A thoroughly delightful day data mapping and making someone cry by letting them see a 12th century manuscript.🥰
Jennifer
@bibliojenni.bsky.social
Librarian at Hereford Cathedral. Librarian cliche & loving it. Expect books, tea, crafts & cats. All views my own, in case it needs to be said. "She's the most librarian librarian I have ever seen."
It feels like I've been a curator for the last 18 months or so, and now I get to be a librarian again. Both are brilliant, but have such different requirements. Very happy to be librarianing again, at least for now!
AI doesn't "bring the archive to life" or to even "show what this looked like in color." The medium is the message, in the sense that there is never life in a photo, there is a material object with artifacts that memorialized technology as much as any moment. It's all more imagination avoidance
I'm such a nerd that I've just organised to meet up with a friend at the Obama branch of the Chicago Public Library during my 4 day visit to Chicago in a couple of weeks.
Um, long shot but I don’t suppose I know anyone with library privileges at the university of Wisconsin-Madison (who might be able to look at a physical holding for me or get it digitised)?
What do you do with the chains when reading a chained book?, I hear you ask. As of today, we'll put them into these little calico bags made by the broderers! Inspired by a conservator who told us she put it in a sock while working on one of our books.
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Dr Liam Sims@liamsims.bsky.social · last wk.Absolutely LOVE the floral initials in this copy of the works of Apuleius, one of the first books printed at Rome (by Sweynheym & Pannartz) in 1469. The initials apparently added in France, perhaps in the 1480s or 90s. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Inc.2.B.2.1[1124].
Bit of a long shot, but do any of you UK weird Anglican Bluesky folks have a thurible stand that isn't in use and which you would be happy to donate? #CofEPeeps
Lovely annual visit to Hereford Cathedral & its stunning library. Great exhibition inspired by the 550th Caxton anniversary, including an incunable (printed in 1473) given to the cathedral in 1478.
I just need to share my delight that we have a(n intended) go live date for a new LMS!
Kermit the Frog Dancing Wildly
ALT: Kermit the Frog Dancing Wildly
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What a week. Tomorrow's LMS implementation planning meeting will get me through, though.
Catching up on last night's GBBO and genuinely baffled by the idea that 30 cookies in one batch is weird.
This is a very jaunty tomb. Anyone know the story of this pose?
& then...? From the Shady Characters archive, delve into the history of the ampersand, or “and” sign, which goes all the way back to ancient Rome. Start at shadycharacters.co.u... to understand the hows & whys of this most elegant mark.
Very pleased that I finally refound this @starshapedpress.bsky.social print, which has apparently been hiding on my bookshelf for months.
The new exhibition is in, which is a tiny miracle. Some lovely incunabula in it, so I'm very excited! But too tired to celebrate.
happy bare minimum Friday to all who celebrate
Museum of Twitter@museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 3w ago
It! Is! Live! (A friend sent me the heads-up bc I have The Best Friends!) English. Illuminated. Printed. Parchment. Bibliographical nerdery abounds. Read on!
Colouring in the Lines of Early Tudor Printed Parchment | The Library
While scholars have mined English printed books of hours for decades as sources for important research, a small proportion remain almost without study. Neither manuscript nor standard print, the present article examines books of hours that were printed ...
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Just having a cuppa and being blown away by our incunabula collection-60 on site! (Including some from collections on deposit/not the chained library.)
Anyone know of any great online resources about early German printers? Looking specifically for Sensenschmidt.
This is one of those weeks that I will be muttering "You can do this" under my breath constantly. (There are calmer times coming; some periods are just like this, aren't they?)
once again: the reason we have libraries is to keep librarians off the streets where they cause trouble
Right, time to pretend the world doesn't exist and write some *very* basic panels about printing & captions for some quite exceptional incunabula. Go, go, go!