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Libraries across the world are grappling with how to address inherent biases and silences in the archives. Today, Nov. 17, at 4:30 pm, the Archival Silences Working Group hosts a panel on decolonizing knowledges. More: bit.ly/2IALhw0 PUL Special Collections PrincetonHumanities
Friday, Dec. 4 at 2 pm, Julie Mellby, #GraphicArts Curator, offers a captivating tour of #precinema optical devices: phenakistoscopes, megalethoscopes & cinematographs, to name a few. Special guests share history & treasures of Garden Theatre Theater. bit.ly/2JMBR0j
Are you a collector? The Elmer Adler Book Collecting Prize for #PrincetonU undergrads awards three cash prizes for personal essay submissions describing a compelling personal collection. Learn more on Feb. 18 at 4 pm: libcal.princeton.edu/event/7546416 CC: PrincetonUSG PUL Special Collections
The Yale University & Rutgers University Black Bibliography Project, which seeks to address the lack of organized info about Black print as well as change cataloging practices around Black Print culture, is the topic for a two-part, online event on Tuesday, March 23: libcal.princeton.edu/calendar/event…
The Her Book Project, led by Emma M. Sarconi, is updating our collections with the names of women book owners and helping to trace the lineage of book ownership throughout history: bit.ly/herbookpjct #WomensHistoryMonth
We collaborated with CADAL USC Libraries to bring our Chinese oracle bone collection online! Oracle bones are pieces of ox or turtle bones which were used for divination in ancient China, and constitute the earliest known Chinese writing: library.princeton.edu/news/eastasian…
Join us tomorrow, Sunday, April 18 at 3 p.m., to hear a panel of scholars and experts discuss what has been revealed from the T.S. Eliot & Emily Hale letters, one of the best-known sealed literary archives in the world! Register here: libcal.princeton.edu/calendar/event… CC: PUL Special Collections
Join us this Wednesday (4/21) for a discussion with Whitney Trettien about several experiments in digital book history drawn from her forthcoming book on radical publishing with scissors and paste in early modern England. Cc: PUL Special Collections Department of English, University of Pennsylvania libcal.princeton.edu/event/7570298
Hanga was a Japanese print portfolio publication, there were 10 quarterly issues printed. This cover of issue 3, 1924 features the print: Landscape with Warehouse by Fukazawa Sakuichi. They have a set Princeton University Library and you can read more here: library.princeton.edu/news/marquand/…
“Unequal to Anything,” a set of two letters from Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra, is now digitally available as part of our Robert H. Taylor Collection of English and American Literature. (Thanks to @emsarconi and the PUL Special Collections for sharing!) blogs.princeton.edu/manuscripts/20…
This post is one of two Special Collections blogs about this theme today. Our colleagues in PUL Special Collections have provided a bit more context from the Graphic Arts Collection. graphicarts.princeton.edu/2021/08/25/per…
Join us Sunday, Aug. 29 at 3 p.m. when Professor John Fleming discusses his extensive personal library, which includes 16th century Italian editions of the works of Petrarch as well as volumes of The Cornelius à Lapide’s Great Commentary from the 1700s. libcal.princeton.edu/event/8028575
