[SOA] Program Announcement: "Reading the Book" 9/7/07

[Janet Carleton]

Subject: [OPC List]???d? Program Announcement: "Reading the Book"
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:19:09 -0400
From: "Nicole Hayes" <nicole at ica-artconservation.org>
To: <walter at list.ohionet.org>
Sender: walter-owner at list.ohionet.org

Reading the Book: How Preservation Impacts Interpretation
Presented by Intermuseum Conservation Association
Hosted by the Friends of the Oberlin College Library
September 7, 2007  |  9AM-5PM
Oberlin College  |  Oberlin, OH

This FREE one-day symposium will feature four scholars presenting a broad 
historical overview of the evolution of the book as an object, with a nod 
to how the physicality of the book (and actions such as conservation) can 
impact its use as an historical/literary tool.  RSVPs to Nicole Hayes at 
216.658.8700 or 
<mailto:nhayes at ica-artconservation.org>nhayes at ica-artconservation.org are 
requested but not required.

Presenters:
    * Dr. Erik Inglis, Oberlin College, Making and Meaning in Late Medieval 
Illustrated Books: Two Case Studies in the International Marketing of Books 
of Hours
    * Dr. Cathleen Baker, University of Michigan, Nineteenth-Century 
Publishers' Bindings: Reflections of the Industrial Revolution
    * Dr. Randy Silverman, University of Utah, Jackets Recommended: The 
Case for Preserving Dust Jackets in Research Libraries
    * Dr. Anne Trubek, Oberlin College, A Short History of New Writing 
Technologies, from Plato to MySpace

Exact campus location will be posted to the ICA website as it becomes 
available. 
<http://www.ica-artconservation.org/education/current.htm>http://www.ica-artconservation.org/education/current.htm

Founded in 1952, the Intermuseum Conservation Association (ICA) is the 
nation's oldest non-profit regional fine art conservation center.  Based in 
Cleveland, Ohio, the ICA serves the general public and a broad membership 
of arts and cultural institutions, non-profit organizations, government 
agencies, and corporate and private collectors.  The center provides a 
range of conservation and preservation treatments for materials including 
paintings, murals, works on paper such as photographs and books, objects of 
all media, outdoor sculpture, monuments, and textiles.  The organization 
received its 501(c)(3) status in 1954, and remains the only non-profit art 
conservation treatment and education facility in the lower 
Midwest.  <http://www.ica-artconservation.org/>www.ica-artconservation.org


Nicole M. Hayes
Field Services Officer
Intermuseum Conservation Association
2915 Detroit Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44113
t: 216.658.8700  f: 216.658.8709
www.ica-artconservation.org


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   Janet M. Carleton - <carleton at ohio.edu> - 740/597-2527
Digital Initiatives Coordinator / Women's Studies Bibliographer
      Alden 235A, Ohio University Libraries, Athens, Ohio
              <http://www.library.ohiou.edu/> 
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