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By Alice Northover

It’s Friday once more and I’m holed up in my snow-proof bunker anticipating Nemo — both the storm and the movie.

Readers browsing through the damaged library of Holland House in West London, wrecked by a bomb on 22 October 1940.

The University of North Carolina’s Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library is publishing one piece of Civil War-era correspondence a day, 150 years to the day after it was written.

Academic reference inflation has set in.

The Millions has their first original ebook.

Music at New York Fashion Week.

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Tracking people across security cameras today and forensic science of the Victorian era.

Bookish has finally launched and reaction is mixed.

Why aren’t academics tweeting? Not for the reasons you think.

Sir James may be number 1 in our estimation at the OED, but Google ranks him second to "Councilman #1" on Being Human. http://t.co/9bipfnCP

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Katherine C. Martin

The thriving academic blogosphere.

Why isn’t there cocaine in Coke anymore?

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Timbuktu’s priceless manuscripts saved.

Agatha Christie was investigated by MI5 over Bletchley Park mystery.

Clocks!

Teaching tips from Tim Gunn.

A Russian family cut off from the world for 40 years.

Sally Tomlinson’s life as a woman professor.

Alice Northover joined Oxford University Press as Social Media Manager in January 2012. She is editor of the OUPblog, constant tweeter @OUPAcademic, daily Facebooker at Oxford Academic, and Google Plus updater of Oxford Academic, amongst other things. You can learn more about her bizarre habits on the blog.

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By Alice Northover

Friday procrastination is back! Apologies for the absence loyal followers but this blog editor has been jetsetting, mysterious, and then trapped in an email prison as a result of the mysterious jetsetting. What did I miss? Well here are some things you may have missed:

A brief history of taxi words.

Underground NYPL is now on Google Plus.

Textscapes in airports. The words, the words!

If you like it [the libary], then you should have put a pin on it [your coat]. (h/t LJ)

How Facebook engineers grapple with how people actually speak versus how computers speak.

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Dude, you can ride waves in the sky.

Conspiracy theories in literature.

An OED Appeal for bookmobile.

A Future of Libraries infographic.

Websites can be creepy. (And I should stop saying ‘Howdy!’ in emails.)

Dali controversy. Art claims. Confusion.

Septuagenarian Akutagawa Prize Winner. (h/t The Millions)

William Blake work rediscovered.

Newark Library’s painting is on display once again.

Tweet! Tweet! World’s largest natural sound archive now fully digital and fully online.

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Granta is going to produce its next once-a-decade list of British novelists under 40.

Harvard should admit more poets.

The Guardian’s higher ed chat tackled the role of university librarians in access to research.

A Town Like Alice and the Australian vernacular.

There are many myths of weight loss.

Chinese readers are crazy for crazy James Joyce.

The post-treatment health for cancer patients.

How are we doing on those Millenium development goals?

Alice Northover joined Oxford University Press as Social Media Manager in January 2012. She is editor of the OUPblog, constant tweeter @OUPAcademic, daily Facebooker at Oxford Academic, and Google Plus updater of Oxford Academic, amongst other things. You can learn more about her bizarre habits on the blog.

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By Alice Northover

What do you read when struck down with a winter cold? Run back to the classics of Fitzgerald and Spielberg; learn from the ancients and panic about technology; and try not to look at things that make your eyes fall out.

In anticipation of the upcoming movie, the literary world is going Gatsby. First up, “Where Daisy Buchanan Lived.”

The University of Chicago received a package for Henry Walton Jones, Jr (Indiana Jones).

Portraits of literary greats.

Russian animated literature!

Cancer scientists take lessons from the ancient Greeks.

Music inspired by books. Next up band names inspired by books?

New technology + publishing = +1 on to do list.

Rachel Fershleiser of Tumblr on the Bookternet.

Bram Stoker and Walt Whitman were pen pals.

Articles for deletion on Wikipedia.

Beautiful bookbinding.

In defense of memes.

The antimonopolist history of the world’s most popular board game.

An online tutorial for medieval Latin.

Our most intriguing book review yet: “my big criticism with The Book of Marvels And Travels is that it’s not very good as a videogame. i found it extremely hard to manipulate the controls through the pulpy binding and the graphics are no good. i tried to visualise about what i was reading and then i started imagining a blue triangle moving through an endless purple void and when i woke up my pillow was gone.”

And finally Gatbsy!

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Alice Northover joined Oxford University Press as Social Media Manager in January 2012. She is editor of the OUPblog, constant tweeter @OUPAcademic, daily Facebooker at Oxford Academic, and Google Plus updater of Oxford Academic, amongst other things. You can learn more about her bizarre habits on the blog.

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By Alice Northover

The Christmas rush isn’t limited to retail outlets as the OUPblog and its editors have been busy the past few weeks, so here is our much delayed reading roundup.

In librarians versus the apocalypse, never bet against the librarians.

My new favorite bibliography courtesy of the Drunken Botanist.

Family bringing you down? You’d have had a miserable time with these artists.

The role of auditoriums in the pre-television era. (h/t Paris Review)

Letters from artists complete with paint stains.

Is your library haunted by a ghost of Christmas past?

The Highline and urban spaces.

How do you spell Hanukkah?

Robert Gray on typewriters. (h/t Shelf Awareness)

Harvard’s experimental library.

OED Appeal of the week: party animal.

Utterly marvelous OxfordWords post on John Milton.

David Gutowski’s best music of 2012 lists list is phenomenal.

Georgetown University Press I could kiss you: How to pick a publisher.

A new report on the shifting research methods of historians.

Gregory Jusdanis on intellectual culture in Greece.

Xerox, history, and historiography.

Alice Northover joined Oxford University Press as Social Media Manager in January 2012. She is editor of the OUPblog, constant tweeter @OUPAcademic, daily Facebooker at Oxford Academic, and Google Plus updater of Oxford Academic, amongst other things. You can learn more about her bizarre habits on the blog.

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By Alice Northover

What happened to 2012? I checked the book room, those weird spaces between the cubicles, and the inexplicable drawers in conference rooms (why would they have stuff in them in the first place). Here’s a week in (my) reading — a particularly librarianish one too.

Are you happy to see me or is that organic compounds in your Martian soil analyzer?

Happy Birthday Texting! Do not fear the telegraph. (h/t Susan Ferber)

Sign language and the lexicon: Crowdsourcing new words for science.

Feeling conflicted about your career choice? It’s common in academia.

Did any of you participate in the Twitter fiction festival?

If so, would you adapt your avatar for signature iconography?

When disaster strikes, there’s no way to call.

Hey sexy librarians! Regina M. Anderson, Melvil Dewey, John Vance Cheney, Sam Walter Foss, and Casanova.

You don’t know metadata.

Chanel is reviving ties with Scotland. Bouclé, vous savez?

The daily life of librarians in Iraq, or how to maintain collections with the threat of car bombs.

Terrifying charts of the digital age. (Only terrifying if you’re trying to adapt to new technology trends)

Can you predict the classic books of the future? (h/t The Millions)

A Boston church is selling a Bay Psalm Book to raise funds.

Benjamin White writes about libraries, copyright, and the digital age.

How guillemots adapt (or die) in a changing environment.

And finally, thank you Richard Horton.

The International Journal of Epidemiology is promoting a campaign to strengthen epidemiology in low-income settings. This is important.

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richard horton

Alice Northover joined Oxford University Press as Social Media Manager in January 2012. She is editor of the OUPblog, constant tweeter @OUPAcademic, daily Facebooker at Oxford Academic, and Google Plus updater of Oxford Academic, amongst other things. You can learn more about her bizarre habits on the blog.

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