This is tomorrow!! If you’re in the Lawrence, KS area, come hear my talk about my book collection, and how my career is itself a collection 📚

It was tremendously moving (& difficult) to give the first Dr. Johanna Green lecture last Wednesday at University of Glasgow UofG Information Studies

There will be a website dedicated to the full lecture series. In the meantime, a recording of my talk is here: echo360.org.uk/media/f26faced…

Massive 👏 to UofG Information Studies pals of Johanna Green particularly Ann Gow for the superb 1st Dr Johanna Green lecture. Bridget Whearty 🏳️‍🌈 did a super job in her lecture of weaving Johanna’s work into her own research. It felt like Johanna was v much there with us all tonight.

Going live about historical scrapbooks from Winterthur Museum and McGill University in less than 10 minutes!! 🤩 youtube.com/live/x8IPQVBDj…

you are a LIBRARY you have TONNES of wartime journals and oral history recordings and letters and photographs and archive boxes that you were entrusted with by real people who were once really alive. and instead of their stories, you’ve given us this shambling electronic puppet

Heya -- turns out that there's a link for the Dr. Johanna Green Lecture today, for folks who cannot attend in person:

UofG Information Studies UofGlasgowASC #medievaltwitter

📣 Calling all creators, designers & typophiles! Inspiration awaits in 'The Book of Ornamental Alphabets' (1863) 👇

Are you a woman book collector aged 30 or younger? Share your obsession! Apply for the Honey & Wax Prize: $1000 for a creative collection of books, manuscripts, and/or ephemera. Meet our past winners and apply here: honeyandwaxbooks.com/prize.php

We are looking into nineteenth-century #scrapbooks tomorrow with Allie Alvis (on 💙sky too) of the Winterthur collection. Join us at noon for some unexpected lunch-hour sights from the McGill University collections and from the Winterthur collections! Details here: mcgill.ca/x/w4Fhttps://m…

Join us on 24th April for the first Dr Johanna Green lecture. we have a live link for those that can't be with us in person echo360.org.uk/section/721b5f… UofG Arts & Humanities University of Glasgow University of GlasgowASC

Explore the captivating world of insects with Allie Alvis, curator of special collections in the Winterthur Library, at our May 2 Off the Shelf Series: Books-a-Buzz!

Register now: winterthur.org/calendar/off-t…

#WinterthurMuse #Library #Archives #Museum #Garden #Books #Spring #History

NEW CRAB JUST DROPPED

Books bound in human skin have long occupied a shadowy corner of the rare book world. Harvard’s decision to remove the skin binding of a notorious volume in its library has prompted fresh debate about showing or even owning the books. nyti.ms/3xJPMNX

“We should […] try not to bury literally & figuratively what happened to these people,” [Rosenbloom] said. “It’s hubris to think we’ve come to the end of our evolution of how we think about human remains.” (I’m quoted in this too!) nytimes.com/2024/04/19/art…

Allie Alvis (on 💙sky too) in the NYT, on anthropodermic books. My own thoughts: the critical question is whether there was consent. Many of the known examples were bound per skin-donor's instructions. Some were not (e.g. the Harvard vol.). Very different situations. nytimes.com/2024/04/19/art…

I love the little snail happily pootling around this binding. Check out the crazy follicles too. Would that be goat or kid?