 Hi everyone, this is Jessica Hagman at Alden Library and today we are doing a live video to show you some new things in our special collections. I am in the MAHN Center for Archives and Special Collections on the 5th floor and you are welcome to come up here and visit and see these things so please feel free to stop by when you have a chance. I'm going to turn the camera around and introduce you to Miriam Intritor who is our Special Collections Librarian and she's actually going to open some of these things that have just come to the library that are just getting to be part of the Special Collections so take it away Miriam. This is Jessica. Two new acquisitions to the collection. These are both in the Artist Book category. The first which I'm opening right now is by great paper maker and artist book maker Helen Hebert. What's that? The call-a-font is usually like an artist statement that explains to you maybe the process in making the artist book, the materials used, the number created so this is 25 copies of what's called Handle with Care and you'll see how you'll understand why the paper globe inside this beautiful wooden box, very carefully, you are holding the world in your hands. Wow, that's so cool and so is this like paper and then is that stitched on there it looks like? This is where we go back to the call-a-font carefully put it back so 25 copies of Handle with Care were produced in the winter of 2013 by Helen Hebert who made the pigmented air-dried abacca paper, penned and embroidered the text onto the paper so it is sewn on and then designed the laser cut box which is made out of basswood and then it's signed and numbered by Helen so it's a very exciting addition to our collection because we have a lot of paper making classes and students that are interested in learning about paper making processes and different types of paper that you can make and the different things that you can do with paper and expected things like this also this has kind of an environmental message about the fragility of the world, anything else that we'd like to talk about? How do you, like so this was in 2013 so how do you know to order these, is these are like a catalog or how does this come to us? How do you make that decision? It sends out a weekly email newsletter which I receive and in this case because we purchased from her before we have other materials by her in the collection she sent an email to us about some books that she was offering books, artist books, objects that she was offering she was having like an artist book sale basically and that's really different how I order books as a subject librarian it's a lot of online clicking of links are not nearly as cool as that which I'm going to show you one more time in case you didn't get to see it so that is a globe and the word has stitching on it and then the box made out of what was it? The box is made out of basswood. Basswood. And this is an advocate paper with the text stitched on it. Okay. And so you expect like paper making classes will be interested in this. Paper making also there's a few different classes. We are a department where students make books and they're always interested in books having different and complicated structures. And then just generally history of the book type classes. So cool. Okay. So looks like we've got something else here too, right? We have one more box. A double unboxing day for us here. This is from Strike 3 Press. This one has some tape so it might take a little longer to get it open. This is a physical ABC and artist's interpretation of the ABC books that we all kind of grew up with. And we see a lot of these in artist's book making. I haven't actually seen this one in person before. So this is the first time you're seeing it? Yep. So exciting. This is the last copy that they had. So this one's from 2008. Note to the reader. It's not a matter. Board book or a pop-up. I guess good. Very important concept. So it's like interactive. If you weren't concerned about preserving the book, you could actually interact with it. Definitely. And certainly with classes and visitors, we have let them of course handle it and carefully interact with it. So we're discovering it for the first time. So we don't really know what's inside the pages. Just a different take on your ABC. Does it say the end? They're cute. Sounds like a research question for someone. Right. Ooh, it's behind the door. Don't open it to us again. Or does it pull? Does it pull or not? Oh, something comes out. Okay, bye. Yeah. I'm not sure if I can do it with one hand. Oh. Secret code. Okay. It's like lost. Definitely unknown. Okay. All right. Another question for someone to come and figure out if you like this book. We'll put that back in a moment. That's familiar. Oh, yeah. We've had lots of Alice in Wonderland stuff. Yeah. That looks like the original to Neon. We're the first edition to Neon illustrations. And in here again, we have a caliphant. And typically if it's in a more traditional book structure than the globe that we just saw, it will be at the end. It's only 26 copies of this one. Wow. And Dan at Strike 3 Press told me that this was the last one they had. Wow. So again, it's like your personal kind of, like you contact the author or the artist. All right. I'm going to turn this around and say thank you to Miriam for showing us the new items, collections, and reminder that if you want to come visit, you can find this through the doors, the fifth floor. You can see an exhibit that's out there now. And there's actually another exhibit over on the fifth floor about the Left Book Club that we're hoping to do a live Facebook video about soon. And maybe we can do one here as well. So stay tuned and let us know if there's anything in particular you want to see or if you have any questions about the things we've shown you today.