- If you need a few minutes' daily respite from < all this > I heartily recommend Sandi Toksvig's "Vox Tox" YouTube channel. She's doing a short segment each day from home, usually featuring some interesting bits she's found amongst her books. They are pure delight. I've also been enjoying my school-librarian aunt's readings of childrens' books, and Mary Chapin Carpenter singing songs from her kitchen (both on Facebook). And if ghost stories are your jam, Robert Lloyd Parry has been posting videos of his readings on the Nunkie Films YouTube channel.
- Today is Audubon's birthday, and over on the Library of Congress blog, Ashley Cuffia has some suggestions for "Celebrating John James Audubon with Citizen Science."
- Harvard invites crowdsourced transcription help for the recently-digitized Colonial North America collection. Get started here.
- Lisa Fagin Davis' webinar "Fragments and Fragmentology in the Twenty-First Century" is now available on YouTube.
- Also newly available on YouTube, the 9 March "Feminist Bibliographies" event at UCLA.
- Penn Today highlighted the "American Contact" conference, held virtually this week with pre-circulated video papers and then Zoom discussion sessions. The papers were excellent, and though I didn't get to join as many discussion sessions as I would have liked, those I did see were also great.
- David Pearson guest-posts on the Middle Temple Libraries "Provenance Mysteries" blog about frustrations in provenance research.
- Over on Notabilia, Eric White on some new finds among the Princeton binding fragments.
- From the Princeton Graphic Arts collection blog, "Lord Temple and His Stolen Stationery."
- Scott Ellwood writes for the Grolier Club blog about eighteenth-century Yorkshire bookseller Isabella "Tibby" Tinkler."
- The Bodleian blog highlights a new catalogue of the papers of post Edward Blunden.
- From Erin Blake at The Collation, "The 'Greco Deco' Folger Shakespeare Library."
- Devin Fitzgerald is in the "Bright Young Librarians" spotlight over on the Fine Books Blog.
- More on the continuing Dirk Obbink fallout over on the ARCA blog.
- From the Cambridge University Libraries Special Collections blog, Sally Kent on "An Earthen Pot of Bones: True Crime in Sutton."
- On the BL's Untold Lives blog, "Solving a Provenance Puzzle: Papers of Henry and Robert Dundas, Viscounts Melville."
- Over on CNN, "Solving the 1,000-year-old mystery of rare blue medieval paint." And here's the Science Advances article.
- The Book Collector has launched a podcast, featuring articles from the journal's archive.
- From Sarah Werner, "Picture Books." I love the subhead: "Pictures. That's it. Just pictures of things so you can rest your brain."
Upcoming Auctions (online)
- From the Curious to the Extraordinary at Chiswick Auctions on 28 April.
- Modern Literature, Childrens', Private Press and Original Illustrations at Forum Auctions on 29 April.
- Literature, Americana, History, Collectible Books at PBA Galleries (timed sale, no reserves) starts ending at 11 a.m. PDT on 30 April.
