From Nina Schneider, Head Cataloger               The Clark’s Head Cataloger will be hosting an employee from the Denver Botanic Gardens next week. This got us thinking about some of the botany, horticulture, and design books held at the library: volumes such as the 1682 copy of Labyrinte de Versailles…

On November 25th, BBC Radio 3 will be broadcasting a Sunday feature about researcher Thomas Wright and his work on Oscar Wilde’s personal library — especially those books housed here in Los Angeles in the Clark’s collections!  More information is available via the BBC website, and we will be sure to post a link to listen…

  Dear Friends and Fans of the Clark Library, While doing some spring cleaning earlier this year, we ran across this photograph of a lovely home in what appears to be central or southern California. We’ve asked around and no one seems to know the significance of this house. There’s a name on the mailbox,…

As anyone who has worked in the Clark’s Oscar Wilde collection knows, there is a lot of room for discovery.  One of these spaces for discovery is in the correspondence collection, where there are a large number of correspondents simply labeled as “unknown person.”  Sometimes, signatures on these letters are illegible (or seemed so to…

From Becky Ruud, Student Assistant Nestled in our manuscript section is an intriguing book full of autographs and photos of celebrities from 1897.  This book was purchased by the Clark Library in 1950 and was unknown to me until I went through the bound manuscripts item by item. Featured in this book are many well-known…

From Head Cataloger Nina Schneider The Clark Library is fortunate to welcome two UCLA Information Studies students for a 30-week internship in the Cataloging Department. Conceived as a program that will provide hands-on experience to graduate students interested in a career in special collections librarianship (and a head start when they enter the job market)…

NOT by Oscar Wilde: Literary Forgery and Authorial Performance given by Gregory Mackie, University of British Columbia Thursday, October 4, 2012, 4:00 p.m. In the 1920s, the name “Oscar Wilde” underwrote numerous dubious texts including forged manuscripts, association copies, and even fake Wildean ephemera. Since Wilde promoted all forms of performative artifice—including forgery—as the creation…

The Clark/Center 2012-2013  program calendar has been released!  Please take special note of our upcoming open house and exhibit talk on October 9th and be sure to RSVP to the Center if you are interested in attending.  Among all the exciting conference and bibliographic offerings on the calendar is our popular Chamber Music at the…

From Nina Schneider, Head Cataloger Type specimens have a long history in the world of printing. The first known example is Erhard Ratdolt printed sheet from 1486, discovered by chance bound into a contemporary codex. If one reads (or reviews) Daniel Berkeley Updike’s seminal work on the subject, it will come as no surprise that…