Molly Schwartzburg
@bibliomolly.bsky.social
Curator of Printing and Graphic Arts, Houghton Library. Minimalist on even days, maximalist on odd ones. Don’t lick green books.
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There are scores of anti Trump/DOGE/Musk protests planned for April 5 handsoff2025.com
March 22, 2025 at 1:19 AM
There are scores of anti Trump/DOGE/Musk protests planned for April 5 handsoff2025.com
@podsaveamerica.crooked.com Could you guys do an episode asap about the upcoming April 5 protests? Here in MA, Srn. Markey has called for 100000 people to gather on Boston Common that day! Maybe you could interview him.
March 24, 2025 at 2:23 PM
@podsaveamerica.crooked.com Could you guys do an episode asap about the upcoming April 5 protests? Here in MA, Srn. Markey has called for 100000 people to gather on Boston Common that day! Maybe you could interview him.
TIL that our government thinks the term “cultural heritage” is woke. Wtf
March 7, 2025 at 10:08 PM
TIL that our government thinks the term “cultural heritage” is woke. Wtf
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February 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Thank you to DemocracyForward.org for suing in DC court, resulting in a judge putting a hold on the funding freeze. In a moment when it feels like there's nothing I can do, I'm going to send them some money tonight.
Democracy Forward - We go to court for democracy
Democracy depends on a government that works for all people. We fight vigorously in court against abuses of power and attempts to undermine a government that works for people who need it most.
DemocracyForward.org
January 29, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Thank you to DemocracyForward.org for suing in DC court, resulting in a judge putting a hold on the funding freeze. In a moment when it feels like there's nothing I can do, I'm going to send them some money tonight.
Hello everyone! I joined this space last year but only now does it seem to be taking off. Here’s some beauty.
November 14, 2024 at 12:04 AM
Hello everyone! I joined this space last year but only now does it seem to be taking off. Here’s some beauty.
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If you value Amtrak, let your Representative know. The House will vote this week on a bill (H.R. 4820) that will significantly slash funding for passenger rail, including a 92 percent reduction in funds to the Northeast Corridor (NEC), the busiest rail corridor in the Western Hemisphere.
Ask your Representative to vote no on Amtrak cuts | High Speed Rail Alliance
The House is voting on a bill that would dramatically cut funding for passenger rail. Please ask your Representative to vote no!
www.hsrail.org
November 2, 2023 at 12:20 AM
If you value Amtrak, let your Representative know. The House will vote this week on a bill (H.R. 4820) that will significantly slash funding for passenger rail, including a 92 percent reduction in funds to the Northeast Corridor (NEC), the busiest rail corridor in the Western Hemisphere.
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Course registrations for the spring semester are over, and there is not a single seat left in all of my department.
A department that is squarely an arts & humanities department.
Students still want the humanities, and they still want to create.
A department that is squarely an arts & humanities department.
Students still want the humanities, and they still want to create.
November 2, 2023 at 4:22 PM
Course registrations for the spring semester are over, and there is not a single seat left in all of my department.
A department that is squarely an arts & humanities department.
Students still want the humanities, and they still want to create.
A department that is squarely an arts & humanities department.
Students still want the humanities, and they still want to create.
"Colour lithographs, called chromolithographs or oleographs, were developed in the second half of the 19th century. Although popular, they were of generally poor quality." --Encyclopedia Brittanica online. This is some very outdated classist print connoisseurship baloney. OK, rant over.
November 2, 2023 at 2:32 AM
"Colour lithographs, called chromolithographs or oleographs, were developed in the second half of the 19th century. Although popular, they were of generally poor quality." --Encyclopedia Brittanica online. This is some very outdated classist print connoisseurship baloney. OK, rant over.
Public humanities for the win! Allie Ward of @ologies.bsky.social is one of my fave listens and this brilliant interview with W. Scott Poole about monsters is more than worth a listen. This is how it is done, imo.
October 27, 2023 at 3:50 AM
Public humanities for the win! Allie Ward of @ologies.bsky.social is one of my fave listens and this brilliant interview with W. Scott Poole about monsters is more than worth a listen. This is how it is done, imo.
Happy 1st work-iversary to me! I've currently got a popular exhibition in the main gallery, a guest lecture next week with a waiting list (!), a fabulous new assistant curator starting in a month, and about three thousand emails in my inbox. Seems about right.😅
October 17, 2023 at 4:28 PM
Happy 1st work-iversary to me! I've currently got a popular exhibition in the main gallery, a guest lecture next week with a waiting list (!), a fabulous new assistant curator starting in a month, and about three thousand emails in my inbox. Seems about right.😅
Behance (n.) 1. A website that pops up on my Pinterest feed and shows me the most marvelously designed books I've ever seen, none of which appear to actually exist in real life. 2. An internet torture device.
October 17, 2023 at 1:45 AM
Behance (n.) 1. A website that pops up on my Pinterest feed and shows me the most marvelously designed books I've ever seen, none of which appear to actually exist in real life. 2. An internet torture device.
Going to bed late after a ridiculous Wikipedia research session. I blame @typepunchmatrix for their new catalog, which introduced me to illustrator Dora Wheeler (who has a page) and Mary D. Brine, who did not. Improvements welcome. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Do...
October 4, 2023 at 3:57 AM
Going to bed late after a ridiculous Wikipedia research session. I blame @typepunchmatrix for their new catalog, which introduced me to illustrator Dora Wheeler (who has a page) and Mary D. Brine, who did not. Improvements welcome. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Do...
An object lesson for our current fascination with arsenic in book covers. But what is the lesson? Which is riskier: the arsenic or the hype? www.nytimes.com/2023/09/23/s...
Arsenic Preserved the Animals, but Killed the Museum
A popular taxidermy exhibit in Sioux Falls, S.D., was closed after the toxin was discovered laced throughout the specimens. Many lament the loss of the “works of art.”
www.nytimes.com
September 23, 2023 at 1:54 PM
An object lesson for our current fascination with arsenic in book covers. But what is the lesson? Which is riskier: the arsenic or the hype? www.nytimes.com/2023/09/23/s...
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Hey new folks! Periodic reminder that the best way to make it feel not dead around here is to follow people, post, and interact. You also may want to adjust the default setting that only shows replies with 2+ likes, at least for starters.
September 19, 2023 at 9:07 PM
Hey new folks! Periodic reminder that the best way to make it feel not dead around here is to follow people, post, and interact. You also may want to adjust the default setting that only shows replies with 2+ likes, at least for starters.
Fine-tuning my slides for tonight's lightning talk on developing a collecting area in P&GA: print in the digital age. Looking forward to seeing some great friends and making some new ones.⚡
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/openin...
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/openin...
September 19, 2023 at 6:25 PM
Fine-tuning my slides for tonight's lightning talk on developing a collecting area in P&GA: print in the digital age. Looking forward to seeing some great friends and making some new ones.⚡
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/openin...
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/openin...
Thrilled to announce that Julia Miller will be giving the fall Hofer Lecture at Houghton Thursday, 10/26. Suave Mechanicals has had a profound impact on the study of bookbindings. And she's going tell us all about it! libcal.library.harvard.edu/calendar/mai...
Fall 2023 Hofer Lecture: Writing the History of Bookbinding: The Suave Mechanicals Essay Series
Houghton Library welcomes conservator Julia Miller, editor of the Suave Mechanicals history of bookbinding series, who will give this fall's Philip and Frances Hofer Lecture on the...
libcal.library.harvard.edu
September 18, 2023 at 8:11 PM
Thrilled to announce that Julia Miller will be giving the fall Hofer Lecture at Houghton Thursday, 10/26. Suave Mechanicals has had a profound impact on the study of bookbindings. And she's going tell us all about it! libcal.library.harvard.edu/calendar/mai...
TFW you get an email from a colleague at a library across campus saying there's an item on a dealer list they think you might want to buy and you get to write back, "Yes, and in fact, I ordered it already." Day made! 👯
September 18, 2023 at 7:49 PM
TFW you get an email from a colleague at a library across campus saying there's an item on a dealer list they think you might want to buy and you get to write back, "Yes, and in fact, I ordered it already." Day made! 👯
Tomorrow I am going to Brimfield for the first time after having probably twenty people tell me I HAVE TO GO since I moved to MA. They are right because I am an antique/junk hound. I'm making a list of what I "need." Anyone going and up for a coffee?
September 8, 2023 at 2:54 PM
Tomorrow I am going to Brimfield for the first time after having probably twenty people tell me I HAVE TO GO since I moved to MA. They are right because I am an antique/junk hound. I'm making a list of what I "need." Anyone going and up for a coffee?
Contemplating holding a series of #printing workshops for students to create messages about #climatechange to hand out or drop strategically around town. (Until we get wood type I'm embracing #tinyprinting projects). A bit like pamphleteering, but with slips of paper or tear-off fliers. Thoughts?
September 8, 2023 at 1:59 PM
Contemplating holding a series of #printing workshops for students to create messages about #climatechange to hand out or drop strategically around town. (Until we get wood type I'm embracing #tinyprinting projects). A bit like pamphleteering, but with slips of paper or tear-off fliers. Thoughts?