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Seminars
1. Collecting the
Web: Issues of Collection Development, Preservation
and Access
Moderator: Steve Ferguson,
Princeton University. Presenters:
Rebecca Schulte, University of Kansas; Jerome Niebaum,
University of Kansas; James Weinheimer, Princeton
University.
In this, the last decade of the
20th century, the introduction and phenomenal growth of the
Internet and the World Wide Web, has radically changed work
being done in libraries and archives. Issues relating
to access, retention and storage of web-based information
for research purposes are only now beginning to be explored
in depth by information specialists. The inherent
characteristics of electronic records, including ease of
dissemination, revision and deletion challenge the
deliberate and traditional methods of collection development
and cataloging. A project to collect targeted web
sites and make them available to researchers is currently
underway at the University of Kansas. The web sites of
American right and left wing political groups are being
collected for inclusion in The Wilcox Collection of
Contemporary Political Movements. Speakers will
describe the work being done to capture and provide access
to these web sites. The third speaker will
address cataloging issues as they relate to electronic
resources.
2. Building Collections of
Artists' Books in Research Libraries
Moderator: James D. Fox,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Presenters: Marcia
Reed, The Getty Research Institute; Sandra Kroupa,
University of Washington.
Artists' books are considered one
of the most important cultural productions of our age.
It is often difficult for librarians to fit these
intentionally alternative works into traditional collection
development patterns and to define a place for them in the
overall collections. This seminar will feature two
librarians who are actively building artists' book
collections in research libraries.
3. Preliminary
Analysis of the RBMS Membership Survey. Moderator:
Suzy Taraba. Presenters: RBMS Membership Committee
members.
In 1998, the RBMS Membership
Committee undertook a survey of membership, supported by an
Initiative Fund grant from ACRL. Committee members
will present an analysis of the results and discuss
implications for the section.
4. On With the
Show! Creating Effective Web Exhibitions Using Special
Collections Materials
Moderator: Diane Shaw,
Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Presenters: Matthew
Cook, Chicago Historical Society; Russell
Johnson, University of California, Los Angeles; Martin
Kalfatovic, Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Online exhibitions are an ideal
way of publicizing the research potential of special
collections materials and the varied holdings of libraries,
archives, and manuscript repositories for a worldwide
audience. This seminar, featuring a mix of curators
and digital projects managers experienced in creating
online exhibitions, will address a variety of issues,
including the selection of topics and materials for online
exhibitions and the best ways to present these materials
online; managing grant-funded online exhibitions; creating
online exhibitions in-house and with the use of outside
contractors; and recommended approaches for planning online
counterparts to physically-existing exhibitions.
5. From Rare to Well
Done: Lessons Learned in Burnt Book Treatment and
Institutional Politics
Moderator: Isaac Gewirtz, General
Theological Seminary (New York); Presenter: Deborah Wender,
Northeast Document Conservation Center
The seminar is based on the
experiences of Wender and Gewirtz in dealing with the
aftermath of a vault fire at St. Mark's Library in September
1993. Gewirtz arrived in August 1996 and shortly thereafter
began a collaboration with Wender in planning a program to
deal with burnt, heat- damaged, and smoke/soot-damaged
books. Gewirtz will point out potential problem areas
regarding insurance coverage and post-fire appraisals, the
importance of institutional support for treatment and
cleaning, the financial/political necessity of triaging
damaged books and of sometimes choosing less than ideal
conservation options and how to optimize such options, the
importance of clear communication with the conservator(s).
Wender will discuss technical aspects of treatments in the
context of special conservation problems created by fire,
heat, and smoke/soot. She will also offer the conservator's
perspective on working with a curator and the application of
conservation ethics to situations in which ideal treatments
for all damaged objects are not possible. The slides
presented by both Wender and Gewirtz will illustrate the
kinds of damage done to the books and the treatments chosen
to deal with them.
6. Educating Special
Collections Professionals: From Programs to
Practice
Moderator: Michele V.
Cloonan, University of California, Los Angeles.
Presenters: Louise S. Robbins, University of
Wisconsin-Madison; Roberta Shaffer and David B. Gracy II,
University of Texas; Helen R. Tibbo, UNC-Chapel Hill;
H. Thomas Hickerson, Cornell University
Libraries.
This panel highlights four LIS
programs that offer courses, internships, and other
opportunities for students who wish to specialize in
archives and/or special collections work. Panelists
will touch on the many curricular changes that have taken
place in the past several years, particularly in response to
changes taking place in a variety of cultural heritage
institutions. A practitioner will serve on the panel
as respondent.
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Workshops
Two full-day
workshops will be offered on Wednesday, July 5, at the
Newberry Library.
MARC Cataloguing
of Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, and Early-Modern
Manuscripts
Instructor: Gregory A.
Pass. Wednesday, July 5, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Limited to 20
participants. $100
This
full-day workshop will provide an introduction to online
cataloguing of manuscript materials ranging in date from
antiquity, through the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and
generally up into the seventeenth century using the RBMS
cataloguing standard Descriptive Cataloging of Ancient,
Medieval, Renaissance, and Early-Modern Manuscripts
(AMREMM). These rules offer bibliographic control over
both literary and archival manuscripts which owing to
their special historical, textual, artistic, or literary
value require more precise and detailed description
and access than is provided for such materials in other
cataloguing manuals.
The
workshop is aimed at cataloguers or curators of manuscript
collections who wish to create item-level records for their
holdings of manuscript fragments, documents, or codices, or
microform reproductions of the same within their online
public access catalogues or in the national bibliographic
utilities. It will introduce participants to the major
textual and physical elements of pre-modern Western European
Latin and vernacular manuscript codices and documents and
address the issues involved in how these features are
represented in formal manuscript descriptions. In
particular, it will show cataloguers how to interpret a
scholarly manuscript description provided either from legacy
data (published printed catalogues or handwritten lists) or
by a bibliographical specialist and how to apply AMREMM in
translating this information, in at least a summary form,
into a MARC record. It will also familiarize
participants with the basic research tools and reference
sources used for manuscript description. A variety of
commonly encountered manuscript formats and genres will be
discussed, including fragments, charters, and books of
hours. Among the topics covered will be the
descriptive bibliography of the manuscript book, deriving
and transcribing titles from manuscripts, identifying and
recording texts and other physical features, determining
appropriate levels of description and added access and genre
analysis, authority work, and retrospective
conversion.
In
order to benefit from the workshop, participants must have a
working knowledge of Latin, experience in cataloguing or
bibliographical description of pre-modern manuscripts or
rare books, and knowledge of MARC-21, AACR2
(chps. 1-2, 4) and DCRB or APPM. Applicants
should provide a résumé of relevant skills and
a brief statement of their purpose in taking this workshop,
addressed to Gregory A. Pass, Vatican Film Library, Pius XII
Memorial Library, Saint Louis University, 3650 Lindell
Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63108; email:
passga@slu.edu;
fax (314) 977-3108.
Gregory Pass holds a Ph.D. in medieval history and is
Assistant Librarian and manuscripts cataloguer in the
Vatican Film Library at Saint Louis University.
Cataloguing Rare
Serials
Instructors: Jane
Gillis and Juliet McLaren. Wednesday, July 5, 9 a.m.to 4
p.m. Limited to 25 participants. $45
Serials are one of the most troublesome and complicated
types of material to catalog. They are elusive and
changeable, and tend to appear and disappear unpredictably
from booksellers, bibliographies and library
collections. Many rare book libraries have large
backlogs of serials to catalog, but little or no staff with
relevant experience.
Cataloging a serial is different from cataloging a
book because a serial is not a finite production. In
many of its manifestations it can have no
'ideal' form, since perhaps no more than one or two
issues have ever been described or collected. Serials
seldom have an author and have a confusing
relationship to concepts of 'issue' or
'edition.' To identify them bibliographically in
the MARC environment requires information in the cataloging
record not required for books, and often requires
bibliographic research beyond the items themselves, or even
beyond the holdings of any one library.
This
one day workshop was developed from a shorter workshop first
presented at the ALA ACRL Rare Books and Manuscripts Section
Preconference held in Montreal in June, 1999. It is intended
to clarify those aspects of serials cataloging which do not
exist in, or depart significantly from, the rare books
cataloging world. The workshop will provide participants
with experience in the problems and techniques of cataloging
rare serials through presentations, informative handouts and
discussion. After lunch, the program will continue
with hands-on practice in cataloging rare serial
publications.
Juliet McLaren is Project Bibliographer, English STC,
University of California, Riverside. Jane Gillis is Catalog
Librarian, Rare Book Team, Yale University Library.
Together, they co-authored the proposed new rules for
cataloging rare serials, Descriptive Cataloging of Rare
Serials, which will appear in the new edition of DCRM
(Descriptive Cataloging of Rare
Materials).
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Exhibits
The Newberry Library
Florentine Humanism and the Church Fathers.
Gallery Hours: Monday, Friday, and Saturday, 8:15 AM to
5:30 PM
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, 8:15 AM to 7:30 PM
The Florentine humanists--from Petrarch to
Poliziano--studied the writings of the early Church Fathers
as avidly as they studied the pagan Latin and Greek
classics. As the humanist scholars edited, annotated and
wrote commentary on the work of such authors as Saints
Basil, Augustine and Jerome, they found a new model for
civic and religious life. Based on a popular exhibit
organized by the Medici-Laurentian Library in Florence,
Florentine Humanism and the Church Fathers offers a
rare opportunity for preconference attendees to see
manuscripts and printed books from the Medici-Laurentian
Library supplemented by materials from the Newberry's own
world-renowned Renaissance collections.
University of Illinois at Chicago Library
Department of Special Collections
Design in Chicago: Highlights from the R. Hunter
Middleton Chicago Design Archive
In addition to book and typographic design, the exhibit
examines the rise of advertising, packaging, industrial, and
corporate identity design in Chicago. Covering 1930-1970, it
features work from designers associated with many Chicago
events and organizations including the New Bauhaus, Century
of Progress World's Fair of 1933-34, Society of Typographic
Arts, 21 Chicago Designers, Container Corporation of
America, and Mayor Richard J. Daley's use of design to
attract business ventures to Chicago in the 1960s. The
exhibit also showcases the typographic achievements of R.
Hunter Middleton and the role he played in helping shape
Chicago's unique design community.
Exhibit hours are 8:45 a.m.-4.:40 p.m., M-F, Special
Collections Department, Room 3-330, Richard J. Daley
Library, University of Illinois at Chicago.
University of Chicago Regenstein Library
Department of Special Collections
The Scientific Article
May 5, 2000 - August 21, 2000
The first scientific journal articles appeared in France
and England in 1665, a key historical event in the fledgling
enterprise of modern science. This new genre for
communicating science permitted the relatively rapid
transmittal of discoveries from one researcher to an
international community of researchers, who could then
accept, question, or extend the claims that were made.
Containing more than one hundred objects and spanning four
centuries, this exhibition draws upon a wide variety of
communications pertinent to the origin and development of
the scientific article. The exhibition surveys the evolution
of visual display in sections on the invention of the line
graph and other systems of diagrams, illustrations, and
graphical representations. Among the historical treasures on
display are the first scientific journals from England and
the Continent, Newton's first published research article, an
article by Thomas Jefferson, watercolor botanical
illustrations, the first line graphs and periodic tables,
the famous Darwin-Wallace articles presented at an 1858
meeting of the Linnean Society, and original offprints of
Einstein's Relativitaetstheorie articles. Also included are
first editions of key scientific books published both before
and after the birth of the scientific article.
Chicago Public Library
Congress Corridor: "Under a Crown of Glass"
This exhibit explores the construction of the Harold
Washington Library Center and the architectural and
ornamental details of the building, highlighting some of the
interesting iconography.
Special Collections, 9th Floor: "Building the British
Library"
This exhibit explores the design and construction of the
new British Library, which opened to the public inApril
1998. It explores the work of Professor Sir Colin St. John
Wilson, who has spent the greater part of his working life
on this project. Wilson's initial proposal in 1962
(partnering with Leslie Martin) included a building adjacent
to the British Museum, but eventually evolved into the
present design at St. Pancras. No
other project in Britain since the building of St. Paul's
Cathedral (which also took 36 years to reach completion) is
comparable in time-scale or the magnitude of controversy
surrounding it.
Main Exhibit Hall, Lower Level: "The Buffalo Soldier:
The African American Soldier in the US Army,
1866-1912."
African American soldiers in unprecedented numbers served
in the United States Army on the Western frontier during the
late 19th century. As members of the 9th and 10th Cavalry
and the 24th and 25th Infantry Regiments, they
were the first African Americans in our nation's history to
serve int he regular peacetime army. In recognition of the
African American in the US Armed Forces who fought and
served with heroism, this exhibit--consisting of framed
photographs, etchings, period uniforms and other
artifacts--is a true story surveying nearly five decades of
American History.
Chicago Historical Society
Chicago Cultural Center
"Out of Line" Drawings by Chicago Artists.
In conjunciton with the Union League Club of Chicago, the
Chicago Dept. of Cultural Affairs organized this exhibition
of Chicago-area artists who use drawing as an aesthetic end and collectively
explore this ancient medium through current strategies of
markmaking. Approximately 100 works by 50 artists will help to reposition this
often "quiet" medium in the spotlight, with a broad
diversity of techniques and materials utilized by today's
artists, now helping to re-define the medium as we enter a
new millennium. (Ending July 2, but
expected to be extended)
Postcard Collection Exhibit (working
title).
Drawing on a major collection of antique postcards, this
exhibit highlights the process of postcard production, as
well as celebrates the role that postcards have played
historically.
Chicago in Egypt
This exhibition combines images of the people and
landscape of modern Egypt alongside its ancient
architecture, as captured by several photographers of the
Epigraphic Survey of the Oriental Institute of theUniversity
of Chicago. Dinstinct in style and subject, the work of Tom
Van Eynde, Jerry Kobylecky and Bernice Williams will focus
on these Chicagoan's view of Egypt in recent years.
Presented as part of "Egypt in Chicago: Festival of the
Sun," a citywide festival of Egyptian arts and culture in
the summer of 2000.
NOTE: This isn't anticipated to open until July 8th--just
after the conference closes, but it will be up during the
weekend and through the rest of ALA.
Center for Book and Paper Arts
Columbia College
Information to come
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Tours
All tours are
offered on a first come, first-served basis. Tours 1 and 2
require preregistration and payment of a $20 for bus
transportation and museum entrance fee (see Registration
Form).
Sign-up sheets for other tours will be available at the
on-site preconference registration in the Hotel
Inter-Continental beginning Wednesday morning at 8 a.m. Most
of the tours will happen during the afternoon of Wednesday,
July 5.
1. University of
Chicago. University of Chicago tour (1 to 5 p.m.,
limited to 45 registrants, advance registration and
admission/transportation fee of $20 required; may be
cancelled if insufficient registration). This afternoon tour
features the Frederick C. Robie House and several sites on
the lovely campus of the University of Chicago.
Schedule:
1:15 p.m. Departure
from Hotel Inter-Continental
2-3p.m. Robie
House (http://www.wrightplus.org/robiehouse/index.html):
Open for tours
while undergoing extensive renovation, the Robie House,
designed 1906-1909, is Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpiece
epitomizing the Prairie Style.
3:15-4:15 p.m. Registrants can
sign up to tour one of three sites (each limited to 15
participants) or spend time visitng Hyde Park's bookshops
or the public exhibition galleries of the tour sites,
which are:
- Department of Special
Collections, University of Chicago Library
(http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/spcl/).
The department, which completed a reconfiguration
project this year, houses 250,000 rare books including
the Ludwig Rosenberger Library of Judaica, the John
Crerar Collection in the History of Science and
Medicine, and strong literary, historical, and theatre
holdings; manuscripts spanning the period from the
second century C.E. to the present, among them early
illuminated Gospels, the Bacon collection of manorial
documents, the papers of Stephen A. Douglas, the
records of the first half-century of Poetry
magazine and of the atomic scientists movement; 20,000
linear feet of University archives, including the
papers of renowned sociologists, anthropologists,
economists and physicists;
- The David and Alfred
Smart Museum of Art (http://smatmuseum.uchicago.edu/),
with its recently renovated and reinstalled
collections of modern, contemporary, and Asian art and
changing, thematic selections of antiquities and Old
Master Works;
- The Oriental Institute
Museum (http://www.oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/OI_Museum.html),
home to the finest collection in North America of
objects from the ancient civilizations of the Near
East, now reopening its galleries after substantial
renovations and reinstallations.
4:30 p.m. Departure for
return to Hotel Inter-Continental by 5 p.m.
2. Northwestern University and
the Chicago Botanic Garden. A bus will transport the
tour group to visit the Melville J. Herskovits Library of
African Studies at Northwestern University, as well as the
Library's digitization and preservation facilities.
Established in 1954, the Herskovits Library is the largest
separate Africana collection in existence. Its scope is as
wide as the continent of Africa itself; its subject matter
ranges from art, history, literature, music, and religion to
communications, management, and cooking. Reboarding the bus,
the group will continue on to the Chicago Botanic Garden
(http://www.chicago-botanic.org/), the second most visited
botanic garden in the United States. Its 23 spectacular
display gardens on 385 acres showcase the best plants for
the Midwest displayed in a variety of beautiful settings.
Also featured are native habitat areas with native and
endangered flora of Illinois. The Garden's library, which
supports educational outreach and research programs,
includes approximately 14,000 volumes and videos. Wednesday,
July 5, 1 to 5 p.m. Preregistration required; $10 fee for
bus transport and museum entrance.
Additional Free Tours on
Wednesday
Adler Planetarium, 1300
South Lake Shore Dr. The Adler Planetarium's History of
Astronomy Collection includes 2000 historic instruments,
making it the largest collection of such material in the
Western Hemisphere and one of the largest and most important
in the world. It is home to a significant library of rare
books, a collection of astronomically-themed works on paper,
and a modern reference library and research center. See
http://www.adlerplanetarium.org/
Art Institute, Ryerson
Library, 111 South Michigan Ave. The Ryerson Library
(built 1901) and the Burnham Library of Architecture
(founded in 1912) form a research collection of national and
international significance, one of the largest art museum
libraries in the world, holding a research collection of
220,000+ cataloged titles and 1,500+ current serials
subscriptions. See http://www.artic.edu/aic/libraries/index.html
Art Institute School of the
Art Institute of Chicago, Joan Flasch Collection, 37 S.
Wabash, 6th floor. The Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection
is housed in the John M. Flaxman Library. Its online catalog
can be searched by terminology specific to artists' books.
International in scope, the collection is strongest in works
by American artists since 1960. See http://www.artic.edu/saic/art/flasch/
Chicago Architectural
Foundation, 224 South Michigan Avenue. The Chicago
Architecture Foundation is dedicated to advancing public
interest and education in architecture and design. It offers
a comprehensive program of tours, exhibitions, lectures, and
special events designed to enhance awareness and
appreciation of Chicago's outstanding architectural legacy.
See http://www.architecture.org/
Chicago Historical
Society, Clark Street at North Avenue. The Chicago
Historical Society is a privately endowed, independent
institution devoted to collecting, interpreting, and
presenting the rich multicultural history of Chicago and
Illinois, as well as selected areas of American history. See
http://www.chicagohs.org/chshome.html
Chicago Public Library,
Special Collections and Preservation Division, 400 South
State Street. Housing the Chicago Public Library's
rare and valuable material, the Special Collections
Department contains 120 years of acquisitions, including
more than 17,000 volumes, 2,000 linear feet of archival
material, 37,000 photographs, 1,500 historic artifacts, and
3,000 works of art. See http://cpl.lib.uic.edu/001hwlc/hwspe.html
Chicago Symphony
Orchestra, Rosenthal Archives, 220 South Michigan
Avenue. Formed in 1990 during the Orchestra's
centennial season, the Rosenthal Archives house a vast
collection of audio-visual materials, programs, photographs,
newspaper clippings, and administrative records documenting
the activities of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago
Symphony Chorus, Civic Orchestra, and Orchestra Hall and
Symphony Center events. See http://www.chicagosymphony.org/index.htm.
Field Museum of Natural
History, Department of Special Collections, 1400 S. Lake
Shore Drive. Founded to house the biological and
anthropological collections assembled for the World's
Columbian Exposition of 1893, the Field Museum has grown
include more than twenty million specimens. Within its
world-class natural history library of more than 250,000
volumes, Special Collections includes 7,500 volumes and
thousands of original natural history and ethnographic
illustrations. The Archives and Manuscripts division houses
a wealth of material that illuminates the history of Museum,
the development of modern museum practices, and the
evolution of scientific disciplines. See http://www.fmnh.org/
Graphic Conservation,
329 West 18th Street, Suite 701. Graphic Conservation
provides complete, museum-quality conservation and
preservation of all works of art on paper, consultation
services and expert evaluations of fine art collections and
claims nationwide, and consultation on the display, handling
and storage of works of art on paper. See http://www.graphicconservation.com/
Museum of Broadcast
Communications Archives, Chicago Cultural Center at
Michigan Avenue and Washington Street. Since 1993, The
Chicago Cultural Center at Michigan Avenue and Washington
Street has been home to the Museum of Broadcast
Communications, which includes the Radio Hall of Fame, the
Advertising Hall of Fame, and the A.C. Nielsen, Jr. Research
Center with over 80,000 hours of Radio and Television
programming. See http://www.tribads.com/mbcnet/home.htm
The Newberry Library, Roger
& Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections, 60
W. Walton St. The Newberry Library, open to the public
without charge, is an independent research library and
educational institution dedicated to the expansion and
dissemination of knowledge in the humanities. The collection
numbers some 1.5 million books, five million manuscript
pages, and 300,000 historic maps. See http://www.newberry.org/nl/newberryhome.html
Printer's Row Walking
Tour, Dearborn St. between Congress Pkwy. and Polk St.
Architectural historian Terry Tatum, accompanied by printing
historian Paul F. Gehl of the Newberry Library, will lead a
2.5-hour walking tour of Printer's Row Historic District, a
complex of nearly 20 buildings on 6 blocks. Tatum will
concentrate on the innovative design elements of the
surviving buildings, and Gehl will fill in some facts about
the firms, their specializations, and industry personalities
in the period from 1880 to 1945.
R.R. Donnelley, Corporate
Library and Archives, 77 West Wacker Drive. R.R.
Donnelley and Sons Company is a leading North American
commercial printer and information services company and
publisher of the Lakeside Classics series, which was started
in 1903 by Thomas E. Donnelley, then president of
R.R.Donnelley & Sons Company and son of the founder. See
http://www.dny.com/
Shedd Aquarium Library,
1200 South Lake Shore Drive. John G. Shedd Aquarium, a
non-profit institution dedicated to public education and
conservation, is the world's largest indoor aquarium. It
houses nearly 8,000 aquatic animals representing some 650
species of fish, reptiles, amphibians, invertebrates, birds
and mammals from waters around the world. See
http://www.shedd.org/
University of Illinois,
Hull-House Museum and Special Collections, 801 South
Morgan Street. The Museum is a historic site and
memorial to Jane Addams, her innovative settlement house
programs and the neighborhood they served. A few of the
notable collections housed in the Special Collections
Department are the Jane Addams Memorial Collection,
Corporate Archives of the Chicago Board of Trade, records of
the Chicago Urban League, the R. Hunter Middleton Chicago
Design Archives, and 10,000 rare books, prints, and maps
that comprise the Lawrence J. Gutter Collection of
Chicagoana. See
http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/collections/ and
http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/hull_house.html
Saturday Walking
Tour
Printer's Row Walking
Tour. Dearborn St. between Congress Pkwy. and Polk St.
Led by architectural historian Terry Tatum and printing
historian Paul Gehl. Tour at 10:30am Saturday.
Saturday Open
House
Columbia College-Center for
the Book and Paper Arts Open House, 1104 South Wabash,
on the 2nd floor of the Ludington Building. Founded in 1992
by a group of book artists, papermakers, printers, designers
and calligraphers, the Center has a gallery, papermaking
studio, bindery, and letterpress studio, with a Resource
Room full of reference books and AV equipment, a Voith
Hollander beater, board shears, job backers, hot stampers, a
guillotine, Vandercook and Chandler & Price presses, 500
drawers of type, hundreds of delicate brass tools for
decorating books. The open house will include
demonstrations. See http://www.colum.edu/centers/bpa/index.html
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