Notices by John Overholt (overholt@glammr.us), page 2

A handy way to find your place in a book that’s four texts bound together. https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990028581050203941/catalog

A murder of crows, a murmuration of starlings, an inventory of Gertrudes

OMG, this is the dumbest backronym etymology I’ve ever heard. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bar-acronym-stands-for-beer-and-alcohol-room/

“In a historic milestone for Caltech, the incoming undergraduate class will comprise 50% women. The class of 2028 is the first to reach gender parity since the Institute began admitting female undergraduates in 1970” https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/incoming-class-50-percent-female via @Researchbuzz

Have you tried turning it off and on again?
Have you tried turning it off and on again again?
Have you tried turning it off and on again again again?
...

In the teaching Olympics, you have to take a middle school class here.

I’m doing prep for a big Summer 2026 exhibition on American independence and I was delighted to discover that we’ve got the first newspaper printing of the Declaration to go along with the broadside version.

God Bless America

It is a difficult thing to have devoted your life to a profession whose purpose is helping people find accurate, useful information and contemplate a future where everything is drowned in a tsunami of plausible-sounding robot gibberish.

A top secret D-Day landing map is just one of 25,000 World War II items digitized as part of a new University of Oxford project. https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-06-03-oxford-project-discovers-over-25000-world-war-ii-artefacts-and-makes-them-accessible

Via @Researchbuzz

I love these metatextual type specimens from 1907--the opposite of lorem ipsum. https://uwmspeccoll.tumblr.com/post/749853640601255936/typography-tuesday

I’m in Baltimore for a library event but it happens also to be the Flower Mart street fair and the weather for it is lovely.

The George Peabody Library is magnificent as always.

Am I so out of touch? No, it’s the ethics that are wrong. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/05/did-student-or-chatgpt-write-that-paper-does-it-matter/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Gazette%2020240503%20(1)

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

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

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

The kind of title page that feels like it should be followed with "THREAD (1/?)"

*stares in librarian*

@platypus Once they create the Torment Nexus, there will definitely be a popup asking how likely you are to recommend the Torment Nexus to a friend.