Lecture series at Columbia

The Columbia Rare Book and Manuscript Library is holding a series of
informal talks and slide-lectures on Monday evenings at 6.00pm.

April 18: Historic Techniques, Modern Solutions: Conserving Special
            Collections at Columbia

Frederick Bearman (previously at the Public Record Office, London, and
the Folger Shakespeare Library, Mr. Bearman is Head of Conservation for
the Columbia University Libraries).

April 25: "All the Pictures Fairest Lin'd": Shakespeare Illustrated

Lucy Oakley (Exhibition curator of the art of the nineteenth-century
American painter, Edwin Austin Abbey, opening in the Wallach Art Gallery
on April 13th. Her concurrent exhibition of published illustrations of
Shakespeare's plays will be in the West Gallery of the Rare Book and
Manuscript Library through July 11.

May 9:  New Currents in Map Collecting

Richard Lan (Mr. Lan is the owner of Martayan-Lan, Inc. New York. He
will talk about the growth of interest in collecting historic maps today
and about the current RBML exhibition: The World on Paper: A Celebration
of the Mapmaker's Art.

Talks will be held in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Butler
Library, Sixth Floor and will begin at 6:00 p.m.

These events are free and open to the public. For information please
call (212) 854-2231.

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