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…
Read MoreJoin the staff of the Center and Clark Library and friends for an evening of visual interest and a lively lecture, as we open our doors for an Exhibition and the 2nd Annual Clark Library Open House. The exhibition, Eric Gill: a Complex Spirit, will showcase the breadth of Gill’s skills as an artist and…
Read MoreNOT 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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreThere are many elements that contribute to the value of a book as an object, encoding meaning outside of the text itself that can, nonetheless, be read. One artifactual element is illustration and, within the broad world of illustrated printed books, is a subset of copies that have had illustrations added to them after they…
Read MoreFrom Clark Library Volunteer, Marvin Lessen The Roman Denarius silver coin bearing the dolphin and anchor emblem has become a symbol of the Aldus Manutius colophon device and served as the subject of Dr. Terry Belanger’s lecture “Parallel Lines Never Meet: Dolphins & Anchors & Aldus/ Book Historians & Numismatists & Roman Coins.” This coin,…
Read MoreFrom 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…
Read MoreEarlier this summer, the Clark Library was graced with the presence of 16 new scholars under the direction of UCLA Professor of English and authority on Oscar Wilde, Joe Bristow. These 17 minds were gathered together for a five-week long National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar at the Clark Library entitled “Oscar Wilde and…
Read MoreThis week’s post is from Head Librarian, Gerald Cloud. After almost one year since joining the Clark, I have learned that there is a category of books and manuscripts here that might be placed under the heading: I’ll-bet-you-didn’t-know-it-was-at-the-Clark. One of these items is an interesting letter that Mr. Clark himself purchased from the bookseller A….
Read MoreIt’s taken a long time, but three manuscripts from the Clark’s collections are now (or soon will be!) available in their entirety via the UCLA Digital Library. Several years ago, the Digital Library Program supported the digitization of these three items, which were selected by Clark librarians as being items often ordered up for reproduction…
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