Michael Weisenburg
@weisenburg.bsky.social
Rare Books and Stuff. Opinions are my own. He/him/his
Case full of horrors for spooky season (Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Vampyre, Wagner the Wehr-Wolf, & The Raven)
October 31, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Case full of horrors for spooky season (Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Vampyre, Wagner the Wehr-Wolf, & The Raven)
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Just read this - it was shared on LinkedIn. ‘To my users, “we couldn’t generate an answer for your question” translates to “your topic is not worthy of pursuing—change it.”’ While it’s nice to think that students will come & ask when they don’t find results, many won’t.
And the blocking of content…
And the blocking of content…
“We Couldn’t Generate an Answer for your Question” - ACRLog
Editor’s note: We welcome a guest blog post from Jay Singley, Document Delivery and Circulation Desk Manager at North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. In March 2025, Ex Libris unveiled thei...
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July 22, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Just read this - it was shared on LinkedIn. ‘To my users, “we couldn’t generate an answer for your question” translates to “your topic is not worthy of pursuing—change it.”’ While it’s nice to think that students will come & ask when they don’t find results, many won’t.
And the blocking of content…
And the blocking of content…
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This is a dance of the dead movie created out of the dozens of woodcuts from the 1520 Munich print "Der todten dantz mit figuren vnd schrifften" www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/details/b...
#bookhistory #earlymodern
#bookhistory #earlymodern
October 25, 2024 at 9:46 AM
This is a dance of the dead movie created out of the dozens of woodcuts from the 1520 Munich print "Der todten dantz mit figuren vnd schrifften" www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/details/b...
#bookhistory #earlymodern
#bookhistory #earlymodern
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In honour of Joy Division's iconic album Unknown Pleasures being released on this day in 1979, I'm again sharing one of my favourite ever video clips (Peanuts vs Joy Division dance party)...
June 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
In honour of Joy Division's iconic album Unknown Pleasures being released on this day in 1979, I'm again sharing one of my favourite ever video clips (Peanuts vs Joy Division dance party)...
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RWES Online Symposium
4/13 @ 10 AM – Noon (central time)
We welcome all to attend an online symposium of graduate student works in progress on the subjects of Emerson and transcendentalism.
If you are interested in attending contact Nicholas Guardiano at [email protected] for log-in information.
4/13 @ 10 AM – Noon (central time)
We welcome all to attend an online symposium of graduate student works in progress on the subjects of Emerson and transcendentalism.
If you are interested in attending contact Nicholas Guardiano at [email protected] for log-in information.
March 26, 2025 at 1:50 PM
RWES Online Symposium
4/13 @ 10 AM – Noon (central time)
We welcome all to attend an online symposium of graduate student works in progress on the subjects of Emerson and transcendentalism.
If you are interested in attending contact Nicholas Guardiano at [email protected] for log-in information.
4/13 @ 10 AM – Noon (central time)
We welcome all to attend an online symposium of graduate student works in progress on the subjects of Emerson and transcendentalism.
If you are interested in attending contact Nicholas Guardiano at [email protected] for log-in information.
German Micky Mouse comic book
February 20, 2025 at 3:22 PM
German Micky Mouse comic book
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New from the BJPS Review of Books:
Philosophy, Bullshit, and Peer Review
—Neil Levy (@neillevy.bsky.social)
Reviewed by
Joshua Habgood-Coote (@impractknow.bsky.social)
Read it here:
www.thebsps.org/reviewofbook...
#philsci #philsky
Philosophy, Bullshit, and Peer Review
—Neil Levy (@neillevy.bsky.social)
Reviewed by
Joshua Habgood-Coote (@impractknow.bsky.social)
Read it here:
www.thebsps.org/reviewofbook...
#philsci #philsky
Neil Levy, Philosophy, Bullshit, and Peer Review | BJPS Review of Books
Joshua Habgood-Coote reviews Philosophy, Bullshit, and Peer Review, by Neil Levy
www.thebsps.org
February 11, 2025 at 11:27 AM
New from the BJPS Review of Books:
Philosophy, Bullshit, and Peer Review
—Neil Levy (@neillevy.bsky.social)
Reviewed by
Joshua Habgood-Coote (@impractknow.bsky.social)
Read it here:
www.thebsps.org/reviewofbook...
#philsci #philsky
Philosophy, Bullshit, and Peer Review
—Neil Levy (@neillevy.bsky.social)
Reviewed by
Joshua Habgood-Coote (@impractknow.bsky.social)
Read it here:
www.thebsps.org/reviewofbook...
#philsci #philsky
This one didn't make the cut for the exhibit
February 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
This one didn't make the cut for the exhibit
1598 Chaucer that's mostly annotated in Boethius
February 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
1598 Chaucer that's mostly annotated in Boethius
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"And I like large parties. They're so intimate."
- The Great Gatsby
Thank you to everyone who came out to our Jazz Night Celebrating our Great Gatsby exhibit!!
Watching these @uscjazz students perform was truly incredible. It was certainly a night to remember.
#thegreatgatsby #jazzmusic #jazznight
- The Great Gatsby
Thank you to everyone who came out to our Jazz Night Celebrating our Great Gatsby exhibit!!
Watching these @uscjazz students perform was truly incredible. It was certainly a night to remember.
#thegreatgatsby #jazzmusic #jazznight
February 5, 2025 at 11:15 PM
"And I like large parties. They're so intimate."
- The Great Gatsby
Thank you to everyone who came out to our Jazz Night Celebrating our Great Gatsby exhibit!!
Watching these @uscjazz students perform was truly incredible. It was certainly a night to remember.
#thegreatgatsby #jazzmusic #jazznight
- The Great Gatsby
Thank you to everyone who came out to our Jazz Night Celebrating our Great Gatsby exhibit!!
Watching these @uscjazz students perform was truly incredible. It was certainly a night to remember.
#thegreatgatsby #jazzmusic #jazznight
Jazz Students in the Rare Books Library
February 4, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Jazz Students in the Rare Books Library
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Join us for a night of music as University Libraries collaborates with our colleagues in the Jazz program to celebrate The Great Gatsby! USC Jazz's premiere jazz combo will be performing at the exhibit. Swing by, hear some great music, and see the exhibit for yourself!
January 28, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Join us for a night of music as University Libraries collaborates with our colleagues in the Jazz program to celebrate The Great Gatsby! USC Jazz's premiere jazz combo will be performing at the exhibit. Swing by, hear some great music, and see the exhibit for yourself!
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"Gatsby and Daisy danced. I remember being surprised by his conservative foxtrot . . . " - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
January 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
"Gatsby and Daisy danced. I remember being surprised by his conservative foxtrot . . . " - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Dancing in the new exhibit
January 24, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Dancing in the new exhibit
With just a handful of things we have laying around
January 21, 2025 at 8:03 PM
With just a handful of things we have laying around
Installing the next exhibition
January 21, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Installing the next exhibition
Sprucing up the hallways and walls
January 21, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Sprucing up the hallways and walls
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Another great #mla25 panel including Michael Jonik on Thoreau and Merleau-Ponte; and @weisenburg.bsky.social on Thoreau and trash. Dude littered!
January 12, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Another great #mla25 panel including Michael Jonik on Thoreau and Merleau-Ponte; and @weisenburg.bsky.social on Thoreau and trash. Dude littered!
100 years ago, in December of 1924, Zelda Fitzgerald sat down to write a Christmas card to her "own dearest Mamma."
Zelda & Scott spent Christmas 1924 in Rome. She writes, "Wish you could see the steps full of bright priests and all the flower markets . . . "
Zelda & Scott spent Christmas 1924 in Rome. She writes, "Wish you could see the steps full of bright priests and all the flower markets . . . "
December 18, 2024 at 5:49 PM
100 years ago, in December of 1924, Zelda Fitzgerald sat down to write a Christmas card to her "own dearest Mamma."
Zelda & Scott spent Christmas 1924 in Rome. She writes, "Wish you could see the steps full of bright priests and all the flower markets . . . "
Zelda & Scott spent Christmas 1924 in Rome. She writes, "Wish you could see the steps full of bright priests and all the flower markets . . . "
For those of you at the University of South Carolina, come help preserve our comic books!
10 am - 4 pm in the Hollings Program Room
10 am - 4 pm in the Hollings Program Room
December 2, 2024 at 2:38 PM
For those of you at the University of South Carolina, come help preserve our comic books!
10 am - 4 pm in the Hollings Program Room
10 am - 4 pm in the Hollings Program Room