Kaja Marczewska
@kajamarczewska.bsky.social
Special Collections @UCL // also writing about the small press, grassroots publishing, and alternative cultures of knowledge production // This is not a copy (2018) / The Contemporary Small Press (co-ed) (2020)
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In 2025 UCL Special Collections celebrates 60 years of collecting small press. This year also marks 50 years of publishing by Coracle Press @coracle.bsky.social
Join us for a birthday bash!
12 November
17:00 - 20:00
Free & open to all / booking essential.
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Join us for a birthday bash!
12 November
17:00 - 20:00
Free & open to all / booking essential.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/we-continu...
We continue to wave a small handkerchief at the world: Coracle Press @ 50
Join us to celebrate 50 years of Coracle Press!
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October 16, 2025 at 3:55 PM
In 2025 UCL Special Collections celebrates 60 years of collecting small press. This year also marks 50 years of publishing by Coracle Press @coracle.bsky.social
Join us for a birthday bash!
12 November
17:00 - 20:00
Free & open to all / booking essential.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/we-continu...
Join us for a birthday bash!
12 November
17:00 - 20:00
Free & open to all / booking essential.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/we-continu...
The excellent @uclartlibrarian.bsky.social and I curated this little display at @senatehouselib.bsky.social as part of @uclspeccoll.bsky.social 60 years of Small Press collecting celebrations. Pop in to see it if you are in the area!
Last chance to see!
Our #display of 'spinless' objects from @ucl.ac.uk Small Press Collections is on display @senatehouselib.bsky.social until 9 September, and can be see as part of the excellent Spinless Wonders #exhibition there.
Free and open to all! On display in the 4th floor membership area
Our #display of 'spinless' objects from @ucl.ac.uk Small Press Collections is on display @senatehouselib.bsky.social until 9 September, and can be see as part of the excellent Spinless Wonders #exhibition there.
Free and open to all! On display in the 4th floor membership area
September 1, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The excellent @uclartlibrarian.bsky.social and I curated this little display at @senatehouselib.bsky.social as part of @uclspeccoll.bsky.social 60 years of Small Press collecting celebrations. Pop in to see it if you are in the area!
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CFP: Special issue of Culture Machine on the University as Infrastructure
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CM Vol 25 CfP University as Infrastructure
Culture Machine Vol. 25 Call for Papers: University as Infrastructure Guest-edited by: Alexandra Anikina, Johannes Bruder, Megen de Bruin-Molé, Stephen Cornford, Kwame Phillips & Geoff Cox …
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July 5, 2025 at 6:24 PM
CFP: Special issue of Culture Machine on the University as Infrastructure
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Our digital repositories team spends a great deal of their time now simply protecting our commoned public digital resources from bots. This insatiable, aimless, destructive desire to excrete novel slop is impeding our access to — and even damaging — our cultural heritage + vetted public knowledge.
'“I don't think that people appreciate how few people are working to keep these collections online, even at huge institutions,” Weinberg told me. “It's usually an incredibly small team, one person, half a person, half a person, plus, like their web person who is sympathetic to what's going on.'
AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums
"This is a moment where that community feels collectively under threat and isn't sure what the process is for solving the problem.”
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June 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Our digital repositories team spends a great deal of their time now simply protecting our commoned public digital resources from bots. This insatiable, aimless, destructive desire to excrete novel slop is impeding our access to — and even damaging — our cultural heritage + vetted public knowledge.
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Important (and also helpful) blog on AI in the context of publication from @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social . Worth reading.
“At times, it seems the number of challenges is increasing faster than the number of solutions AI tools are solving.” Yes! And more of this. Important fr @9thprime.bsky.social for @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/06/12/w...
We Need AI Standards for Scholarly Publishing: A NISO Workshop Report - The Scholarly Kitchen
NISO issues report of workshops on how to improve efficiency working with AI systems in scholarly publishing
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June 12, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Important (and also helpful) blog on AI in the context of publication from @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social . Worth reading.
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Craft Thing! Join us on 10 June for an afternoon of #crafting, collection displays, and a talk on histories of political banner making by the brilliant Alice Gabb!
Free and open to all: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/craft-thin....
Free and open to all: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/craft-thin....
Craft Thing!
Join us for an afternoon of exploring textile and craft in history, theory, and practice at UCL Special Collections
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May 20, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Craft Thing! Join us on 10 June for an afternoon of #crafting, collection displays, and a talk on histories of political banner making by the brilliant Alice Gabb!
Free and open to all: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/craft-thin....
Free and open to all: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/craft-thin....
Happy belated birthday Karl #Marx!
Happy 207th birthday Karl Marx!
To celebrate, read about two editions of Das Kapital in our collection - a French translation with Marx's own corrections (!) and a later English edition with George Orwell's notes!!
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To celebrate, read about two editions of Das Kapital in our collection - a French translation with Marx's own corrections (!) and a later English edition with George Orwell's notes!!
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“For the first time appropriately issued at a ‘Socialist’ price:” Karl Marx at UCL’s Special Collections | UCL UCL Special Collections
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May 6, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Happy belated birthday Karl #Marx!
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Listen, put down that copy of Hello! and take a trip through the wilder side of magazines. We'll be exploring the inky world of alternative publishing: poets, artists, innovators and visionaries. 23rd May in London - still places left and not much time to register. Please SHARE SHARE SHARE!
May 5, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Listen, put down that copy of Hello! and take a trip through the wilder side of magazines. We'll be exploring the inky world of alternative publishing: poets, artists, innovators and visionaries. 23rd May in London - still places left and not much time to register. Please SHARE SHARE SHARE!
Come hang out with @gillpartington.bsky.social @uclartlibrarian.bsky.social @djbduncan.bsky.social , me and UCL’s @uclspeccoll.bsky.social brilliant collections of magazines!
Interested in artists' magazines, experimental poetry journals and countercultural press? This one-day course on 23rd May explores some of UCLs most out-there periodicals. Sign up here: ies.sas.ac.uk/events/magaz...
Magazines, Art and Experiment
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April 28, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Come hang out with @gillpartington.bsky.social @uclartlibrarian.bsky.social @djbduncan.bsky.social , me and UCL’s @uclspeccoll.bsky.social brilliant collections of magazines!
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Exciting job opportunity to become St John's College's Special Collections Librarian www.joh.cam.ac.uk/special-coll... - permanent post, salary £41,944-£47,208 (depending on experience) plus benefits. Working with a great collection and a friendly team. @ciliprarebooks.bsky.social #LibraryJobs
Special Collections Librarian | St John's College, University of Cambridge
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March 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Exciting job opportunity to become St John's College's Special Collections Librarian www.joh.cam.ac.uk/special-coll... - permanent post, salary £41,944-£47,208 (depending on experience) plus benefits. Working with a great collection and a friendly team. @ciliprarebooks.bsky.social #LibraryJobs
Come hang out with me, @uclspeccoll.bsky.social and @sladeschoolucl.bsky.social as our first ever Small Press in Residence. £5,000 to spend flexibly, access to collections, and some super facilities: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
Call for a Small Press in Residence at UCL Special Collections | UCL UCL Special Collections
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March 5, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Come hang out with me, @uclspeccoll.bsky.social and @sladeschoolucl.bsky.social as our first ever Small Press in Residence. £5,000 to spend flexibly, access to collections, and some super facilities: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
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On March 7th we're doing an International Women's Day edition of our Bloomsbury Open Morning! Come see some rare books and archives related to the history of women's suffrage and the continuing fight for women's rights.
Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-morni...
#London #RareBooks #Archives
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#London #RareBooks #Archives
February 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
On March 7th we're doing an International Women's Day edition of our Bloomsbury Open Morning! Come see some rare books and archives related to the history of women's suffrage and the continuing fight for women's rights.
Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-morni...
#London #RareBooks #Archives
Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-morni...
#London #RareBooks #Archives
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The cover of this booklet features such an arresting illustration. Does anyone know the name of the artist?
January 31, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The cover of this booklet features such an arresting illustration. Does anyone know the name of the artist?
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Delighted to announce that, funded by a grant from @forarthistory.bsky.social, I am organising a symposium on 9 June 2025 entitled 'Artists' Books: Structures/Infrastructures'.
Academics, doctoral students, artists, curators, librarians - anyone involved in the artists' books ecosystem may apply!
Academics, doctoral students, artists, curators, librarians - anyone involved in the artists' books ecosystem may apply!
January 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Delighted to announce that, funded by a grant from @forarthistory.bsky.social, I am organising a symposium on 9 June 2025 entitled 'Artists' Books: Structures/Infrastructures'.
Academics, doctoral students, artists, curators, librarians - anyone involved in the artists' books ecosystem may apply!
Academics, doctoral students, artists, curators, librarians - anyone involved in the artists' books ecosystem may apply!
This will be brilliant! If you are in London, join us on 19 Feb for a day of talks, performances, collection displays, pop up library, and actual mimeo printing magic! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-revolu...
The revolution will be stencilled! Mimeography and Small Press at UCL
Join us for a day of mimeo printing and talks in celebration of 60 years of small press collecting at UCL.
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January 21, 2025 at 1:07 PM
This will be brilliant! If you are in London, join us on 19 Feb for a day of talks, performances, collection displays, pop up library, and actual mimeo printing magic! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-revolu...
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📣 New zine!! "A Librarian Against AI; or, I Think AI Should Leave" is a 40-page zine about why we should think twice about using & supporting generative AI. violetbfox.info/against-ai/ #noAI #zines
November 18, 2024 at 4:04 PM
📣 New zine!! "A Librarian Against AI; or, I Think AI Should Leave" is a 40-page zine about why we should think twice about using & supporting generative AI. violetbfox.info/against-ai/ #noAI #zines
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You could read all of these zines with a Barnard Library Research Award library.barnard.edu/grants-and-a... Applications due in February.
December 14, 2024 at 8:51 PM
You could read all of these zines with a Barnard Library Research Award library.barnard.edu/grants-and-a... Applications due in February.
Hang out with me and the super @uclofficial.bsky.social special collections in 2025: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
Research Institute for Collections Fellowships 2025 | UCL UCL Special Collections
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December 13, 2024 at 9:08 AM
Hang out with me and the super @uclofficial.bsky.social special collections in 2025: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
Some fun new acquisitions from @uclofficial.bsky.social Special Collections!: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
Recent Acquisitions at UCL Special Collections | UCL UCL Special Collections
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December 6, 2024 at 1:10 PM
Some fun new acquisitions from @uclofficial.bsky.social Special Collections!: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
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Since a billion people seem to have joined BlueSky today, take a look at this CFP & submit something!
Please share this CFP!
We’re hosting a symposium 20-21 May 2025 @skeuomorph.bsky.social on "Building Book Labs: Hands-On Research & Teaching in Book History"—we’re looking for talks, discussion topics, & hands-on activities—& we especially welcome novel formats or session ideas. More at the link!
We’re hosting a symposium 20-21 May 2025 @skeuomorph.bsky.social on "Building Book Labs: Hands-On Research & Teaching in Book History"—we’re looking for talks, discussion topics, & hands-on activities—& we especially welcome novel formats or session ideas. More at the link!
CFP: Building Book Labs Symposium – Skeuomorph Press
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November 8, 2024 at 9:24 PM
Since a billion people seem to have joined BlueSky today, take a look at this CFP & submit something!
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Huge thanks to Peter Bauman (Aka Monk Antony) at Le Random www.lerandom.art for chatting to me about collecting and valuing digital art. The podcast is now available on:
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Youtube t.co/zodzqbrogn (audio only)
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Youtube t.co/zodzqbrogn (audio only)
October 1, 2024 at 4:55 PM
Huge thanks to Peter Bauman (Aka Monk Antony) at Le Random www.lerandom.art for chatting to me about collecting and valuing digital art. The podcast is now available on:
Apple t.co/sM1XgMbtDS
Spotify t.co/mjXhRcLFuh
Youtube t.co/zodzqbrogn (audio only)
Apple t.co/sM1XgMbtDS
Spotify t.co/mjXhRcLFuh
Youtube t.co/zodzqbrogn (audio only)
We are doing a fun bookish thing UCL Special Collections next week. Free and open to all: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-colle...
Book Collecting/Contemporary Practice: Anthony Davis Prize 2024 finalists
Explore contemporary book collecting practice through objects from 2024 Anthony Davis Book Collecting Prize shortlisted collections.
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September 2, 2024 at 10:17 AM
We are doing a fun bookish thing UCL Special Collections next week. Free and open to all: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-colle...
This beauty arrived in post today. A real privilege to have some of my work included!
June 14, 2024 at 4:05 PM
This beauty arrived in post today. A real privilege to have some of my work included!
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UCLA California Rare Book School is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the second annual Queer Bibliography conference to be held between July 24-27, 2024, on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles, California. Full call for papers can be found at: www.calrbs.org/events/queer....
December 19, 2023 at 9:31 PM
UCLA California Rare Book School is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the second annual Queer Bibliography conference to be held between July 24-27, 2024, on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles, California. Full call for papers can be found at: www.calrbs.org/events/queer....