“A Contest of Sunbeams”: the Literary Annuals
by Andrea Reithmayr I’m very pleased to have the opportunity to write a monthly column for the Incubator Project. My goal is to expand on the information in Beauty for Commerce: Publishers’ Bindings 1830-1910 and to share my enthusiasm for this wonderful period in the history of the book. This first entry will be a...
“To Arrive Where We Started” at the Redwood Library
And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time… –Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot To Arrive Where We Started, a new exhibition at the Redwood Library and Athenaeum in Newport, RI, explores this theme composed by Eliot. Designed and installed by artist Peter...
Pressed Letters: a gallery + library partnership
Today we’re pleased to feature an interview with Peter Vangioni, curator for the Christchurch Art Gallery in New Zealand. Peter shares some beautiful visuals and answers our questions about a partnership between the gallery and the Central Library in Peterborough. The result is “Pressed Letters,” an exhibition that highlights New Zealand’s letterpress work from 1975...
The Treasure Room: The Historical Musical Instrument Collection at Vassar College
by Erinn Batykefer The George Sherman Dickinson Music Library at Vassar College is a special place, and not just because it supports a well-respected Music Department. The top floor also houses the United States’ first example of a museum within a library; named “The Treasure Room,” the museum collects and preserves the Music Department’s Historical...
Page to Stage: At season’s end
Brandon Monokian is a theatre artist who works in the New York City and New Jersey area. For the Page to Stage guest blog series, Brandon will document the process of bringing three works from the page to the stage – all in the Princeton Public Library. by Brandon Monokian And so a second season...
Page to Stage: Fate, love, and music in “Eurydice”
Brandon Monokian is a theatre artist who works in the New York City and New Jersey area. For the Page to Stage guest blog series, Brandon will document the process of bringing three works from the page to the stage – all in the Princeton Public Library. by Brandon Monokian Next up on the Page...
Minneapolis Central Library’s picture files, where past & present coexist
by Andy Sturdevant. Originally published on August 1, 2012 in the MinnPost weekly arts column, The Stroll. Up on the third floor of the Minneapolis Central Library, past the racks of CDs and near the drawers of sheet music, there are several rows of file cabinets, each nearly 5 feet high, containing hundreds of thousands...
Featuring: the Beauty for Commerce exhibition
We are so pleased to welcome Andrea Reithmayr, Special Collections Librarian and the Rare Book Conservator at the University of Rochester River Campus Libraries. Today she discusses the Beauty for Commerce exhibition, a collection and examination of vintage book bindings – and gives us the inside scoop on some of her favorites. Happy browsing! - Laura Can...
British Film Institute National Film and Television Archive
by Erinn Batykefer Preserving film is a notoriously tricky business. The material itself is delicate, degrades easily, and the conditions that best preserve it are difficult to maintain. Now, exciting leaps in technology allow films to be produced digitally–in just ten years, the miles of physical film Peter Jackson used to create The Lord of the...
Historic Pittsburgh’s Interactive Maps | Pittviewer
by Erinn Batykefer National Book award-winning poet Gerald Stern, Pulitzer-prize winning author and essayist Annie Dillard, and Pulitzer prize-winning playwright August Wilson are all native to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The city’s neighborhoods, its streets and houses, its rivers and bridges and industries are the backdrop for some of the most memorable scenes in literature. Pittsburgh Historic Sites’ Pittviewer is...
Featuring: The Performing Arts Library at the Museum of Performance & Design
by Christi Weindorf Located in San Francisco’s Civic Center district, the Museum of Performance & Design Performing Arts Library (MPD PAL) collects, preserves and provides access to materials about the performing arts and theatrical design. The non-circulating research collection was started in 1947 by Russell Hartley, a performer and costume designer for San Francisco Ballet. ...
Bridgeman Art Library: Art, Culture, & History Images
by Erinn Batykefer Bridgeman Art Library is an incredible resource that makes the world’s artistic, cultural, and historical images searchable and accessible from a single platform. The organization partners with museums, artists, and collectors around the world to license photographic transparencies of cultural works and make them available online through the Bridgeman Art Library. In...
