"the only other way to make a request is via email; we typically ask that you email from your university account, as our spam filters often filter out things not from university accounts.

also, we immediately shut off your university email account the day you left."

"you'll lose access after 90 days, but also we won't post your tax documents until long after that, have fun!"

love that my former employer locks me out of the computer systems that allow access to necessary tax documents

CFP!

Edinburgh Bibliographical Seminar and Workshop: 'Catalogues and Registers as Evidence in the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology': networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

CFP!

Edinburgh Bibliographical Seminar and Workshop: 'Catalogues and Registers as Evidence in the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology': networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

i’ve been meaning to go back and spend more time with it (eg, sort out the workflow of Lyell making edits and then it being marked up, which I assume is what’s happening here), so if more from it might be useful as an example let me know :) happy to share images

extensively marked up copy of a page from Lyell’s principles of geology

title page of Principles with corrections

errata page of Principles, with the errata struck through

another market up page

I‘m asking someone not on bluesky who may know (or at least know of some good places to look) tbd - but in the meantime, I do know of this pretty extensive example (Lyell’s Geography, copies at Edinburgh U) if that’s of any use

does anyone know of any good work on (or anyone working on) the history of English Institute, especially while it was at Columbia? I have early accounts of it and the selected papers, but would love to find some kind of historical account, even something brief as part of something else

oh that's a good point! thank you

(and Fredson Bowers was later on the steering committee, apparently off and on, for a stretch in the 1950s, alongside Frye, Wimsatt, etc.)

(I've been thinking, since #QueerBib26, about the institutional relations between Bibliography and Theory - as part of that, am v. interested in the fact that Greg's "What is Bibliography?" was presented at an early Eng Institute meeting!)

does anyone know of any good work on (or anyone working on) the history of English Institute, especially while it was at Columbia? I have early accounts of it and the selected papers, but would love to find some kind of historical account, even something brief as part of something else

(has also been a good opportunity for me to [try to 😵‍💫] learn about how steam engines actually work)

steam driven winding engine at the National Mining Museum of Scotland/Lady Victoria Colliery, built 1894 by Grant, Ritchie & Co., Kilmarnock. The image shows the central drum with a cylinder on each side. It is painted green with a yellow flag featuring a red lion on it; below the flag is a banner that reads "Lady Victoria"

exciting things afoot at the National Mining Museum of Scotland - stay tuned for some more materials about this 1890s steam winding engine that I've been transcribing and hoping to start getting online next week

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/windingeng...

also, switching to @kagi for most things has been the best investment

“There used to be a professional layer between most people and raw information. Librarians, researchers, editors, fact-checkers: people whose…job was to understand how information was organized, who produced it, what motivated them, and where the gaps were“ - my ideal job if it still existed 😭

these might be good starting points!:

www.jstor.org/stable/90013...

compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

(to be clear 'used to' means when i was 10-12 years old, but i'd like to pretend that cow wrangling is like riding a bike)

a cow, probably (I used to raise them)

very excited to read this - speaking of so much to learn so little time!

👀

i didn't get to really talk about these, but i'm fascinated by them:

and lets not even talk about adam matthews databases 😵‍💫

I think it all comes from the complicated way Zoom sets up 'Webinars' vs 'Meetings'

from the presenter end: the chat was set up, for presenters, to only send messages to the hosts and other presenters; but presenters also couldn't post directly in the Q&A (could only post answers, not questions)! I know they sorted it so that presenters could send chat messages to all participants

its gearing up to be an exciting conversation! but if you can't make it, please feel free be in touch for the pre-circulated paper if you don't have it :)

hahaha, thank you - i was worried it was going to be too niche, but i'm glad it found its audience

descriptive bibliographers won’t admit this, but most of them have a Docudome in their basement. That’s how they get their ideal copy.

come listen to and help me work through many complicated thoughts about the relations between (New) Bibliography and Theory! And of course stay for brilliant work by everyone else :)

I'm pretty sure Roger Stoddard's "Marks in Books" exhibition catalogue talks about them, at least a bit?