Rare book rooms are rarely musty.

Joseph Hone Print & Probability Back to report that ESTC holdings data is now up at estc.printprobability.org. Formatting is more than occasionally wonky, but it’s there!

It's been a real pleasure to improve our coverage of Icelandic printing on the USTC 📖🔍. #Iceland is a fascinating country with a remarkable early print culture, which deserves to be better known. Paper Trails: Icelandic Manuscripts and Books

Uncover the secrets of Tudor architecture with Talia Perry from CMU! Join us on March 27th, 4:30-6:30 in Posner Hall 234 for an enlightening discussion on the cultural legacy of Tudor chimney stacks.

Our revels now are ended… CMU Libraries From Stage to Page #Folio400 exhibition coming down yesterday — look for the exhibition book out in May (book production takes forever, who knew?)

I've read all of the British Library's paper on their recent cyber-attack and have some thoughts from the perspective of someone who spent many years working in systems librarian roles in UK Higher Education libraries.

news.artnet.com/market/albrech… 'printed on 16th-century paper, with each being sold to founding collectors for £5,000 each [...] subsequent editions will be printed on new paper within the gallery during the exhibitions’ run and sold in the gift shop at a more affordable price point.'

Join us Thursday, 14 March (5–7 p.m.) for the opening reception of Looking Back: An International Retrospective, Part 2 (huntbotanical.org/exhibitions/sh…). At 5:30 p.m. the curators will introduce the exhibition. The reception is free and open to the public.

Today we’ve published a paper about the cyber-attack that took place last October.

Its goal is to share our understanding of what happened and to help others learn from our experience.

You can read the paper on our website, and hear from our CEO, Sir Roly Keating, in this

Last weekend to see all seven CMU Libraries Shakespeare Folios The Frick Pittsburgh Museums and Gardens! Exhibit closes Sunday — a long and spectacularly successful run. #Folio400

A *trésmoin*

Parting is such sweet sorrow... Visit 'From Stage to Page' at The Frick Pittsburgh Museums and Gardens before it exits, stage left on 3/10. Celebrate the 400th anniversary of #Shakespeare 's First Folio with a rare opportunity to see all four folios in the same room. Virtual tour: library.cmu.edu/frick360

Great to see this article out, which makes sense of the ink stamps in some of the seventeenth-century drama Cambridge UL Special Collections (pictured is Nathaniel Lee's Sophonisba of 1676; Brett-Smith.571).

i started making a list of playbooks with these enigmatic stamps back in 2014-15 as i was surveying playbooks for TYPOGRAPHIES OF PERFORMANCE—i’m truly excited to see in print this excellent explanation by David McInnis & emma koch of what on earth they are!

check it out!

Only a few more weeks to see all seven copies of CMU Libraries Shakespeare Folios The Frick Pittsburgh Museums and Gardens!

Only here b/c it has come to my attention that some of y'all didn't know that you NOT have to carry on without the ESTC. We stood up a temporary ESTC site in mid-November and thousands of people have been using it nearly every day since. Print & Probability

estc.printprobability.org