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graduate certificate in Book History and Digital Humanities in the English Department at Texas Tech University https://www.depts.ttu.edu/english/programs_degrees/grad_certificates/book_history/index.php

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 1d

Has your library curtailed or outright banned anything related to Banned Books Week this year? I'm not talking that you're doing something else (i.e., freedom to read week). I'm talking YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING related to the topic.

Tell me about it anonymously --> tinyurl.com/banning-bbw25

Black text on a red and black background. It reads "Has your library banned events, displays, talks, or anything else related to banned books week this year? Share your story anonymously." It includes the survey link: https://tinyurl.com/banning-bbw-25

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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 9h

Washington D.C. Indie Bookstores Contend With Police and Military Presence buff.ly/9iAT2Ar

TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 1d

The business part is less interesting -- what's really good here is the understanding of why libraries are such good places for humans.
Why you should make the library a model for your business buff.ly/wtlXdyQ

TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 2d

Newsflash, you can learn a lot by fact-checking.
Are men’s reading habits truly a national crisis? buff.ly/EOIic6d

TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 6d

More bad news about a university press:
Trinity UP to Shutter Next Year buff.ly/by3fen0

TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 7d

Helpful analysis.
Federal judge overturns part of Florida’s book ban law, drawing on nearly 100 years of precedent protecting First Amendment access to ideas buff.ly/ngqK9MP

TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 8d

Long and thorough!
Everything I Know about Self-Publishing buff.ly/b8IGSxq

TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 9d

What Ukrainians are doing with books now buff.ly/8L51mNy

TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 12d

Syracuse Libraries Gets George W. Hamilton Collection of Books on Printing and Typography buff.ly/fOWYJ8i

TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 13d

Always good to see resources made available.
Black-Owned Georgia Newspapers Now Available Online – the DLG B buff.ly/qynDIRU

TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 14d

Book banning in Canada . . .
Alberta book bans target LGBTQ+ titles buff.ly/j8CbINT

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 16d

Here's a treat for manuscript- and fragment-lovers everywhere: @manuelmunoz.bsky.social will speak at Senate House Library @ies-sas.bsky.social Tuesday, 30th September, 5:30pm on his research into fragments at Keio University. To attend in-person or online, register at ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 15d

Don't you love fascinatingly obscure design history?
The day Return became Enter buff.ly/UsEFXaX

TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 16d

Brought to our attention by the Public Domain Review, Joseph-Balthazar Sylvestre’s Alphabet Album (1843) buff.ly/2WZ1qbu

TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 19d

Banned! The 20 books they didn’t want you to read buff.ly/y2qSyML

TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 20d

Rebuilding a Historic Jewish Library, Book by Book buff.ly/b4kPFwX

TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 21d

Good news for anyone interested in books that would have been published by Unbound. Wilton Square Launches with Plans to Acquire Orphaned Unbound Titles buff.ly/Vyei1b8

TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 22d

Book banning again.
National park gift shops move to ban “corrosive” history books buff.ly/3qf6qTM

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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 23d

Guess they didn't know the library had eliminated fines.
Library book returned after 82 years. Note says, 'Grandma won't be able to pay for it anymore' buff.ly/U3KaAqi

TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 26d

Ancient manuscripts return to Timbuktu 13 years after jihadist takeover buff.ly/cdHZmRH

TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 27d

Very cool to see an image of this!
The only book ever printed in Antarctica buff.ly/5gzDsdz

TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 28d

As they should! FBI returns stolen Hernán Cortés manuscript to Mexico buff.ly/55wyNk5

TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 29d

Little Free Library provides free books to readers. Will online reading affect this? buff.ly/6OHwgnr

TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · Sep 8

To dog-ear, or not to dog-ear? buff.ly/4VAw83L

TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · Sep 5

Information about a new project for the permanent sale of ebooks to libraries and schools.
BRIET - The Brick House Cooperative buff.ly/7DXMcao