Tag Archives: books

Connecting Cultures Through Books!

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Deirdre Lawrence

The presence of three books in the new Connecting Cultures installation  gives me a welcome opportunity to talk about these key works that are in the Library collection. This is the first of a series of blogs that will discuss the … Continue reading…

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A Recent Donation from Camille and Luther Clark

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Deirdre Lawrence

The Brooklyn Museum Library collection has recently been enriched with the donation of several rare items of African American art given by Camille and Luther Clark. This donation is one of many in response to the Museum’s collecting initiative that … Continue reading…

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Brooklyn Museum books online!

Posted on March 11, 2011 by Deborah Wythe

About a year ago, inspired by LACMA’s Reading Room, we started thinking about digitizing some Brooklyn Museum publications. We were excited to learn that many of the Museum’s publications had already been digitized–Google Books, Microsoft, and university digitization projects have … Continue reading…

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A Titanic–Egypt Connection in the Wilbour Library of Egyptology

Posted on July 28, 2008 by Mary Gow

Like people, books have histories. Bookplates, inscriptions and marginal notes all tell us something about where the book has been and who owned it. The Brooklyn Museum’s Wilbour Library of Egyptology recently received a gift from the Museum’s Director of … Continue reading…

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Click! The Book

Posted on July 7, 2008 by James Leggio

Cover: Marcia Bricker Halperin. Dubrow’s Cafeteria, 1979. Softcover: 86 pages, 7 x 7 inches. Details, including a special $3-off coupon from Blurb.com, can be found here. It may seem strange that in the third millennium, we still communicate by pressing … Continue reading…

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What is a book?

Posted on April 21, 2008 by Deirdre Lawrence

On April 5th we had our second talk in a series of discussions to commemorate the 185th anniversary of the founding of the Library. The well attended talk – entitled What is a book? – was given by Andy Birsh … Continue reading…

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