Our campus is full of cherry blossoms. But every year, the ones in front of Canaday bloom first in shocking pink while the rest of campus is only starting to be green.

Wind!

The East Coast doesn't really get much powder but this winter has brought us some which blows out dramatically whenever the wind blows

when I mend alone...

Line

Bryn Mawr's version of bathroom graffiti, in the grouting between tiles is written any word or phrase with line in it

I love mending

we constantly pause our mending work to investigate and enjoy lovely old books

"a grammar of cree"

hint: if you want your book to be mended, date inscriptions (this note was 1908...on the title page was another note, dated 1858). bonus points for being able to write "half a century after this book was given to me."

"Martin Luther's Catechism translated into Algonquin Indian"

complete with a lovely map of the Schuylkill River

What's hidden beneath

perhaps one of the most interesting things about these old (broken) books is the type of scrap paper used in the construction of the spines...

Altbulgarischen Grammatik

My jobs at my college library mainly deal with problems. I don't really shelve anymore. Instead I search for books reported missing and fix books that are broken. Well, this library has a collection of (old) books still in Dewey Decimal (most of the library is in LOC) which are usually very, very broken and if something in there is listed as missing, it's genuinely missing. So it's a disheartening job to not find 100s of books. But what sort of makes up for this is that i constantly (instead) find books that the library has no record of. The following, hand-written manuscript basically validates my hours in those stacks!

title page

the whole thing is hand-written in delightful old-fashioned writing.

Shelving

my weight lifting regime

Cherry Blossoms

Stunning

dining hall chandelier


this is such a bmc thing to find written into a library book. other colleges have profanity written in the books, bmc has high-brow criticism