Kathy Harris

ACH 2026 CFP Submit a proposal: ACH 2026 ConfTool

ACH is holding our annual virtual conference, ACH 2026, from June 24 to 26, 2026. We are excited to announce that we have extended our call for papers to February 23, 2026: buff.ly/Rltfrcu

You know I'm wildly in agreement with all of this!

What did I miss? An article? Head down of late trying to figure out (once again) how to do DH as a 1-woman team (super fun, but dang, so much work!)

10:17pm: Completed metadata for 82 vols, literary annuals. Ready to convert into MARC XML files. Bulk upload to @archive.org imminent.

21yr dream to create public access to annuals' contents #achieved
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#periodicals #dh #digitalhumanities

Just picked up some polenta to have with my shrimp in red sauce. So good!

Also, made chili last night and corn bread in an iron skillet today.

Freezing meals for one so I'm not tempted to do the convenient, easy thing and eat shitty fast food...mmmm....so much better!

Wish I could be there! (Why is teleportation not a thing yet?!)

Hope it's terrific!

Forget Me Not; A Christmas and New Year's Present (copy 2) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive green paper boards; half slipcase with pasted different cover image; gilt edged; inscription plate; 7 steel plate engravings; 6 pp adverts

This incredible @rs4vp.org format encourages participants to review a particular #periodical volume for discussion. See 2 newly digitized vols by @archive.org !!

1) FMN 1825 archive.org/details/forg... (copy 2)
2) FMN 1833 archive.org/details/forg...

We mt also get into talking meta #data & #dh

Announcement for RSVP event with green paper boards of the 1825 Forget Me Not British Literary Annual

Been following my adventures in #periodicals ? Join me on March 6 @ 8am PST with @rs4vp.org Pick-a-Periodical: "The Racial Anxieties of Polite Culture in the *Forget Me Not* British Literary Annual" (1825 & 1833)

rs4vp.org/digital-even...
Free, reg rqrd: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#digitalhumanities

Image of Tom Young's on making the East India company opening illustration

Scholarly books from Dan White and Anindita Ghosh

Also, discovered Tom Young's *Unmaking the East India Company* (2023) with full page color illustrations from the British Library collection of 19th century engravings 🤯🤯

Up next: re-reading Dan White's * From Little London to Little Bengal* & Anindita Ghosh's * Power in Print*

#periodicals

The book artist biographies Master index handwritten notes by a researcher on the inside of the front cover

Incredible Find! Artist Biographies Master Index used copy with handwritten notes inside the cover 🤯🤯🤯

#peridocals

Oh they're back (online for us to watch)❤️

Oh, that's what happened on our campus, too. I wonder if all of the provosts got together to hatch this plan or if they are trying to one-up each other to get AI wrapped around the iSchools?

meeting information for the presenting jane austen event on march 2nd

#janeausten fans! Join Book Club of California for "Jane Austen in the 21st Century" w/ guest @kleuner.bsky.social discussing the #bookhistory elements of the new edition

March 2nd @ 5:30pm PST
In person reg: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
or
Virtual reg: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Oh thanks for this. It never dawned on me to look for the book designers in ODNB. Luckily, SJSU has a subscription to this db....guess what I'm doing today for the Keepsake, Forget Me Not, Literary Souvenir & Friendship's Offering!

I need another yr on this project!

Also, thank you @pritijoshi.bsky.social !!

So many mysteries with this collection once the vols go beyond 1840!

I'm trying to figure out what to put in the metadata to indicate a firm instead of a person. Was there a regular signature that Dalziel firm used on wood engravings?

I'll include this note in the metadata "description" field so ppl searching "Dalziel" will get this image

Argh, I said 1854 Keepsake, but this is all images of the 1852 keepsake volume.

It's been digitized in Internet Archive, but someone wouldn't necessarily notice these kinds of things in a digital surrogate!

Gilt stamped spine in leather of the 1852 keesake

Front marbled board with black leather pieces on the binding of the 1852 Keepsake

Also, here is The binding of the 1852 Keepsake - so odd that they chose this binding instead of using the original red paper covers

@michaelhancher.bsky.social does this video help a little bit in terms of those covers? This looks like paper and not cloth

Printer is listed on final pg & verso of title pg (as usual w/literary annuals) but binders are extremely rare and usually only a sticker on the verse of front board. Nothing on this 1854 vol. though.

We have zero info on designers for the literary annuals, unfortunately

It doesn't feel like cloth; it feels like heavier paper. The other vols of Keepsake that I have use that cover front & back, but this vol has marbled boards and leather spine w/gilt stamping w/corners also in leather. Def *not* fancy. Gilt edges, as with most literary annuals.

Illustrated title page woodcuts with the artist and potentially the engraver signatures evident for the 1854 Keepsake

Another mystery #periodical people!

Here's a woodcuts on The illustrated title page for the 1854 Keepsake. The name on the left is the artist and usually the name of the engraver is on the right. Here's my question: Dalziel = wood engraver?!! Or is this grass?

@rs4vp @michaelhancher.bsky.social

None of this was noted in the book seller's description or any other catalog records on Hathi, Worldcat, Open Library, etc. So, it would have been missed if s/o just searched a db for contents -- yr interview / @pritijoshi.bsky.social -- "keep turning the page"! Indeed!

That's so interesting. I thought maybe a library re-bound it and preserved the covers, but the covers are pristine and no evidence of glue. And obviously using handmade paper (chainlink lines). There are 2 pp bw front/back cover. The 1854 vol has these covers as boards, too.

Illuminated front paper board of the Keepsake 1852; red and Gilt stamping

Illuminated back paper board of the Keepsake 1852; red and Gilt stamping

Odd finding in Keepsake 1852: at conclusion of the literary texts are I think the illuminated paper front and back boards intended for rebinding this volume - pristine. I've never seen this before 🤯 has anyone ever seen this?

@rs4vp.org @patrickleary.bsky.social @michaelhancher.bsky.social

Oh fuck. Thought of y'all immediately upon seeing this news. Sending you virtual hugs from Cali and an offer to come here and talk gender/women's studies whenever possible

TAMU ended our women and gender studies program, degrees and certificates today. Apparently they aren’t allowed under the new don’t mention gender or sexuality in the classroom rules our board passed. I am so saddened by this. I worked as a grad asst to wmst (no gender in the 90s) for a few years

and luckily, both of the latest ones are available for borrowing on @archive.org 🤩

Wish we could teleport you to today's 4pm opening at the Museum of Quilts & Textiles here in SJ. I thought of you while chatting w/one of the artists at SF Fog Art show this past w/e! sj-mqt.org/on-view

😅😅😅😅

I DID think that at first, too!! 🤩

So true :( It's such a bummer. Otherwise, we could do more cross visits.

There should be meter or free parking on the street. And a wonderful coffee shop a block or so away: Academic Coffee.

If you want to take Cal Train, I can pick you up from the Diridon Station