This month the Smithsonian Libraries Artists' Books Collection launched an online platform that unifies artists' books from across several Smithsonian collections. It may seem like a simple tool, but ...

To most people, the answer is straightforward: a collection of writing, bound between two covers, perhaps. Beginning with clay tablets and then moving to papyrus scrolls, the book's form has ...

Smithsonian Libraries has been working to share its collection of artists’ books. One of the end products of this initiative has been the creation of a new Smithsonian Libraries artists’ book ...

An example of a double accordion stitched binding created by Greenwood artist Sonja Lehman. Lehman will be offering a class on the book art technique on June 24 at the Greenwood Public Library. Tucked ...

The Smithsonian Libraries is pleased to announce the new webpage of the Smithsonian Libraries Artists’ Books Collection! The Artists’ Books Collection includes hundreds of works of art in book form ...

How the University of Miami’s Special Collections library came to possess one of its rarest, most valuable works — three volumes of engravings of roses commissioned by Empress Josephine Bonaparte of ...