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Gemma Steele

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Librarian @MuseumsVictoria / Adjunct Lecturer @SISCSU / Rare books, cataloguing, marketing. Views expressed are my personal views. She/her 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇦🇺

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I can’t actively be on here anymore, it’s just too toxic! I’m migrating over to Instagram and my handle is the same - please follow me over there for more bookish museum goodness 🙏💫


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Come work with us at @bhl_au @biodivlibrary @museumsvictoria! We're seeking a part-time Digitisation Officer to help us make the foundation of Australia's biodiversity knowledge freely accessible online. tinyurl.com/4vs8x2af cc @atlaslivingaust Please share!

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Marbled endpapers from ‘Mémoires de la société géologique de France’ (1846) @museumsvictoria library

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Guess who's back?! Melbourne Rare Book Week is dusting off the cobwebs for 2023 and ready to get bookish with the good people of Melbourne View this years program NOW on our brand new website: rarebooksmelbourne.com


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Here’s an exciting opportunity to work with Victoria’s State Botanical Library Collection at @RBG_Victoria (with our wonderful colleague Philip Bertling, pictured here in their rare book room with @museumbooks). #LibraryJobs careers.vic.gov.au/job/librarian-…

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From the ‘Illustrated index of British shells’ by GB Sowerby (1859)

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Had some time in with the @museumsvictoria library collection for the first time in a while after doing mainly digital tasks for the past six months so I finally have beautiful things to post again! Case in point, this bird of paradise from The Naturalist’s Miscellany

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I heard it's suberb owl day today, happy to oblige #superbowl

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Cataloguing the Duke of Edinburgh’s Library at Buckingham Palace - what a dream job! #LISjobs theroyalhousehold.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/ap…


If you use and value @TroveAustralia, please sign the below Parliament of Australia e-petition in support of the House fully funding Trove Trove is an essential part of Australia’s cultural infrastructure and its funding is due to expire in July 2023 👇 aph.gov.au/e-petitions/pe…


Nice blog post by Susannah Helman about both the history of Gould's Birds of Australia and conservation of the @nlagovau copies nla.gov.au/stories/blog/c…


Happy birthday @nicolekearney 🎉 I picked some flowers for you from Sydenham Edwards’ ‘Botanical register’, contributed to @bhl_au by @museumsvictoria 💐

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Come and work alongside me! Digitisation & Technical Support Officer with @bhl_au (2 day/week, fixed term for 1 year) jobs.careers.vic.gov.au/jobtools/jncus…


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Satirical primates, grimacing grotesques, incestuous knights and seditious serfs??! You won't want to miss this keynote from @digiscriptor on the wild world of manuscript #marginalia at #BSANZ22 Register now! bit.ly/3SpBHK2

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Great tool for those thinking about how to move towards equity in our cataloguing and metadata creation by @Library_Vic rare books cataloguer Nina Whittaker for the @CivicaPty One Thing series civica.com/en-au/thought-…


It’s heeerrrrrreee 🎉 Such a pleasure to work on bits like this @museumsvictoria Our 2022 rare book calendar sold out super quick so don’t snooze on this one store.museumsvictoria.com.au/products/melbo…

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So what's the vibe, are people moving off of Twitter? Where are y'all hanging out instead? I've never felt more like a dweeb trying to get invited to a cool party than I do right now... MUSKrat illustration from Audubon's 'Quadrupeds of North America' (1851)

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Just wrote a MARC record for this stunner - a catalogue of economic botany specimens from the old Industrial & Technological Museum (AB787) so that it can be digitised and uploaded to @bhl_au for all to enjoy! Great way to end the week 🍎🍐

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