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Lazy Like a Fox
Here's an item that's probably best described as a "multimedia" production:read more
View ArticleFulbright, brighter, brightest
(See the original post and stay up to date with Special Collections at the Notes for Bibliophiles blog.)We were very lucky to get a visit last Friday from some exceptional students. They're part of the...
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Arctic Stories
The latest Occasional Nugget was recently mailed to subscribers:(Subscriptions start at $15 / year, and you can even subscribe online, so there's no excuse not to. Find out more here.)read more
View ArticleDigitization Challenges
If you think digitization is an easy process, check out the latest post at Brown University's Curio blog, which discusses the procedure they undertook to digitize our very unusual medieval hieroglyphic...
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Historic Book Person of the Week #21: John Boydell & John Boydell
There are good-engraving days... And then there are the bad-engraving days...read more
View ArticlePMM @ 50
Fifty years ago in London the International Printing Machinery and Allied Trades Exhibition included an ambitious exhibition on the influence that the invention of the printing press had on the 500...
View ArticleJohn's Book
It's a little late for the July 4th celebrations, but here are a few images from an item in our World War II propaganda collection. This is a coloring book produced for children and including its own...
View ArticleHistoric Book Person of the Week #22-262: Everybody Else
For over a year now, we've been offering a regular series of portraits of members of the book trade. Today's post is a little different, because now we're giving you access to hundreds of images of...
View ArticleHistory Has a Scent
Working in a special collections library I've often thought to myself, "If I just took a random book off the shelf, I'm sure it would be fascinating somehow." Here's a quick post to demonstrate that....
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Cutting up Documents for Fun and Profit
If anyone makes a special collections horror movie, this would undoubtedly be one of the scariest villains: read more
View ArticleFree Printing Press! (Some manufacture and assembly required)
Have you ever found yourself wishing for a printing press built to authentic nineteenth-century standards? Of course you have. And fortunately T.C. Hansard has anatomized the press and provided a...
View ArticlePlanning Your February Calendar
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View ArticleBodoni One More Time
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