SCOPA Forum: Arts of the Book Collection Digitization

[Eric Friede <eric.friede@YALE.EDU>]

To all library staff,

You are cordially invited to a forum in the Sterling Lecture Hall on
Monday, June 2nd, from 2:00 to 3:00 sponsored by SCOPA. The forum will be
a report of the SCOPA grant-funded project:
Creating a Resource for Information
on Contemporary Book Artists: Digitization of Ephemera in the Arts of the
Book Collection.

The project was a collaboration between Jae Rossman, Jennifer
Weintraub and Karen Reardon.

The Arts of the Book Collection (AOB) has several filing cabinets filled
with materials that have been collected over many years on various
contemporary artists and presses, such as postcards, keepsakes, and
exhibition announcements. This material would be valuable to historians,
practicing artists, curators, collectors, and others if only it was
easily accessible. The project tested the feasibility of organizing and
creating an online resource that would make the ephemera collection more
easily available to Yale and the larger book arts community. The project
also provided the collaborators with information on the feasibility of
making other types of materials in the AOB Collection available
online.

Come hear more about the project and see their results. And come to learn
valuable information that you can apply to your own digitization
projects.

All staff are encouraged to attend.

For SCOPA (with apologies for the late notice),

Eric Friede
Divinity Library