artist’s books
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Rare Care: Prioritizing the Personal in Rare Books & Special Collections Curatorship with Artists’ Books
In enacting rare care, we interrogate how we frame entry to, and use of, physical materials and spaces alike. Moving away from gatekeepers, we can serve as both curators of…
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Pamela’s Letterbox
At first, the move from in-person instruction to an online Zoom classroom seemed like it would hit us particularly hard in Dr. Matt Kirschenbaum’s “BookLab: How to Do Things with…
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Pandemic Transmission
In Fall of 2019 I took a class at the University of Maryland from Professor Tita Chico entitled “The Postmodern Enlightenment.” In this class we read and compared contemporary works…
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Book Materiality Exploration Kits
This classroom activity was a collaboration between a special collections librarian and a library and archives conservator, testing a new approach to engaging students with books as material objects. The…
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Michael Hampton. Unshelfmarked: Reconceiving the artists’ book
Michael Hampton. Unshelfmarked: Reconceiving the artists’ book. Axminster, Devon: Uniformbooks, 2015. 174p., ill. ISBN 9781910010068. £12. In Unshelfmarked: Reconceiving the artists’ book, Michael Hampton’s goal is to shift the grounds…