Suzanne Karr Schmidt
@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social
Curator of (very old) curious books, prints on fabric, functional ephemera (newberry.org), Director of a pop-up book society (movablebooksociety.org). History of art, science, decorative food, pirates. Where's your WHIMSY? Mostly Chicago. She/her
Pinned
Combatting The Horrors?
I highly recommend reading Rebecca Romney's Jane Austen's Bookshelf, realizing to your chagrin you haven't read much of anything by the women Jane herself read, and then "accidentally" ordering a four-volume set of Ann Radcliffe's Mysteries of Rudolpho to your office desk!
I highly recommend reading Rebecca Romney's Jane Austen's Bookshelf, realizing to your chagrin you haven't read much of anything by the women Jane herself read, and then "accidentally" ordering a four-volume set of Ann Radcliffe's Mysteries of Rudolpho to your office desk!
January 20, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Combatting The Horrors?
I highly recommend reading Rebecca Romney's Jane Austen's Bookshelf, realizing to your chagrin you haven't read much of anything by the women Jane herself read, and then "accidentally" ordering a four-volume set of Ann Radcliffe's Mysteries of Rudolpho to your office desk!
I highly recommend reading Rebecca Romney's Jane Austen's Bookshelf, realizing to your chagrin you haven't read much of anything by the women Jane herself read, and then "accidentally" ordering a four-volume set of Ann Radcliffe's Mysteries of Rudolpho to your office desk!
Boots Aren't Made for Walking
Still wish I had THESE in my closet for that fancypants dinner on Thursday...
#NewberryLibrary (VAULT Case MS Y 952 .S3575)
Still wish I had THESE in my closet for that fancypants dinner on Thursday...
#NewberryLibrary (VAULT Case MS Y 952 .S3575)
January 20, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Boots Aren't Made for Walking
Still wish I had THESE in my closet for that fancypants dinner on Thursday...
#NewberryLibrary (VAULT Case MS Y 952 .S3575)
Still wish I had THESE in my closet for that fancypants dinner on Thursday...
#NewberryLibrary (VAULT Case MS Y 952 .S3575)
Can confirm. Same goes for
Rare Book Libraries!
Rare Book Libraries!
museums are cool because the people who work there are like look at this neat thing and you're like wow that is neat and you just do it over and over again until it is time to go
January 20, 2026 at 3:31 AM
Can confirm. Same goes for
Rare Book Libraries!
Rare Book Libraries!
Horny Soit Qui Mal-Y-Pense?
January 19, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Horny Soit Qui Mal-Y-Pense?
An excellent exhibit display and a reminder to make sure your library has a copy of The Pocket: A Hidden History of Women's Lives! Fashion history! Organization history! CRIMES! This book is FULL OF POCKETS.
January 18, 2026 at 5:11 PM
[Curator Screaming]
I made Gwen rewind The Mummy because I felt sure that I or someone on here would need this for a meme
January 18, 2026 at 5:33 AM
[Curator Screaming]
Teddy Roosevelt will return in Avengers Doomsday
January 17, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Teddy Roosevelt will return in Avengers Doomsday
Missed this brilliance in the century that has been the past few months:
Hi, It's Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-...
Hi, It's Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-...
Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology
Our 9th most-read article of 2025.
- - -“Wikipedia, the constantly changing knowledge base created by a global free-for-all of anonymous users, no...
www.mcsweeneys.net
January 17, 2026 at 3:58 AM
Missed this brilliance in the century that has been the past few months:
Hi, It's Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-...
Hi, It's Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-...
Book Guts!
Lately I've been looking through our WAMS (tm), aka Weird-Ass Manuscripts. And with the binding waste, repurposed cover (who DOES horizontal roller stamping anyway?) and doodles, this one on the sacraments could definitely use some deeper cataloging!
#newberrylibrary (Case MS C 82 .886)
Lately I've been looking through our WAMS (tm), aka Weird-Ass Manuscripts. And with the binding waste, repurposed cover (who DOES horizontal roller stamping anyway?) and doodles, this one on the sacraments could definitely use some deeper cataloging!
#newberrylibrary (Case MS C 82 .886)
January 16, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Book Guts!
Lately I've been looking through our WAMS (tm), aka Weird-Ass Manuscripts. And with the binding waste, repurposed cover (who DOES horizontal roller stamping anyway?) and doodles, this one on the sacraments could definitely use some deeper cataloging!
#newberrylibrary (Case MS C 82 .886)
Lately I've been looking through our WAMS (tm), aka Weird-Ass Manuscripts. And with the binding waste, repurposed cover (who DOES horizontal roller stamping anyway?) and doodles, this one on the sacraments could definitely use some deeper cataloging!
#newberrylibrary (Case MS C 82 .886)
True story
This is giving me a much needed endorphin rush youtu.be/I5XR48KLE8I?...
GWAR cover “Pink Pony Club” by Chappell Roan
YouTube video by The A.V. Club
youtu.be
January 16, 2026 at 12:04 AM
True story
Knitting Nurses!
Prompted by @sarahebull.bsky.social yesterday I poked around #NewberryLibrary for 20th c. knitting patterns. These WWII Red Cross directions for a MAN'S SOCK from May 1942 looks to have been used by nurses or housewives to create at least 13 pairs for the war effort! #FiberArts
Prompted by @sarahebull.bsky.social yesterday I poked around #NewberryLibrary for 20th c. knitting patterns. These WWII Red Cross directions for a MAN'S SOCK from May 1942 looks to have been used by nurses or housewives to create at least 13 pairs for the war effort! #FiberArts
January 15, 2026 at 1:43 PM
Knitting Nurses!
Prompted by @sarahebull.bsky.social yesterday I poked around #NewberryLibrary for 20th c. knitting patterns. These WWII Red Cross directions for a MAN'S SOCK from May 1942 looks to have been used by nurses or housewives to create at least 13 pairs for the war effort! #FiberArts
Prompted by @sarahebull.bsky.social yesterday I poked around #NewberryLibrary for 20th c. knitting patterns. These WWII Red Cross directions for a MAN'S SOCK from May 1942 looks to have been used by nurses or housewives to create at least 13 pairs for the war effort! #FiberArts
Some very good news
Epstein-Barr Virus #EBV was linked to #MultipleSclerosis - now a plausible cause has been found, misidentification by longterm memory T-cells that pick on the wrong protein, ANO2, instead of the EBV-antigen. Massive inflection towards the elimination of MS!!!
🧪🧠Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
🧪🧠Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Anoctamin-2-specific T cells link Epstein-Barr virus to multiple sclerosis
Researchers identified anoctamin-2 (ANO2) as a frequent autoimmune target in multiple
sclerosis, with T cell responses against ANO2 occurring in over half of patients.
These ANO2-specific T cells shar...
www.cell.com
January 15, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Some very good news
Sometime a cigar is just a cigar
January 15, 2026 at 12:51 AM
Sometime a cigar is just a cigar
Those Organized Gangs of Wine Moms are EVERYWHERE!
#NewberryLibrary (Case MS W 1025 .709) #SheIsGrace
#NewberryLibrary (Case MS W 1025 .709) #SheIsGrace
January 14, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Those Organized Gangs of Wine Moms are EVERYWHERE!
#NewberryLibrary (Case MS W 1025 .709) #SheIsGrace
#NewberryLibrary (Case MS W 1025 .709) #SheIsGrace
No edible Virgin Marys, but I'm definitely getting peckish!
www.germanatheart.com/german-bakin...
www.germanatheart.com/german-bakin...
German Baking Traditions: Edible Prints
A personal essay on German baking traditions and the Springerle, from Stephanie Leitch, Professor of Early Modern Art History at Florida State University.
www.germanatheart.com
January 13, 2026 at 2:58 PM
No edible Virgin Marys, but I'm definitely getting peckish!
www.germanatheart.com/german-bakin...
www.germanatheart.com/german-bakin...
Gone GOAT?
I know fame is fleeting, but this is ridiculous! When the victory column for one William Russell is joined by another one a page later, the jaunty beast on top has disappeared! #NewberryLibrary (Case MS Y 762 .M465) What's the story here?
I know fame is fleeting, but this is ridiculous! When the victory column for one William Russell is joined by another one a page later, the jaunty beast on top has disappeared! #NewberryLibrary (Case MS Y 762 .M465) What's the story here?
January 13, 2026 at 1:37 PM
Gone GOAT?
I know fame is fleeting, but this is ridiculous! When the victory column for one William Russell is joined by another one a page later, the jaunty beast on top has disappeared! #NewberryLibrary (Case MS Y 762 .M465) What's the story here?
I know fame is fleeting, but this is ridiculous! When the victory column for one William Russell is joined by another one a page later, the jaunty beast on top has disappeared! #NewberryLibrary (Case MS Y 762 .M465) What's the story here?
Shall I Compare Thee to an ABC?
I've never seen poetry indexed and tabbed quite so thoroughly as in this 18th c. Italian collection of various sonnets at #NewberryLibrary! (Case MS 3A 22)
So, did the owner(s) complete the set?
🧵
I've never seen poetry indexed and tabbed quite so thoroughly as in this 18th c. Italian collection of various sonnets at #NewberryLibrary! (Case MS 3A 22)
So, did the owner(s) complete the set?
🧵
January 12, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Shall I Compare Thee to an ABC?
I've never seen poetry indexed and tabbed quite so thoroughly as in this 18th c. Italian collection of various sonnets at #NewberryLibrary! (Case MS 3A 22)
So, did the owner(s) complete the set?
🧵
I've never seen poetry indexed and tabbed quite so thoroughly as in this 18th c. Italian collection of various sonnets at #NewberryLibrary! (Case MS 3A 22)
So, did the owner(s) complete the set?
🧵
Emergency Endpapers!
Moldy edition? 🤨
Moldy edition? 🤨
January 11, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Emergency Endpapers!
Moldy edition? 🤨
Moldy edition? 🤨
Slightly diminish a game
Pokemon Stay
Pokemon Stay
Slightly diminish a game
Duopoly
Duopoly
Slightly diminish a game
Considerable Annihilation
Considerable Annihilation
January 11, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Slightly diminish a game
Pokemon Stay
Pokemon Stay
Reposted by Suzanne Karr Schmidt
so between "if you work for the feds on immigration, seek counsel for the sake of your immortal soul" from the bishop of dallas and now "clergy, update your wills then hit the streets" from the bishop of new hampshire, I feel that a shift has begun in 2026 in the rhetoric from episcopal leadership
January 10, 2026 at 10:40 PM
so between "if you work for the feds on immigration, seek counsel for the sake of your immortal soul" from the bishop of dallas and now "clergy, update your wills then hit the streets" from the bishop of new hampshire, I feel that a shift has begun in 2026 in the rhetoric from episcopal leadership
January 9, 2026 at 3:42 PM
New "Book of Magical Charms" just dropped!
January 8, 2026 at 2:40 PM
New "Book of Magical Charms" just dropped!
Wouldn't we rather be running a tour of European libraries?!
January 7, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Wouldn't we rather be running a tour of European libraries?!
Reposted by Suzanne Karr Schmidt
ICYMI, what were the top 5 most requested items in the Newberry's collection in 2025? The Popol Vuh, the creation account of the Mayan people, is a mainstay of the most-requested items list. Read on to learn if it is still the No. 1 most-requested item. #chicago
www.newberry.org/blog/the-5-m...
www.newberry.org/blog/the-5-m...
The Five Most-Requested Collection Items of 2025
Learn more about the materials Newberry readers wanted to see most in 2025.
www.newberry.org
January 7, 2026 at 2:44 PM
ICYMI, what were the top 5 most requested items in the Newberry's collection in 2025? The Popol Vuh, the creation account of the Mayan people, is a mainstay of the most-requested items list. Read on to learn if it is still the No. 1 most-requested item. #chicago
www.newberry.org/blog/the-5-m...
www.newberry.org/blog/the-5-m...
In the Epiphany of our Discontent...
I give you the most epic 12 days of Christmas ever committed to paper... And if anyone knows who wrote it (presumably back in 1974), please tell me! My dad enjoyed it in the form of a basic computer program in the 1980s; this copy's chez Newberry! (MS Hindman) 🧵
I give you the most epic 12 days of Christmas ever committed to paper... And if anyone knows who wrote it (presumably back in 1974), please tell me! My dad enjoyed it in the form of a basic computer program in the 1980s; this copy's chez Newberry! (MS Hindman) 🧵
January 6, 2026 at 2:28 PM
In the Epiphany of our Discontent...
I give you the most epic 12 days of Christmas ever committed to paper... And if anyone knows who wrote it (presumably back in 1974), please tell me! My dad enjoyed it in the form of a basic computer program in the 1980s; this copy's chez Newberry! (MS Hindman) 🧵
I give you the most epic 12 days of Christmas ever committed to paper... And if anyone knows who wrote it (presumably back in 1974), please tell me! My dad enjoyed it in the form of a basic computer program in the 1980s; this copy's chez Newberry! (MS Hindman) 🧵