Michael Weisenburg @weisenburg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026www.instagram.com/irvinrbsc/re...instagram.comIrvin Department of Rare Books on Instagram: "Can’t get enough of @florencepugh in East of Eden? Us too… Come see the first Trade Edition in Rare Books and meet Cathy for yourself!"32 likes, 2 comments - irvinrbsc on October 8, 2026: "Can’t get enough of @florencepugh in East of Eden? Us too… Come see the first Trade Edition in Rare Books and meet Cathy for yourself!". 000
Michael Weisenburg @weisenburg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I realize this is going to age me but my #9games (also surprised that the original star wars atari arcade game wasn't an option) 020
Reposted by Michael WeisenburgJoel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry. 7243894411285
Reposted by Michael WeisenburgFrench New Wave Memes @fnwave.bsky.social · 21/08/2026good morning 6710166
Michael Weisenburg @weisenburg.bsky.social · 19/08/2026"Have you done with my booke, or doe you occupie my booke any longer?" 020
Michael Weisenburg @weisenburg.bsky.social · 10/07/2026New Bookmarks for the Reading Room just arrived 000
Reposted by Michael WeisenburgDr Kate Thagrinus 🏴 @katelaity.eurosky.social · 04/04/2026Sublime meme courtesy of @drtares.bsky.social on the ‘book 0185
Michael Weisenburg @weisenburg.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Case full of horrors for spooky season (Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Vampyre, Wagner the Wehr-Wolf, & The Raven) 160
Reposted by Michael WeisenburgAlice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Just read this - it was shared on LinkedIn. ‘To my users, “we couldn’t generate an answer for your question” translates to “your topic is not worthy of pursuing—change it.”’ While it’s nice to think that students will come & ask when they don’t find results, many won’t. And the blocking of content…acrlog.org“We Couldn’t Generate an Answer for your Question” - ACRLogEditor’s note: We welcome a guest blog post from Jay Singley, Document Delivery and Circulation Desk Manager at North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. In March 2025, Ex Libris unveiled thei... 72826
Reposted by Michael WeisenburgDaniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 25/10/2024This is a dance of the dead movie created out of the dozens of woodcuts from the 1520 Munich print "Der todten dantz mit figuren vnd schrifften" www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/details/b... #bookhistory #earlymodern 214944
Reposted by Michael WeisenburgAdam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 15/06/2025In honour of Joy Division's iconic album Unknown Pleasures being released on this day in 1979, I'm again sharing one of my favourite ever video clips (Peanuts vs Joy Division dance party)... 291595591
Michael Weisenburg @weisenburg.bsky.social · 10/04/2025youtube.com/shorts/wHzcw...youtube.com100 Years of GatsbyYouTube video by University of South Carolina 010
Michael Weisenburg @weisenburg.bsky.social · 02/04/2025youtu.be/OSBbNIDVvl4?...youtu.beThe Great Gatsby Turns 100YouTube video by University of South Carolina 010
Reposted by Michael WeisenburgEmerson Society @emersonsociety.bsky.social · 26/03/2025RWES Online Symposium 4/13 @ 10 AM – Noon (central time) We welcome all to attend an online symposium of graduate student works in progress on the subjects of Emerson and transcendentalism. If you are interested in attending contact Nicholas Guardiano at nguardia@siu.edu for log-in information. 021
Reposted by Michael WeisenburgBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science @thebjps.bsky.social · 11/02/2025New from the BJPS Review of Books: Philosophy, Bullshit, and Peer Review —Neil Levy (@neillevy.bsky.social) Reviewed by Joshua Habgood-Coote (@impractknow.bsky.social) Read it here: www.thebsps.org/reviewofbook... #philsci #philskythebsps.orgNeil Levy, Philosophy, Bullshit, and Peer Review | BJPS Review of BooksJoshua Habgood-Coote reviews Philosophy, Bullshit, and Peer Review, by Neil Levy 1159
Michael Weisenburg @weisenburg.bsky.social · 10/02/2025This one didn't make the cut for the exhibit 000
Michael Weisenburg @weisenburg.bsky.social · 06/02/20251598 Chaucer that's mostly annotated in Boethius 020
Reposted by Michael WeisenburgUniversity of South Carolina Libraries @uofsclibraries.bsky.social · 05/02/2025"And I like large parties. They're so intimate." - The Great Gatsby Thank you to everyone who came out to our Jazz Night Celebrating our Great Gatsby exhibit!! Watching these @uscjazz students perform was truly incredible. It was certainly a night to remember. #thegreatgatsby #jazzmusic #jazznight 041
Michael Weisenburg @weisenburg.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Students getting excited about archives, books, and history www.dailygamecock.com/article/2025...dailygamecock.comStudent Community for Archives, Libraries and Museums connects USC students with local historyThe Student Community for Archives, Libraries and Museums at the University of South Carolina aims to connect students with local history in Columbia and around campus. The club has visited the South ... 020
Reposted by Michael WeisenburgUniversity of South Carolina Libraries @uofsclibraries.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Join us for a night of music as University Libraries collaborates with our colleagues in the Jazz program to celebrate The Great Gatsby! USC Jazz's premiere jazz combo will be performing at the exhibit. Swing by, hear some great music, and see the exhibit for yourself! 032
Reposted by Michael WeisenburgUniversity of South Carolina Libraries @uofsclibraries.bsky.social · 28/01/2025"Gatsby and Daisy danced. I remember being surprised by his conservative foxtrot . . . " - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby 163
Michael Weisenburg @weisenburg.bsky.social · 22/01/2025www.sc.edu/uofsc/posts/...sc.eduHollings Library Exhibit: The Great Gatsby at 100A new exhibit, “‘Something significant, elemental and profound’: Celebrating 100 Years of The Great Gatsby,” opens Jan. 24 at the University of South Carolina’s Hollings Library. Michael Weisenburg, d... 152
Michael Weisenburg @weisenburg.bsky.social · 21/01/2025With just a handful of things we have laying around 010
Reposted by Michael WeisenburgThe Dial @thedial2024.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Another great #mla25 panel including Michael Jonik on Thoreau and Merleau-Ponte; and @weisenburg.bsky.social on Thoreau and trash. Dude littered! 071
Michael Weisenburg @weisenburg.bsky.social · 18/12/2024100 years ago, in December of 1924, Zelda Fitzgerald sat down to write a Christmas card to her "own dearest Mamma." Zelda & Scott spent Christmas 1924 in Rome. She writes, "Wish you could see the steps full of bright priests and all the flower markets . . . " 010
Michael Weisenburg @weisenburg.bsky.social · 02/12/2024For those of you at the University of South Carolina, come help preserve our comic books! 10 am - 4 pm in the Hollings Program Room 010
Reposted by Michael WeisenburgBrian Flota @brianflota.bsky.social · 23/11/2024I reviewed Neale Barnholden’s book From Gum Wrappers to Richie Rich for IJOCA @mrhode.bsky.social @weisenburg.bsky.social ijoca.blogspot.com/2024/11/book...ijoca.blogspot.comBook Review: From Gum Wrappers to Richie Rich: The Materiality of Cheap Comicsreviewed by Brian Flota, Humanities Librarian and Associate Professor, James Madison University Libraries Neale Barnholden. From Gum Wrap... 033
Michael Weisenburg @weisenburg.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Because when I think of the natural history of trees and fruit, the first thing that comes to mind is Hercules. Historiae naturalis de arboribus et fructibus (Frankfurt, 1662) 010
Michael Weisenburg @weisenburg.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Why yes, that is the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Players Handbook on the overhead screen in the background, I was comparing D&D books to our medieval bestiary & Topsell's History of Four-Footed Beasts & the History of Serpents. 021
Reposted by Michael WeisenburgThe Dial @thedial2024.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Introducing The Dial. Many thanks to our roster of contributors to Issue 1: @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social, @jamieljones.bsky.social, @jlb.bsky.social, Kristen Treen, Russ Castronovo, Elise Lemire, Richard B. Primack, Maria Madison, and Abraham J. Miller-Rushing. thedialjournal.orgthedialjournal.orgThe Dial – A Journal of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society 1206
Reposted by Michael WeisenburgEmerson Society @emersonsociety.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Introducing The Dial, a new open access journal. thedialjournal.org Many thanks to our roster of contributors to Issue 1: @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social, Jamie L. Jones, Kristen Treen, John Levi Barnard, Russ Castronovo, Elise Lemire, Richard B. Primack, Maria Madison, and Abraham J. Miller-Rushing.thedialjournal.orgThe Dial – A Journal of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society 032
Michael Weisenburg @weisenburg.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Ever wanted to hear a medieval manuscript? exhibits.library.sc.edu/singing-the-...exhibits.library.sc.eduSinging the Archives – Digital Exhibit 340
Michael Weisenburg @weisenburg.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Who's a good boy? Is Cerberus a good boy? Yes he is. from a copy of P. Virgilii Maronis Opera omnia (Venetiis : Apud Iuntas, 1552) pascal-usc.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01... 010
Michael Weisenburg @weisenburg.bsky.social · 21/10/2024Happy Wonder Woman Day We are thrilled to announce the new addition of scripts for the 1970s "Wonder Woman" TV series to our University of South Carolina Rare Books and Special Collections holdings. www.sc.edu/about/office...sc.eduFrom the Small Screen to Student's Hands:University Libraries has acquired the original scripts and treatments from the 1970s hit television show 010
Reposted by Michael WeisenburgThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 07/10/2024Column by Andrew Van Dam: After digging ourselves out from under an avalanche of your queries about libraries, we gathered detailed data on the size of their collections, their budgets and the populations they serve.washingtonpost.comColumn | Who uses public libraries the most? There’s a divide by religion, and politics.After digging ourselves out from under an avalanche of your queries about libraries, we gathered detailed data on the size of their collections, their budgets and the populations they serve. 24411
Michael Weisenburg @weisenburg.bsky.social · 24/09/2024Happy Birthday to F. Scott Fitzgerald who was born on September 24, 1896, at 3:30 pm. He recorded the information in his ledger book. You can see the page and read through other entries in Fitzgerald’s ledger over at our Digital Collections: digital.tcl.sc.edu/digital/coll... 043
Michael Weisenburg @weisenburg.bsky.social · 23/08/2024www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZeL...youtube.comSylvia Plath & This Heat - SecretYouTube video by netakiri nekotaro 010
Michael Weisenburg @weisenburg.bsky.social · 23/08/2024Seriously, there's an entire channel of these: www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9Pj...youtube.comSylvia Plath + The Faction - The Disquieting MusesYouTube video by netakiri nekotaro 010
Michael Weisenburg @weisenburg.bsky.social · 23/08/2024How did I not already know about this and why has everyone been hiding it from me‽ www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6Am...youtube.comSylvia Plath & Joy Division - The ApplicantYouTube video by netakiri nekotaro 000
Michael Weisenburg @weisenburg.bsky.social · 19/08/2024buttondown.com/ninelives/ar...buttondown.comThe Coming Enshittification of Public LibrariesGlobal investment vampires have positioned themselves to suck our libraries dry 000
Michael Weisenburg @weisenburg.bsky.social · 23/04/2024www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...washingtonpost.comOpinion | How to fix college finances? Eliminate faculty, then students.Two existential threats to colleges and universities, one solution. 000
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