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

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Screenshot of article text. Text reads: "Despite having some similarities the models are variously termed: embedded, field, liaison, blended, outreach, outpost, diffuse, satellite, and disembodied librarians; as well as librarians without walls and librarians on location." Disembodied librarians is highlighted.
November 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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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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Gene Hackman in costume as a hermit in Young Frankenstein. He's smiling and holding up two cigars.
November 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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The library skeletons have been decorated.

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Three anatomical skeletons in Halloween costume, arrayed in front of a full book shelf. One skeleton is a mummy. The second has a Frankenstein mask. The third is a ghost.
October 31, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Meanwhile, someone is spoiling Bleak House up in here.

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Red text on a whiteboard: Lady Dedlock is Esther’s mother!!
October 17, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Got to share my favorite footnote with a colleague. Source: www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
October 15, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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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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Decorative image.
October 12, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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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
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Black and white image of a photoshopped child with sharp teeth, pointed ears, and very large eyes. The headline across the top reads: Bat Boy Lives! Weekly World News: The Weekly World News Guide to Politics, Culture, Celebrities, Alien Abductions, and the Mutant Freaks that Shape Our World
August 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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There were paper cranes scattered around the library yesterday.
Small white paper origami crane resting on top of an elevator button panel.
August 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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I freaking love Dorothy Parker. (Screenshot from a review of new books about James VI/I in the TLS)
There was virtually no set of circumstances that, for James and his closest companions, did not lead to the possibility of a sexual liaison with someone or other. Highlighed text begins: To paraphrase Dorothy Parker, if all of James’s favourites were laid end to end, this biographer might not be surprised.
August 14, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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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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Among the treasures of the British Library is an unassuming manuscript identified by the shelfmark MS Cotton Nero A.x/2. Named after its early-modern collector, Sir Robert Cotton, and the Roman emperor whose bust once sat atop its shelf in Cotton’s library, the manuscript is a little smaller than seven inches long and five inches wide, the size of a very small paperback.
August 13, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Black and white drawing of an annoyed Edgar Allan Poe squinting at a letter.
August 8, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Reporting that gravity is still working.
White cat with brown spots getting scritches from my freckly hand.
July 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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WTF is going on with these subject tags? Is this why EBSCO EDS's retrieval/relevance is so awful lately?

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Screenshot of a result from a database. Article title: Meta Wins AI Copyright Case, But Judge Writes Roadmap for Authors' Revenge. Two subjects are highlighted below the citation information: Columbia and Llamas -- Intellectual property.
July 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Our new library swag is a friendly little book!
Enamel pin: anthropomorphic book in green. The book is waving and smiling.
May 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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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
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Proud of our students.
Pink chalk drawing of a triangle and the words, “silence = death.” This is a slogan from ACTUP.
February 25, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Brave is doing a good job delivering info I can use:
Brave search screen. Search box: carnation toxic to cats. Results are irrelevant to my point. On the right side of the results page, in a red box, is a link to a reddit post: "I just caught my f*ckhead cat chewing on a carnation Is she gonna die?"
February 14, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Y'all, I think this romantasy thing is getting out of hand.
Listing from book catalog. Book cover with text: The Enchanted Feast : A Romantasy Cookbook Gabriela Leon FRONTLIST | On Sale Date: May 27, 2025 Hardcover Paper over boards | 128 pages Cooking / Media Tie-In $19.99 USD, $25.99 CAD ISBN 9780760396513, 0760396515 Discount Code: QBO Status: Forthcoming DRC Added Over 1 Hour Ago
February 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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What even is the news anymore?
Screenshot of Elon Musk with text: DOGE staffer previously fired from cybersecurity company for leaking secrets. Gizmodo / Now. Text in red box: The teen went by Big Balls online.
February 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Low-res bust of the Incredible Hulk wearing glasses. Text: The Credible Hulk always cites his sources.
January 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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I hope this isn’t an omen. (I’m okay but my glasses are toast.)
Partial picture of my face. I have a three legged wound above my right eye, with many stitches.
January 2, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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You can also find some amazing turn of the twentieth century ads for asthma cigarettes online:
Black and white ad for Dr. Blosser's Medical Cigarettes. There is an image of a man on the right smoking, with arrows illustrating where the smoke will go. Text: Sudden, Violent Asthma Attacks Quickly Relieved by warm medical vapors from Dr. Blosser's Medical Cigarettes (no tobacco) which penetrate clogged breathing passages, loosen phlegm, relieve congestion, and soothe irritated membranes. All druggists or send 10 cents for Trial Package and valuable coupon. Dr. Blosser's Medical Cigarettes 146 Marietta St., Dept. R, Atlanta, Ga.
December 20, 2024 at 3:58 PM
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The library Christmas tree is now decorated with snowflakes made by the Writing Center from pages of a previous edition of the Chicago Manual.
Close up of one of the snowflakes. Text is visible but not legible at this distance. Picture of ornaments on a plastic Christmas tree. One ornament is a paper snowflake. One is a green glassy teardrop shape. Two are plaster pine cones, one white and one green.
December 13, 2024 at 12:12 AM
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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.
A bottle of Asa-gao ink sits next to a sample bottle of Tsuki-yo on a desk. Both inks are blue but look much darker in their containers.
December 10, 2024 at 7:08 PM