Exhibit Announcement: The Binder’s Art
If you have read my previous posts, you may have noticed my slight preoccupation with books not as texts, but as artifacts. I get excited …
SLU Special Collections Currents
Saint Louis University Libraries Special Collections
If you have read my previous posts, you may have noticed my slight preoccupation with books not as texts, but as artifacts. I get excited …
Autumn: “season of mists and mellow fruitfulness” – but also of crafts and harvest festivals. Growing up in New England, I placed fall festivities like …
When I was eight years old, I spent hours combing through a clover patch in my parents’ backyard, searching determinedly for an elusive specimen: the …
Our books like to keep many secrets (from centuries-old flowers pressed carefully among their pages to the carcasses of bookworms who gorged to death on …
What do tending livestock and working in a rare book room have in common? Both have a tendency to make your hands look like this: …
Holding a rare book is the closest I’ve come to time-walking. Perhaps this assertion seems dubious coming from someone who spent childhood summers chopping rutabaga …