It‘s quite possible that with this move, @harvard.edu could become the only Ivy League university without a writing center. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

Harvard College Lays Off Writing Center Director, Consolidates Center | News | The Harvard Crimson

The Harvard College Writing Center will no longer operate as a standalone unit after its director was laid off and its functions were consolidated as part of a restructuring in the Faculty of Arts and...

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"I recently ended up spending cumulative hours on the phone with several revered scholars of Russian literature, trying to pin them down on what Tolstoy is getting at in War and Peace when he has a woman attend the Moscow opera with her breasts totally exposed." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Searching for the naked truth in ‘War and Peace’

What is Tolstoy’s Hélène really, truly wearing at the Moscow opera?

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Hey guys, remember when Henry James came back from Europe to visit New York in 1904 and there was a big spaceship?

my first peonies from the garden plot!

the godfather of one world-altering technology contemplates the product of another: Geoffrey Hinton and the Gutenberg Bible. Harvard College Library, May 28, 2026

sentences I have tried out this week with success "I will volunteer my time to write a first draft if it helps get us started without the use of A.I." "I am happy to volunteer to write this summary, but as long as I still meet my deadline, I hope it's okay if I don't use A.I. [as you suggested]"

for those of you in the Boston area, we are celebrating Helen Vendler's birthday tomorrow with some music, poetry, and remembrances! libcal.library.harvard.edu/event/167386....

Helen Vendler Remembrance & Celebration

Please join us for an evening of poetry readings, stories, and music celebrating the life of Professor Helen Vendler at 5PM on April 30th (Vendler’s birthday). Co- hosted by...

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So happy to get a copy of the amazing ‘Thanks for Typing’ exhibition at @harvard.edu, with brilliant research into women’s type labour by @cejacobson.bsky.social and colleagues! 📖🎉

I am just starting out, but the system I’m putting in place at the outset is: - archival reference photos in Tropy - research notes and chapter drafts in OneNotebook (free access through employer) - secondary research in zotero - reserved library carrel to keep physical books

Christine Jacobson@cejacobson.bsky.social · 4mo ago

what are people using these days to organize research? photos from archives, notes, interviews and transcriptions, etc.

what are people using these days to organize research? photos from archives, notes, interviews and transcriptions, etc.

this piece by Becca Rothfeld in @thepointmag.bsky.social knocked me down to the ground "Good politics, like good art, does not lecture or declaim. It strains; it argues; it is an unending negotiation with the difficult and intransigent adventure of humanity." thepointmag.com/criticism/li...

Listless Liberalism | The Point Magazine

Where is liberalism’s “Fascinating Fascism”? Who is its Riefenstahl?

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Yes, I'm a week late and people probably already know this, but I'm doing my best! Anyway, the late Barbara Hall was thanked at the Oscars by her nephew Andy Jurgensen, so let's look at that! www.pop-archives.com/post/archive... #archives #archivists #GLAMS 📜

Archives in the News: Film Archivist Thanked at the 98th Academy Awards

Film Archivist Barbara Hall was thanked by her nephew, Andy Jurgensen, after winning the Oscar for Best Film Editing. That's neat! Let's talk about it!

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The Grolier Club has digitized the meeting minutes of the Hroswitha Club! The Hroswithians were a group of women collectors not allowed in the Grolier Club. These minutes are a treasure trove, and Im thrilled to see them digitized and not in my phone anymore! www.grolierclub.org/Default.aspx...

if you were unable to attend Erin McGuirl's Winship Lecture, "No Modern Publishing Without Women" at Houghton Library, the recording is now live! 📜 www.youtube.com/watch?v=arCs...

Lecture | Erin McGuirl: "No Modern Publishing Without Women"

YouTube video by Houghton Library

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I know I am in many ways fairly insulated from AI due to the nature of my work, but increasingly I am having to learn to fix my face in meetings when people refer to using it for things we used to turn to expert colleagues or own brains for. As someone with an expressive face, it's a challenge!

Niche but cool. I mentioned in class that there was little evidence that #18thc readers had ever responded to the invitation tendered by the blank page in Tristram Shandy & drawn the Widow Wadman. & then a student revealed the portrait of Slawkenbergius she found inscribed into her copy of our novel

I can't really believe the HFA let me partner with them on a film series about women and the typewriter, but here it is. Catch MEET JOHN DOE (1941) , HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940), and THE HUDSUCKER PROXY (1994) this women's history month! harvardfilmarchive.org/programs/the...

The Lady and the Typewriter - Harvard Film Archive

As women came into the workforce in the early twentieth century, the image of the working woman entered the cultural imagination. In Hollywood, she was often what Maria DiBattista has called the &ldqu...

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Today, thanks to the Houghton Library, I got to introduce students to an #18thcentury German peepshow showing the interior of a printing house. Take a peek! (It was hard to photograph & the photo fails to include the cat who joins the dog in the foreground as 1 of the spectators.) #BookHistory

we are so lucky that the great Erin McGuirl will give the spring 2026 George Parker Winship Lecture at Houghton library tomorrow, March 4 at Houghton Library. please come and share widely! 📜 libcal.library.harvard.edu/event/162329....

Spring 2026 George Parker Winship Lecture: "No Modern Publishing Without Women" and Opening Reception for "Thanks for Typing"

Houghton Library welcomes Erin McGuirl, Curator of the Mortimer Rare Book Collection at Smith College, who will give the Spring 2026 George Parker Winship Lecture on "No Modern...

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thanks to @hyperallergic.com for the shout out in the latest Required Reading: "As with too many art forms, several now-classic books by male authors would not have been possible without the women who typed and often edited them." hyperallergic.com/required-rea...

Required Reading

This week: movie poster art, the typist behind Henry James’s novels, Gisèle Pelicot’s new memoir, indie rock in “Heated Rivalry,” and are we in an arts and crafts renaissance?

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if you've ever been curious what Fran Lebowitz would chat about with a rare book librarian, I'll be in conversation with her next Thursday evening at the Emerson Colonial Theatre in Boston. us.atgtickets.com/events/an-ev... 📜 GLAMS

An Evening with Fran Lebowitz | Emerson Colonial Theatre, Boston | Official ATG Tickets

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Sharing the re-cat'd + previously unreported 1855 1st ed of Whitman's Leaves of Grass at Spencer @kulibraries.bsky.social ! We've had this copy for decades, but in the card cat - not in our online catalog: 📜 #bookhistory #booksky #libsky #rarebooks : kuprimo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/...

Only British Vogue has the courage to publish true science as it was practiced in the 18th century Transactions of the Royal Society

many thanks to Mark Feeney for covering Thanks for Typing in @bostonglobe.com. grateful for his keen eye for details (which every curator hopes visitors will notice) and for so thoroughly understanding the thesis of the show: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/05/a...

When keyboards are key - The Boston Globe

Harvard’s Houghton Library puts the typewriter front and center to explore the lost labor — and art — of the typist.

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THIRD PRINTING ALERT: This is my first book and @wehere.bsky.social's first book. The response has been overwhelming (two small printing selling out in a matter of days), but also has meant a bit of lead time in-between. If you've read and enjoyed, please share this out so more folks can explore!

we here®️@wehere.bsky.social · 6mo ago

now available — the house archives built & other thoughts on black archival possibilities by @dorothyjberry.bsky.social (3rd printing) www.weherepress.org

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 🤍

Fobazi M. Ettarh@fobettarh.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The Wayback is now so load-bearing we should be protecting it with our actual lives

Arieh Kovler@ariehkovler.com · 6mo ago

They closed the CIA World Factbook and deleted it entirely.

beyond thrilled to have an essay out in the @publicdomainrev.bsky.social about the women who profoundly impacted the works of Henry James, T.S. Eliot, Vladimir Nabokov, and Lev Tolstoy, and the archival evidence they left behind: publicdomainreview.org/essay/typing...

Typing for Love or Money: The Hidden Women’s Labor behind Modern Literary Masterpieces

Taking dictation, revising manuscripts, typing copies, literary amanuenses often labour for little compensation and even less recognition. Christine Jacobson explores the neglected efforts of women li...

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NEW ESSAY — Christine Jacobson’s “Typing for Love or Money”, on the neglected efforts of women like Theodora Bosanquet, Véra Nabokov, and Valerie Eliot, who — through their work as typists and editors — had a profound impact on modern literature: publicdomainreview.org/essay/typing...

we have many fun programs lined up to dive deeper into secretaries, amanuenses, and even typists of the silver screen! Erin McGuirl will be with us on March 4th to share her discovery of the typist behind the first English translation of The Second Sex: libcal.library.harvard.edu/calendar/mai....

Spring 2026 George Parker Winship Lecture: "No Modern Publishing Without Women" and Opening Reception for "Thanks for Typing"

Houghton Library welcomes Erin McGuirl, Curator of the Mortimer Rare Book Collection at Smith College, who will give the Spring 2026 George Parker Winship Lecture on "No Modern...

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