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[harvardfineartslib]

April is National Decoration Month.

Art et décoration was first published in 1897. The publication was suspended during the two World Wars from August 1914 – April 1919, and from 1939 through 1945. The Fine Arts Library has the original volumes if you want to see them. Request to view them in the Special Collections Study Room!

Art et décoration : revue mensuelle d'art moderne Cover title: Art et décoration et l'architecture 1936-37 Paris : Librairie Centrale des Beaux Arts, Frequency note: Monthly French HOLLIS number: 990062486850203941

[curiouscatalog]

Amazing avian friends to brighten your day.

Godey’s Lady’s Book (Philadelphia, Pa. : 1840). Philadelphia, Pa: L.A. Godey. January 1843

Poe, Edgar Allan (editor). Graham’s Magazine. Philadelphia: G. R. Graham]. July 1848, July 1850.

[muspeccoll]

#WordyWednesday

Perfect binding: A misleading term for books that have been “bound” by gluing a series of independent sheets directly to the spine of the book rather than sewing or gluing gatherings in place. (A perfect-bound book effectively has all of its pages tipped in.) This is common in modern paperbacks and results in books that can easily fall apart once the glue gives out and are nearly impossible to repair afterwards. It is a pernicious practice that only has its cheapness to recommend it.

Image: Packer, Nancy Huddleston. Small moments. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1976. PS3566.A318 S5 1976

(via Page — Pulpboard · Rare Books: A Glossary · Special Collections and Archives)

[uispeccoll]

#VoicesFromTheStacks

image taken from Iowa Now.

Bill Sackter was born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1913, born to Russian Jewish immigrant parents. His father passed when he was 7 due to the Spanish flu, and the same year Sackter struggled in school. After taking a mandatory intelligence test, the state sentenced a verdict that placed him in the Faribault State School for the Feeble-Minded and Epileptic. He stayed there for 44 years.

In 1964, when new treatments were being introduced for people with disabilities, Sackter was moved to a halfway house where he worked to support himself, and made friends with filmmaker Barry Morrow and his wife. As their friendship evolved, Marrow became Sackter's guardian, and when Marrow got a job at the University of Iowa, Sackter followed him to Iowa City where he became the proprietor of Wild Bill's Coffee shop.

image taken from The Iowa Source

Wild Bill's Coffee Shop -- The late Tom Walz, a former director and professor in the UI School of Social work, created Wild Bill's Coffee Shop in 1975 to provide work for Sackter. Walz put him in charge of running the small coffee service located in North Hall. The coffee shop employed individuals with disabilities and served as both a job site for them and a learning lab for social work students.

In 2021, 46 years of service, the shop determined that because other coffee shops and kiosks in the area were hiring individuals with disabilities, that they would close down the coffee shop and instead make the now renamed "Wild Bill's" into a "community space, makers' space, and classroom" and that the space will still "collaborate with the disabilities community to include people with disabilities in the school’s social justice advocacy, and carry on the legacy of innovative social work faculty who came before."

Apart from the coffee shop, Bill Sackter was busy working with media groups that were interested in his life. Walz created a written biography about him, while Marrow co-wrote a movie about his life titled Bill (1981). That movie did so well it earned a sequel: Bill on His Own (1983). From the movie Bill, here at UIowa we have the Emmy and the Emmy Award video that the movie won. We also have the documentary that was made about Sackter's life titled "A Friend Indeed – The Bill Sackter Story."

Dennis Quaid (actor), Sactker, and Morrow accepting Golden Globe from the Iowa Digital Library.

More about Bill Sackter and the history of Wild Bill's Coffee Shop can be found here and here on our Iowa Digital Library!

Morrow & Sacktner, image taken from Kickstarter.

We also have other collections relating to disability and disability activism, which can be found by searching here.

Did you know..

that according to the CDC, 1 in 4 adults in the US have some type of disability, 1 in 4 adults (45-64) have not had a routine check-up in the past year, 1 in 3 (18-44) adults with disabilities have an unmet healthcare need because of costs, don't have a usual health care provider, and that many individuals with disabilities are unable to get married without losing their benefits? Learn more from activists Alice Wong, Haben Girma, and the late Evelyne Jobe Villines.

At the University of Iowa, we also have services at the student level [UI Students for Disability Advocacy & Awareness (UISDAA)] and institutional level [Student Disability Services (SDS)].

Gif taken from Giphy.

Happy Disability Pride Month!

-Matrice Y., Special Collections, Olson Graduate Assistant.

[illinoisrbml]

A manuscript copy of the engraved title page of "The Saints Everlasting Rest" by Richard Baxter was found in Baxter's ninth edition from 1662. The ink drawing translates the original Latin text into English.  Call number 237.4 B33s1662 #specialcollections #rarebooks #oldbooks #peoplewhocandraw #manuscript https://www.instagram.com/p/ClmYSw5JUl9/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[noelcollection]

Welcome back!

This week many colleges across the United States of America, including our very own Louisiana State University at Shreveport, start the fall semester and welcome new and returning students to campus. To commemorate the start of classes and a new school year, we found some intriguing entries in our library’s dictionary of college terms and slang from the mid-nineteenth century. We hope you enjoy learning about university life in the 1850s and how things have–and haven’t?–changed in the past 170 years. 

And most importantly, we wish the best of luck to college students this semester, especially our own LSUS Pilots! 

Doctor's note, with pretentious classical Latin flair

Textbook funerals

Celebrate the end of finals...with a merry-go-round ritual?!

Not one, but TWO whole pages dedicated to cramming terminology

A "farcical proceeding" for students, a "leaf of tragedy" for parents/guardians.

A self-defeating way to spend study breaks

Image of Magdalen College from: Combe, William. A History of the University of Oxford. London: R. Ackermann et al., 1814. Volume I. Catalog record: https://bit.ly/3Amw2gY

Dictionary entries from: Hall, Benjamin. A Collection of College Words and Customs. Cambridge: John Bartlett, 1856. Catalog record: https://bit.ly/3pFgkbJ

[pittrarebooks]

Harmonia Macrocosmica or Atlas Universalis Et Novus

This post was written by Natasha Skorupski, a Department of Classics Intern in Archives & Special Collections for the Spring of 2022.

Archives & Special Collections at the University of Pittsburgh holds many rare books and printed materials.  During my internship with the Hillman library and the Classics Department, I came across an interesting book: Harmonia Macrocosmica or Atlas Universalis Et Novus created by Andreas Cellarius and published in 1708.  However, it was not the words or even the illustrations that interested me; instead I was taken by how the book was printed. The images and texts seemed to be printed on one page and then that page was bound to another.

(Above) If you look very closely you can see a faded line parallel to the final bordering black line. The faded line marks where the page, containing the colored print and illustrations, is adhered to the blank page that is part of the bound book.  

For hours I searched trying to figure out the name and more about this process. Eventually I came upon a small bit of information.  Tip in (or tipping-in) printing is when a printed sheet is inserted into a book or manuscript by gluing (or stapling) it to an existing page.  However, the printed page is not part of the book’s binding (Glossary of Book Terms). This was exactly what I was looking for, except after discovering this, I could find absolutely nothing directly about its history.  From searching many different sources and putting pieces together, I came across this conclusion—the original printed pages were mass produced and then (at least for this manuscript) the illustrations were hand painted in, and the paint looks quite similar to a watercolor based paint.  

Having the pages as individual sheets allows for multiple people to be working on the pages at once, and also allows the artist to immediately move to the next page without having to wait around for the paint to dry.  Whenever the paint on the page has dried, it can be bound or glued to a bound book. This is a slower process as only one page can be done at a time, and the glue/paste binding the pages together must fully dry before one is able to move onto the next page. While it was hard finding out about the background of these types of books, there were numerous resources on how to paste bookplates and individual pages into a book.  

The process of binding pages together is extremely simple and is precisely what you think it would be. There are tiny variations in the process, but I will explain to you the one I found on the website of wood engraver and illustrator Andy English. The materials he used were a bookplate, scrap paper, pencil, small brush (good enough to avoid bristles detaching themselves), glue, a soft cleaning cloth, and a container to mix in (English).

(Above) Image from “Pasting Bookplates into Your Books” by Andy English, 2021.

He recommended PVA (Polyvinyl acetate) glue as it is easily thinned with water, flexible, and acid free. This is important as his mixture is about 60% glue and 40% water, with is mixed in the container. However, he notes that he uses a little less water for paperbacks.  Before you start, make sure to wash your hands and keep them clean at all stages.  Take the bookplate/page you wish to attach and place it on the book/page where you want it.  If you wish, you may mark in faint pencil marks the corners of where the attached page will go. Once the mixture is made, place the bookplate/page face down on a clean piece of scrap paper (photocopy paper is perfect).  Take some paste on the brush and (holding the plate firmly with a finger) brush the paste on the bookplate/page from the center going outwards (English).

(Above) Image from “Pasting Bookplates into Your Books” by Andy English, 2021.

It is important not to overload the plate with paste! Once the paste is on, take the bookplate/page and hold it above where you want to place it in the book.  Then carefully, but deliberately, place it onto the book and smooth it down. If there is a little too much glue, use a clean cloth (lightly dampen with clean water) to wipe it carefully and use light pressure to avoid damaging the surface of the paper (English).

(Above) Image from “Pasting Bookplates into Your Books” by Andy English, 2021.

 Lastly, leave the book open until it has thoroughly dried.

Works Cited

English, Andy. “Pasting Bookplates into Your Books.” Pasting In Your Bookplates, PB Hosts, 2021, https://www.andyenglish.com/pasting-in-your-bookplates.

“Glossary of Book Terms.” AbeBooks, AbeBooks, 28 Mar. 2022, https://www.abebooks.com/books/rarebooks/collecting-guide/understanding-rare-books/glossary.shtml#T.

[luaadblog]

Prof. San Martin's ART 195 Latin American Art class stopped by the Linderman Library Special Collections last week to get a closer look at the Francis Magnin collection provided by Archives and Special Collections Librarian Illhan Citak. #lehighu #art #arthistory #architecture #design #specialcollections #archives (at Lehigh University Art, Architecture and Design) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cisbu9pOIKN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[homegrown-kc]

New Patron episode: the Kansas Room Special Collections at the Kansas City Kansas Public Library featuring Librarian Anne Lacey. @kckpubliclibrary Homegrown KC is a podcast dedicated to exploring Kansas City's fascinating history and sharing stories from its rich past. It is available wherever podcasts can be found including but not limited to Audible, Amazon Music, Google Music, Pandora, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Facebook, Vurbl, and Audea. To become a patron supporter subscribe to redcircle.com/homegrownkc or patreon.com/homegrownkc. Subscribers get access to exclusive bonus episodes featuring other local historians, archivits, and museum professionals. They also receive an item from the merchandise store valued at 5$ or less, and a shout out on every episode and social media post. Or you can give a one time donation at redcircle.com/homegrownkc or Ko-fi.com/homegrownkc. All donors will receive a shout out. And 1% of all Ko-Fi donations will go to fight climate change. To see what merchandise is available, go to zazzle.com/store/homegrown_kc_store. For more information on each topic, visit my website: homegrownkc.wordpress.com. and sign up for my monthly newsletter on my website as well. Like, follow, and subscribe to the show on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, and Youtube. Rate and Review the show where you listen, especially on Apple Podcasts. Thank you Bjorn, Joan, and Jeanna for your continued support. Thanks also goes to Sarah McCombs for the creation of my logo; the Dear Misses for use of their song Kansas City, as the intro and outer music of the show; to local libraries; and to all my wonderful listeners. Cheers! #homegrownkc #communityhistory #stateandlocalhistory #kchistory #kcproud #historypodcast #podcastersofinstagram #specialcollections #kansasroom #kckpubliclibrary https://www.instagram.com/p/CeMfK1oJT1p/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[seleuss-holiday-collection]

SELEUSS - HOLIDAY COLLECTION - V3

THIS 6 PIECE HOLIDAY COLLECTION HAS THE FOLLOWING TRUFFLES:

MUCHEN MUNICH 38% (MILK CHOCOLATE TRUFFLE)

GRAND MARNIER

EIREANN D'OR (GLENCARA IRISH CREAM)

TOM & JERRY: PUMPKIN SPICE (REAL PUMPKINS)

ACER ORGANIC MAPLE TRUFFLE

ORANGE BLOSSOM SPECIAL (HONEY)

[seleuss]

SELEUSS - 12PC Special Truffle Collection

A new set of our award winning chocolate truffle in a 12 piece giftbox will be available this Thursday! This box contains the following truffles:

Rosa Mundi (Rose Petal infused)

Eireann Irish Cream (Eireann d'Or) The Golden Kavanagh

Brazilian Organic Honey

Orange Blossom Special (Honey)

ELIXIR de Framboise: Chambord

ELIXIR: VSOP Napoleon Brandy

Figues et Oranges (Figs & Oranges)

Pepper's Strawberries & Cream

Buckwheat Blossom Honey

Dunkel Schwarz (Schwartz) 100%

https://www.instagram.com/seleuss/

[curiouscatalog]

From: Wilson, Alexander, 1766-1813. American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States. Philadelphia : Bradford and Inskeep, 1808-1825

QL674 .W76

[muspeccoll]

This deck of playing cards is from a series engraved in southern Germany ca. 1496, and is believed to commemorate the marriage in that year of the future King Philip I of Spain (son of the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I) to Joanna the Mad (daughter of King Ferdinand of Aragon and Queen Isabella of Castile). Instead of hearts, spades, clubs, and diamonds, these cards use chalices, swords, pomegranates, and polo sticks.

The University Libraries and a private collector are partnering to make an extensive collection of medieval and early modern materials available to scholarship through digitization. These materials do not belong to the Libraries, but the scans are freely available for use in research and teaching. See more in the University of Missouri Digital Library.

[uispeccoll]

#VoicesFromTheStacks

It's the last day of National Native American Heritage Month and so today, from our collections, we highlight our Native American Student Association (NASA) Records!

Images in the collage above taken from the 1995-96 folder of photographs.

The Native American Student Association, originally called The American Indian Student Association, was established in the fall of 1989, and renamed in 2013. Our collection features images from different Powwows, and club events, as well as programs! Powwows, according to the programs in the collection, are a "gathering, a social occasion, and a time for Indian peoples to gather together to sing and dance as well as honor the heritage that has been passed down to them from their ancestors. Modern powwow dancing is an entity unto itself. The different styles are derived from modern traditional dances of the various tribes but the individual dances are not specific to any one tribe-- though they are often associated with a particular geographical area."

We have a variety of the programs from different powwows, ranging from 1991-2014! Be sure to check them out. We also have club data, such as the constitution from 1993-95 and newspaper coverage!

NASA, is also still an active organization! To learn more about them, you can follow them on their social media platoforms:

Instagram

Facebook

Youtube

Lastly, while we at The University of Iowa have an Acknowledgement of Land and Sovereignty, we understand that this is not enough. We are actively working to ensure subject headings are correct for our collections, and that representation is presented properly and respectively.

--Matrice Y., Special Collections, Olson Graduate Assistant.

[illinoisrbml]

☃️The RBML books were all dressed up in their finest velvet bindings when Uncle Jack (London) decided to crash the party in his best hipster flannel 🌲 So, what's the dress code for your books this holiday season? Season's greetings from the RBML team! #specialcollections #rarebooks #velvetbinding #jacklondon #callofthewild #medievalmanuscript #milton #ptolemy https://www.instagram.com/p/CmZ6MkFJd7M/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[antonioscarinci]

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