{"id":10648,"date":"2018-04-09T12:28:12","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T16:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=10648"},"modified":"2022-03-22T13:37:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T17:37:16","slug":"national-library-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/national-library-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Library Week Spotlights Rare Book Room Holdings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s National Library Week and Kalamazoo College is celebrating with a look at some of the treasures and oddities in the <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.kzoo.edu\/library\/special_collections\/rare_book_room\/\">A.M. Todd Rare Book Room<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/map.concept3d.com\/?id=198#!m\/184614\">Upjohn Library Commons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>During National Library Week, you can see:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10651 size-large\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-Naitonal-Library-Week-cMUMMA-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Rare Books National Library Week cMUMMA\" width=\"584\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-Naitonal-Library-Week-cMUMMA-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-Naitonal-Library-Week-cMUMMA-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-Naitonal-Library-Week-cMUMMA-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-Naitonal-Library-Week-cMUMMA-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-Naitonal-Library-Week-cMUMMA.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a postage stamp-sized New Testament (above left) presented to Augusta Todd, wife of Rare Book Room namesake Albert M. Todd, sometime in the early 20th century. Records indicate the book was one of five that was produced in Vienna by the famed Zaehnsdorf book bindery. Copies also were given to British Queens Alexandra and Mary;<\/li>\n<li>the \u201cBird Book,\u201d (above right) a quirky California production about which little is known;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10656 aligncenter\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-National-Library-Week-2-cMUMMA-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Rare Books National Library Week 2 cMUMMA\" width=\"584\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-National-Library-Week-2-cMUMMA-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-National-Library-Week-2-cMUMMA-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-National-Library-Week-2-cMUMMA-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-National-Library-Week-2-cMUMMA-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-National-Library-Week-2-cMUMMA.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>this 14th century illuminated psalter, or Book of Psalms, written on uterine vellum, the cured skin of an unborn calf;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10659 size-large\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-Naitonal-Library-Week-3-cMUMMA-600x487.jpg\" alt=\"Rare Books National Library Week 3 cMUMMA\" width=\"584\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-Naitonal-Library-Week-3-cMUMMA-600x487.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-Naitonal-Library-Week-3-cMUMMA-150x122.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-Naitonal-Library-Week-3-cMUMMA-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-Naitonal-Library-Week-3-cMUMMA-370x300.jpg 370w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-Naitonal-Library-Week-3-cMUMMA.jpg 946w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>an original 20-volume edition of Charles Dickens\u2019 novel \u201cLittle Dorrit,\u201d printed in pamphlet form as it was sold on the streets of 1850s London. Replete with illustrations and ads, this serialization was sold on the streets of London at a price of 1 shilling for each monthly edition from 1855 to 1857. The Rare Book Room also has a similar edition of Dickens\u2019 \u201cBleak House;\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10661 aligncenter\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-Naitonal-Library-Week-4-cMUMMA-600x380.jpg\" alt=\"Rare Books National Library Week 4 cMUMMA\" width=\"584\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-Naitonal-Library-Week-4-cMUMMA-600x380.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-Naitonal-Library-Week-4-cMUMMA-150x95.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-Naitonal-Library-Week-4-cMUMMA-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-Naitonal-Library-Week-4-cMUMMA-474x300.jpg 474w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-Naitonal-Library-Week-4-cMUMMA.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>this incunabulum, or early printed book, of Livy\u2019s history of Rome, dating from 1470, when the Gutenberg press was a relatively new innovation;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10664 aligncenter\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-National-Library-Week-5-cMUMMA-1-600x583.jpg\" alt=\"Rare Books National Library Week 5 cMUMMA\" width=\"584\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-National-Library-Week-5-cMUMMA-1-600x583.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-National-Library-Week-5-cMUMMA-1-150x146.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-National-Library-Week-5-cMUMMA-1-300x291.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-National-Library-Week-5-cMUMMA-1-309x300.jpg 309w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-National-Library-Week-5-cMUMMA-1.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a manuscript leaf of an undetermined age from a Quran that appears to be hundreds of years old;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10666 aligncenter\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-National-Library-Week-6-cMUMMA-600x396.jpg\" alt=\"Rare Books National Library Week 6 cMUMMA\" width=\"584\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-National-Library-Week-6-cMUMMA-600x396.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-National-Library-Week-6-cMUMMA-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-National-Library-Week-6-cMUMMA-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-National-Library-Week-6-cMUMMA-454x300.jpg 454w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-National-Library-Week-6-cMUMMA.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>this reproduction of the Chinese New Year picture scroll, or nihua, \u201cWelcome Spring,\u201d was a gift to Kalamazoo College by the parents of Mengyang Chen \u201911 upon her graduation;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10668 size-large\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-National-Library-Week-7-cMUMMA-576x800.jpg\" alt=\"Rare Book Room at Kalamazoo College\" width=\"576\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-National-Library-Week-7-cMUMMA-576x800.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-National-Library-Week-7-cMUMMA-108x150.jpg 108w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-National-Library-Week-7-cMUMMA-300x417.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-National-Library-Week-7-cMUMMA-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-National-Library-Week-7-cMUMMA.jpg 737w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>this leaf from a Latin Bible produced in France in 1240 that might be the oldest item in the collection; and<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10670 aligncenter\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-National-Library-Week-8-cMUMMA-600x298.jpg\" alt=\"Rare Books National Library Week 8 cMUMMA\" width=\"584\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-National-Library-Week-8-cMUMMA-600x298.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-National-Library-Week-8-cMUMMA-150x74.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-National-Library-Week-8-cMUMMA-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-National-Library-Week-8-cMUMMA-500x248.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-National-Library-Week-8-cMUMMA.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>this parchment Antiphony of the Common of the Saints was designed to allow an entire choir to see it simultaneously. Bearing the stamp of a library in Rome, its date is unknown. It is the largest book in the Rare Book Room collection.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hours for the Rare Book Room, 326 ULC, are currently 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Monday, 8:30 a.m. to noon Wednesday and 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday. To access the collection, or to get your own tour of its holdings, contact Rare Book Room manager Mallory Heslinger at 269-337-5762 or <a href=\"mailto:mallory.heslinger@kzoo.edu\">mallory.heslinger@kzoo.edu<\/a>. And keep an eye out for an upcoming spring display at the library, curated by College Archivist Lisa Murphy \u201999. Titled \u201cMurderous Plots and Rivalries During the time of Mary Queen of Scots,\u201d it promises to be a \u201cGame of Thrones\u201d-like exhibition of Gothic illustrations and artifacts, drawn from the Rare Book Room collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s National Library Week and Kalamazoo College is celebrating with a look at some of the treasures and oddities in the A.M. Todd Rare Book Room at Upjohn Library Commons. 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Staff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/category\/faculty-staff\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Faculty &amp; Staff<\/a>","tags_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/tag\/library\/\" rel=\"tag\">library<\/a>","social_share_info":"<a data-share=\"facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/national-library-week\/\" class=\"pl-facebook-share social-share-default pl-social-share\" target=\"_blank\"><i class=\"fab fa-facebook-f\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/a><a data-share=\"twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/national-library-week\/\" class=\"pl-twiiter-share social-share-default pl-social-share\" target=\"_blank\"><i class=\"fab fa-twitter\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/a><a data-share=\"linkedin\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?url=https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/national-library-week\/\" class=\"pl-linkedin-share social-share-default pl-social-share\" target=\"_blank\"><i class=\"fab fa-linkedin-in\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/a>","wordExcerpt_info":"<p>It\u2019s National Library Week and Kalamazoo College is celebrating with a look at some of the treasures and oddities in the <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.kzoo.edu\/library\/special_collections\/rare_book_room\/\">A.M. Todd Rare Book Room<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/map.concept3d.com\/?id=198#!m\/184614\">Upjohn Library Commons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>During National Library Week, you can see:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10651 size-large\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-Naitonal-Library-Week-cMUMMA-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Rare Books National Library Week cMUMMA\" width=\"584\" height=\"389\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a postage stamp-sized New Testament (above left) presented to Augusta Todd, wife of Rare Book Room namesake Albert M. Todd, sometime in the early 20th century. Records indicate the book was one of five that was produced in Vienna by the famed Zaehnsdorf book bindery. Copies also were given to British Queens Alexandra and Mary;<\/li>\n<li>the \u201cBird Book,\u201d (above right) a quirky California production about which little is known;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10656 aligncenter\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-National-Library-Week-2-cMUMMA-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Rare Books National Library Week 2 cMUMMA\" width=\"584\" height=\"389\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>this 14th century illuminated psalter, or Book of Psalms, written on uterine vellum, the cured skin of an unborn calf;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10659 size-large\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-Naitonal-Library-Week-3-cMUMMA-600x487.jpg\" alt=\"Rare Books National Library Week 3 cMUMMA\" width=\"584\" height=\"474\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>an original 20-volume edition of Charles Dickens\u2019 novel \u201cLittle Dorrit,\u201d printed in pamphlet form as it was sold on the streets of 1850s London. Replete with illustrations and ads, this serialization was sold on the streets of London at a price of 1 shilling for each monthly edition from 1855 to 1857. The Rare Book Room also has a similar edition of Dickens\u2019 \u201cBleak House;\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10661 aligncenter\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-Naitonal-Library-Week-4-cMUMMA-600x380.jpg\" alt=\"Rare Books National Library Week 4 cMUMMA\" width=\"584\" height=\"370\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>this incunabulum, or early printed book, of Livy\u2019s history of Rome, dating from 1470, when the Gutenberg press was a relatively new innovation;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10664 aligncenter\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-National-Library-Week-5-cMUMMA-1-600x583.jpg\" alt=\"Rare Books National Library Week 5 cMUMMA\" width=\"584\" height=\"567\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a manuscript leaf of an undetermined age from a Quran that appears to be hundreds of years old;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10666 aligncenter\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-National-Library-Week-6-cMUMMA-600x396.jpg\" alt=\"Rare Books National Library Week 6 cMUMMA\" width=\"584\" height=\"385\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>this reproduction of the Chinese New Year picture scroll, or nihua, \u201cWelcome Spring,\u201d was a gift to Kalamazoo College by the parents of Mengyang Chen \u201911 upon her graduation;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10668 size-large\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-National-Library-Week-7-cMUMMA-576x800.jpg\" alt=\"Rare Book Room at Kalamazoo College\" width=\"576\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>this leaf from a Latin Bible produced in France in 1240 that might be the oldest item in the collection; and<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10670 aligncenter\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/Rare-Books-National-Library-Week-8-cMUMMA-600x298.jpg\" alt=\"Rare Books National Library Week 8 cMUMMA\" width=\"584\" height=\"290\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>this parchment Antiphony of the Common of the Saints was designed to allow an entire choir to see it simultaneously. Bearing the stamp of a library in Rome, its date is unknown. It is the largest book in the Rare Book Room collection.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hours for the Rare Book Room, 326 ULC, are currently 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Monday, 8:30 a.m. to noon Wednesday and 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday. To access the collection, or to get your own tour of its holdings, contact Rare Book Room manager Mallory Heslinger at 269-337-5762 or <a href=\"mailto:mallory.heslinger@kzoo.edu\">mallory.heslinger@kzoo.edu<\/a>. And keep an eye out for an upcoming spring display at the library, curated by College Archivist Lisa Murphy \u201999. Titled \u201cMurderous Plots and Rivalries During the time of Mary Queen of Scots,\u201d it promises to be a \u201cGame of Thrones\u201d-like exhibition of Gothic illustrations and artifacts, drawn from the Rare Book Room collection.<\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/156"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10648"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11869,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10648\/revisions\/11869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10648"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=10648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}