Rob Montoya
@robdmontoya.bsky.social
Breslauer Endowed Professor of Bibliography at UCLA | Director, California Rare Book School (CalRBS) | Book History, Libraries, Knowledge Organization | Fulbright
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We WILL keep going!
“UCLA faculty are honored to stand with this coalition, which continues to show that when faced with an administration targeting the very heart of higher education, fighting back is the only option,” Markowitz said.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
“UCLA faculty are honored to stand with this coalition, which continues to show that when faced with an administration targeting the very heart of higher education, fighting back is the only option,” Markowitz said.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Judge blocks Trump administration push to fine UCLA $1.2 billion for alleged antisemitism
A federal judge late Friday issued a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration from imposing a $1.2-billion fine on UCLA for alleged civil rights violations over antisemitism, its recog...
www.latimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
We WILL keep going!
“UCLA faculty are honored to stand with this coalition, which continues to show that when faced with an administration targeting the very heart of higher education, fighting back is the only option,” Markowitz said.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
“UCLA faculty are honored to stand with this coalition, which continues to show that when faced with an administration targeting the very heart of higher education, fighting back is the only option,” Markowitz said.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Here at UCLA you can and should join @uclafa.bsky.social, which is an AAUP affiliate and one of the Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA). If you want to fight, this is how you do it and who you do it with.
Institutions are failing us, including universities that, in principle, ought to be standing up for academic freedom.
Academic friends, if you want to survive this moment, join the AAUP. Help yourself and colleagues at other institutions.
Academic friends, if you want to survive this moment, join the AAUP. Help yourself and colleagues at other institutions.
November 15, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Here at UCLA you can and should join @uclafa.bsky.social, which is an AAUP affiliate and one of the Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA). If you want to fight, this is how you do it and who you do it with.
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Apply for CalRBS 2025: Priority Deadine Extended to 4/15/2025! You have 2 weeks to submit your application! After 4/15, the scholarship deadline will close, though we will continue accepting applications on a rolling basis. We are offering in-person courses in Oaxaca (Mexico), Los Angeles, & online!
CalRBS is happy to share our Summer 2025 course listings are published! We are dedicated to providing the knowledge and skills required by collectors and professionals studying for and working in all aspects of GLAM fields. #rarebooks #specialcollections #libraries #bibliograophy
April 1, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Apply for CalRBS 2025: Priority Deadine Extended to 4/15/2025! You have 2 weeks to submit your application! After 4/15, the scholarship deadline will close, though we will continue accepting applications on a rolling basis. We are offering in-person courses in Oaxaca (Mexico), Los Angeles, & online!
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The class is filling up, but there are still a couple of spaces open for @calrbs.bsky.social copyright this summer! The priority application window is closing, so get em in: bit.ly/3E1nG40
Feel free to shoot me a message if you have questions
Feel free to shoot me a message if you have questions
Copyright Theory and Practice for Libraries, Archives, and Special Collections (2025) – CalRBS
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March 31, 2025 at 8:27 PM
The class is filling up, but there are still a couple of spaces open for @calrbs.bsky.social copyright this summer! The priority application window is closing, so get em in: bit.ly/3E1nG40
Feel free to shoot me a message if you have questions
Feel free to shoot me a message if you have questions
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Hi!
We're SHARP News, an online open-access quarterly publication of @sharpweb.org.
Follow us to hear when we publish new materials and to hear about interesting things happening all over the book-ish world. Tag us in your posts so we can let others know about your work, publications, and events!
We're SHARP News, an online open-access quarterly publication of @sharpweb.org.
Follow us to hear when we publish new materials and to hear about interesting things happening all over the book-ish world. Tag us in your posts so we can let others know about your work, publications, and events!
SHARP NEWS – An open-access publication of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishingsearchexpand
sharpweb.org
February 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Hi!
We're SHARP News, an online open-access quarterly publication of @sharpweb.org.
Follow us to hear when we publish new materials and to hear about interesting things happening all over the book-ish world. Tag us in your posts so we can let others know about your work, publications, and events!
We're SHARP News, an online open-access quarterly publication of @sharpweb.org.
Follow us to hear when we publish new materials and to hear about interesting things happening all over the book-ish world. Tag us in your posts so we can let others know about your work, publications, and events!
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California Historical Society to Dissolve and Transfer Collections to Stanford
(NY Times coverage) (Gift link) 📜
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/a...
(NY Times coverage) (Gift link) 📜
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/a...
California Historical Society to Dissolve and Transfer Collections to Stanford (Gift Article)
The society faced financial challenges that were exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. Its nearly 600,000 items stretch back before the Gold Rush.
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2025 at 8:09 PM
California Historical Society to Dissolve and Transfer Collections to Stanford
(NY Times coverage) (Gift link) 📜
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/a...
(NY Times coverage) (Gift link) 📜
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/a...
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I’m really looking forward to teaching an introduction to European manuscripts at Cal RBS this summer. Please apply, circulate, encourage others to apply! www.calrbs.org/introduction...
Introduction to European Medieval Manuscripts (2025) – CalRBS
www.calrbs.org
January 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I’m really looking forward to teaching an introduction to European manuscripts at Cal RBS this summer. Please apply, circulate, encourage others to apply! www.calrbs.org/introduction...
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This June at the American Antiquarian Society: “Sex, Gender, and Print”: The 2025 Summer Seminar in the History of the Book, taught by Greta LaFleur and Jordan Alexander Stein.
Apply by April 4, 2025. Scholarships available for grad students and other early career scholars.
Link in comments.
Apply by April 4, 2025. Scholarships available for grad students and other early career scholars.
Link in comments.
January 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
This June at the American Antiquarian Society: “Sex, Gender, and Print”: The 2025 Summer Seminar in the History of the Book, taught by Greta LaFleur and Jordan Alexander Stein.
Apply by April 4, 2025. Scholarships available for grad students and other early career scholars.
Link in comments.
Apply by April 4, 2025. Scholarships available for grad students and other early career scholars.
Link in comments.
Check out @calrbs.bsky.social courses, which just went live! Come spend a week (or more) with me on the UCLA campus talking books, bibliography, libraries, and so many other things!
CalRBS is happy to share our Summer 2025 course listings are published! We are dedicated to providing the knowledge and skills required by collectors and professionals studying for and working in all aspects of GLAM fields. #rarebooks #specialcollections #libraries #bibliograophy
December 12, 2024 at 3:17 AM
Check out @calrbs.bsky.social courses, which just went live! Come spend a week (or more) with me on the UCLA campus talking books, bibliography, libraries, and so many other things!
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All roads lead to Rome.
Meet the earliest known European map with a scale: This woodcut "south up" map by Erhard Etzlaub offers a route to Rome - located on the top of the map - through #earlymodern German speaking Europe.
A 🧵 for #skystorians with an interest in hand-coloured maps.
1/5
Meet the earliest known European map with a scale: This woodcut "south up" map by Erhard Etzlaub offers a route to Rome - located on the top of the map - through #earlymodern German speaking Europe.
A 🧵 for #skystorians with an interest in hand-coloured maps.
1/5
November 21, 2024 at 6:53 AM
All roads lead to Rome.
Meet the earliest known European map with a scale: This woodcut "south up" map by Erhard Etzlaub offers a route to Rome - located on the top of the map - through #earlymodern German speaking Europe.
A 🧵 for #skystorians with an interest in hand-coloured maps.
1/5
Meet the earliest known European map with a scale: This woodcut "south up" map by Erhard Etzlaub offers a route to Rome - located on the top of the map - through #earlymodern German speaking Europe.
A 🧵 for #skystorians with an interest in hand-coloured maps.
1/5
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Deadline extended 'til Tuesday 15th Feb: weekend writing goals!
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....
February 9, 2024 at 10:46 PM
Deadline extended 'til Tuesday 15th Feb: weekend writing goals!
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Our job posting for TT position in cultural heritage informatics is back up!! We're reviewing apps now but will continue to review those rcvd by Mar 1. Happy to chat about this position/the iSchool/UA.
arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
February 7, 2024 at 10:41 PM
Our job posting for TT position in cultural heritage informatics is back up!! We're reviewing apps now but will continue to review those rcvd by Mar 1. Happy to chat about this position/the iSchool/UA.
arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
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Queer Bibliography conference, hosted this year by UCLA CalRBS, has extended its deadline to February 15, 2024! Submit!
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....
February 3, 2024 at 7:25 PM
Queer Bibliography conference, hosted this year by UCLA CalRBS, has extended its deadline to February 15, 2024! Submit!
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A summer class at UCLa where I condense 10+ years of archival research and bibliographical training. Rolling applications and scholarships available. Link to description in comments.
January 20, 2024 at 2:02 PM
A summer class at UCLa where I condense 10+ years of archival research and bibliographical training. Rolling applications and scholarships available. Link to description in comments.
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Submissions for the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB) annual Essay Prize are now open for 2024.
Submit your work! Our committee this year spans disciplines (East Asia, Latin Am, EM Europe), and so there should be good fights.
rarebookschool.org/sofcb-essay-...
Submit your work! Our committee this year spans disciplines (East Asia, Latin Am, EM Europe), and so there should be good fights.
rarebookschool.org/sofcb-essay-...
January 23, 2024 at 4:15 PM
Submissions for the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB) annual Essay Prize are now open for 2024.
Submit your work! Our committee this year spans disciplines (East Asia, Latin Am, EM Europe), and so there should be good fights.
rarebookschool.org/sofcb-essay-...
Submit your work! Our committee this year spans disciplines (East Asia, Latin Am, EM Europe), and so there should be good fights.
rarebookschool.org/sofcb-essay-...
We all accidentally fill out forms by mistake, after all!
Want to support the Cal State strike? You can with some ~form-filling shenanigans~ There are 23 campuses and 23 forms that it would be bad to fill out with false info! Here are ALL 23 LINKS. Pls share!
Bakersfield: app.smartsheet.com/b/form/496e7...
Chico State: app.smartsheet.com/b/form/5ee49...
Bakersfield: app.smartsheet.com/b/form/496e7...
Chico State: app.smartsheet.com/b/form/5ee49...
January 20, 2024 at 12:41 AM
We all accidentally fill out forms by mistake, after all!
Angling to be more attentive to movies/cinema this coming year. Do I have colleagues on here in Letterboxd? If so, message me your username! Help me find the good stuff!
December 29, 2023 at 1:31 AM
Angling to be more attentive to movies/cinema this coming year. Do I have colleagues on here in Letterboxd? If so, message me your username! Help me find the good stuff!
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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....
The Bibliography Lab is getting installed into its new space at UCLA/ @calrbs.bsky.social ! It’s messy, equipment is being reassembled and refurbished, more equipment is set to arrive, and I’ve got more cuts on my hands than in recent memory, but soon this space will be ready for serious printing!
December 19, 2023 at 12:15 AM
The Bibliography Lab is getting installed into its new space at UCLA/ @calrbs.bsky.social ! It’s messy, equipment is being reassembled and refurbished, more equipment is set to arrive, and I’ve got more cuts on my hands than in recent memory, but soon this space will be ready for serious printing!
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We are pleased to announce that CalRBS is now accepting applications for the Summer 2024 season. Our listings of in-person and online courses can be found on our website: www.calrbs.org/2024-courses...
2024 Courses – CalRBS
www.calrbs.org
December 17, 2023 at 7:37 PM
We are pleased to announce that CalRBS is now accepting applications for the Summer 2024 season. Our listings of in-person and online courses can be found on our website: www.calrbs.org/2024-courses...
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If you are near one of the libraries on this list, would you get in touch? You can help with the Shakespeare Census by verifying copies!
It's fun and easy. And you get to look at old books!
shakespearecensus.org/search/?fiel...
It's fun and easy. And you get to look at old books!
shakespearecensus.org/search/?fiel...
December 15, 2023 at 7:54 PM
If you are near one of the libraries on this list, would you get in touch? You can help with the Shakespeare Census by verifying copies!
It's fun and easy. And you get to look at old books!
shakespearecensus.org/search/?fiel...
It's fun and easy. And you get to look at old books!
shakespearecensus.org/search/?fiel...
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Hey, let’s try this again.
This August I will be teaching "Hands-On Book History Pedagogy" at @calrbs.bsky.social - looking forward to hanging out with my favorite fellow book nerds, talking teaching & experimenting in UCLA’s new community print lab—come join us!
www.calrbs.org/program/cour...
This August I will be teaching "Hands-On Book History Pedagogy" at @calrbs.bsky.social - looking forward to hanging out with my favorite fellow book nerds, talking teaching & experimenting in UCLA’s new community print lab—come join us!
www.calrbs.org/program/cour...
December 13, 2023 at 5:58 PM
Hey, let’s try this again.
This August I will be teaching "Hands-On Book History Pedagogy" at @calrbs.bsky.social - looking forward to hanging out with my favorite fellow book nerds, talking teaching & experimenting in UCLA’s new community print lab—come join us!
www.calrbs.org/program/cour...
This August I will be teaching "Hands-On Book History Pedagogy" at @calrbs.bsky.social - looking forward to hanging out with my favorite fellow book nerds, talking teaching & experimenting in UCLA’s new community print lab—come join us!
www.calrbs.org/program/cour...
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Exciting professional news: I’ll be teaching a course at California Rare Book School in August about Pop Bibliography!Pop Bibliography encompasses the production and reception of bibliography through a popular media lens, and is an important part of the modern history of old books. Apply now! 📜
Pop Bibliography – CalRBS
www.calrbs.org
December 12, 2023 at 9:10 PM
Exciting professional news: I’ll be teaching a course at California Rare Book School in August about Pop Bibliography!Pop Bibliography encompasses the production and reception of bibliography through a popular media lens, and is an important part of the modern history of old books. Apply now! 📜
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ummm I get to teach at the same time as @aarontpratt.bsky.social @book-historia.bsky.social @edrabinski.bsky.social and Erin McGuirl and next after is @ryancordell.bsky.social, @jgarc.bsky.social, and Jesse Erickson. Wow. @robdmontoya.bsky.social put together an AMAZING line up for CalRBS this year!
December 12, 2023 at 9:08 PM
ummm I get to teach at the same time as @aarontpratt.bsky.social @book-historia.bsky.social @edrabinski.bsky.social and Erin McGuirl and next after is @ryancordell.bsky.social, @jgarc.bsky.social, and Jesse Erickson. Wow. @robdmontoya.bsky.social put together an AMAZING line up for CalRBS this year!
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Unabashedly: this is why I think it’s funny to say “by the year 300 the codex was the dominant form for recording information in the area around the Mediterranean.”
Historians in 500 years: “around the year 2010 people mostly stopped taking personal photography, as evidenced by the lack of surviving photographic albums.”
November 19, 2023 at 11:27 PM
Unabashedly: this is why I think it’s funny to say “by the year 300 the codex was the dominant form for recording information in the area around the Mediterranean.”