Christine Nelson
@cnlibrarian.bsky.social
Special collections librarian / curator / archivist. Longtime Morgan Library manuscripts curator, Thoreauvian, Brontëite, Belle da Costa Greene devotee. Studying Shaker book culture.
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Christine Nelson
@cnlibrarian.bsky.social
· Nov 11
“Let’s start all over just as if the past had never been” - a favorite and fitting entry from the diary of Canterbury Shaker sister Josephine Wilson 🦋
This is going to be so good!
It's here, it's here!
Cheers to the wonderful contributors and the team at ALA Editions!
www.ala.org/news/2025/04...
Cheers to the wonderful contributors and the team at ALA Editions!
www.ala.org/news/2025/04...
April 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
This is going to be so good!
The power of "a small act of kindness, decency, and love." Cory Booker speaking in my friends' backyard in West Philly in April 2016
April 2, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The power of "a small act of kindness, decency, and love." Cory Booker speaking in my friends' backyard in West Philly in April 2016
Fantastic talk last night by @kawulf.bsky.social (in a gorgeous Philly venue) about her long-awaited book about genealogical practices in the 18th-century British Atlantic. Preorder now! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
March 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Fantastic talk last night by @kawulf.bsky.social (in a gorgeous Philly venue) about her long-awaited book about genealogical practices in the 18th-century British Atlantic. Preorder now! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
YES - this is the kind of creative partnership among librarians, archivists, and communities that an enlightened government should be PROUD to fund.
My first job in libraries was a project that was funded by IMLS. It focused on gathering and digitizing religious ephemera from small, rural communities in North Carolina—stuff people had in their attics and basements, many of it only a flood or a person’s death away from disappearing forever.
Underfunding of public goods like public libraries requires many to apply for grants to agencies like IMLS.
IMLS does important work that enables libraries, archives, and museums to serve us all.
IMLS does important work that enables libraries, archives, and museums to serve us all.
March 15, 2025 at 6:57 PM
YES - this is the kind of creative partnership among librarians, archivists, and communities that an enlightened government should be PROUD to fund.
Absolutely disgusted at this new attack on “obscure” IMLS, which has provided so much transformative support to so many small orgs, including my beloved Canterbury Shaker Village
IMLS is under attack. They’ve been instrumental in digital humanities and GLAM. Make noise, spread the word, call your reps.
IMLS co-funded my 1st NEH grant, which later became the Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium & introduced 1000s of students of color to DH. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
IMLS co-funded my 1st NEH grant, which later became the Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium & introduced 1000s of students of color to DH. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
March 15, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Absolutely disgusted at this new attack on “obscure” IMLS, which has provided so much transformative support to so many small orgs, including my beloved Canterbury Shaker Village
Is this really “Quakerlike” Jane Eyre, whose greatest fashion extravagance was a “sober black satin and pearl-grey silk” gown? I wrote about Marianne Moore's copy of Brontë's novel and its bombshell cover girl: rosenbach.org/blog/governe...
January 24, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Is this really “Quakerlike” Jane Eyre, whose greatest fashion extravagance was a “sober black satin and pearl-grey silk” gown? I wrote about Marianne Moore's copy of Brontë's novel and its bombshell cover girl: rosenbach.org/blog/governe...
Bold Anne Brontë, born on this day in 1820, from her preface to “Tenant…”
"I am at a loss to conceive how a man should permit himself to write anything that would be really disgraceful to a woman, or why a woman should be censured for writing anything that would be proper and becoming for a man.”
"I am at a loss to conceive how a man should permit himself to write anything that would be really disgraceful to a woman, or why a woman should be censured for writing anything that would be proper and becoming for a man.”
January 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Bold Anne Brontë, born on this day in 1820, from her preface to “Tenant…”
"I am at a loss to conceive how a man should permit himself to write anything that would be really disgraceful to a woman, or why a woman should be censured for writing anything that would be proper and becoming for a man.”
"I am at a loss to conceive how a man should permit himself to write anything that would be really disgraceful to a woman, or why a woman should be censured for writing anything that would be proper and becoming for a man.”
YES 🪴
I know we've had many convos on here + 🐦site over the yrs abt the academic language of "filling holes" + "making interventions," and I've been ✨ to see how much this critique has resonated for my methods students. Rather than feigning novelty, we can make CONTRIBUTIONS + BUILD ON others' work 🪴
November 25, 2024 at 7:44 PM
YES 🪴
I was surprised to find that poet Marianne Moore’s copy of Jane Eyre (Chicago, ca. 1907) depicts Jane in Gibson Girl style! I scoured eBay and found two E.D.E.N Southworth novels on which the publisher slapped the same image…
(Jane Eyre: collection of the Rosenbach)
(Jane Eyre: collection of the Rosenbach)
November 19, 2024 at 1:22 AM
I was surprised to find that poet Marianne Moore’s copy of Jane Eyre (Chicago, ca. 1907) depicts Jane in Gibson Girl style! I scoured eBay and found two E.D.E.N Southworth novels on which the publisher slapped the same image…
(Jane Eyre: collection of the Rosenbach)
(Jane Eyre: collection of the Rosenbach)
Reposted by Christine Nelson
Not sure what to post on this site… everyone on here seems to be some kind of librarian
November 12, 2024 at 5:46 AM
Not sure what to post on this site… everyone on here seems to be some kind of librarian
"Miss [Belle da Costa] Greene telephoned me the other day about the work at the Lenox & said she was having the time of her life!" (Junius Morgan, 1905)
On view @ Princeton: earliest known reference to Greene's work for Morgan. She’s at the dawn of her career, dusting & bookplating with delight!
On view @ Princeton: earliest known reference to Greene's work for Morgan. She’s at the dawn of her career, dusting & bookplating with delight!
November 13, 2024 at 6:05 PM
"Miss [Belle da Costa] Greene telephoned me the other day about the work at the Lenox & said she was having the time of her life!" (Junius Morgan, 1905)
On view @ Princeton: earliest known reference to Greene's work for Morgan. She’s at the dawn of her career, dusting & bookplating with delight!
On view @ Princeton: earliest known reference to Greene's work for Morgan. She’s at the dawn of her career, dusting & bookplating with delight!
“Let’s start all over just as if the past had never been” - a favorite and fitting entry from the diary of Canterbury Shaker sister Josephine Wilson 🦋
November 11, 2024 at 8:46 PM
“Let’s start all over just as if the past had never been” - a favorite and fitting entry from the diary of Canterbury Shaker sister Josephine Wilson 🦋