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Allie Alvis 🌷

@book-historia.bsky.social

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Book historian, medieval manuscript liker, Curator of Special Collections at the Winterthur Library. She/they. Biblioshitposter. Views my own.

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Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social · Nov 10

I don’t know what starter pack(s?) y’all are coming from, but hi! I’m Allie Alvis,
1. Curator of special collections at the Winterthur Library in Delaware
2. Certified old book enjoyer
3. Originator of Pop Bibliography, the study of the production & consumption of “old” books in pop culture

Allie teaching with a MASSIVE medieval manuscript song book

Detail shot of a sales sample book of metal ornaments

Part of Allie’s book collection, including miniature books

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Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social · 1d

I am now the owner of the coolest shirt in the entire fucking world

A sweatshirt featuring dancing ghosts that reads POPULAR BUDDY
NOBLE FELLOW
FRIENDS WHO PLAY EVERY DAY
- Was Chosen *

Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social · 2d

We’re about to crack into this in-room karaoke machine

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Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social · 2d

We have a private pool for gods sake

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Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social · 2d

Guess who accidentally booked a love hotel in Nagoya! 😳

A VERY spacious room with two beds and massage chairs

View from the room – there is another hotel across the way

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 3d

I’m sure this is just me, but cat trees look like printing presses?

A cat tree that looks like a printing press.

A printing press that looks like a cat tree.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5d

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AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

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Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social · 5d

I met a big beetle today 😍

Allie holding a log upon which perches a rhinoceros beetle. Allie looks elated. The beetle looks like a beetle.

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Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social · 7d

I hope all the really big salamanders in Japanese canals are having a good day

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Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social · 7d

We are! 📚

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Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social · 7d

The park across the way was built in the 17th century as a retreat and duck hunting ground by the Shogunate, and apparently there’s a memorial there to all the hunted ducks 🥹

Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social · 7d

Good morning, Tokyo!

A different view of Tokyo from a different window

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Emily Higgs Kopin S. Pumpkins @ehkopin.bsky.social · 8d

I'm a "do whatever you want with your own books" librarian, not a "anything printed and bound is now a sacred untouchable object" librarian

Stéise @booksparrow.bsky.social · 8d

Unpopular opinion from a librarian,, but I love a tatty paperback- shows it’s been loved and read. I read in the bath too. #SorryNotSorry

Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 8d

Breaking the spine of a book is psychopath behaviour. It doesn't even take much care to read without doing so, you have to go out of your way to be that clumsy and destructive.

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 9d

I do not want the video. I will never watch the video. I usually won’t even give the video the effort of complaint.

I just want to read the news story. Give me the text. This would be my Ted Talk but that would be text too.

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Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social · 11d

Update: a hummingbird just made a low pass, but too fast to tell it about historic dye samples

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Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social · 11d

Being a #SaturdayLibrarian isn’t so bad when you’re doing an event outdoors 😍

A variety of books with fabric swatches in them inside a greenhouse in front of blooming flowers

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🜲 James @jamesskeets.blacksky.app · 12d

Through her creative platform, Saint Heron, Solange has launched The Saint Heron Library, a digital archive dedicated to making rare and out-of-print works by Black authors, poets, and artists accessible to all.

🔗 library.saintheron.com

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Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social · 13d

Enjoying an early spooky season in the reading room with this Halloween-y scrapbook 🌜🦉🦇

A brown scrapbook with a gilt woman in the moon, owls, and bats

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Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social · 13d

Enjoying an early spooky season in the reading room with this Halloween-y scrapbook 🌜🦉🦇

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Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social · 13d

Yaaaaaaay for archived listings!!!

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Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social · 14d

(Mr. Allie is not on any social media, the amount of grass he touches on a daily basis is enviable)

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Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social · 14d

Happy anniversary to us 🩷

Alex and Allie in a library in wedding garb, each pulling a book off the shelf

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Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social · 15d

I need to get a flong for the teaching collection

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Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social · 15d

I could cry out of frustration but I don't have the time

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Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social · 15d

I'm doing so much all the time and yet I feel like I'm never getting anything done

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Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social · 15d

Thank goodness I have my (belated) honeymoon coming up next week to forcibly remove myself from Work Mode but damn if I don't have to make like 4 more major deadlines before then

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