We’re continuing to have a great response to our posts on Tumblr. Here are the top posts from the past two weeks:
· Not Your Average Alphabet Book!
· What’s Blooming this Week: False Indigo
· Six Books that Look Like They Belong at Hogwarts: Book 6
· Throwback Thursday: A photo of the Law Library at Tate Hall
· St. Margaret, crowned, emerging from the back of a dragon.
Stay tuned for next week’s roundup, or connect with us online: Facebook | Twitter | Tumblr
Here’s a look at the top posts from Special Collections on Tumblr this week.
· Handwritten recipes for some curious foodstuffs
· 6 Books that Look Like They Belong at Hogwarts: Book 5
· What’s Blooming this Week: Iris
Stay tuned for next week’s roundup, or connect with us online: Facebook | Twitter | Tumblr
Special Collections and Rare Books department invite all colleagues to attend our session “Get Real! Teaching with Library and Museum Collections on Campus" at the Celebration of Teaching Conference, on Wednesday, 21 May, in 219 Cornell Hall, from 2:00 to 2:50 pm.
The panelists represent a broad spectrum of MU scholars: Jessica Boldt, an assistant curator at the Museum of Anthropology; Joan Stack, Curator of Art Collections at the State Historical Society, and her colleague, manuscript specialist John Konzal. Arthur Mehrhoff, of the Museum of Art and Archaeology will talk about a Roman coin, and Maggie Mayhan, historical educator at the State Historical Society will lead the discussion.
Special Collections and Rare Books department will be represented by Kelli Hansen, who organized the session and is its Chairman; Karen Witt who will speak about World War II posters from the Special Collection, and Alla Barabtarlo, with a talk on The Virtue of the Real Text vs. Virtual Reality, or The Clay’s the Thing!
Special Collections weekly Tumblr roundup
Special Collections is actively posting content to Tumblr to raise the visibility of the collections and connect with researchers, students, and book lovers all over the world. We’re enjoying a great response there, so we thought our colleagues here would be interested in seeing a roundup of a few of our top posts each week. Enjoy!
· Fore-edge Painting featuring Abraham Lincoln (click through to see the animated gif)
· 6 Books that Look Like They Belong at Hogwarts: Book 4
· Arthur Rackham’s 1920 illustrations for Sleeping Beauty
Stay tuned for next week’s roundup, or connect with us online: Facebook | Twitter | Tumblr
Wrapping up the Comic Book Lounge
Special Collections, Security, and LTS teamed up to create the Ellis Library Comic Book Lounge in the Colonnade during Monday and Tuesday of finals week. Special Collections staff supervised use of comics over the lunch hour (11-2) each day, and about 40 students used the lounge during those hours. Many students also availed themselves of the refreshments provided . We noticed some great comments on social media:
Kudos to Pat Jones, Connie Housley, and PT Martin for coming up with the idea to create the lounge! Special thanks to Amy Spencer, David Henderson, Shelby Wolfe, Dana Houston, Dottie Heuer, William Martin, Duane Bittle, Dustin Hoffman, and all the other staff who made this event a success.
–Kelli Hansen
Special Collections started a Tumblr presence at the end of March, and three weeks later it was featured as a trending blog by Tumblr staff. This means that thousands of people around the world were introduced to the collections and services at MU Libraries via the Special Collections blog. Follow them at muspeccoll.tumblr.com.
Amy Spencer, Tim Evans and Kelly Henson will on KCOU's Nerdtastic show at 4pm on Sunday, talking about the Superhero Science exhibit that will be on display in Ellis Library in March as part of the Life Sciences Symposium.
Special Collections and Rare Books is on Twitter. Follow us @MUSpecColl. (We’re still on Facebook ,too).
Alla Barabtarlo has contributed an essay to the book Cultural Identity and Civil Society in Russia and Eastern Europe: Essays in Memory of Charles Timberlake, published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK.
Special Collections has received the gift of Pennyroyal Caxton Bible from New York businessman Mr. Bruce Kovner,
“This edition of the King James version of the Holy Bible, illustrated by Barry Moser, a foremost American master of wood engravings, is the first such illustrated Bible since Gustave Doré’s famous 1865 edition of the Le Saint Bible. Volume one contains the five books of Moses, the historical books and the books of poetry. Volume two contains the books of prophecy and the New Testament. Both measure 16 x 11.5 inches and are laid into its own full linen tray case. The beauty of this Bible does not rest on the illustrations alone. It is also a singular polygraphic achievement and an example of some of the finest printings of our time. Some of the paper was handmade specially for this project, and the exquisitely tooled parchment bindings are a marvel of craftsmanship”, Diane Morrison, Kovner Philanthropy. Special Collections will be showing this gift on the forthcoming exhibit Verba Sacra: the Bible from manuscript to modern print.
