The Clark Library — and the rest of UCLA — will be closed from December 22 to January 1. We wish you a lovely holiday season and look forward to seeing you when we reopen on January 2, 2013!
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The Clog
Palm leaf manuscripts at the Clark?
Published: December 7, 2012
If you thought it was surprising that the Clark owned two first editions of Mao’s Little Red Book, you will perhaps also be surprised to learn that our diverse collections also contain two palm leaf manuscripts from Southeast Asia, one containing volume III of the Mahabharata and the other containing perhaps another religious text. Palm…
Read MoreBinders Full of Women (at the Clark)
Published: November 30, 2012
An American presidential candidate recently used the term “binders full of women” in a political debate. The evocative nature of the term, above and beyond the intent of the candidate, inspired many an Internet howler for the American public, but I’d like to explore the term from a collections perspective. Archival collections do, sometimes, contain…
Read MoreNew Publications from Clark Scholars
Published: November 30, 2012Our former fellows have been busy lately! In the last week, our friends Ellen Crowell (St. Louis) and Soren Hammerschmidt (Ghent) have announced the publication of papers drawing on their research at the Clark. Ellen’s “Oscar Wilde’s Tomb: Silence and the Aesthetics of Queer Memorial” featured online in BRANCH: Britain, Representation and Nineteenth-Century History and Soren’s “Pope, Curll,…
Read MoreTravel & Leisure thinks we are beautiful!
Published: November 20, 2012Though they did not get all the facts about the Clark right, we think Travel & Leisure magazine is definitely correct in believing we are one of the Most Beautiful College Libraries in America! The slideshow features an image of the Clark by our Visual Resources Specialist Jennifer Bastian and shows us in very good…
Read MoreVigilante Days at the Clark Library
Published: November 19, 2012From Reading Room Assistant Nicoletta Beyer. Montana vigilantism was born unto a landscape of frontier mining towns in a territory yet to be incorporated as a state of the union. In the 1860’s while the rest of the nation was busy with a civil war, gold was discovered in the mountains of Montana. Towns like…
Read MoreIncomplete Binding, Completed Lecture
Published: November 16, 2012From Visual Resources Specialist, Jennifer Bastian. Last month the Clark Library welcomed Nicholas Pickwoad from the University of the Arts London for his lecture, Unfinished Business: Incomplete Bindings Made for the Book Trade from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Century. The lecture and accompanying visuals were truly marvelous. We are so pleased to have hosted this…
Read MoreGardens at the Clark
Published: November 16, 2012From 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…
Read More"Wilde's West Coast Collection" on BBC Radio 3
Published: November 15, 2012On 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…
Read MoreNew Acquisition: The 1932 Los Angeles Blue Book of Land Values and, of course, Mr. Clark
Published: November 5, 2012From Gerald Cloud, Clark Librarian. The Clark has always been interested in its own history and the library maintains a substantial collection of letters, receipts, invoices, and other materials that document both the construction of the building and the formation of the collections (recall the earlier entry: “I’ll-bet-you-didn’t-know-it-was-at-the-Clark, part 1: an introduction to Mr. Tenniel”…
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