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Curator of Early Books & Manuscripts, Houghton Library, Harvard University. Opinions are my own. He/him/his

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A collection of anti-apartheid boycott posters at the Bodleian Library (CW for violent images). http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/archivesandmanuscripts/2024/04/26/solidarity-through-boycott-the-posters-of-the-anti-apartheid-movement-30-years-on/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=solidarity-through-boycott-the-posters-of-the-anti-apartheid-movement-30-years-on

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Long Telegram is long. George F. Kennan’s 1946 State Department cable from Moscow was the founding treatise of the Cold War. https://specialcollections.princeton.edu/2024/04/how-long-is-the-the-long-telegram/

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A roundup of major new acquisitions at the Huntington, including a collection of 19th century photography from the Philippines. https://huntington.org/verso/library-collectors-council-acquisitions-2024

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Newberry Library receives NEH grant to digitize more than 2,000 rare books and manuscripts documenting languages spoken or formerly spoken by the Indigenous peoples of North and Central America. https://www.newberry.org/news/newberry-receives-neh-grant-to-fund-digitization-of-ayer-north-and-middle-american-linguistics-collection

cc @researchbuzz

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Twentieth Century Boston--the Best City in the United States to Live in, to do Business in and to Visit (1907)

Hi-res and zoomable image: https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/15827433

cc @universalhub

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Very modern energy to this 1609 book. https://archive.org/details/b3032144x/page/n11/mode/2up

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Announcer: “It’s time to play America’s hottest new game, it’s…“

Audience: “Who’s! That! Lexicographer!”

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The internet has decided — again — that Chris Pratt is the worst Chris, after reports that he and his wife, Katherine Schwarzenegger, demolished a 74-year-old house by modernist architect Craig Ellwood in order to build a 15,000-square-foot residence. "They also tore up all of modernist legend Garrett Eckbo's original landscaping, effectively turning the nearly one-acre lot into one flat slab," reports Dwell. Here's the full story, including images of the house. To sprinkle some positivity on your day, we want to know, who is Hollywood's best Chris? Tell us in the comments if you're rejecting these options in favor of Rock, Guest, Walken, or some other Chris.

https://flip.it/1oOd6-

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@CultureDesk Technically he's Baron Haden-Guest but I think of him as Chris.

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Applications are open for the David Ruggles Prize, sponsored by the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America to encourage and support young collectors of color. Grand prize is $1000, applications due June 9th. https://www.abaa.org/Blog/post/david-ruggles-prize

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Some absolutely outstanding demons in this 1820 book of Gothic French tales, https://www.latude.net/loc/en_US/pages/books/17982/collin-de-plancy/demoniana-ou-nouveau-choix-danecdotes-surprenantes-de-nouvelles-prodigieuses-daventures

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Here's today's academic hot take. The way we run conferences is absolutely wild. Can you imagine if a company had 100% employee turnover every year and all they had to rely on was (if you're lucky) some documentation, or having to reach out to the person who previously had your job which you then feel bad about because they don't work there anymore?

Also the fact that anyone thinks professors should be event planners.

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@cfiesler I’ve been in charge of the special collections librarians conference a couple times, and it would have been unthinkable without the support of the ALA staff person who’s done it every year for many years.

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Harvard Yard will be closed all week in anticipation of protests. As I've mentioned before, I get it, but it makes things hard for our external patrons, especially when it's announced at 7pm on a Sunday. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/4/22/harvard-yard-closed-palestine-protests/

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Great, apparently we’re on total lockdown now—a colleague who left for lunch can’t get back into the Yard.

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"Protesters flooded into the Yard from various freshman dorms, cheering and carrying tent equipment. Multiple tents have already been erected on the patch of lawn in front of the John Harvard statue.

The encampment in Harvard Yard comes after similar protests at Columbia University, Yale University, MIT, and more across the country. At Columbia, Yale, and New York University, protesters have been arrested for their participation.

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/4/25/harvard-yard-protest-palestine/

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Wartime censorship leaves a letter home a bit Swiss cheesed. https://uniqueatpenn.wordpress.com/2024/04/17/loose-lips-sink-ships/

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Even the cats on the cat food bags seem like they’re judging you.

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This manuscript is almost a perfect cube. http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990076306820203941/catalog

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A polemic French Protestant novel Les Entretiens des Voyageurs sur Ia Mer (1715) with an illustration of a Jesuit book burning, captioned "Blind fools, do you think you can eradicate truth by burning books?"

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The greatest response letter since "I feel that you should be aware some asshole is signing your name to stupid letters." https://www.404media.co/lol-no-maker-of-fuck-the-lapd-shirt-laughs-at-cops-copyright-threat/ via @jasonkoebler

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A lovely and well-illustrated look inside the book conservation lab at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. (NYT gift link) https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/books/book-conservation-met.html?unlocked_article_code=1.lU0.GaT5.rJbRGiL4-rqL via @libcolleen

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What my book presupposes is, what if it did?

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Video games, LeBron James, tattoos, and copyright law, in one story? The internet is really spoiling us today. @polygon reports on a long-drawn-out case in which tattoo artist Jimmy Hayden is suing Take-Two Interactive Software, makers of the NBA 2K video games, over the use of tattoos he made for LeBron James that were reproduced in games from 2016 to 2020. Hayden's attorney argues that Take-Two "painstakingly copied" the designs. Take-Two's team says that James' tattoos are a very small part of NBA 2K, and that James has licensed his own likeness to Take-Two, so a ruling in favor of Hayden would mean James would have to ask Hayden for permission to license his own being. Here are all the details, plus background on other cases in which tattoo artists have sued video game companies. What do you think?

https://flip.it/1.JDIf

For more stories like this, follow @polygon's Gaming Magazine, @gaming.

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@CultureDesk @dancingtreefrog @dfrancis Not taking a position, but this is in fact a thing in some jurisdictions: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/artists-resale-right

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Today I learned: the Harvard Botany Libraries have digitized a collection of 17 nature-printed books, with plates of plants printed directly from the specimens themselves for greater accuracy and fine detail. https://hollis.harvard.edu/primo-explore/search?query=lsr38,exact,Nature%20Prints%20from%20the%20Botany%20Libraries,AND&tab=books&search_scope=default_scope&vid=HVD2&lang=en_US&mode=advanced&offset=0

Aster corymbosus
Allosorus crispus
Borrago

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I mean, obviously I'm not going to play tennis in an off-the-rack suit--what am I, a farmer? https://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/Lots/auction-lot/DESIGNER-UNKNOWN-HAVE---IT---MADE---TO---MEASURE--INTERNATIO?saleno=2668&lotNo=93&refNo=815966

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New from the Newberry Library, a collection of more than 8000 digitized postcards illustrated by named artists. Perfect for posting to Mastodon--they come with alt text! https://www.newberry.org/news/digitization-complete-for-john-i-monroe-collection-of-artist-signed-postcards

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@mckra1g We have an EGOT--though our Oscar is not nearly as early.

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