- Last Friday, we bid a bon voyage to our Cataloging Coordinator for The Field Book Project, Sonoe Nakasone, as she heads to the District of Columbia Public Library. Before she left though, she left us with some parting reflections. [via The Field Book Project blog, NMNH/SIA]
- Food and history, a great combination. What we ate and how we cooked it are explored at The History Kitchen. [via Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig, SIA]
- Not such a a simple process, an in-depth look at the science and chemistry behind idenitfying photographs and preserving them. [via Nora Lockshin, SIA]
- That's a good way to use your nose, a project at the British Library is using a mechanical sniffer to analyze the smell of old books to help preserve them. [via Kirsten Tyree, SIA]
- Attention cat owners, be wary of leaving your books open. Some medieval scribes did not heed this warning and their cats left behind some traces of their presence in their books. [via Nora Lockshin, SIA]
- Speaking of medieval manuscripts, in this brief video graphic designer and illustrator Seb Lester demonstrates a form of Medieval blackletter typography that was used commonly in Europe from 1150 to around the 17th century. [via This is Colossal]
Sketchbook, February 2013 from Seb Lester on Vimeo.
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