I realize this is going to age me but my #9games (also surprised that the original star wars atari arcade game wasn't an option)
Michael Weisenburg
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Rare Books and Stuff. Opinions are my own. He/him/his
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
"Have you done with my booke, or doe you occupie my booke any longer?"
![cropped photography of the entry for the word "booke" [book] and other book related entries from John Baret and Abraham Fleming An Aluearie or quadruple dictionarie (London: 1580)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t6v2eblujp5qjsvhru4gbia3/bafkreidwtvcff2spla7yzlmcry2olftyzofednigkcrbmqztycnlkac5b4)
Case full of horrors for spooky season (Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Vampyre, Wagner the Wehr-Wolf, & The Raven)
Just read this - it was shared on LinkedIn. ‘To my users, “we couldn’t generate an answer for your question” translates to “your topic is not worthy of pursuing—change it.”’ While it’s nice to think that students will come & ask when they don’t find results, many won’t. And the blocking of content…
“We Couldn’t Generate an Answer for your Question” - ACRLog
Editor’s note: We welcome a guest blog post from Jay Singley, Document Delivery and Circulation Desk Manager at North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. In March 2025, Ex Libris unveiled thei...
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This is a dance of the dead movie created out of the dozens of woodcuts from the 1520 Munich print "Der todten dantz mit figuren vnd schrifften" www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/details/b... #bookhistory #earlymodern
In honour of Joy Division's iconic album Unknown Pleasures being released on this day in 1979, I'm again sharing one of my favourite ever video clips (Peanuts vs Joy Division dance party)...
RWES Online Symposium 4/13 @ 10 AM – Noon (central time) We welcome all to attend an online symposium of graduate student works in progress on the subjects of Emerson and transcendentalism. If you are interested in attending contact Nicholas Guardiano at nguardia@siu.edu for log-in information.
New from the BJPS Review of Books: Philosophy, Bullshit, and Peer Review —Neil Levy (@neillevy.bsky.social) Reviewed by Joshua Habgood-Coote (@impractknow.bsky.social) Read it here: www.thebsps.org/reviewofbook... #philsci #philsky
Neil Levy, Philosophy, Bullshit, and Peer Review | BJPS Review of Books
Joshua Habgood-Coote reviews Philosophy, Bullshit, and Peer Review, by Neil Levy
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"And I like large parties. They're so intimate." - The Great Gatsby Thank you to everyone who came out to our Jazz Night Celebrating our Great Gatsby exhibit!! Watching these @uscjazz students perform was truly incredible. It was certainly a night to remember. #thegreatgatsby #jazzmusic #jazznight
Students getting excited about archives, books, and history www.dailygamecock.com/article/2025...
Student Community for Archives, Libraries and Museums connects USC students with local history
The Student Community for Archives, Libraries and Museums at the University of South Carolina aims to connect students with local history in Columbia and around campus. The club has visited the South ...
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Join us for a night of music as University Libraries collaborates with our colleagues in the Jazz program to celebrate The Great Gatsby! USC Jazz's premiere jazz combo will be performing at the exhibit. Swing by, hear some great music, and see the exhibit for yourself!
"Gatsby and Daisy danced. I remember being surprised by his conservative foxtrot . . . " - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
With just a handful of things we have laying around
Another great #mla25 panel including Michael Jonik on Thoreau and Merleau-Ponte; and @weisenburg.bsky.social on Thoreau and trash. Dude littered!
100 years ago, in December of 1924, Zelda Fitzgerald sat down to write a Christmas card to her "own dearest Mamma." Zelda & Scott spent Christmas 1924 in Rome. She writes, "Wish you could see the steps full of bright priests and all the flower markets . . . "
