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  1. RT @calisphere: Muir: I am surprised to find these measureless fields of water richly pervaded with divine beauty…I must see more of it ...
  2. RT @calisphere: Muir: I mean to start for Cuba tom. or next…do not grow stronger here…shall be glad of the chance of studying the sea ht ...
  3. RT @calisphere: Muir, FL 1857: Still a prisoner of sickness…Hope of enjoying glorious mountains of S America does much to sustain me htt ...
  4. RT@calisphere Today begins a week of tweeting from the letters of John Muir! Here's a biography to get you acquainted: http://bit.ly/4xB0HO
  5. Digital Object of the Day: The San Francisco AIDS Oral History Series: Medical Response, 1981-1984: Volume I: http://tinyurl.com/y9td3t8
  6. John Muir web event here Dec 1-8 Muir will "speak" through recently digitized letters http://bit.ly/5DN7Kz
  7. Digital Object of the Day: The plague kills 16,000 inhabitants of Venice this month in 1630. The Norway rat: http://tinyurl.com/ya6ukpx
  8. Digital Object of the Day: How will YOU celebrate?: http://tinyurl.com/yj3vfe9
  9. Photos from Bancroft collection in new book, Japanese American Resettlement Through The Lens: http://bit.ly/6zuyEg
  10. DigitalObject of the Day:Galapagos sketch to commemorate 1859 publication of Darwin's "On the Origin of Species": http://tinyurl.com/ybcs69p
  11. Digital Object of the Day: 11/23/1852,earthquake creates fissure through which waters of Lake Merced flow to sea: http://tinyurl.com/yfwu833
  12. Digital Object of the Day: Wheeler Hall in 1964 http://bit.ly/532Guz
  13. Digital Object of the Day: Nov 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address on site of former battlefield. http://bit.ly/zLLEH
  14. Born digital materials... can they be considered special collections? Cliff Lynch says yes: http://bit.ly/4dMGfz
  15. RT@maryelings DataONE to deal with data deluge (partner UC Curation Center aka UC3) http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/22398
  16. Digital Object of the Day:Mark Twain publishes"Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," inspired while here: http://tinyurl.com/ybdvdmh
  17. Since someone asked... here are 178 images that mention "dog" or "dogs" from The Bancroft Library: http://bit.ly/3u7aom
  18. ROHO: America's Wine: The Legacy of Prohibition Documentary with Oral History Interviews http://bit.ly/4gJGqt NY Premiere 11/18@Wine2.0 Expo
  19. Digital Object of the Day: Street signs authorized at San Francisco intersections today in 1853: http://tinyurl.com/ykgkj7p
  20. Digital Object of the Day: Bancroft Round Table with Tom Debley discussing Dr. Sidney Garfield, this Thursday: http://tinyurl.com/y8gqvdd