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Colleen Barrett
@colleenlovesbks.bsky.social
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Champion of the obscure, Hobbit-like tendencies, Rare Books Librarian at UKL.
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Happy Friday to me. #CookingWithColleen #LasagnaDreamsAchieved
Glass pan of gluten free lasagna on a trivet with a hot glove that says "I'm gonna fuck this food up (in a good way)" with a smiling bear holding groceries.
December 6, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Make a @uklibraries.bsky.social calendar, they said. It'll be fun, they said. #KingLibraryPress

(It was and I definitely didn't do most of the work, so I'm not taking credit for this success)
Piles of sheets with a monthly calendar and image from a King Library Press publication all stacked on a cart waiting to be packed and sent off.
December 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Wearing some of my mom's old socks for her favorite holiday. Food got made only slightly late and I might have finally figured out how to make gravy. #CookingWithColleen
Bright pink sock with the words "My favorite salad is wine" around bright primary colors.
November 27, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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I left the couch for three minutes.
Orange cat sitting like a people on a couch against a pillow staring into the camera
September 6, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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I don't know what CalPal's endgame is here but he's super cute right now.
Orange cat stretched out completely with a dazed look on his face on a bed, tummy in the air and back legs facing the ceiling
August 3, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Celebrating with friends and lots of good, homemade food. Glad to be where I am.
Bonfire on a farm overlooking trees that will lead to fireworks.
July 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Had some fun experimenting with @ranchogordo.bsky.social Mother Stollard for a grilling side this week. #CookingWithColleen
Bean salad with Rancho Gordo Mother Stollard beans, hakuri turnip greens, sweet potatoes roasted with five spice, green onions, and vinegar from homemade pickled radish.
June 15, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Some of the #RareBooks are on a field trip today!
Sign of thanks and gratitude for special collections loaning rare books for the day. Table with two book foams, one holding a Johnson's Gerard and the other holding a 1757 Culpeper's English physician. In the middle is a partially finished woodcut. Whiteboard in front of a computer lab at the Medical Center Library. It says there is a pop-up exhibit of rare books today.
May 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Decided to go extra hard on #IndependentBookstoreDay this year.
Smiling person wearing a T-shirt with a dragon sitting on a pile of books that says "in a world of book worms be a book dragon" standing in front of a bookshelf with romance novels on it. She is pointing to a freshly done tattoo on her arm of several books flying into the air.
April 26, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Normally I would be sad to have a letterpress printed keepsake torn but I am totally ok for it when it means I get to see the paper fibers up close. What a cool way to start the weekend with an open house at the Educe Lab! Was a fun surprise to see #KingLibraryPress materials in an unexpected place!
Two hand printed keepsakes from the University of Kentucky Libraries' King Library Press sitting on a desk with the corners torn off in front of a massively fancy microscope in the UK Educe Lab
April 25, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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#CookingWithColleen Sunday meal prep includes this hot dish and creamy chicken wild rice soup. Dishes can wait for tomorrow.
Casserole dish with a hot dish inside of hamburger, corn, and a homemade cream soup base with Tater tots and cheddar cheese on top. It's bubbling.
March 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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The #KingLibraryPress made stickers for a Blind Date with a Book event on campus today.
View of a Kelsey tabletop press with peptobismal pink ink on it and a Lego heart shape design for printing.
February 14, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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You can take us out of Philly but you can't take away the Eagles pride. #FlyEaglesFly
Two smiling people with new Eagles Superbowl shirts looking at the camera after eating many, many bowls of soup because it's the Souper Bowl.
February 9, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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#CookingWithColleen chili crisp tofu and broccoli with rice to start the week
Three pieces of chili crisp marinated tofu with roasted broccoli over rice in a bowl with a kitchen in the background
February 4, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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It was a great day for a hike.
View from a waterfall overlook where there are icicles instead of smaller waterfalls along the edge of a creek. There is also plenty of green moss against brown leaves.
February 2, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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A #CookingWithColleen new recipe adventures thanks to @oldslyboots.bsky.social
Bowl of "marry me chickpeas" over rice
January 13, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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It's officially #SnowBeer season. Glad to be here, happy to have such a great person to celebrate with.
Smiling person with a beer standing outside of a brewery with a beer while snow falls around them
January 10, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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#CookingWithColleen I have done it again! What a tasty Monday.
Dutch oven close up of Budget Byte's chicken enchilada soup with a suppon in it.
January 7, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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#CookingWithColleen homemade lasagna update
Selfie of three smiling people around a kitchen table with three plates of homemade lasagna
November 27, 2024 at 12:44 AM
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#CookingWithColleen force my dad to eat vegetables update:
(Recipe here: www.gimmesomeoven.com/colcannon-so...)
Squinting older man in thick rimmed glasses with a funny face and almost grimace holding up a spoon of kale potato soup with a Batman soup mug on a table.
November 26, 2024 at 3:19 AM
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A #CookingWithColleen soup season update
Bowl of Damn Delicious' creamy chicken mushroom soup with lots of black pepper cracked on top.
November 5, 2024 at 11:41 PM
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#KingLibraryPress flex but I got to print a page in Dard Hunter's type set by him a century ago on the Gravesend Press. Dreams I never knew I had were fulfilled today.

This is also a great encapsulation of Paul and I.
Two people are standing behind an iron proofing press, one younger one is smiling with a freshly printed page in two colors, the other is looking up seriously with an ink brayer in his hand.
November 2, 2024 at 6:14 PM
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I'm on SP-15 duty today, which means I just tell people to just keep going over and over. #KingLibraryPress
Smiling person in glasses with an apron in front of a Vandercook SP-15.
November 2, 2024 at 5:42 PM
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The UK Libraries #KingLibraryPress sees this and raises you die cut stickers on a printing press!
Smiling person with iced pumpkin coffee and a gaudy, sparkling pumpkin headband with a tabletop printing press in the background being used by an expert.
October 31, 2024 at 6:17 PM
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When I had to fly home to South Bend unexpectedly in August for The Emergency I didn't have a crochet project with me. So I took what looked like my mom's most expensive yarn hoping she could scold me for it later. This weekend I finished a blanket for my dad. #GriefIsWeird
Sizeable afghan made of crocheted granny squares with yarn from my mom's collection while I was at the hospital, hospice, and then my dad's house for the aftermath.
October 22, 2024 at 1:54 AM