libraries
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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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Samuel V. Lemley, ed. The Four Shakespeare Folios, 1623-2023: Copy, Print, Paper, Type.
This collection presents a fascinating case for examining a specific library’s collections to see how that library presents a version of a rare book.
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SHARP 2025 Rochester Conference Report III: “Transforming Libraries” Panel Review
We are thrilled to share with you the final of report on the SHARP 2025 conference that took place in Rochester, NY July 7-10. Library Transformations If judging by the…
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Seth Kimmel. The Librarian’s Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain.
Seth Kimmel’s book traces the exchange and uses of information collection and organization practices across Iberia and the Mediterranean in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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Andrew Pettegree. The Book at War: How Reading Shaped Conflict and Conflict Shaped Reading.
Andrew Pettegree’s new study investigates the multifaceted ways that books shape and are shaped by conflicts, as well as how wars have influenced writing, publishing, reading and collecting practices.
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Speed dates and workshops with rare books at KU Leuven (Belgium)
KU Leuven Libraries Special Collections gives yearly library sessions on manuscripts and rare books to dozens of students of KU Leuven and – at a lesser degree – of UCLouvain.…
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Reid Byers. The Private Library: The History of the Architecture and Furnishing of the Domestic Bookroom. Terence Dooley and Christopher Ridgway (editors). Country House Collections: Their Lives and Afterlives.
In 1883, Jules Richard wrote that once a bibliophile has a collection of more than a thousand volumes, the room where they are kept quickly becomes a shrine – ‘devient…
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Ex Libris. Designed by Adam P. McIver with art by Jacqui Davis, Adam P. McIver, and Anita Osburn.
The story of Ex Libris is that the Mayor needs to assign a new Grand Librarian, and he’s invited all the town’s book collectors to be considered for the role.…