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So we had planned a super low-key fun zoom event for Thursday and then it went viral and so like 91,000 people are interested, holy fuck.

"Rare Book and Manuscript Library event explores history of witchcraft"

ETA: And here's another piece:

Explore the real history of witchcraft with the Illinois Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

I made a thing for work! (It was hard.) (I'll say serious things later, when I have spoons.)

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 Belated because it has been a busy weird weekend with SPN's ending announcement, Scott's arrival with the Uhaul, and so on. (As soon as the second pod comes, we will have ALL OUR STUFF! Wooooo ( Read more... )

So I heard about this a couple weeks ago and now I get to crow about it! Deeper Than Swords won a Leab Award, which is coveted in the library exhibits world. (NB. That this is the first one Texas A&M has won, aw yeah!)

"The Division Two (moderately expensive) winner is the Cushing Memorial Library and Archives at Texas A&M University for “Deeper ( Read more... )

So on my last day of work Todd gave me a present to remember Cushing by: a framed set of our original designs for the DTS banners. He sent some of the photos yesterday, but this is my favorite one:


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First here's a video of the Martin event. I gave the fastest speech known to man, because talking to 2400 people is rather terrifying.

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A month left of classes: eek. Somehow have to write two papers, memorize a speech, and take an exam in this time. Amongst other things. Again, eek.

So the last two years of my life is concluding shortly: the catalogs for Deeper Than Swords: Celebrating the Work of George R. R. Martin arrived today. They are...pretty weighty. We ordered 3500 of 'em since we're expecting 2400 for the opening. George pimped the event on his Not A Blog last week--using Todd's very stylish poster. (BTW if anyone ( Read more... )

Todd gave a talk a couple weeks ago and now it on the Youtubes.

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Let's push his hit numbers up, shall we. *G* No, seriously, he's ridiculously brilliant and interesting to listen to, and he's talking about our library and cool stuff.

Had a bomb threat at work yesterday which closed down campus for over half the day. We got a message to leave campus immediately and on foot, and since I live just off campus I ended up with a housefull of coworkers for a few hours as we waited for updates and the university got itself ordered enough to re-deploy buses off-campus and pick up people ( Read more... )