Jay Sylvestre

Jay Sylvestre

@oldslyboots.bsky.social

Ice cream maker, rare books curator, papercut artist, assumes that puns are funny automatically

1,087 Followers 252 Following 16 Posts Joined Jul 2023
6 months ago

First day of teaching my Rare Books class for the Catholic MLIS program! Haven't run a semester long course before but I'm excited to see how this thing goes. Lots of great guest speakers and a few field trips lined up to cover a lot of different parts od rare books work.

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6 months ago

(mf doom voice) he threw a sandwich cheese and salami, feds couldn't indict folded like origami, afraid of subway both the chain and the train, mayo salt and pepper shake your thang, grand jury shut em down twice, coca cola on the side no ice

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9 months ago

Feels like a lifetime ago, but very excited to see this in print!

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1 year ago

Congratulations!!

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1 year ago

That looks fantastic! Def adding spinach next time

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1 year ago

The Shiz library has rare books AND medium rare books

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1 year ago
Page of Mark Catesby's "Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahamas" open to the "Blue fish" etching opposite a rare books curator wearing a low polygon blue fish mask with a 4 piece tail in different shades of blue and blue green wondering if anyone will also see he's supposed to be a Zora. He's even wearing a hoodie of the Zora armor from Breath of the Wild

Happy Halloween! Who wore it better? Catesby vs Curator

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1 year ago

Congratulations!!

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2 years ago

I need to go to this!

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2 years ago

You’re welcome! And thank you!

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2 years ago

Had a blast with this class. Always wonderful to have enthusiastic faculty and curious students to work with!

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2 years ago
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Barbenheimer pop up at new student orientation. Apparently Georgetown was one of about 20 schools to license their logo and colors in the 90s. Has been a big hit!

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2 years ago

These are spectacular! I miss this place so much.

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2 years ago

This book has it all!

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2 years ago
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Hard to believe it’s already been a year at Georgetown! Was hard to find 1 or 2 images to illustrate the year but this completely ridiculous custom Sangorski binding on Percy Bysshe Shelley’s the Masque of Anarchy captures some of the vibe

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2 years ago

Eat hoagies, wooder ice, and soft pretzels. Go down the shore for a week/weekend

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2 years ago

Thank you! It was my Halloween costume last year. Also convinced my library communication director to use this as my picture for the library newsletter new staff article 🤣

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