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Meghan Constantinou

@mrconstan.bsky.social

Rare book & special collections librarian & curator, Simmons PhD student, BSA Executive Committee, private collecting and book arts, graphic arts, collector of women's bookplates, proud mom of a cool kid.

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The Bibliographical Society of America

@bibsocamer.bsky.social

Thrilled to announce the 2025 Katharine F. Pantzer Junior Fellow, @ceyingst.bsky.social !🏆 Their research, "Transitions by the Book," delves into how print shaped and reflected non-normative gender in the long 18th century. This award is generously supported by Katharine F. Pantzer's legacy.

Black-and-white portrait of the 2025 Katharine F. Pantzer Junior Fellows Carlisle Yingst, wearing glasses, in front of shelves with books. The photo is situated on a white background with two lines of text above: the top line is pink and reads "Katharine F. Pantzer Junior Fellow 2025" and the second line is black and provides the fellow's name "Carlisle Yingst."

Pink header text provides Yingst's winning project title. Below is a brief paragraph in black text describing the project in their own words, emphasizing Yingst's research on the gendering of print in the long 18th century. All text is on a white background.

Mostly black text on a white background. "About the Fellow" at the top with Carlisle Yingst's brief bio underneath. The words "Carlisle Yingst" at the start of the paragraph are the only words in pink text.

An open book showing an illustration and text about Mary Anne Talbot, also known as John Taylor. The image is set on a white background. Directly above the image is a pink text caption: "Image of Mary Anne Talbot/John Taylor from Kirby's Wonderful and Scientific Museum, Volume 2, 1804. (Illustration faces page 160"

April 29, 2025 at 8:01 PM

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Sarah Werner

@wynkenhimself.bsky.social

Please submit your bibliographical research to PBSA so I have an outlet for all my fussy editing opinions and also so I have interesting things to read, thank you

Sarah Werner @wynkenhimself.bsky.social · Apr 30

current dislike: journals that publish bibliographical material but do not bother editing to be consistent with bibliographical notation (this is so niche! but the way you indicate conjoined leaves is 1.6 not 1:6!!)

April 30, 2025 at 5:59 PM

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Jonathan

@jsench.bsky.social

Soft launch: Brigitte Fielder & I (along with a small advisory board) are launching The Wheatley Census, a bibliographical project to locate, document & make citable at item level all surviving book copies of editions of Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects to 1900, beginning w the 1773 1st edition.

October 26, 2023 at 8:54 PM

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Simon

@simonxix.com

Don't trust anyone who follows the word 'permanent' with the word 'digital'.

April 7, 2025 at 10:26 AM

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Jonathan

@jsench.bsky.social

PBSA 119.1 came in the mail today! The lavender is beautiful in person. It’s also the first issue where we have a full cohort of our advisory board members who rotate on 3 year terms. We work hard to make it a beautiful object & @bibsocamer.bsky.social membership (affordable!) gets you a print copy

Front cover of a print journal. Text reads THE PAPERS OF THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA VOL 119 No. 1 MARCH 2025 at top. And CHICAGO at bottom. In the center is a photo of a binding for a Qur’an against a saturated lilac rectangle background.

Masthead page for an academic journal. Most of the page lists the editorial board members in a 3 column layout. The verso of the journal’s cover is at left, a field of solid lilac.

The back cover of a journal. It is a solid field of lilac, sparingly printed with the table of contents printed in black.

April 7, 2025 at 9:25 PM

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Rare Book School

@rarebookschool.bsky.social

The National Endowment for the Humanities is an essential force for good. Rare Book School affirms the vital importance of @nehgov.bsky.social in supporting programs and grants that enrich the cultural understandings of our citizens, our communities, and our nation.

A close-up photo of a person’s hands paging through an old book. Several slips of paper are tucked at intervals into the pages. Overlaid on top of this is a block of white text on a dark red background, which reads, “The NEH is an essential force for good, helping individuals and communities understand our past, engage the present, and provide a vision for a better tomorrow.  RBS affirms the vital importance of the NEH in supporting programs and grants that enrich the cultural understandings of our citizens, our communities, and our nation.”

April 7, 2025 at 6:52 PM

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American Library Association

@amlibraryassoc.bsky.social

NEW: ALA is going to court to stop the President’s attempts to illegally dismantle the Institute of Museum & Library Services.

The President does not have the authority to destroy a federal agency. That's why we're taking action with our co-plaintiff @afscme.bsky.social. #ForOurLibraries (1/3)

We're suing Trump to save library funding. Show up for our libraries, American Library Association.

April 8, 2025 at 1:57 AM

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Sam Brown

@samuscript.bsky.social

We’re having a symposium at @livesandletters.bsky.social! Come and geek out with us over early modern libraries and the books that filled them. Abstracts due May 16th, full details here www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of... #bookhistory #earlymodern

April 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM