tura marrang now showing...

 I have loved bringing some of my booky works (old and new)

to the opening of the beautiful new Tura Marrang Library and Community Centre
in Tura Beach - far couth coast NSW

(ie just down the road a bit from my creek home) 

The new space is featuring some of my book-boat images

 

and little book boats I've made
as well as a book boat building site
for library patrons to make some little paper book-boats
to add to the display

I've cheekily popped a few boats in odd places... 

my video work looked FAB in the AV meeting room for opening day ceremonies...

but without a doubt my favourite thing
is how my 2 loooooooooooong books look
in the funny little wedge shaped display cabinet...

the looooooooooong books and boat installation
will be on display for a couple of months

( I think they like hanging out in this space...)

I love it when a plan that seems good in theory
actually comes together as hoped in practice

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"To build up a library is to create a life.
It’s never just a random collection of books."
Carlos María Domínguez

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why university libraries are fantastic...

Ok I'm ready to admit it....

I'm in love...

and it's not just a fleeting flirtation... it's deep, abiding passion we are talking about here...

I love my university library

Indeed I think the library is the very best thing about undertaking any course of study at a university (or so I've constantly written in any 'unit evaluation' that I've had to complete!)

As an external student my only meaningful contact with my library is via the internet and I have been known to spend a dreadful amount of time trawling through the online library catalogue..... and when I discover a 'must have' treasure - I send in a request and my uni library pops the book in the post for me to have and hold - at any given time I have between 10 and 25 uni library books on loan - and over the last couple of years I've (apparently) come to be known by the Monash University library staff as 'the woman with all the books' (hee hee hee if only they could see my pile of books in the studio and shed......)

Right now I've got some fantastic titles out on loan that I think every booky person would love to get their hands on.....

* the Artists Book Year book 2010-2011 (a damn good resource I say - and nice to see so many Australian links...)


* I've just started looking through The Mysterious Marbler by James Sumner - originally printed in 1854, last year Oak Knoll issued a special reprint - with gorgeous handmarbled paper examples enclosed....


look....

purrty....

* then there's Fine Bookbinding - a technical guide by Jen Lindsay (again published last year by Oak Knoll.... they are fast becoming my favourite publishers....) This book isn't filled with photos and illustrations, but has detailed (and I do mean detailed!) instructions for leather codex binding - I like what I'm seeing/reading so far...

* I love love loved Alphabet Stories by Hermann Zapf - with many anecdotal tales by the man who developed the Palantino type family and created Zapf dingbats! (you don't have to be a calligraphic/typographic creature to enjoy the stories...)

* I've also just received 'perfect paper' by page one..... ooooo pretty (and again a heap of aussies included)!

* and earlier this week I had to endure an 8hr bus trip to Sydney (shudder).... lucky I had 'the book is dead (long live the book)' by Sherman Young to help keep me amused!


ahhhhh my university library - how do I love thee? let me count the ways...