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John Overholt (overholt@glammr.us)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 04:59:42 JST John Overholt
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John Overholt (overholt@glammr.us)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 18:20:57 JST John Overholt
Some historical perspective. https://xkcd.com/2889/
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John Overholt (overholt@glammr.us)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jan-2024 22:17:50 JST John Overholt
Periodically, one preservation librarian at the Library of Congress gets a box full of Humpty Dumptys to put back together again. https://blogs.loc.gov/preservation/2024/01/preservation-fragments/
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John Overholt (overholt@glammr.us)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 18:41:42 JST John Overholt
@forteller @clive @gaysteve I think you could understand it as something like “dedicated to all those who defend and promote sexual vigor”. Folger Shakespeare Library has a high-res download available, although their title page is trimmed a little wonky. https://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/detail/FOLGERCM1~6~6~60824~104608:The-women-s-petition-against-coffee#
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John Overholt (overholt@glammr.us)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 07:13:32 JST John Overholt
@clive @gaysteve “Never did Men wear greater breeches, or carry less in them of any Mettle whatsoever.”
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John Overholt (overholt@glammr.us)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 05:48:14 JST John Overholt
This was pricey but we have such a good Defoe collection I was surprised we didn't have it. His argument that sex for pleasure without the possibility of conception was fornication probably didn't make him a lot of friends but what was really shocking was the title, which was swiftly canceled and reissued as "A Treatise Concerning the Use and Abuse of the Marriage Bed," making the original title page a considerable rarity.
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John Overholt (overholt@glammr.us)'s status on Friday, 19-Jan-2024 03:26:03 JST John Overholt
Included with a book I just ordered for Houghton . I appreciate the thought but I’m pretty sure we’ve got this covered.
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John Overholt (overholt@glammr.us)'s status on Friday, 12-Jan-2024 04:15:13 JST John Overholt
History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes. https://live.swanngalleries.com/lots/view/4-CEU2UD/designer-unknown-all-out-for-defense-of-democracy-informed-opinion-counts
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John Overholt (overholt@glammr.us)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 03:59:17 JST John Overholt
When you’ve already printed page 53 but you’ve still got some text left over from page 52.
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John Overholt (overholt@glammr.us)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 08:39:48 JST John Overholt
Shelfreading update: over the last three days, we looked at 5000 titles and identified 300 call numbers that weren’t in HOLLIS, our online catalog. With the caveats that not all of those will turn out to be completely uncataloged, and that we intentionally started with the area we thought would have the highest rate of problems, that’s potentially a major gain in research potential for the collection in our first attempt.
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John Overholt (overholt@glammr.us)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 08:39:47 JST John Overholt
The highlight of my shift this afternoon was finding a book given to Harvard to rebuild after a 1764 fire that wiped out the library by one of our most important benefactors, the English barrister Thomas Hollis… that wasn’t listed in HOLLIS, his namesake catalog.
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John Overholt (overholt@glammr.us)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 12:23:55 JST John Overholt
I’m all in on Mastodon. If we can’t make a go of this then I’m going to learn to live without social media.
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John Overholt (overholt@glammr.us)'s status on Friday, 15-Dec-2023 10:41:36 JST John Overholt
LeVar Burton Says Read Banned Books https://store.moveon.org/products/levar-burton-banned-books-t-shirt
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John Overholt (overholt@glammr.us)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 05:34:54 JST John Overholt
Dear Giuliette,
Paris is great, it has so many art galleries—here, let me show you.
Alfred
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John Overholt (overholt@glammr.us)'s status on Friday, 08-Dec-2023 03:20:57 JST John Overholt
I just spoke with a woman who years ago made a special appointment for me to show her daughter some things from the collection she was very interested in (back when we had a minimum age requirement of 18 in the reading room). Said daughter is now applying to colleges and cites that in her essay as a formative experience in wanting to study history. If you need me for the rest of the day, I will be on Cloud 9.
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John Overholt (overholt@glammr.us)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Dec-2023 19:56:09 JST John Overholt
A Harvard Professor Prepares to Teach a New Subject: Taylor Swift. Nearly 300 Harvard students have signed up for a new English class, “Taylor Swift and Her World.” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/style/taylor-swift-harvard-course.html?unlocked_article_code=1.DU0.iePS.NU-wQa5PQ5aO&hpgrp=c-abar&smid=url-share
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John Overholt (overholt@glammr.us)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Dec-2023 17:56:02 JST John Overholt
23andMe was hacked, so if your information was compromised, make sure to change your genetic code ASAP. https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/4/23988050/23andme-hackers-accessed-user-data-confirmed
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John Overholt (overholt@glammr.us)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 01:59:31 JST John Overholt
@wynkenhimself Hiding in the basement is much nicer since we finished our basement renovation!
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John Overholt (overholt@glammr.us)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Oct-2023 00:06:46 JST John Overholt
Hey kids, do you want to see something really scary? It's "Weird and Terrible Things in Mylar Sleeves"! #archives
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John Overholt (overholt@glammr.us)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 22:52:46 JST John Overholt
Conservators at the Library of Congress had to evict an unauthorized 8-legged tenant from an architectural model designed by Paul Rudolph. https://blogs.loc.gov/preservation/2023/10/itsy-bitsy-spider/
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