Janet Carleton

THIRD PRINTING ALERT: This is my first book and @wehere.bsky.social's first book. The response has been overwhelming (two small printing selling out in a matter of days), but also has meant a bit of lead time in-between. If you've read and enjoyed, please share this out so more folks can explore!

OhioDIG-Registration-Virtual-2026-03-25 Please join the Ohio Digitization Interest Group for our March meeting (virtual) at 10:30am on Wednesday, March 25, 2026. Registration: Please register by Monday, March 23, 5pm. (Teams link will be ...

Register now for 3/25 #OhioDIG VIRTUAL "FADGI for the Rest of Us: Accessible Image Quality Management" w/ cochairs of our Phase One UG, Matt Carissimi & Erin Wilson.
Free as always thanks to volunteer presenters, programmers, hosts! 📷
#digitization #archives #FADGI

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With sorrow, we announce the passing of FOBAZI M. ETTARH 1989 - 2026. Fobazi changed so many lives with her friendship, love, and brilliance. She was so loved, and leaves behind a powerful legacy. We thank Fobazi's community for their support over the last several months of her illness. A private burial will be held for family. We will be in touch with further information about a future Celebration of Life event, as well as ways to support Fobazi's family and legacy.

POSTPONED. We'll reschedule this soon!

Heavy snowfall in this article, January 1884: “the deepest snow which has fallen here since 1818... next great snow storm was in 1856... [16 in] of snow fell.”
Anne Elizabeth Broadwell’s diary, 1883-1885.
Finding aid: https://bit.ly/aspace-hatch-frost-broadwell
#diary #snow #MariettaOhio #archives

Digital Tools for Manuscript Studies

If you have graduate students working with medieval manuscripts this free online training might be useful 👇
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Great read!
And check out our #OttoEge 50 Leaves online at bit.ly/ege-50origin...

View looking at the open Archives doors into its lobby. Screens, signage, and office doors show. Text overlay: Welcome! Archives Spring Semester Hours. Visit M-F, 9AM-12PM & 1-4PM. Use our form to schedule appointments w/ curators [link]

Visit Archives & Special Collections M-F 9AM-12PM & 1-4PM to see our exhibits, browse reference collection, restful coloring/Legos break.

Everyone welcome! Find us: #OHIOUniversity @aldenlibrary.bsky.social on 5th fl.

Schedule appt for research/view materials: bit.ly/oulibraries-....

#Archives

Join us! Register by 5pm (Eastern) today (Fri 1/23). #DigiPres #OhioDIG

Libraries can't afford e-books. D.C. lawmakers have a plan. The demand and price for e-books is up — and it’s busting the D.C. Public Library budget.

No surprise to librarians, but perhaps surprising to users, demands/prices for ebooks /audiobooks are killing public library budgets. David Szalay's book, Flesh,” costs DCPL:
$28.99 hardcopy
$59.99 ebook
$69.99 audiobook
DCPL owns hardcopy; rents & must repurchase ebook & audio book every 2 yrs.

Title page of Twas the night before Christmas, printed and illustrated in black and red.

Color illustration of a child sleeping under a thick quilt in a 4-poster bed with decorations hanging on the wall above.

Color illustration of Santa Claus standing on a stool next to his sack full of gifts, filling stockings hanging from the fireplace.

2-page spread color illustration of Santa Claus on his sleigh pulled by reindeer, flying away into the full moon night sky.

'Tis the day before Christmas... enjoy these sweet & festive illustrations from Twas the Night Before Christmas!
Clement C Moore, color illustrations by Jessie Wilcox Smith.
Catalog record: https://bit.ly/nightbeforechristmas-catalog
#Christmas #holidays #RareBooks #ColorIllustrations #illustrations

OhioDIG-Registration-Virtual-2026-01-27 Please join the Ohio Digitization Interest Group for our January meeting (virtual) at 10:30am on Tuesday, January 27, 2026. Registration: Please register by Friday, January 23, 5pm. (Teams link will ...

Register: 1/27 #OhioDIG virtual meeting w/ Alyssa Pierce, digital preservation librarian, Case Western Reserve U, on "Demystifying Digital Preservation"!
Free as always thx to our presenters, hosts, planners! #DigiPres #DigialPreservation #DigitalArchives #Archives

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When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

I feel once again compelled to emphasis the digitizing in the literal scanning sense is fairly unimportant if it is not accompanied with metadata providing context for discovery. Both humans and AI will make things up when they don't know what they are looking at.

Thick book spine with scraps of manuscript text visible between the sewn bands.

Close-up of manuscript text near the head (top) of spine.

Close-up of manuscript text near the tail (bottom) of spine.

Detached spine showing the impression of the manuscript text.

NEW FIND–Fragments of manuscript used as binder’s waste!
Early printing in Europe often used scraps from manuscripts for bookbinding.
Scraps can still be identified–ideas? Share!
https://bit.ly/anitii-manlii-catalog
#ManuscriptMonday #MedievalMonday #MedievalManuscript #16thC #Bookbinding #RareBooks

We’re Really Not Much Different From Each Other: Working in the #ManassehCutler Papers.

Hayden Sprance (Eng Lit, Culture & Writing BA ‘26) on her #archives internship experience. Cutler (1742-1823) is considered a founder of #OHIOUniversity.

#MahnBlog https://bit.ly/mahnblog-cutler-sprance

Ohio University Press books garner top honors in African studies Ohio University Press proudly announces that several of its recent publications have received prestigious awards from leading scholarly organizations.

We’re thrilled to share that 6 Ohio University Press titles have recently earned top honors from leading scholarly organizations, including the African Studies Association, the American Historical Association, and others. Here's a rundown: www.ohio.edu/news/2025/12...

#AfricanStudies

Federal court decision spells win for State Library of Ohio, libraries nationwide • Ohio Capital Journal The State Library of Ohio got some good news as a federal agency from which they receive grant money won a battle in federal court against an executive order from President Donald Trump.

Federal court decision spells win for State Library of Ohio, libraries nationwide.
"While the State Library of Ohio sees the court win as a positive sign, they are still struggling due to cuts the state made in its most recent operating budget."
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Front of brick federal style building exterior (Cutler Hall ) on snowy College Green, view up brick walkway with bare trees.

WINTER . . . Fresh fallen snow lies across the Campus like a ragged scarf, shadowy fingers caress the droppinq elm-shapes, and a scatter of shivering students chatter together at the gate. The walk to Cutler is now an obscured pathway to knowledge, for OU is winter-bound again. Students blow warm breath-puffs on frost-covered knuckles, bury their heads in gay mufflers, and troop down Putnam [Jeff] Hill with their sleds and cardboard slides.

Cover of yearbook "Athena 1950"

Happy snowy December! ❄️

Our campus is beautiful in the snow! Yearbook editors have shared that over the years, this view from 1949-50.

Link in bio to yearbook spread: bit.ly/ou-ua-athena...

#OHIOUniversityArchives #OHIOUniversity #AthensOhio #oldyearbooks #winter #snow

Two students look at objects in the reading room at The Museum of English Rural Life.

Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?

We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.

Find out more:

collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/

Screenshot of the 1st slide of the 4 presentations.

Recording & slides for 11/12 #OhioDIG "Tech Tools for Transcription" virtual meeting now online!
It covered text/audio transcription, #Transkribus, Generative AI tools, Open AI’s Whisper, vendor services. Thank you speakers!
Visit meetings page and scroll down to that meeting. ohiodig.org/meetings

Glass cat on stove, Chesapeake, Ohio, circa November 1990. Crop-in on cat and its shadow.

Full image placed on a black background.

#Caturday😻.
Lloyd E. Moore captured this golden hour moment with a decorative glass cat on a stove #DocumentaryPhotography.
Full quality image: https://bit.ly/dpa-moore-glasscat
#OHIOUniversity #documentary #photography #archives #photographs #cats #Ohio #cat #35mm #filmphotography #slides

#OhioDIG '26 Meetings
Jan– virtual– Digital Preservation
Mar– virtual– Image Quality, OD PhaseOne UG
May– inperson– Topic TBD– Case Western Reserve, CLE
July– inperson– Topic TBD– Wright State, Dayton
Sep– inperson– Topic TBD– Seeking Columbus host!
Nov– virtual– Topic TBD
ohiodig.org/meetings

Screenshot of Kent post on OD Insta. Desktop of digitization station on left, text post on right.

Screenshot of Kent posts on OD Insta grid.

ICYMI, our #OhioDIG Insta this week was a #KentStateLibraries take over!
Check it out: www.instagram.com/ohiodig/
And Ohio #digitization / #digipres folks, watch for a call soon to do your own take over!
#OhioArchivists #DigitalArchives

NEW interview with manuscripts intern Anne Scarberry, English Literature, Culture, and Writing ’26!
Anne talks church history, pesky staples.
Full blog: https://bit.ly/mahnblog-churches-southeasternohio
#OHIOUniversity #OHIOUniversityArchives #interviews #archives #churches #blog #newblog

Cheryl Adams works with Alden Library user. Piles of books in front of the pair.

Ohio University Executive MBA program (Lancaster) group, 1979. Group of four people stand at the top of a staircase.

George Cheripko at Circulation desk, Alden Library, circa early 1990s. Cheripko smiles and interacts with an Alden Library patron.

Make Respect Visible week!💚
Spreading kindness and collaboration, both in our libraries & outside.
Many university events this week centered around kindness!
THOUSANDS of photographs online: https://bit.ly/ou-ua-photos
#OHIOUniversity #OHIOUniversityArchives #archives #FromTheArchives #ArchivesDive

ACLS Digital Justice Seed & Development Grants. (Due to ofa.acls.org by 9:00 PM EST on 11/20/25)

The ACLS Digital Justice Grant program supports projects that diversify the digital domain, advance justice in digital scholarly practice, contribute to understanding of racial & social justice issues.

Roundtable TODAY!
Join virtually or in person today 11/12 for roundtable talk on Enslavement & Abolition in Antebellum Texts & #ArtistsBooks📚
Event details, join: https://bit.ly/ou-roundtable-enslavement-abolition
#OHIOUniversity #RareBooks #roundtable #exhibits #exhibit #ArtistsBooks #RareBooks

Archives & Museums club visited Digital Initiatives and Mahn Center yesterday! Always happy to make new friends and share our work 🥰

Caption: Students view archives materials in Digital Initiatives.

#OHIOUniversity #OHIOUniversityArchives #ForeverOHIO #archives #tour #ArchivesDive

As we come to the end of our @edicaucus.bsky.social funded 'Divergent Minds in the Archive' project, we're delighted to invite you to 'Accessing Archives and Collections: Disability, Neurodivergence, Chronic Illness' - a free online symposium on 17th and 18th November. 1/n