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Monica Keane
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Special collections librarian. I'm interested in literary history, gardening and baking cakes. Personal account.
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December 23, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Marmalade
December 22, 2025 at 10:18 PM
It is, but digitizing it--or even displaying it--is problematic for very obvious reasons
December 22, 2025 at 5:41 PM
We have a cigarette book that was taken as spoils by a Jesuit chaplain during the war. I don't like to show it because I'll be damned if a student walking out of my class says the coolest thing they saw was a book propaganda without mentioning why we have it
December 22, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Imagine all the sad digital collections coordinators with carpal tunnel from the scanning
December 22, 2025 at 3:43 AM
It'd be unbelievable anywhere that you worked
December 22, 2025 at 2:14 AM
The transcription products are not as good as people think

Don't get me started on the idea that computers can "read" missing or illegibly damaged text
December 22, 2025 at 2:13 AM
I was wondering about that one. And how to both reserve and use half a tsp of cayenne
December 21, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Seriously folks, bring this up at your university library ASAP
December 21, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Pathetic
December 21, 2025 at 6:34 PM
In this case, the right one
December 21, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I love the left, but for a relatively plain sweater
December 21, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Ugh. We don't need more glorification of villains
December 20, 2025 at 5:37 PM
The chilling effect isn't because of the ownership of syllabi per se, it is the obvious attempt at repression and political control
December 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM