Friday, October 22, 2010

Welcome, Beth!

I am pleased to announce that on Monday, Oct. 25, Beth Hetland will begin work in Preservation Services as Project Specialist for the U.S. Congressional Serial Set/Readex Project. Beth has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is in her second year of study for a Masters of Fine Arts at the Center for Cartoon Studies. She is also a skilled book artist and her experience as a book binder will be put to good use as we enter the final year of the project.

Please join me in welcoming Beth.

Barb Sagraves
Head, Preservation Services

Monday, October 11, 2010

The Book Unbound & The Book Arts at Dartmouth

Baker Main Hall, Baker-Berry Library, September 7 - November 24, 2010


This exhibition highlights the book and the book arts at Dartmouth in anticipation of Marking Time, the new traveling show from the Guild of Book Workers, on display in the Berry Main Street exhibition cases from November 5, 2010 through March 20, 2011.


The Book Unbound & The Book Arts at Dartmouth was curated by Stephanie Wolff and Deborah Howe, with help from Barb Sagraves, Professor Alexandra Halasz, Richard Langdell, Laura Graveline, Joe Wright, Jay Satterfield, Pat Cope, McKey Berkman, Laura Braunstein, Book Arts Program participants and CoCo 11 students. Exhibit design by Dennis Grady.

Friday, October 8, 2010

Farewell, Richard!

Richard Langdell, Readex Project Conservation Specialist, has transferred to another job in the library system, Records Management. Richard worked on the project for five years and was an important team member; he kept careful track of the thousands of volumes, was responsible for conservation repair of decades old volumes, and collaborated with John Cocklin and Matt Agnoli to identify and locate Serial Set volumes where ever they were in the stacks.

Thanks to Richard we have a web page that describes the project.

Farewell, Richard, and best of luck at Records Management!