Hey, #Boston friends! I'll be giving a talk on David Walker at Boston Public Library on 21 May, and I'd love it if you were able to join me! The talk is free, and you can sign up at the link below! 🗃️
The only good application is a submitted application!
Yikes
Say Yes!
Regina Martínez Lorenzo is the first Mexican woman to compete in Olympics cross-country skiing.
Other racers waited at the finish line to hug her. Brazil’s Bruna Moura, an 3 medalists, Karlsson, Ebba Andersson of Sweden, and Jessie Diggins from the US.
She learned to ski while in med school in MN.
Congratulations!
Things I hear on campus as we continue to adapt to AI. Plenty try to incorporate it. Others:
- med school faculty going back to oral exams
- comp sci faculty building no-network linux systems with IT for exams in programming courses
Great phrase
thank you for everything you did for we here and for the library and information science profession, fobazi. you were an incredible friend, thinker, writer, supporter. you’ll be dearly missed 🤍
I may have a stroke.
Someone said protests don’t belong in church and it took every ounce of self-censure within me not to say “Deborah you are literally a Protestant.”
A PROTESTant.
I assume they think Luther was nailing Bed, Bath, & Beyond coupons to the door.
Hey, if it's in the teens, it's not too cold
A colorized image from 1588 showing dancing people, a musican, and a few very big dabbers.
Just giant dabbers flying around while people are dancing. I am unsure what they are celebrating, but giant ink-balls were used in #earlymodern printing offices in the last step before printing. Such dabbers consist of pieces of leather filled with wool or hair and a wooden handle. #bookhistory
Oh sweet Ithaca.
Looks like Ice has united most of the country into kind of a general strike for the next day or two.
Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out.
As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.
Here's what happened:
A piece of my heart is still in Mpls
just delighted that the Adams power press supports your work
Interested in coming to Champaign-Urbana and using the collections at @illinoisrbml.bsky.social ? We have a $3k visiting scholar program for that! Applications accepted beginning Nov 17. www.library.illinois.edu/rbx/research...
Not sure what British equivalents of 1st press would be, but if you can get a copy of Vol. 3 of The History of Oxford University Press covering this period (or Vol. 2 might discuss 70 years earlier), you might get info about the 2 presses shown.
I will look again. On first glance it seemed like an AB Taylor or poss. Hoe -- will look
I have a Boc. work printed by Andrus & Son, Hartford -- with binder's waste from a Bible (Ecclesiastes). My little treasure!
Well done!
Sadly, not APP....
very glad for you!
Here we go!
Thousands of shiny, happy, people holding hands and singing their heads off in Melbourne. 🎉😀🦘
#PubChoir #Melbourne #Rem #Music #Singing #ShinyHappyPeople
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVcy...
And since 2000 is to have up-to-date scholarly work. Though I like the Victorian source. Not legal history -- apparently has read already in that area.
I am tryi g to put together a reading list for a person who wants to give a talk on this topic at his retirement community next year. (Good for him!!) Ideally a mix of experiences, prob Atlantic seaboard to Kentucky region. He wants scholarly books, though I think some academic, some biography.
I am seeking book recommendations for everyday life of women in colonial and early republic US, esp. if published since 2000. Suggestions?
For many years I have been posting little observations online. What you may not know is that for many years, artists have been illustrating them - for no reason other than they wanted to respond. Below is a thread of some of these beautiful drawings because they should be seen 🧵
(solemnly) You've had mail.
