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Coffee with a Codex On The Road: Bat Book at the Rosenbach An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different...

Oh boy, on Oct 16, @leoba.bsky.social is showing Rosenbach Museum & Library MS 1004/29, a mid-14thC physician's belt w/ calendar, tables of solar & lunar eclipses, anatomical phlebotomy diagram, & urine wheel. A 🦇 book, b/c it unfolds like a pair of 🦇 wings. libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/14872116

When saving becomes loss: Archival memory in the digital age

Only a few tickets left for the @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy @dh-researchhub.bsky.social Annual Digital Lecture.
Nanna Bonde Thylstrup (Copenhagen),
When saving becomes loss: Archival memory in the digital age
Nov 20, 18:00–20:00, University of London. Book now www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...

You Are Invited! NYPL’s Accessible Technology Conference 2025: Connect, Innovate, Act | The New York Public Library Focused on the impact, affordances, and evolution of accessible technologies used by Blind, low-vision, and print-disabled people. 

NYPL Accessible Technology Conference 2025, Saturday, October 18 and Sunday, October 19 #a11y #CivicTech

Classics with added Yorkshire class: tributes to Tony Harrison Harrison’s poetry and plays made an electrifying connection with readers and audiences through his use of Leeds dialect, and his ear for rhyme. Writers remember his greatness

Classics with added Yorkshire class: tributes to Tony Harrison | Tony Harrison | The Guardian
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Tony Harrison RIP
I taught Long Distance, his beautiful & honest poem about bereavement to my students for decades.
Eventually, it provided consolation to me as well.

Extremely sad that my much-loved friend and ally of over thirty-five years, the great poet, dramatist, socialist and acerbic wit Tony Harrison, died yesterday morning, peacefully, with his devoted partner, actress Sian Thomas, at his side. I'm so glad I visited them last week.

Software Engineer (Full-stack) - ITHAKA ITHAKA’s mission is to expand access to knowledge and education around the world. Our services — Artstor, JSTOR, Portico, and Ithaka S+R — enable people everywhere to learn, to grow, and to overcome b...

I'm hiring a mid-level full-stack SWE! Our team at @jstor.bsky.social Labs is looking for yet another product-minded engineer to join our team. We come from all kinds of backgrounds, tech and non-tech alike.

Please apply or send to your awesome friends, and DM me with ?s: grnh.se/19o370345us

Kluge Fellowships in Digital Studies | Fellowships | Chairs & Fellowships | The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress | Programs | Library of Congress About the Fellowship The Kluge Fellowship in Digital Studies provides an opportunity for scholars to utilize digital methods, the Library’s large and varied digital collections and resources, curatori...

The Kluge Fellowship in Digital Studies provides an opportunity for scholars to utilize digital methods, the Library’s large and varied digital collections and resources, curatorial expertise, and an emerging community of digital scholarship practitioners. www.loc.gov/programs/joh...

Photograph of the National Theatre exhibition "The Greeks: Radical Reinvention", showing a young man standing in front of a panel with information and pictures and listening to some audio information on headphones.

Photograph of the National Theatre exhibition "The Greeks: Radical Reinvention", showing a bald man's back, standing in front of a panel with information and pictures.

Photograph of the National Theatre exhibition "The Greeks: Radical Reinvention", showing the back a young woman, standing in front of a panel with information and pictures.

Photograph of the National Theatre exhibition "The Greeks: Radical Reinvention", showing the back of a young woman standing in front of a panel with information and pictures and listening to some audio information on headphones.

Exciting news! Our friends at the National Theatre bring a new, interactive free exhibition: "The Greeks: Radical Reinvention". Journeying through past reimaginings of Greek tragedies & featuring archival objects. Not to be missed!
#nationaltheatre #thegreeks #greektragedy #reception #performance

These threads are lovely. Your father is lucky to have a son who loves and enjoys him so much.

ADHO is looking for a Deputy Communications Officer and Communications Fellow to shape public presence, communication strategy and highlight diverse voices of the DH community.

⏳ Deadline: 30 September 2025

Visit the link to know more and apply👇: adho.org/2025/09/09/a...

EpiDoc office hours currentepigraphy.org/2025/09/15/e...

One hour a month will be set aside for anyone and everyone to drop in with questions about epigraphic/papyrological encoding, or any other aspect of #EpiDoc. No booking or advance notice required, just join the zoom link and say hi.

A sliver of the sun setting red behind a cumulus cloud, over a shoreline and bridge, with salmon, white, gray, and blue clouds, and several prominent rays rising above it.

Ocean City, MD last night.

The Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, November 21, 2017. Photo by Shawn Miller.

September is Library Card Sign-up Month. It's easy to get one from the Library of Congress!

Here's how: www.loc.gov/research-cen...

Political violence is never acceptable.

The Brown Classics Department Mourns the Loss of Michael C. J. Putnam

The Brown Classics Department Mourns the Loss of Michael C. J. Putnam | Department of Classics | Brown University
classics.brown.edu/news/2025-08...

🤬 We was very kind to me when I met him.

Age verification? I've seen the Star Wars Holiday Special, and I don't mean on YouTube.

In Leiden right now we've just begun a weeklong workshop on exploring the transformative potential of combining Large Language Models (LLMs) & Linked Open Data (LOD) to enrich cultural heritage metadata in ways that foster FAIR usage www.lorentzcenter.nl/enriching-di... Watch this space for outcomes

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Can't attend in person? Discover how to experience the 2025 National Book Festival online with our virtual attendee guide: www.loc.gov/events/2025-...

Videos of the programming will also be made available online shortly after the festival.

Schedule | 2025 National Book Festival | Events at the Library of Congress | Library of Congress The 2025 Library of Congress National Book Festival will be at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. Saturday, September 6, 2025.

More than 85 authors will be in attendance! Find the full schedule of events here: www.loc.gov/events/2025-...

You can also download a printable program & convention center map here: www.loc.gov/events/2025-...

Picture from a previous year's National Book Festival features a volunteer holding an "Ask Me" sign

Fast facts:
- The festival is 100% FREE & open to the public
- Doors open at 8:30 a.m., festival hours are 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.
- The closest Metro station is Mount Vernon Square (on the Green/Yellow lines)
More frequently asked questions & answers here: www.loc.gov/events/2025-...

Colorful graphic reads: Uniting Book Lovers for 25 Years Library of Congress National Book Festival September 6, 2025 Visit loc.gov/bookfest to learn more.

It's almost time! The 25th Library of Congress National Book Festival is TOMORROW (Saturday, Sept. 6) at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. Are you coming? Read this #NatBookFest thread! 🧵👇

People gather near the info booth at the entrance to the Washington Convention Center for the 25th National Book Festival

And doors are OPEN for the 25th National Book Festival! loc.gov/bookfest

Spent the day yesterday working with our team trying to mitigate heavy bot traffic. It's a real test of infrastructure and resilience.

A book that will take at least as long to read as it takes you to make your way to the right part of IKEA. In other words, Tolstoy.

Geraldine Brooks to Receive 2025 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction Geraldine Brooks to Receive 2025 Library of Congress Prize for American FictionAuthor of ‘March,’ ‘People of the Book’ and ‘The Secret Chord’ Will Be Awarded Prize at National Book Festival The...

NEWS: The 2025 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction will be awarded to Geraldine Brooks at the National Book Festival on Sept. 6! newsroom.loc.gov/news/geraldi...

On September 25, at 1pm ET, I'll be talking with @tjowens.bsky.social about his book, After Disruption. I especially want to know how we think about the values informing cultural memory practice amidst such ubiquitous, nefarious disruption — and plan ahead for the aftermath. Hosted by @archive.org.

There will be many casualties from UChicago ending ('pausing') PhD admissions in Humantities, but one which I am keenly aware of: this is close to a death sentence for teaching cuneiform in the United States (esp. Sumerian, Hittite, Elamite, Eblaite, Luwian) and it will affect the whole world.

This was an important part of why I got my undergrad in Classics.