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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 15h

2026 is the 550th anniversary of England's first printer, William Caxton, establishing his printing press in Westminster, London. To celebrate, the Bibliographical Society is hosting a series of videos from libraries in the UK and around the world introducing viewers to items printed by Caxton ...

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Caxton 550 - YouTube

2026 is the 550th anniversary of England's first printer, William Caxton, establishing his printing press in Westminster, London. To celebrate, the Bibliogra...

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Jason W. Dean @jasonwdean.com · 18/09/2026

Ben and I have confirmed it’s not in Keynes, BTW. Birch, maybe?

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Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

History of science & #BookHistory friends: What was the size of the initial print run of Hooke's Micrographia? (I've frequently seen the 1st edition referred to as a bestseller, but haven't found a source that confirms how many copies the Royal Society commissioned...) #HistSTM #histsci 🗃️📜🔬

Robert Hooke, Micrographia, Schema XXXIV (The Flea)
Image source: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/apr/22/big-tick-energy-how-a-humble-flea-kickstarted-british-art

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 17/09/2026

The fact was not, in fact, fun

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Jason W. Dean @jasonwdean.com · 15/09/2026

A belated Spencer Library #newacq thread here: a Book of Hours, Use of Sarum, created in circa 1430 (Pryce MS D1). A wonderful addition to our MSS holdings, and a good companion to the Vosper Hours. Let's start with the Crucifixion and the opening line of text: 📜 #libsky #rarebooks #booksky

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Jason W. Dean @jasonwdean.com · 14/09/2026

I'll be in Geneva next week, and would welcome your recommendations for eating, drinking, and seeing! I'll be at AIB so I think we will probably see every interesting book in the canton...

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Jason W. Dean @jasonwdean.com · 09/09/2026

I had the good fortune of having a sneak peek at @sibyllacumae.bsky.social's article she mentions below - well and truly worth reading! 📜 #libsky #rarebooks #booksky

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Jason W. Dean @jasonwdean.com · 31/08/2026

Currently cataloging a French revolutionary pamphlet, dated "L'an deuxieme de la liberte" e.g. 1793 (best I can deduce). But then the imprint statement at the end gives the year 1790 COME ON THE FRENCH LETS GET IT TOGETHER.

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Jason W. Dean @jasonwdean.com · 27/08/2026

Yesssss. My brother @jamesdean595.bsky.social turned me on to LaTeX and the Tufte handout format is one of my favorites…

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Jason W. Dean @jasonwdean.com · 24/08/2026

For the new issue of our newsletter, @sibyllacumae.bsky.social and I asked our friend, poet, librarian, & scholar @sarahbc.bsky.social to write our 1st guest issue, and SHE DELIVERED in spades. She intertwines books, nature, Cape Cod and her family. Enjoy! twohalfsheets.substack.com/p/on-nature-...

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On Nature: The Sarah Burke Cahalan Issue

Theme RK & JWD: Friends, as you all probably know all too well (looking at the thermometer), summer is almost over.

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 20/08/2026

FWIW, my colleagues across the country were talking at our rare books librarianship conference about the SPIKE in class requests to use primary materials. All need not be completely lost.

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Jason W. Dean @jasonwdean.com · 20/08/2026

Bibliography: now done at never before seen heights!

My new standing desk at maximum height as a bit.

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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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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

<insert really long rang here about how there's always money for the next big hype but never enough for core functions that actually keep the library running> 📚 www.chronicle.com/article/does...

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Does Your College Need an ‘AI Librarian’?

At a time when many institutions are grappling with the technology and its implications, some are turning to librarians for leadership.

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Jason W. Dean @jasonwdean.com · 27/07/2026

Very, very nice to see @bibliojenni.bsky.social in this new and great Tom Scott video about the Hereford Cathedral Library! 📜 #libsky #rarebooks #booksky www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Isb...

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I get excited about &.

YouTube video by Tom Scott

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Jason W. Dean @jasonwdean.com · 26/07/2026

You suddenly get a narrator describing your life and there’s no way to turn it off - everyone can hear it. While shopping, at work, at home, with friends - the voice narrating your every move goes on. Who do you hope is the voice of this narrator?

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Jeffrey Wright: Never Do That Again

ALT: Jeffrey Wright: Never Do That Again

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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

My first search engine.

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Jason W. Dean @jasonwdean.com · 16/07/2026

hello to my parked car in this photo in its usual spot

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Jason W. Dean @jasonwdean.com · 16/07/2026

Thanks to @sibyllacumae.bsky.social, sorting out one arcane rare book reference source citation at a time. I feel like it's like name authority work - unglamorous, but central to our work describing books!

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Matt Lincoln @mdlincoln.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I knew this data format was old, but this is ridiculous

A stone ruin with the letters MARC visible carved into it.

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Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I am once again asking a historian of science or technology* to review this exhibition... (* Preferably someone deeply familiar with the early modern period or the history of computing. Or both, like Mike Mahoney!) #histSTM #histsci #histtech 🗃️📜

Considering his recent push to regulate the development of AI, I suspect Bernie Sanders would not be a fan of the artwork shown below.

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Jason W. Dean @jasonwdean.com · 10/07/2026

I, for one, welcome our new medical libraries email list overlords.

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Jason W. Dean @jasonwdean.com · 10/07/2026

cage??????????????? nobody puts king harold in a cage

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Jason W. Dean @jasonwdean.com · 09/07/2026

My friend Debbie Carrillo (whose micaceous clay pottery is featured in the video, and her santero husband Charlie) shared this video about Spanish Market in Santa Fe. Reminds me to make plans to go next year! If you're anywhere close, go visit! www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhgM...

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Discover the Traditional Spanish Market: A Celebration of Art and Culture in New Mexico

YouTube video by Traditional Spanish Market

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Rebecca Baumann @arkhamlibrarian.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

“Leaving well is a leadership act. Knowing when your continued presence becomes consent is a leadership act. Refusing to disappear quietly when you have been pushed to the margins is a leadership act […]. Look at your room. Ask what your continued presence is signing for.”

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Jason W. Dean @jasonwdean.com · 06/07/2026

Was having fun doing little skits and bits in an email of a professional nature, but to friends, and I manage to just mangle the name of the subject of the email. Cool.

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Lucretia Baskin @lucretiab.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Today, 12-4! We have air conditioning and cool documents! See copies of the Emancipation Proclamation, David Walker’s Appeal, E. C. Stanton’s copy of the Seneca Falls Declaration, The Combahee River Collective statement, letters from Toussaint Louverture & Dessalines, and more!

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Jason W. Dean @jasonwdean.com · 24/06/2026

Organized by my friend and colleague John McEwan, cosponsored by @kulibraries.bsky.social, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk, and the @bibsocamer.bsky.social ! A good confluence indeed. 📜 #libsky #rarebooks #booksky

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Tim R @elibtronic.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Before you get warm feelings about this story, keep in mind it was **labour and contract protections** that got these people back. Not some grand realization that Librarianship is necessary. Get unionized people. 1 / 2

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A Regional College Laid Off All Its Librarians in 2024. Now It Has to Hire Them Back.

Western Illinois University claimed the library was not an academic program when it essentially was, an arbitrator has ruled, and therefore failed to follow the correct process for eliminating the job...

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Jason W. Dean @jasonwdean.com · 15/06/2026

Indeed, I worked for one of these STEM guys in a former workplace...

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Jason W. Dean @jasonwdean.com · 15/06/2026

The power of organizing! Proud to be a union member here at KU.

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Jason W. Dean @jasonwdean.com · 09/06/2026

Way too spot on for me, but also glad to have gotten Kepler!

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Jason W. Dean @jasonwdean.com · 03/06/2026

One of my favorite bands, Lone Piñon, released a new album last week, and their recording of "El Preso Numero 9" has been on heavy repeat for me. Thought y'all might like it too: www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-DK...

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El Preso Numero 9

YouTube video by Lone Piñon - Topic

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Jason W. Dean @jasonwdean.com · 28/05/2026

Two notebooks filled with bibliographical descriptions. Clearly doing a lot more of these now!

A hand holding a blue and a green notebook, both with a cover label sticker that says “bibliographical notes” and give the date ranges of the contents.

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Jason W. Dean @jasonwdean.com · 27/05/2026

An extraordinary western prairie moment on my drive in to campus this morning: it's intermittently foggy, and makes the sunrise light prismatic. As I drive through the fog, this track comes on the stereo, a perfect companion: youtu.be/Rnb2mNTpEvI?...

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Echo-07 Sedalia

YouTube video by Nate Hofer - Topic

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Jason W. Dean @jasonwdean.com · 26/05/2026

If y'all are interested, here's the record for this MS: kuprimo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/...

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Jason W. Dean @jasonwdean.com · 26/05/2026

¿¡tres leches!? ¿¡en esta economía!?

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Kris M @discoursemarker.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Congratulations to my amazing spouse (who is not on Bluesky but is on Mastodon) on the opening of his new exhibition, War of Words. If you’re in the Boston/Cambridge area this summer, come check it out! library.harvard.edu/exhibits/war...

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War of Words

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Jason W. Dean @jasonwdean.com · 15/05/2026

For my collation folks: this MS has three signatures nested inside the first one. How do we feel about this as a formula (visually jarring, but it's an attempt): [1]⁴([2]²⁰+[3]¹⁴+[4]¹⁶) [5]⁴

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Jason W. Dean @jasonwdean.com · 15/05/2026

A recent-ish acquisition here at Spencer from Bruce McKittrick in my cataloging cradle today: a 17thC Italian MS applying the rules of gematria to Italian, drawing upon the popular Renaissance conception of Kabbalah as “white magic”: 📜 #libsky #rarebooks #booksky

First page of a manuscript in Italian. Paper is browned, as is the ink. It’s in a cradle and the manuscript is from the 17th century.

A page from the same manuscript (Italian, 17th century) but this page has a chart matching letters to numbers and a small manicule in the margin.

Another page from the same manuscript (Italian, 17th century) with a number triangle and a chart of Hebrew characters

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Jason W. Dean @jasonwdean.com · 15/05/2026

A colleague sent a kind congratulatory note about travel funding for the Flamsteed project (with @hillemmalouise.bsky.social) and he's getting Three Flamsteed Paragraphs as a gift in his inbox this morning (sorry Josh).

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