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Rob Montoya

@robdmontoya.bsky.social
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Breslauer Endowed Professor of Bibliography at UCLA | Director, California Rare Book School (CalRBS) | Book History, Libraries, Knowledge Organization | Fulbright

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Absolutely thrilled to report that the Board of Governors at @uncpress.bsky.social have approved my book THE RACIALIZATION OF PRINT for publication by @oieahc.bsky.social. Forthcoming, early 2027.
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Sarah Werner @wynkenhimself.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Come think about Feminist Bibliography with me this summer! I’m teaching a one-week online course for @calrbs.bsky.social—I love this class and am excited to do it again. Description below; priority deadline April 15; all details at www.calrbs.org/feminist-bib...
This online course considers what might constitute a feminist approach to studying books, what the benefits of such approaches are, and how to incorporate them into our own work.
We will center the textual object in exploring these issues, letting artifacts drive our questions rather than the actions of book makers, sellers, or collectors. Another way of putting this is that the course won't ask who women printing books were, but rather, who determined the terms on which we engage with books. This doesn't mean ignoring the many agents involved in book work, including the people involved in the long history of book trades, the academic field of print culture and textual editing, and the intersection of these with library practices. But it means that our work this week will be focused on generating
questions about methodology rather than recovering names and histories.We will also wrestle with the theory and practice of feminism, which has a history of different meanings for different communities, and how to develop it as an inclusive practice for our book work. If living a feminist life is, as Sara Ahmed argues, something we must return to over and over, something that we put into practice daily rather than something that stays in the classroom, how do we bring that into our spaces of book work?
Through a combination of short advance readings about bibliography and feminism, course discussions, and your own work with textual artifacts, we will explore what questions are brought to the forefront when we approach our work through a feminist framework.
Participants should anticipate two concurrent and two asynchronous sessions each course day, with those sessions being scheduled to accommodate the range of US time zones; asychronous sessions could involve exercises, readings, and off-camera discussions.Discussions and exercises will also try explore different models of pedagogy in order to give participants a feel for what methodologies might suit them best.
The course is intended to be of use to anyone researching, teaching, or acting as a custodian for rare books; although we will pay careful attention to the first centuries of western printing, since the study of those books have shaped the field of bibliography as a whole, the issues the course will consider cover all periods of book study. Participants should not expect to come out of the course having mastered a feminist history of books, but to leave with a set of tools to ask feminist questions of books.
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 20/12/2025
We believe these data “demonstrate that UC Merced has actively divested from instruction, showing a pattern of deprivation of the instructional budget relative to ourselves and other campuses.”
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Memo on University Spending on Instruction – UC Merced Faculty Association
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Safiya Umoja Noble, PhD @safiyanoble.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
We WILL keep going! “UCLA faculty are honored to stand with this coalition, which continues to show that when faced with an administration targeting the very heart of higher education, fighting back is the only option,” Markowitz said. www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Judge blocks Trump administration push to fine UCLA $1.2 billion for alleged antisemitism
A federal judge late Friday issued a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration from imposing a $1.2-billion fine on UCLA for alleged civil rights violations over antisemitism, its recog...
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 15/11/2025
Here at UCLA you can and should join @uclafa.bsky.social, which is an AAUP affiliate and one of the Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA). If you want to fight, this is how you do it and who you do it with.
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California Rare Book School @calrbs.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Apply for CalRBS 2025: Priority Deadine Extended to 4/15/2025! You have 2 weeks to submit your application! After 4/15, the scholarship deadline will close, though we will continue accepting applications on a rolling basis. We are offering in-person courses in Oaxaca (Mexico), Los Angeles, & online!
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Jeremy Keen Abbott @jkabbott.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
The class is filling up, but there are still a couple of spaces open for @calrbs.bsky.social copyright this summer! The priority application window is closing, so get em in: bit.ly/3E1nG40 Feel free to shoot me a message if you have questions
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Copyright Theory and Practice for Libraries, Archives, and Special Collections (2025) – CalRBS
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SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Hi! We're SHARP News, an online open-access quarterly publication of @sharpweb.org. Follow us to hear when we publish new materials and to hear about interesting things happening all over the book-ish world. Tag us in your posts so we can let others know about your work, publications, and events!
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SHARP NEWS – An open-access publication of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishingsearchexpand
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Colleen T @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
California Historical Society to Dissolve and Transfer Collections to Stanford (NY Times coverage) (Gift link) 📜 www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/a...
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California Historical Society to Dissolve and Transfer Collections to Stanford (Gift Article)
The society faced financial challenges that were exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. Its nearly 600,000 items stretch back before the Gold Rush.
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
I’m really looking forward to teaching an introduction to European manuscripts at Cal RBS this summer. Please apply, circulate, encourage others to apply! www.calrbs.org/introduction...
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Introduction to European Medieval Manuscripts (2025) – CalRBS
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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
This June at the American Antiquarian Society: “Sex, Gender, and Print”: The 2025 Summer Seminar in the History of the Book, taught by Greta LaFleur and Jordan Alexander Stein. Apply by April 4, 2025. Scholarships available for grad students and other early career scholars. Link in comments.
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Rob Montoya @robdmontoya.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Check out @calrbs.bsky.social courses, which just went live! Come spend a week (or more) with me on the UCLA campus talking books, bibliography, libraries, and so many other things!
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
All roads lead to Rome. Meet the earliest known European map with a scale: This woodcut "south up" map by Erhard Etzlaub offers a route to Rome - located on the top of the map - through #earlymodern German speaking Europe. A 🧵 for #skystorians with an interest in hand-coloured maps. 1/5
A hand-coloured version of a woodcut map from Erhard Etzlaub "Rome Weg" from c. 1500. A non hand-coloured version of a woodcut map from Erhard Etzlaub "Rome Weg" from c. 1500.
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J.D. Sargan @jdsargan.bsky.social · 09/02/2024
Deadline extended 'til Tuesday 15th Feb: weekend writing goals!
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Andrea @akthom.bsky.social · 07/02/2024
Our job posting for TT position in cultural heritage informatics is back up!! We're reviewing apps now but will continue to review those rcvd by Mar 1. Happy to chat about this position/the iSchool/UA. arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
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California Rare Book School @calrbs.bsky.social · 03/02/2024
Queer Bibliography conference, hosted this year by UCLA CalRBS, has extended its deadline to February 15, 2024! Submit!
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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · 20/01/2024
A summer class at UCLa where I condense 10+ years of archival research and bibliographical training. Rolling applications and scholarships available. Link to description in comments.
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Devin Fitzgerald, bibliothot @devinfitz.bsky.social · 23/01/2024
Submissions for the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB) annual Essay Prize are now open for 2024. Submit your work! Our committee this year spans disciplines (East Asia, Latin Am, EM Europe), and so there should be good fights. rarebookschool.org/sofcb-essay-...
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Rob Montoya @robdmontoya.bsky.social · 20/01/2024
We all accidentally fill out forms by mistake, after all!
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Rob Montoya @robdmontoya.bsky.social · 29/12/2023
Angling to be more attentive to movies/cinema this coming year. Do I have colleagues on here in Letterboxd? If so, message me your username! Help me find the good stuff!
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California Rare Book School @calrbs.bsky.social · 19/12/2023
UCLA California Rare Book School is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the second annual Queer Bibliography conference to be held between July 24-27, 2024, on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles, California. Full call for papers can be found at: www.calrbs.org/events/queer....
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Rob Montoya @robdmontoya.bsky.social · 19/12/2023
The Bibliography Lab is getting installed into its new space at UCLA/ @calrbs.bsky.social ! It’s messy, equipment is being reassembled and refurbished, more equipment is set to arrive, and I’ve got more cuts on my hands than in recent memory, but soon this space will be ready for serious printing!
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California Rare Book School @calrbs.bsky.social · 17/12/2023
We are pleased to announce that CalRBS is now accepting applications for the Summer 2024 season. Our listings of in-person and online courses can be found on our website: www.calrbs.org/2024-courses...
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2024 Courses – CalRBS
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Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 15/12/2023
If you are near one of the libraries on this list, would you get in touch? You can help with the Shakespeare Census by verifying copies! It's fun and easy. And you get to look at old books! shakespearecensus.org/search/?fiel...
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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 13/12/2023
Hey, let’s try this again. This August I will be teaching "Hands-On Book History Pedagogy" at @calrbs.bsky.social - looking forward to hanging out with my favorite fellow book nerds, talking teaching & experimenting in UCLA’s new community print lab—come join us! www.calrbs.org/program/cour...
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BOO! k HistoriAAAH 🎃 @book-historia.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
Exciting professional news: I’ll be teaching a course at California Rare Book School in August about Pop Bibliography!Pop Bibliography encompasses the production and reception of bibliography through a popular media lens, and is an important part of the modern history of old books. Apply now! 📜
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Pop Bibliography – CalRBS
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 19/11/2023
Unabashedly: this is why I think it’s funny to say “by the year 300 the codex was the dominant form for recording information in the area around the Mediterranean.”
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Rob Montoya @robdmontoya.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
All the support for this! Let’s keep these strikes going. Systems ain’t gonna fix themselves—they’re designed that way!
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Strike - California Faculty Association
CFA Members Set Strikes Dates After seven months of bargaining on several articles of our contract, CFA members will be going on strike next month if we do not receive a fair contract from CSU managem...
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Rob Montoya @robdmontoya.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
UCLA Library Special Collections Research Fellowships Program: The Library provides funding for on-site graduate-level, post-doctoral or independent research with Library Special Collections materials. 📚 📜 #libraries #bookhistory #bibliography
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UCLA Library Special Collections Research Fellowships Program | UCLA Library
The Library provides funding for on-site graduate-level, post-doctoral or independent research with Library Special Collections materials.
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Rob Montoya @robdmontoya.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
Early morning rise to depart from NYC. Fabulous time with Grolier Club and book history colleagues.
NYC skyline at sunrise.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
I love this. Everyone in our Methods class is invited to contribute to our collaborative Methods Toolkit. This inspires me to encourage everyone to think about clean-up / tune-up / maintenance, too :)
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Methods Toolkit
🔨📂📎📋 OUR METHODS TOOLKIT Each of you is invited to contribute two short, creative, illustrated entries on methods (broadly conceived) of your choice: one classical / conventional method a...
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James Neal @james3neal.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
"British Library suffering major technology outage after cyber-attack" www.theguardian.com/books/2023/o...
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British Library suffering major technology outage after cyber-attack
Access to the website and services at its sites in London and Yorkshire are unavailable, the library said
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Delphine Demelas @delphinedemelas.bsky.social · 21/10/2023
For the medievalists (and others) interested in medieval art: tinyurl.com/5n6cjf2y #Medievalsky #DH
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Online Workshop: Beginner’s Guide to the Index of Medieval Art Database, 14 November 2023
The Index of Medieval Art will host an online training session on November 14, 2023, to demonstrate advanced usage of their database.
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Rob Montoya @robdmontoya.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
Great opportunity to work with an amazing set of scholars!
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Colleen T @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 20/10/2023
📜 www.nytimes.com/2023/10/18/a...
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British Museum Announces Plan to Stop Thefts
The museum will overhaul its record keeping, but its leaders said that millions of items still would not be individually documented.
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Maura Seale @mauraseale.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
Hey library folks! I'm co-editing a special issue on Libraries and/as Extraction, and the CFP is available. Proposals are due 12/18. Questions? Email the journal email in the CFP or me. cjal.ca/index.php/ca...
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BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 13/10/2023
New from me! First piece in almost a year! time.com/6323387/misi...
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Colleen T @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 13/10/2023
📜 newsroom.loc.gov/news/library...
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Library of Congress Appoints Stephanie Stillo Chief of Rare Book and Special Collections
Library of Congress Appoints Stephanie Stillo Chief of Rare Book and Special Collections The Library of Congress has named Stephanie Stillo as the new chief of the Library’s Rare Book and Special...
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Trans* Book History @transbookhistory.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
I’ve always wanted to print concert posters for trans and queer musicians at Meanwhile…Letterpress. As luck would have it I got to do just that in collaboration with @skeuomorph.bsky.social and the CU Folk and Roots festival for Adeem the Artist and benefitting CU’s LGBT+ Center.
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Jonathan @jsench.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
This is exactly it. The future that the administrative and consultant class wants is research departments where there is money because research products have markets (& IP) & then service departments w non-research (non tenured) faculty to do the teaching of almost everything we thought college was.
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Karl Galle @karlgalle.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
Applications are now open for long-term fellowships at the Newberry Library, deadline November 1st, a range of areas and collection holdings of potential interest to #histsci #medievalsky and #earlymodern historians: www.newberry.org/research/fel...
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Long-Term Fellowships
Researchers with long-term fellowships spend four to nine months immersed in the Newberry collection and in our community of learning.
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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 09/10/2023
It’s far too ingrained to ever change, but I’d argue that "service" is a damaging misnomer in academic jobs—"service" makes it sound like 1/3 of our work is vocational benevolence rather than providing core administrative support without which our institutions—local and beyond—would not function
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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 08/10/2023
Bluesky is offering journalists and newsrooms direct access to this platform. Spread the word. 🗞
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Lady Froldmagen (she/her) @zinelib.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
Some @edrabinski.bsky.social goodness There’s a press response, but then there’s the material response-how are we supporting library workers in Montana & Wyoming & other parts of the country where they have gov'ts that are hostile to their institutions? www.libraryjournal.com/story/lj-tal... 📚
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LJ Talks to ALA President Emily Drabinski
When Emily Drabinski assumed the presidency of the American Library Association (ALA) in June, the field was experiencing an all-time high of challenges—to materials, ideology, and the freedom of pa...
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John Stone @john-stone.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
Book history people! I'm organising an ECR seminar on diasporic networks in the long eighteenth century. We need to recruit 5-6 senior scholars to take part over 5 days, and deliver a lecture. I would like *one* of them to be a #bookhistory scholar active in #18thC research. Who would you invite?
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