The newest installment of the Center/Clark Newsletter is now online!  As always, it features information about recent happenings in the library and Center, new discoveries and current research.

The Clark Library has slowly been moving into the digital age.  We recently ordered some wonderful new equipment that should bring our standards of digitization up to par, and perhaps beyond.  One of our new pieces is the item you see below, the Kaiser Kid Pro Copy stand.  It’s a small model copy stand for…

  Anyone running across an eighteenth century book with no author on the title page knows that one of the first places to check is in the Barbier catalog. This week’s featured item is the auction catalogue of Barbier’s personal library. Catalogue des livres de la bibliothéque de feu M. A.-A. Barbier, published in Paris by…

Contested Songs: Music across the Atlantic  at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Friday, December 2, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.  held in conjunction with the LACMA-UCLA Symposium and Exhibition ” Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World” (November 6, 2011–January 29, 2012)  Not only persons and goods traversed the Atlantic Triangle during the Spanish colonial period,…

Last Tuesday’s open house and exhibition opening made for a very festive evening at the Clark.  We are so thankful to all of our friends who were able to come and celebrate with us, and hope that others of you will be able to join us for more such gatherings in the future!

After his visit to the Clark during last week’s open house, LA Observed editor Kevin Roderick featured us and our chamber music series on his blog and in his KCRW broadcast!  He highlights the Clark’s place as stellar place for classical music concerts, along with several other historic estates in the city who also host…

The Seventh Annual Kenneth Karmiole Lecture on the History of the Book Trade English Books Around the World: India and the Globalization of the English Book Trade given by Graham Shaw at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Saturday, November 19, 3:00 p.m There has been much research in recent years about the globalization of the…

By now, 41 of the exhibitions connected to the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time project have opened across Southern California, and one of those exhibits contains material borrowed from the Clark!  PST seeks to investigate and celebrate the birth and life of the Los Angeles art scene from 1945-1989, and encompasses every major L.A. art movement…

There are lots of new things in the works at the Clark and Center…  Here’s a short round-up! Tonight marks the opening of the exhibit All Things New: Imperialism and Impact at the Clark (during our Open House celebrating the arrival of new Head Librarian Gerald Cloud and Center Director Barbara Fuchs).  The exhibit will run…

Last week, the UCLA Newsroom featured a nice article about the Clark/Center’s chamber music series and highlights some of the performers we can look forward to seeing during the 2011-2012 season.  Learn more at the link above!