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@TeamMidwest@glammr.us Right?!! Also, they’re just going to let this company microchip every single map in their highly prestigious collection and the company does it in no time at all??
It's me, wynkenhimself! Most of my booklist is still over at @wynkenhimself@bookwyrm.social and maybe I'll import it someday, but I'm trying to primarily post over here now. I pretty much only list the fun reads I do here, and the Bookish Book Club ones, but maybe I'll do a better job of tracking my work reading too. Remember: if you don't like a book, you can stop reading it!!
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20% complete! Sarah has read 10 of 50 books.
@TeamMidwest@glammr.us Right?!! Also, they’re just going to let this company microchip every single map in their highly prestigious collection and the company does it in no time at all??
Last night’s weirdness: apparently these PhD students convinced their department chair to accept their group project and provide funding and then they graduated before they had actually begun the project??!! I am trying to focus on the big-picture weirdnesses, not the typical misunderstanding of boring academic and library procedures, but what?&?&?!!! What are we supposed to imagine they got their PhDs for if not actual research?! (I am complaining but also I am having fun and I am into the romance anxieties actually)
last night’s jaw drop among other things: a private company was hired to scan everything in the map library with a snap of a finger (lollll) and they plan to attach “micro RFIDs” to EVERY SINGLE ITEM in the map collection!!!!! Can’t wait to see what tonight’s jaw drop will be 😱
I am so aghast at this I have to keep reading just to see what else transpires, but (a) the author seems to think that a cartographer is someone who studies maps and (b) your work as a studier of maps means that you are a scholar, curator, and conservator like not a paper conservator, you’re a map conservator, and that (c) getting a job in the NYPL Map library is something your dad, who currently holds the job, can just give you and then (d) on top of all that, the main character, who is a purported cartographer with her own conservation tools in her lab, this person puts on DISH GLOVES to open up what she think is a priceless map. Dish gloves, I tell you. Like a gazillion times worse than cotton gloves which are already bad!!!
*please if I have fundamentally misunderstood the field of cartography …
I am so aghast at this I have to keep reading just to see what else transpires, but (a) the author seems to think that a cartographer is someone who studies maps and (b) your work as a studier of maps means that you are a scholar, curator, and conservator like not a paper conservator, you’re a map conservator, and that (c) getting a job in the NYPL Map library is something your dad, who currently holds the job, can just give you and then (d) on top of all that, the main character, who is a purported cartographer with her own conservation tools in her lab, this person puts on DISH GLOVES to open up what she think is a priceless map. Dish gloves, I tell you. Like a gazillion times worse than cotton gloves which are already bad!!!
*please if I have fundamentally misunderstood the field of cartography or map history or map librarianship, I would welcome that information
Rereading this as teaching prep and rediscovering how much I love this book. It was just about the first thing I read as a budding book historian to help me think about what the field might be. And returning to those questions today from a position of much greater familiarity with book history, I’m struck by how nuanced and yet available to newcomers Howsam is (and now that I know Leslie, it’s no surprise—she and her work are like that!). Anyways, if you’re looking to get a sense of why and what book history might be, this will be tremendously helpful.
Building the Book from the Ancient World to the Present Day offers a carefully curated overview of how books have …
A fascinating catalog that analyzes books as historical objects.
Scholars increasingly recognize that the cultural and research value of books …
Why the card catalog—a “paper machine” with rearrangeable elements—can be regarded as a precursor of the computer.
Today on almost …
This was a delightful translation to listen to--Headley's sense of rhythm and storytelling turns into bro-slinging narrative of blood and kinship and loss (and hoo boy does Headley do a good job with keeping at the front all the misogyny that crops up in the poem). I might try reading Headley's translation at some point. For now, I'm really glad I listened to it.
In the first decades of the twentieth century, print-centered organizations spread rapidly across the United States, providing more women than …
I just barely squeezed in 50 last year, let’s see 🤷♀️. My real goal is to just read and to read both widely and deeply 🤞