Our sincere thanks to Poison Book Project team members Ashley Vernon, Caitlyn Winter, and Amelia Oakes for brilliantly representing our work at the Winterthur Research Building Open House yesterday!
Congratulations to Jackie Killian and Lauren Fair for coordinating this year’s popular and successful event, and all the students, interns, staff, and visiting researchers who shared their work!
This is always one of my favorite public events of the year. If you missed it, mark your calendars to join us next year!
#poisonbookproject #artconservation #materialculture #wudpac @ashley.vernon_@cmwinter_ neptunesnightshade @r_grayburn@ud_artconservation@materialculturewinterthur
Got to celebrate @chloe.terrell23 and see her receive her McNair Scholar medal today. So very proud of this talented and accomplished Blue Hen! Chloe is going to pursue a Master’s in Information Science starting this fall, and I know she’s going to be a stellar librarian! 💕📚🥹
@ud_artconservation #librarylove
Annual grad school cohort photo achieved, with photo-within-a-photo of the two who didn’t make it to Montréal. We miss you, @oldcellulose and Emily!
#aic2026
If you’re at the AIC/CAC Joint Annual Meeting, come see us at the Health & Safety Network booth in the vendor hall. We’ve got loads of great resources for all specialties, and we’re having a free raffle for this print special issue of Studies in Conservation focused on hazards in the library & archives environment!
#healthandsafety #artconservation #bibliotoxicology #aic2026
If you’re interested in Victorian bookbindings and you’ll be at the AIC/CAC Joint Annual Meeting in Montreal this week, come see the talk @chloe.terrell23 and I are presenting, “Decoding Victorian Bookcloth,” in the RATS session. In spite of my choice of audio track here, poison will not be featured. This time around , we’re interested in all the other stuff that makes bookcloth so bookclothy.
#artconservation #bookconservation #victorian #aic2026
Rosie Grayburn and I visited the impressive Lilly Library at Indiana University this week, where we were honored to present the Ruth C. Engs Lecture in Public Health.
We’re grateful to Ruth Engs, Professor Emerita, for generously supporting this kind of community programming. We appreciate Erin Chiparo, Silver-Norman Curator of Dermatology, General Medicine, and Science, and the rest of the library team for the warm welcome and engaging event, which included an expansive and interactive pop-up exhibit, our lecture, and a reception with an emerald-green inspired mocktail. We had a stellar time in Bloomington!
#poisonbookproject
#bibliotoxicology
@r_grayburn@iulillylibrary
Home from our nearly 2-week mother-daughter sojourn in Madeira, and I am already missing my beautiful Momma so much. It was so special to have this time together to reconnect with family and friends and place. Heart full of gratitude — and eternal saudade. 🇵🇹❤️
We ate at Loja do Chá in Funchal three times in 10 days. We’re obsessed with the black tea grown in the Azores — so many layers of floral, fragrant notes. The cafe offers several gluten-free pastries and lunch options and is very careful about cross-contamination. ❤️🫖❤️
Went on a hilarious pirate-themed historical scavenger hunt all over Funchal with Mom’s childhood friends Tina & Tony and their family (with stops for coffee, dinner, and gelado). This trip is so fun. 🏴☠️
