Kelly Rene Bullard

A glimmer that keeps me going: Learning someone in my professional sphere is also quietly a poetry person. More of us could do to conclude long correspondence chains by sending relevant or seasonal poems.

Special Collections and Rare Books Cataloging Librarian The University of Kentucky Libraries is vital to fulfilling the goals of enhancing and expanding the university’s research enterprise, and we are looking for an experienced, collaborative, proactive, ...

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This scholar in his study got me pondering: who is the first living author in the west to appear in print? Many incunables are of medieval or classical texts, but who is the earliest living writer to see their works in print? Woodcut from Lyons in 1498. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Inc.5.D.2.10[4435]

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.)

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UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’ SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.

Speechless.

I’m not mature in age or career by any means as far as my field is concerned, so grain of salt and all that, but reaching this stage of life, mentors’ kindnesses mean something new and inform my interactions with younger and senior colleagues alike.

I think about this almost everyday lately, rounding the age some of my mentors were. How busy they were, and in turn how generous their investments in my person were. How *young* they were to be looking out for me the ways they did.

Brb, I’m going where your email can’t find me. (My lunch break, roasting in the sun’s warmth for the first time since November)

Bonus image: Handheld stardial

Frontispiece of Der horologien, 1579, featuring images of sundials and diagrams for constructing them.

Printed image of sundial with what appears to be support beam sticking out of the suns’ face like a Pinocchio nose.

Horologien,
or: Time is a flat circle.
Have some sundials.

Groundhog Day: Ancient Origins of a Modern Celebration | Folklife Today Most of us know the tradition: on February 2, our old friend the groundhog will emerge from hibernation, come out of his den, and predict whether winter will deliver more cold weather this year. If th...

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Green and white protest print with text “refusez l’intoxication” [refuse indoctrination]

Red and white protest poster including image of a hand, painting the words “je participe, tu participes, il participe, nous participons, vous participez, ils profitent” [I participate (join/demonstrate), you participate, he participates, we participate, y’all participate, they benefit]

Purple and white protest print, including image of dazed person whose face and mouth are covered by gauze and safety-pinned closed accompanied by text “une jeunesse que l’avenir unquiète trop souvent” [a youth who too often must worry about the future]

Green and white protest poster: a silhouette of people standing shoulder to shoulder with text “la lutte continue” [the struggle continues]

Black and white protest print: image of an insidiously expressive rat, accompanied by text “action civique” and “vermine fasciste”

Blue and white protest print accompanied by the text “nous sommes tous indesirables” [we are all unwanteds]

Red and white protest print, includes image of riot policeman holding night stick, accompanied by the text “frontiéres = repression” [borders = oppression]

Take a moment, take heart, take what you need. From a class today titled Empire, Nation, and Immigration using 1968 Paris Protest posters from the Ludlow-Santo Domingo collection:

Yessss, this is it. Thank you!!!

Thank you! Somewhat new to the progressive-ish local government life. I appreciate your sympathy!

Yes definitely! Thank you, I appreciate it!

Today I drafted, “Hope is important, but since you’re asking, your e-mail finds me awash in a sea of nonsense,” before I thought better of it.

Reading one of the messiest fictional-character assassinations I’ve ever encountered in a book series/sequel on my lunch break. AMA (except the name of the book, ofc)

Teaching with amazing stuff today. (MS Typ 201)

Tag yourself:

Large white plastic tables covered in linocuts, drypoints, and lithographs depicting various forms of labor by artist Helena Bochořáková-Dittrichová. M

Exhibition selection week is vacillating between “Elmo against the backdrop of fire” and “Dog holding his coffee in a room on fire.” So here, have this picture of my chaotic table full of badass prints:

@bibliomolly.bsky.social 👀

Bookish friends: Have you taken a papermaking intensive? Do you teach a papermaking course? Where might one begin to look for such a thing?

Today, I talked with students about asemic writing, which is a thing I learned about in grad school and can never remember the name of when I need to. Here, now you can look at this and always forget what it’s called, too:

Speaking of tattoo inspo, some cursed gems from MS Typ 1382.

Bookstores? Always a hit. The farmer’s market? Lovely. But there’s something about the vibe at the hardware store on Saturday… *chef’s kiss*

Silly answers (and joy, generally) are always in demand here!!

As per usual, seeking serious answers to silly questions: What is the printer’s equivalent of the cutting room floor? Is there a name for it?

Thank you! I’ll keep you posted!

I’m rooting for you.