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Curator of Early Books & Manuscripts, Houghton Library, Harvard University. Opinions are my own. He/him/his

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Heard on a Canadian podcast:
Host: “Did you have, like a life skills class in school?”
Guest: “No, I went to school in America.”

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Welcome the #*&@ to Boston, it’s a street sign with a grawlix. https://www.universalhub.com/2024/citizen-complaint-day-whats-meaning-these-nubian

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This edition of Tarzan doesn’t just come with any old Ape-English Dictionary, it’s got the official Ape-English Dictionary. https://blogs.libraries.indiana.edu/lilly/2024/05/02/a-glossary-of-ape/

First page of the glossary giving Ape words and English equivalents from a (light) to ho-wala (village)

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I’m in Baltimore for a library event but it happens also to be the Flower Mart street fair and the weather for it is lovely.

Vendors selling plants in a plaza lined with row houses

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The George Peabody Library is magnificent as always.

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Am I so out of touch? No, it’s the ethics that are wrong. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/05/did-student-or-chatgpt-write-that-paper-does-it-matter/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Gazette%2020240503%20(1

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Good advice from the Harvard Yenching Library

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Having visited four rare book and manuscript reading rooms in the last week, and being mildly admonished in one for bringing in a camera case that fit the camera but was considered technically a bag, the ability of people to steal these books is baffling to me. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/01/books/booksupdate/rare-books-pushkin-disappearance.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ok0.tGKz.8EhCFIXJJIf6&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

When I left one room, I was politely asked to open the cover of my iPad to ensure no papers were inside.

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@glennf And terrifying to me.

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A great example of a vertical half-title, a practice mostly found in mid-17th century English books and whose function is still debated. https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990042221870203941/catalog

The titlepage and engraved frontispiece of "Amanda, a sacrifice to an unknown goddesse, or, A free-will offering of a loving heart to a sweet-heart" (1653)

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Absolutely shocking news that Will Noel, head of Princeton’s special collections, has died after being struck by a car in Edinburgh. A great loss to our profession. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2vw8jnw7xeo

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We've just launched a new site focusing on material features in our early manuscripts, with tutorials on bindings, pages, content, and decoration, and links to digitized manuscripts with those features. Thanks to my colleague Bailey Ludwig for her fabulous work! https://curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/medieval-renaissance-manuscripts/feature/material-features

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Donald Duck says protect your children with DDT-infused wallpaper. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/mg74qm295?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=042924

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Give it a rest, Jenny.

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A collection of anti-apartheid boycott posters at the Bodleian Library (CW for violent images). http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/archivesandmanuscripts/2024/04/26/solidarity-through-boycott-the-posters-of-the-anti-apartheid-movement-30-years-on/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=solidarity-through-boycott-the-posters-of-the-anti-apartheid-movement-30-years-on

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Long Telegram is long. George F. Kennan’s 1946 State Department cable from Moscow was the founding treatise of the Cold War. https://specialcollections.princeton.edu/2024/04/how-long-is-the-the-long-telegram/

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A roundup of major new acquisitions at the Huntington, including a collection of 19th century photography from the Philippines. https://huntington.org/verso/library-collectors-council-acquisitions-2024

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Newberry Library receives NEH grant to digitize more than 2,000 rare books and manuscripts documenting languages spoken or formerly spoken by the Indigenous peoples of North and Central America. https://www.newberry.org/news/newberry-receives-neh-grant-to-fund-digitization-of-ayer-north-and-middle-american-linguistics-collection

cc @researchbuzz

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Twentieth Century Boston--the Best City in the United States to Live in, to do Business in and to Visit (1907)

Hi-res and zoomable image: https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/15827433

cc @universalhub

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Very modern energy to this 1609 book. https://archive.org/details/b3032144x/page/n11/mode/2up

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Announcer: “It’s time to play America’s hottest new game, it’s…“

Audience: “Who’s! That! Lexicographer!”

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The internet has decided — again — that Chris Pratt is the worst Chris, after reports that he and his wife, Katherine Schwarzenegger, demolished a 74-year-old house by modernist architect Craig Ellwood in order to build a 15,000-square-foot residence. "They also tore up all of modernist legend Garrett Eckbo's original landscaping, effectively turning the nearly one-acre lot into one flat slab," reports Dwell. Here's the full story, including images of the house. To sprinkle some positivity on your day, we want to know, who is Hollywood's best Chris? Tell us in the comments if you're rejecting these options in favor of Rock, Guest, Walken, or some other Chris.

https://flip.it/1oOd6-

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@CultureDesk Technically he's Baron Haden-Guest but I think of him as Chris.

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Applications are open for the David Ruggles Prize, sponsored by the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America to encourage and support young collectors of color. Grand prize is $1000, applications due June 9th. https://www.abaa.org/Blog/post/david-ruggles-prize

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Some absolutely outstanding demons in this 1820 book of Gothic French tales, https://www.latude.net/loc/en_US/pages/books/17982/collin-de-plancy/demoniana-ou-nouveau-choix-danecdotes-surprenantes-de-nouvelles-prodigieuses-daventures

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Harvard Yard will be closed all week in anticipation of protests. As I've mentioned before, I get it, but it makes things hard for our external patrons, especially when it's announced at 7pm on a Sunday. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/4/22/harvard-yard-closed-palestine-protests/

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Great, apparently we’re on total lockdown now—a colleague who left for lunch can’t get back into the Yard.

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"Protesters flooded into the Yard from various freshman dorms, cheering and carrying tent equipment. Multiple tents have already been erected on the patch of lawn in front of the John Harvard statue.

The encampment in Harvard Yard comes after similar protests at Columbia University, Yale University, MIT, and more across the country. At Columbia, Yale, and New York University, protesters have been arrested for their participation.

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/4/25/harvard-yard-protest-palestine/

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