4th Week of January 2023
January 29th, 2023
Restoring an 1883 lifesize papier mache model of a giant octopus at Harvard’s Museums of Science and Culture.
Video: Hesburgh Libraries Analog Preservation and Conservation
A short video about preservation work at Notre Dame Libaries (featuring an appearance by my former Houghton colleague Luke Kelly!)
An introduction to the poster collections at the Library of Congress.
Three Alexander the Great manuscripts newly digitised
More items from the British Library’s current exhibition Alexander the Great: The Making of a Myth.
3rd Week of January 2023
January 22nd, 2023
UAlbany Professor Finds New Poem by Famed Early American Poet Phillis Wheatley
The poem “On the Death of Love Rotch” dated 1767, was found in a Quaker commonplace book at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania attributed to “A Negro Girl about 15 years of age.”
The Anne of Green Gables Manuscript
An extensive new site makes the fully digitized manuscript available along with explanatory notes and other supporting material.
A new Grolier Club exhibition available in person or online on the golden age of American decorated paper.
Brrr–Frost Fairs on the Thames
The Thames River completely froze over during several winters between 1608 and 1814, providing London denizens with a sudden new space to utilize for work and play.
2nd Week of January 2023
January 15th, 2023
Early Astronomy in the University of Michigan Collections
A new online exhibit featuring a selection of manuscripts, early printed books, and artifacts illustrating Mesopotamian, Greek, Islamic, and Western European astronomies.
Jane Segar, an artist at the Elizabethan court
A newly digitized manuscript made as a New Year’s gift for Queen Elizabeth and inscribed “the handyworke of a maiden your majesty’s most faithful servant … graced with my pen and pencell.”
The Secret (Past) Lives of Library Books
Documenting the history of Library of Congress collections for the Material Evidence in Incunabula project.
Master tailor Diego de Freyle’s 1583 manual, Geometria y Traça para el Oficio de los Sastres
Top 9 of 2022 from NLM Collections on Instagram
NLM reviews the year’s most popular posts.
1st Week of January 2023
January 8th, 2023
Caught Our Eyes: More Brünnhilde the Cat
No contest for which story I’d put in the top slot this week. Brünnhilde!
A Year in Review: Newly Scanned Maps of 2022
Recent digitization from the Library of Congress Geography and Maps Division
Meg Piorko’s Weekly Picks: Public Domain Day 2023
To celebrate Public Domain Day, Villanova’s Falvey Library highlights newly public domain publications from 1927 in its digital collections.
A Tiny Press Calls for a Tiny Book
Duke conservator makes a miniature book to go inside a miniature book press for an exhibition on conservation work.
Wax Cylinders Hold Audio From a Century Ago. The Library Is Listening.
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts acquired a machine that transfers recordings from the fragile format. Then a batch of cylinders from a Met Opera librarian arrived.
