The final conference reports from SHARP 2025 in Rochester are up!

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#SHARP2025 #BookHistory #Libraries #Bibliography

Adjusted Margin: Xerography, Art, and Activism in the Late Twentieth Century How xerography became a creative medium and political tool, arming artists and activists on the margins with an accessible means of making their messages p

For all the people interested in Xerox at #SHARP2025 this year, check out *Adjusted Margin: Xerography, Art, and Activism in the Late 20th-century* by Kate Eichhorn
direct.mit.edu/books/book/3... (open access!)
#BookHistory

ReCAP, a leading consortium of library research collections, welcomes Yale as newest member | Yale Library

Former #sharp2025 attendees, I am thinking about the plenary as I read this news.
library.yale.edu/news/recap-l...

it’s in the wild! #SHARP2025 #vastearlyamerica #bookhistory

Congratulations to the winner of this year’s SHARP Book History Prize, Martin Paul Eve, for THESES ON THE METAPHORS OF DIGITAL-TEXTUAL HISTORY @stanfordpress.bsky.social #SHARP2025

Attention #BookHistory #SHARP2025 #archives 📜📚

I'm sad to have missed both @sharpweb.org #sharp2025 & @rs4vp conferences this summer, but already moving around grant $ to get to both, plus #dhc26 next summer. Any news on the location & dates of #sharp26 or #rsvp26 ?

I think my personal highlight of #SHARP2025 was a keynote that the speaker wanted to keep off social media which I of course respect although it was SO GOOD I also want to tell everyone about it

Seized Books! An online exhibition In 1984, London's Gay's the Word book shop was raided by HM Customs and Excise, seizing LGBTQ+ books & charging staff. A public fight for LGBT rights ensued.

Was also pretty great to introduce Seized Books! (london.ac.uk/seized-books) to new audiences, from workshops to online exhibition to musical-in-progress to creative responses to Risographed catalogue. Thanks to @lmaruca.bsky.social for organising a great roundtable on public humanities #SHARP2025

Graffiti on a bridge in Rochester, New York, which reads ‘“america” is a white supremacist death cult / trans dem liberation demands prison abolition’

Big thank you to my co-panellists @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social, @jdsargan.bsky.social and @brimwats.com for their excellent interventions in our panel Queer and Trans Communities and Values of the Book. What a pleasure to speak alongside and hear from and be in conversation with you all #SHARP2025

A grand ivy-covered building on a leafy campus (Rush Rhees Library, University of Rochester)

Frederick Douglass Community Library, Rochester, with a mural of FD right outside

Posters reading ‘We read banned books’ and ‘Let freedom read’ in Hippocampo children’s bookshop, Rochester

Rochester Public Library, a stone building with columns, plus roadworks outside and a sign reading ‘Library is open’

What a nice week at #SHARP2025. Met up with some old friends and made some new ones, gave three (3) talks, drank a lot of iced coffee, visited Visual Studies Workshop and ate incredible Korean food on an industrial estate 10/10 experience thank you Rochester

White gravestones flat against the ground, Frederick on the left and Anna on a smaller stone on the right. Behind them is a small monument to Frederick Douglass. There are a few flowers and US flags around them

Small white headstone for Susan B. Anthony with a small chain around it and flowers and a US flag in front

I didn’t explore Rochester as much as I should have but I did run to the graves of Frederick & Anna Douglass & Susan B. Anthony before leaving. #SHARP2025

They’re in the same cemetery but in different sections. Many, many things in Rochester are named for F. Douglass & Anthony, sometimes together.

three people are walking down a tree lined pathway with fairy lights above. they are facing away from the camera. One is wearing black top and tan skirt, one is wearing a tan suit jacket and black pants and the third is wearing a yellow shirt and black pants.

@malcolmjnoble.bsky.social @jdsargan.bsky.social and Bridget Wheatley walking to a nearby gay library after a successful conference presentation and day at #sharp2025

19th-century Printing Press Experience VR on Steam A hands-on educational experience that guides you through the process of printing on a 19th-century printing press.

The Rochester Institute of Technology’s Cary Collection has a virtual reality version of a 19th-century European printing press:
#SHARP2025 #BookHistory

store.steampowered.com/app/3485400/...

How is everyone's @sharpweb.org #SHARP2025?!

#BookHistory

Goudy type in a drawer

Goudy initial

Goudy type on display at RIT'S Cary Graphic Arts Collection.
#sharp2025

Speaking about the Kelmscott Press at RIT, "I want this press to be an agent of change in the 21st century."
-Amelia Hugill-Fontanel
#sharp2025

Renaissance Society of America 365 Fifth AvenueRoom 5405New York, NY 10016 • USA

Call for papers - Digital Book History and Renaissance Studies Now! Due July 15, details linked below
www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...
attn: #sharp2025

Reference books

Photo exemplars

Photo reference examples

The research they're doing at the Image Permance Institute was impressive, but I was enchanted by their reference collections. #sharp2025

Took a short break from the #SHARP2025 conference to visit the George Eastman Museum and was pleased to find a pretty library and cool book photos

Misha system

The MISHA system for multi-spectral imaging at the Rochester Institute of Technology now has an open source tool for image processing. #SHARP2025

wordle game board from july 9, landing on the answer "NOVEL"

wordle game board, starting with first entry before bot assesses accuracy. that word is "BLANK."

ended yesterday with the beginning, starting today with the end...new book drops august 26 from mighty @hopkinspress.bsky.social. discount code is HTANB25!
#bookhistory #SHARP2025 #skystorians

Aldus Manutius printer’s device in a metal door ornament atop a glass door with a yellow sign “automatic door: caution” sticker below

I guess Aldine books are automatic doors and we should use caution.
#SHARP2025 📜📚

This account's holder (a white, cis-male-presenting person with sunglasses and a receding hairline) pointing to a street sign reading "No parking - Do not block drive - Magic deliveries only."

Bringing thaumaturgy to the final day of #SHARP2025

What do we want the library as?

As space?
As collections?
As people/staff expertise?
As community?
As…?

This comes up in Q&A for Lucy Mulroney’s talk at #SHARP2025. She also notes a generational shift in the “we” and “want.”

Book nook

Library nook

Library nook

Library nook

I visited The Strong Museum of Play yesterday, & I loved how the public library has books located throughout the museum, often topically connected to the nearby displays and activities. You can check out at kiosks and return to the museum or to the library. I love this collaboration! #sharp2025 📚

I got a bit tongue-tied accepting the #SHARP2025 DeLong Prize. I wanted to say: this prize means the world to me as the book was written in the shadow of terminal kidney failure. It has made me feel part of a community. I can't travel due to my haemodialysis need, so I appreciate all remote options.

Binding Media | Stanford University Press Far from causing the "death of the book," the publishing industry's adoption of digital technologies has generated a multitude of new works that push the boundaries of literature and its presentation. In this fascinating new work, Élika Ortega proposes the notion of "binding media" — a practice where authors and publishers "fasten together" a codex and electronic or digital media to create literary works in the form of hybrid print-digital objects.

I couldn't be at #SHARP2025 or #ELO25 this year (combo of fam obligations, not being able to do 2 confs in a week & the minefield of intl travel) but folks there might be interested in my book Binding Media Hybrid Print-Digital Literature from across the Americas 👇👇
Happy to chat off conference!

#sharp2025. Wonderful to be a zoom presence at the AGM this morning. I am reflecting on SHARP’s resilience. Back around 2009 we instituted prizes for best conference tweeters. Thankfully replaced by AGM door prizes (thanks very much!).

Anne Peale's beautiful collage of biographies of US president James A. Garfield published right before and after his assassination!

#SHARP2025 #BookHistory