During my first week as a Student Assistant in the Donohue Rare Book Room I was able to work with sources from the Robert Graves collection. This sparked my interest in learning more about the author and why the Rare Book Room would have such an impressive selection. Robert Graves was born in Wimbledon on … Continue reading Robert Graves Collection in the Rare Book Room
Come play classic games: chess, backgammon, checkers, cribbage in the ultimate classic Library space: the Donohue Rare Book Room 11:00am to 4:00pm on Friday 11/18/2016 https://www.usfca.edu/library/specialcollections Continue reading Classic Game Day in Donohue Rare Book Room
Tuesday November 15th 11:00 a.m. to 2:00p.m. is the Second Gleeson Library Zine Workshop. We had a blast making zines last week and we’re going to make some more! Zines are short-run, independently published magazines on a variety of subjects. Common themes include art, comics, short stories, cultural criticism, and social commentary. This week we will: … Continue reading Gleeson Zine Workshop #2 And Pop-up Exhibition in the Donohue Rare Book Room
Please join us from 12-1 pm on Thursday 4/28 in the library foyer for a rare book pop-up exhibit of small and fine press poetry books by female poets of the Beat Generation. The center piece of the pop-up is Lenore Kandel’s The Love Book, which went on trial for obscenity here in San Francisco … Continue reading Poetry Rare Book Pop-Up
April is National Poetry Month! We’re celebrating a couple ways. We’ve got a display of Women Poets of the Beat Generation up in the foyer of Gleeson Library through the end of the month. The display was made in conjunction with a feature from the new issue of the Ignatian Literary Magazine on the same … Continue reading National Poetry Month @ Gleeson
Did you know that the Gleeson Library has a collection of miniature books housed in the Donohue Rare Book Room? Have you ever read or handled a miniature book? Books are classified as miniature books when they are 10 cm. or smaller. Ones in the Rare Book Room range from under a half an inch … Continue reading Pop-Up Exhibition
On exhibition in the Donohue Rare Book Room through January 15th is Notes of Beauty, a selection of illuminated gradual leaves from the rare book collection. Graduals are liturgical works that were used by choirs during Mass. The vellum leaves are manuscripts; the notes, text, and decorations were all done by hand. The works on … Continue reading Illuminated Graduals in the Rare Book Room
Classic rounded back binding is the epitome of a sturdy binding that holds up well against the ravages of time/use and will be the featured binding of this post. This post also marks the last installment of my series about examples of bindings found in Gleeson Library’s Rare Book Room. Thanks to John Hawk, Head of … Continue reading Classic Rounded Back Binding
Picking up where I left off last week, I write now to present examples of limp vellum bindings held in Gleeson Library’s Rare Book Room. I met with John Hawk, Head of Special Collections, to see examples of four types of bindings: coptic binding, limp vellum binding, flat back hard case binding, and classic rounded … Continue reading Limp Vellum Binding
This past April, I took the Bookbinding Core Certificate Program at the San Francisco Center for the Book, in where I learned how to bind books in four distinct styles: • coptic binding • limp vellum binding (or limp parchment) • flat back hard case binding • classic rounded back cloth or leather binding (with … Continue reading Coptic Book Binding
