William Noel
@WillNoel
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Associate University Librarian for Special Collections, Princeton; Chair PACSCL. Free Medieval Manuscripts, people!
Princeton, NJ
Joined March 2009
My article “On the History of the Princeton University Library Collection of Islamic Manuscripts” is out in the latest volume of The Journal of Islamic Manuscripts. The abstract is below. If you don’t have institutional access, contact me.
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Graphic Arts Librarian Position in Special Collections at Princeton. Please share widely. It’s a great job for the right person.
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I was shown this today: Autograph Mozart! Pretty wonderful. In @PrincetonRBSC @PULibrary in Scheide Library by Eric White https://t.co/VdInj7Ihxd
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‘The Force is strong with this one.’ Jedi training in the Breviary of Marie de Saint Pol. Happy #StarWarsDay! #MayThe4thBeWithYou
https://t.co/iom2NlJQDX
@CamDigLib @theUL
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Think you know #Archimedes? Come and learn more about the man and the famous Archimedes palimpsest in our #ULGhostWords event next week! We'll be joined by Dr @WillNoel from @PULibrary who will join our own Dr @suz_paul in a special Q&A: https://t.co/qDL0jAkHtz
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Victoria Van Hyning talks about her extraordinary work: https://t.co/PdKySETAGN. She is on a panel with Ryan Cordell Friday 10am talking about Crowdsourced humanities data:
genizalab.princeton.edu
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Ryan Cordell sums up the Viral Texts Project in Two Minutes, https://t.co/5dHTq8jstW and is on a Panel discussion Friday, 10am New York Time to discuss his Data:
genizalab.princeton.edu
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Princeton is looking for TWO NEW ARCHIVISTS. Please, come help us move mountains!
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Our archivists helped 14 women secure a place in history, identifying them in our Latin America manuscripts collections. Among them is María del Rosario Páez de Llamosas, daughter of former Venezuelan president José Antonio Páez. https://t.co/3fRu9WD68P
#WomensHistoryMonth
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Our new Finding Aids site is live! Peruse our archives like never before with updated search features, accessibility improvements, new request functionality, and more. Start browsing the archives at: https://t.co/cDQ3SexDCt
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I am so looking forward to @PULibrary Gillett G. Griffin Memorial Lecture today at noon: Raina Lampkins-Fielder, Souls Grown Deep Foundation.
libcal.princeton.edu
Please join us for the fourth Gillett G. Griffin Memorial lecture with guest Raina Lampkins-Fielder, curator of The Souls Grown Deep Foundation, an organization dedicated to...
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It's common for professors not to credit librarians, archivist, and curators. Fine (not fine). But when those people don't credit the imaging scientists and processors who gavw them their exhibit's pretty pictures... extra ouch.
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#PrincetonU and @PULibrary is hiring a Librarian for Modern and Contemporary Special Collections! Circulate, apply -- work with the Sylvia Beach Papers and so much more.
This is an exciting post in Princeton Special Collections for someone who really wants to make a difference. That means YOU! Please apply.
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For all Palimpsest fans.
Today we launch our new #exhibition - Ghost Words: Reading the Past. To discover the mysterious hidden world of palimpsests, complete with a 360 tour of our physical exhibition space, please click: https://t.co/D5dI44yb67
#ULghostwords
#Books #LibraryTwitter #History #Longform
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This is an exciting post in Princeton Special Collections for someone who really wants to make a difference. That means YOU! Please apply.
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Our 2nd Project Report is now available on the DS website: https://t.co/c1iakwAN3e Read up on what we've been working on the past few months: a new data model, environmental scan, and more...
digital-scriptorium.org
DS 2.0 is the project carried out between July 2020 and March 2023 to reimagine and rebuild the Digital Scriptorium database as the platform for an inclusive, online union catalog based on Linked...
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The @GrolierClub's exhibition of magazines is something to behold; I don't think I've clicked on so many hyperlinks. Periodicals by Lowell factory girls and former hobos. Black one-offs FIRE!! and THE HARLEMITE. Hemingway's high school literary magazine.
nytimes.com
“Magazines and the American Experience,” at the Grolier Club in Manhattan, explores the rich, colorful and sometimes deeply strange history of American periodicals.
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Transgender Studies past and present with @PULibrary Julie Mellby and Sarah Howard Friday Feb 26, 2pm
princeton.edu
Join us for a live webinar highlighting transgender studies, past and present, in Princeton University Library collections and private archives. RL Goldberg (they/them), English Department and...
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