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Melbourne Rare Book Week 29 June to 8 July Melbourne Rare Book Week 29 June to 8 July VIC Branch Newsletter Report by VIC Branch Committee JUNE 2018 22 JUNE 2018 THIS ISSUE CONTAINS: • Notice of ASA VIC seminar • Passing the torch, illuminating possibilities: Why rare books matter - Dr Anna Welch, History of the Book Collection, State Library Victoria • Rare books at the museum - Gemma Steele, Librarian, Museums Victoria • Creative solutions to challenges and misconceptions: Rare Books & Special Collections at the University of Sydney Library - Julie Sommerfeldt • “All you Book-loving Chubbies, Come - gather round me” (Crawhall alphabet book) - Dr Melanie Wood, Philip Robinson Library, Newcastle University, UK • New grad chat with Suzy Goss • Archives and Imperialism seminar report • Upcoming events Cropped image: Persian manuscripts on display in the World of the Book exhibition from October 2017 to October 2018 / Source: State • VIC Branch Information Library of Victoria NOTICE OF ASA VIC SEMINAR JULY 2018 CURATING THE COLONY EXHIBITIONS AT NGV Date Wednesday 4 July 2018 Time Drinks and nibbles from 5pm, followed by seminar from 5:30pm, seminar close at 6:30pm Cost $5 donation to cover food, drinks and room hire. If you are a student, retired, or on a low income, please still attend and contribute what you can. Cropped image: Colony: Frontier Wars installation / Photographer: Eugene Hyland / Source: National Gallery Venue Multipurpose Room 1, Kathleen Syme Library and Community Centre,of Victoria 251 Faraday Street, Carlton Seminar Myles Russell-Cook, Curator of Indigenous Art at the National Gallery of Victoria, discusses Colony, two complementary exhibitions that explore Australia’s complex colonial past and the art that emerged during and in response to the period. Presented concurrently, these two exhibitions, Colony: Australia 1770-1861 and Colony: Frontier Wars, ofer parrallel experiences of the settlement of Australia. RSVP https://www.archivists.org.au/events/event/victorian-branch-seminar-curating-the-colony-exhibitions-at-ngv VIC Branch Meetings/Seminars First Wednesday of every month (except January, regional and special events). Passing the torch, illuminating possibilities: Why rare books matter Dr Anna Welch, Information Ofcer, History of the Book Collection, State Library Victoria Cropped image: Anna Welch introducing the World of the Book exhibition to newCardigan members, Dome Galleries, State Library Victoria, 12 March 2016 / Photographer: Nik McGrath Like Borges, I too imagine paradise as a kind of library. I have been a reader from a young age, and, since learning to read, I have done so voraciously and with delight. Each book seems to me a key unlocking the door to a time and place beyond the small sphere of my own life. In books the dead live on, their voices resounding across the millennia. I consider the academic discipline of writing history to be in some measure an imaginative and empathetic exercise: it involves listening to these voices and weaving - from both their words and their silences - narratives that draw out meaning and coherence from the mass of subjective individual experiences. To study and write history is to empathise with people in diverse times and places, and to be a historian is to be the community’s memory: to remember what would otherwise be forgotten, whether by design or accident, and to help society to learn from the remembrance. My belief in the importance of this intellectual endeavour, combined with my love for the physicality of books - their material character, as well as their intellectual and aesthetic content - led me to a doctoral thesis about the production and use of illuminated manuscripts among the medieval Franciscan Order, and then (slowly, by inches) into a role as a book historian and curator in the Rare Book Collection at State Library Victoria (SLV). Continues on page 3 Continues from page 2 The word ‘curator’ derives from the Latin for ‘care’; my role is to care for both the collections and for the community for whom the Library holds this collection in trust. Rare book curators work to ensure that the books survive into the future as an essential record of human thought, the building blocks from which we make and remake society: this endeavour is a torch passed along the generations. There are three functions essential to achieving that end: preserving the collection (working closely with specialist book conservators), acquiring new material for the collection (ensuring its ongoing relevance in a changing community), and facilitating public access to the collection, including assisting in its interpretation. One of the things I love most about the Rare Books Collection at SLV is its breadth: it reaches from a 4000-year-old Sumerian cuneiform tablet to zines made in Melbourne in 2018. Age and market value are often indicators of rarity, when it comes to books, but not always: scarcity plays a role too, and for that reason, Australian pulp fction from the 1950s sits comfortably alongside the 1632 Second Folio of Shakespeare’s plays on the shelves of our Rare Books Collection. Part of working in a rare books collection is guessing what material being produced today will be signifcant for future generations, and asking: what stories about ourselves do we want to tell the future through this collection? Acquisitions are selected carefully in order to enrich the collection in thoughtful and sustainable ways. For example, in 2012 at the time of the Love and Devotion: From Persia and Beyond exhibition at SLV, with the generous assistance of public fundraising, we purchased a 16th-century manuscript copy of the Khamsa (‘quintet’) of classic Persian stories by the 12-century Persian poet Nizami of Ganja and a 19th-century manuscript copy of the Tutinama (‘Book of the parrot’), an ancient Sanskrit poem translated into Persion c.1335 by the physician and Suf mystic Ziya’ all-Din Nakhshabi for the Indian court. You can see both these manuscripts on display in World of the Book until 30 September 2018. These beautiful manuscripts help the State Collection to represent more adequately cultures that the nineteenth-century Anglo-centric, Christian founders of this library did not prioritise, which are of course present in our modern Victorian community. Many people’s access to the collection takes place directly in the form of individuals or groups visiting the library; others may consult rare books from the collection remotely in digital form. I work closely with readers to locate the material of most relevance to their interests and questions, from school students to professional academics and everyone in between. Melbourne’s annual Rare Book Week program of free talks and events is also a wonderful opportunity to delve into the diverse strengths of this rich and varied collection. This year, the SLV program includes talks about the MV Anderson Chess Collection, the medieval art of dying (ars moriendi), this history of moveable books, crime and punishment in Victorian-era Melbourne, and the latest acquisitions in our collection of artists’ books, as well as a paper engineering workshop for children aged 5 to 12. For yet others, access to the collection comes about indirectly, a process of discovery through exhibitions and news media, both print and digital. Curating the World of the Book exhibition with Des Cowley, manager of the Rare Books Collection, is a joy, pure and simple. The exhibition has been running since 2005, with a complete change of content each year: between 250 and 300 items from the collection are on display in each iteration, dating from 2000 BCE to 2018. It is a celebration of both the richness of the SLV collection and of the importance of written culture, especially books. Like time-travel portals, books allow us to connect with past and future - to learn from the past, and to share our dreams and ideas with future generations. Importantly, it gives library visitors a chance to connect with the Rare Books Collection in a spontaneous and creative way, sparking ideas and projects that may otherwise never have leapt into being. As well as selecting the material for the exhibition and writing the labels, I deliver regular curatorial talks in the gallery for the Library’s Dome At Dusk series and share highlights from the exhibition (and the Rare Books Collection more broadly) through my Instagram account, @bibliovita. In the twenty-frst century, collection access and interpretation takes place in innovative as well as traditional modes. We live in a challenging, at times overwhelming global environment. To borrow a closing sentiment from Borges’ protégé, Alberto Manguel, “[b]ooks may not change our sufering, books may not protect us from evil, books may not tell us what is good or what is beautiful, and they will certainly not shield us from the common fate of the grave. But books grant us myriad possibilities: the possibility of change, the possibility of illumination” (Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night, Toronto, AA Knopf Canada, 2006). ASA NSW Branch Newsletter – August 2016 3 Gemma Steele in the Museums Victoria Library reading room, Melbourne Museum, 2016 / Photographer: Hayley Webster / Source: Museums Victoria Gemma Steele, Librarian, Museums Victoria Rare books at the museum The Museums Victoria Library was frst established in the 1850s as a working collection for curators. Over its 160- year history the library has evolved into one of the best collections of natural history books and journals in the country. Part of my work as a librarian at Museums Victoria involves handling, interpreting and describing, and occasionally exhibiting a modest collection of unique, rare, and historically signifcant items that make up the library’s Rare Book Collection. The Rare Book Collection, which comprises over 1,000 titles or 3,000 volumes, is housed separately from the general collection for the purposes of security and risk management. We are lucky to have state-of-the-art storage for our rare books, resulting from a recent library collection move, we have upgraded storage conditions for the collection.
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