Posts by overholt@glammr.us
(DIR) Post #B4M9nFvBj6YcEqLqBk by overholt@glammr.us
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Harvard's Schlesinger Library acquires the papers of groundbreaking Black feminist Barbara Smith: https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news-and-ideas/schlesinger-library-acquires-the-papers-of-groundbreaking-black-feminist-barbara-smith
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IM ON A BOAT
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Your password must contain at least one character flaw that you have long recognized within yourself, but that you would never admit to anyone--not your therapist, your spouse, nor your most trusted friend. It is the dark secret shame that you must bear alone.
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The John Overholt guarantee: I will always amplify any blogpost about not wearing white gloves in special collections. https://universityofglasgowlibrary.wordpress.com/2026/04/09/archives-special-collections-wearing-gloves-while-handling-objects/
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It is remarkable to see something like this explained as though it was the technique for casting bronze in Ancient Greece. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/business/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto-identity-adam-back.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ZlA.OETP.MPLF9R5oa0F1&smid=url-share
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The Lilly Library’s collection of physical puzzles includes a variety of puzzle vessels that have to be mastered if you want to end up with wine in your mouth instead of your lap. https://blogs.libraries.indiana.edu/lilly/2026/04/13/mechanical-puzzle-category-spotlight-7-puzzle-vessels/
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Just ordered this "Oops, forgot to re-ink the type" for our collection of printing accidents and errors. #NewAcquisition
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116450368199169628Mastodon will continue to let the users curate their timelines.RT: https://mastodon.social/users/verge/statuses/116450368199169628
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Our social media coordinator asked me for a childhood photo for a feature on Instagram and luckily I had the perfect one. https://www.instagram.com/p/DXe0eewk41I/?img_index=1
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This really would have spiced up my upcoming mini-exhibition on the Constitution, but it's a bit out of my price range. https://www.jamescumminsbookseller.com/pages/books/376957/united-states/we-the-people-of-the-states-of-new-hampshire-massachusetts-rhode-island-and-providence
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A cool piece of library history for sale: a book whose binding identifies it as coming from the first lending library in America. https://www.kibbeyrarebooks.com/product-page/belonging-to-ye-publick-library-of-new-york
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History in Your Hands: an introduction to archives in six panels. https://uniqueatpenn.wordpress.com/2026/05/13/archives-history-in-your-hands-an-illustrated-pamphlet/
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Goddammit, Bill. https://www.swanngalleries.com/auction-lot/pablo-picasso.-six-signed-proofs-of-original-etch_3594A4CABC
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Knolling your ostraca and other satisfying rehousings. https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=31641
(DIR) Post #B6tfVu7PiQS1PQIZgO by overholt@glammr.us
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Harvard Library has lots of subscription materials you have to have affiliation to view, but our online catalog has always been freely available for anyone to look at. We just been notified that because it's getting hammered by bots and scrapers, starting next week non-signed-in users will only be able to see the first 250 results from a search. It's a pretty marginal restriction, but I hate that we've had to move in the direction of making the catalog less open to keep it functional.
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It's very foolish of me to be looking at things for an exhibition that locked its item list six months ago and has been open for several weeks now, and going "I wish I'd known about that!" but it's so rare to find newspapers of the period that have anything resembling a banner headline. https://historical.ha.com/itm/military-and-patriotic/revolutionary-war/exceptionally-rare-announcement-of-cornwallis-surrender-in-the-freeman-s-journal-or-the-north-american-intelligencer/a/6331-42019.s?ic5=CatalogHome-MostPopular-Thumbnail-112917
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By contrast, here's the same newspaper announcing the Constitution, also a pretty big news event.
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“Sometimes the only thing that can be done is to freeze a film in the hopes that a scientific solution to the problem will emerge… When we froze her films at least 15 years ago, they were literally fused together in an unfortunate form known by lab people and archivists as ‘a hockey puck’”. https://uniqueatpenn.wordpress.com/2026/06/11/film-conservation-work-reveals-cairo-streets-circa-1932/
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Anthropeum is a game where you attempt to guess the place and time of production of 10 random items from the Met. It’s a fun challenge and a great use of open collections. This was kind of a gimme, though, it’s obviously the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch. https://anthropeum.com
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A new bit of weasel-wording to watch out for: an Odyssey audiobook not read by, but “in the voice of” Michael Caine. https://www.avclub.com/the-odyssey-ai-audiobook