WWU Libraries hosts Global Book Exhibit
Monday through Friday, 11 to 4 (closed weekends and holidays)
Special Collections (Wilson Library 6th floor)
Free and open to the public
Western
Libraries Heritage Resources at Western Washington University hosts a new
exhibition entitled “The Global Book,” which invites viewers to consider books
as one point of departure for exploring our shared global heritage.
How do books’
physical attributes reveal cross-cultural influences? Have the same creative
impulses emerged in places hundreds of years and thousands of miles apart? Can
juxtaposing one book with another tell us something about each that we cannot
get by looking at just one? These are some of the questions that the exhibition
raises.
Among the
materials on display are examples of manuscript illumination from medieval
Europe and the Middle East; a selection of illustrated bindings produced in
Japan, Europe, and the United States; a Quranic writing board; a Roman wax
tablet; two Buddhist sutras; an original palm leaf manuscript; and several
highlights from Western Libraries’ prominent Mongolian Studies collection.
For more
information about the exhibition, please contact Michael Taylor, Special
Collections Librarian, Michael.Taylor@wwu.edu, (360) 650-3097.
