Susan Shifrin at the April 9th event

Light from Dark: Woodcuts Old and New

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A new mini exhibition by Conservator Andrea Krupp explores her fascination with historic woodcuts—which speak to her in a language that is abstract, abbreviated, coded, and also timeless—and presents her own original contributions to the…
Susan Shifrin at the April 9th event

WWI Graphics on ImPAC

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On the 100th anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand this June, a consortium of archival institutions in the Delaware Valley launched "Home Before the Leaves Fall:  The Great War," a digital resource highlighting little-known…
Susan Shifrin at the April 9th event

LCP in Demand in Cyberspace

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Partnerships with a range of online publications are giving the Library Company’s collections and curatorial insights new visibility. The Print Department’s charming and informative blog posts began to reach an audience of a whole…
Susan Shifrin at the April 9th event

Iraqi Delegation Tours the Library Company

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On August 15, the Library Company hosted a delegation of Iraqi librarians and museum administrators on an official visit under the US Department of State’s International Visitors Leadership Program. Responsible for “American Corner”…
Susan Shifrin at the April 9th event

Digital Friendship

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  The Program in African American History and the Print and Photograph Department are pleased to announce the launch of lcpalbumproject.org, which annotates and contextualizes our three prized African American women’s friendship albums.…
Susan Shifrin at the April 9th event

Google Glass

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The Library Company had a real treat in July: a visit from Google Glass. The new eyewear—which is still hard to get in many places—comes equipped with audio and video recording technology, and a range of software applications. It’s the…
Susan Shifrin at the April 9th event

Wolf Papers Now Available to Researchers

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The personal and professional papers of Edwin Wolf 2nd are now available for research! Containing correspondence, research files, books, photographs, and other records, the Wolf Papers document the education, career, and family life of one of…
Susan Shifrin at the April 9th event

Small Wonders

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Currently on display in our “Small Wonders” exhibition are 29 marvelous miniature books by the members of the Delaware Valley Chapter of the Guild of Book Workers. Created in response to a challenge to make books meeting the US definition…
Susan Shifrin at the April 9th event

African Americana Graphics Available On-line

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Through the generous support of a grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Education under the Library Services and Technology Act, more than 900 prints, photographs, and pieces of ephemera documenting the early African American experience…
Susan Shifrin at the April 9th event

Learn to Read Moon

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The Visual Culture Program (VCP at LCP) will host an installation by book artist Teresa Jaynes’s in the Logan Room from September 4 to October 10, 2014. The first new work by Jaynes since her directorship of the acclaimed print festival Philagrafika…
Susan Shifrin at the April 9th event

Frankliniana on Display

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Having acquired French artist Jean Baptiste Weyler’s gorgeous portrait miniature of Benjamin Franklin in 2013, the Library Company needed to find a fitting way to display it. That challenge inspired us to consider putting more of our precious…
Susan Shifrin at the April 9th event

Inaugurating the Mellon Scholars Program

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Next month the Program in African American History welcomes its inaugural Mellon Scholars. The Program, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is a comprehensive approach to developing a pipeline of diverse scholars of early African American…
Susan Shifrin at the April 9th event

Abolition Website

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Since 2006, incoming Library Company Director Richard Newman has on five occasions taught well-received summer seminars at the Library Company for K-12 teachers on the Abolition Movement. In 2012, the National Endowment for the Humanities—which…
Susan Shifrin at the April 9th event

“Outsulating” the Ridgway Library

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In a continuing effort to maintain our nearly 50-year-old building so that it will continue to meet our needs for many years to come, we have been making a series of capital improvements. Currently two major projects are underway, partially…
Susan Shifrin at the April 9th event

Summer is for Internships

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As in past years, this summer a number of departments will have the benefit of talented young interns—including several funded by prestigious programs such as the highly competitive International Fine Print Dealers Association Foundation…
Susan Shifrin at the April 9th event

Library Company Lecture in Honor of John C. Van Horne

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On May 28, Library Company members will gather at the American Philosophical Society to listen to a conversation with award-winning author Nathaniel Philbrick and Library Company Trustee and McNeil Center for Early American Studies Director…
Susan Shifrin at the April 9th event

Library Company Digital Collections on Flickr Commons

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The Library Company is excited to announce its new membership in Flickr Commons, which features digital collections from cultural heritage institutions and encourages further sharing, commenting and crowdsourcing by the general public.   The…
Susan Shifrin at the April 9th event

Milt Tonkin Music Fund

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A recent acquisition of sheet music will be getting a very special bookplate this spring. Lillian Tonkin, who began working at the Library Company in 1957 and retired in 1980, has chosen to honor the memory of her late husband by creating…
Susan Shifrin at the April 9th event

“By Dawn’s Early Light” at the Center for Jewish History

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Materials from the Library Company’s collections will be featured in an exhibition at the Center for Jewish History in New York that looks at the contributions of Jewish people in the early Republic and the creation of American Jewish culture.…