Seminar on Construction and Repair of Books, Feb. 3

The Rare Books and Special Collections Department would like to invite any interested MU Libraries staff members to attend a seminar on book history and conservation. On Wednesday, February 3rd, from 10 a.m. to noon in Ellis 4F51A, James Downey will present a seminar on the construction and repair of books for Professor Anne Stanton’s graduate seminar on medieval manuscripts. Due to general interest, the Rare Books and Special Collections Department requested that Professor Stanton allow this seminar to be open to the MU Libraries’ staff.

Columbia resident James Downey has operated Legacy Bookbindery since 1992, offering book and document conservation services to private collectors and institutions, including the University of Missouri’s Rare Books and Special Collections department. He trained at the University of Iowa Center for the Book, one of the premier book-arts programs in the United States, where he studied letterpress printing, paper making, and paper decoration, but was primarily focused on book structures and conservation.