Poster with a white and beigey-orange background with event details for Jody Mason's talk about her new book _Books for International Development_ on January 23 from 12pm-1:30pm. The poster is en français but the talk will be in English. See link in post for registration.

Jody Mason (my supervisor) will be talking about her new book, Books for Development: Canada in the Late Twentieth-Century World!

When: January 23, 2026 12-1:30pm EST

Where: zoom

Register in advance here: uqam.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#bookhistory

Call for Applicants: SHARP News Bibliographers. The text details the call for applications for the new SHARP News Bibliographer. Please see the link in the post above to view the call, in detail, on our website.

Call for Applicants: SHARP News Bibliographers. The text details the call for applications for the new SHARP News Bibliographer. Please see the link in the post above to view the call, in detail, on our website.

Call for Applicants: SHARP News Bibliographers. The text details the call for applications for the new SHARP News Bibliographer. Please see the link in the post above to view the call, in detail, on our website.

Call for Applicants: SHARP News Bibliographers. The text details the call for applications for the new SHARP News Bibliographer. Please see the link in the post above to view the call, in detail, on our website.

We encourage applications from early career researchers (ECRs) and especially welcome applications from BIPOC!

See the full call for applications for more details on how to apply: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

Call for Applications: SHARP News Bibliographers

As @bibliowingate.bsky.social's term comes to an end, we're looking to shake things up & establish a bibliography team of 2+ people.

Applications due October 1 2025.

The full call for applications and how to apply:
sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

Introductions are hard.

We're looking for fun and cool short articles on books and bookish things in the everyday, pop culture, etc etc etc

#BookHistory #PrintCulture #Publishing #PopCulture

@sarahpelletier.bsky.social's talk is about the misogynistic humour in *The Printer’s Miscellany*"

It was advertized—but crucially only twice!—as half price for women (50¢, same price as for boy apprentices).

No female names appear in the list of its contributors.

#RSVP2025 #BookHistory

The Rosemary VanArsdel Prize – RSVP The VanArsdel Prize is awarded annually to the best graduate student essay investigating Victorian periodicals and newspapers. The prize was established in 1990 to honor Rosemary VanArsdel, a…

Putting the final touches on your final #19thC periodicals paper? Why not submit it to our VanArsdel Prize? Submissions are open through June 15! The best grad student essay on Victorian periodicals wins $500 + publication in VPR. rs4vp.org/awards/vanar...
#VanArsdelPrize #RSVPprizes

Hey, grad students! Do you have a great essay you’d like to publish? The deadline for the Hamilton Prize is coming up: July 1, 2025. The winner will have their work published in the journal and receive $500 CAD. See the website for details. victorianreview.org?page_id=358

Head, King Library Press The University of Kentucky Libraries is vital to fulfilling the goals of enhancing and expanding the university’s research and education enterprise. As part of that mission, we are looking for an enth...

New full-time #BookLab job just dropped for the #KingLibraryPress: ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/580...

Please share widely as you can, I am on the search committee and am also happy to chat about what it means to live in Kentucky.

I know someone in my feed would be perfect for this job to “lead and coordinate the outreach, programming, and book arts production efforts of the University of Kentucky Libraries’ King Library Press”

Letterpress printed sheets reading TRANS KIDS ARE REAL TRANS KIDS ARE SPECIAL TRANS KIDS ARE LOVED

Dropped by @skeuomorphpress.org to check on @transbookhistory.bsky.social’s community print for Trans Day of Visibility & found it bustling, full of kids & families happily setting wood type & printing these incredible broadsides. If we founded Skeuomorph for anything it was for events like that

Exploring hornbooks, the educational devices that instructed children for centuries YouTube video by Harry Ransom Center

Check out this (only moderately embarrassing) video of me showing off the @ransomcenter.bsky.social’s small but mighty collection of hornbooks.

Stick around to the end to see an exciting new acquisition. (And tell me if you’ve seen another like it.)

youtu.be/PyPu3Vum1lQ?...

posting this again bc some ppl I know have said they haven't figured out how to follow more ppl on bluesky: go.bsky.app/NKHmh87

@joshuajfriedman.com are you still taking names on this or is it full?

I haven't seen all of this book myself, but I imagine that it is what dreams are made of.