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A peek into a special session of the seminar “Doing Things with Manuscripts: An Introduction to Working with the Material Text” by @bookgremlin.bsky.social

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Sometimes working with manuscripts gets us really, really close to the people from the past allowing us to hear their voices. This is a story of a letter from a schoolgirl to her teacher, written probably sometime at the end of the 9th or the beginning of the 10th century. A thread 🧵 #medievalsky /1

why is Adam scryveyne on Genius

Not to be that person who posts about being in the Jameson reading group but the next selection needs to drop ASAP before I have to return the library’s copy of Postmodernism. please

One of the kids who helped decode the Herculaneum papyri is now part of Musk’s treasury oversight team apparently? Seems like a discussion is to be had about how those who are actively unravelling the humanities in the US are happy to use the humanities as a boost to their own careers

It’s hard to overstate just how tragic this is. If you’re an LGBTQ+ person or have immediate family that is, the opportunities to receive an education in book arts in a state where your rights are protected are dwindling.

“HB 777 not only would fine libraries and librarians, but it would possibly require hard labor by those found guilty. Read that again: librarians would be sentenced to hard labor for daring to join their largest professional organization.”

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Realizing that my first time lecturing is less than a week from today. Feels like one of very few things that would feel less scary in the US, where I have at least some idea of what Gen Z is up to. All I have gleaned about youth culture here is the guy on IG who beatboxes about Kaufland

I recently got back from the first research trip of my PhD (!) and the manuscripts and librarians were amazing but what I truly cannot stop thinking about are the Victorian fire grenades the library had around

Absolutely sickening to see these initiatives anywhere, but this especially feels like a gut punch because it’s my home state.

I just remembered I have this account and suppose I should finally post something, so to introduce myself: I’m Lindsey and I’m a bookbinder, former library worker, and current PhD researcher working on theorizing how people interact(ed) with medieval manuscripts!