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Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Greeted this half-erased “INSTITUTIONAL MEMORY TEACH-IN HAPPENING NOW” whiteboard with a sad-face react.

Photo of an abandoned white board on a table, text is half erased.

Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Our coffeemaker’s carafe exploded this morning and I’m being punished for it twice. The campus coffee is mediocre even before you sip it through hot wet cardboard.

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Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We’re a Workday campus now; I’m so honored to a part of the Go-Live Journey(tm)

Screenshot of inbox with the first of many emails titled “A Task Awaits You”

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Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A Rich Text my favorite part is “Vietnam Veterans Against the War Anti-Imperialist* *not affiliated with Vietnam Veterans Against the War” but there really is no wrong answer here

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Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Deinstalled our America250 exhibit which means Uncle Sam is back right where he belongs: in my eyeline every day encouraging draft resistance.

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Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Get yourself friends who know how to celebrate history (I mentioned James Callender in the chat last night)

Mad Men elevator meme: Callendar
+
I bathe drunk in the river
/
Jefferson
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I don't bathe at all

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Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I told a researcher months ago “PERHAPS WE’LL NEVER KNOW” how a periodical got into our collection but it turns out that no, we definitely can know.

Garbled up back cover of an issue of Manara Al-Sharq with a couple Republique Libanaise stamps and our mailing address.

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Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Great garbage email this AM with an entirely superfluous mention of genAI. Yeah, Alexey, I figured that part out before para 2.

Detail from a nonsense sales message:

Dear Ms. Goodman,
Your RBMS Outreach Subcommittee panel description asked what librarians can do with a box of engraved steel plates when they aren't a puppeteer — and I have to admit, that line was written almost for the book I'm about to describe.
My name is Alexey Yurenev. My practice moves between documentary photography, film, and generative Al, and centers on how to
vicudlin what affiniol and fomily arohivac

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Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Maybe I don’t want titans of industry to contribute to cultural heritage after all?

Spiritually AI slop, albeit a real life ceiling mural depicting Gutenberg, Da Vinci, Edison, and Curie (plus wheel of angels) in the Grohmann Museum

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Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I can’t believe I almost didn’t visit the Grohmann Museum, the oddest “rich weirdo buys thrift shop art celebrating labor (but not the organized kind!!!)” museum I’ll visit this year. Yay printing!

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Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Here’s Evans 15200 (id’d as NYPL) which is not the LC photostat but does look like your copy.

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Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Our staff summer reading challenge is four days old and at 8,600 pages so looks like somebody is gonna be seconded to the “leaf drawing department”

Chalk drawing on a building column of a bare tree (and reading woodland friends) captioned “help our tree grow: each leaf is 500 pages”

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Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Petition to bring back The Demon Lady font

1894 privately printed edition of Whittier’s poem “The Demon Lady” with the title printed in a lightly demon-coded serif

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Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

You know the exhibit is almost done when the poster arrives 😅

Large format poster with a detail of a patchwork quilt and the title “American Communities 1776-2026”

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Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

It’s the greatest day of the year: ENGLISH MAJORS COLLOQUIUM DAY!!!! The first half is material text stations: typecasting/setting, substrates, imposition 😍😍😍, illustration technologies, and signs of use. Then we make books but I’ll be too busy bansheeing to document that…

Typecasting / typesetting station with a mix of books, type, and hand moulds

Substrate station, hastily assembled with unbound sheets once our light sheet RIP’d

Imposition!!!! It doesn’t look like much so I’ll have to clown extra hard.

Illustration technologies. No litho stone, yet…

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Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

My favorite part of the group chat is where we team read the latest Chotiner murder

“It's like the domino theory, but in
reverse.”
“Yeah, yeah. Exactly.”

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Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Truly a cursed move for a student to choose this for their Aesthetics class out of a portfolio of nearly 700 artifacts, most of which are not objectively haunted.

A photo of an extremely spooky 19th c doll in a bonnet, dress rotting around her. All we know about this doll is that it is “doll”

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Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Last semester Art History students put together an (awesome!) exhibit on the history of McCabe Library and with @shannonmattern.bsky.social here this afternoon I thought it fitting to take one last lunch in this Original Library Chair (TM)

The bright blue upholstered armchair where I am currently sitting, with a nice little MCM side table and lamp to boot

Student’s object label: “FURNISHING AND DECOR
Original Library Chair
Ca. 1967
Furnishings original to the building can be found throughout McCabe Library; these include the carrels and large wood-top tables with metal legs, which were acquired through the office of Vincent Kling. Incremental modernization has slowly pushed some of the less widespread designs, such as this bright blue topaz chair, off the main floors and into the back offices of McCabe. The original library utilized bright colors to offset the neutral tones of the interior stone walls, and this chair similarly combined the natural tones of its polished wooden structure with its jewel-toned upholstery. The type and number of chairs in McCabe was a frequent topic of discussion during planning, with arguments ranging from 329 to 600 chairs divided into carrel, table, and lounge spaces.
Wide consensus seemed to place lounge seating at a maximum of 10% of the library's seating capacity in order to encourage the academic usage of the building (perhaps contributing to McCabe's nickname of the "Fort Knox of Knowledge") and discourage slovenly behavior.”

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Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I can’t believe @dhm.bsky.social died before I got this #newacq in the mail. Sending out Nazi Frank Rizzo in his honor

May 28 1970 issue of the Plain Dealer (a Philadelphia underground newspaper) having a huge cover illustration of Nazi tribunal Rizzo. “JOIN RIZZO’S TEAM // THE COURTS ALREADY HAVE”

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Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

I love library books too but please keep your lips to yourself. (First edition, first printing of The New Negro (1925), in library binding with plenty of highlighter and thankfully not as many kisses)

Detail from Alain Locke’s “The New Negro” essay in the 1925 volume of the same name. The whole bottom of the page is highlighted in orange, with a very pink lipstick kiss.

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Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Yet again failed the “Caitlin don’t teach with Armed Services Editions”challenge

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Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Crying in the car thanks to @kristenkurtis.bsky.social for the nice remembrance of @dhm.bsky.social this morning and a great needle drop LOL

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Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Sometimes reading old cartoons really sparks Nothing New Under the Sun feelings (depressed version). This one is from a 1926 issue of The Nation.

June 2, 1926
The Nation
At the South Pole

FIRST SOUTH POLANDER: I hear they dropped three diferent flags at the North Pole a couple of weeks ago.
SECOND SOUTH POLANDER: Gee! There must be a lot of oil up there.

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Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

My husband (a HS teacher) developed a new elective on the National Parks and he’s invited in various rangers to talk to his class, with today’s virtual visit from Independence NHP. Anyway, my love language is abolitionist print

A photo of a classroom zoom presentation featuring a slide on the destruction of Pennsylvania Hall

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Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

“Poster” implied commercially printed but I see now that this is better

Handmade marker on craft paper sign for “Love Makes A Family” advertising a negotiable donation gift of a VHS tape

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Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Nothing makes me Nicholson Baker like periodicals weeding (Obviously these have not been weeded that’s why I can check them out but I bet we also used to have like Collier’s etc and I know I KNOW libraries can’t keep everything but nevertheless)

Fat bound boys of New Yorker, Scribner’s, and Partisan Review

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Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Doing a pop-in workshop always leaves me feeling like the Pulp song “Sorted for E’s and Wizz” (especially in the evening!) but look how cool these prints/totes are!

Pulling a print made from a 5” floppy in our collection (laser engraved on linoleum)

A lady holding her very successful tote bag

A lady holding her very successful floppy print

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Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Finalizing the object list for next year’s America250 exhibit and here’s my favorite:

Fake 1982 US tax return with a military tank going Kool Aid Man, labeled YOUR TAX DOLLARS HELP PAY FOR WAR. From the Juanita and Wally Nelson Papers.

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Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Just as well the cover illustrator was uncredited

Sojourner Truth’s portrait in the 1853 edition of her narrative. “Sojourner Truth” on the cover of the 1971 Avon Books popularization.

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Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

There are 1500+ objects in our artifact collection and I know almost nothing about any of them so I’m very excited to learn with the ten students doing a semester-long object study (and exhibit!) One student picked the cutest lil scale (it includes weights mapped to international currencies)

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Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

TGIF from your friend PALLID QUAKER DRAB

COLOR STANDARDS
AND
COLOR NOMENCLATURE
RIDG WAY

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Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Don’t tell Burton’s, but someone printed their ad plate upside down. (Amesbury News, 1892-09-09, very crispy)

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Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

I’m sorry but I simply must have them all. 1911 edition of Whittier’s Snowbound (duh) published by the Hayes Lithographing Co. There’s a nice full page frontispiece and it’s bound in a cutie padded leather but I’m just here for the SHINY

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Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

I spend fewer than three hours a week on Whittier (desk! shift! project!) but they are sometimes the funnest hours. Here are five different editions of Snow-Bound (all from the year 1900) simply RIPE for the right class session on publishing and audience.

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Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

“series bindings are the AI slop of their day” - me reaching for a timely hook to hang this 1907 nonsensical cover of Whittier’s Snow-Bound

Book cover, in white cloth with gilt stamping with a colored paper illustration of a contemporary lady entirely unrelated to the poem.

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Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Without doubt, a record of enduring value

Magazine subscription mailer for “New Moon” from 1992, an (apparently still extant!) “magazine for girls and their dreams” full of lite druid clip art

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Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Early Quaker meeting records tend to be pretty brief, but sometimes they go a little Love Island on you

Chester Monthly Meeting’s handwritten meeting minutes of 3mo 1699, which narrate the complaint of Thomas Minshall against Elizabeth Vernon. Vernon apparently accused Minshall’s wife of a) infanticide and b) general thotness

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Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

I made my first tunnel book yesterday, time to find an excuse to teach a session on tunnel books

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Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

My joker moment is how grocery stores ALMOST alphabetize the spices

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Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Continuing on a theme: I understand that “Taught by the Pen” is an exhibit about the calligraphic traditions but LET ME SEE THE BINDING YOU MONSTERS

Detail of a Qur’an (ca 1700s) in what I imagine is a Persian lacquer binding, from the Beinecke exhibition

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Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Back on my bullshit* *admiring exhibition mounts

Ruderal Plants in Manhattan (1995), on view in Adrienne Pruitt’s exhibit at the Yale Art Library

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Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

With apologies to the old man I made take this photo: it’s me and my guys!

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Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

“How is the weeding going?” Well, we had nine copies and I got us down to eight, so: “medium”

Bookplate for the Anti-slavery Book Depository in Philadelphia, on one of our (many) copies of “History of Pennsylvania Hall, which was destroyed by a mob” (1838)

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Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

I’m not sure why I’m not taking art classes all the time (…well, I can think of three small reasons) but I’m simply tickled by my silkscreen/linocut object TBD that I made last night. Not even sorry for the vanity share!

White fabric with a silkscreen picnic blanket in blue and block printed XL ants in black

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Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

If this is too much, I don’t want to be enough. It’s a Roxy rose, according to the Scott Arboretum who care for it to my great pleasure

Hot pink miniature roses - a lot of them

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