I'll be teaching Global Histories of the Book: Asia/Europe at CalRBS again this August. Come to LA if you want to get a proper firehose of information. Myseterously, our collections keep getting better around this theme, so you will definitely get to see... STUFF.

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Quietly amazing BL discovery: when I went to iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifes... this morning to grab images of its evangelist portraits for a talk next week, I discovered that the IIIF viewer now shows a download icon at the lower left of the screen! For this MS, it allows download of a hi-res image!

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This looks very useful: a new online searchable version of Cappelli's _Dizionario di abbreviature_ reader.contubernalesbooks.com#/paleo/cappe... There is also a section on how to actually read a manuscript, which looks like a very useful teaching/learning tool: reader.contubernalesbooks.com#/paleo

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I had to explain a lot of this context to my first year students when we worked on annotations with hypothesis. It's a different world.

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I'm rereading my Project Bamboo and DiRT articles today and, oof, boy did a lot of people across different technology and cultural heritage sectors firmly believe some things about crowdsourcing and community development that turned out to be wrong.

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