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This is the new Twitter account for the European Research Council (ERC) funded project "Animals in Philosophy of the Islamic World" run by Peter Adamson (@histphilosophy) at Universität München! To kick things off, here's a giraffe.

Women who have confronted lawmakers over Kavanaugh to tell their own stories of sexual assault are actually "paid professionals only looking to make senators look bad," Trump says.

Silk interleaves for the win. They’ve sure done their job of preserving the illustrations in this 16thC Spanish patent of nobility!

Ok Medieval friends, I need a quick translation. From the Limosol Castle in Cyprus. Off tomorrow to Nicosia to see the church where Richard the Lionhearted got married.

A caduceus-wielding Icarus, or Hermes Trismegistus himself? Reasonable people may disagree about who's featured in this book plate by Art Nouveau printmaker Ephraim Mose Lilien. Check out the entire collection of 39 Lilien plates here: bit.ly/2Aq5rSo

The Stanford University Libraries Acquisitions Department is pleased to welcome Kari Simonsen as the new Ordering Specialist! Kari will initially be responsible for ordering resources in the subject areas of Germanic Studies and Medieval Studies. Welcome, Kari! library.stanford.edu/blogs/stanford…

These small flying robots, inspired by wasps, can perch, move objects 40 times their weight, and — when they work together — even open doors. stanford.io/2EHr7xh

The papers of poet and media artist Gerd Stern (1927-) were processed and made available in time for his 90th birthday! library.stanford.edu/blogs/special-…

Books of fortune (proto-Magic-8-Balls) went viral in #Europe in the 15th/16th centuries. You can try your luck w/ this #manuscript version of Lorenzo Spirito's "Libro della ventura," now in our digital collections: collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collec…

Tune in to our FB page today at 3pm CT as we roll out an 11-ft “ribbon map” of the Mississippi River. facebook.com/newberrylibrary #fblive

February will be a busy month for booklovers in the Bay Area and beyond, with a delightful buffet of events and opportunities to enjoy! Read all about the upcoming events here: library.stanford.edu/blogs/stanford… ABAA California Book Fair SFBookPaperFair The CODEX Foundation American Bookbinders Museum

Exciting news to share about the Silicon Valley Archives @stanfordlibs: news.stanford.edu/2019/01/31/sta…

*Climate control*!!! Take that, unwanted pests! Keeping environments cool and dry is one way we work to control pest populations within collections storage areas. (All original artwork by @itsasooz .) #PreservationWeek #preswk

What is "buffered," you ask? When is it ok to use buffered as opposed to acid free? For more on that, check out this Conserve O Gram from the National Park Service : tinyurl.com/y5fydyew

Tiziana Possemato presenting possible extensions of BIBFRAME in modelling data: the SuperWork is the new, highest level of abstraction in Share-VDE entity model, stopping the infinite chain of BIBFRAME Works #eubfws2019 #bibframe #ShareVDE

An explanation of note values in the 15th-century Seville Chansonnier! 😮

Very pleased to welcome Jim Hahn to The Penn Libraries, as our new Head of #Metadata Research!

A Latin song in manuscript GB-Cu Ff.i.17!