The Grolier CIub housed Lisa Unger Baskin’s Five Hundred Years of Women’s Work, that showcased the labor of several women from different century periods. The 49-year-old bibliophile, activist, and collector assembled a variety of documentations of women at work. Baskin’s first collection arrived at Rubenstein Library in Durham, North Carolina […]

Comic Sans MS is a sans-serif script typeface created by Vincent Connare in 1994 that was released by the Microsoft Corporation. Comic Sans MS was actually made and designed for a cartoon dog who went by the name Rover. The cartoony typeface was also made for a kids computer program […]

  The Grolier Club in New York City had an exhibit dedicated to the works and contributions of women in society. Women for centuries had dedicated their lives to bettering society. For years women’s work have been dismissed or living in the shadows of men, but this exhibition puts on […]

Throughout the movie American Animals , we see the retelling of true events in which four college students attempt to rob rare books from a university library. Thanks to behind-the-scenes consultants, the movie includes authentic details when it comes to rare books and their selling. The audience gets to see […]

While viewing the Lisa Unger Baskin Collection at the Grolier Club, I pondered many interesting artifacts about the women’s suffrage movement. One of the many notable women who participated in the movement was a French philosopher and writer, Madeline de Scudery. Though she was proud of her work, she couldn’t […]

The volvelle, with its name coming from the Latin volvere, “to turn”, is a chart made of concentric paper circles held together with a tie or pin in the middle. In more recent decades, this construction might be a toy cipher wheel where lining up letters in a particular way […]

In the introduction of What We Mean When We Talk About Books, Leah Price mentions that when we mourn books, it is really the times, such as riding transportation or waiting in line, that we are mourning (Price, pp. 8). To me, it is more than the memories of reading […]

A Reflection on Leah Price’s ​What We Talk About When We Talk About Books “It’s true that bookstore sales’ and revenues have declined in the past decade. But the fact that the dip began right after the 2008 recession suggests that the culprit is financial, not technological. And it’s true that […]

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture was founded in 1925 by Puerto-Rican scholar Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, but 20 years prior the building itself was known as the 135 St. Branch library. The center is located in West Harlem and is open Monday – Saturday from 10am-6pm, offers free […]

My introduction to bibliography awakened a dormant mind that brought back memories of experiences and yet an unlearned knowledge about the world of bookmaking. The art of writing a book, a poem, a short story or even a Haiku has its beginning, it has a past, it has a history, […]