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Dylan Lewis @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social · 18h

Another year of Queer Bibliography— please share widely; we are looking forward to this!

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Ervin Malakaj @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Friendlies, my second book comes out April 2027! Reach out if you are planning your lecture series for the spring/summer! I'd love to come by in person or virtually. Please let your libraries know to get a copy and help me spread the word. 🌈 @sunypress.bsky.social sunypress.edu/Books/F/Frag...

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Dylan Lewis @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Fourth 11-hour day this week 🫥 I hate training people the entire day while I’m triaging things that pop up related to my job. But next week I’ll hopefully see the fruits of my labor Anyways here’s a 1768 German book arguing against the existence of apparitions and vampires

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Dylan Lewis @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My library has the most comprehensive Bram Stoker collection in the world, with over 4,000 items connected to Stoker, Dracula, and vampires. A large bulk of it is still unprocessed/uncataloged, but I’m really excited to have a new staff member working through it now! news.emory.edu/features/202...

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The vampire in the library

Bram Stoker collection celebrates his literary immortality at Emory’s Rose Library

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Dylan Lewis @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We’re getting involved in multiple wars, including ones we randomly started, and there is a serious cost of living crisis, and both parties are concerned about college athletics.

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Whitney Trettien @whitneytrettien.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In the 1860s, chess player Howard Staunton produced a photo-facsimile of Shakespeare's First Folio. It was one of the earliest attempts to use new technology to reproduce an old book. @folger.edu has Staunton’s proof sheets. I looked at them last week. If you like media/books/history, they're fun.

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“How on earth came the t turned into s?!!!!”

On Howard Staunton’s photozincographic facsimile of Shakespeare’s First Folio

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Leftist Gamer Memes @leftistgamermemes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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a meme set in a fake screenshot of chrono trigger says "transgender people and immigrants are not at the root of any problem that we face in this country and I will not be tricked into thinking otherwise"

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Dylan Lewis @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I feel like being in a 4 year long-distance relationship through my bf’s brain cancer diagnosis & treatment has prepared me to handle a lot of curveballs in life, and has also given me a lot of clarity about the relationships I have with people that are worth the work!

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Jake Tapper (moderating the 2028 Dem primary debate): Final question. Do you renounce the Western Massachusetts lesbian bar? Pete Buttigieg: I renounce it. Kamala: I renounce it. AOC: I renounce it. Gavin Newsom: I will be deploying the National Guard to Greenfield on day one of my administration.

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Dylan Lewis @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Librarians & archivists go to work every day and devote their time and energy to make things accessible and discoverable, today and for many, many days to come. If you see us at the dumpsters, mind your business! Nobody thinks more about the preservation of knowledge and the human record than we do.

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Dylan Lewis @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Training rare book catalogers like I’m leading an insurgence when I tell them we aren’t restricted to whatever the fuck is happening at LC and we can use a lot of credible thesauri and CVs like homosaurus and RBMS

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Dylan Lewis @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

tomorrow is monday— we didn’t eradicate them :(

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Dylan Lewis @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

One day you’re on the playground trading Pokémon cards and the next you’re taking middle-aged male vitamins (and still trading Pokémon cards). What happened to me 😭

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women

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Dylan Lewis @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The funny thing is that the media, including these outlets, has actually incredibly friendly to him given the horror, corruption, and ineptitude that is just flooding out of this administration every minute. Like, I haven’t seen real journalism from the Big Boys in a decade

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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This alone should bring down an administration

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Dylan Lewis @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

seeing cabbage in a printing press brings together so many of my interests, and I love this

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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The disastrous $100 million rollout of Workday at my university is literally the opening anecdote of this article. Finally! www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/09/o...

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College campuses need to be liberated from their administrators - The Boston Globe

Higher ed is being strangled by absurd and costly rules. What message is that sending to students?

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Dylan Lewis @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Visiting my grandfather because he’s not doing well (my sister even came in from Germany) AND I got to see Zuzu

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Dylan Lewis @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

follow up: He's teaching two 3-hour/week courses and is required to hold office hours, do grading, etc. He finally got paid and they're paying him hourly by the credit hour, and office hours/grading isn't included. Is that even legal? If he's paid hourly for 6 hours shouldn't he only work 6 hours?

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

“There’s a new Mr. Beast book.” You bolt awake in your workshop in Mainz. It’s 1450. You’re Johannes Gutenberg, and you’ve changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Your printing press must burn.

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Dylan Lewis @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Had my first performance evaluation after a year in my new job, at a new institution in a new state and also kind of a new career (similar career but very different day-to-day and with some supervisory capacity), and I got an “exceeds expectations” across the board and it felt really good!

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

You cannot say this and remain in office. He has to go. And Democrats have to make an enormous deal out of threats to exterminate an entire group of people.

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Dylan Lewis @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

do academics realize this is basically every job?

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Dylan Lewis @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Five things on my desk today (for various reasons): Games Apples Play (1987), Claude McKay’s Harlem: Negro Paradise (1940), Gershon Legman’s The Limerick (1953), The AIDS Cult (1997), & William Michael Rossetti’s personal copy of Mary Wollstonecraft’s Origin and Progress of the French Revolution

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Rose Library @ Emory University @roselibraryemory.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Do you write in your books? ✍️ Several people wrote in our newly acquired rare book, "Epigrammata Antiquae Urbis". Published in 1521, this Roman item is significant for multiple reasons. Learn why in this blog post by our Rare Book Librarian, Dylan Lewis: buff.ly/CfivdiK

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Dylan Lewis @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

my boyfriend is adjuncting at a community college this semester while he wraps up the diss, and he's taught two full weeks and hasn't signed a formal contract yet--- they told him that they send out their contracts in the middle of the semester?? Is this normal!?

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Dylan Lewis @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

oh no microsoft is down and I can't use outlook oh no

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"GTA 6 lets players pet dogs" Knowest thou wher else thou kanst pet a dogge? A local animal shelter. Yf the dogge doth lyke thee, thou kanst also adopt the dogge. Also ther ys no union busting.

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Dylan Lewis @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Yes, the "AI book scanning & destruction centers" are real, and they are probably destroying tens of millions of books. There's a great expose by a rare book dealer here: downtownbrown.substack.com/p/all-the-co...

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All the Companies Scanning Books for AI

The book scanning ecosystem is large and growing

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Dylan Lewis @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I think there are few people around today that are inspirational the way Dolly Parton was. Not only because of everything she accomplished in her life despite many hardships, but because of how genuinely kind and supportive she was to everyone else despite her enormous success.

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kennedyprints.bsky.social @kennedyprints.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Still puttin' ink on paper

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🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️‍🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton with Keith Haring in 1985, incredible woman and supporter of LGBTQ people for decades going back to a time when few others dared.

Black and white photo of Dolly Parton with gay artist Keith Haring.

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

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Dylan Lewis @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

when I cleaned out my office at my last university, I threw away a lot of my old teaching documents/notes/articles because I had digital copies and I probably wasn't going to teach those courses again (or at least these versions). A day later, an officemate had all of the papers in her desk?! weird.

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Dylan Lewis @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I am immediately skeptical of anyone who describes their own work and creative output as prolific

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Dylan Lewis @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Looking at this like “I need a vacation…”

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Dylan Lewis @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

two freshman heard about our beautiful 1894 "peacock edition" Pride & Prejudice on a campus tour, and they're in the Reading Room now looking at it with such wonder and awe! It's delightful, and exactly what I needed on an otherwise awful day/week/month!

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Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

When I first moved to SoCal and took my child to the city library (as one does, first thing), this book title had me confused for several minutes.

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Dylan Lewis @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Fire, tornado, active shooter, gas leak, etc drills and learning about all of the weird places around the library I should hide in or avoid

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Dylan Lewis @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

still haven’t emotionally processed that we got confirmation last week that Michael Haneke is retired. I mean, he’s 84 and the tv show he wanted to do got derailed by COVID so we kinda already knew BUT STILL

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Dylan Lewis @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This is not a joke: I have a serious bibliographical question about something I'm writing an article on, and this question can probably only be answered by someone who has worked in plumbing for at least 10 years (ideally someone who has been in the industry even longer). Does anyone have a contact?

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Jen Wunder @jenwunder.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

There’s an abundance of research indicating that once you get students past fear of falling grades, and fear of not getting a letter grade, too, they settle in, focus more on the learning, and actually demonstrate better acquisition of skills and concepts. Well done Michigan and keep going!

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Dylan Lewis @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

One day you’re working with rare books and the next you’re talking about deliverables and expense reports and Q4 and budget letters and stakeholders and roof repair plans and service contracts and

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Dylan Lewis @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I’ve lived in a lot of different cities, four different states, and two countries and Atlanta is really just such a great, beautiful city. I love living here so much!

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sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

LLM-generated bibliographies are a moral crime against bibliography. I think they should be banned by the relevant professional organizations.

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