To help preserve her works, Cindy Sherman is offering to destroy and reprint old photographs
"If a print is deemed eligible, the original—accompanied by its title, edition number, date and provenance—will be destroyed and replaced with a mint-condition, artist-signed reprint."
#museums #SpecialCollections #Preservation #Libraries #archives #art
TWO DAYS left! In-person tickets for #RBMS25 are sold out but you can still register as a virtual attendee until Friday, June 13th.
Don't miss out on the plenary sessions, live streams, virtual presentations, networking opportunities, and session recordings! #libraries #SpecialCollections #archives
Learn more: https://web.cvent.com/event/eec2ebfb-c5d9-47b3-8485-6c1def8b7a62/summary
Travel through time and text with our new online exhibition, inspired by a 1545 edition of #Theocritus’ Idylls.
From #ancient #Sicily to #Animal Crossing, explore how the romantic vision of #rural life - born in #Greek verse - has echoed through centuries of #literature, #art, and #PopCulture. 
Student Lou Kapsimali @facultyofartsgroningen @facultyofartsug.bsky.social developed the exhibition at our #SpecialCollections dept.
Fun with Copying Technology
U. Cincinnati Libraries have a ditto workshop with Rich Dana from Obsolete Press #SpecialCollections #ditto #hectograph
https://blog.thepreservationlab.org/2025/04/fun-with-copying-technology
I will share a few more of the rare books and manuscripts I saw on display at the Adler Planetarium today.
First, an Apollo 13 handbook donated by the Lovell Family. The cover was removed and used in constructing a makeshift carbon dioxide filter that saved their lives.
#AdlerPlanetarium #RareBooks #SpecialCollections
Very satisfying parchment-like interactive book with reproductions of medieval manuscript leaves at the Adler Planetarium.
#SpecialCollections #museums #MedievalManuscripts
A classic stored in our #SpecialCollections vault:
This fluffy tail belongs to "Het Grote Boek van De Poezenkrant - The Big Book of the Cat Newspaper". The tail is a bookmark.
De Poezenkrant was a #Dutch #magazine with articles and #illustrations of domestic cats, but it was actually more of a typographical playground for its designer, Piet Schreuders.
This book compiles issues from 1974–2004. After 50 years, the magazine stopped publishing in November 2023.
Bluesky has been really vibrant today, with a wave of new hundreds of new followers. Have you been seeing that here? It feels like a proper Twitter exodus has momentum.
#libraries #archives #specialcollections #museums
The Arizona State University (ASU) Library Collection of Pop-Up #Books is “Deceptively Simple Fun” https://www.infodocket.com/2024/07/29/the-arizona-state-university-asu-library-collection-of-pop-up-books-is-deceptively-simple-fun/ #libraries #specialcollections
Trinity College Dublin recently received a collection of more than 50 fore-edge paintings, and they are all viewable in a new online exhibition. Fore-edge paintings are one of my favorite things to show visitors—fanning out the text block to reveal a little scene feels like a magic trick. https://www.tcd.ie/library/exhibitions/bindings/
At this Harvard exhibition, the maps are real but the places on them aren’t
When Marge Simpson looks at a map of Springfield, what does she see? The Harvard Map Collection has the answer.
#SpecialCollections #Maps #Exhibitions
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/08/23/arts/getting-directions-space-beyond-which-there-be-dragons/?et_rid=296567222&s_campaign=weekender:newsletter
Princeton is digitizing its LGBTQIA+ Periodical and Ephemera Collection, with about 50 issues available so far. https://library.princeton.edu/news/general/2023-07-31/lgbtqia-periodical-and-ephemera-collection-now-digitized
The first artists and printers to call themselves “designers” advertised their work in the mid- to late 19th century. Their printed ephemera brought color and design innovation to the masses. Soon, thanks in part to a generous donation from collector Richard Sheaff, thousands of fine examples of this blossoming graphic design will join Letterform Archive.
See more of the Richard Sheaff Ephemera Collection: https://letterformarchive.org/news/richard-sheaff-vintage-ephemera/
Mold growth closes Ohio Wesleyan University Beeghly Library for 2023-2024 academic year. #libraries #SpecialCollections #AcademicLibraries
https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/local/2023/08/03/ventillation-problems-cause-mold-outbreak-at-ohio-wesleyan-library/70512008007/
Anyone else privileged to spend summer trudging from one #SpecialCollections library to another: your annual reminder to rate the chairs. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1c9oHTEj8OPXbzCJJsyPvYN4vI_lYPwvyViO6VLhcO30/edit?usp=sharing #BookHistory
Hi #CulturalHeritage, #library, #archives, #SpecialCollections, friends!
I’m very very excited to share the CFP of Journal of #Critical #Digital #Librarianship’s special issue: “Turning it Off and Back On Again: Speculative Digital Libraries”
We’re accepting: #Academic papers as well as #fiction, #poetry, and #visual #art
We’re holding two information sessions for folks who would like to hear more.
Full CFP and to register:
https://bit.ly/TurnItOff-JCDL
A major Phillis Wheatley Peters discovery in the archives, the Anne of Green Gables manuscript digitized, and a new online exhibition of decorated paper—all in this week’s Special Collections Roundup. https://blogs.harvard.edu/roundup/2023/01/22/3rd-week-of-january-2023/
Because I am working on legacy documentation for this giant collection, a selection of my favorite entries I came across while packing the card catalog #archives #specialcollections #cardcatalog
If you are a Special Collections librarian or user, I’d be curious to see what your library opted for to store medieval fragments and how it is working out. For example, I worked with fragments fitted in melinex a lot and the shine it produced made it impossible to see details - or take pictures. Conservation specialists are wizards and I really admire their original approaches to this stubborn material. #libraries #SpecialCollections #MedievalFragments #Conservation #MedievalFragments
Interesting meeting later today: helping #UBC Special Collections figure out how to mount our medieval fragments. Fit them in cardboard frames, in melinex?
Hard to find good solution for single leaves and smaller strips with odd shapes. UBC has a teaching collection so the materials are frequently used by students: solution must be sturdy and show both sides.
Pics: Tiny Psalter leaf at UBC, RBSC (w key); my own (w capital).
