We have officially catalogued ourselves in the digital world. 🧐 There's some rare exciting event unfolding next week! Want to join us?

does this mean we can start making more real bibliographies and reference sources again? (and by "making" i mean have them actually valued as a kind of research)

Dave Mazella@davemazella.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Google search and Google scholar potentially disappearing creates a huge reduction in my ability to research independently, esp at an underfunded public research University & severely underfunded University library

i have been read by OUP online's recommendation algorithm

love that my former employer locks me out of the computer systems that allow access to necessary tax documents

CFP! Edinburgh Bibliographical Seminar and Workshop: 'Catalogues and Registers as Evidence in the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology': networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

CFP! Edinburgh Bibliographical Seminar and Workshop: 'Catalogues and Registers as Evidence in the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology': networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

does anyone know of any good work on (or anyone working on) the history of English Institute, especially while it was at Columbia? I have early accounts of it and the selected papers, but would love to find some kind of historical account, even something brief as part of something else

does anyone know of any good work on (or anyone working on) the history of English Institute, especially while it was at Columbia? I have early accounts of it and the selected papers, but would love to find some kind of historical account, even something brief as part of something else

exciting things afoot at the National Mining Museum of Scotland - stay tuned for some more materials about this 1890s steam winding engine that I've been transcribing and hoping to start getting online next week www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/windingeng...

“There used to be a professional layer between most people and raw information. Librarians, researchers, editors, fact-checkers: people whose…job was to understand how information was organized, who produced it, what motivated them, and where the gaps were“ - my ideal job if it still existed 😭

Kaz Cooke@kazcooke.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Secret tricks to get much better results out of the very dreadful 'Google search' these days, plus other search engines for specific things. Statospherically useful for researchers. open.substack.com/pub/cardcata...

i didn't get to really talk about these, but i'm fascinated by them:

Finch Collins@finchinthestacks.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Yingst illustrates this through a historiography of bibliographic and queer/trans studies work on Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker’s 1611 "The Roaring Girle." Look at the gendered change between the 1611 first edition and the 1780 printing! On 1780: "both more lurid and less ambiguously gendered."

and lets not even talk about adam matthews databases 😵‍💫

Finch Collins@finchinthestacks.bsky.social · 5mo ago

@18thcenturysam.bsky.social: "No queer bookshop has a GALE subscription!" #QueerBib26

its gearing up to be an exciting conversation! but if you can't make it, please feel free be in touch for the pre-circulated paper if you don't have it :)

Finch Collins@finchinthestacks.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I won't be at the opening roundtable, "Intimate Details," featuring @elizott.bsky.social, @ceyingst.bsky.social, and @18thcenturysam.bsky.social, but the pre-circulated papers are outstanding!

descriptive bibliographers won’t admit this, but most of them have a Docudome in their basement. That’s how they get their ideal copy.

Buckinghamshire Archives@bucksarchives.bsky.social · 5mo ago

What do we do with duplicates? The original and duplicate are placed in a Document Arena (or Docudome™), then we turn away from them and allow one to consume the other, unobserved. This is a double-blind trial, where we don't know which was the original. Thus, only the strongest document survives.

come listen to and help me work through many complicated thoughts about the relations between (New) Bibliography and Theory! And of course stay for brilliant work by everyone else :)

The Bibliographical Society of America@bibsocamer.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The BSA Events Committee is proud to support Queer Bibliography in the South, a multi-day conference including both panels and workshops. Both in person and virtual attendance is free, but registration is required. 🔗Link to the full program details and registration form in bio

hundreds of likes and reposts, but the website on which this article was published is almost certainly an AI-generated content mill.

Kameron Hurley@kameronhurley.com · 5mo ago

"Psychology says people who constantly apologize for things that aren't their fault aren't being polite. They grew up in an environment where someone else's bad mood was always their responsibility to fix." share.google/LxDa6ftaoJmN...

I'm going to start citing Bowers whenever I'm asked to produce a timeline for a grant application.

This is it. Way past time for everyone in this country - literally everyone - to find practical ways to support trans people and immigrants, this regime's primary targets. Starting right now, find something practical to do to actually help people.

reposting for the EST folks :)

Carlisle Yingst@ceyingst.bsky.social · 5mo ago

for anyone who happens to have the Rivkin and Ryan anthology of theory: would you be willing to share an image of the copyright page? i'm trying to get a sense of how frequently it was reprinted (among other things)

for anyone who happens to have the Rivkin and Ryan anthology of theory: would you be willing to share an image of the copyright page? i'm trying to get a sense of how frequently it was reprinted (among other things)

the kid who created this lists stealing his dad's credit card to start a reselling business as his first experience as an entrepreneuer.... which seems right

Ian Bogost@ibogost.com · 5mo ago

Is this bad

#BookHistory friends, some research help please. A student I'm teaching this term wants to research the intersections of the internet novel and platform capitalism in contemporary China. Who is the @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social of East Asian literary studies? Sarah, do you know anyone?

i've been recently trying (not entirely successfully) to apply to 1 job or fellowship every day - and got today's in by 2pm! please clap, as i go off to do some of the real work that's somehow still piling up

Take the time to do this folks. The proposed changes to ILR are shocking and cruel, which is made abundantly clear in the text of the public consultation linked below. Please lend your voice to try to mitigate the cruelty.

Carla Denyer@carladenyer.bsky.social · 6mo ago

PS. Not too late to tell the government what you think about their proposed changes to Indefinite Leave to Remain - the public consultation is open until 12th Feb. www.gov.uk/government/c...

Check out this job posted *three* days ago, with review of applications starting Feb. 9th. If you caught this on day 1, you would have about two weeks to do this AND get three people to write you a letter. I can't help but feel it is designed to weed people out preemptively. Also, no salary listed

The UK government is proposing radical and punitive changes to settlement rules. This is settlement, not citizenship. The consultation is open until 12 February; please respond to it and oppose these evil proposals. Amnesty have a good guide: www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/gu...

Guidance for responding to 'A Fairer Pathway to Settlement' consultation

We are Amnesty International UK. We are ordinary people from across the world standing up for humanity and human rights.

amnesty.org.uk

They are executing unarmed people in the streets for trying to protect their neighbors with the full support of the federal government.

Come work with me! We have really cool collections that are still growing! ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/614... #SpecialCollectionsJobs #RareBookCataloging

Special Collections and Rare Books Cataloging Librarian

The University of Kentucky Libraries is vital to fulfilling the goals of enhancing and expanding the university’s research enterprise, and we are looking for an experienced, collaborative, proactive, ...

ukjobs.uky.edu

dear bluesky, i don't need to go live on twitch directly from bluesky, but i do need to be able to set my profile to private