happy birthday!!!!!

This is so exciting!! Omw to add to my department’s library wishlist

omg I actually manifested it

I love my digital research tools as much as the next person, but I think a more uncomfortable discussion is also to be had regarding the way the digital turn facilitates exploitation like this by putting the humanities in contact with an extractive tech industry. Much to think about as they say.

I just want to say thank you for doing this for your students! One of the most stress-inducing parts of my MLIS program was trying to find different people willing to do interviews within a week’s notice multiple times a quarter

Reminds me of when I was making a bunch of collation diagrams for my MLIS capstone and got to one fairly large codex. The catalog entry said it had only 1 quire and I remember thinking “how’d they manage that, did they pamphlet bind it with rope or something?” And yeah, that’s exactly what they did

I haven’t taken a course there yet sadly but as someone coming from the bookbinding world I’ve heard nothing but glowing reviews, and everyone I’ve spoken to from there has been incredibly nice and knowledgable!

Jesus really????? That’s horrid

just as I’ve known many leaders in the field who were educated through apprenticeships that have long since disappeared. We can’t just let these pathways into the field continue to evaporate.

Obviously, this is not solely a book arts issue, but two branches of right wing policy intersecting in a way that is putting the survival of our field at risk. I’ve known so many brilliant conservators, librarians, scholars, educators, and artists whose insights from their mfas were invaluable,

Unless I’m missing or forgetting one, there is now one (1) option in a state that at least has a fair score on the Movement Advancement Project map (www.lgbtmap.org/equality-maps). We can write about DEI in the field all we want but it doesn’t fix this very material issue

Should have clarified, a degree, not an education. But this is really important. If you want to get an MFA in book arts and can’t live in Iowa, Utah, or Alabama, your option is now UArts.

The loss of programs is already extremely distressing. Looking at this list, it’s staggering how many of these just don’t exist anymore. www.philobiblon.com/programs.shtml. That’s on top of the fact that apprenticeships are basically nonexistent