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The Paul-Henri Bourguignon Haiti Photo Collection webpage has been added to the Rare Books & MSS webpage. It includes a broad sampling of the extensive collection of photos taken by artist Paul-Henri Bourguignon and Erika Bourguignon, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at OSU. The photos, accompanied by commentary from Prof. Bourguignon, are an invaluable resource for [...]
Frederic Tuten Coming to OSU in May
Frederic Tuten, noted novelist and teacher of creative writing, will be visiting Ohio State the first week of May (details to come later). Mr. Tuten’s literary archives are part of the Contemporary American Literary Manuscripts of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library. As noted, details about the visit will be forthcoming. In the meantime, you [...]
Everything Lost: The Latin American Notebook of William S. Burroughs
Geoffrey D. Smith and John M. Bennett of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library are the General Editors of William S. Burroughs’ Everything Lost, recently released by the Ohio State University Press. See the OSU Press notice at http://osupress.blogspot.com/2008/01/burroughs-everything-lost.html
Jerry Tarver lecture
Jerry Tarver, donor of the Jerry Tarver Rhetoric, Oratory and Elocution Collection to Rare Books, will be speaking at the Aldus Society on Thursday, March 13th at 7:00 p.m. at the Thurber Center, 91 Jefferson Avenue, Columbus, Ohio. For more information go the the Aldus Society web site at http://www.aldussociety.com/comingevents.htm .
Avant Symposium 2010
Plans are underway for a second Avant Symposium to be hosted by the Rare Books & MSS Library and its Avant Writing Collection. The first event was held in the summer of 2002, and was quite successful; people are still talking about it. The second symposium will be held August 19-21, 2010. Also planned is [...]
Toyo Suyemoto Collection at the OSU Libraries
We’d like to draw your attention to the recent publication of I Call to Remembrance: Toyo Suyemoto’s Years of Internment, edited by Susan Richardson. Richardson drew upon Suyemoto’s own writings, their years of friendship, and the Toyo Suyemoto Collection, which is housed in the OSU Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, in preparing this book. We congratulate her [...]
The OSU Rare Books and Manuscripts Library launches its blog
Welcome to the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library blog. We plan to highlight new acquisitions, publicize events and/or publications that draw upon our collections and share information about what we have and what we do. Please check back occasionally to see what’s new. We have been adding new finding aids to our menu recently: http://library.osu.edu/sites/rarebooks/finding/ [...]