NYPL librarian and author of Bibliocraft: Using Library Resources to Jumpstart Creative Projects will be the guest of honor at this event on Monday, October 27th. See the UCLA Library calendar for more information: Bibliocraft @ UCLA
From Andrew Stauffer and Nines.org comes a new project to find unique copies of 19th and early 20th century books on library shelves that are at risk from digitization initiatives. Many of these books are not marked as ‘rare’ or ‘unique’ and are in danger of being discarded as copies. As the site’s home page says: Thousands of old library books bear fascinating traces of the past. Readers wrote in their books, and left notes, pictures, letters, flowers, locks of hair, and other things between their pages. We need your help identifying them because many are in danger of being discarded as libraries go digital. Books printed between 1820 and 1923 are at particular risk. Help us prove the value of maintaining rich print…
The Material Cultures of the Book Mellon Group, along with the Department of English, are pleased to announce an upcoming talk by Carla Mazzio! This talk is open to the public. The Trouble with Numbers: Calculation and Humanism from the “How-To” Book to Hamlet- A Talk by Carla Mazzio. This lecture, part of Mazzio’s book in progress, Calculating Minds: The Drama of Mathematics in the Age of Shakespeare, explores the affective and dramatic dimensions of mathematical discourse in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. Tuesday March 11, 2014 (4pm) UCR Department of English HMNSS 2212 Snacks will be served! BIO Carla Mazzio, Director of Graduate Studies in English at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, specializes in early modern literature in relationship to the history of…
On the morning of Saturday April 6th, a number of our members gathered for a special session at the 2013 (dis)junctions Graduate Student Conference, an interdisciplinary conference hosted annually here at UCR and put on entirely by the graduate students from the English department. Initially titled the “BAM and Book History Working Group Special Panel” we re-titled it in the introductory discussion as “An Intimate Chat about Archives” – owing both to the fact that, as a first panel of the day, the audience was sparsely populated, and that the short five-minute talks given by the panelists all revisited material produced for a seminar on archival theory taught by English Professor Robb Hernandez the previous quarter. It was a productive chat, however, and felt…