Jason W. Dean

@jasonwdean.com

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FSA Associate Librarian, Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas Bibliographer & librarian on the edge of the western prairie. Website: https://www.jasonwdean.com Faculty Profile: https://spencer.lib.ku.edu/people/jason-dean

A painted image of St. Jerome at my desk at work, looking over a full page miniature painting of St. Jerome in a cataloged but not yet announced new acquisition that I cataloged. If you're reading this and want to know more, contact me via dm or email!
A painted wooden image of St. Jerome, sitting under a starry night sky in the desert. He has five open books in front of him, and he is pointing at an angel blowing a trumpet. A lion is in the foreground.
A white wall with a window to the left and low bookshelves to the right. The subject of the photograph is a painted wooden image of Nuestra Señora del Carmen (Our Lady of Mount Carmel) holding the Christ child and a brown scapular. She is wearing a crown, and looks down with pity on chained people, representing souls, in purgatory.
A hand holding a blue and a green notebook, both with a cover label sticker that says “bibliographical notes” and give the date ranges of the contents.
First page of a manuscript in Italian. Paper is browned, as is the ink. It’s in a cradle and the manuscript is from the 17th century.
A woman in red glasses and a man in a purple hoodie speaking with a student.
A woman speaking to a man at the front of an audience. The woman is wearing brown trousers, a black shirt, and red glasses, and the man is wearing a green sport coat, tie, and button down shirt. The woman and man are laughing.
my dumb face under a grey Stetson Open Road. It's a selfie photo of me at the University of Kansas campus at sunrise. I am wearing a white Oxford cloth button down and a black French workman's jacket. I'm smiling because its my birthday week!
A Hopi katsina wrapped in paper in the water bottle pocket of a dark green tote. The carving is by Bryan Quamahongnewa.
A footnote for an AI generated image that is used as the key image in a library exhibition. it reads "This image was generated using modern digital technology. Like the printing press, telescope, or microscope before it, technology continues to influence how we interpret and visualize the world."
Letterpress and screen printed concert poster for LA LOM printer by Hammerpress in Kansas City
Printed broadside on my desk with a quote from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Scarlet Letter,” Reading: Over the entrance hovers an enormous specimen of the American eagle, with outspread wings, a shield before her breast, and, if I recollect aright, a bunch of intermingled thunderbolts and barbed arrows in each claw. With the customary infirmity of temper that characterizes this unhappy fowl, she appears, by the fierceness of her beak and eye and the general truculency of her attitude, to threaten mischief to the inoffensive community; and especially to warn all citizens, careful of their safety, against intruding on the premises which she overshadows with her wings. Nevertheless, vixenly as she looks, many people are seeking, at this very moment, to shelter themselves under the wing of the federal eagle; imagining, I presume, that her bosom has all the softness and snugness of an eider-down pillow. But she has no great tenderness, even in her best of moods, and, sooner or later,—oftener soon than late,—is apt to fling off her nestlings with a scratch of her claw, a dab of her beak, or a rankling wound from her barbed arrows.
Printer's statement or colophon printed in red at the end of the decretals.
An extremely heavily annotated leaf of Gregory's decretals, there is literally no free space in the margin - it's even annotated in the gutter!
A woodcut illustration potentially of Jesus, with a taxonomy of subjects in front of him.
A printed fist in a book.
A woodcut depicting Pope Gregory the ninth with the Papal tiara giving his decretals to a group of men.
A top down view of my desk, with a brown leather desk pad on top of which is an open notebook with my bibliographical description, a notepad with notes. And an unbound 19th century French book.
A photograph of my back looking out over a small canyon cut by the Little Colorado River on the Navajo Nation.
Grey metal machine with an engraved label reading "HINMAN COLLATOR" above a metal design that looks like a pair of glasses. A black panel of switches is underneath.
Grey metal machine with an engraved label reading "HINMAN COLLATOR" above a metal design that looks like a pair of glasses. A black panel of switches is underneath.
A messy desk strewn with books and notes, with a rare book in a cradle in the center.
A selfie of my dumb face and 90 feet of high density book shelving above me.
My hand holding two notebooks: one blue and larger, the other branded with AIB logo and red. In between is a Schaedler Precision Rule.
Tycho Brahe’s manuscript observations in a notebook
A presentation copy of the Description of Egypt from Napoleon to the Danish king
An early morning photo of the Nyhavn in Copenhagen, with a docked sail boat in the foreground and a multistory sunlit building in the background.
A really long collation of a duodecimo edition of Virgil from 1671. The pagination is way long, and more complicated than it should be... because engravings!
Scrap paper with my handwriting in pencil, trying to collate the second volume and growing increasingly frustrated.
A small typographic image of a person with really wiry and curly hair, looking up approvingly at the text printed above.
A catalog card with calligraphic handwriting reading “numbers used in the ESTC Cataloguing/Microfilming Project are underlined in brown”
The shelf mark label, engraved, on the rear pastedown.