Rare Book School Lectures

Lecture 624 (23 July 2018)

Lecture 623 (10 July 2018)

This roundtable discussion included the following featured speakers: Cynthia Marsh, Professor of Art, Founder of the Goldsmith Press & Rare Type Collection, Austin Peay State University (Clarksville, TN); Rebecca Michaels, Associate Professor of Photography, Tyler School of Art (Philadelphia, PA); Patty Smith, artist, printmaker, book artist, and professor of Fine Arts, Printmaking at The University of the Arts (Philadelphia, PA). Moderated by Tony White, the Florence and Herbert Irving Associate Chief Librarian at the Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, will serve as moderator. Co-presented with the Center for Book Arts; the New York City Chapter of the American Printing History Association (APHA); Small Editions Artist's Books; and Theta Chapter, Beta Phi Mu Honor Society, Pratt Institute School of Information.

Lecture 621 (11 June 2018)

Lecture 620 (4 June 2018) Full title: "Reconstitute the World: Machine-reading Archives of Mass Extinction" Text available at http://nowviskie.org/2018/reconstitute-the-world/

Lecture 234 (27 April 1987) Full title: "This Dish is Cheap But Delicious: Academic Publishing in the Late 20th Century" Note: This recording is not in stereo, so be sure you have both your headphones in.

Lecture 230 (30 March 1987) Note: the first half of the recording is very quiet

Lecture 229 (23 March 1987). Full title "Printing and Typefounding in the Late 17th-Century 'Description of Trades' of the French Academy of Science" Note: This recording is not in stereo, so be sure you have both your headphones in.

Lecture 228 (9 February 1987) Note: This recording is not in stereo, so be sure you have both your headphones in.

Lecture 225 (1 December 1986) Note: This recording is not in stereo, so be sure you have both your headphones in. It also ends abruptly in the 46th minute, but the remainder is so interesting we thought it might be of interest, its incompleteness notwithstanding.

Lecture 224 (24 November 1986) Note: This recording is not in stereo, so be sure you have both your headphones in.

Lecture 223 (10 November 1986) Note: This recording is not in stereo, so be sure you have both your headphones in.

Lecture 220 (6 October 1986) Note: This recording is not in stereo, so be sure you have both your headphones in.

Lecture 215 (17 July 1986) Note: The audio on this one is rather wobbly. Apologies.

Lecture 214 (15 July 1986) Full title: "Wheel of Fortune; or, Strategic Planning in a Small Research Library and a Popular TV Game Show Compared"

Lecture 213 (9 July 1986)

Lecture 212 (7 July 1986)

Lecture 208 (3 March 1986)

Lecture 206 (3 February 1986)

Lecture 201 (19 November 1985) Note: The audio on this one is a little wobbly in places, and not in stereo for a stretch in the middle.