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In the wake of Japan's recent quakes, Halford noticed an odd, semi-social photographic trend rumbling under the internet's surface: Japanese people were uploading hundreds of images of denuded library shelves and fields of unorganized books. "Why libraries?" Halford wondered.

An exhibition of artists book that feature pop-ups.

If you find yourself in NYC in the coming weeks be sure to check out a very interesting exhibition on diaries at the Pierpont Morgan Library. This is a link to the online version.

I believe I am going to find myself in NYC in the coming weeks--do you have to pay to see the exhibit?

Another artist book library

This database is an illustrated, descriptive index to the Artists' Book Collection, located in the Kohler Art Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Presently, the Artists' Book Collection contains over 800 titles. The database indexes approximately 760 of those titles, over 500 of which have one to four images to visually represent the structure and/or content of the book. With the goal to create a "visual finding aid" to the entire Artists' Book Collection, the database will be expanded and updated on a periodic basis.

An online exhibition by the Smithsonian Institution Libraries and the Washington Project for the Arts exploring explores the links between scientific and artistic creativity through the book format. Check out the digital brochure and exhibition.

An on-line collection: scans of the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee's Artist's Books.

Digital viewing of the collection of artists' books housed by the school.

There's definitely a line between journaling and artist's books, but I think the two are often interrelated.

Emma, this is an amazing site, with much relevance to artists books. In fact there is a strong diaristic element to some artists books, as we will see later in April. Your post reminds me that I wanted to tell you all about the fabulous exhibition of diaries I saw last week at the Morgan Library in New York. I'll put that info in a post to the group.

short youtube video of couple who runs twinrocker handmade paper. there is a really good documentary called the Mark of the Maker about them in the library.

A celebratory discussion from the American Antiquarian Society to mark the completion of the series, from "The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World" to "Print Culture in Postwar America", published in collaboration with the University of North Carolina Press and with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress.Through these publications and the AAS Program in the History of the Book, the Society is acknowledged as a leader in the emerging international field of book history. The United States series- from Codex to the Kindle- is a lively consideration of authorship, reading, and publishing in the development of American life and culture. Looks like a very informative youtube video!