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SUMMARY:A History and Virtual Tour of the Collections of the Washington State Library
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of Washington \nDating from 1853\, the Washington State Library is the state’s oldest cultural institution\, preserving for decades items not duplicated elsewhere that hold the answers to so many questions about the past. Come along on our virtual guided tour of this research playground! \nRegister here: https://www.bookclubofwashington.org/events-1/a-history-and-virtual-tour-of-the-collections-of-the-washington-state-library
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/a-history-and-virtual-tour-of-the-collections-of-the-washington-state-library/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240304T180000
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SUMMARY:Bibliophiles Beware: The Situationist International and the Art & Politics of Cultural Hijacking
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California \nActive between 1957 and 1972\, The Situationist International (S.I.) was a revolutionary alliance of artists\, intellectuals\, architects and political theorists that is hailed as the “last avant-garde” of the 20th century. One of the organization’s core concepts is that of détournement\, which can be understood as the subversion of established cultural commodities as a means of propaganda. This exhibition presents numerous examples of this innovative practice\, from artist books to comic strips\, and from leaflets to maps. In doing so\, it also attempts to retrace the history of a movement that maintained an ambiguous relationship with their own material productions. \nExhibition opening and remarks by Mehdi El Hajoui\, private collector. \nClick here to REGISTER for the Virtual Presentation on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Bdg05B1aTZmhCHk5sBIUzQ#/registration
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/bibliophiles-beware-the-situationist-international-and-the-art-politics-of-cultural-hijacking/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240308T120000
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SUMMARY:Photography Collections That Bring History to Life — Lorenzo Lorain and Images of the Oregon Coast\, 1857–1861
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Caxton Club \nLieutenant Lorenzo Lorain is remembered in part by some historians as the first officer from Oregon to be wounded in the Civil War. But we’ll be learning about another\, unique first. Lorain undertook to photograph Native peoples who lived along the Oregon coast. The images he made between 1857 and 1861 provide a remarkable record of Coos\, Lowe\, Umpqua\, Siuslaw\, Modoc\, and Klamath individuals — a record that helps bring vital history to life. Photographic collections are carefully nurtured in libraries\, museums\, and historical societies. Our speaker\, Megan Friedel\, will reach behind the exhibit glass we usually have to peer through to show and tell a remarkable tale. \nFriedel serves as Head of Collections Management and Stewardship for Rare & Distinctive Collections at the University of Colorado in Boulder. She is also an Assistant Professor and oversees the library’s archival collections. She will be drawing on her research into the photographic history of the 19th Century of the American West. \nShe was graduated from Amherst College and earned dual degrees at Simmons College\, taking an MA in history and an MLIS. \nNo need to get on a plane to leave the plains and journey west. Book your reservation today! \nZoom presentation is free and open to all. Register here: https://caxtonclub.org/event-5615361 \nZoom begins at 12:00PM CT/1:00 PM ET. Preregistration required via website.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/photography-collections-that-bring-history-to-life-lorenzo-lorain-and-images-of-the-oregon-coast-1857-1861/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240311T180000
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SUMMARY:Empress San Francisco: The Pacific Rim\, The Great West\, and California at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California \nWhen the more than 18 million visitors poured into the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) in San Francisco in 1915\, they encountered a vision of the world born out of San Francisco’s particular local political and social climate. By seeking to please various constituent groups ranging from the government of Japan to local labor unions and neighborhood associations\, fair organizers generated heated debate and conflict about who and what represented San Francisco\, California\, and the United States at the world’s fair. The PPIE encapsulated the social and political tensions and conflicts of pre–World War I California and presaged the emergence of San Francisco as a cosmopolitan cultural and economic center of the Pacific Rim. \nEmpress San Francisco offers a fresh examination of this\, one of the largest and most influential world’s fairs\, by considering the local social and political climate of Progressive Era San Francisco. Focusing on the influence exerted by women\, Asians and Asian Americans\, and working-class labor unions\, among others\, Abigail M. Markwyn offers a unique analysis both of this world’s fair and the social construction of pre–World War I America and the West. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Abigail M. Markwyn\, author and professor of history at Carroll University \n  \nClick here to REGISTER for the Virtual Presentation on Zoom \n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/empress-san-francisco-the-pacific-rim-the-great-west-and-california-at-the-panama-pacific-international-exposition/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240311T193000
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SUMMARY:FABS Handpress Era Zoom Group
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nAll are welcome to join us for an hour of presentations and discussion of printed books and other materials before 1800. The Handpress Group meets the second Monday of each month. In honor of Women’s History Month\, the March session features Elizabeth Canning discussing A Narrative of the Life of Charlotte Charke (1755)\, the first autobiography in English by a gender non-conforming person. (Charke was an actress and author who not only performed male “breeches” roles onstage\, but also lived and worked as “Mr. Brown” offstage for many years.) The presentation will be followed by an open session in which attendees are invited to hold up a book authored\, owned/read\, crafted or published by a woman. \nContact Jennifer Larson (info@fabsocieties.org) to be added to the mailing list.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-handpress-era-zoom-group-3/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240317T110000
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SUMMARY:Miniature Commissioned Bookbindings with Arno Gschwendtner and Pat Pistner
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Miniature Book Society \nThe Miniature Book Society presents the next in their zoom series on March 17 at 8am PST\, 11am EST. Members Pat Pistner and Dr. Arno Gschwendtner will be talking about commissioned book bindings and will showcase examples from their personal collections. The talk is open to MBS members\, but interested FABS members may contact President Kim Herrick for participation info: books@thebooklair.com \n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/miniature-commissioned-bookbindings-with-arno-gschwendtner-and-pat-pistner/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240318T180000
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SUMMARY:Redemptive Dreams: Engaging Kevin Starr’s California
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California \nAn essential piece in California Studies\, Redemptive Dreams: Engaging Kevin Starr’s California offers the first critical engagement with the vision of California’s most ambitious interpreter. While Starr’s multifaceted and polymathic vision of California offered a unique gaze—synthesizing central features\, big themes\, and incredible problems with the propitious golden dream—his eight-volume California Dream series\, along with several other books and thousands of published articles and essays\, often puzzled historians and other scholars. Historians in the contemporary school of critical historiography often found Starr’s narrative approach—seeking to tell the internal drama of the California story—to be less attuned to the most important work happening in the field. Such a perspective fails to acknowledge key developments in historical subfields like Black and African American Studies\, Chicana/o/x Studies\, Asian Studies\, Native Studies\, and others that draw from the narrative in their critical work and how this relates to Starr’s contribution. Along with being a major figure in California institutional life\, with literary output spanning genres\, it is through the lens of his lived experience as a devout Catholic that this critical sociological perspective sheds new light on his project. With contributions from sociology\, history\, and theology\, akin to investigations appearing in Theology and California: Theological Refractions on California’s Culture (Routledge)\, Redemptive Dreams offers interdisciplinary perspectives that highlight key features inherent in interdisciplinary theological reflection on place and illuminates these diverse disciplinary discourses as they appear in Starr’s articulation of the California Dream. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Jason S. Sexton\, author and professor of sociology at University of California\, Los Angeles \nClick here to REGISTER for the Virtual Presentation on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TSwVvno7RzadtEKwt1Waew#/registration
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/redemptive-dreams-engaging-kevin-starrs-california/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240318T193000
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SUMMARY:FABS Bindings Zoom Group: Brian Beidler on Making Finishing Tools
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nThe FABS Bindings Zoom Group is a lively group of book artisans\, curators and collectors who meet the third Monday of the month to discuss aspects of book binding from all periods. All are welcome to participate! \nThis month we feature Brian Beidler on “Making the Tools of the Trade\,” the manufacture of finishing tools and how they are used on bindings. \nContact Jennifer Larson (info@fabsocieties.org) to join the mailing list and receive links. \n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-bindings-zoom-group-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240320T183000
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SUMMARY:Hannah Batsel and Leslie Winter on Caxton Women Collect
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Caxton Club \nMarch Evening Program \n \nHannah Batsel \n“A Library of Images: An Artist and Illustrator’s Handbibliothek.” \nWhile the subject matter of Hannah’s collection varies widely\, every volume serves the same purpose: a reference tool to lend detail and verisimilitudes to the books she creates. In addition to books about art and illustration\, her collection includes books on the niche subject matter that her projects require: late-nineteenth-century boys’ adventure stories\, publisher bindings\, books about illuminated manuscripts\, and occult grimoires. Her collection explains why she has often said\, “All of my best ideas are in other peoples’ books.” \nHannah is a book artist\, writer\, and illustrator based in Chicago. Click here to learn more. \nLeslie Winter \n“Solutions to Accumulating: Mental Collecting.” \nLeslie Winter’s presentation is based on the premise that Millennials will experience lower rates of homeownership and change residences far more frequently than previous generations. Assuming that such predictions are correct\, she outlines a method of book collecting that combines limited and strategic physical acquisition with a creative “wishful thinking” practice which she calls “mental collecting.” \nWhat she describes may indeed predict far more typical collecting habits of future Caxtonians than the Club’s founding members could ever have imagined when they first gathered in the winter of 1895. \nLeslie is an Associate Specialist in Books and Manuscripts at Freeman’s | Hindman in Chicago. Click here to learn more. \nZoom begins at 6:30 PM CT/7:30 PM ET. \nZoom presentation is free and open to all. Register here: https://caxtonclub.org/event-5605501
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/hannah-batsel-and-leslie-winter-on-caxton-women-collect/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240321T193000
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SUMMARY:FABS 19th Century Group
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nThe FABS 19th Century SIG is a lively group of readers\, writers\, collectors and curators who meet online the third Thursday of the month to discuss all things bookish and 19th century. All are welcome to participate. \nTo join the mailing list contact Jennifer Larson (info@fabsocieties.org)
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-19th-century-group-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240322T190000
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SUMMARY:Leslie Long on Book Designer Margaret Neilson Armstrong
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Baltimore Bibliophiles \nOn Thursday\, March 22nd\, we will welcome Leslie Long\, who works in the General Collections Conservation Section at the Library of Congress. Tying in with Women’s History Month\, Leselie will introduce us to Margaret Neilson Armstrong\, a 19th and early 20th-century American book cover designer\, illustrator\, and author. She is best known for her book covers influenced by Art Nouveau. [Wikipedia] The virtual program begins at 7:00 pm EDT. \nFor a link contact: \nBinnie Syril Braunstein\nThe Baltimore Bibliophiles\nBSBGC@AOL.com
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/leslie-long-on-book-designer-margaret-neilson-armstrong/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240326T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240326T203000
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SUMMARY:FABS Living With Books Zoom Group
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nHosted by The Private Library author Reid Byers\, this group meets on Zoom\, on the fourth Tuesday of each month. Discussions will cover acquisition\, cataloging and photographing collections\, home libraries\, book furniture\, conservation and storage\, and much more. All are welcome to participate. \nTHIS MONTH’S TOPICS: triage of books that need repair; lighting in libraries \nTo receive links and announcements\, contact Jennifer Larson (info@fabsocieties.org)
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-living-with-books-zoom-group/
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