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Books Through the Years
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Miniature Books:
Then and Now
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An online exhibition of
miniature books and how they have evolved throughout the
years.
Resources Consulted
The Miniature Book
Society (MBS) is an international non-profit
organization interested in book arts, specifically
miniature books. The MBS hosts the annual
"Grand Conclave," a meeting for its members that
includes miniature book competitions and seminars
on book preservations and other topics related to
the book arts.
Pascoe,
Judith. “Tiny Tomes.” The American Scholar.
Washington: Summer 2006. Vol 75, Issue 3, p.
133-139.
Rivenburg,
Roy. “Small Books are a Big Deal.” Los
Angeles Times. Los
Angeles: July 29, 2002, E1.
Schull,
Lenora. “Miniature Book Collection at The
Huntington Library.” Miniature Book Society
Newsletter. April, 1996.
Jill
Timm, Mystical
Places Press, author of several miniature
artist's books in Oxy's miniature book
collection.
Weber,
Msgr. Francis J. Following Bernhardt Wall.
Los Angeles: Dawson’s Bookshop, 1974.
Welsh, Doris V. The
History of Miniature Books. Albany, NY: Fort
Orange Press, 1987
Barbara
Zuckerman's online exhibition of miniature
books two inches and under.
Acknowledgements
Like miniature books themselves, the
miniature book collection and exhibit at Oxy has
evolved since 2006. I first want to thank Dale
Stieber, Special Collections Librarian, for
supervising and guiding me through the process of
creating an exhibition. Thanks also to
Kater-Crafts Bookbinding and Alan Jutzi of the
Huntington Library for assisting me in my research
and providing tours for me to see their work in
action. Katie Jacobson, Summer 2006 Special
Collections student assistant, helped with the
layout of the physical exhibition and with editing
the text used for this exhibition. Finally,
Richard Ricciardi, Ashlie Midfelt and Elizabeth
Brown were responsible for cataloging the miniature
book collection and creating the permanent home for
the miniature books in the Special Collections
Reading Room.
I would like to thank the
Mellon Librarian Recruitment
Program for the opportunities it
has given me to explore the profession of
librarianship and to learn more about miniature
books and creating exhibitions.
Credit is also due to Nick Velkavrh
'08 and Aleks Sedzielarz '06, former summer library
interns, whose online
Banned Books and
Robinson Jeffers exhibits, respectively,
provided the template for this exhibit.
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Website designed by
Jessica Low '07
2007-2008 Library Fellow
Mellon Librarian Recruitment Program
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" All the way home I kept
remembering
The small book
in my pocket. It was there.
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-Robert Frost, "A Fountain, a Bottle, A
Donkey’s Ears, and Some Books.”
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