Jolie Braun
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Curator at Ohio State's Rare Books & Manuscripts Library. Thinking about zine history. Book reviews coeditor for SHARP News. ❤️s STL.
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· Sep 18
1990s Zine Distribution and Understanding the Work of Zine Distros through Their Catalogs | The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America: Vol 118, No 3
Abstract During the 1990s zine distros—small-scale, DIY distributors—emerged to become a vital part of zine communities by addressing the lack of established distribution channels, championing the med...
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Really excited to share that I have an article about 1990s zine distribution & learning about zine distros through the catalogs they produced in the new issue of The Papers of the Bibliographic Society of America! You can check it out here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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oh now we are talking about writing salaries? My contribution: No one* has ever made money from it. Don't romanticize the past. There are zillions of examples of destitution in the archives of your faves!
*except a couple, here and there, randomly
*except a couple, here and there, randomly
November 26, 2025 at 12:09 AM
oh now we are talking about writing salaries? My contribution: No one* has ever made money from it. Don't romanticize the past. There are zillions of examples of destitution in the archives of your faves!
*except a couple, here and there, randomly
*except a couple, here and there, randomly
Looking through Edward Hyland Scovill's baby book (SPEC.RARE.MMS.0420) & was struck by the November 19, 1903 entry written by his mother: "Teddy came home from school (Laurel Institute Primary) & said the children all helped to make some corn bread & then they ate it." She includes the recipe.
November 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Looking through Edward Hyland Scovill's baby book (SPEC.RARE.MMS.0420) & was struck by the November 19, 1903 entry written by his mother: "Teddy came home from school (Laurel Institute Primary) & said the children all helped to make some corn bread & then they ate it." She includes the recipe.
If you're interested in writing a book review for SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social, a new batch of available books is now live! docs.google.com/document/d/1.... & if there's something you'd like to review that's not on this list, feel free to contact me.
SHARP News - Books Available for Review
SHARP News Books Available for Review To express interest in writing a review, please read the book review guidelines and contact coeditors Jolie Braun and Madeline Zehnder at [email protected]...
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November 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
If you're interested in writing a book review for SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social, a new batch of available books is now live! docs.google.com/document/d/1.... & if there's something you'd like to review that's not on this list, feel free to contact me.
Exciting new acquisition for RBML's Margaret Armstrong holdings: Western Wild Flowers (1915), which Armstrong researched, wrote, illustrated, & designed the cover. This copy has a bookplate indicating that its owner (Elena R. Goodwin) received the book as a Christmas gift in 1916.
November 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Exciting new acquisition for RBML's Margaret Armstrong holdings: Western Wild Flowers (1915), which Armstrong researched, wrote, illustrated, & designed the cover. This copy has a bookplate indicating that its owner (Elena R. Goodwin) received the book as a Christmas gift in 1916.
Excited for this virtual talk tomorrow afternoon on eighteenth-century print shops in British America:
Join us Thursday afternoon online at 2:00 PM ET for “The Novel and the Blank” a virtual book talk with Matthew P. Brown. Register at americanantiquarian.org/programs-events/novel-and-blank-matthew-p-brown
November 19, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Excited for this virtual talk tomorrow afternoon on eighteenth-century print shops in British America:
New batch of book reviews up at SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social! Topics covered include the early modern European book trade, writing in Hindi, women in publishing, notebooks, Shakespeare folios, & the Yiddish press: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/.
November 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
New batch of book reviews up at SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social! Topics covered include the early modern European book trade, writing in Hindi, women in publishing, notebooks, Shakespeare folios, & the Yiddish press: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/.
Free zine picked up from a Nashville record shop: Jackie Shane, 1940-2019, #4 in the Nashville Queer History mini zine series.
November 16, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Free zine picked up from a Nashville record shop: Jackie Shane, 1940-2019, #4 in the Nashville Queer History mini zine series.
In Nashville & got to take a tour at Hatch Show Print, which has designed & printed letterpress posters for music shows & other events since 1879.
November 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
In Nashville & got to take a tour at Hatch Show Print, which has designed & printed letterpress posters for music shows & other events since 1879.
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📚 Academic Freedom: A Brief History📚
Check out this awesome event featuring Joan Wallach Scott and Alex Gourevitch, organized by AAUP - Brown!
November 17, 7:30pm ET over Zoom
Register via QR code in graphic
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Check out this awesome event featuring Joan Wallach Scott and Alex Gourevitch, organized by AAUP - Brown!
November 17, 7:30pm ET over Zoom
Register via QR code in graphic
@aaupbrownchapter.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 10:04 PM
📚 Academic Freedom: A Brief History📚
Check out this awesome event featuring Joan Wallach Scott and Alex Gourevitch, organized by AAUP - Brown!
November 17, 7:30pm ET over Zoom
Register via QR code in graphic
@aaupbrownchapter.bsky.social
Check out this awesome event featuring Joan Wallach Scott and Alex Gourevitch, organized by AAUP - Brown!
November 17, 7:30pm ET over Zoom
Register via QR code in graphic
@aaupbrownchapter.bsky.social
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Amelia Acker: "Each chapter introduces data archiving processes that relate to the evolution of data sovereignty...: from magnetic tape + timesharing computer models from the 1950s,... to file structures + virtual containers in cloud-based information services over the past 40 yrs" — open access!
Archiving Machines
Archiving Machines advances our understanding of memory, information, and data by charting the struggle between the computing technologies that archive data ...
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November 11, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Amelia Acker: "Each chapter introduces data archiving processes that relate to the evolution of data sovereignty...: from magnetic tape + timesharing computer models from the 1950s,... to file structures + virtual containers in cloud-based information services over the past 40 yrs" — open access!
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Chicago Public Library's budget cuts would mean losing HALF of the materials budget. It would mean losing 90 staff members.
Cop budget's fine, though.
Cop budget's fine, though.
The People Want to Read: on the massive budget cuts proposed for Chicago Public Library. What's at stake and what you can do, whether or not you live in Chicago.
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The People Want To Read: On Massive Budget Cuts Proposed in Chicago
If passed, Chicago Public Library will lose half their budget for acquiring new books and materials.
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November 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Chicago Public Library's budget cuts would mean losing HALF of the materials budget. It would mean losing 90 staff members.
Cop budget's fine, though.
Cop budget's fine, though.
This is such an interesting article on the importance of Stephen Duncombe's Zines: Notes from Underground to zine history & scholarship: f5archive.org/duncombe/.
Today we revisit Stephen Duncombe's landmark book, Zines: Notes from Underground.
November 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This is such an interesting article on the importance of Stephen Duncombe's Zines: Notes from Underground to zine history & scholarship: f5archive.org/duncombe/.
Highlight of this week: a new donation of more than 150 advertising cookbooks, mostly from the early and mid-twentieth century, largely in absolutely amazing condition 😍
November 7, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Highlight of this week: a new donation of more than 150 advertising cookbooks, mostly from the early and mid-twentieth century, largely in absolutely amazing condition 😍
My colleague Madison Good will be giving a virtual talk about artist Margaret Armstrong & the books we have designed by her on Wednesday. Details & registration: library.osu.edu/events/the-b...
November 3, 2025 at 12:25 PM
My colleague Madison Good will be giving a virtual talk about artist Margaret Armstrong & the books we have designed by her on Wednesday. Details & registration: library.osu.edu/events/the-b...
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Here's an important way to make a difference: become a public library board member! Get training and support from Libraries for the People. Library workers--get a friend or community member to sign up. 📚
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FTP Library Elections & Appointments Training Cohort
Hello! You're filling out this form because you've expressed interest in running for or seeking appointment to a local library board seat in your community (or because you're a serving trustee who'd l...
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November 2, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Here's an important way to make a difference: become a public library board member! Get training and support from Libraries for the People. Library workers--get a friend or community member to sign up. 📚
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Beautiful Digital Edition of the Poet’s Pressed Plants & Flowers Is Now Online
Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Beautiful Digital Edition of the Poet’s Pressed Plants & Flowers Is Now Online
So many writers have been gardeners and have written about gardens that it might be easier to make a list of those who didn’t. But even in this crowded company, Emily Dickinson stands out.
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November 1, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Beautiful Digital Edition of the Poet’s Pressed Plants & Flowers Is Now Online
Had the Star Trek original series scripts (SPEC.RARE.CMS.0017) out for a couple events recently & loved learning from a theatre grad student that the different colored pages indicate the additions / changes to a script.
October 31, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Had the Star Trek original series scripts (SPEC.RARE.CMS.0017) out for a couple events recently & loved learning from a theatre grad student that the different colored pages indicate the additions / changes to a script.
Looking through Bela Koe-Krompecher's weekly planners in the Anyway Records collection (SPEC.RARE.0336) & came across this note he made about which zines were featured (Ben Is Dead, Bunnyhop, etc.) in the Columbus stop of the Kill Zinesters tour in July 1996.
October 30, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Looking through Bela Koe-Krompecher's weekly planners in the Anyway Records collection (SPEC.RARE.0336) & came across this note he made about which zines were featured (Ben Is Dead, Bunnyhop, etc.) in the Columbus stop of the Kill Zinesters tour in July 1996.
!!! Interview at: f5archive.org/held/
October 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM
!!! Interview at: f5archive.org/held/
Thrift store find in Athens, Ohio:
October 26, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Thrift store find in Athens, Ohio:
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If your Monday night-in is looking a little dry, listen to me and my fantastic friend and colleague Barrye <3
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The House Archives Built & Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities Virtual Book Launch · Luma
We'll celebrate the release of Dorothy Berry's book "The House Archives Built & Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities" (https://www.weherepress.org/)…
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October 19, 2025 at 8:49 AM
If your Monday night-in is looking a little dry, listen to me and my fantastic friend and colleague Barrye <3
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Interview with John R. Davis about his new book, Keep Your Ear to the Ground: A History of Punk Fanzines in Washington, DC: newbooksnetwork.com/keep-your-ea....
October 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Interview with John R. Davis about his new book, Keep Your Ear to the Ground: A History of Punk Fanzines in Washington, DC: newbooksnetwork.com/keep-your-ea....
Somehow wasn't aware of the amount of college radio material on the Internet Archive until reading this post: blog.archive.org/2025/10/03/h.... Excited to see the related zines, but the flyers & playlists are so fun to look through, too.
Happy College Radio Day! Explore Student Radio’s Past and Present in the DLARC College Radio Collection | Internet Archive Blogs
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October 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Somehow wasn't aware of the amount of college radio material on the Internet Archive until reading this post: blog.archive.org/2025/10/03/h.... Excited to see the related zines, but the flyers & playlists are so fun to look through, too.
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repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself
An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.
October 8, 2025 at 10:44 PM
repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself
If you happen to be in Columbus & would like to see sci-fi fanzines, pulp magazines, UFOlogy reports & publications, Star Trek scripts, etc. later this month! library.osu.edu/events/out-o....
Out of this World? Science Fiction & UFOs in Mid-Twentieth Century America
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October 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
If you happen to be in Columbus & would like to see sci-fi fanzines, pulp magazines, UFOlogy reports & publications, Star Trek scripts, etc. later this month! library.osu.edu/events/out-o....