Please join us for a reception celebrating our Spring 2018 graduates: Nicole Cotten, Elise Hochhalter, Sarah Luko, Christine Manwiller, Michelle Moode, Johan Solberg, and Kazumi Wilds. Remarks will begin at 4:30 pm.

This show will feature the works of 2018 UICB candidates Nicole Cotten, Elise Hochhalter, Sarah Luko, Christine Manwiller, Michelle Moode, Johan Solberg, and Kazumi Wilds.

Reception on Friday, April 20, 5:00-7:00pm. K. K. Merker Gallery Ground Floor of North Hall

Post Scripts: Bookmaking After Adobe Matthew Kirschenbaum is Professor in the Department of English at the University of Maryland and Director of the Graduate Certificate in Digital Studies. He is also an affiliated faculty member with the College of Information Studies at Maryland, and a member of the teaching faculty at the University of Virginia’s Rare Book School. His most recent book, Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing, was published by Harvard University Press’s Belknap...

Reception on Friday, April 13, 4:00-6:00pm. K. K. Merker Gallery Ground Floor of North Hall

Reception on Friday, April 6, 4:00-6:00pm. K. K. Merker Gallery Ground Floor of North Hall

Reception on Friday, March 30, 4:00-6:00pm. K. K. Merker Gallery Ground Floor of North Hall

Closing Reception on Friday, March 23 from 5:00-7:00pm. K.K. Merker Gallery Ground Floor, North Hall

Closing Reception on Friday, March 23 from 5:00-7:00pm. K.K. Merker Gallery Ground Floor, North Hall

John Martin Rare Book Room Open House and Lecture The University of Iowa History of Medicine Society and the University Libraries invite you to their annual Open House in the John Martin Rare Book Room. Now in the 200th year since its publication, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or, the Modern Prometheus continues to raise questions about humanity, scientific ethics, and the place of the monster in our imaginations. This event features books and manuscripts from the John Martin Rare Book Room and...

Closing Reception on Friday, March 23 from 5:00-7:00pm. K.K. Merker Gallery Ground Floor, North Hall

Closing Reception on Friday, March 23 from 5:00-7:00pm. K.K. Merker Gallery Ground Floor, North Hall

Closing Reception on Friday, March 23 from 5:00-7:00pm. K.K. Merker Gallery Ground Floor, North Hall

Closing Reception on Friday, March 23 from 5:00-7:00pm. K.K. Merker Gallery Ground Floor, North Hall

Closing Reception on Friday, March 23 from 5:00-7:00pm. K.K. Merker Gallery Ground Floor, North Hall

RSVP will again host the UICB during the 2018 Spring Gallery Walk. Stop by 140 North Linn Street on Friday, March 2nd, during the exhibition opening reception (5:00pm–8:00pm) to see new work from the University of Iowa Center for the Book. For more information about the Gallery Walk program, check out the Iowa City Downtown District website.

Group Show Featuring Jenna Bonistalli, Katharine DeLamater, and Krista Narciso In their group show, UICB students Jenna Bonistalli, Katharine DeLamater, and Krista Narciso explore the various ways in which they use embroidery and sewing techniques as visual media in paper works and book objects. The closing reception for the show will be held in the K.K. Merker Gallery on March 1, 2018, 6:30 p.m.–8 p.m.

Spring Faculty Colloquium Talk by Dr. Matthew P. Brown With topical writing from the 1740s by and about the charismatic itinerant preacher George Whitefield as a focus, this talk will range across polemic, sortilege, discipline, cards-playing, election, gratitude, and ribald jokes about Richard Allestree’s The Whole Duty of Man. It will also attempt to model the virtues of book studies as a method, from macro attention to sociological theories of publishing to micro study of variants in the...

Exhibits from UICB studio classes in lettering arts, papermaking, bookbinding, artist books, and letterpress printing will be on display. Work from UICB Faculty will be on display in the K.K. Merker Gallery. Ladies Typographic Union 2018 calendars will be available for purchase. $20 gets you a full year of beautiful prints! Food and drink will be served—all are welcome!

Women & the Labor of Print: An American Story Women printers were a central presence in colonial and early republican America. Between 1639 and 1820 at least 25 women press owners ran businesses, acted as publishers and performed other work, such as postmistress and shopkeeper, that was often a core part of the printer’s role. By 1821, the number of women press owners in the newly formed states had dropped to one. Women didn’t disappear from printing; their collective role, however, changed...

Please join the English Department’s faculty talk series to hear Professor Eric Gidal discuss his new scholarship in book history and the environmental humanities. By way of looking at industry, materials, and ecosystems, Prof. Gidal surveys the production of books and the representation of nature in literature and history. It is a foretaste of a course Eric will be offering next year in ecocritical book studies, cross-listed in the Center for the Book and the English Department.

"Book Binding Has Been Very Good to Me" Please join us for this year's 4th Annual William Anthony Conservation Lecture, presenting Mark Esser— Mark Esser was introduced to bookbinding at the Harcourt Bindery in Boston in 1979. He then worked in the Conservation Bindery at the Newberry Library in Chicago while studying bookbinding privately with David Brock. Esser served an apprenticeship with William Anthony, first in Chicago, then at the University of Iowa, from 1982 to 1986. He developed the...

10:00 am–12:00 pm Historical Structures Roundtable Special Collections, Room 3052, UI Main Library *Jim will discuss a range of historical exemplars from the UI Special Collections holdings. 4:00 pm–6:00 pm Informal Artist Talk North Hall, Room 208 *Jim will discuss his work building historical book models, tool, and material making. He will have books, tools, and samples on hand. Jim Croft started making books in 1970 and within two years was joining the latest back-to-the-land movement...

Gallery Talk and Reception All are welcome!   Peter and Donna, book artists from Santa Cruz, California, started their business in 1977. They completed their first book, “The Three Cedars,” in 1978. 2017-18 marks their 40th anniversary, which will be celebrated in libraries across the country with retrospective shows displaying from those libraries own holdings. The University of Iowa Special Collections is home to their archives, a selection of which is on display until September 13, 2017...

with Courtney Roby, Cornell University, Susan W. Cook, University of Iowa, Kimberly Maher, University of Iowa Schedule 2:00–3:15 Distributed Cognition in Ancient Science    Courtney Roby, Cornell University    Room 2032 Main Library 3:30–4:45 Art, Science, and the Mind in the Moveable Book Response and Roundtable Discussion    Courtney Roby, Susan W. Cook, University of Iowa, Kimberly A. Maher, University of Iowa    Room 2032 Main Library 5.30–6.30 Handy Books Reception K.K. Merker...