The Clog

45th California International Antiquarian Book Fair!

hannah p. clark — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:23:03 +0000

This year’s California International Antiquarian Book Fair will be taking place February 10-12, and the Clark will be participating! A special exhibit at the book fair, “A Love Affair with Books: Personal Stories of Noted Collectors,” will include a case of materials from the Clark Library, related to our founder’s collecting habits and our collection’s history. We hope that you will be able to visit us — and all of our bookseller friends — at the book fair!

More information is available via the official website.

Upcoming conferences, lectures and events…

hannah p. clark — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:38:42 +0000

The Clark/Center calendar is a busy one!

February 9, 4:00pm at the Clark:

Parallel Lines Never Meet: Dolphins and Anchors and Aldus/Book Historians and Numismatists and Roman Coins, a lecture given by Terry Belanger (Founding Director, Rare Book School, Professor Emeritus, University of Virginia)
Co-sponsored by Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections

Registration information here.

February 10, 9am-5pm at the Clark

Rivalry and Rhetoric in the Early Modern Mediterranean:
Black Legends and Domestic Dissent, a core program conference at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library organized by Clark Professor Barbara Fuchs (UCLA)

More information and registration information here.

January 31, 4:00 p.m.

Cosmopolitanism and the Local in Early Seventeenth-Century Antwerp: Emmanuel Ximenes (1564-1632) and Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), a lecture in Royce Hall 306 on the UCLA campus

Part of Early Modern Cosmpolitanisms, a lecture series sponsored by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for Transformational Support in the Humanities.

More information here.

A Party for Carol

Moll F. — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 22:49:51 +0000

A few days before the holiday break, the Clark said goodbye to Carol Sommer, our Head of Reader Services. Carol was with the Clark Library for the greater part of the last 30 years. We will miss her a great deal, and wish her all the best in her upcoming adventures. Here are a few snapshots from the party held in her honor.

Barbara Fuchs and the Center/Clark in UCLA Today

hannah p. clark — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:08:30 +0000

This interesting article on Barbara Fuchs, Director of the Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies, details some of her plans for upcoming programming at the Clark.

Rachel Barton Pine this Sunday!

hannah p. clark — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:42:14 +0000

Whether or not you were lucky enough to get seats for this Sunday’s concert by Rachel Barton Pine, you will enjoy this short L.A. Times profile on the violinist, which has some nice words for the Clark!

Center/Clark newsletter

hannah p. clark — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:31:22 +0000

The newest installment of the Center/Clark Newsletter is now online! As always, it features information about recent happenings in the library and Center, new discoveries and current research.

by Robert Gibbings

New Additions

Moll F. — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 01:02:37 +0000

The Clark Library has slowly been moving into the digital age. We recently ordered some wonderful new equipment that should bring our standards of digitization up to par, and perhaps beyond. One of our new pieces is the item you see below, the Kaiser Kid Pro Copy stand. It’s a small model copy stand for our Reading Room. Any visiting scholar can have access to it, and can be trained to use their own camera to photograph materials for research purposes.

We are so happy that very soon the Clark will be able to bring you bigger, better and more beautiful images!

The copy stand, just put together.

Item of the Week: Barbier’s books

Moll F. — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 20:27:14 +0000

Anyone running across an eighteenth century book with no author on the title page knows that one of the first places to check is in the Barbier catalog.

This week’s featured item is the auction catalogue of Barbier’s personal library. Catalogue des livres de la bibliothéque de feu M. A.-A. Barbier, published in Paris by M. Barrois and M. Benou, and printed by the Imprimerie de Fain in 1828, provides a glimpse into his extensive collections. Sorted under broad headings such as Theology, Jurisprudence, Belles Lettres, and Science and Arts, someone has listed the price realized for each lot. Diderot’s Encyclopédie (1778) was snatched up for 60 francs, De Imitatione Christi by Tomas à Kempis, published in 1660 sold for 1.55, and the 1816 Duchess of Devonshire’s edition of Horace’s Satires was hammered at 23.20.

Antoine-Alexandre Barbier (1765-1825) had a distinguished career as bibliographer and librarian. Born in Coulommiers, in northern France, he served as a priest until 1801. Shortly after the French Revolution, Barbier was appointed to distribute books confiscated in the war to various libraries around Paris. He went on to serve as librarian to the Directoire exécutif, the Conseil d’État, and then to Napoleon. Eventually, he became administrator of Louis XVIII’s private libraries , until he was stripped of his titles in 1822, dying shortly thereafter. Barbier saw his Dictionnaire des Ouvrages Anonymes et Pseudonyms published 1806 and was working on a second edition when he died.

For more information on Barbier, see

http://www.napoleon.org/en/reading_room/biographies/files/472931.asp

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/52922/Antoine-Alexandre-Barbier

Contested Songs, December 2nd

hannah p. clark — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 22:50:36 +0000

Contested Songs: Music across the Atlantic

at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

Friday, December 2, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

held in conjunction with the LACMA-UCLA Symposium and Exhibition “ Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World” (November 6, 2011–January 29, 2012)

Not only persons and goods traversed the Atlantic Triangle during the Spanish colonial period, so also did songs and dances: an immaterial, potent, ever-present currency of human connection. Our short program explores one fascinating current in the enormous Atlantic circulation ofcanciones bailados that flows between 1500 and the present: the adoption, adaptation and still-ongoing transformation of Spanish Renaissance dance-songs in the son jarocho repertory of the Veracruz region of México. Members of the UCLA Early Music Ensemble will perform villancicos (songs in peasant style) from sixteenth-century Spain; each villancico will be answered (a contestado) with its 2011 Alta California version, by members of Son del Centro, a son jarocho collective from Santa Ana, California. The amazing commonality between versions is audible, even after 400 years. What does this tell us about the durability of ‘immaterial’ media?

This event is hosted by the UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies and William Andrews Clark Memorial Library and co-sponsored by the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music’s Department of Musicology.

This is a free event, but advance registration is required!

Registration form and full program on the Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies website.

All Things New!

hannah p. clark — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:00:34 +0000

Last Tuesday’s open house and exhibition opening made for a very festive evening at the Clark. We are so thankful to all of our friends who were able to come and celebrate with us, and hope that others of you will be able to join us for more such gatherings in the future!