Alex Caccamo

Really enjoyed getting to share a unique aspect to working in the Russell Library at Maynooth 🦇🦇🦇

Members of the CONUL Board, including the Chair of CONUL ciara McCaffrey, with the brand new 2025-2029 Strategy "Shaping Tomorrow: The Next Chapter for Irish Research Libraries"

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@richove.bsky.social on the cultural and social importance of ‘boring books’ @conulconference.bsky.social

Delighted to be at #CONUL25! 📚

Great to see such a wonderful array of papers from @mulibrary.bsky.social colleagues @conulconference.bsky.social . I’m sorry I can’t it make it this year. Massive congrats to @morleyfme.bsky.social who concludes her term as conference chair. Fiona & the committee have done fantastic work!

Sun selfie. Claws retracted so I could press the thingie.

Guest Post - Classification as Colonization: The Hidden Politics of Library Catalogs - The Scholarly Kitchen The renaming of "Mount Denali" and "Gulf of Mexico" to the politically loaded “Mount McKinley" and "Gulf of America" reveal the naked truth of what cataloging has always been: a battlefield where mean...

Classification as Colonization: The Hidden Politics of Library Catalogs scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/03/25/g...

Pamphlet on Napoleon Bonapart’s carriage

Pamphlet on the Irish Famine

Display of historical pamphlets

Interested in historical pamphlets? Have a 👀 at this blog post on some of the fascinating collection at the Russell Library #Maynooth mulibrarytreasures.wordpress.com/2025/05/05/e...

@maynoothuniversity.ie @mulibrary.bsky.social

Engraving of a sun smiling over the sea

Sun is shining here in Dublin 🌞🌞🌞

Conservation works begin on 650-year-old paper document Painstaking work has commenced to conserve and digitise one of the oldest paper documents still in existence on the island of Ireland.

"Painstaking work has commenced to conserve and digitise one of the oldest paper documents still in existence on the island of Ireland."

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When Christmas trees were multiplication tables, Gent, 1760s (via Plantin-Moretus)

Sunrise on Killiney beach

Christmas Eve sunrise swim on Killiney beach was magical this year 🎄🌊

Happy #WinterSolstice 🌅

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Updated special collections and bookish humans. Last before parsing into two lists. 🤘🏻🤘🏻

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A fascinating detail in my 1607 Graduale Romanum, printed in Antwerp: a correction pinned directly onto the sheet music with a brass pin! A 17th-century "Typo-fix" to adapt the liturgical chant to correct a printing error.

I 😍 these details!

#BookHistory #RareBooks #MusicHistory

✍️ Are you interested in #palaeography but feeling intimidated or not sure how to begin? #medievalsky
💻@danielsawyer.bsky.social has shared some helpful tips and recommended resources on @drlauravarnam.bsky.social's excellent blog: drlauravarnam.wordpress.com/2019/10/03/top

Christmas advertisement for a gas cooker with Santa and his sack of presents

Love an Advent calendar🎄Here’s one showcasing some festive gift giving from the collections at Maynooth 🎁 app.cloudpano.com/tours/YwT3Wy...

@mulibrarymaker.bsky.social

Decoration in Gaelic manuscript

Decoration from O Curry Gaelic #manuscript, C 98 housed in the Russell Library @maynoothuni.bsky.social

How Kurt Vonnegut's board game was revived from IU's Lilly Library to store shelves A decade before “Slaughterhouse-Five,” Vonnegut pitched what he believed would be “the third popular checkerboard game” – behind checkers and chess.

How Kurt Vonnegut's board game was revived from IU's Lilly Library to store shelves 📜
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Thinking about rare books and manuscripts in online catalog(ue)s. Special Collections materials often get buried in institutional online search systems. Do you have any favorite online portals for rare materials that really work well (easy to use, accurate, intuitive)? Models that we can learn from?

North Central Michigan College library decolonization project reorganizes Indigenous collection North Central Michigan College's Decolonization Project reorganizes its Indigenous collection, honoring Indigenous voices and perspectives.

North Central Michigan College library decolonization project reorganizes Indigenous collection 📜📚
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At Maynooth University library we have Irish poet Pearse Hutchinson’s archive and book collections. Here is a post about an interesting find from his library 📚 mulibrarytreasures.wordpress.com/2024/12/02/h...

Shiny, Bookish PRESENTS
For... YOU!

Now in its fifth year, for this #NewberryLibrary Advent Calendar, we'll look at SO MANY pretty packages from our Henry Probasco collection. For instance, this stunning 18th c. fore-edge binding I didn't know we had...

December 1 (1/24)

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Book: 'A Celtic Christmas', published 1900. Title page: shimmering gold font against festive green paper.

For several years now, UCDA, UCD Special Collections and the National Folklore Collection UCD, have rotated posts each day during Advent, to make a #UCDAdventCalendar. As our colleagues are not (yet) here, we'll post their contributions as well as ours.
1. Special Collections

Elephants and trains together; 🐘🚂 CIÉ's "Anything, Anywhere, Anytime" slogan @ Kingsbridge (Heuston), Dublin, 1961. #ExploreYourArchive #EYAAnimals #irishrailarchives

Huzzah for Archives and Archivists!

Let me know if you want to be added, if I missed anyone, or if you'd like to nominate anyone!

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Very modest starter pack for accounts that post mainly about medieval manuscripts and libraries - let me know how many I missed and I'll be happy to add you / your suggestions

#MedievalMSS

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For today’s Explore Your Archive theme of #EYAFamily, we just don't know where to start... Families in @msp-archive.bsky.social are everywhere. Families together, formed through local marriages, emigrated, divided, forgotten and found again.

Please contact @jasonwdean.com to be added to this very useful list 🙂

Unlocking Ireland’s cookbook archive: ‘Some of the things they were eating are just plain weird’ Keepers of the National Library of Ireland’s special collections have assembled a fascinating gastronomic collection through their shared love of food

🥮 A 19th century cake has prompted #archivists at @nlireland.bsky.social to uncover more about Ireland's #culinary heritage and traditions. 🧑‍🍳 (Via @irishtimes.bsky.social)

⭐ Read more: www.irishtimes.com/food/2024/11...