New Links
The Chapin Library includes on its website an ever-growing list of useful links to online resources devoted to libraries, book collecting, manuscripts, printing, binding, papermaking, publishing, graphic design, and archival conservation, and to selected sites concerned with art, history, literature, science, and technology, especially those related to the subject matter of Chapin holdings.
New additions to this list include:
Iconclass. A classification system for art and iconography. (Compare this scheme with those used by the Art and Architecture Thesaurus and the Index of Christian Art.)
Pop-ups! They’re Not Just for Kids. A video exhibition from the Harold M. Goralnick ’71 Pop-up Book Collection at Bowdoin College. Another recent video about pop-up books, and there are many on the Web, is a how-to made by Sean McGee for the 2010–2011 Smithsonian Institution exhibition Paper Engineering: Fold, Pull, Pop & Turn.
The Virtual Library of Bibliographical Heritage. Conducted by the Ministry of Culture and the Autonomous Regions of Spain, this project aims to supply online digital facsimiles of printed books and manuscripts from Spanish historical collections.
The William Augustus Brewer Bookplate Collection. This database at the University of Delaware Library currently contains 3,040 digitized ex libris which may be browsed or searched. – WGH