Library Special Collections Blog
California Rare Book School (CalRBS): Public Lectures and Programs, Summer 2014
California Rare Book School will host several public events in August, in addition to nine classes ranging from "Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts" to "History of the Book: The 19th and 20th Centuries." Lectures by Kathleen Walkup and Terry Belanger bookend showings of Stephen Fry's 2008 documentary on Johannes Gutenberg and his printing press. Program listings, maps, and directions are available at: http://www.calrbs.org/events/
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Poem in Your Pocket Day Exhibition
To celebrate Poem in Your Pocket Day, on view in our flash exhibition case --for today only!-- are several examples from Library Special Collections' holdings of miniature bindings.
Poems and Lovers, by A. R. Witten, 1969. (Call number: Min. PS509. B3W784p)
Women Printers Through Five Centuries
Blog post by Lori Dedeyan, CFPRT Scholar
Grow(ing) Up! The UCLA Library Baby Record Books Collection
Blog post by Russell Johnson Curator/Librarian History & Special Collections for the Sciences UCLA Library Special Collections # #
A is for the Ahmanson-Murphy Aldine Collection
Books printed in Italy by the great scholar-printer Aldus Manutius, and other members of the Manutius family, beginning in the late 15th century and continuing through most of the 16th century, are called Aldines (or do you say All-dynes?) The Aldine printer’s device, a dolphin and an anchor, often appears on the title page or colophon.
Habemus papam librorum
In March the world watched anxiously for a puff of white smoke and announcement: "Habemus papam." The election of a new Pope from the new world inspired Jane Carpenter, Library Special Collections Rare Book Cataloguer, to exhibit rare texts of Papal provenance. The six books selected, "our treasures, really" were a small "representation of items from our collection," she said.
Power of Provenance
Blog post by Jesse R. Erickson, Library Assistant and Ph.D. student in the Department of Information Studies
An “A” List Acquisition: A New Aldine for Library Special Collections
It’s not easy to find an Aldine press book that UCLA doesn’t already hold in its Ahmanson-Murphy Aldine Collection, a world-renowned collection of books printed by Aldus Manutius the Elder (1449?-1515) or his heirs, Paulus Manutius (1512-1574), and Aldus the Younger (1547-1597).
Hidden San Francisco History in UCLA stacks
While browsing the stacks at UCLA's Young Research Library, looking for materials for a personal research project, I discovered an interesting title from 1862: Gillespie, W. M. A manual of the principles and practice of road-making; comprising the location, construction, and improvement of roads (common, macadam, paved, plank, etc.) and rail-roads. New York: A.S.