June 4, 2018

An NWGBW artifact from the not-so-distant past!

I was doing some “döstädning” in my studio, organizing inventory for possible use in a workshop. I found a copy of an Northwest chapter newsletter produced in the Spring/Summer 2004 in a limited edition copy of 90! I have # 54. It was the second issue of the NWGBW News when Andrew Huot was the Chapter Chair, Paula Jull the Treasurer, Jana Brubaker the Website Director, and Roberta Lavadour the Newsletter Editor.

As one of my outgoing activities, I thought I would share this with you all!

By the way, the Ballot for the Chapter Elections is online and active! The link is:

https://GBW.formstack.com/forms/northwest_chapter_elections

Don’t forget to vote. You have until July 31, 2018.

Elsi

April 5, 2018

Global Book Exhibit at Western Washington University

WWU Libraries hosts Global Book Exhibit

Until August 31, 2018
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.

March 13, 2018

Valentine Print Exchange

In retirement I seem to fall behind on my "To Do" list more so than I did when working full time. This time I am not quite a full month behind on my list, but I am cutting it close with this post.

The GBW Standards Chapter Chair Board meeting held October in Tacoma was an opportunity for chairs to share activities, and it seemed that Everyone is doing it! so I thought why don’t we? (To be honest, not everyone in the Guild of Book Workers is doing it but it was clear that this activity was encouraged as a simple way to foster activity in a chapter.) What is it? It is a print exchange.

In November 2017 an email call went out for participation in the first Valentine Print Exchange for the Northwest Chapter. Yes, it is a busy time of the year with two major holidays just around the corner from each other. But sometimes when there is much to do, a little distraction is a good thing. And as I have learned, any project even with very few rules but with a quick turnaround makes for decisive decision-making. (Sometimes when there is a great deal of time to ponder a project, making a decision is not easy! I speak from experience.) I looked at the exchange as one way to use up some of the materials in the studio that have been calling out to be used rather than gathering dust. My Valentine’s card paper was purchased in 1995!!!

Here are the results of the Valentine Print Exchange call.

Mary Ashton