My little suggestion today is that if you have to read a T.S. Eliot poem you put, “Girl,” in front of the first line & read the rest in the voice of a drag queen reading someone to filth.

Two hands hold an open book with printed and handwritten text, accompanied by a promotional banner from The Bibliographical Society of America. Transcribed Text: Left Page: THE HIGH TREASVRE... (text continues further down) Imprinted at London, for Gabriell Simson and William White. Right Page: I hate not, having a real note book, but when you order one you, note write... Banner Text: We Need More Bibliographers

The Bibliographical Society of America is participating in a social media campaign with ACLS this week, and we invite you to join in! The message is simple and proactive: we need more humanities and social sciences scholars and research.

#TalkAboutHumanities

I love ordering books like 3-4 months in advance that pleasantly surprise me when they arrive in my mailbox

I met my boyfriend at ASECS!!

Serious query: Did anyone out there subscribe to Neopets The Official Magazine and keep their issues?

Please stop saying TACO. We’re talking about an ungodly number of people who could die or maimed. It’s not time for cutesy little internet slang. We have to get away from this bizarre desensitization.

It’s really sad and scary how utterly desensitized we are to such mass-scale violence and destruction, and how helpless we’ve been made to feel

Trump threatening to destroy “a whole civilization, never to be brought back again” and we just all went to work and watched tv and went to the grocery store and talked about the weather

I see we’re still in the “call your elected officials to stop Trump!” phase of delusion

Imagine you're slipping the surly bonds of Earth and touching the face of God but then you have to get on the phone to listen to a child molester ramble about how Bette Midler is nasty

hands holding a small, folded up comic, titled Marginalia with a medieval dragon-snail creature on its cover.

Today's my birthday and I'd like to share a new comic with you, it's called Marginalia. It's a love letter to all the weirdness of medieval manuscripts, and you can read it by unfolding a single sheet of paper!
1/5

losing contact with the earth for 40 minutes sounds nice

So jealous!! I wanna play

can vouch

📢 Calling all special collections oomfs!

I’m doing a very informal survey of how different American universities staff their special collections reading rooms. If you’re willing to answer a few questions, please DM me!

(You don’t need to work in the RR, you just need to know how the RR is run)

you can go to a rare book library and learn anything

(please come visit me! we have amazing LGBTQ+ collections)

Trump fires Pam Bondi as attorney general | CNN Politics President Donald Trump has fired Pam Bondi as attorney general.

We're all cheering that Pam Bondi was fired because she was a corrupt and incompetent attorney general. But Trump fired her to install an AG who will be worse ... who will use DOJ to bring meritless prosecutions based on Trump retribution.

Todd Blanche is a disaster.

www.cnn.com/2026/04/02/p...

Both Pam Bondi (AG) and Tulsi Gabbard (Director of National Intelligence) appear to be about to lose their jobs, in potentially a sign of a deeper scandal. My bet is both.

Let’s remember that Trump's first pick for attorney general was Matt Gaetz, who paid a 17-year-old for sex. Trump settled for Pam Bondi, who covered up the Epstein files and used the Justice Dept. for political retribution – but not enough for Trump.
The next AG is likely to be even worse.

The singular "they" has been around longer than English has had codified grammar, so really, anyone who fumes about it can go fuck themself

www.oed.com/discover/a-b...

2 people consulting a printed volume on a book cushion

📢Job alert! We’re looking for 3 new full-time graduate trainee Archives & Special Collections Assistants to join our innovative, user-focused engagement team.

See more details and apply: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/archives...

🗓️Closing date: 16 April 2026

Who cares about Tiger Woods?

I forgot to add alt text but the image is a wine bottle with a cloth tied around the cork that says “to: the last drop”

In my PhD I worked in a book arts makerspace and we would often joke “is [something that isn’t a book] a book?!”

now I’m a rare book librarian and can say, yes, unfortunately [something that isn’t a book] is, in fact, a book.

I'm now rereading this presentation from Dr. Bridget Whearty, for the first time in a few years, and it's still so timely and thoughtful. Between Dr. Whearty and the folks she's citing/quoting throughout, all bangers. My favorite playlist.

Body Size in Early Modern Germany Abstract. This book uncovers the significance of body size—of fatness and thinness—in early modern Germany. It explores how early modern people conceived o

So so pleased to see that my book ‘Body Size in Early Modern Germany’ is now available on Oxford Academic ahead of its print publication later this month: academic.oup.com/book/62409

🎉🎉🎉

To mark its online publication, I thought I’d share a bit more about the book and its contents...

I’m so excited to get a copy for my boyfriend, whose birthday practically coincides with the release!

While we wage war against countless nations, for some reason I cannot imagine that I deserve, I am receiving nonstop news updates on an individual named Taylor Frankie Paul, who, sorry to this woman, I have never heard of. I do not wish her well, despite her disruption to Disney company operations.

Yes!! I can't wait to read what you write!

Signed,
Someone who was meant to be a Reformation scholar, but who never became one

Young black woman in turquoise silk gown, with lace sleeves, lace cap, and fichu, double strands of pearls around her neck and her wrists. She is holding a white flower. in one hand, and a ribbon in the other. A tropical looking tree is behind her. She looks right at the viewer with an assessing look.

It is lovely that the Art Gallery of Ontario can now name the Black woman in the gorgeous #18thc portrait they acquired 6 yrs ago & also date the painting. It's from 1775. She is Eleonora Susette, enslaved by the Dutch governor of Guyana, accompanying his widow on her return to the Netherlands.