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Jay Sylvestre

@oldslyboots.bsky.social

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

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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.

28.08.2025 13:46 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

(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

27.08.2025 20:44 β€” πŸ‘ 6655    πŸ” 1407    πŸ’¬ 119    πŸ“Œ 49

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

23.05.2025 20:57 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Congratulations!!

12.03.2025 19:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That looks fantastic! Def adding spinach next time

13.01.2025 00:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The Shiz library has rare books AND medium rare books

30.11.2024 18:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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

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

31.10.2024 13:23 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Congratulations!!

31.08.2024 16:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I need to go to this!

16.12.2023 21:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You’re welcome! And thank you!

08.11.2023 22:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

08.11.2023 22:10 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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!

22.08.2023 18:46 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

These are spectacular! I miss this place so much.

01.08.2023 23:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This book has it all!

01.08.2023 22:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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

01.08.2023 22:32 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

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

01.08.2023 17:57 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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 🀣

28.07.2023 13:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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