It has been said that March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. To celebrate the approaching spring, the Special Collections featured book for March 2016 is Love Notes: Experiencing the Natural Areas of Binghamton University, 2000, by ...
Celebrating 400 Years of Shakespeare in Special Collections : Selections from the Max Reinhardt Archives and the Rare Book Collections April 23, 2016 marks the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death. Shakespeare has been regarded by many as one of ...
Special Collections’ featured book for February is Black Film as a Signifying Practice: Cinema, Narration and the African-American Aesthetic Tradition by Gladstone L. Yearwood. In this book, Yearwood explores cinema as part of the black cultural tradition. He argues that black film ...
In the nineteenth century, hand-bookbinding was considered a trade. Only boys were eligible to enter the trade as apprentices and although women were heavily employed in commercial binderies they were not allowed to advance to higher branches of the trade. ...
Go Ahead, Judge a Book by Its Cover Four of the best contemporary bookbinders employ centuries-old techniques to create enduring works of art. Dec. 2, 2015, The Wall Street Journal Slide Show Seen above: ‘I start by reading the book ...
Using an off-the-shelf pencil eraser and electrostatic technology first pioneered 2,500 years ago, University of York scientists have settled one of the great puzzles of pre-Gutenberg commercial publishing. Pocket Bibles, painstakingly inscribed by hand in their tens of thousands in the universities ...
Guy Fawkes : or, The gunpowder treason by William Harrison Ainsworth. London : G. Routledge and sons, limited, [18–?]. Call number: PR4002 .A1 1876 v.6 Rare Book Collection. This book is housed in the Special Collections department of the Binghamton University Libraries, and available ...
Paula Leverage, associate professor of French and director of the Center for Cognitive Literary Studies at Purdue University will speak on “Reading Identity through Theory of Mind in Secular and Religious Texts of the Middle Ages” at 3 p.m. Wednesday, ...
A murderer whose last words at the gallows were “Hurry up! I want to be in Hell in time for dinner?” A red door and a ghostly nurse that serve as a reminder of a deadly influenza epidemic? A long ...
Rock & Roll Rock Hall of Fame Turns 20! To commemorate the 2oth anniversary of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the September book of the month is LSD: The Library of Julio Santo Domingo. The two volume set ...