Annie the Book
anniethebook.bsky.social
Annie the Book
@anniethebook.bsky.social
Academic librarian, velocireader, cat parent.
Wait, what? Doing research on various models of embedded librarianship and came across an unusual bit of vocabulary.

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November 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Today's highlights: talking a student into checking out a stack of books and winning a debate with a colleague about whether or not Gene Hackman is in Young Frankenstein. (He is.)

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November 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The library skeletons have been decorated.

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October 31, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Meanwhile, someone is spoiling Bleak House up in here.

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October 17, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Got to share my favorite footnote with a colleague. Source: www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
October 15, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Lots of censorship news in this week's round-up of bookish news and essays, but also: a medieval bestiary, a reread of a classic scary novel, a sixteenth-century cookbook by a German woman, and "the Pushkin job."

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October 12, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Last week on the bookish internet: witches!, Pat Oliphant, an archive of vintage cookbooks, and censors

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September 8, 2025 at 3:09 AM
August 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
There were paper cranes scattered around the library yesterday.
August 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I freaking love Dorothy Parker. (Screenshot from a review of new books about James VI/I in the TLS)
August 14, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I have heard of some less than practical organization schemes for books but this one is absolutely bonkers. (From the TLS review of Chasing the Pearl-Manuscript)

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August 13, 2025 at 7:46 PM
August 8, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Reporting that gravity is still working.
July 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
WTF is going on with these subject tags? Is this why EBSCO EDS's retrieval/relevance is so awful lately?

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July 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Our new library swag is a friendly little book!
May 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Bombs! Love! Uncertainty! My review of Lucy Caldwell's novel, These Days, is up at www.abookishtype.com/2025/02/25/t...

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February 26, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Proud of our students.
February 25, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Brave is doing a good job delivering info I can use:
February 14, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Y'all, I think this romantasy thing is getting out of hand.
February 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
What even is the news anymore?
February 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
January 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I hope this isn’t an omen. (I’m okay but my glasses are toast.)
January 2, 2025 at 9:50 PM
You can also find some amazing turn of the twentieth century ads for asthma cigarettes online:
December 20, 2024 at 3:58 PM
The library Christmas tree is now decorated with snowflakes made by the Writing Center from pages of a previous edition of the Chicago Manual.
December 13, 2024 at 12:12 AM
After having a lovely chat with my favorite faculty member about pens and inks, my wishlist has tripled. The universe clearly wants me to get more inks and pens.

She’s gifted me these two Pilot Iroshuzuku inks: Asa-gao and Tsuki-yo.
December 10, 2024 at 7:08 PM