Rutgers Initiative for the Book

Scarlet Letterpress swag printed @thearm by @notasdearte, @LeahAtWhatPrice, & David Tate! See it in action at our "Touch/Teach" (remote) event on 18 November. Rutgers students, get in touch to try your hand.

For anyone fleeing this site: @RutgersBook is dormant for now, but events will be announced at or at least by @Bookish" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">historians.social/@Bookish.

QUEER BIBLIOGRAPHY: TOOLS, METHODS, PRACTICES, APPROACHES (3-5 Feb 2023) is shaping up nicely! With especial thanks to all who proposed a paper and to @BibSoc & @BibSocAmer for supremely generous sponsorship, here's a little taster of what @malcolmjnoble & I have planned so far:

Join us tomorrow afternoon! #archivalsilences #bookhistory

@sims_mss @benwbrum The 2 sentences writeable today: "It was a huge pain but worked out okay" and "It was a huge pain that never worked out okay." Beats the alternative.

New Jersey Book Arts Symposium hosted by @Rutgers_SCUA : hands-on workshop, artists’ presentations, panel discussion & Book Artists Jam. register at libcal.rutgers.edu/event/9469033

@benwbrum @sims_mss Likewise. Ugh, sorry your time is being wasted with all this.

@sims_mss I saw this in my feed without re-following, so I suspect the repopulation is happening.

Bibliographical clickbait!

Counterbalanced by a different crowdsourced document that gives high marks to the chairs: #gid=0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…. Leave the cardigan but take the cannoli!

That's 2:15p Pacific for us if you want to check out this presentation on Zoom!

Please come to 2 upcoming talks at the Rutgers Book Initiative: @czeltsman on printing in c19 Mexico City (in person, Oct 12) & panel on 19c US book-collecting w/ Denise Gigante, @Bibli_be_Us @honeyandwaxbks, & Lina Moe (hybrid, Nov 16): rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/regist….

A month to go for the best thing in #bookhistory.

SoFCB Essay Prize 2022! Call for nominations! $500 awarded to a scholarly article that exemplifies the Society’s mission of advancing the study of texts, images, and artifacts as material objects through capacious, interdisciplinary scholarship. Details: rarebookschool.org/sofcb-essay-pr…

“Building the Book from the Ancient World to Present Day” is now open in our Main Gallery! Celebrate 50 years of @rarebookschool by traversing time, space, process, and product in the evolution of book production. Free & open to the public, Mon-Sat, 10am-5pm.

@honeyandwaxbks The perfect zoom backdrop.

19th-century American album of colorful patterns embroidered on cardstock. In designing his original “system of kindergarten,” Friedrich Froebel placed a revolutionary emphasis on line, form & pattern as basic elements of thought, anticipating the modernist turn to abstraction.

Very much looking forward to this conversation- join us in person or on zoom!

@Rutgers_SCUA Thanks! Looking forward to reading.

@RutgersBook This is part of our manuscript collections. The call number is Ac. 2446.

The Fall 22 semester is here! We're excited to celebrate the beginning of the semester with David Serviss' school journal, which he used to practice his lines and then reused to paste news clippings of poetry. #Rutgers #RutgersLibraries #RutgersSCUA #SpecialCollections

Exciting DH lineup: dh.rutgers.edu/fall-2022-even… -- HT @jo_frankie.

Overwhelm season=errata season: correct email = book@cca.rutgers.edu.

@Rutgers_SCUA Wishing you strength, and wishing all of us a hurricane/tornado/flash-flood-free fall.

It's been 1 year since the flood. We're lucky that we didn't lose anything important, but it took us MONTHS to move ~27,000 linear feet offsite. We don't know when it will be back. It's been a rough year. We thank you for your patience as we try to find collections & your support