@mladair.bsky.social @mladair.bsky.social Archivist, digital imaging, genealogist, taphophile, Michigander. Opinions barely my own, def. not my employer's. Resist!
The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social The Bibliographical Society exists to promote the study of the history of the book, for librarians, collectors, historians and book lovers everywhere.
madeline odent @oldenoughtosay.com chaos feed. heritage, history, old buildings, social justice. 🏴🇺🇸🏳️🌈. sea witch, professional gargoyle, teller of tales. (she/her)(Oxford, England)
Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social She/her, 1st gen, Canadian who's at Harvard but isn't OF Harvard--posts in a personal capacity, mainly about books (w/ cats & flowers thrown in). Now writing an itty-bitty book that aims to be a literary & media history of scrap.
https://deidrelynch.org
Dr. Jill E Gage @jillegage.bsky.social Wing Curator, History of Printing @NewberryLibrary. Dix-huitièmiste. Love Madeira, hot air balloons, civilité type & maîtres écrivains. 
Jolie Braun @joliebraun.bsky.social Curator at Ohio State's Rare Books & Manuscripts Library. Thinking about zine history. Program chair for the Aldus Society, book reviews coeditor for SHARP News. ❤️s STL.
https://joliebraun.com/
Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social Library worker
Jonathan @jsench.bsky.social Prof of Book History @UWMadison. Dir., Center for History of Print & Digital Culture. Author: Intimacy of Paper. WheatleyCensus.org. Summers @CalRBS. Assoc Editor @PBSA. 4:56 marathoner. Mediocre triathlete. Episcopal. Little League ⚾️ coach #BillsMafia 🦬 ♾️
Bob MacLean @bobmaclean.bsky.social Assistant Librarian (rare books), University of Glasgow Library Archives and Special Collections
Katie Mack @astrokatie.com Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Domain verified through my personal astrokatie.com website. She/her. Dr.
Personal account; not speaking for employer or anyone else.
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
Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com Antiquarian bookseller, London. (ABA/ILAB).
Content here mainly old books and dog, some other stuff.
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com Tired person, fighter. Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. Seeing Like a Supply Chain out Oct 2026: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251449/seeing-like-a-supply-chain/. Speaking for myself, not my employer.
Erika Giddens @egiddens.bsky.social rare books, reference, she/her, hi! views my own
@sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social Basic Bibliographic Bitch. Antiquarian Bookseller. Renaissance Platonist.
jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social Vermont librarian. Technology hobbyist. I love the post office. Fix your hearts. Live in hope if you can.
Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social books, beauty, history, folklore. fan of Dickens & @littleseamstress. gets dressed up like a pillow so she's always in bed. patreon.com/sketchesbyboze, https://linktr.ee/sketchesbyboze
John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social AAS Director: Program in the History of the Book in American Culture/Center for Historic American Visual Culture. studies Early American Book Trade & C19 Asylums. plays Modular Synths. loves Chihuahuas. Providence RI.
Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social Defunct account of Ken White, criminal defense attorney and First Amendment litigator. Co-host of Serious Trouble podcast and writer at The Popehat Report. Opinions here are my own. Decent people fight evil.
Signal: KenWhite.1969
bri watson 🐝 @brimwats.com they/m | brimwats.com | PhD., etc. | UWOFA strong
professing @westernufims.bsky.social on how GLAMS describe marginalized folks; information's histories & identity in sociotechnical systems
🔗 Homosaurus.org HistSex.org CritCat.org NCPWG.org QMDC & TMDC
Beth DeBold @elizaaudacis.bsky.social History PGR at Newcastle University | apprenticeship, women, and gender in the long 18c English book trade | previous librarian | New Englander in Old England | no terfs | she/her
Jeff Cannata @jeffcannata.bsky.social Movies: thefilmcast.com
Video Games: dlcpod.com
Science: wehaveconcerns.com
Books: youtube.com/cannatajeff
I love loving things.
Devindra Hardawar @devindra.bsky.social Immigrant. Tech/movie/podcast 🇬🇾 guy. Engadget Editor and podcast host. Filmcast co-host. ATL Film Critics Circle member. He/Him. devindra@devindra.org
David Chen @davechen.bsky.social I’ve been reviewing movies and TV on the internet for 15 years. I host podcasts like Decoding TV and The Filmcast. Check out my newsletter: www.Decodingeverything.com
Lucy Huber @clhubes.bsky.social - S West Coast Librarian @sylvianurse.bsky.social Interested in eBooks, film, humanities, linked data, machine learning, metadata, instruction, open access, oer and open innovation.
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social No longer in good standing with the New York State bar
My newsletter: StringinaMaze.net
William L. Clements Library @clementslibrary.bsky.social The William L. Clements Library collects, preserves, and makes available historical resources about the Americas, with particular strengths in 18th and 19th century American history.
The library is open for research by appointment.
clements.umich.edu
Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social Director, Research and Collections, Cambridge University Libraries and Archives and CUL Research Institute; Bye-Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge; FSA FRHistS; University Deputy Proctor; The Country House Library (Yale, 2017); private views
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
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
Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social Still libraries, websites, Ann Arbor politics, college sports (mostly Virginia and Michigan with a newly-added parental interest in Nebraska). You know, the usual. XML alchemist.
Sierra @sierrasparklet.bsky.social Maps. Cats. Libraries. Beer.
Paul Erickson @mrsidetable.bsky.social Minnesota, Chicago, Austin. NY, RI, Ann Arbor. Old books, gingham, Saabs, side tables. All opinions my own. RT ≠ endorsement.
Director of the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan.
Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com She/her. I write books about carriages, corsets, and smartwatches. Mother of (emoji) dinosaurs 🦖🦕. 羽生結弦 fan. Fan of tea. Born at 332 ppm.
This biography should not be taken as a complete description.
courtneymilan.com
Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social What Do People Do at the Science Museum (illus Qin Leng, 8.26)
Bathtime for Snow Monkeys (illus Yas Imamura,10.26)
Profile pic by Yas Imamura
Prettyokmaggie.com
Meredith Kahn @mkahn.bsky.social ope we wrote a book: https://alastore.ala.org/oryrlib
Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org he/him—textual technologies enthusiast—Associate Professor at UIUC's School of Information Sciences & Department of English—co-director of the Viral Texts Project (viraltexts.org) & Director @skeuomorphpress.org —also https://theanxiousbench.bandcamp.com
Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social Rare Books Specialist @theul.bsky.social |
Hon. Secretary @bibsoc.bsky.social | Fellow @antiquaries.bsky.social | Venetophile | Bellringer | PhD on antiquarian networks in 18thC Lincolnshire (thesis linked in pinned post) 🌈
Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social
Archives, DH, Museums, African American studies, C19 and early C20.
all opinions my own, not my employer's
https://www.dorothy-berry.com
Daryl Green @ilikeoldbooks.bsky.social Librarian working in Edinburgh, living in the hills of the East Neuk; strayed Great Plains drifter; FSAScot; evening miniature painter and tabletop gamer; 📚📷📜🗃️⛰️🌊🖌️.
Merrilee Proffitt @merrileeiam.bsky.social Democracy's Library @ the Internet Archive | Library and archives leader | People at the center of all I do; DEI advocate and practitioner
Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social i work across nyc’s libraries and archives; i was a full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology
architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++
nyc + upstate
wordsinspace.net
Liz Ott @elizott.bsky.social Director of the Rose Library, Emory University, she/her
Dr. Tara Lyons @tarallyons.bsky.social Professor; Bibliography, women and libraries, early modern books and storage; book trade, histories of information; playbooks; Shakespeare; English literature, drama, cats, horses, bees, and little furry critters
Aaron T. Pratt @aarontpratt.bsky.social Pforzheimer Curator of Early Books & Manuscripts at the Harry Ransom Center. Bibliographer, book historian, and VHS guy.
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.
Colleen Barrett @colleenlovesbks.bsky.social Champion of the obscure, Hobbit-like tendencies, Rare Books Librarian at UKL.
Rebecca Baumann @arkhamlibrarian.bsky.social rare book librarian, book junkie, devotee of the weird, angry queer, friend to all monsters, nonbinary freak. Free Substack on queer pulps: https://nympholibrarian.substack.com/
Prof. Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social Book historian, Pop Bibliographer, old book liker, Curator of Special Collections. They/them. Biblioshitposter.
Views my own.
Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social Your favorite medievalist's favorite medievalist. Middle English literature and/in early modern books, with a side of textual editing. In progress: Dirtbag Medievalism, Chaucer's Readers: 1400-2000, Lydgate's Shorter Works
Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social Curator of (very old) curious books, prints on fabric, functional ephemera (newberry.org), Director of a pop-up book society (movablebooksociety.org). History of art, science, decorative food, pirates. Where's the WHIMSY? 🚫AI
Mostly Chicago. She/her
Emily Spunaugle @embrarian.bsky.social Librarian, book history, PhD, library history, blah blah at Oakland U. 
Trans* Book History @transbookhistory.bsky.social Printer-Scholar, Bibliographer, & Librarian | Trans* Histories of the Book in 19C America | Owner of @meanwhilelttrpress | he/him | Opinions my own.
Kathryn Brunet @madamebibliophile.bsky.social 📚 Special Collections Librarian 📍London
☞ primary source literacy & engagement
¶ book hiſtory ❡ palaeography ⁊ codicology
#herbook
Dylan Lewis @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social ¶rare book librarian ¶bibliographer & historian of print, typography, and media ¶video games and cinema ¶he/him 🏳️🌈
📍ATL (by way of Dallas, Munich, and DC)
Honey & Wax Booksellers @honeyandwaxbks.bsky.social Rare books in Philadelphia.
Awarding the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize since 2017.
Use books as bees use flowers.
honeyandwaxbooks.com
Molly G. Yarn @mgyarn.bsky.social Chronicler of bookwomen (misc.) Currently 17thC women printers. Previously SHAKESPEARE'S 'LADY EDITORS' (CUP). Freelance indexer/editor/researcher. A remarkably Independent Scholar.
Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social Historian of #VastEarlyAmerica, gender, family & politics | Director & Librarian @ JCBLibrary | History Prof @ Brown U
#LineageTheBook OUP July, 2025 | On some other platforms and also @ karinwulf.com | Opinions here just mine.
Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social Medievalist, Paleographer, Codicologist, Voynichologist; Executive Director, @medievalacademy.bsky.social; Brown Univ. and Yale Univ. alum; PhD; Red Sox fan
Cait Coker <<digital brat with an insect mind>> @caitcoker.bsky.social Curator, fangirl, utter nerd. Assoc. Prof/Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts at U of Illinois Urbana Champaign. Co-Editor Women in Book History Bibliography at womensbookhistory.org. Fan Studies, Tolkien Studies, SFF Studies. I just really love books ok
Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social Paterno Family Librarian for Literature & Professor of English at Penn State | Editor, Penn State Series in the History of the Book, PSU Press | My Dark Room 2023 @uchicagopress
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo192110828.html
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.
SHARP @sharpweb.org 📚 Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing
💚 Promoting humanities scholarship
🤓 Supporting global, early career, and BIPOC scholars
🪢 Facilitating bookish community
sharpweb.org
SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social An open-access publication of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (@sharpweb.org).
Read Bookish Feature Articles, Book Reviews, Pedagogical Materials, and Bibliographies here: https://sharpweb.org/sharpnews
Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social Workshop in the History of Material Texts @upenn.edu / founded by Peter Stallybrass in 1993, now directed by @zacharylesser.bsky.social, John Pollack, and Jerry Singerman / Mondays, 5:15pm / in person in the Kislak Center, and on Zoom / All welcome
Meghan Constantinou @mrconstan.bsky.social Rare book & special collections librarian & curator, Simmons PhD student, BSA Executive Committee, private collecting and book arts, graphic arts, collector of women's bookplates, proud mom of a cool kid. 
Rare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social Rare Book School is a non-profit institute located in Charlottesville, VA, that provides advocacy, education, and outreach for the study, care, and uses of written, printed, and born-digital materials.
rarebookschool.org
Sarah Werner @wynkenhimself.bsky.social feminist bibliography, old books, mutual aid, and doikayt // author, Studying Early Printed Books 1450–1800: A Practical Guide; editor, The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America; organizer, consistentmoneymoving.org // sarahwerner.net
Jeremy Dibbell @jbd1.bsky.social Librarian, historian of early America, biblio-human, birder. Upstate NY. Opinions here my own.
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
Molly Brown @mollybrrown.bsky.social Reference & Outreach Archivist (the ‘grammer behind the curtain for @NU_Archives) | empathy through history | opinions & exclamation points are my own | she/hers
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
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.
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
Jay Sylvestre @oldslyboots.bsky.social Ice cream maker, rare books curator, papercut artist, assumes that puns are funny automatically
Kate Ozment @grubstreetwomen.bsky.social Professor-turned-librarian; I like my books and cookie dough rare; TX ➡️ CA ➡️ OH; she/they 🏳️🌈 views my own
Christine Jacobson @cejacobson.bsky.social Associate Curator of Modern Books & Manuscripts @ Houghton Library, Harvard University
linktr.ee/cejacobson
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
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