In today’s news:
John Quincy Adams tweeting thanks to Mass. Society

BOSTON (AP) Starting Wednesday, history will meet modern technology as the Massachusetts Historical Society begins posting Adams' updates from 200 years ago on Twitter. The historical society will include a presidential tracker of sorts, linking maps to show Adam's progress on a diplomatic trek to Russia as U.S. minister…Society librarian Jeremy Dibbell said Adams didn't intend for his diaries to be published. "When he's doing this it's not really for public consumption, although I think the Adamses kind of knew that what they were writing would be read for many years hence," said Dibbell, an assistant reference librarian co-coordinating the society's Twitter feed.

Thanks! It's been a crazy couple days: t.v. crews and an AP interview yesterday, the NYTimes and the NPR show "Here and Now" today. Hopefully that's about the end of it. Fun, but exhausting!!

Pretty neat - I've seen/heard this in the news in four different places in the last day, without even looking for it. It makes you wonder what's causing the groundswell of interest... Twitter, or Adams, or Jeremy.

It's a big week for Dead People's Libraries. The New York Times has a review of Built of Books: How Reading Defined the Life of Oscar Wilde, about Wilde's library. Someone has posted a squib on the work page.