@e_stanf

Librarian doing digital stuff at @HooverArchives, previously @BDLSS. Manuscripts, digitization, public engagement, dogs, bells. She/her.

Joined September 2014
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Just took delivery of these beauties by @MichelleRWarren and @BridgetWhearty and I’m so excited to read both of them I think I might have to alternate pages.
Holy Digital Grail and Digital Codicology side by side

ALT Holy Digital Grail and Digital Codicology side by side

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Next-level trompe l'oeil book of hours right here. Flowers "pinned" to the page with matching parts on recto and verso... cyfrowe.mnk.pl/dlibra/public…
Manuscript page with flowers painted in the margins. One flower is painted so that it looks like it was stuck through holes in the page.

ALT Manuscript page with flowers painted in the margins. One flower is painted so that it looks like it was stuck through holes in the page.

Verso of the manuscript page. Parts of the flower that weren't visible on the other side are shown on this side, including half a bud that's poking through the page.

ALT Verso of the manuscript page. Parts of the flower that weren't visible on the other side are shown on this side, including half a bud that's poking through the page.

weird medieval guys NEW BOOK OUT NOVEMBER 5!!!
@WeirdMedieval28 Jun 2023
feeling a deep sense of kinship with the 15th century flemish illustrator who drew this adorable tiny dog crawling through the page of a manuscript 🥹
An image showing the front of a medieval manuscript page which depicts a tiny dog crawling out of a hole drawn at the bottom, and the back of the same page showing the dog's rear half hanging out of a similarly drawn hole

ALT An image showing the front of a medieval manuscript page which depicts a tiny dog crawling out of a hole drawn at the bottom, and the back of the same page showing the dog's rear half hanging out of a similarly drawn hole

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Plus some of the flowers are actually jewels (this part is a bit spooky, possibly AI-generated)
Manuscript page with a decorated initial A, a bee, and three marginal plants with decorative jewels instead of flowers.

ALT Manuscript page with a decorated initial A, a bee, and three marginal plants with decorative jewels instead of flowers.

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My gut is telling me the page-jumper/fly-napper isn't a dog, but the one on the right on the other hand...the spiked collar is writing checks that good boy can't cash
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Threadddd from #RBMS23!
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Summer heat is here. Farm workers & other outdoor workers desperately need federal heat standards to save lives. With the government's shift to the right, the need has grown. Sign our petition telling @OSHA_DOL to implement emergency heat rules NOW! ufw.org/oshaemergencyheat #Calor
Picture of a field w/sun in background with text overlay saying: HEAT KILLS FARM WORKERS, Tell OSHA: We need emergency heat standards

ALT Picture of a field w/sun in background with text overlay saying: HEAT KILLS FARM WORKERS, Tell OSHA: We need emergency heat standards

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Do you have a stupid little girlfriend? Are her fitness goals silly and bad? Good news, GZCLP is a data-driven strength-training program that’s just condescending enough to make her realize she doesn’t belong in that part of the gym saynotobroscience.com/gzclp-…
Can women do this program? It depends. Does she want to get strong? Does she want to build a little bit of muscle so she can “get toned”? If the answer to either or both of those questions is a resounding yes, then ditch the pink dumbbells and YES — absolutely do this program.

ALT Can women do this program? It depends. Does she want to get strong? Does she want to build a little bit of muscle so she can “get toned”? If the answer to either or both of those questions is a resounding yes, then ditch the pink dumbbells and YES — absolutely do this program.

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It's been a year since I asked this question! We settled on Google Drive, since Stanford (for now at least) has unlimited Drive access. Connection interruptions are handled well and we haven't had any issues with incomplete downloads since we started using the Drive desktop app.
Emma Stanford@e_stanf14 Jun 2022
What's everyone's favorite way to transfer data (for example, transferring 50-100 GB to or from a digitization vendor)? Our current methods are sFTP or physically mailing a hard drive and both make me want to quit my job
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Go find the video of last night's "Would've, Could've, Should've" on YouTube and listen to the sound of tens of thousands of young women screaming "Living for the thrill of hitting you where it hurts / Give me back my girlhood, it was mine first"
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TIL I learned that you shouldn't put receipts in the recycling! I also learned that my local waste company has a cool little tool telling you what to do with your trash recology.com/recology-san-ma…
Recology page showing that you should recycle plastic soap bottles with lids on

ALT Recology page showing that you should recycle plastic soap bottles with lids on

Recology page showing that you should put receipt paper in the garbage

ALT Recology page showing that you should put receipt paper in the garbage

Charlotte Dreizen@CharDreizen5 May 2023
It’s a great question! We want to place all receipts (and cash register tape) in the trash and never recycle them because that kind of “thermal paper” uses BPS/BPA coatings and we don’t want to introduce that into the recycled paper supply!
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Believe me when I say this medieval medical textbook is WORRYINGLY stained digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ob… @PembrokeOxford MS 10
Recto of a medieval page with text in columns and marginal annotations, with a big brown splotch in the middle of the page

ALT Recto of a medieval page with text in columns and marginal annotations, with a big brown splotch in the middle of the page

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Thanks for the shoutout, @hchesner--and the flashback to when @timdungate and I spent two weeks telling the internet how bad we were at our jobs 💛
Fred MacDowell@onthemainline25 Apr 2023
"Digitization tends to squash things. It quite literally turns three-dimensional objects into two-dimensional ones. It’s not as bad as it used to be — just one look at a bitonal microfilm scan will show you how far we’ve come — but it’s still easy to forget..."
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The D&D movie end credits are beautiful and say a lot about what we think medieval manuscripts/generic old books look like and this thread is great and this particular detail is fascinating (my main observation when watching was "That doesn't look like gold leaf")
Allie Alvis (mostly on 🦋 now)@book_historia17 Apr 2023
Replying to @book_historia
And something I don’t think I’ve ever seen executed in so much detail is the incorporation of Islamic manuscript aesthetics into Western high medieval aesthetics
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I feel like there's also probably a lot to be said about how the CGI manuscripts mimic and deviate from actual digitized manuscripts...look at all those shadows for one thing.
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Emma Stanford retweeted
Doug McCarthy@CultureDoug22 Mar 2023
No one: I'd like a complete overview of the copyright status, according to the providing museum, of every digitised Vermeer painting featured in the Rijksmuseum's blockbuster show. Me: ✋ douglasmccarthy.com/2023/03/… #OpenGLAM #Copyright #Museums #OpenAccess

28 Vermeers - Douglas McCarthy

What does the Rijksmuseum’s landmark Vermeer exhibition tell us about museums, copyright and digital collections today? Vermeer is a major exhibition o...

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Maybe I've been radicalized by @MaintenancePod but I would humbly submit that if a bad thing happens to a fat person it's still bad
The New Yorker
@NewYorker20 Mar 2023
For people who are dealing with obesity and diabetes, Ozempic appears to create a path toward a healthy relationship to food. For those who aren’t, “it might function more like an injectable eating disorder,” @jiatolentino writes. nyer.cm/rKPpDHM

Will the Ozempic Era Change How We Think About Being Fat and Being Thin?

A popular, growing class of drugs for obesity and diabetes could, in an ideal world, help us see that metabolism and appetite are biological facts, not moral choices.

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If #IIIF hadn't already been invented, this tweet would have given me a great idea for a set of content delivery standards
Hever Castle@hevercastle2 Mar 2023
Catherine of Aragon & Anne Boleyn both owned a copy of the ✨same✨ printed Book of Hours. Don't forget, you only have until 4 June to see these books on display together. After then Catherine's book will be travelling back home to the @MorganLibrary. #WorldBookDay #HeverCastle
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Now all I've got is an idea for a Mirador plugin that makes it look like each image is being held by to-scale disembodied hands
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Digital library folks: @CLIRDLF's Cost Assessment interest group is looking for new participants. We've spent the last year gathering information and conducting surveys and now we've got lots of data to analyze and disseminate. Join us! wiki.diglib.org/Assessment:C… #datalib #critlib

Assessment:Costs

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