Preservation Services at Dartmouth College: March 2014

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Preserving a National Treasure

As many of our regular readers know the Library partnered with Readex Corporation to digitize the U. S. Congressional Serial Set. The project was completed in 2013 and Deborah Howe, John Cocklin, and I created a book to celebrate the partnership. The basis of the book was a slide show Deborah created for a presentation in the early years of the project. We took her slides, added some other photos and created a story book which painted a broad picture of the process and acknowledged the staff at Readex and Dartmouth who had been involved. The book was printed, bound, and given to Readex as a memento of our collaboration.

Our small gift was warmly received. My counterpart, Carol Forsythe, asked if Readex could make an e-pub version and we gladly shared our files. In this blog post, Preserving a National Treasure: A Partnership with the Dartmouth College Library, Carol describes the origin of our partnership and links to the e-pub.

Barb Sagraves, Head, Preservation Services

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Goings on in The Book Arts Workshop!!

There have been a lot of things
going on recently in the Book Arts Workshop.

Artist Angela Lorenz visited the Book Arts
Workshop and presented her work to Esme
Thompson's Collage class.

In the fall, we went on an automnal letterpress excursion to two fabulous
shops in Vermont-Heather Hale's and Kelly McMahon's.
Heather showed us how her Heidelberg press works.

Kate Emlen's Drawing 1 Class came in to combine some
letterpress printing with their drawings.

This student is pretty happy with the poster she just made.

She was even happier with
this version!

Lots of red in this holiday card.

Alex Halasz's History of the Book class has been working in the studios producing a group book with the theme of word play.

We had a holiday card-printing extravaganza that resulted in more happy printers!

Some amazing ornaments found in our shop.

Here is one of the student's type set for the Word Play book. Can you see the shape her type forms?

Two pages of the class book on the press ready to print.

Another page spread from the History of the Book Word Play class book.

A student quickly printing with our "new" Golding
Official Platen Press.

Posters from Hatch Show Print and Yee-Haw Industries on display for the Book Arts
Talk with Snacks about Sarah Smith's time at these two venerable letterpress
shops in Tennessee.

Kresge Physical Sciences Library hosted a
Geeky Valentine workshop in the
Book Arts Workshop.

Preparations for a Winter Carnival
poster-printing extravaganza.

The first proof pulled off the

Winter Carnival Poster on the

Washington Hand Press outside

the Book Arts Workshop.

A finished poster printed by a happy Carnivaler.

Written by Sarah M. Smith

Contributors

Deborah Howe Is the Collections Conservator at Dartmouth College Library. She's been involved in the book community for over 20 years. She is a member of the Guild of Book Workers and teaches classes in the Book Arts program.

Ryland Ianelli Is a cartoonist and Project Specialist in the Dartmouth Preservation Services department. He graduated from Reed College with a BA in Art History in 2008 and, more recently, from the Center for Cartoon Studies with an MFA in Cartooning in 2010. In addition to his work in Preservation and the Digital Production Unit, he is currently drawing and writing for various independently published comics and anthologies.

Barb Sagraves has been head of Preservation Services since its creation in 1995. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan SLIS program, has an MA in Medieval History from Michigan State University, and a BA in History from the University of Oklahoma. In her role as department head, Barb has overall responsibility for the preservation program and policies at Dartmouth College Library and is in charge of the Book Arts Program.

Jenny Mullins has been the Digital Preservation Librarian for Dartmouth College Library since May of 2014. Prior to coming to Dartmouth, she preserved video and audio collections, helped build a digital repository and worked in book and paper conservation labs. Jenny is a member of ALA and co-chair of the Preservation Metadata Interest Group for 2015-17.