As someone who has made my intellectual and professional home in these institutions since the year Stefanik graduated from Harvard, the same year I earned my BA from a continuing ed program at a local university, I just don't see it. Here is someone who was privately educated at a prep school. . .
Really hesitant to read this. Necessary, but it still feels like salt in the wound.
Signaling a mismatch between object file and metadata @archive.org Would love to get my hands on the Benini Clementi volume! archive.org/details/rifo...
I was crowded for space, and wished the other parts of my body to remain a blank page for a poem I was then composing
A campaign I can totally get behind!
The granularity of surveillance is truly alarming and I wonder if libraries might be well positioned to tackle some literacy initiatives around data collection and informed consent in the context of learning systems and instructional content.
Is there a polymarket for EdTech?
Folks, I just walked out of a vendor meeting that brought together learning management systems, OA content, ebooks & AI in one giant data collecting enterprise. Higher ed's future is getting really dystopian as individual learning is increasingly monetized through student data exhaust. 😱
“…everywhere he looked, there were people, including a number of other Yale Law graduates, who were doing morally grotesque things…” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/s... And the bar continues its inexorable journey downwards
As if we needed more evidence for a call to misandry.
beautiful!!🤩
ASMR Alert!
Today's manuscript is a collection of 15th century statutes for an Italian village, Vigliano d'Asti. Like a medieval HOA, it specifies things like local elections and the proper use of public roads. The flyleaves are 11th century (UPenn Ms. Codex 55) #medievalsky
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Wonderful! This looks fantastic!
and inequities of power is overwhelming and humbling. So, in addition to a desire to building impossible bridges across time, for tomorrow I would love to build one across space, to a lecture hall in Aarhus, to be moved by the abundance of what was lost.
Or the pages of Michel-Rolphe Trouillot, who prefaced his volume with a quote from Sallust's History of Catiline: "I am well aware that by no means equal repute attends the narrator and the doer of deeds," the complexity of stewarding these relics in the face of an abundance of absences...
As someone responsible for stewarding rare books collections into the future (ah, yes, in perpetuity), their work is a poignant reminder of how sisyphean our efforts may be. When read in parallel with the wonderful work of @amaliasl.bsky.social or @dorothyjberry.bsky.social ...
Their findings on insular lit are intriguing - the loss figures for Icelandic and Irish are considerable, yet their distributional characteristics seem to have made them more resistant to post-medieval losses.
Using methods from ecology which estimate the numbers of unseen species, they examine data from cultural artifacts to gauge the loss of narratives from medieval Europe. Medieval French lit production was sizable, but the # of low-abundance works rendered it more susceptible to immaterial loss.
If you are unfamiliar with their work, they are responsible for one of the most exciting papers in #medievalstudies and #bookhistory I've read in the last decade. www.science.org/doi/full/10....
If there were ever a time when I wished for the gift of ubiquity, it would be for this: dhnb.eu/conferences/... Really sorry not to be in Aarhus for @mikekestemont.bsky.social & Folgert Karsdorp's keynote "Forgotten knights, missing sailors, and hidden translations: The abundance of what was lost"
I love everything about this! The conviction that a major figure was not struck by a bolt of lightning but worked to understand the system he would ultimately critique and help dismantle. The scholarly sleuthing rare books — all of it. 😎🤓
www.science.org/content/arti...
Extraordinary 🎁www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/science/strad...
We are thrilled to reveal the 2026 #WomensPrize for Fiction longlist. 16 titles that showcase the profound force, resonance and scale of fiction writing: from tackling turbulent global issues to examining the intensely intimate. Discover the longlist here: youtu.be/fyPfDaHddLg
The Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI) database by CERL tracks copy-specific evidence in 15th-century books.
Freely accessible and continually expanding through international collaboration.
🔎 Explore MEI: data.cerl.org/mei/_search
A classic black-and-white engraved portrait of Emma Willard, the pioneering American educator and women's rights advocate, from the early to mid-19th century. She is depicted as a middle-aged woman with a calm, dignified, and resolute expression, gazing directly at the viewer. Her dark hair is styled in soft curls framing her face, partially covered by a sheer, lace-trimmed bonnet or veil that drapes over her shoulders. She wears a dark, high-necked dress or gown with a textured shawl or cape, the intricate cross-hatching and fine line work typical of period engravings emphasizing her composed and intellectual presence. The image captures her as a trailblazer who founded the Troy Female Seminary (now Emma Willard School) in 1821, advocating for rigorous academic education for women at a time when such opportunities were rare.
Emma Willard founded the first school for women's higher #education in the US, the Troy Female Seminary in NY (1821).
The curriculum included subjects long absent in women's education incl. #mathematics, #geography, #history & #science. By 1831, there were >300 students. She was born #OTD in 1787.
oooh! nice!
Data as a new research publication type: What could be the role of research libraries as service providers? | LIBER Quarterly: The Journal of the Association of European Research Libraries https://liberquarterly.eu/article/view/19415
Monochrome photograph featuring a line of six white girls in dresses sitting on the outside step of a wooden building while reading books
Girls reading, 1939 by US photographer Dorothea Lange #WomensArt
