I'll contribute a short discussion on collecting and managing paper ephemera 📎 at Asian collections. Tune in if you can!

A Zoom participant introduced their job as "Glass Flowers Conservator"

One perk of working at a massive university campus is that you meet people working these mind-blowing jobs that you never knew exist.

Digital Collections Curator - ITHAKA ITHAKA’s mission is to expand access to knowledge and education around the world. Our services — JSTOR, Portico, and Ithaka S+R — enable people everywhere to learn, to grow, and to overcome barriers t...

Job opening here at ITHAKA's JSTOR: Digital Collections Curator, Reveal Digital, focusing on important cultural, social, and political histories, especially those that have been dispersed, under-described, or difficult to access at scale. Full job description: www.ithaka.org/job/46724530...

NYT article “How ICE Plans to Put 8,500 Immigrants in This Warehouse,” with the comment “Experts say the initial designs raise health, safety and security concerns.” The image is a vertical floorplan with pods tightly packed that resembles diagrams of slave ships in abolitionist literature from the 18th century

The person who made this image is well versed in the iconography of the transatlantic slave trade.

exhibition case for pop-up exhibit on K-pop in Harvard-Yenching Library

A pop-up exhibition this week in our main reading room, showcasing items from our "K-pop Fandom Collection": photobooks, audiovisual, ephemera, posters, and lightsticks from 1990s-present. This collection was developed in support of a new Harvard undergrad class on "Korean Stars"

(📸: Adrianne Gren)

Appreciate this helpful and detailed review by @devinfitz.bsky.social

Librarian for Japanese Studies

After a year of hiring pause, we have finally resumed our search for Harvard's next #Librarian for #JapaneseStudies. Please help us spread the word!

Friendly reminder: you don't need to check all the boxes to be a competitive candidate.

careers.harvard.edu/job/libraria...

Year of the Horse The Lunar New Year is one of the most significant cultural celebrations in East Asia, marking the beginning of the year based on the lunar calendar.

This and eight other items from Harvard-Yenching's collections are currently on display in our main reading room as part of our "Year of the Horse" exhibit. Check it out if you're around! library.harvard.edu/exhibits/yea...

Two horse illustrations from 北平箋谱 Beiping jian pu (1951), a renowned collection of polychrome woodblock-printed Chinese artworks. This 1951 edition was the first in the iterative series to include artworks of all twelve Chinese zodiacs.

id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/9900809...

百美新詠圖傳 - Harvard-Yenching Institute Original images held by the Harvard-Yenching Library of the Harvard College Library, Harvard University Summary written by Benjamin Landauer (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Ci...

Check out a new blog post by Benjamin Landauer on the Chinese and Japanese editions of 百美新詠圖傳, a 18th-century pictorial catalogue of "poetry, painting, and historical anecdote for 103 women hailing from Chinese history and mythology." #bookhistory #womenshistory #sinology

Flyer for Chinese American Librarians Association's 2026 Best Book Award

Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA) invites nominations for its annual Best Book Award. Titles eligible for nomination must be in Chinese, English, or French, authored by Chinese writers or those of Chinese descent, and published in 2025.

Nomination form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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"Scriptures and Liturgy in Inner Asia: A Symposium on Religious Books & Manuscripts" (2/27, hybrid) @harvarddivinity.bsky.social @rarebookschool.bsky.social

RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#bookhistory

I'd like to add that like in all industries, when we stop understanding how our tools work, we become entirely dependent on the corporate entities that own the mold. We are trading the ability to build and repair for the convenience of being permanent tenants in someone else's infrastructure/subs.

@nature.com can we make obituaries like this open-access due to their educational value to the general public?

A screencap of the webpage "East Asia-related Job Market Data Report (2024–2025)" with a picture to the right of a map of the world with dots visualized and a bar chart of varying colors overlaid on top. The text reads: "This page compiles information and visualizations on academic-oriented job postings related to East Asia during the 2024–2025 hiring season (from approximately June 2024 to July 2025). This year also marks five years since I began collecting East Asia-related job data, so reflections on the five-year trends for each section and/or subsection will also appear. For more information on how and why I began this project, please see my first visualization page for the 2019–2020 academic job cycle. For the sake of convenience and to address any changes in my methods since last year, I will reproduce my explanations on data collection from previous cycles below, and mark new elements in bold and/or with a star ★. To jump directly to the visualizations, click here. I hope that the information provided on this page will facilitate further dialogue on current and future developments in the East Asian Studies fields and will be used by departments and individuals to advocate for this area of study at their institutions. If you have any questions about the data or would like to request specific visualizations for departmental reports, grant requests, or other proposals (or have used my work for this purpose already), please do not hesitate to contact me."

I am excited and exhausted to finally release my annual data report on job advertisements in East Asian Studies! 📊🌏 This marks 5 years of collecting job data, so it's possible to see changes over time. For interactive visualizations, view via browser rather than phone. prcurtis.com/projects/job...

This Saturday! #sinology #theater

Love notes like this left in books by earlier librarians. This profession runs on the hope of ever having time to love things as they deserve, and our archives are full of the epitaphs of good intentions.

Louder to all the angry bosses out there 🔊

(fortunatley not mine, they've been a great supporter)

Everything happening now has a precedent. This is not new. Please understand that everything happening now is very American. The only change is that it is happening on camera to middle income white people. Ask BIPOC and low income white people about abuses by the state.

2026 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From! This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!

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Photo of two women sitting at a table on which a large old book sits on foam rests, while a third woman leans over the book and points out details on the page. From B-10: Introduction to the History of Bookbinding, 2026 (Photo by Shane Lin). Text above the image reads, “Rare Book School 2026. First-Round Deadline: 17 February. Apply at rarebookschool.org/schedule.” A black medallion overlaid on the image reads “Applications now open!”

RBS is now accepting applications for our summer 2026 courses—including new course offerings & partner locations!

Details: rarebookschool.org/schedule

The first-round deadline is 𝟭𝟳 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆. Applications received after that date will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

#BookSky #RareBooks

Glad to have you last year! Thanks for spreading the word 😊

The Assault on the Capitol in Historical Perspective: Resources for Educators | American Historical Association We know teaching the events of January 6, 2021 presents a challenge: how can students use historical knowledge and thinking to understand current crises?

Teaching the events of January 6—which are not a “moment” but the product of a long history—presents a familiar yet urgent challenge: how can students use historical knowledge & thinking to understand recent crises? Here are some resources that might help. 🗃️

New Yorkers! Sharing an exciting event in Flushing on 1/24 (Sat), featuring Stan Lai 賴聲川, Taiwanese-American playwright/theater director behind the blockbuster "Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land 暗戀桃花源." Join us & plz spread the word

Happy new year! Our library travel grants are still open to applications until January 31.

She's a true icon. I especially love her quirky jazz album 絕世名伶.

A great article that emerged out of the @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social project: openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....

Registration is now OPEN for #NEASpring26 in Portland, ME! Join us for three inspiring days of exciting virtual and in-person workshops, sessions, special events, and roundtable discussions by registering today! newenglandarchivists.org/spring-2026

Oof, spicy!

The Harvard-Yenching Library is now accepting applications for 10 travel grants up to $2,000 each. Open to non-tenured faculty and Ph.D. candidates who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#sinology