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…

From 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”…

We were recently graced by the presence of a former Clark Fellow, Gregory Mackie, when he came to present his lecture Not By Oscar Wilde: Literary Forgery and Authorial Performance.  This lecture was a part of the Clark Quarterly lecture series.  Details about the lecture and upcoming Clark Quarterly lectures can be seen here. Below…

  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)…

From Gerald Cloud, Head Librarian For scholars and historians of the book, reader reception is one of the most difficult things to measure when evaluating how original or early owners responded to and interacted with the books they possessed.  Frequently, one can draw some conclusions about a reader’s response to a book from examining a…

We didn’t plan on viewing the space shuttle Endeavor on its flyover route today, but Librarian Nina Schneider recommended we head outside.  It was quite a shock to see the giant shuttle so low to the ground!  With a quick snap of an iPhone, we did manage to get one fun photo of the shuttle…