A generous and thorough review of The Four Shakespeare Folios in PBSA this month

A favorite acquisition last year is this very meta portrait of Jacquard woven in silk on a jacquard loom. It’s scarce: only three copies listed in OCLC. The @cmulibraries.bsky.social copy is also massive: LoC’s copy measures only 59cm in height, ours 84! cmu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/perma…

Showing The Stephen Greenblatt
@cmulibraries.bsky.social Shakespeare Folios a year ago this week — read more about the Libraries' wildly successful 2023 Shakespeare Folio exhibitions & programs here www.library.cmu.edu/exhibits/sha...

A centuries-rich buffet of computational devices, mathematical instruments, and rare books this semester with @carnegiemellon.bsky.social students @cmulibraries.bsky.social Special Collections: Napier’s rods, the Leibniz calculator, a set of Japanese nine-nine cards, and the ever popular Enigma M3.

Cataloged some oddities, like this triode vacuum tube packed in horsehair — one obsolete technology nestled in the debris of another. MARC and RDA are blunt instruments for describing artifacts, but a keyword search for "triode" now returns delightful results on the Libraries' catalog!