Mrs. Cheryl J.Mason-Middleton, Head, 250 Sullivant Hall, 8-8676
Press Releases
For News Notes, On Campus, and OSU Today, 8 February 2007
Press Release:
In Celebration of United Black World Month the OSU Libraries Presents
African-American & African Art: Selections from the Marantz Collection of Picture Books
Professor Emeritus Kenneth Marantz is former chair of the Department of Art Education. He is an expert in the study of picture books. Over the course of the forty years he and his wife, school librarian Sylvia Marantz, have acquired a collection of over 21,000 picture books and associated materials. They have been donating these to Ohio State, the Columbus College of Art and Design and, most recently, to Kent State University's School of Library and Information Science where the books will reside in the Reinberger Children's Resource Center. Ohio State is fortunate to own a portion of the Marantz' collection.
You may see the exhibit in room 286A of Sullivant Hall, 1813 N. High Street.
To find more books from the Marantz collection in the OSU library catalog, do a KEYWORD search for "Marantz". These books must be requested from and examined in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Room, temporarily located at 2700 Kenny Rd. in the Depository Building (292-5938).
For more information, contact: Anne Fields, 250A Sullivant Hall, 292-2762.
