Sara Schliep
@sbschliep.bsky.social
Archivist and manuscript cataloger. Interested in medieval and early modern literature and history, book history, and transcription.
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Friends fear she's scripting complicated stop-motion videos about early modern volvelles again.
(All will be revealed alongside bsky.app/profile/rcpm...)
#WatchThisSpace
(All will be revealed alongside bsky.app/profile/rcpm...)
#WatchThisSpace
📣New exhibition alert!!!🤩
We are excited to announce our upcoming exhibition 'A body of knowledge', exploring 500 years of book collecting at the @rcphysicians.bsky.social, will open on 10 September 2025.
history.rcp.ac.uk/exhibitions/...
#BodyOfKnowledge #HistMed
We are excited to announce our upcoming exhibition 'A body of knowledge', exploring 500 years of book collecting at the @rcphysicians.bsky.social, will open on 10 September 2025.
history.rcp.ac.uk/exhibitions/...
#BodyOfKnowledge #HistMed
July 30, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Friends fear she's scripting complicated stop-motion videos about early modern volvelles again.
(All will be revealed alongside bsky.app/profile/rcpm...)
#WatchThisSpace
(All will be revealed alongside bsky.app/profile/rcpm...)
#WatchThisSpace
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The (Ed) Tech Industry has made citizens believe that the problem with education is reading, thinking, and writing when the problem with education is austerity.
Reading, thinking, and writing are not the problems to be solved. Austerity is.
Reading, thinking, and writing are not the problems to be solved. Austerity is.
July 24, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The (Ed) Tech Industry has made citizens believe that the problem with education is reading, thinking, and writing when the problem with education is austerity.
Reading, thinking, and writing are not the problems to be solved. Austerity is.
Reading, thinking, and writing are not the problems to be solved. Austerity is.
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awesome news. Congratulations @archive.org on being designated an FDLP library!! www.kqed.org/news/1204942...
SF-Based Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library. What Does That Mean? | KQED
The Internet Archive, thanks to its designation by California Sen. Alex Padilla, joins a network of over 1,100 libraries that make government documents accessible to the public.
www.kqed.org
July 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
awesome news. Congratulations @archive.org on being designated an FDLP library!! www.kqed.org/news/1204942...
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Stephen Colbert is a profoundly good and deeply talented man with a great staff and an excellent show. They all deserve better.
July 18, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Stephen Colbert is a profoundly good and deeply talented man with a great staff and an excellent show. They all deserve better.
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New blog post about my favorite book of doodles! “In which a 16th century monk flips me off, and we all pick out our next tattoos.”
www.folger.edu/blogs/collat...
www.folger.edu/blogs/collat...
Adages and Annotations | Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...
www.folger.edu
July 1, 2025 at 7:56 PM
New blog post about my favorite book of doodles! “In which a 16th century monk flips me off, and we all pick out our next tattoos.”
www.folger.edu/blogs/collat...
www.folger.edu/blogs/collat...
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Love my job. Not every day you get an enquiry which begins "Two of my ancestors, ‘John and Alan from the town of Strother’ are mentioned in [Chaucer's] Reeve’s Tale."
June 30, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Love my job. Not every day you get an enquiry which begins "Two of my ancestors, ‘John and Alan from the town of Strother’ are mentioned in [Chaucer's] Reeve’s Tale."
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What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
Rare book libraries are not quiet, orderly places. They are gothic mansions crammed with shrieking ghosts, decades of quirky decisions made by eccentric people & mountainous backlogs. It’s easy to lose books and easier to lose yourself.
Rare book libraries are not quiet, orderly places. They are gothic mansions crammed with shrieking ghosts, decades of quirky decisions made by eccentric people & mountainous backlogs. It’s easy to lose books and easier to lose yourself.
June 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
Rare book libraries are not quiet, orderly places. They are gothic mansions crammed with shrieking ghosts, decades of quirky decisions made by eccentric people & mountainous backlogs. It’s easy to lose books and easier to lose yourself.
Rare book libraries are not quiet, orderly places. They are gothic mansions crammed with shrieking ghosts, decades of quirky decisions made by eccentric people & mountainous backlogs. It’s easy to lose books and easier to lose yourself.
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"A press is but its printers": my letterpress remix of 2 texts (in italics)+my own writing. Warde’s 1932 “This is a Printing-Office” celebrates printshops but is too technoutopian (“Armory of the fearless truth”)—a technology is only what humans make of it, good or bad ( #DHmakes!). So I used +
June 18, 2025 at 10:57 AM
"A press is but its printers": my letterpress remix of 2 texts (in italics)+my own writing. Warde’s 1932 “This is a Printing-Office” celebrates printshops but is too technoutopian (“Armory of the fearless truth”)—a technology is only what humans make of it, good or bad ( #DHmakes!). So I used +
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...it concluded since the landslide was triggered by the melting glacier, and since *that* happened due to rising global temperatures...
This was a signal - and a warning - from our rapidly changing world, heard in every single part of it.
Best we listen up.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
10/
This was a signal - and a warning - from our rapidly changing world, heard in every single part of it.
Best we listen up.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
10/
A rockslide-generated tsunami in a Greenland fjord rang Earth for 9 days
Climate change is increasingly predisposing polar regions to large landslides. Tsunamigenic landslides have occurred recently in Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat), but none have been reported from the east...
www.science.org
May 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
...it concluded since the landslide was triggered by the melting glacier, and since *that* happened due to rising global temperatures...
This was a signal - and a warning - from our rapidly changing world, heard in every single part of it.
Best we listen up.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
10/
This was a signal - and a warning - from our rapidly changing world, heard in every single part of it.
Best we listen up.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
10/
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Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
May 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
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Carla Hayden was an inspiring librarian of congress, and we were lucky to have her
BREAKING: President Trump just fired our nation's Librarian. My statement here:
May 9, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Carla Hayden was an inspiring librarian of congress, and we were lucky to have her
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A LOT of people do not want to hear it but in the United States at least, food has never been safer to eat, not to mention tastier
We are living in one of the few times in human history where you can buy a loaf of bread and if it says it’s made with wheat flour and salt and yeast and water and nothing else, it’s probably made from just those ingredients, and some people want to END this.
April 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
A LOT of people do not want to hear it but in the United States at least, food has never been safer to eat, not to mention tastier
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Our cover this week.
April 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Our cover this week.
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The earliest known cat door, located at Exeter Cathedral in England 🏴🇬🇧, dates from around 1598 AD. The owners of the cats were paid a penny a week as early as 1305 AD, to help control mice and protect the cathedral from pests.
#archaeohistories
#archaeohistories
April 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The earliest known cat door, located at Exeter Cathedral in England 🏴🇬🇧, dates from around 1598 AD. The owners of the cats were paid a penny a week as early as 1305 AD, to help control mice and protect the cathedral from pests.
#archaeohistories
#archaeohistories
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According to the US Gov't's own spending calculator, NEH accounts for 0.0% of the federal budget. Cutting these grants is not about efficiency; it's only and always about the destruction of knowledge available to everyone.
This is the 2025 version of Nazi book burning.
This is the 2025 version of Nazi book burning.
USAspending.gov
www.usaspending.gov
April 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
According to the US Gov't's own spending calculator, NEH accounts for 0.0% of the federal budget. Cutting these grants is not about efficiency; it's only and always about the destruction of knowledge available to everyone.
This is the 2025 version of Nazi book burning.
This is the 2025 version of Nazi book burning.
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Me in every universe. 😌
April 12, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Me in every universe. 😌
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Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote,
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour
Of which vertú engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
Ynspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes...
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour
Of which vertú engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
Ynspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes...
April 1, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote,
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour
Of which vertú engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
Ynspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes...
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour
Of which vertú engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
Ynspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes...
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We can’t look away from rural spaces by writing everyone off as racist. You don’t magically become racist when you see a cow or cornfield. Racism is an American problem that resides in every corner of the country.
Come back to rural America and speak about jobs and schools and roads and hospitals.
Come back to rural America and speak about jobs and schools and roads and hospitals.
March 13, 2025 at 1:11 PM
We can’t look away from rural spaces by writing everyone off as racist. You don’t magically become racist when you see a cow or cornfield. Racism is an American problem that resides in every corner of the country.
Come back to rural America and speak about jobs and schools and roads and hospitals.
Come back to rural America and speak about jobs and schools and roads and hospitals.
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Just saying.
February 28, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Just saying.
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💥 BREAKING: At John Deere's annual shareholders meeting today, shareholders overwhelmingly rejected an anti-DEI proposal brought by the same group that targeted Costco and Apple. An anti-DEI proposal from the NCPPR received less than 1 percent of votes.
Deere shareholders: DEI is in. Bigots are out
Deere shareholders: DEI is in. Bigots are out
February 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
💥 BREAKING: At John Deere's annual shareholders meeting today, shareholders overwhelmingly rejected an anti-DEI proposal brought by the same group that targeted Costco and Apple. An anti-DEI proposal from the NCPPR received less than 1 percent of votes.
Deere shareholders: DEI is in. Bigots are out
Deere shareholders: DEI is in. Bigots are out
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So one of the things that I think is lost on AI proponents is what I call the card catalog effect, a thing I shouldn’t call it because a lot of people probably have no experience with a card catalog.
February 18, 2025 at 1:42 AM
So one of the things that I think is lost on AI proponents is what I call the card catalog effect, a thing I shouldn’t call it because a lot of people probably have no experience with a card catalog.
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A website has been started in response to the orders to take down references to women’s accomplishments in government offices. We are not going to let them erase us this time. womenrefusingtobeerased.org
Women Refusing to Be Erased
Join us to inspire, educate, and uplift women/womxn.
womenrefusingtobeerased.org
February 17, 2025 at 1:59 AM
A website has been started in response to the orders to take down references to women’s accomplishments in government offices. We are not going to let them erase us this time. womenrefusingtobeerased.org
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A #YayArchives PhD!!!
WRoCAH AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award - (In)Justice in the Archives: Reinterpreting the Policing Collections at Ripon Museums Trust- University of Leeds - School of English #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLT162/w...
WRoCAH AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award - (In)Justice in the Archives: Reinterpreting the Policing Collections at Ripon Museums Trust at University of Leeds
Discover a WRoCAH AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award - (In)Justice in the Archives: Reinterpreting the Policing Collections at Ripon Museums Trust on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other PhD opportu...
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February 9, 2025 at 1:22 PM
A #YayArchives PhD!!!
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@charlesgaba.com is a hero and downloaded CDC’s entire website. A small group of us has come together to preserve this critical resource and make it accessible to the scientific community.
More to come. These data are public and they are ours. Deletion disobedience is one way to fight back.
More to come. These data are public and they are ours. Deletion disobedience is one way to fight back.
📣 UPDATE: OK, still working with some others to figure out the best way to present it all, but in the meantime here's the first batch of links to the most-recent archived versions of every page at the CDC prior to the Trump/Musk Purge:
acasignups.net/25/02/02/whi...
acasignups.net/25/02/02/whi...
In which I provide links to archived versions of every CDC.gov page available pre-purge (Part 1 of 15)
As horrific as it is that the Trump/Musk Administration is purging data from federal websites, it's good to know that the Internet Archive has been archiving much of it. However, in addition to the Ar...
acasignups.net
February 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
@charlesgaba.com is a hero and downloaded CDC’s entire website. A small group of us has come together to preserve this critical resource and make it accessible to the scientific community.
More to come. These data are public and they are ours. Deletion disobedience is one way to fight back.
More to come. These data are public and they are ours. Deletion disobedience is one way to fight back.