Caitlin Goodman

Our circulating teaching kits are a mix of dupes, donations or reappraised objects deemed out-of-scope. There’s a couple more still to be cataloged but here’s a few examples: tripod.swarthmore.edu/discovery/se...

Yes, and I’d like us to do it more. I think SpecColl as a field tends to be overly precious about its “stuff.”

classes come to the library however (for the transport / quantity reasons mentioned elsewhere)

also great to have a “medium rare” collection for traveling, w or wo library workers

“stop listening to Waxahatchee in the morning” challenge

I’m sorry but I simply must have them all.

1911 edition of Whittier’s Snowbound (duh) published by the Hayes Lithographing Co. There’s a nice full page frontispiece and it’s bound in a cutie padded leather but I’m just here for the SHINY

Donate to Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant, organized by Ysabel Gerrard Hello all, my name is Ysabel and I’m fundraising for my friends … Ysabel Gerrard needs your support for Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant

Fobazi is currently in the ICU and could use your support. Apologies to those I haven’t been able to reach out to yet. You can message me for more info and I will be posting updates to GoFundMe. Please share, send healing thoughts, prayers, etc. ❤️ -Elena

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I spend fewer than three hours a week on Whittier (desk! shift! project!) but they are sometimes the funnest hours.

Here are five different editions of Snow-Bound (all from the year 1900) simply RIPE for the right class session on publishing and audience.

If you can’t handle the library at its worst* then you sure don’t deserve its best**

*working in nearly windowless, hot, cramped spaces

**non-library departments booking the only decent classroom space we have

Book cover, in white cloth with gilt stamping with a colored paper illustration of a contemporary lady entirely unrelated to the poem.

“series bindings are the AI slop of their day”

- me reaching for a timely hook to hang this 1907 nonsensical cover of Whittier’s Snow-Bound

Two babies’ skulls found at Mütter Museum linked to Gallitzin, Pa., murder mystery from 1980 The world believed the five infants found in Stella Williamson's attic had been put to rest. Decades later, the truth is still unfolding.

Absolute horror story from beginning to end - which is evidently the only kind of story that can come from the Mutter Museum share.inquirer.com/tpXOXV

Magazine subscription mailer for “New Moon” from 1992, an (apparently still extant!) “magazine for girls and their dreams” full of lite druid clip art

Without doubt, a record of enduring value

If there is a lesson here its this… Be ready to stand on the business you participating in

I don’t remember where my phone is or when the English Civil War was but don’t worry, I still know every word to “32 Flavors”

The Proustian involuntary memory of “cybrarian” was a full body recoil; slap a trigger warning on that before we have to learn about Second Life again

No it's the same kind of guy as always.

I think the most important thing for those of us who do some sort of “book history for generalists” is avoid the easy narrative of teleology in technological means of production

Chester Monthly Meeting’s handwritten meeting minutes of 3mo 1699, which narrate the complaint of Thomas Minshall against Elizabeth Vernon. Vernon apparently accused Minshall’s wife of a) infanticide and b) general thotness

Early Quaker meeting records tend to be pretty brief, but sometimes they go a little Love Island on you

I made my first tunnel book yesterday, time to find an excuse to teach a session on tunnel books

The Noel Prize – PACSCL This PACSCL award honors the memory of Will Noel.

Honoring the life work of the irrepressible Will Noel, PACSCL announces the No-el Prize for open access projects. Applications due August 1st. To apply, go to:
pacscl.org/what-we-do/f...

99% of my life is spent leaping without looking and the other 1% is making a commit in GitHub

My joker moment is how grocery stores ALMOST alphabetize the spices

if you have a public library near you, you have access to a copy machine. if you can print legibly and learn to impose four half-sheets to print two-up double-sided, you can make a one-folio book. (or do it flat and there's a broadside.) and then you more or less own the means of production

Thousands of Philadelphia city workers are officially on strike More than 9,000 city employees are on strike after contract talks fell apart between AFSCME District Council 33 and Mayor Parker’s administration, the first major city worker strike since 1986.

Philly, our city workers need a fair contract. Do not cross the picket line. Do not take your trash to the drop off sites. Take care of one another.

www.inquirer.com/politics/phi...

I sometimes find myself about to explain how our proofing press works by saying “it’s kinda like an old credit card machine” but stop because 1. undergrads don’t get that 2. grad students don’t get that 3. & indeed many junior professorial colleagues have never seen one in action

There are not enough emojis in the world!!!!

Philadelphia has one of the oldest cultural institutions in the U.S. Now it could become a part of Temple. The Library Company of Philadelphia will keep its location, which is of historical significance, and its name. The intent is to keep collections where they are.

Dropping this at 5pm on a summer Friday sure says something about how “exciting” this “partnership” is 🫣

I should have bet on John “gotta catch em all” Fry

I feel bad for the New Haven train station seagulls; the one consolation of being a seagull is living down the shore and yet

Our digital repositories team spends a great deal of their time now simply protecting our commoned public digital resources from bots. This insatiable, aimless, destructive desire to excrete novel slop is impeding our access to — and even damaging — our cultural heritage + vetted public knowledge.

BREAKING: Justice Jackson cites the Colored Conventions Project Digital Archive her dissent in Medina v. Planned Parenthood. These public collective digital projects MATTER and they WILL be heard. 👏👏👏

@ccp-org.bsky.social
@profgabrielle.bsky.social
@jimccasey1.bsky.social

Detail of a Qur’an (ca 1700s) in what I imagine is a Persian lacquer binding, from the Beinecke exhibition

Continuing on a theme: I understand that “Taught by the Pen” is an exhibit about the calligraphic traditions but LET ME SEE THE BINDING YOU MONSTERS