Princeton is digitizing its LGBTQIA+ Periodical and Ephemera Collection, with about 50 issues available so far. https://library.princeton.edu/news/general/2023-07-31/lgbtqia-periodical-and-ephemera-collection-now-digitized

#SpecialCollections #Digitization #Libraries

Tired: “Actually, Frankenstein was the name of the scientist.”

Wired: “Actually, the name of the Creature from the Black Lagoon was The Gill Man.”

I’m a big enough man to admit when Elon Musk is right.

I am staying in the library past closing because we’ve been having trouble with leaks when it rains. It’s kind of a bummer way to spend a Friday evening but the childhood “Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler” fan in me is secretly thrilled.

The legal case over what municipality, if any, governs an island lighthouse in Boston Harbor involved historic maps and decrees going back as far as 1634. https://www.universalhub.com/2023/man-without-county-judge-rules-mans-island