Cataloging: U Miami Special Collections

Posts by Allison Jai O'Dell, Special Collections Cataloging & Metadata Librarian, and Adolfo Barandiaran, Metadata Assistant for the Cuban Heritage Collection. We feature books, prints, zines, photos, and archives from our collections and around Miami

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... Wherein rare books and internet culture become one.

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Today, a group of 3rd and 5th grade students from the West Laboratory School put together a 30-minute collaborative zine. Their prompt was "something you want to share." Results? Everything from epic line drawings, to poetry and stories, to ecological advocacy, to secret codes. Awesome.

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My favorite books are the ones that are falling apart! Binder's waste and exposed sewing on this 1681 volume.

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Letterpress Halloween Card Round-up #3:

Have a Fangtastic Halloween from Black Heart Letterpress

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Letterpress Halloween Card Round-up #2:

This friggin adorable spider from Chemistry Card Designs

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Letterpress Halloween Card Round-up, #1:

Costumes Optional from 619: Letterpress

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New and awesome at U.Miami Special Collections:

One of Robert The's bookguns!  [Catalog Record]

More about the bookguns

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Join me at the U.Miami Libraries Banned Books Read Out!

Map to the Richter Library

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Watch me catalog the Ruth Shack donation of handmade prints and artists' books: https://delicious.com/a.odell/Shack

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"Paper" : an installation by Luan Nel at the Mark Coetzee Fine Art Cabinet

Accompanying prints now at U.Miami Special Collections thanks to a generous donation by the ever-fabulous Ruth Shack.

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The best news all week!  The Multilingual Bookbinding and Conservation Dictionary is now a wiki.  

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I have a subject guide!  Browse all the cool stuff in U.Miami special collections

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From a handmade book on ancient Egypt by second grade students. That camel looks exceedingly delighted by life.

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All the squees!  Now at U.Miami Special Collections:

Tiller: a bimonthly devoted to the arts and crafts movement

Edited by Robert Edwards and printed by Henry Morris.

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Handmade book by first grade students at W.J. Bryan Elementary in North Miami. The setting is Outer Space.

At U.Miami Special Collections

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Arthur Jaffe and the jaffecenterforbookarts being awesome, as usual.

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I'M IN MIAMI BITCH!  

The fabuloso photobook by the awesome Andrew Kaufman is now available at U.Miami Special Collections.

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