Kaja Marczewska

The excellent @uclartlibrarian.bsky.social and I curated this little display at @senatehouselib.bsky.social as part of @uclspeccoll.bsky.social 60 years of Small Press collecting celebrations. Pop in to see it if you are in the area!

CM Vol 25 CfP University as Infrastructure Culture Machine Vol. 25 Call for Papers: University as Infrastructure  Guest-edited by: Alexandra Anikina, Johannes Bruder, Megen de Bruin-Molé, Stephen Cornford, Kwame Phillips & Geoff Cox  …

CFP: Special issue of Culture Machine on the University as Infrastructure

culturemachine.net/vol25-cfp-un...

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.

Important (and also helpful) blog on AI in the context of publication from @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social . Worth reading.

Craft Thing! Join us for an afternoon of exploring textile and craft in history, theory, and practice at UCL Special Collections

Craft Thing! Join us on 10 June for an afternoon of #crafting, collection displays, and a talk on histories of political banner making by the brilliant Alice Gabb!

Free and open to all: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/craft-thin....

Happy belated birthday Karl #Marx!

Listen, put down that copy of Hello! and take a trip through the wilder side of magazines. We'll be exploring the inky world of alternative publishing: poets, artists, innovators and visionaries. 23rd May in London - still places left and not much time to register. Please SHARE SHARE SHARE!

Come hang out with @gillpartington.bsky.social @uclartlibrarian.bsky.social @djbduncan.bsky.social , me and UCL’s @uclspeccoll.bsky.social brilliant collections of magazines!

Exciting job opportunity to become St John's College's Special Collections Librarian www.joh.cam.ac.uk/special-coll... - permanent post, salary £41,944-£47,208 (depending on experience) plus benefits. Working with a great collection and a friendly team. @ciliprarebooks.bsky.social #LibraryJobs

And even more importantly, hang out also with the always excellent @octavosaurus.bsky.social and @uclartlibrarian.bsky.social! What’s not to like?

@sharpnews.bsky.social @sharpweb.org

Come hang out with me, @uclspeccoll.bsky.social and @sladeschoolucl.bsky.social as our first ever Small Press in Residence. £5,000 to spend flexibly, access to collections, and some super facilities: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...

Open Morning. March 7th, 10 - 12pm. UCL Bloomsbury, South Junction reading Room, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT. At top of graphic is the cover of a suffragette publication featuring a purple and green logo and an angel blowing a trumpet while holding a banner which reads "freedom"

On March 7th we're doing an International Women's Day edition of our Bloomsbury Open Morning! Come see some rare books and archives related to the history of women's suffrage and the continuing fight for women's rights.

Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-morni...

#London #RareBooks #Archives

1987 Año Internacional del Pueblo Palestino (Mexico, 1987)

The cover of this booklet features such an arresting illustration. Does anyone know the name of the artist?

Delighted to announce that, funded by a grant from @forarthistory.bsky.social, I am organising a symposium on 9 June 2025 entitled 'Artists' Books: Structures/Infrastructures'.

Academics, doctoral students, artists, curators, librarians - anyone involved in the artists' books ecosystem may apply!

The revolution will be stencilled! Mimeography and Small Press at UCL Join us for a day of mimeo printing and talks in celebration of 60 years of small press collecting at UCL.

This will be brilliant! If you are in London, join us on 19 Feb for a day of talks, performances, collection displays, pop up library, and actual mimeo printing magic! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-revolu...

Cover of the zine "A Librarian Against AI; or, I Think AI Should Leave", featuring a design of bold color blocks inspired by the opening titles of the TV show "I Think You Should Leave"

📣 New zine!! "A Librarian Against AI; or, I Think AI Should Leave" is a 40-page zine about why we should think twice about using & supporting generative AI. violetbfox.info/against-ai/ #noAI #zines

You could read all of these zines with a Barnard Library Research Award library.barnard.edu/grants-and-a... Applications due in February.

Hang out with me and the super @uclofficial.bsky.social special collections in 2025: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...

Some fun new acquisitions from @uclofficial.bsky.social Special Collections!: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...

Yes please also

Also happy to be added

Since a billion people seem to have joined BlueSky today, take a look at this CFP & submit something!

Screenshot of Spotify podcast episode for Le Random interview with Douglas Dodds - Digital Curators Series 01

Huge thanks to Peter Bauman (Aka Monk Antony) at Le Random www.lerandom.art for chatting to me about collecting and valuing digital art. The podcast is now available on:

Apple t.co/sM1XgMbtDS
Spotify t.co/mjXhRcLFuh
Youtube t.co/zodzqbrogn (audio only)

Book Collecting/Contemporary Practice: Anthony Davis Prize 2024 finalists Explore contemporary book collecting practice through objects from 2024 Anthony Davis Book Collecting Prize shortlisted collections.

We are doing a fun bookish thing UCL Special Collections next week. Free and open to all: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-colle...

A book with white cover, with title PANDEMIC OBJECTS painted in a small pink square.

Inside cover of a book with exposed spine and pint text against white background: "This is an archive of ordinary things in an extraordinary time."

This beauty arrived in post today. A real privilege to have some of my work included!

Congrats! I made the same move fairly recently and it’s been great!

UCLA California Rare Book School is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the second annual Queer Bibliography conference to be held between July 24-27, 2024, on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles, California. Full call for papers can be found at: www.calrbs.org/events/queer....

A super funded PhD opportunity exploring publishing histories of the British Black Power movement. Open to creative and practice-based approaches to the topic too. More information: lahp.ac.uk/prospective-...