Written by Sarah Cassone, Processing Intern Dan Talbot Papers MS Student, Palmer School of Library and Information Science, Long Island University One thing that is striking upon processing the Dan Talbot Papers is the types of materials his company kept and the attention to detail each film was given. When I think about the […]
Tag: Rare Book and Manuscript Library
A Panel on Personalities in Post-war Publishing
with Loren Glass, Boris Kachka, and Jay Gertzman December 11, 2013 (Wednesday) Butler Library, Room, 523, at 6:00 p.m. Loren Glass is a Professor of English at the University of Iowa and author of Counterculture Colophon: Grove Press, the Evergreen Review, and the Incorporation of the Avant-Garde (Stanford University Press, 2013). Boris Kachka is […]
The Death of the Guest Book
Written by Sarah Cassone, Processing Intern Dan Talbot Papers MS student, Palmer School of Library and Information Science, Long Island University I’m currently working on processing the Dan Talbot Papers at the Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Columbia University. The Dan Talbot Papers were acquired by RBML in April 2009. Dan Talbot was […]
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 […]