{"id":129,"date":"2009-04-08T08:56:18","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T15:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/?p=129"},"modified":"2009-04-08T08:56:18","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T15:56:18","slug":"blogging-the-beinecke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/blogging-the-beinecke\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogging the Beinecke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brblroom26.wordpress.com\/\">Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities<\/a> is a blog featuring amazing finds from Yale&#8217;s phenomenal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.library.yale.edu\/beinecke\/\">Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library<\/a>. I like the <a href=\"http:\/\/brblroom26.wordpress.com\/2009\/02\/23\/lesbian-pulp-novels-1935-1965\/\">lesbian pulp novels<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/brblroom26.wordpress.com\/2008\/12\/30\/playing-the-odds\/\">Revolutionary War-era lottery tickets<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/brblroom26.wordpress.com\/2008\/12\/01\/education-for-all\/\">WPA textbooks from the 1940s<\/a>. The blog is maintained by Tim Young (curator of the Modern Books and Manuscripts collection) and Nancy Kuhl (curator of poetry for the Yale Collection of American Literature).<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brblroom26.wordpress.com\/2008\/12\/15\/riding-the-moon-bats-to-saturn\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Moon bat to Saturn\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3294\/3010074949_edcbdc40e2.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"Riding a moon bat to Saturn (obviously), from Voyage dans la Lune, a 1900 book about lunar travel in the Beineckes collection.\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Riding a moon bat to Saturn (obviously), from Voyage dans la Lune, a 1900 book about lunar travel in the Beinecke&#39;s collection.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I think a blog is a great way of showcasing a collection, since it portions out awesome finds in manageable chunks. I often feel overwhelmed by the number of digital collections out there, and a blog helps me to process things at a reasonable pace.<\/p>\n<p>Also awesome: the Beinecke produces <a href=\"http:\/\/brblroom26.wordpress.com\/beinecke-netcasts\/\">podcasts<\/a> about its events and exhibitions. To be honest, I&#8217;m not likely to listen to a podcast of an event (although maybe others are?), because an event is an event &#8212; designed for the people who are there in person, and not necessarily suited for recording. I&#8217;d really like to see them spotlight individual items in the collection, the way they do in the blog, and explore them from a bunch of different angles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities is a blog featuring amazing finds from Yale&#8217;s phenomenal Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. I like the lesbian pulp novels, the Revolutionary War-era lottery tickets, and the WPA textbooks from the 1940s. The blog is maintained by Tim Young (curator of the Modern Books and Manuscripts collection) and Nancy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,14],"tags":[37,30,36],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-collections","category-libraries","tag-archives","tag-cool-catalogs","tag-cool-librarianship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}