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Making Booxs: iSchool Students De/Construct the Book

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 September 2016

Greta Golick
Greta Golick*
Affiliation:
Assistant Professor, Status Only, University of Toronto, 140 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3G6Canada Email: greta.golick@utoronto.ca
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Abstract

What can current students preparing for careers as librarians, archivists and museum curators learn from the book as object and the book as art? How can artists’ books and artisans engaged in bookmaking, conservation and curating books inform our ideas of the book as more than its text? How does bookmaking deepen the connection for students between content and form? This article describes a 6-week workshop conducted at the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto that explores the book from its earliest forms to artists’ books and includes many descriptions of books constructed by iSchool students.

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Research Article
Information
Art Libraries Journal , Volume 41 , Issue 4 , October 2016 , pp. 187 - 197
Copyright
Copyright © ARLIS/UK&Ireland 2016 

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References

1. Bagley, Caitlin A., Makerspaces: Top Trailblazing Projects (Chicago: American Library Association, 2014), viiiGoogle Scholar.

2. Course syllabi are available online. INF1005H Information Workshop, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, http://www.ischool.utoronto.ca/graduate-courses/inf1005h.

3. John Shoesmith, e-mail message to author, February 26, 2016.

4. Piper, Andrew, Book Was There: Reading in Electronic Times (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012), ixCrossRefGoogle Scholar.

5. Quotes are obtained from anonymous course evaluations completed by the students during the final class of the workshop.