Department of
Special Collections
Gallery Talk about “WorkBooks” Exhibit, Tuesday, May 6, 4 p.m.
Prof. Derrick Buisch of the Art Department, guest exhibit curator for the current exhibit in Special Collections, “WorkBooks,” will offer a gallery talk in 976 Memorial Library on Tuesday, May 6, at 4 p.m.
Workbooks — seen as places for inventing, sketching, and reflecting — offer raw and unmediated views of taking notes and shaping information. The exhibit explores the history of workbooks and focuses on the book as an active site. Prof. Buisch prevailed on UW-Madison faculty and staff and other artists in Madison and elsewhere to lend their workbooks and sketchbooks for inclusion in the exhibit, which also features related holdings of the Department of Special Collections.
Artists who lent their workbooks and sketchbooks for this exhibit are Randall Berndt, Derrick Buisch, Michael Connors, Rachel Davis, David Dunlap, John Hitchcock, Tracy Honn & Diane Fine, Lauren Lake, Dale Malner, Clayton Merrell, Nancy Mladenoff, Clarence Morgan, Andrew Mowbray, Robert Mueller, Kathleen O'Connell, Cristi Rinklin, Scott Roberts, Jason Ruhl, Elaine Scheer, T. L. Solien, Fred Stonehouse, Michael Velliquette, Gelsy Verna, and Karen Wirth. “Working”books from Special Collections in the exhibit range from penmanship manuals and travel journals to account books and classroom records.
The exhibit itself is up through May 19, 2008.
Sketchbooks: Selections from the Kohler Art Library, a related exhibit in Kohler Art Library, features published facsimiles of sketchbooks.
New Overhead Color Scanner
We invite you to try out our new Indus Book Scanner 5002, capable of producing digital images in color, grayscale, or black and white (in .tif, .jpg, and .pdf file formats) of originals up to 16" x 23" in size. This overhead scanner can be used safely for rare books and manuscripts. For an example of the level of detail that can be captured, see the engraving of the Medici family tree from Benedetto Varchi, Storia fiorentina (1721). The scanner is configured to save image files to a USB flash drive (otherwise known as a memory stick or thumb drive) — please bring your own.