‘Radical Brighton: Alternative/Left/Freak/Radical/Hippie, etc. local papers’ A blog has been launched to document the progress of the Radical Brighton project, a digitisation project to preserve the ephemeral (and therefore archivally elusive and highly perishable) locally-produced radical publications- zines, countercultural activist publications, comics, diaries, calendars, etc., often hand-made – emerging from the UK, and Brighton in […]
Artlibraries.net was a cooperative project of ARLIS/UK & Ireland; providing an online union catalogue of serials in member libraries, together with a directory of institutions. Both originated in print products dating back to the early days of ARLIS/UK & Ireland, when it was far more difficult for libraries with complementary needs and resources to find […]
Compiled by Sarah Bodman, Centre for Fine Print Research, UWE, Bristol Exhibitions Shakespeare Now! Liverpool Central Library. Until 31st July 2016 Liverpool Book Art is curating the world’s only Contemporary Book Art exhibition to mark the 400th anniversary of the death of Shakespeare. The exhibition will showcase the work of 40 international artists at Liverpool’s […]
In this June feature we delve into the depths of the Royal College of Art (RCA) special collections with Neil Parkinson, Archives & Collections Manager. Neil is responsible for all RCA special collections, which include archives, images, art collections and the Colour Reference Library of rare books. We talk early colour mapping, secret societies and why […]
These two titles published by Park Books of Switzerland provide very different approaches to modern art and architecture. (The second piece is my attempt to emulate the book’s style and format.) Pisarik, Sonja and Gudrun Hausegger (Eds.) – Architecture in Austria in the 20th and 21st Centuries. Zürich: Park Books, 2016. £55.00.. 978-3-03860-011-4 Fantastically illustrated, […]
British Art Studies, a new online journal, as introduced by Tom Scutt at the ARLIS AGM at the Paul Mellon Centre, April 2016. The Paul Mellon Centre has recently begun to venture in to open-access digital publishing. Paul Spencer-Longhurst’s Richard Wilson Online went live in October of 2014 and this has been followed by two […]
Book Works artists’ bookshop and publisher in London is organising a programme of Library residencies, presenting a series of four residencies and commissions for artists to work with libraries, special collections and archives located in England/internationally in 2016–2019, entitled ‘You Must Locate a Fantasy’. For the first open call they invite artists to propose a […]
Talis Insight Europe 2016 was held at The Rep (Birmingham Repertory Theatre), Birmingham, 20-21 April 2016. Many of the sessions were not art-library specific, but some of the ideas are relevant across all fields. This two-day conference was organised by the Reading List software company Talis (makers of Aspire) but had resonance for librarians who […]