A late 16th century manuscript gradual with little silk knots inserted at the foreedge to serve as index guides. 
#NewAcq #NewAcquisition

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 My collegiate-themed hotel included a pencil, shrink wrapped for my protection, but not so much as a scrap of paper in the room.

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 Absolutely not.

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 As we passed through the Samuel Johnson room, one of the students saw his portrait and said “Is that the guy from the meme?” 

It made me so happy—his memory truly is immortal!

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 “Parker Brothers, manufacturer of games such as Sorry!, Clue, and Monopoly, made an unusual foray outside of board games when it released the Johnny Horizon Environmental Test Kit in 1971.” https://www.historians.org/research-and-publications/perspectives-on-history/september-2023/johnny-horizon-environmental-test-kit

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 Launching today: The Black Teacher Archive, a freely available digital portal centralizing materials created by professional organizations of African American educators. cc @ccb4768b 
https://curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/black-teacher-archive

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 Let me be very clear: no one is allowed to use “turn of the century” to refer to the period 1999-2001 until after I am dead. 

 If you know anyone who’s interested in Mastodon, but waiting until there was a native Apple II client, great news! https://www.colino.net/wordpress/en/mastodon-for-apple-ii/ (via BoingBoing)

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 The Quarterly Report of Metropolitan Fashions. Autumn, 1895, includes some bicycling attire you wouldn’t confuse with athlesiure. https://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/2023/09/late-19th-century-fall-fashions/

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 Trinity College Dublin recently received a collection of more than 50 fore-edge paintings, and they are all viewable in a new online exhibition. Fore-edge paintings are one of my favorite things to show visitors—fanning out the text block to reveal a little scene feels like a magic trick. https://www.tcd.ie/library/exhibitions/bindings/

#Libraries #SpecialCollections

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 It’s very helpful when they put “Note: this will be cool inside” right on the case.

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 I see a lot of weird commercials on the free streaming service Pluto Tv, but I just saw like a 5-second ad for something called Metal Supermarkets and it was

Look, I’m just going to apologize in advance here

Galvanizing

They sell all kinds of metal in any quantity. I’m totally going to buy some rectangular stainless steel tubing just for the thrill of it.

https://www.metalsupermarkets.com

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 Check out the winners of this year's Honey & Wax book collecting prize for women 30 and under. First place goes to Auroura Morgan for “Hybrid Botanicals: A Modern Tattoo Artist’s Reference Collection”. https://www.honeyandwaxbooks.com/prize.php

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 Audubon’s Birds of America (3-year-old for scale) https://grosvenorroom.wordpress.com/2023/09/11/an-unusual-feathered-friend-visits-buffalo/

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 The right doesn’t attack libraries because it doesn’t understand their power and value, but because it understands the collectivist power and liberatory value of libraries perfectly, and fears it. 

 Princeton is digitizing its LGBTQIA+ Periodical and Ephemera Collection, with about 50 issues available so far. https://library.princeton.edu/news/general/2023-07-31/lgbtqia-periodical-and-ephemera-collection-now-digitized

#SpecialCollections #Digitization #Libraries

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 Tired: “Actually, Frankenstein was the name of the scientist.”
Wired: “Actually, the name of the Creature from the Black Lagoon was The Gill Man.” 

 The Massachusetts Convention Center named its new ferry in honor of Phillis Wheatley. Unfortunately, the *photograph* on the plaque does not depict Wheatley, if for no other reason than that she died decades before photography was invented. https://www.universalhub.com/2023/honoring-two-price-one

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 Horse Gallop Simulator 1886 https://smithsonianlibraries.tumblr.com/post/727902229110177792/posable-paper-horse-with-interchangeable

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 Opening tomorrow at Boston Public Library's Leventhal Map Center, “Getting Around Town: Four Centuries of Mapping Boston in Transit” cc @d984db6e https://www.leventhalmap.org/about/press-releases/getting-around-town-opens-fall-2023/

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