IFLA @ifla.org The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the global voice of the library and information profession.
Rebecca Romney @rebeccaromney.com Your bookish enabler. Rare book dealer, Type Punch Matrix. Author, JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF. Co-founder of the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize. Pawn Stars, The Booksellers doc.
KU Leuven Libraries Special Collections @speccoll-kuleuven.bsky.social We take care of KU Leuven Libraries' heritage collections housed in the University Library: rare books, lecture notes and other manuscripts, graphics... We also have a reference collection of more than 65.000 titles on book history.
Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com Philosopher & Historian of Biology 🇲🇽 • Postdoctoral Fellow @theramseylab.bsky.social (@clpskuleuven.bsky.social) • https://www.alejandrofabregastejeda.com • https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262052825/the-organism-environment-pairing/ • #philsci #HPS #philsky
ACRL/Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) @rbmsinfo.bsky.social News, updates, committee meetings, and conference announcements for the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries. Posts by Publications and Communications Committee. 📜📚📖
The Bibliographical Society of America @bibsocamer.bsky.social The home for American book people, studying text objects together since 1904. More info at linktr.ee/bibsocamer.
Mattie @mattiet650.bsky.social Director of a California rare books/spec coll library. Archivist. Keeper of the gems I am.
California Rare Book School @calrbs.bsky.social California Rare Book School is a continuing education program dedicated to providing the requisite knowledge and skills for the rare book and library community. More info: https://linktr.ee/calrbs
Melinda Haunton @melindahaunton.bsky.social Archivist historian train travellers perennially anxious frequently cooking always interested
Tbh if you RT more than you comment I'm unlikely to follow back. I like to chat. UK based. Can't talk politics.
Sarah Finn @romanceofbooks.bsky.social Special Collections Librarian / Print Historian
Fascinated by the history of scientific illustration. Documenting natural history books I encounter in my research 📚🦋
Joanna Berry @joannaberry.bsky.social Librarian; old and in art school; loves dogs & cats; abstract artist of landscapes and collages. Lives in Charlottesville, VA and working to visit ALL the wineries. Doggo: Ada; Cats: Chip, Ellery, Harold, & Mazekeen.
Prof. Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social Book historian, Pop Bibliographer, old book liker, Curator of Special Collections. They/them. Biblioshitposter.
Views my own.
Morgan Tingley @mwtingley.bsky.social Professor @UCLA @UCLAEEB
Studying ecological effects of global change (range shifts, #phenology, and #wildfire) on #birds and occasionally other organisms. Proudly LGBTQ (he/him)
Tweets entirely my own
Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social Bringing people together through art. Based in Los Angeles, working globally.
getty.edu
Dot Porter @leoba.bsky.social Medievalist, digital humanist, and wannabe booklicker.
I'm here to post memes and yell about manuscripts.
See also @sims-mss.bsky.social
I speak for myself and not for my employer
Sue Luftschein @archosaurus.bsky.social Archivist, knitter and definitely a crazy cat (and dogs) lady! Head of Special Collections at USC. Current research interests in the ethics of collecting, and all things artists’ books.
Dr. Carol Tilley 🏳️🌈 @anuncivilphd.bsky.social Library & Info Sci Prof @ U of Illinois | #Comics #Libraries #Education #Kids #History | '16 Eisner '20 Ringo '22 Lynd Ward ’25 Ignatz Juries | PhD | Queer | Hard of hearing | I debunked Fredric Wertham & lost on Jeopardy | https://ko-fi.com/caroltilley
Brian Flota @brianflota.bsky.social Humanities Librarian at JMU; co-editor of COMIC BOOKS, SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, AND THE ACADEMIC LIBRARY; co-author of "Sustainable Futures for Comics Collections"; #FirstGen; Opinions mine, vinyl records, etc.
Karen Green (she/her) @klg19.bsky.social Curator for Comics and Cartoons, Columbia University. New Yorker. Movie buff. Architecture fan. Medievalist. My life won an Eisner Award. I contain multitudes.
https://guides.library.columbia.edu/graphic-novels
(I don’t follow-back empty feeds)
Jenny Robb @jennyrobb.bsky.social Head Curator of Comics and Cartoon Art at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum.
Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social Historian of 18C/19C women, politics, sociability and cosmopolitanism. Frequently infuriated by politics. Reposting not necessarily a statement of personal beliefs.
Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social Picks books up and puts them down. Will work 4 دبس وطحينة.
Professes Arabic and History @ UMD
Hears selectively. Reads voraciously.
BeckerCheez / Beck Becker (she/her/hers) @beckercheez.bsky.social I'm an archivist, a casual crafty artist, an unabashed nerd and video gamer, and an always experimenting cook. Opinions my own. She/her/hers. https://linktr.ee/beckercheez
libfocus @libfocus.bsky.social A communal blog with a broad and open-minded take on the subject of library and information management. We love guest posts! https://www.libfocus.com/
Dr Michelle Johansen @historitage.bsky.social Social historian, researching &
writing about British librarians & #PubLibs in the long nineteenth century. Learning & Outreach Manager at the Society of Antiquaries, London.
H-Net Job Guide @h-net-job-guide.bsky.social The H-Net Job Guide is proud to be one of the leading sources of position announcements in the fields of the Humanities and Social Sciences • https://www.h-net.org/jobs/home.php
medieval women who have had enough @medievalwomen.bsky.social run by a woman medievalist.
most images from medieval western manuscripts since that's what I research for my job; other contributions always welcome.
Librarian by Day 🏳️🌈 @librarianbyday.bsky.social She/her. Iowa. Libraries. Dog Mom. Crafty. Sometimes serious. Sometimes silly.
Personal account, obviously.
https://librarianbyday.net/
Dr. Elizabeth Headrick (Bluestocking) @clockworkheart.bsky.social Digital Scholarship Librarian | Podcaster | Writer | Recently defended a dissertation podcast that examines the rhetoric of knowledge control and dissemination in academia through the lens of libraries in speculative fiction | she/her
Joanna M @jlmesser.bsky.social Mostly libraries, social justice, and the academy. Community college librarian and administrator. UU. Opinions mine, not my employer’s. 🏳️🌈, 🐈⬛: Vantablack & 🐈⬛: Penumbra.
Siobhan @inurlibrary.bsky.social scholarly communications librarian, attention span of a goldfish, big carrie fisher energy for chaotic good
Scott Walter @slwalter123.bsky.social Librarian | Teacher | Speaker - San Diego State University Fighting against book bans and for public schools & libraries. Loves cats & dogs (since you asked)
Tim @geistweg.bsky.social Museums, archives, and longtime oral historian.
Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com Rare Book #Librarian, #editor, bereaved parent of Caitlin. 12x Hugo Award winner. bi/pan/queer. Head @illinoisrbml.bsky.social; Verity podcast; ex-Uncanny Mag. #aerialist. My opinions. she/her. #DoctorWho New book: https://alastore.ala.org/infiniteloop
BookSavvy @booksavvy.bsky.social Actual Librarian • Lifelong Pro Wrestling Geek • AEW\NJPW • Stardom/TJPW • Cosplayer • Oldtaku • Tolkienite • Whovian • Crafter • Sportsball Fan • Fix Your Heart or Die • https://linktr.ee/thebooksavvy
MS @mimosaishere.bsky.social library worker
Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social Libraries, software, math, Latin, nonprofit governance, weightlifting, knitting, singing, my cats, Somerville (MA), planes planes planes. Hi! 👋
Skybrarians feed: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:a55ia2ojiv2cnshifmrc7wr6/feed/skybrarians
Brittney Bergholm @bbergholm24.bsky.social Library Director 📖 | Runner 🏃🏻♀️ | Crafter 🧶 | Sports fan ⚽️🏀🏒
Colleen Barrett @colleenlovesbks.bsky.social Champion of the obscure, Hobbit-like tendencies, Rare Books Librarian at UKL.
Lucretia Baskin @lucretiab.bsky.social Rare materials cataloger, contains multitudes.🐍🦇
Michelle Margolis @mmargolis.bsky.social N.E. Alexander Librarian for Jewish Studies at Columbia. Lover of old & worn early printed books/manuscripts & the stories they tell in the margins. Co-director, Footprints: Jewish Books Through Time and Place. #dhjewish 🟦
Peter J Z B @pjb1980.bsky.social The Original Grotesque Parody
Music and books and public libraries and daily static. Weak on crime.
Opinions my own.
Jayme 🏳️⚧️ @jqsponsel.bsky.social Librarian, Writer, Long-Distance Mom,
ADHD / OCD. Existence is Resistance. (she/her)
Finch Collins @finchinthestacks.bsky.social PGR at the Uni of Manchester, hosted at Chetham’s Library | libraries and data, early modern books and bodies | posts my own
Sarah Horowitz @bibliowitz.bsky.social Rare books and archives, book history, dance and ballet, trivia, baking, knitting. Head of Special Collections at Haverford College. She/her
Guilherme Dias @guilhermedias.bsky.social Art conservator | Cultural Heritage | Conservator of Photographs |
Conservador Restaurador | Cultura | Museus.
📍Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Sam Cross (she/her) @poparchives.bsky.social Archivist and all around pop culture nerd. Plus I like to write about archives and archivists in pop culture! I'm a real catch! I can probably talk about other things. Maybe.
https://www.pop-archives.com/
✨️Erin✨️ @queerly.bsky.social Artist • writer • social media editor • lefty leftist • museum scholar • bookworm • mushroom enthusiast • queerly here
Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social Self-funded PhD student (reading history in XVIII New Spain) & paid researcher (open science, research integrity) at Leiden University. Baking & reading aficionada. Managed by a Timneh. ORCID 0000-0002-5676-2122
Kathrin Kininger @guidobaldine.bsky.social Archivarin im Haus-, Hof- & Staatsarchiv in Wien. Mag Urkunden und alles andere Handschriftliche. Unterrichtet gerne. Lernt gerne.
Jo Hockey @johockey.bsky.social Research and conservation at the @Signetlibrary.bsky.social in Edinburgh since 2019.
leithlinkz.wordpress.com
Also threads of photography - found/family.
Steph Noell (they/them) @librarianstebbs.bsky.social they/elle/iel
📚 Academic librarian by day, downloader of old newspaper comix by night 🏳️🌈 Queer non-binary neurodivergent 24/7
https://lostdailies.gumroad.com
William Purkis @williampurkis.bsky.social Professor of Medieval History and Deputy Head of the College of Arts and Law at the University of Birmingham | #CrusadingInContext | #DistantCamera
Laura Woods @woodsiegirl.bsky.social Book lover, tea drinker, trainee Yorkshire lass. She/her. Librarian and PhD student. Interested in gardening, feminism (intersectional or gtfo, trans women are women), scifi, books and cats.
Emily Wing Rohrbach @emilyrohrbach.bsky.social 🍃Associate Professor of English, Durham University
📋 Director, MA in English Literary Studies
📚Author of Codex Poetics (2026) & Modernity's Mist (2016)
💕#adoptdontshop 🐕🦺💕
Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social Imaginaria, libraries, archives, book history, history of science, social/environmental justice, music, birds, plants, funny things
Water creature | she/her | Californian in northeastern US
The Bard @joshuamneff.bsky.social Disaster Time Lord in exile. Neurodivergent. Ace-Aro. Polyaffectionate. Master of Library Science, Stories, Games, Daydreaming, Mysteries, & Hope. Older than you might think. (He/him/they/them) https://linktr.ee/joshuamneff
Claire Lanyon @clanyon.bsky.social Lover of teaching, technology and social history… work/ed in EdTech & GLAM. Currently: University Librarian. Mum to a Ragdoll cat and wife of a dreamer who shares my joy of fancy dress!
Claudia @metaclaudia.bsky.social Library & history person
davfred finds out @davebrarian.bsky.social Library podcaster, sourdough baker, too-many-cat haver, pun intender. He/him/his
Profile pic: white man with glasses and long hair wearing an orange flannel shirt.
Header pic: slice of sourdough bread with a heart shaped air bubble.
Emily Spunaugle @embrarian.bsky.social Librarian, book history, PhD, library history, blah blah at Oakland U.
Sasha Kim @s-kim.bsky.social pop culture librarian / assistant professor ~ 🇰🇷🇺🇸🏳️🌈
Mike Rush @mikerush.bsky.social Archivist, Scoutmaster, record collector, preventative maintenance enthusiast.
Melissa Wong @melissawong.bsky.social Adjunct instructor in LIS. Grateful, not grumpy. she/hers.
Co-author: Instruction in Libraries and Information Centers: An Introduction (Windsor-Downs, 2020).
Patrice R. Green @readingrenae.bsky.social Curator. Librarian. Public historian.
Minding y’all’s business via archival collections.
Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social History professor, medievalist, and textile artist who loves cozy mysteries and her dog.
Dr. Melissa Ocepek @melissa1776.bsky.social Academic LIS Scholar, Foodie, and Friend! Working to form a union at the University of Illinois
Emily Higgs Kopin @ehkopin.bsky.social texpat in philly, librarian/archivist working in digital collections and preservation. 20% professional, 80% nonsense. she/her 🐶🐱🎮📖🧶💾 emilyhiggs.github.io
Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social Book historian, rare books curator Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience, Antwerp. Opinions mine, I may be wrong, follow/like isn't endorsement. He/him. Caregiver for a partner with Long Covid. Used to be @RareBookLibAntw on Twitter. Profile pic by LUCID.
Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social Rare Books Librarian at UofArizona. PhD candidate in Info Science. #BookHistory of early modern Navarre (bookselling/private libraries), #DH, #DHmakes, libraries, rare books. Senior Bibliography Editor for Chymistry of Isaac Newton. Opinions are my own.- P Paper Castles @papercastles.bsky.social Folkie, Origamist, Librarian, Archivist, Idler
Thomas Schmid @thschmid.bsky.social archivar/archivist, historiker/historian, latinist #archivCH #fridaynightatthearchives #viedarchiviste #AarbergBisZweisimmen
Mastodon @th_schmid@openbiblio.social
Instagram @th_schmid
Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social Will die on niche hills, windows always open.
Libraries, archives, preservation, art, turtles, Chicago, bricks, the desert.
Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social English professor, book historian. 19th C, mainly. I wrote Selling Sexual Knowledge (CUP, 2025). Now working on MANUFACTURING LITERATURE and a few smaller projects. https://sarahbull.me/
Alisa K Beer | KnitSpinQuilt @alisakbeer.bsky.social https://knitspinquilt.etsy.com for my project bags & notions for crafters. #KSQshop for shop posts.
Long COVID migraineuse & fiber arts multi-crafter. Medieval historian, former rare books cataloger, collector of c21 SFF(H).
snack 🧃 @snacki.es they/her. full time start up marketing director. also full time nuisance. overthinker. reduce harm. lead with kindness. take no shit. ban guns, not books.
MaryAnn @maryannharlan.bsky.social MLIS professor; dog lover; ambivalent sports fan, reader of books, occasional rage posts
Sarah Fancher @fanchidon.bsky.social Librarian, in it for the people, not the books. Foodie. Optimist. Puns & high fives. Opinions do not represent any employer.
Maura Smale 😷💉 @maurasmale.bsky.social Chief Librarian at Mina Rees Library, CUNY Graduate Center, proud resident of the CUNYverse, striving for #critlib/antiracist practice, posts = my own. she/her maurasmale.com
also maurasmale@mastodon.social
Candace Richards @circa-candace.bsky.social Museum type. Mediterranean archaeologist. Coeliac traveller. Typo aficionado.
Current research project: Reuse and recycling practices, Nea Paphos, Cyprus.
A/Curator at CCWM Sydney Uni.
Lives on unceded Gadigal land.
She/her
📸 my own unless credited
Molly Schwartzburg @bibliomolly.bsky.social Curator of Printing and Graphic Arts, Houghton Library. Minimalist on even days, maximalist on odd ones. Don’t lick green books.
Sarah Shreeves @sshreeves.bsky.social Librarian. Dean. Gardener. Fire eater.
Liz Ott @elizott.bsky.social Director of the Rose Library, Emory University, she/her
Brad Scott @trichocolea.bsky.social Working with the Sloane Herbarium @qmul.bsky.social & @nhm-london.bsky.social • HPS @stsucl.bsky.social (1980s) • @routledgebooks.bsky.social (1990s) • publishing technologist • DH • bryophyte recorder, Sussex @bbsbryology.bsky.social
Chloe Richardson @bonjourchloe.bsky.social Floridian, mother, museum professional, lover of material culture. she/her
Colleen T @librarycolleen.bsky.social I read a lot of links; I post a lot of links. Mostly special collections, archives, libraries, museums, history, & technology. (#GLAM).
I teach in an MLIS program at [redacted]. Does not represent my employer.
#RBMS26