My article “On the History of the Princeton University Library Collection of Islamic Manuscripts” is out in the latest volume of The Journal of Islamic Manuscripts. The abstract is below. If you don’t have institutional access, contact me. brill.com/view/journals/jim/…
Graphic Arts Librarian Position in Special Collections at Princeton. Please share widely. It’s a great job for the right person. puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHir…
Victoria Van Hyning talks about her extraordinary work: ow.ly/vR8u50EphFB. She is on a panel with Ryan Cordell Friday 10am talking about Crowdsourced humanities data: genizalab.princeton.edu/crow…
Ryan Cordell sums up the Viral Texts Project in Two Minutes, ow.ly/UVHp50EphtO and is on a Panel discussion Friday, 10am New York Time to discuss his Data: genizalab.princeton.edu/crow…
Our archivists helped 14 women secure a place in history, identifying them in our Latin America manuscripts collections. Among them is María del Rosario Páez de Llamosas, daughter of former Venezuelan president José Antonio Páez. library.princeton.edu/news/g…#WomensHistoryMonth
ALT Dominga Ortiz Orzúa (1792-1875), wife of Venezuelan President José Antonio Páez and mother of María del Rosario Páez de Llamosas.
Our new Finding Aids site is live! Peruse our archives like never before with updated search features, accessibility improvements, new request functionality, and more. Start browsing the archives at: findingaids.princeton.edu/
ALT Photo by Shelley Szwast, Princeton University Library (2017)
I am so looking forward to @PULibrary Gillett G. Griffin Memorial Lecture today at noon: Raina Lampkins-Fielder, Souls Grown Deep Foundation. libcal.princeton.edu/event/7…
It's common for professors not to credit librarians, archivist, and curators. Fine (not fine). But when those people don't credit the imaging scientists and processors who gavw them their exhibit's pretty pictures... extra ouch.
#PrincetonU and @PULibrary is hiring a Librarian for Modern and Contemporary Special Collections!
Circulate, apply -- work with the Sylvia Beach Papers and so much more.
This is an exciting post in Princeton Special Collections for someone who really wants to make a difference. That means YOU!
Please apply. puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHir…
This is an exciting post in Princeton Special Collections for someone who really wants to make a difference. That means YOU!
Please apply. puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHir…
Our 2nd Project Report is now available on the DS website: digital-scriptorium.org/ds-2… Read up on what we've been working on the past few months: a new data model, environmental scan, and more...
The @GrolierClub's exhibition of magazines is something to behold; I don't think I've clicked on so many hyperlinks. Periodicals by Lowell factory girls and former hobos. Black one-offs FIRE!! and THE HARLEMITE. Hemingway's high school literary magazine. nytimes.com/2021/02/18/arts/…