#ohio u

[rorymanceryiik]

Imagine getting water thrown on you and your response is to say you're gonna bring a group of people with guns in a country where mass shootings are a real threat and calling the people who threw water terrorists.

[darilliumnight]

Ohio University // January 2019

[aldenlibrary]

Preservation Week 2018: Manuscript Medicine

This manuscript appears to be copied from multiple texts concerning both medicinal and culinary recipes. While the binding may appear damaged it may be more likely that it was not produced by a professional bindery. It is actually quite soundly constructed and in wonderful condition, but the rough turn-ins and lack of any paste-down, as well as the imprecision of the blind stamping, suggest a home binding. 

So while the boards are exposed there is no conservation treatment that would seek to correct this. Additionally the boards themselves have gathered further evidence of ownership, with notes from Edmund Blunden, who’s personal library is held in our special collections. 

All pictures:  A book entitled choice and profitable secrets both physical & chirurgicall formerly concealed by the Dutchess of Lenox, and printed for John Staffort, St. George at Fleetsbring 

[scenicsauthoff]

Folding tete-a-tete bench complete!

[creatures-such-as-me]

Pls watch. I saw my first March on campus today! It was awesome. It makes me so proud of my itty bitty backwoods little town. And it goes to show you that even little town can do big things!! 😄 #Say it loud, and say it PROUD# #LBGT are welcome here!# #Show me what democracy looks like!# #THIS is what democracy looks like!# #Whose University?!# #OUR University!!#

[aldenlibrary]

The Big Picture

Photo credit: Misty Thomas-Trout

We’re closing our celebration of Preservation Week with a book that shows us the value and impact of something we often take for granted. This excellent book traces economic networks in Athens, Ohio and shows the interconnected foodways that are such an vibrant and important part of this community. 

“Experience has taught me that through direct relationships and interactions of support, people tend to care more about their part in the whole. It has shown me that we are interdependent. We do make individual choices but they are not made in isolation. Our everyday decisions affect those around us as they also create patterned ways of living — patterns that build the social and cultural environment that surrounds us.” - Artist Statement 

Also...it’s VERY big.  

Sometimes we take objects of unusual size into the collection. Here we’ve had to improvise when our backroom space didn’t quite cut it. 

Artist Misty Thomas-Trout is showing us how to unpack and repack the components of her artists’ book, which consists of a network of threads moving across canvas.

Atlas of Athens: A Visual Literacy of Place

Book Box : 26 in x 32 in : Reclaimed wood, used door hinges Map : 10 ft x 2.5 ft : Acrylic on canvas, embroidery floss, push pins, cork Legend Flash Cards : 4 in x 6 in : Digital print on 100% pcw envrionment smooth Printed Book : Book digitally printed on 100% pcw environment smooth, cover is a USGS Athens, Ohio Quadrangle, 2002

[scenicsauthoff]

One week until tech. Outside is mostly done, just need to finish the kitchen.

[scenicsauthoff]

One week until tech. Outside is mostly done, just need to finish the kitchen.