This year's six Gifford Lectures by Dr. Alexandra Walsham on Religious Movements: Motion and Emotion in Early Modern Christian History were beautiful contributions to our understanding of early modern European religious culture. The RSE has posted the seminar session: www.youtube.com/live/J1TaJ3D...
Beautiful.
Wanna learn how to improve cataloguing and discoverability of the pre-modern manuscript fragments in your library's collection? You're in luck! There are still a few spots available in my @rarebookschool.bsky.social course on that very subject. Apply today! rarebookschool.org/courses/libr...
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Noble are the manatees
Yf we wante a bettir future
Teach artes & humanityes
Libraries told us the challenges in digital collection stewardship—so we built a solution with our community.
Introducing JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services:
A cloud-based platform integrating processing, digital asset management, preservation, and access.
Read the announcement: bit.ly/4cjfr00
"The men were not allowed into offices and left soon after, the employee said, adding that the Library of Congress is a legislative branch agency, and has not yet received direction from Congress on how to move forward."
