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Chasing Aphrodite @chasingaphrodite.bsky.social · 17h

The Pushkin job: unmasking the thieves behind an international rare books heist

As many as 170 rare and valuable editions of Russian classics were stolen from libraries across Europe. Were the thieves merely low-level opportunists, or were bigger forces at work?

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

The Pushkin job: unmasking the thieves behind an international rare books heist

The long read: Between 2022 and 2023, as many as 170 rare and valuable editions of Russian classics were stolen from libraries across Europe. Were the thieves merely low-level opportunists, or were bi...

www.theguardian.com

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Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies @sims-mss.bsky.social · 11h

For #CoffeeWithACodex on October 16, Curator @leoba.bsky.social will visit @rosenbachmuseum.bsky.social where she'll join Librarian Elizabeth Fuller for a look at MS 1004/29, a mid-fourteenth-century physician's belt book. #medievalsky #cwac

Register here: https://bit.ly/4ohnEqu

Coffee with a Codex On The Road: Bat Book at the Rosenbach

An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different...

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Sara Charles @saracharles.bsky.social · 15h

Homegrown madder pigment. It's wonderful to create medieval pigment from something grown in your garden #bookhistory #medievalpigments #medievalsky

Dried madder roots in a bowl on some scales

Madder pigment being mulled on a glass slab

Madder pigment surrounded by examples of dried paint on paper and parchment

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Colleen @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 10h

I don't catch all of the announcements, but here is one from Dec 2024. Change in football team league, makes a change in library consortium, makes a new Google Books partner. blogs.lib.purdue.edu/news/2024/12...

The Google Library Project: Purdue Libraries partners with Google to digitize books

Purdue Libraries, as a result of its membership in the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA), has partnered with Google to digitize books in its collection that are rare, out of print, and generally unavai...

blogs.lib.purdue.edu

Colleen @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 11h

Ugh, I'm clearly procrastinating by reading and posting here when I need to be grading. Yell at me if I post anything else here in the next two hours. 😭

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Colleen @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 11h

This was a delight to stuble across. @petermusser.com! I still assign one of your videos in class. We just watched it last week.
alacorenews.org/2025/10/03/i...

#IAmCore: Peter Musser – Core News

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Colleen @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 11h

I taught an evening course in an LIS program, and other librarians have taught subject courses in their disciplines at my academic library while I was a librarian, and that didn't seem to quite fit in what they were investigating either.

Colleen @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 11h

"The Unity Conference," called "Redacted: Navigating the Complexities of Censorship," was canceled at Weber State University. (Utah) 📚
www.ksl.com/article/5138...

Weber State cracks down on censorship conference

Weber State University abruptly canceled a conference dealing with the complexities of censorship, citing a need to comply with Utah's diversity, equity and inclusion law, which prohibits government e...

www.ksl.com

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Colleen @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 11h

Google Books. It's still going on. Still new libraries working on it. 📚 (Tennessee)
newsonline.library.vanderbilt.edu/2025/09/2600...

260,000 volumes from Vanderbilt’s Heard Libraries to be digitized by Google Books

A new collaboration between the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries and the Google Books initiative will make it possible for users worldwide to access works that are rare, out of print, or generally u...

newsonline.library.vanderbilt.edu

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Colleen @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 11h

For-Credit Library Instruction: Exploring the Experiences of Academic Librarians Serving as Instructors of Record 📚 #AcademicLibraries #AcademicLibrarians #LibraryInstruction
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For-Credit Library Instruction: Exploring the Experiences of Academic Librarians Serving as Instructors of Record | Nelson | College & Research Libraries

For-Credit Library Instruction: Exploring the Experiences of Academic Librarians Serving as Instructors of Record

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Colleen @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 11h

Instead of librarians, schools staff libraries with teachers, aides- or close them (New York State)
www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Instead of librarians, schools staff libraries with teachers, aides- or close them

For more than a decade, districts have cut back on librarians and quietly closed school libraries as well.

www.yahoo.com

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Colleen @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 11h

W. Elmo Reavis: Library Bookbinder 📜
(From last July)(California)
www.lapl.org/collections-...

W. Elmo Reavis: Library Bookbinder

W. Elmo Reavis was a man who wore many hats, including bookbinder, instructor, inventor, manufacturer, editor, and advocate. He established the Pacific Library Binding Company in Los Angeles in 1912 t...

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Colleen @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 12h

From Niche to Norm: A Case Study of Zines in a Circulating Collection (UIUC - Illinois) journals.ala.org/index.php/lr...

From Niche to Norm: A Case Study of Zines in a Circulating Collection | Mathews | Library Resources & Technical Services

From Niche to Norm: A Case Study of Zines in a Circulating Collection

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Colleen @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 12h

How Close Did We Come to Losing Beowulf Forever? 📜
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How Close Did We Come to Losing Beowulf Forever?

There are cases of important literary and historical works that survive in only one or two manuscripts. If they had suﬀered some accident, then our picture of the past might be altered in important…

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Colleen @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 12h

"Generative AI’s impact on the internship market comes from the uncanny alignment between AI’s strengths, including summarizing, data entry, and other basic knowledge work, and the kind of work that many internships involve."
sr.ithaka.org/blog/the-imp...

The Impact of Generative AI on the College Internship - Ithaka S+R

Beneath the headlines of white collar lay-offs as companies explore the potential of generative AI to do entry-level office work, another change to the workforce is happening that may be of more immed...

sr.ithaka.org

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Colleen @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 12h

'Collections are fragile,' but conservationists say they're being ignored as the State Historical Society moves out of Iowa City using prison labor - Little Village (Iowa)
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'Collections are fragile,' but conservationists say they're being ignored as the State Historical Society moves out of Iowa City using prison labor - Little Village

Behind the Centennial Building in downtown Iowa City on Monday morning, workers began to load a truck with parts of the collections housed in the research facility and archives of […]

littlevillagemag.com

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Colleen @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 12h

If we can only celebrate women’s achievements in secret, is that really a celebration at all?https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/wa-author-my-book-about-a-cyclist-was-too-radical-for-storytime/

Why my children's book was labeled too radical for storytime | Op-Ed

Celebrating Women’s History Month by reading a picture book about a woman’s bicycle journey turned out to be more controversial than I ever imagined.

www.seattletimes.com

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Colleen @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 2d

Bonhams Will Sell 30 Original Paintings By Bob Ross To Support Public TV Stations
www.artnews.com/art-news/mar...

Bonhams Will Sell 30 Original Paintings By Bob Ross To Support Public TV Stations

Proceeds from the sales support rural and small television stations affected by federal cuts to public broadcasting.

www.artnews.com

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joshuatj @joshuatj.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Woohoo! Great #digipres story @makethecatwise
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251009-rescuing-knowledge-trapped-on-old-floppy-disks

A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks

From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the historical treasures locked away on old floppy disks.

www.bbc.com

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Colleen @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 2d

"The collection was recovered from Iowa Wesleyan University following its 2023 closure and has since been housed in a temporary environment." 📜
pentacrestmuseums.uiowa.edu/news/2025/09...

UI Museum of Natural History Awarded NSF Grant

IOWA CITY, Iowa (9/1/25) — The University of Iowa Museum of Natural History has received a grant award of over $1 million from the National Science Foundation—the largest ever awarded to the Pentacres...

pentacrestmuseums.uiowa.edu

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Colleen @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 2d

Librarian Fired in Books Dispute to Receive $700,000 Settlement (Wyoming) 📚
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Librarian Fired in Books Dispute to Receive $700,000 Settlement

www.nytimes.com

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Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · 4d

@rarebookschool.bsky.social doesn't generally accept high school students but they made an exception for Gauri in my Fragmentology class last summer. I am so proud of her! LOOK WHAT SHE DID! #IIIF #MedievalSky timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/voices...