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Thumbnail of the film poster showing the title and an image of Dr. William Fliss walking amid library bookshelves
"The Muster at Marquette" is a brand-new short documentary on the quest underway at Raynor Library to preserve 6,000 #Tolkien fandom voices. Celebrate #HobbitDay by giving it a watch—or adding your voice to the muster! www.marquette.edu/library/news...
@tolkiensociety.org
Happy #HobbitDay to all!
On 22 September: Bilbo and Frodo Baggins were born. As Ring-bearers, born 78 years apart, their birthdays were honoured as Cormarë, and Tolkien societies worldwide continue to commemorate. How will you celebrate? #Tolkien #BookSky
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31.03.2025 21:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It's NEVER too late to return a library book! 😉
#overdue #LibraryLife #MarquetteU
It's NEVER too late to return a library book! 😉
#overdue #LibraryLife #MarquetteU
""And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge." - Galadriel, in the Lord of the Rings." In the background is an illustration of a grassy hill with puffy clouds and blue sky behind it.
For #TolkienReadingDay, tune in to hear Tolkien archivist Dr. Bill Fliss and English professor Dr. Gerry Canavan on the What's On Tap radio show with Sandy Maxx. It streams live at 7 p.m. CDT tonight.
#620WTMJ #MarquetteU
![Pictured is an annotated version of a fold-out map which was included in early editions of the Lord of The Rings. The map shows readers Tolkien’s fantasy world ‘Middle-earth’.
The annotations are by Tolkien himself, and were for the benefit of Pauline Baynes, an artist who was creating an illustrated poster map of Middle-earth.
Baynes ripped the map out of her own 1954 copy of Lord of the Rings and took it to Tolkien, who covered it with notes, including many extra place names that do not appear in the book. Since most were in his own invented Elvish language he helpfully translated some: ‘Eryn Vorn [= Black Forest] a forest region of dark [pine?] trees.’
The annotations give an insight into how vividly Tolkien pictured Middle-earth in his mind, and how thorough his research was. They include a series of geographical pointers about the latitude of key locations: ‘Hobbiton is assumed to be approx. at latitude of Oxford,’. ‘Minas Tirith is about latitude of Ravenna (but is 900 miles east of Hobbiton more near Belgrade). Bottom of the map (1,400 miles) is about latitude of Jerusalem.’
Pictured: MS. Tolkien Drawings 132. copyright Tolkien Estate / Williams College Oxford Programme 2018](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:blxilps4iwbxicionf2rztej/bafkreihyhpyp5dimgthg2hvn4esb7fiyz4q425ceduhvhqpvyr45iz7bry@jpeg)
Pictured is an annotated version of a fold-out map which was included in early editions of the Lord of The Rings. The map shows readers Tolkien’s fantasy world ‘Middle-earth’. The annotations are by Tolkien himself, and were for the benefit of Pauline Baynes, an artist who was creating an illustrated poster map of Middle-earth. Baynes ripped the map out of her own 1954 copy of Lord of the Rings and took it to Tolkien, who covered it with notes, including many extra place names that do not appear in the book. Since most were in his own invented Elvish language he helpfully translated some: ‘Eryn Vorn [= Black Forest] a forest region of dark [pine?] trees.’ The annotations give an insight into how vividly Tolkien pictured Middle-earth in his mind, and how thorough his research was. They include a series of geographical pointers about the latitude of key locations: ‘Hobbiton is assumed to be approx. at latitude of Oxford,’. ‘Minas Tirith is about latitude of Ravenna (but is 900 miles east of Hobbiton more near Belgrade). Bottom of the map (1,400 miles) is about latitude of Jerusalem.’ Pictured: MS. Tolkien Drawings 132. copyright Tolkien Estate / Williams College Oxford Programme 2018
Happy #TolkienReadingDay to all who celebrate! Please enjoy this map of Middle Earth, annotated by the man himself and including several locations not mentioned in the books:
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Coming up Friday 2/14: Douglass Day Transcribe-A-Thon! Stop by to transcribe a Library of Congress collection that documents African American history—and make Black history more accessible to all. No experience necessary. RSVP here: www.marquette.edu/library/news... #DouglassDay #MarquetteU
10.02.2025 17:07 — 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0for the evening crew
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Coming up Friday 2/14: Douglass Day Transcribe-A-Thon! Stop by to transcribe a Library of Congress collection that documents African American history—and make Black history more accessible to all. No experience necessary. RSVP here: www.marquette.edu/library/news... #DouglassDay #MarquetteU
10.02.2025 17:07 — 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0If you're looking for government information during this unusual federal transition, University of Minnesota librarians have set up a hub to track efforts, including data rescue initiatives, reliable alternative sources, and more. Recommended. libguides.umn.edu/c.php?g=1449...
10.02.2025 16:04 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Well. I have been informed that it is the weekend, again.
When you are ready to sit down together & figure out what just happened and what to do, we’ve got you: buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
It’s also okay if you’re coming in hot! “What the actual fuck??” is a sensible start place at the moment.
my public library is releasing some archival footage recently processed and catalogued in honor of Black History Month, check out this oral history project filmed in 1991 featuring interviews with Black Milwaukeeans!
content.mpl.org/digital/coll...
Text: Severe weather update: Raynor is open today noon-6:30 pm with limited services. Image: snowy hill with dog in scarf, saying "stay warm, Marquette"
With classes canceled today, we're open noon to 6:30 pm today with limited services. It's mighty cold--stay warm, #MarquetteU!
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Singin' in the Public Domain January 22nd 2025 10 am PT-11:30 am PT Virtual / image of a music staff, notes, books, and an unlocked padlock with legs dancing under an umbrella
Celebrate the ability to create more art with us and our friends @archive.org online and in person on January 22!
blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/w...
Dreamt I indexed the fictional archives of LOTRs King Theoden! Elaborate & fun. (IRL, in the 1970s I processed the documents of & created the initial Finding Aid for the JRRT Manuscripts Collection at the @marquetteraynor.bsky.social Special Collections division.)
#Booksky 💙📚
Engraved illustration from an 1867 Harper's magazine showing four children parading with noisy fanfare around their parents' bed, as the parents look on, bedraggled and unamused. The caption reads, "An early Christmas call"
For those in Milwaukee, a reminder that the library, like the rest of #MarquetteU, is closed Dec. 24-Jan. 2. Wishing you the merriest of holiday weeks!
Pictured: 1867 Harper's engraving with 4 kids parading noisily around their unamused parents' bed on Christmas morning.
My book 'Milwaukee Mayhem' can be read for free at the @archive.org and I am entirely at peace with that. Maybe if you really like it you can buy a copy or give it as a gift. But READ IT if you want to. That's why I wrote the fucking thing in the first place. archive.org/details/milw...
12.12.2024 17:33 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Everything that is in the heavens, on earth, and under the earth is penetrated with connectedness, penetrated with relatedness.
-Hildegard von Bingen, b. 1098
Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪
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A new interactive map is out from our #DigitalScholarship team: Unceded Milwaukee, which visualizes Indigenous Milwaukee in the age of empire—before and in the immediate aftermath of the 1833 Treaty of Chicago that ceded Indigenous homeland to the United States. today.marquette.edu/2024/12/unce...
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Gonna have fun with this in class today:
arstechnica.com/ai/2024/12/n...
the lay person can intuit the difference between Google Books and Gen AI but might not be able to put it into words. Ultimately, one adds legibility to social relations and empirical understanding; the other subtracts. In other words, one contributes to the public interest; the other detracts.
27.11.2024 17:04 — 👍 291 🔁 47 💬 7 📌 1A fresh reminder to take care when choosing a publisher.
"The company “Springer Global Publication” ... has published dozens of papers cloning the websites of ... Elsevier, Springer, the American Medical Association and more."
#MarquetteU will be participating! If you're on campus, mark your calendar to stop by and transcribe Feb. 14, 2025. Are you a Marquette instructor? Get in touch to include the transcribing activity in one of your classes.
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My work features prominently in a Nature editorial today. Great to see digital preservation being taken seriously.
"Millions of research articles are absent from major digital archives. This worrying finding, [...] was laid bare in a study by Martin Eve" www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Flyer for drive: Donate books! Books and magazines of any kind.
Book drive under way at #MarquetteU through Dec. 13! Clear out your shelves and donate books (for kids through adults) & magazines.
* Raynor Lobby * AMU 1st Fl * Book Marq
Donations go to inmates in MKE County's Community Reintegration Center and kids in Next Door's early head start.
Aerial view of the Marquette Campus from the corner of 11th Street and Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee University, 1920s.
Hello, world!
Aerial view of the Marquette University campus from the corner of 11th St. and Wisconsin Ave., 1920s. See many more historical images documenting Marquette's history in our digital collections. cdm16280.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...
