#Chicago folks: you can view a physical copy of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY and its tomato-red cover with silvery mirror design, & #SFF monsters at the #NewberryLibrary bookstore! Thanks @pdtoler.bsky.social! 💙📚 🧪🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH #maps

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:yaparqzfaouqf3ht6xlxfrot/post/3llklouu7hs2b

A year after forming their union, Newberry Library employees have won their first contract, which includes:
• 15% increase in pay and a ratification bonus
• freeze of employee costs for health care
• doubling of parental leave
• bilingual pay
• continuing education funding
• grievance procedure and quarterly labor-management meetings

🔗 https://www.afscme.org/blog/newberry-library-employees-win-first-contract-a-year-after-forming-a-union

#LibraryUnions #LibraryWorkers #NewberryWorkersUnited #NewberryLibrary #AFSCME

Resurrection (T-Bone Slim)
#JohnWestmoreland

The original manuscript for this song is housed in the #NewberryLibrary Rosemont/T-Bone Slim Collection in #Chicago, IL. It was likely written in the 1930’s and was never published.

Lyrics by T-Bone Slim
Music by John Westmoreland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mXZu15_Hyg

More
https://www.johnwestmorelandmusic.com/t-bone-slim

#iww #TBoneSlim #wobbly

Basque Broadsides!

Continuing this week's colorful trend with these 19th c lithograph sheets worthy of Sister Corita!

Part of the Bonaparte linguistics collection
at #NewberryLibrary.

Admiring the greenery at #NewberryLibrary... Now did I or did I not wash my hands?

Harangue Me Two Times

Harangue me two times baby
Harangue me twice today
Harangue me two times gryphon
I'm goin' away

Harangue me two times gryphon
French for tomorrow, Latin just for today
I'm goin' away

#NewberryLibrary https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/i5mcb2/alma994952488805867

Oh, Deer!

This 1590 hunting book (French but verteuscht) starts with the tracking basics, but ends up somehow with a cervine ghost on its hands... then there's the relic-like presentation of the disembodied horn trophies! #NewberryLibrary https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/i5mcb2/alma993571288805867

Printed Books Multiplying Like...

#Rabbits #PrinterMark #SimonColines #HandColoring #NewberryLibrary (Case Y 682 .D372)

Natural Disasters, 1843 Edition

Chapbook from Vienna lamenting an earthquake that took out 3/4 of the houses on the Lesser-Antilles isle of Guadaloupe, and all the churches, except one with a clock stuck at the time of impact! More eerily familiar bad old days reporting here: #NewberryLibrary (Case Wing ZC 1 .19 no. 47)

Her . . . Funeral?

Rather taken by this late 18th c. trade card for Susanna Cook, Carpenter, Trunk, and Box-Maker! She even offered "carry-on sizes" and performed funerals. Wonder if it was only for male Londoners?

#MementoMoriMonday #NewberryLibrary #HerTradeCard

https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/i5mcb2/alma997318228805867

Binding Fail That's So Bad It's Brilliant?

#BookGuts #BindingRepair
#Puzzles #WoodenBoards
Potential #NewAcq #NewberryLibrary

We've Had a Whale of a Time!

Our exciting panel at #NewberryLibrary
with Shawn Sheehy, Hannah Batsel and Juliet Sperling about pop-ups, publishing and the history of paper engineering is now online, in time to celebrate the last few days of the exhibition! https://t.co/xc2HMR2Y3N

I didn't even know there was SOLSTICE happening...

#NewberryLibrary
#Solstice2023 #Apian1534

@gairdeachas If you like libraries, while in #Chicago check out the Newberry Library and its fantastic exhibition on historical engineered books (aka pop-up books)! #NewberryLibrary

Website for the exhibition "Pop-Up Books through the Ages" https://www.newberry.org/calendar/pop-up-books-through-the-ages #Chicago #NewberryLibrary

If you're in #Chicago, see "Pop-Up Books" at the #NewberryLibrary! aka Engineered Paper, many are historical scientific tools such as astronomical calculators, globes, etc. Free entry!

MAGNIFICENT MOVABLES!

SO glad #newcity and #newberrylibrary are on the same page about our pop-up book exhibition!
Read the brand new review by Susan Aurinko 👇

https://design.newcity.com/2023/05/24/magnificent-movables-pop-up-books-at-the-newberry-library/

Ring A Bell?

IT TOLLS FOR THEE!
This slightly morose German funerary book reminds us (oft and repeatedly) of
The END of it all...

#MementoMori #Monday #NewberryLibrary

https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/i5mcb2/alma993517048805867

Don't You LOVE IT When A Book You Want...

Is one you already have? I'd been lusting after another copy of this beautifully engraved, anonymous Theater of Love from c. 1608.
Now I'm thrilled it's already enjoying its HEA at #NewberryLibrary! (Wing folio ZP 6461 .18) #ShopMyCloset

It's even interactive! That pristine shield waits for a bon mot, risqué comment, or doodle...

There's also the game of what are all those background couples up to. And WHO decided her decolletage was too revealing?!

How Many Mini Newberries...
Can We Fit Inside Ruggles Hall At
THE Newberry?

We had plenty of maker fun this weekend at an event #NewberryLibrary! Missed it? We have a great hybrid panel coming up about the show on May 25!

https://www.newberry.org/calendar/pop-up-books-through-the-ages-exhibition-close-up