Alex Wingate
@bibliowingate.bsky.social
PhD candidate in Information Science. #BookHistory of early modern Navarre (bookselling/private libraries), #DH, #DHmakes, libraries, rare books. Bibliography Editor for Chymistry of Isaac Newton & SHARP News.
W&M '18, ULondon '19, MLS @IU '21
W&M '18, ULondon '19, MLS @IU '21
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Alex Wingate
@bibliowingate.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Hello all you new followers! I'm a book historian/PhD candidate in Information Science. I work on bookselling/ownership in EM Navarre, Spain; the intersection of ILS+Book History; & applying quant and digital methods to Book History. I mostly post #DH, #DHmakes, #BookHistory, & quilting things!
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Does anyone in the #bookhistory or #history space know of a good article about the “publishing war” between the Old Farmer’s Almanac and the Farmer’s Almanac?
November 10, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Does anyone in the #bookhistory or #history space know of a good article about the “publishing war” between the Old Farmer’s Almanac and the Farmer’s Almanac?
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Come work here at Illinois! We have two Diversity Residency Visiting positions open. I'm chairing one of the two searches:
www.library.illinois.edu/geninfo/resi... #libraryjobs
www.library.illinois.edu/geninfo/resi... #libraryjobs
Library Diversity Residency Program – General Information – U of I Library
www.library.illinois.edu
November 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Come work here at Illinois! We have two Diversity Residency Visiting positions open. I'm chairing one of the two searches:
www.library.illinois.edu/geninfo/resi... #libraryjobs
www.library.illinois.edu/geninfo/resi... #libraryjobs
hey book history people: has anyone encountered marcas de fuego on the fore-edge of a book (instead of the top or bottom)? We’ve got a weird one (that also doesn’t show up in the BUAP database)
November 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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Also in case its not being mentioned in your feed, there is still a remaining vote for this and Somehow they didn't anticipate the outrage, so there's apparently some hesitation now.
If those were your senators, call them and don't stop. I will also be calling even though they arent mine
If those were your senators, call them and don't stop. I will also be calling even though they arent mine
Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
No matter how they voted last night, every one of them has a say in maintaining Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin as their caucus leaders. Every one of them is accountable here.
No matter how they voted last night, every one of them has a say in maintaining Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin as their caucus leaders. Every one of them is accountable here.
November 10, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Also in case its not being mentioned in your feed, there is still a remaining vote for this and Somehow they didn't anticipate the outrage, so there's apparently some hesitation now.
If those were your senators, call them and don't stop. I will also be calling even though they arent mine
If those were your senators, call them and don't stop. I will also be calling even though they arent mine
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Who made this and why are you choosing nerd violence? ✍️ I mean, it is true, but still.
November 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Who made this and why are you choosing nerd violence? ✍️ I mean, it is true, but still.
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Currently doing some marking. A reminder to everyone involved in archives and collections: digitisation is not preservation. If I digitise a box of records and put the files on a USB stick I haven't preserved a thing. It's all about what you do with the files post-digitisation. #archives #digipres
November 10, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Called Warner and left a message, Kaine’s phone wouldn’t let you leave a message outside of business hours, so I decided to call Walkinshaw and leave a message and his mailbox was full. So perhaps that’s a good sign that people are pissed
November 10, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Called Warner and left a message, Kaine’s phone wouldn’t let you leave a message outside of business hours, so I decided to call Walkinshaw and leave a message and his mailbox was full. So perhaps that’s a good sign that people are pissed
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Democrats have to stop bailing out Republicans from facing the consequences of their own policies. And yeah, that means they have to stop sparing voters from experiencing what GOP government truly means.
Every time Dems step in, it only emboldens the GOP & they make it even worse the next time.
Every time Dems step in, it only emboldens the GOP & they make it even worse the next time.
So Democrats get:
1. A CR that will prevent the GOP from facing the wrath of Americans for a shutdown over the holidays
2. A coupon for one (1) meaningless ACA vote that will fail
3. An end to the illegal RIF/SNAP moves that are already before the courts
Those all seem like wins for the GOP.
1. A CR that will prevent the GOP from facing the wrath of Americans for a shutdown over the holidays
2. A coupon for one (1) meaningless ACA vote that will fail
3. An end to the illegal RIF/SNAP moves that are already before the courts
Those all seem like wins for the GOP.
November 10, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Democrats have to stop bailing out Republicans from facing the consequences of their own policies. And yeah, that means they have to stop sparing voters from experiencing what GOP government truly means.
Every time Dems step in, it only emboldens the GOP & they make it even worse the next time.
Every time Dems step in, it only emboldens the GOP & they make it even worse the next time.
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Wrote about the complex process of building a 7-color print from metal type & ornament. www.starshaped.com/blog/2025/11...
November 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Wrote about the complex process of building a 7-color print from metal type & ornament. www.starshaped.com/blog/2025/11...
Decided today was a day where I needed Disney movie as the background to working on this bookseller inventory. Robin Hood seemed appropriate (though it's also my favorite. I wore out the VHS...) And now you too have this music in your head :D
a cartoon rooster is playing an ukulele and wearing a blue shirt
Alt: The rooster from the animated Robin Hood movie stepping in time with the music playing his lute
media.tenor.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Decided today was a day where I needed Disney movie as the background to working on this bookseller inventory. Robin Hood seemed appropriate (though it's also my favorite. I wore out the VHS...) And now you too have this music in your head :D
#GLAM friends, quite a lot of you went to IU for your undergrad, MLS, and PhD! Those of us still here would appreciate alumni support against the upper administration’s nonsense, especially in regard to academic/intellectual freedom
My undergrad alma mater, Indiana University, has gone full Project 2025 - from eliminating liberal arts majors, to suppressing campus protest to shuttering the student paper. A group of alums are organizing thanks to @juliedicaro.bsky.social. Join us by filling the form.
forms.gle/vbsHAGUH6JHa...
forms.gle/vbsHAGUH6JHa...
Alumni For a Better IU
Connecting alumni to save IU
forms.gle
November 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
#GLAM friends, quite a lot of you went to IU for your undergrad, MLS, and PhD! Those of us still here would appreciate alumni support against the upper administration’s nonsense, especially in regard to academic/intellectual freedom
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Hey Indiana Hoosier friends: I signed up.
My undergrad alma mater, Indiana University, has gone full Project 2025 - from eliminating liberal arts majors, to suppressing campus protest to shuttering the student paper. A group of alums are organizing thanks to @juliedicaro.bsky.social. Join us by filling the form.
forms.gle/vbsHAGUH6JHa...
forms.gle/vbsHAGUH6JHa...
Alumni For a Better IU
Connecting alumni to save IU
forms.gle
November 8, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Hey Indiana Hoosier friends: I signed up.
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Here, Rosalind Franklin's colleague Maurice himself argues to the head of their lab in London that their data should not have been leaked to Watson and Crick. You're welcome.
November 8, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Here, Rosalind Franklin's colleague Maurice himself argues to the head of their lab in London that their data should not have been leaked to Watson and Crick. You're welcome.
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That’s before I reckon with the ethics of using a thing for ghost efficiency that is pretty societally devastating.
And on a final personal note, I don’t want to become stupid before my time. I really don’t. I will keep mucking about so that I can keep mucking about, for as long as possible.
And on a final personal note, I don’t want to become stupid before my time. I really don’t. I will keep mucking about so that I can keep mucking about, for as long as possible.
November 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM
That’s before I reckon with the ethics of using a thing for ghost efficiency that is pretty societally devastating.
And on a final personal note, I don’t want to become stupid before my time. I really don’t. I will keep mucking about so that I can keep mucking about, for as long as possible.
And on a final personal note, I don’t want to become stupid before my time. I really don’t. I will keep mucking about so that I can keep mucking about, for as long as possible.
It’s funny how your archival notes can take you back: “nasty dirt case with purple mold” 😂 I might have actually been given gloves for this one bc it was gross #BookHistory
(This is a will of a scribe who leaves some books to people)
(This is a will of a scribe who leaves some books to people)
November 7, 2025 at 9:44 PM
It’s funny how your archival notes can take you back: “nasty dirt case with purple mold” 😂 I might have actually been given gloves for this one bc it was gross #BookHistory
(This is a will of a scribe who leaves some books to people)
(This is a will of a scribe who leaves some books to people)
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The Pope out here guest lecturing in the iSchools.
November 7, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The Pope out here guest lecturing in the iSchools.
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#BookHistory!
This is a hybrid panel so please do join us even if you’re not in Bloomington!
This is a hybrid panel so please do join us even if you’re not in Bloomington!
Hi DH friends, join us on Nov 10, 10-11 am CT, for “New Book History Research with Internet Data”, a hybrid panel sponsored by SHAR, to explore challenges and opportunities of using Internet data and digital methods for book history research. More info in the poster attached and comments :)
November 6, 2025 at 7:10 PM
#BookHistory!
This is a hybrid panel so please do join us even if you’re not in Bloomington!
This is a hybrid panel so please do join us even if you’re not in Bloomington!
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"Europeans recognize his vision about free public transit and universal childcare. We expect our governments to make these kinds of services accessible to all of us,” said Verbeek. “We pay higher taxes and get civilized societies in return."
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:05 PM
"Europeans recognize his vision about free public transit and universal childcare. We expect our governments to make these kinds of services accessible to all of us,” said Verbeek. “We pay higher taxes and get civilized societies in return."
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"The people who aren't in charge are keeping the people who are in charge from being in charge because they're not in charge, we are!" says one of the men who is in charge but somehow is not?
Steve Scalise: "The Transportation Secretary yesterday said 10% of flights are gonna have to be cut back because we don't have enough air traffic controllers because Democrats chose not to pay them." (As Trump points out, Republicans control everything and could end the shutdown on their own.)
November 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
"The people who aren't in charge are keeping the people who are in charge from being in charge because they're not in charge, we are!" says one of the men who is in charge but somehow is not?
Me in my advising meeting this week:
Advisor: So how was Spain?
Me: I found another bookseller inventory! 😇
Advisor: 🙄(with humor)
Me: I knew that was gonna be your reaction....I swear it's the last new data! It's only 200 entries! It's got medicine! And it'll be great for ch 3!
Advisor: Fiiinneee 😂
Advisor: So how was Spain?
Me: I found another bookseller inventory! 😇
Advisor: 🙄(with humor)
Me: I knew that was gonna be your reaction....I swear it's the last new data! It's only 200 entries! It's got medicine! And it'll be great for ch 3!
Advisor: Fiiinneee 😂
So I actually spent 7 of 8 hours working on the 18 folio case, which turned out to have a ~200 entry bookseller inventory plus some good witness testimony about ephemera he bought. Which all in all worked out well bc it gave me this evening to actually finish reviewing my notes on the long case!
I have been sufficiently fortified with tortilla and Cola Cao to last 8 hours in the archives I think. Today I’ll be revisiting the case known in my notes as “the big long case” (aka 800+ folios of a bookseller widow vs my MA thesis bookseller and his brother) #BookHistory
November 6, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Me in my advising meeting this week:
Advisor: So how was Spain?
Me: I found another bookseller inventory! 😇
Advisor: 🙄(with humor)
Me: I knew that was gonna be your reaction....I swear it's the last new data! It's only 200 entries! It's got medicine! And it'll be great for ch 3!
Advisor: Fiiinneee 😂
Advisor: So how was Spain?
Me: I found another bookseller inventory! 😇
Advisor: 🙄(with humor)
Me: I knew that was gonna be your reaction....I swear it's the last new data! It's only 200 entries! It's got medicine! And it'll be great for ch 3!
Advisor: Fiiinneee 😂
A fun puzzle of "what the heck does the scribe mean by this entry?!?" tonight:
"hoposarium hornatun"
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Opus aureum ornatum by Antonio Gislandi
#BookHistory
"hoposarium hornatun"
👇
Opus aureum ornatum by Antonio Gislandi
#BookHistory
November 6, 2025 at 2:52 AM
A fun puzzle of "what the heck does the scribe mean by this entry?!?" tonight:
"hoposarium hornatun"
👇
Opus aureum ornatum by Antonio Gislandi
#BookHistory
"hoposarium hornatun"
👇
Opus aureum ornatum by Antonio Gislandi
#BookHistory
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And the type form.
November 6, 2025 at 12:45 AM
And the type form.