Thurs., November 13th at 6:00 PM in 523 Butler Library Seth Kimmel, Assistant Professor, Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, Columbia University Ferdinand Columbus (Christopher’s second son) was an avid bibliophile who amassed one of the largest libraries of the sixteenth century. The series of catalogues that he devised to navigate his collection have […]
Category: Printing History and Book Arts
Book History Colloquium: “Traces in the Stacks: 19th-Century Book Use and the Future of Library Collections”
Tues., October 28th @ 6:00 PM Andrew Stauffer, Associate Professor of English and Director of NINES, University of Virginia The Book Traces Project engages the question of the future of the print record in the wake of wide-scale digitization. College and university libraries increasingly reconfigure access to nineteenth-century texts through public-domain versions via repositories such […]
Diverse Characters: An Exhibition of Letterforms and Books
Diverse Characters: An Exhibition of Letterforms and Books by Russell Maret […]
Rare Book & Manuscript Library Acquires Granary Books Archive
Columbia University Libraries/Information Services’ Rare Book & Manuscript Library (RBML) is pleased to announce the acquisition of the archive of Granary Books, one of the country’s most significant artist book publishers operating today. Founded in 1981 as a distributor, Granary Books began publishing under the direction of Steve Clay in 1985. Granary Books’ mission is […]
The Reader’s Eye: Between Annotation and Illustration
William H. Sherman, Professor of English, University of York November 14, 2013 (Thursday) Butler Library, Room, 523, at 5:00 p.m. (please note the earlier time) Recent scholarship in the lively field of marginalia has treated readers’ marks almost exclusively as a verbal phenomenon – as words, that is, next to other words. But in doing […]