#specialcollections — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #specialcollections, aggregated by home.social.
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Collection dev/donor ethics case study about Derrida's papers in the new issue of Archivaria. #archives #specialcollections #donors #ethics
Armendariz, Anastasia & Kate Orazem. "Fevered Inheritances: Ethics of Care and Donor Power in Starchives." Archivaria, vol. 100, 2025, p. 126-157. Project MUSE, https://muse.jhu.edu/article/978334 -
Please share widely! Friday, December 12th is the deadline for submitting presentation proposals for the 2026 RBMS (Rare Books and Manuscripts Section) Conference, "Advocacy," taking place in Milwaukee, WI, and online.
CFP: https://web.cvent.com/event/0F01042B-21DC-4900-BEEA-AAE7A23CB643/summary
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‘A privilege and a great pleasure’: inside the 5,000-item Stephen Sondheim collection
#LibraryOfCongress #SpecialCollections #StephenSondheim
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/jul/22/a-privilege-and-a-great-pleasure-inside-the-5000-item-stephen-sondheim-collection -
Fun with Copying Technology
U. Cincinnati Libraries have a ditto workshop with Rich Dana from Obsolete Press #SpecialCollections #ditto #hectograph
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Literary gold: There is a treasure trove of rare books in the vaults at the University of Calgary https://calgaryherald.com/entertainment/local-arts/literary-gold-there-is-a-treasure-trove-of-rare-books-in-the-vaults-at-the-university-of-calgary
What a great article about MPOW!
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I noted the convergence trend in this:
"...part museum and part laboratory for the Humanities..." #CarnegieMellon #SpecialCollections #museums #archives #DigitalHumanities #GLAMConvergence
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University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art became the first in the nation to return looted Benin bronzes to royal ruler.
#museums #archives #specialCollections #GLAM #repatriation #uiowa https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/07/18/iowa-museum-becomes-first-in-us-to-return-looted-benin-bronzes -
"Memory work is heart work." -
"What is at stake is not just how we remember the past, but how we distribute power in the present." #RBMS24
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Book conservation lab at the Metropolitan Museum of Art #museums #SpecialCollections #BookRepair #BookConservation https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/books/book-conservation-met.html?unlocked_article_code=1.lU0.GaT5.rJbRGiL4-rqL
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And while we're at it - completely unrelated, but MADE MY DAY: It turns out the Bergen Public Library also has a copy of the #Danish #EthicaComplementoria from 1678! I did not know that despite crawling library catalogues regularly. I guess it is due to the fact that #SpecialCollections are still not fully findable via online catalogues... What a pleasant surprise!
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Staff from PACSCL members - as well as gracious volunteers from other #specialcollections - added holdings to the #DobsonElementarySchool catalog so kids can check out books. #PACSCLVolunteers #readingisfundamental
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Why yes, I would love a new reading for class, thanks, RBM!
The Special Collections Reading Room: A Study of Culture and Its Impact on the Researcher Experience
Gina C. Modero. RBM, Vol 24, No 2 (2023).
#SpecialCollections #archives #readingRoom
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Stories of #Frisia is an interactive map that connects places in the northern #Netherlands and northwest #Germany to books from our #SpecialCollections.
The books contain traces of previous owners or users, e.g., handwritten names or notes. They tell stories about the rich cultural and intellectual history of this region, which was once called Frisia.
#heritage #digitization #digitalhumanities #histodons #history #literature #manuscripts
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Do you read #Norwegian or #Spanish? My colleague José María Izquierdo Paredes writes about the #CorpusHermeticum of which we just digitized two copies from our #SpecialCollections at the #UniversityOfOslo library: https://www.enmitg.com/wordpress/?p=2345.
There's some #DanBrown #TheDaVinciCode references in there, too. In the blog post, that is ;) -
Highlights from my tour yesterday of the American Geographical Society Library in the UW-Milwaukee Library. #ALISE23 #ALISE2023
#libraries #MapLibrary #SpecialCollections -
Highlights from my tour yesterday of the American Geographical Society Library in the UW-Milwaukee Library. #ALISE23 #ALISE2023
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Highlights from my tour yesterday of the American Geographical Society Library in the UW-Milwaukee Library. #ALISE23 #ALISE2023
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Highlights from my tour yesterday of the American Geographical Society Library in the UW-Milwaukee Library. #ALISE23 #ALISE2023
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Highlights from my tour yesterday of the American Geographical Society Library in the UW-Milwaukee Library. #ALISE23 #ALISE2023
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https://library.hkust.edu.hk/china-in-maps/
We have a spectacular #exhibition coming up! Featuring our #SpecialCollections of #AntiqueMaps , the project is the collective effort of many library colleagues plus collaborators in campus. It’s going to be #beautiful, #exciting, and I’m sure it will be #inspiring too!
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Happy these found a home!
My dread: What happens when the existing cultural heritage institutions don’t have room to absorb the collections from colleges that close?
#SpecialCollections #museums #glam #naturalHistory #IowaWesleyan #UIowa -
I love this photo so much.
"Handbook" by Nora Ligorano (U. Iowa Special Collections).
#SpecialCollections #BookArts
See the full post here: https://www.facebook.com/uispeccoll/posts/pfbid02X6oeKraz88vNSmrH5PQfM67vWLXL7Td2gqbsESNNMJyeqs2R5xEh9Fe8rRbtEmwel -
#JobPosting #Librarian #SpecialCollections #UnionJob University of Michigan-Ann Arbor has an open (unionized with #LEOGLAM) posting for a special collections librarian, mostly working in the reading room. Details here: https://careers.umich.edu/job_detail/233948/research-services-librarian-special-collections-research-center
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I have the amazing opportunity to witness Dr. Alison Alstatt's Chant from Manuscript class, who indexed and transcribed a music manuscript from U. Iowa Special Collections and they're going to sing it! #SpecialCollections #UniversityofIowa #MedievalManuscript
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THE POWER OF DISPLAY: BOOKS AS TRANSFORMATIVE TOOLS IN EXHIBITIONS
instructors: Jennifer Cohlman Bracchi & Vanessa Haight Smith#curation #display #exhibitions #exhibitionstand #exhibitiondesign #bookhistory #paperhistory #bookconservation #libraries #archives #museums #galleries #primarysources #rarematerials #specialcollections #teachingandlearning
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TEACHING EXPERIENTIAL BOOK HISTORY
instructor: Ryan Cordellfull description and application can be found using QR code or link in bio!
#3dprinting #bookhistory #mediastudies #specialcollections #libraries #archives #museums #interdisciplinary #pedagogy #teachingandlearning #culturalhistory #materialculture #bibliography #criticaltheory #historyoftechnology #instruction #undergraduateresearch #graduateresearch #researchmethodology #booklab #handsoneducation #letterpress
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What happens to the #fanzines after we scan them you ask?
Why we #donate them to university #SpecialCollections and #archives
Borrowed ones are returned to the owners
Places that have accepted donations in the US
#UniversityOfIowa
#TAMU (Texas)
#UCRiverside (California)
#BowlingGreen (Ohio)#OpenDoors / #AO3 has a list here https://www.transformativeworks.org/open-doors-announces-new-partnerships-and-digitization-initiative/
Note: most universities are limiting what they will accept as they are getting full.
We also need more places in other countries
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For full course description go to https://www.calrbs.org/courses/upcoming-courses/ or use the QR code!
#rarebooks #cataloging #library #specialcollections #continuingeducation #summerclasses #rda #aacr2 #marc21
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#library #libraries #archives #museum #museums #blackprintculture #cataloging #rarebooks #womeninprint #artistbooks #bookhistory #childrensbooks #comics #specialcollections #pedagogy #bibliography #culturalheritage #bookselling #librarianship #jewishbook #publishing #archivalresearch #research #exhibition #exhibitiondisplay #digitalhumanities #codicology #comics
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#libraries #archives #SpecialCollections
More on #CuriousCures here: cam.ac.uk/stories/curiou… (Health Warning: not for the faint of heart).
@ahrcpress @RL_UK
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#libraries #archives #SpecialCollections
More on #CuriousCures here: cam.ac.uk/stories/curiou… (Health Warning: not for the faint of heart).
@ahrcpress @RL_UK
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#libraries #archives #SpecialCollections
More on #CuriousCures here: cam.ac.uk/stories/curiou… (Health Warning: not for the faint of heart).
@ahrcpress @RL_UK
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#libraries #archives #SpecialCollections
More on #CuriousCures here: cam.ac.uk/stories/curiou… (Health Warning: not for the faint of heart).
@ahrcpress @RL_UK
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#libraries #archives #SpecialCollections
More on #CuriousCures here: cam.ac.uk/stories/curiou… (Health Warning: not for the faint of heart).
@ahrcpress @RL_UK
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Throughout the festive season and through to 4 Feb (立春), the infrastructure and major programmes team at the Arts and Humanities Research Council #ahrc will be showcasing highlights from the UK’s #libraries #archives and #specialcollections.
To see us into 2023 and to celebrate humanity’s infinite curiosity and thirst for knowledge, 3 marginal drawings from #CuriousCures project led by James Freeman at Cambridge University Library.
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Throughout the festive season and through to 4 Feb (立春), the infrastructure and major programmes team at the Arts and Humanities Research Council #ahrc will be showcasing highlights from the UK’s #libraries #archives and #specialcollections.
To see us into 2023 and to celebrate humanity’s infinite curiosity and thirst for knowledge, 3 marginal drawings from #CuriousCures project led by James Freeman at Cambridge University Library.
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Throughout the festive season and through to 4 Feb (立春), the infrastructure and major programmes team at the Arts and Humanities Research Council #ahrc will be showcasing highlights from the UK’s #libraries #archives and #specialcollections.
To see us into 2023 and to celebrate humanity’s infinite curiosity and thirst for knowledge, 3 marginal drawings from #CuriousCures project led by James Freeman at Cambridge University Library.
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Throughout the festive season and through to 4 Feb (立春), the infrastructure and major programmes team at the Arts and Humanities Research Council #ahrc will be showcasing highlights from the UK’s #libraries #archives and #specialcollections.
To see us into 2023 and to celebrate humanity’s infinite curiosity and thirst for knowledge, 3 marginal drawings from #CuriousCures project led by James Freeman at Cambridge University Library.
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Throughout the festive season and through to 4 Feb (立春), the infrastructure and major programmes team at the Arts and Humanities Research Council #ahrc will be showcasing highlights from the UK’s #libraries #archives and #specialcollections.
To see us into 2023 and to celebrate humanity’s infinite curiosity and thirst for knowledge, 3 marginal drawings from #CuriousCures project led by James Freeman at Cambridge University Library.
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#library, #archives, #SpecialCollections, & #memoryWorker friends!!!
Super late notice, but just finding out and want to share!
Deadline to participate in Issue 6 of Reserve and Renew (the #LIS #mentalHealth #zine) is December 31.
Submissions are easy, free copy if you’re part of it: http://lismentalhealth.org/reserve-and-renew-zine/
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Hello! I'm the Special Collections Librarian @UCCLibrary in Cork, Ireland. I'm a co-founder of The SHOCC Project, treasurer of the LAI Rare Books Group and received CONUL T&D's Research Award in 2018. Expect toots on #libraries #library #rarebooks #specialcollections #speccolls #archives #manuscripts and the use of emerging technology for those areas, or anything else that takes my fancy! #introduction
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Khensu presents the Ancient Egypt special collections roomBack in August 2020, when I had begun to write reviews of libraries in animation, I wrote that in the episode “Clubbing,” after Cleopatra, her friends Brian and Akila, and her teacher/mentor Khensu go to the Ancient Egypt section of the school’s library, equivalent of a special collections, that Cleo, dismayed by the amount of records on Ancient Egypt, offsets a positive depiction of libraries by sucking all the electricity of the school and nearby Mayet City into her body, resulting in a power outage. While that seems like a valid assessment, I’m not sure if what I said next is correct: “The message of this moment is that libraries need adequate resources and support to assist the communities they serve—otherwise there will be information deficits that put patrons at a disadvantage.” I decided to re-examine this scene, especially since I was encouraged to add this by Lindsey Simon of I Love Libraries when I wrote this post for that website. [1]
The scene begins when Cleo goes with her friends Brian and Akila to the special collections room after hours. At first, Cleo is excited to see what they have, but there are only a few dozen artifacts, fragments of scrolls, and books. Khensu shows her how to access all of it and hands her a scroll, the only thing that mentions her by name. Akila tries to cheer her up, but it doesn’t work, as she thought she might find something about herself. She is amazed to see they have a statue of her dad. As she begins feeling emotions for him, she starts glowing pink, giving off a “weird energy signature,” floating, sucking the power out of everything, including the shield protecting the city from asteroids. Following that, they run out of the library to avoid the asteroid attacks, ending the scene in the library, and they never end up returning to that room at any point in the series.
It is clearly a stretch and overreach to say that this scene somehow indicates that “libraries need adequate resources and support to assist the communities they serve” and that if they don’t there “will be information deficits that put patrons at a disadvantage.” This scene, prior to the asteroid strikes, is indicating the importance of preservation and value of information. I also incorrectly termed this the “library’s Ancient Egypt section,” with physical records in a trunk. While they can be accessed as holograms, it is a whole room of information, and it probably is not accessible to the general student body, as they accessed it after-hours. As such, the information inside is restricted, perhaps to only the professors of PYRAMID Academy, not the students who actually attend the academy. It is possible it may be accessible to specific students, like Callie, who heads the Ancient Egypt club at this intergalactic high school, but that can’t be confirmed.
Furthermore, Cleo’s use of the pink power is not as much a dismay at the records that are contained within the room. Rather it is a longing for her father who she will likely never see again, and her home. The imagery and symbolism of this scene makes this interpretation the right one, rather than the one I stated in I Love Libraries at the time. Unfortunately, with the attack in the final episode of the series by Octavian’s forces, this room was likely damaged during the fighting, and it is not known how much of it remains.
On the other hand, there is clearly a lack of information in this room, as Cleo is acutely aware of. There probably isn’t much in terms of weeding that is going on in acquiring materials for this room, i.e. the removal of items from a collection. Rather, there is careful acquisition since the villainous Octavian has destroyed much of the galaxy’s information in what they call The Blight, while likely keeping copies of this information for himself. Obviously it is not mentioned in this episode, but the upkeep of the room itself is undoubtedly incorporated into the budget of the PYRAMID library.
Unlike some other libraries, this library is about knowledge and learning, not some institution that is acting as a “profit center,” as some like to frame libraries and make them synonymous with business that is trying to gain a profit. That is something that libraries, especially those which are public or non-profit, should not be doing, even if they are encouraged to think that way in order to be “competitive” or speak like corporate CEOs. In the end, while Cleopatra in Space is not talking about information deficits in libraries, it connects to other library themes and remains relevant in terms of representation in popular media.
© 2022 Burkely Hermann. All rights reserved.
Notes
[1] My original draft of the post that I submitted to I Love Libraries did not include this line, only noting that the scene in “Clubbing” was two-and-half minutes long, ended when Cleo and her friends have to avoid asteroids crashing into the school.
#AncientEgypt #cats #CleopatraInSpace #corporations #informationLoss #informationNeeds #magic #restrictions #specialCollections