Rare Book and Special Collections Digitization Specialist. ✋📸📖📃📜👌✨💻

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I can barely believe it! 🥹 My book is now available for you to read! It’s a mix of research, theory, and very cool ( slightly spooky) objects. 📖 I’m SOOO grateful to @ArcHumanities, @ETreharne, and @Calthalas, among others, and truly can’t *wait* to hear what folks think! ♥️
{New Book} Transmediation and the Archive: Decoding Objects in the Digital Age by Astrid J. Smith arc-humanities.org/978180270…
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Coat of arms box, 1583 It contains the coat of arms of Archduke Ferdinand II, framed by the collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece and flanked by two griffins. (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)
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The 1924 sketchbook of Sonia Delaunay, Ukrainian-born French artist & textile/fashion designer #WomensArt
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Thank you so much to Jen Hoyer of @NewBooksNetwork for our conversation about my recently published book! 📖 Such insightful and fun questions, it was a delight. (See Transmediation and the Archive, late 2024 via @ArcHumanities!)
{New Interview} Jen Hoyer interviewed Astrid Smith on her new book with us Transmediation and the Archive. @NewBooksNetwork @astridjsmith newbooksnetwork.com/transmed…
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Original Kunstkammer cabinets in the Archbishop’s residence in Salzburg, complete with corals, seashells, animals etc #curiosities
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What a brilliant evening at the opening of the @britishlibrary exhibit 'Medieval Women: In Their Own Words' —absolutely unmissable! Honoured to have contributed to the companion book alongside @MedievalFemina. Superb work from @BLMedieval bringing this amazing project to life.
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Books have layers! Book printed in black and white (1484), rubricated, woodcuts coloured and initials flourished by hand, damaged, repaired in handwriting. And still going strong today @ubleiden Dutch translation of the Gesta Romanorum, 21219 B 15: 2.
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Shadows from the Walls of Death (1874) gathers real swaths of poisonous arsenic wallpaper sourced from stores across Michigan. Originally printed in a run of 100 copies, only 6 remain due to recipients fearfully destroying their copies: publicdomainreview.org/colle…
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And thus one of my weirder childhood fantasies has been fulfilled: I am a sorceress, a necromancer. I wrest utterances from the void. I raise the dead. 📜🔬🪄👻😜 #OBNS_MISHA #BookScience #MedievalManuscripts
Replying to @SJLahey
Right now, @uoftlibraries’ homepage features an example of our output (in the banner): onesearch.library.utoronto.c… #OBNS_MISHA #BookScience
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✨ Exciting news! We’ve successfully opened the glazing of the St. John’s fragment, mounted over 20 years ago. Thankfully, it hasn’t adhered to the glass as we feared. Now, it's ready for re-glazing to ensure its continued preservation! 📜 #TheJohnRylands #Conservation #Papyrus
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{New Book} Disrupting Categories, 1050–1250: Rethinking the Humanities through Premodern Texts by Elaine Treharne arc-humanities.org/978180270…
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I’m cooking dinner and watching all the *amazing* talks that make up this event! (Trying not to burn food when getting distracted with inspiration.) Sign up and join in this week. I’m participating in the last session of the workshop, “Hands-on the digital,” too!
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#Reminder The workshop “Middle Ages” will take place next week at #SFB1567. It is organised by Helen Bittner, @ChBunnenberg, @LenaCiochon, Juliet Diekkämper, @suzettevhaaren, Johanne Laubrock und @KOschema For more information ➡️ virtuelle-lebenswelten.de/bl…

#SaveTheDate On October 24, the „Middle Ages“ workshop will be held at #SFB1567. Participants from a variety of professions discuss digital and virtual developments in discourse about the Middle Ages. For more information ➡️virtuelle-lebenswelten.de/bl…
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Usually I like to stay on the other side of the camera but it was great working with @ahrcpress @UKRI_News team talking about projects and work we do @theUL for @CamDigLib. This is always a huge team effort.
Maciej Pawlikowski (@mmpawlikowski) bought a one-way plane ticket to Cambridge to see a friend after university. Now he leads the Digital Content Unit @theUL, making cultural heritage accessible to the public through digitisation work. New #101Jobs ep: youtu.be/cNZiQ8Ec8GI
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Notre renard est formel : l'#automne est arrivé au musée ! 🍁🍂 #LeSaviezVous 3 renards se cachent sur les tapisseries de la #DameALaLicorne ! 🦊 Amusez-vous à les retrouver lors de votre prochaine visite au musée.
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Behold the Equinox! #AutumnEquinox2023 @BLMedieval BL Add 18856; Guyart des Moulins, Bible historiale; c. 1420 CE; France, Central (Paris); f.5v
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