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A faint writing, the text is in Latin and it reads: Domina magistra felhin date mihi licenciam in hac nocte vigilare cum magistra adalu et ego vobis ambabus manibus confirmo atque iuro ut per totam noctem declinare volo aut legere aut pro seniore nostro cantare Valete et ut peto facite. (Abbreviations have been resolved in this transcription).
Sometimes working with manuscripts gets us really, really close to the people from the past allowing us to hear their voices. This is a story of a letter from a schoolgirl to her teacher, written probably sometime at the end of the 9th or the beginning of the 10th century. A thread 🧵 #medievalsky /1
A modern translation of Chaucer’s Adam scryveyn on Genius.com
why is Adam scryveyne on Genius
Verso Books’ webpage for the February session of the Jameson reading group
omg I actually manifested it
Not to be that person who posts about being in the Jameson reading group but the next selection needs to drop ASAP before I have to return the library’s copy of Postmodernism. please
I love my digital research tools as much as the next person, but I think a more uncomfortable discussion is also to be had regarding the way the digital turn facilitates exploitation like this by putting the humanities in contact with an extractive tech industry. Much to think about as they say.
One of the kids who helped decode the Herculaneum papyri is now part of Musk’s treasury oversight team apparently? Seems like a discussion is to be had about how those who are actively unravelling the humanities in the US are happy to use the humanities as a boost to their own careers
I just want to say thank you for doing this for your students! One of the most stress-inducing parts of my MLIS program was trying to find different people willing to do interviews within a week’s notice multiple times a quarter
Reminds me of when I was making a bunch of collation diagrams for my MLIS capstone and got to one fairly large codex. The catalog entry said it had only 1 quire and I remember thinking “how’d they manage that, did they pamphlet bind it with rope or something?” And yeah, that’s exactly what they did
I haven’t taken a course there yet sadly but as someone coming from the bookbinding world I’ve heard nothing but glowing reviews, and everyone I’ve spoken to from there has been incredibly nice and knowledgable!
Jesus really????? That’s horrid
just as I’ve known many leaders in the field who were educated through apprenticeships that have long since disappeared. We can’t just let these pathways into the field continue to evaporate.
Obviously, this is not solely a book arts issue, but two branches of right wing policy intersecting in a way that is putting the survival of our field at risk. I’ve known so many brilliant conservators, librarians, scholars, educators, and artists whose insights from their mfas were invaluable,
Unless I’m missing or forgetting one, there is now one (1) option in a state that at least has a fair score on the Movement Advancement Project map (www.lgbtmap.org/equality-maps). We can write about DEI in the field all we want but it doesn’t fix this very material issue
Should have clarified, a degree, not an education. But this is really important. If you want to get an MFA in book arts and can’t live in Iowa, Utah, or Alabama, your option is now UArts.
The loss of programs is already extremely distressing. Looking at this list, it’s staggering how many of these just don’t exist anymore. www.philobiblon.com/programs.shtml. That’s on top of the fact that apprenticeships are basically nonexistent
It’s hard to overstate just how tragic this is. If you’re an LGBTQ+ person or have immediate family that is, the opportunities to receive an education in book arts in a state where your rights are protected are dwindling.
“HB 777 not only would fine libraries and librarians, but it would possibly require hard labor by those found guilty. Read that again: librarians would be sentenced to hard labor for daring to join their largest professional organization.”
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Realizing that my first time lecturing is less than a week from today. Feels like one of very few things that would feel less scary in the US, where I have at least some idea of what Gen Z is up to. All I have gleaned about youth culture here is the guy on IG who beatboxes about Kaufland
A Victorian era fire grenade filled with clear liquid. It is made of orange textured glass. Photo was found on an antiques trading website
forbidden water balloon…….
I recently got back from the first research trip of my PhD (!) and the manuscripts and librarians were amazing but what I truly cannot stop thinking about are the Victorian fire grenades the library had around
When I got my MLIS I tried explaining to my family why I couldn’t apply to jobs near them. They thought I was being overly dramatic about the state’s hostility towards the field/queer people like myself. I hate that my fears are slowly being proven correct.
Absolutely sickening to see these initiatives anywhere, but this especially feels like a gut punch because it’s my home state.
Right now I’m looking at both and trying to determine where exactly we draw the line between an interesting change to the book object vs. harmful damage and what that determination means for users. We’ll see how things develop though!
