Podcasts about special collections division

On April 19, 1960, a bomb exploded in the North Nashville home of attorney and former city councilmember Z. Alexander Looby. The blast was so powerful it shattered windows at the nearby Meharry Medical College, but Looby and his wife escaped unscathed. The bomber behind the assassination attempt was never identified. In this episode, we'll reflect on Looby's legacy and unravel the pivotal role he played in the Civil Rights Movement in Middle Tennessee, including as a lawyer after the 1946 Columbia race riot. But first, Metro Council voted in favor of a stadium for the Tennessee Titans for the second time on Tuesday night. We check in with WPLN producer Cynthia Abrams about the vote and what's next. Guests:  Ludye N. Wallace, former Metro Councilmember Betsy Phillips, historian writing a book on the Looby bombing and Nashville Scene contributor Elliott Robinson, program specialist in the Special Collections Division of the Nashville Public Library, which oversees the Civil Rights Room Related reading:  Nashville Scene: Who Bombed Z. Alexander Looby's North Nashville Home? WPLN: A shattered Civil Rights Era plaque picks up ‘a new life' in Fisk collection Tennessean: On April 19, 1960, the bombing of a civil rights attorney's home set off a protest like few had seen in Nashville Video footage of Looby's home after the bombing

What do you think of when you hear the word “library”? Maybe it's stack of books and a librarian peeking through the stacks, reminding you be quiet. But, what about poetry slams, free seeds and even yoga classes? Today's episode is all about public libraries! We'll hear from representatives from the Nashville Public Library about about some of the incredible and even unconventional resources it offers. Then, we'll head to McMinnville to see how the local library serves rural communities. Guests: Ed Brown, public information officer for the Nashville Public Library Brad Walker, director at the Magness Public Library in McMinnville Pat Bashir, children's services manager for the Nashville Public Library's Main Library Niq Tognoni, Studio NPL manager Dyondre Thomas, student and president of Music Industry Collective at MTSU Elliott Robinson, program specialist in Special Collections Division at Nashville Public Library

In this episode, I'm chatting with Emily Moore, Curator at the Library of Congress, about an exciting event happening in January 2023.Emily Moore is the Assistant Curator of the Aramont Library in the Rare Books and Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress. She has a double BA in Art History and Cinema from the University of Toronto and an MLIS from the University of Maryland. Moore's passions are art and archives and examining how production and process intersect with memory and object.Registration: https://host.nxt.blackbaud.com/registration-form/?formId=bc4bbae0-c3ad-4488-99aa-4faba67500fe&envId=p-3AhSeeWCMU6Kt1UTuhImugDaytime event listing: https://www.loc.gov/item/event-407442/making-the-modern-book-the-aramont-library/2023-01-19/Evening roundtable listing: https://www.loc.gov/item/event-407444/live-at-the-library-artists-approach-the-book/2023-01-19/ A Time of One's Own: Histories of Feminism in Contemporary Art,  Catherine GrantSupport the show

In this episode, I'm back at the Library of Congress chatting with Stephanie Stillo and special guest Marianna Stell about the Giant Bible of Mainz, scribes, the digitalization of medieval manuscripts, and books! Stephanie Stillo is the Curator of the Lessing J. Rosenwald  Collection and Aramont Library in the Rare Book and Special Collection Division.  Marianna Stell is a Reference Librarian, Rare Books and Special Collections Division, and Medievalist at the Library of Congress.From the Vaults! Library of CongressThe Giant Bible of MainzThe Giant Bible of Mainz (LOC)John O'Donohue To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings, John O'Donahue The Island of Missing Tree, Elif Shafak Diagramming Devotion, Jeffrey F Hamburger The Red Widow, Sarah Horowitz    Support the show

To people who know him well, Mark Dimunation is, first and foremost, an accomplished storyteller. Second and not least, he has been for twenty-five years the chief of the Library of Congress' Rare Book and Special Collections Division. The library has over 850,000 items in the collection, including Charles Dickens' walking stick, the Bay Psalm Book, published in 1640, and the contents in Abraham Lincoln's pockets on the night he was assassinated. Mark Dimunation, our guest this week, has a lot more to add to a conversation about his work.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, I caught up with Stephanie Stillo Ph.D. and Emily Moore from the Library of Congress about what's new with the Aramont Library, the definition of "modern book," what they've discovered about themselves while working with the collection, and an exciting symposium taking place next year!Stephanie Stillo is the Curator of the Lessing J. Rosenwald Graphic Arts Collection in the Rare Book and Special Collection Division at the Library of Congress. After receiving her Ph.D. in the Early Modern Atlantic World from the University of Kansas, Stillo served as the Mellon Professor of History and Digital Humanities at Washington and Lee University. There she taught classes on digital exhibition and design, public history, and digital storytelling. She also served as a CLIR/Mellon fellow in the Library of Congress' Preservation, Research and Testing Division researching how preservation technology can reveal important historical information about the Library of Congress's rare book collection.Emily Moore is the Assistant Curator of the Aramont Library in the Rare Books and Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress. With a BA in Art History and Cinema from the University of Toronto and an MLIS from the University of Maryland, Moore brings her passion for art into the world of archives, examining how production and process intersect with memory and object. At RBSC, you will find her processing the archive of book artist and publisher Walter Hamady or in the stacks, dreaming over the livre d'artistes of the Aramont Library.Library of CongressFrom The Vaults! Illustrating Langston Hughes  Man Ray's Revolving DoorsFrom The VaultsSupport the show

On February 12 of this year, I read an article by Jonathan Franklin, a digital reporter on the News desk at National Public Radio here in the United States. The article, titled: Artwork from the Black Lives Matter memorial has a new home: the Library of Congress, lit a fire in me, and I immediately contacted Stephanie Stillo, Curator, Rare Book and Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress, to see if she could arrange a conversation with the people involved with saving the artwork from the Black Lives Matter memorial. Being the gracious lady she is and a regular guest on The Bookshop Podcast, Stephanie put me in touch with Aliza Leventhal, head of technical services in the Prints and Photographs Division at the Library of Congress; the same Aliza referenced in the NPR article. Aliza suggested I also speak with the two guardians of the fence, Nadine Seiler and Karen Irwin.Nadine Seiler, is a Black Activist Curator and archivist, working to preserve the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence Collection. She sidelines as a home organizer, in her spare time.Karen is originally from Indiana but moved to NYC when she turned 40. She has been an actor, singer, entertainer, bartender. She became the stage manager for the resistance when she met Nadine and she has a Patreon account called The Karen Resistance.Library of CongressArtwork From The Black Lives Matter Memorial Has A New Home: The Library Of Congress, Jonathan FranklinBlack Lives MatterEnoch Pratt LibrarySupport the show

Welcome to the first special monthly edition of The Bookshop Podcast! In these editions, I chat with specialists at the Library of Congress, Stephanie Stillo, Curator, Rare Book and Special Collections Division,  and Emily Moore, the Librarian-in-Residence in the Rare Books and Special Collections Division.We discuss  exhibits, what's going on behind the scenes, From the Vaults!, and introduce you to the people who work tirelessly to protect and curate the vast collections, and how you can benefit from the work they do.Library of CongressFrom the Vaults!Support the show (https://paypal.me/TheBookshopPodcast?locale.x=en_US)

Hi Everyone! Today I have a cohost Robin Mallory who I interviewed from season 6, and we interview Professor Brian Bowes from our Book Illustration class. Here is more about Professor Bowes: Living in Savannah, Georgia, Brian Bowes' illustrations shine with story-telling, draftsmanship, and creativity. His work has been included in numerous children's books, notably in The Story of the Fisherman published by Foolscap Press. The Story of The Fisherman has been collected by university libraries from around the world, and a copy can be found in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division at the United States Library of Congress. A former Illustrator Coordinator for the San Francisco North & East Bay region of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), Bowes appreciates this community of like-minded creators and enjoys actively participating and helping others. He currently teaches at the Savannah College of Art and Design and works on various book projects in his spare time. To see his work visit: http://brianbowesillustration.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/studiobowesart/ Robin Mallory Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rgmallo/ Thanks for listening! Nancy Miller Illustration Social Media Portfolio: http://www.nmillerillustration.com/ Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/hmfmhL Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nmillerillustration/ Youtube: https://tinyurl.com/nmillerillustration Blog: https://nmillerillustration.art.blog/

It's time for that exciting moment in American (and British) history, the Boston Tea Party. But tea, as well as being a commodity deeply rooted in the British soul, is also a wonderful link between the two wings of Britain's growing Empire, India and North America. In India, of course, power was still being exercised by the East India Company. That had disastrous results in the subcontinent, and a corrupting effect in Britain. But the government found itself powerless to do anything about it, while the Indian people, especially of Bengal, suffered tragically. As for North America, that was where the East India Company, then going through lean times, was hoping that exports would help it rebuild its fortunes. Tea was to be the product that would do the trick. But in fact, it only led to another grinding step downwards in relations between mother country and colonies, one that brought closer the approaching disaster (for Britain). Illustration: Boston Tea Party. Original uploader was Cornischong at lb.wikipedia - Source:W.D. Cooper. ‘Boston Tea Party', The History of North America. London: E. Newberry, 1789.Engraving. Plate opposite p. 58. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress. Transferred from lb.wikipedia Music: Bach Partita #2c by J Bu licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License

Weekly roundup for September 4, 2021 The United States is the only country in the world to celebrate "Labor Day". I explain how such a uniquely American holiday came about as a deliberate attempt to stifle radical labor activity and thought. Meanwhile, the draconian Texas abortion law should warn Californians of the threat of American fascism. NOTES: 1. "Labor Day Is a Government Scam", by Kim Kelly, Teen Vogue, August 30, 2019; https://www.teenvogue.com/story/history-labor-day-us-government 2. "History of Labor Day", U.S. Department of Labor, accessed September 4, 2021; https://www.dol.gov/general/laborday/history 3. "After Texas' abortion ban, California must fight like hell to protect reproductive rights", Sacramento Bee editorial, September 3, 2021; https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/editorials/article253951933.html 4. "Rep. Cawthorn talks of 'bloodshed' over future elections as he pushes voting lies", CNN, August 30, 2021; https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/30/politics/madison-cawthorn-elections/index.html 5. "McCarthy Threatens Technology Firms That Comply With Riot Inquiry", NY Times, September 1, 2021; https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/us/politics/mccarthy-capitol-riot.html MUSIC CREDIT: "Angry Bass Line", by Adigold; elements.envato.com IMAGE CREDIT: United States Library of Congress's Rare Book and Special Collections Division, public domain; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pamphlet_Haymarket_affair_001da_original.jpg

In times like these, being a citizen of the United States is a big job. Thank you for joining us to celebrate the virtues of self-rule and debate the state of our republic. Welcome to the Citizens Prerogative Podcast. Your hosts: Michael Piscitelli and Raymond Wong Jr. We have a few discussion topics in this episode as we continue to lay foundations: Learning is for humans, education is for robots Facts versus truths: Logic, fallacies, and real debate Reach out to us For additional information or to leave comments for this or other episodes, head over to Citizens Prerogative at Citizen Do Good and login or sign up. For general inquires or suggestions on topics or products in the shop, please use the Citizen Do Good Contact Us page. While you're there feel free to check out the wares in our Shop and find out how to go the extra step by supporting us through Patreon. Don't forget to join our newsletter, it's free! Special thanks to: Our ongoing supporters, thank you! Our sponsor Citizen Do Good (citizendogood.com) Intro music sampled from “Okay Class” by Ozzy Jock under creative commons license through freemusicarchive.org  Other music provided royalty-free through Fesliyan Studios Inc.  The imagery of EDUCATION AMONG THE FREEDMEN post-1862 provided courtesy of Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Ephemera Collection 

With the 148th Open just around the corner who better to talk history than the man who was the first Curator of Golf Collections in the Special Collections Division of the University of St Andrews? Dr Tony Parker is regarded by his peers as one of the game's foremost historians and joins the podcast to talk all things Open (with a few rabbit holes along the way). Special Guest: Tony Parker.

David McKnight is an accomplished librarian and book collector, "imbued with remarkable passion and resolve." As Director of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RBML), at the University of Pennsylvania David is responsible for insuring stewardship, management, discovery, and preservation of the collection and for maintaining the visibility of RBML within and outside of the Penn community. At the Penn Libraries, he has also served as Curator of the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image. Before coming to Penn, he headed the Rare Books and Special Collections Division at McGill University Libraries and was the Principal Librarian at McGill's Humanities and Social Sciences Library. He is the author of Experiment, Printing the Canadian Imagination: Highlights from the David McKnight Canadian Little Magazine and Small Press Collection. McKnight invested 30 years in developing this collection, one that has "considerable potential for literary research in the areas of Canadian Modernist poetry, avant-garde literature, and the production of small magazines in Canada." He generously donated the collection to the University of Alberta Libraries in 2012, and this catalogue was published in 2018 to accompany an exhibition held at the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library. David and I met in Montreal to talk about his experience amassing this essential collection. Among other things we discuss Ken Norris's Little Magazine in Canada 1925-80, Roy MacSkimming's The Perilous Trade, disappointment in Library and Archives Canada, New Wave Canada: The Coach House Press and the small press movement in English Canada in the 1960s, Carl Spadoni, Merrill Distad, wives of book collectors, fine presses, literary experiment, Adrian King-Edwards and The Word Bookstore in Montreal, bill bissett, bp nichol, Mac Jamieson, TISH, Bill Hoffer, j.w. curry, Nicky Drumbolis, Nelson Ball's catalogues, Wynne Francis's correspondence, Contact Press, Vehicule Press, Quebecois magazines, and The Gotham Bookmart exhibition.    

Jan. 20, 2016. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera continues his Library-wide tour as part of the La Casa de Colores, El Jardin project with Library curator Mark Manivong, who displays a rare glimpse of a Sylvester & Orphanos Publishers Archives and a comprehensive collection of the works of U.S. Poets Laureate. Speaker Biography: Juan Felipe Herrera is the 2015-2016 Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress. In 2012, he was named poet laureate of California. Herrera is a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for "Half the World in Light" and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. In 1990, Herrera was a distinguished teaching fellow at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and he has taught elsewhere, including in prisons. He is the author of more than 25 books of poetry, novels for young adults and collections for children, most recently "Portraits of Hispanic American Heroes," a picture book showcasing inspirational Hispanic and Latino Americans. Herrera's most recent collection of poems is "Senegal Taxi." Speaker Biography: Mark Manivong is a digital library specialist in the Library's Rare Book and Special Collections Division. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7172

June 18, 2015. A group of publishers in the field of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender literature were featured in an LGBT event sponsored by the Library's Poetry & Literature Center and Rare Book and Special Collections Division. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6867

Feb. 3, 2015. As one of the many events commemorating the 200th anniversary of the sale of Thomas Jefferson's library to the Library of Congress, Mark Dimunation gives the history behind this historic event. Speaker Biography: Mark Dimunation is chief of the Rare Book and Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6851

June 4, 2015. Through the generous support of David M. Rubenstein, the Library of Congress opened an exhibit featuring two copies of the Bay Psalm Book, officially titled "The Whole Booke of Psalmes Faithfully Translated into English Metre" (1640). One copy will be drawn from the Library's Rare Book and Special Collections Division. The second copy, which belongs to Rubenstein, will be on display through Saturday, Aug. 8, 2015. Americans will see these texts together for the first time. Mark Dimunation interviews Rubenstein, who gives the history of the the book and tells the story behind his purchase of it. Speaker Biography: James H. Billington is the Librarian of Congress. Speaker Biography: David M. Rubenstein is co-founder and co-CEO of the Carlyle Group. Speaker Biography: Mark Dimunation is chief of the Rare Book and Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress. For more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6719

July 31, 2014. Junior Fellow Yoshi Hill gives an overview of some of his work in the Library's Rare Book and Special Collections Division during the summer of 2014. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6546

Dec. 6, 2013. Specialists, conservators, scientists, booksellers and private collectors who are on the cutting edge of research on printing techniques, paper manufacture, binding construction and typography convened at the Library of Congress for a symposium on authenticity. One of the most difficult subjects facing today's collection-development programs is judging the genuineness of printed materials. For nearly 10 years, the Library's Rare Book and Special Collections Division has worked with conservators, rare booksellers and private collectors in establishing methods for determining the authenticity of original items. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6267

Toy and moveable books have fascinated and entertained children and adults alike for centuries. This talk explores the origins and variety of movable structures in the book format. Focusing on the innovative books published by Dean and Son during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the "first golden age of pop-up books" is discussed as well as factors that allowed movable books to flourish. A variety of early toy and movable books from the Library of Congress collections are displayed. Speaker Biography: Sarah Denslow is an intern in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6250

The Center for the Book and the Rare Book and Special Collections Division, the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America and the Fellowship of American Bibliographic Societies announced the winners of the National Collegiate Book-Collecting Contest. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5731.

Richard Virr was the Head and Curator of Manuscripts at the Rare Books and Special Collections Division of the McGill University Library. We met  in Montreal to talk about book collecting, characteristic traits of the book collector, and different kinds of collections, including the Stone and Kimball collection that was purchased by McGill in 1972. It holds most of the books published by Stone & Kimball (1893-1897) of Cambridge, Chicago and New York, a publisher important primarily because of its focus on book quality and design. 

In this interview, Mark Dimunation, Chief of the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress, discusses how libraries create a digital environment where researchers can derive the evidence they need to do their work.