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CONGRATULATIONS, ALESIA!

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Ghana, Peace Corps, Rare Books Division

Congratulations to Alesia, who, on Friday, received her official invitation to serve as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ghana from February 2014 to April 2016. She will be working as a Health Educator in Ghana’s Health Program. Some of her primary duties will include: facilitating the process to bring clean water and sanitation facilities to communities, as well as promoting and improving existing facilities; increasing food security in Ghana through improving nutrition and food utilization in rural communities; teaching on topics such as hygiene, sexual reproductive health and family planning, HIV/AIDS, malaria, and diarrhea disease in schools, communities, or other settings; serving as an advocate for her adopted Ghanaian  community for needed resources; and participating in a variety of other projects. Alesia graduated this past spring with a BS in Anthropology and  a minor in International Studies;  and an Honors BS in Biology with an emphasis in Cell and Molecular Biology and a minor in Chemistry. She has worked in the Rare Books Division since September 2009, the longest, by far, she says, that she has ever stayed with one job. Which means, of course, that she will miss us as much as we will miss her. She just doesn’t know it yet.

Book of the Week – Dialogo di Galileo Galilei

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astronomy, Copernicus, dialogo, Galileo, heliocentric, Index, Inquisition, Italian, Landini, Latin, mathematics, medicine, Padua, philosophy, Pisa, Ptolemaic, Roman Catholic Church, solar system, telescope, vernacular

Dialogo di Galileo Galilei, 1632, Frontispiece

Dialogo di Galileo Galilei, 1632, Title Page

Dialogo di Galileo Galilei, 1632

Dialogo Di Galileo Galilei Linceo Matematico Sopraordinario Dello Stvdio de Pisa
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
Fiorenza: Per Gio Batista Landini, 1632
First edition

Born in Pisa in 1564, Galileo studied medicine, mathematics, and philosophy. In 1592 he was appointed to the Chair of Mathematics in Padua. His early research was mainly on motion, particularly of falling bodies, but he became interested in astronomy. He developed a new type of telescope. Much of Galileo’s early work proved the theories of Copernicus, of which the Roman Catholic Church disapproved, placing an injunction not to hold or defend Copernican doctrine. Galileo ignored the injunction with the publication of Dialogo. Galileo’s Dialogo is a scientific and philosophical affirmation of the Copernican heliocentric theory over the earth-centered Ptolemaic theory of the solar system. Written in a literary style, Galileo deliberately chose to write this work in vernacular Italian rather than scholarly Latin in order to reach a mass audience. The topic made Galileo a threat to the authority of the Roman Catholic Church. It was this book that brought Galileo before the Inquisition in 1633, where he was forced to recant his views. He was put under permanent house arrest. Dialogo was placed on the Index of prohibited book where it remained until 1835. Publication took place between June 1631 and February 1632.  The first printing numbered 1000 copies of 500 pages. This printing sold out before the end of September when it was banned by the Pope. Illustrated. University of Utah copy edges untrimmed.

Book of the Week – Seven of Aesop’s Fables

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Aesop, copper, drafting film, etching, fables, George Fyler Townsend, goat vellum, Grafix, Joel Tabachnick, laser print, letterpress, line art, Mary Laird, Mohawk, Pergamom, Quelquefois Press, Samantha Hamady, Susi Schneider

Seven of Aesop’s Fables, 2008, Cover

Seven of Aesop’s Fables, 2008, The Ant and the Dove

Seven of Aesop’s Fables, 2008, The Ant and the Dove

Seven of Aesop’s Fables
Berkeley, CA: Quelquefois Press, 2008
Z239 Q39 A37 2008

Translation by Rev. George Fyler Townsend. From the colophon: “Samantha Hamady created the whimsical line art for the text. Joel Tabachnick coaxed the likes of an ancient copper box from an old etching plate in my closet. And I, Mary Laird, teamed up an ounce of my letterpress with a pound of alligator computer, to laser print this book on Mohawk 100 # text and Grafix drafting film. Susi Schneider gave me the goat vellum from Pergamom tanners which I used for the binding…” Edition of six copies. University of Utah copy is no. 4.

New Online Exhibition – Are We There Yet?

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exploration, North America, travel, westward

Are We There Yet? Westward Exploration and Travel in North America

Are We There Yet?, 2012

Book of the Week – Fossil Ridge

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handmade paper, handset type, Sue Cotter

Cotter, Fossil Ridge, 1988, Title Page

Cotter, Fossil Ridge, 1988

Cotter, Fossil Ridge, 1988

Fossil Ridge
Sue Cotter
S.l.: The Author, 1988
N7433.4 C6875 F6 1988

Handset type. Leaves hand cut, sewn in binding of handmade paper.

Book of the Week – Exhibition of Relics of the Prophet Joseph Smith

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Auerbach, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Joseph Smith, LDS Centennial, pioneer, Utah

Exhibition of Relics of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 1930

Exhibition of Relics of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 1930

Exhibition of Relics of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 1930

Exhibition of Relics of the Prophet Joseph Smith During the L.D.S. Centennial. April 5 to 12^th, 1930 at the Auerbach co., Broadway at State, Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City, UT: Auerbach Co., 1930

From the title page: “The Auerbach Company, one of the pioneer institutions of Utah, is exhibiting this unique collection on the occasion of the Centenary Anniversary of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.”

Book of the Week – Talking Your Ear Off

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Chris Collicott, pop-up

Collicott, Talking Your Ear Off, 1998, Cover

Collicott, Talking Your Ear Off, 1998, Text

Collicott, Talking Your Ear Off, 1998, Image

Talking Your Ear Off
Chris Collicott
Los Angeles, CA: C. Collicott, 1998
N7433.4 C647 T35 1998

Folded pop-up cards mounted on blank pages. Edition of one hundred copies, signed and numbered. University of Utah copy is no. 55.

Artists’ Books Collection Anchors English Course

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artists' books, book arts, Book Arts Studio, bookbinding, creative writing, English, letterpress, Marriott Library, moveable type, rare books

English 2510 Fall 2013 flyer

Introduction to Creative Writing with Book Arts

THIS MEDIUM SPECIFIC APPROACH to creative writing introduces
emerging writers to the techniques and craft of inventive
writing as well as book arts. Students will consider the
generative process as a performance within a medium
and how the interplay of form and content operate within
the physics of that medium. The course includes six visits
to the Book Arts Studio at the Marriott Library, during
which students will view artists’ books from Rare Books,
get hands-on experience with bookbinding and letterpress
printing from moveable type, and collaborate to produce
a limited-edition book, of which every participant will
receive a copy. As a variation on the final portfolio, students
will be encouraged to produce chapbooks for their final
projects. In both the studio and classroom, we will ask:
What is a book? How might a book’s shape transfigure its
meaning? How do typographic decisions affect creative
texts? What is a creative text? No prior experience in the
book arts or imaginative writing is required.