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"The Muster at Marquette" is a brand-new short documentary on the quest underway at Raynor Library to preserve 6,000 #Tolkien fandom voices. Celebrate #HobbitDay by giving it a watch—or adding your voice to the muster! www.marquette.edu/library/news...
@tolkiensociety.org
@tolkiensociety.org
September 22, 2025 at 7:49 PM
"The Muster at Marquette" is a brand-new short documentary on the quest underway at Raynor Library to preserve 6,000 #Tolkien fandom voices. Celebrate #HobbitDay by giving it a watch—or adding your voice to the muster! www.marquette.edu/library/news...
@tolkiensociety.org
@tolkiensociety.org
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Happy #HobbitDay to all!
On 22 September: Bilbo and Frodo Baggins were born. As Ring-bearers, born 78 years apart, their birthdays were honoured as Cormarë, and Tolkien societies worldwide continue to commemorate. How will you celebrate? #Tolkien #BookSky
On 22 September: Bilbo and Frodo Baggins were born. As Ring-bearers, born 78 years apart, their birthdays were honoured as Cormarë, and Tolkien societies worldwide continue to commemorate. How will you celebrate? #Tolkien #BookSky
September 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Happy #HobbitDay to all!
On 22 September: Bilbo and Frodo Baggins were born. As Ring-bearers, born 78 years apart, their birthdays were honoured as Cormarë, and Tolkien societies worldwide continue to commemorate. How will you celebrate? #Tolkien #BookSky
On 22 September: Bilbo and Frodo Baggins were born. As Ring-bearers, born 78 years apart, their birthdays were honoured as Cormarë, and Tolkien societies worldwide continue to commemorate. How will you celebrate? #Tolkien #BookSky
Find out how much your state's libraries and museums are supported through federal IMLS funds. www.imls.gov/map
IMLS Interactive Map
www.imls.gov
March 31, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Find out how much your state's libraries and museums are supported through federal IMLS funds. www.imls.gov/map
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March 26, 2025 at 9:53 PM
March 26, 2025 at 9:53 PM
For #TolkienReadingDay, tune in to hear Tolkien archivist Dr. Bill Fliss and English professor Dr. Gerry Canavan on the What's On Tap radio show with Sandy Maxx. It streams live at 7 p.m. CDT tonight.
#620WTMJ #MarquetteU
#620WTMJ #MarquetteU
March 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
For #TolkienReadingDay, tune in to hear Tolkien archivist Dr. Bill Fliss and English professor Dr. Gerry Canavan on the What's On Tap radio show with Sandy Maxx. It streams live at 7 p.m. CDT tonight.
#620WTMJ #MarquetteU
#620WTMJ #MarquetteU
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Happy #TolkienReadingDay to all who celebrate! Please enjoy this map of Middle Earth, annotated by the man himself and including several locations not mentioned in the books:
![Pictured is an annotated version of a fold-out map which was included in early editions of the Lord of The Rings. The map shows readers Tolkien’s fantasy world ‘Middle-earth’.
The annotations are by Tolkien himself, and were for the benefit of Pauline Baynes, an artist who was creating an illustrated poster map of Middle-earth.
Baynes ripped the map out of her own 1954 copy of Lord of the Rings and took it to Tolkien, who covered it with notes, including many extra place names that do not appear in the book. Since most were in his own invented Elvish language he helpfully translated some: ‘Eryn Vorn [= Black Forest] a forest region of dark [pine?] trees.’
The annotations give an insight into how vividly Tolkien pictured Middle-earth in his mind, and how thorough his research was. They include a series of geographical pointers about the latitude of key locations: ‘Hobbiton is assumed to be approx. at latitude of Oxford,’. ‘Minas Tirith is about latitude of Ravenna (but is 900 miles east of Hobbiton more near Belgrade). Bottom of the map (1,400 miles) is about latitude of Jerusalem.’
Pictured: MS. Tolkien Drawings 132. copyright Tolkien Estate / Williams College Oxford Programme 2018](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:blxilps4iwbxicionf2rztej/bafkreihyhpyp5dimgthg2hvn4esb7fiyz4q425ceduhvhqpvyr45iz7bry@jpeg)
March 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Happy #TolkienReadingDay to all who celebrate! Please enjoy this map of Middle Earth, annotated by the man himself and including several locations not mentioned in the books:
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Coming up Friday 2/14: Douglass Day Transcribe-A-Thon! Stop by to transcribe a Library of Congress collection that documents African American history—and make Black history more accessible to all. No experience necessary. RSVP here: www.marquette.edu/library/news... #DouglassDay #MarquetteU
February 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Coming up Friday 2/14: Douglass Day Transcribe-A-Thon! Stop by to transcribe a Library of Congress collection that documents African American history—and make Black history more accessible to all. No experience necessary. RSVP here: www.marquette.edu/library/news... #DouglassDay #MarquetteU
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for the evening crew
For the Tolkien fans (and the old-school @gradschoolvonn heads) -- I was on a Tolkien and politics podcast recently that came out today. Grad School Tolkien may still be a few years away, but this is the next best thing...
open.spotify.com/episode/1gmQ...
open.spotify.com/episode/1gmQ...
Tolkien Against The Grain (w/ Gerry Canavan)
The Entmoot Podcast · Episode
open.spotify.com
February 12, 2025 at 12:15 AM
for the evening crew
Coming up Friday 2/14: Douglass Day Transcribe-A-Thon! Stop by to transcribe a Library of Congress collection that documents African American history—and make Black history more accessible to all. No experience necessary. RSVP here: www.marquette.edu/library/news... #DouglassDay #MarquetteU
February 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Coming up Friday 2/14: Douglass Day Transcribe-A-Thon! Stop by to transcribe a Library of Congress collection that documents African American history—and make Black history more accessible to all. No experience necessary. RSVP here: www.marquette.edu/library/news... #DouglassDay #MarquetteU
If you're looking for government information during this unusual federal transition, University of Minnesota librarians have set up a hub to track efforts, including data rescue initiatives, reliable alternative sources, and more. Recommended. libguides.umn.edu/c.php?g=1449...
Research Guides: Finding Government Information during the 2025 Administration Transition: Home
This guide will point to resources that identify and track steps taken by the Trump administration and Congress to scale back or eliminate access to federal government information. It also provides l...
libguides.umn.edu
February 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
If you're looking for government information during this unusual federal transition, University of Minnesota librarians have set up a hub to track efforts, including data rescue initiatives, reliable alternative sources, and more. Recommended. libguides.umn.edu/c.php?g=1449...
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Well. I have been informed that it is the weekend, again.
When you are ready to sit down together & figure out what just happened and what to do, we’ve got you: buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
It’s also okay if you’re coming in hot! “What the actual fuck??” is a sensible start place at the moment.
When you are ready to sit down together & figure out what just happened and what to do, we’ve got you: buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
It’s also okay if you’re coming in hot! “What the actual fuck??” is a sensible start place at the moment.
Week 3
Figuring out what to focus on now & what to focus on next in science and higher ed
buttondown.com
February 8, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Well. I have been informed that it is the weekend, again.
When you are ready to sit down together & figure out what just happened and what to do, we’ve got you: buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
It’s also okay if you’re coming in hot! “What the actual fuck??” is a sensible start place at the moment.
When you are ready to sit down together & figure out what just happened and what to do, we’ve got you: buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
It’s also okay if you’re coming in hot! “What the actual fuck??” is a sensible start place at the moment.
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my public library is releasing some archival footage recently processed and catalogued in honor of Black History Month, check out this oral history project filmed in 1991 featuring interviews with Black Milwaukeeans!
content.mpl.org/digital/coll...
content.mpl.org/digital/coll...
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content.mpl.org
February 3, 2025 at 6:32 PM
my public library is releasing some archival footage recently processed and catalogued in honor of Black History Month, check out this oral history project filmed in 1991 featuring interviews with Black Milwaukeeans!
content.mpl.org/digital/coll...
content.mpl.org/digital/coll...
With classes canceled today, we're open noon to 6:30 pm today with limited services. It's mighty cold--stay warm, #MarquetteU!
January 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
With classes canceled today, we're open noon to 6:30 pm today with limited services. It's mighty cold--stay warm, #MarquetteU!
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Celebrate the ability to create more art with us and our friends @archive.org online and in person on January 22!
blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/w...
blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/w...
January 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Celebrate the ability to create more art with us and our friends @archive.org online and in person on January 22!
blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/w...
blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/w...
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Dreamt I indexed the fictional archives of LOTRs King Theoden! Elaborate & fun. (IRL, in the 1970s I processed the documents of & created the initial Finding Aid for the JRRT Manuscripts Collection at the @marquetteraynor.bsky.social Special Collections division.)
#Booksky 💙📚
#Booksky 💙📚
December 30, 2024 at 7:08 AM
Dreamt I indexed the fictional archives of LOTRs King Theoden! Elaborate & fun. (IRL, in the 1970s I processed the documents of & created the initial Finding Aid for the JRRT Manuscripts Collection at the @marquetteraynor.bsky.social Special Collections division.)
#Booksky 💙📚
#Booksky 💙📚
For those in Milwaukee, a reminder that the library, like the rest of #MarquetteU, is closed Dec. 24-Jan. 2. Wishing you the merriest of holiday weeks!
Pictured: 1867 Harper's engraving with 4 kids parading noisily around their unamused parents' bed on Christmas morning.
Pictured: 1867 Harper's engraving with 4 kids parading noisily around their unamused parents' bed on Christmas morning.
December 23, 2024 at 8:20 PM
For those in Milwaukee, a reminder that the library, like the rest of #MarquetteU, is closed Dec. 24-Jan. 2. Wishing you the merriest of holiday weeks!
Pictured: 1867 Harper's engraving with 4 kids parading noisily around their unamused parents' bed on Christmas morning.
Pictured: 1867 Harper's engraving with 4 kids parading noisily around their unamused parents' bed on Christmas morning.
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My book 'Milwaukee Mayhem' can be read for free at the @archive.org and I am entirely at peace with that. Maybe if you really like it you can buy a copy or give it as a gift. But READ IT if you want to. That's why I wrote the fucking thing in the first place. archive.org/details/milw...
Milwaukee mayhem : murder and mystery in Milwaukee's first century : Prigge, Matthew J : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
1 online resource
archive.org
December 12, 2024 at 5:33 PM
My book 'Milwaukee Mayhem' can be read for free at the @archive.org and I am entirely at peace with that. Maybe if you really like it you can buy a copy or give it as a gift. But READ IT if you want to. That's why I wrote the fucking thing in the first place. archive.org/details/milw...
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Everything that is in the heavens, on earth, and under the earth is penetrated with connectedness, penetrated with relatedness.
-Hildegard von Bingen, b. 1098
-Hildegard von Bingen, b. 1098
November 30, 2024 at 12:36 PM
Everything that is in the heavens, on earth, and under the earth is penetrated with connectedness, penetrated with relatedness.
-Hildegard von Bingen, b. 1098
-Hildegard von Bingen, b. 1098
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Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪
There are already many articles for which there is more attention on Bluesky than on other comparable micro-blogging sites, meaning the academic community and the general public have clearly adopted Bluesky as one of its core places to disseminate and discuss new research.
A Place of Joy.
A Place of Joy.
December 3, 2024 at 2:10 PM
Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪
A new interactive map is out from our #DigitalScholarship team: Unceded Milwaukee, which visualizes Indigenous Milwaukee in the age of empire—before and in the immediate aftermath of the 1833 Treaty of Chicago that ceded Indigenous homeland to the United States. today.marquette.edu/2024/12/unce...
‘Unceded Milwaukee’ interactive map visualizes Indigenous history | Marquette Today
Unceded Milwaukee is an interactive map for users to visualize Indigenous Milwaukee before and in the immediate aftermath of the 1833 Treaty of Chicago.
today.marquette.edu
December 3, 2024 at 11:10 PM
A new interactive map is out from our #DigitalScholarship team: Unceded Milwaukee, which visualizes Indigenous Milwaukee in the age of empire—before and in the immediate aftermath of the 1833 Treaty of Chicago that ceded Indigenous homeland to the United States. today.marquette.edu/2024/12/unce...
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Gonna have fun with this in class today:
arstechnica.com/ai/2024/12/n...
arstechnica.com/ai/2024/12/n...
New website shows you how much Google AI can learn from your photos
Upload your photo and get a thorough, three-paragraph description of it.
arstechnica.com
December 3, 2024 at 4:44 PM
Gonna have fun with this in class today:
arstechnica.com/ai/2024/12/n...
arstechnica.com/ai/2024/12/n...
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the lay person can intuit the difference between Google Books and Gen AI but might not be able to put it into words. Ultimately, one adds legibility to social relations and empirical understanding; the other subtracts. In other words, one contributes to the public interest; the other detracts.
November 27, 2024 at 5:04 PM
the lay person can intuit the difference between Google Books and Gen AI but might not be able to put it into words. Ultimately, one adds legibility to social relations and empirical understanding; the other subtracts. In other words, one contributes to the public interest; the other detracts.
A fresh reminder to take care when choosing a publisher.
"The company “Springer Global Publication” ... has published dozens of papers cloning the websites of ... Elsevier, Springer, the American Medical Association and more."
"The company “Springer Global Publication” ... has published dozens of papers cloning the websites of ... Elsevier, Springer, the American Medical Association and more."
Exclusive: New hijacking scam targets Elsevier, Springer Nature, and other major publishers
@abalkina.bsky.social has the scoop
@abalkina.bsky.social has the scoop
Exclusive: New hijacking scam targets Elsevier, Springer Nature, and other major publishers
Until recently, journal hijackers do not appear to have targeted titles from big publishers, in part because their well-known website designs made such clones easy to detect. Typically, cloned vers…
retractionwatch.com
November 26, 2024 at 9:50 PM
A fresh reminder to take care when choosing a publisher.
"The company “Springer Global Publication” ... has published dozens of papers cloning the websites of ... Elsevier, Springer, the American Medical Association and more."
"The company “Springer Global Publication” ... has published dozens of papers cloning the websites of ... Elsevier, Springer, the American Medical Association and more."
#MarquetteU will be participating! If you're on campus, mark your calendar to stop by and transcribe Feb. 14, 2025. Are you a Marquette instructor? Get in touch to include the transcribing activity in one of your classes.
Newsletter out today!
Douglass Day 2025 will feature an incredible array of Black history at the Library of Congress
📖 William Still!
📖 Cookbooks!
📖 Children's literature!
And more! douglassday.substack.com/p/dday-2025-... #DouglassDay
Douglass Day 2025 will feature an incredible array of Black history at the Library of Congress
📖 William Still!
📖 Cookbooks!
📖 Children's literature!
And more! douglassday.substack.com/p/dday-2025-... #DouglassDay
November 26, 2024 at 7:24 PM
#MarquetteU will be participating! If you're on campus, mark your calendar to stop by and transcribe Feb. 14, 2025. Are you a Marquette instructor? Get in touch to include the transcribing activity in one of your classes.