Bookplates

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Digital Bookplates: Old Technology and New Applications

Bookplates can be thought of as an old school way of telling one’s story. The use of bookplates is hundreds of years old. An early use was to identify books that belonged to individuals. Designs were personal – woven into designs were clues about the book owner. They were creative, humorous, and serious. Many included warnings of dire consequences if a book was stolen or not returned. Over the centuries, the art and design of bookplates changed, but they maintained a personal quality. Digital bookplates are a new application of old technology. They can represent an individual, family, or organization and can make a striking presence in a Web environment. Library applications include planned giving, fundraising, and donor relations, among others. The presentation will include both historical and modern examples of bookplates

Digital Bookplates: Cataloging Processes and Workflows

Historically, bookplates were found in the front of print monographs. Transitioning them to digital allows libraries to expand their visibility to researchers and to fundraising activities within institutions. Digital bookplates offer significant opportunities to honor or memorialize individuals with gifts to libraries at varying donation levels. This article discusses digital bookplates in an academic library and provides examples of the cataloging, metadata, and web processes involved in maintaining and collaborating on this active fundraising program. A previous article on this topic was published in 2012 and this article provides an update to its procedures and workflows a decade later

Art in miniature : bookplates in the Fryer Library

Penny Whiteway profiles a selection of bookplates from the extensive collections held in the Fryer Library

Fryer folios

Fryer Folios is published annually to illustrate the range of special collections in the Fryer Library and to showcase scholarly research based on these sources

Eduard Wiiralt’s Unknown Matchbox Picture from Vienna, 24 December 1944

The main objective of the article is to introduce the matchbox picturecalled Girl Looking Up in Prayer created in Vienna on 24 December1944 and the bookplate based thereon that was produced in Estoniain 1960. In addition, based on archival sources, an explanation isprovided of the reception of Eduard Wiiralt’s work in occupiedEstonia until the end of the 1950s.Despite the common belief that Wiiralt was totally ignored duringthe Stalinist period in Estonia, he was still included in the art historycurricula of the official schools of higher education. Many of thestudents at that time were soon actively helping to restore publicrecognition to Wiiralt, which occurred after the artist’s death in1954. The introduction of Wiiralt’s oeuvre in Estonia was precededby an exhibition in Moscow in 1956. It is possible that the matchboxpicture that was sent to Estonia in a letter on 15 February 1959 wasnot the first original post-war work by Wiiralt to arrive here. Theowner had the picture made into a bookplate that was produced ina large run. Eduard Wiiralt himself is known to have made sevenbookplates between 1918 and 1936.It is also possible to document the changes that have occurred insociety and the moods of the times through art. From the matchboxpicture that Wiiralt drew on Vienna on Christmas Eve in 1944, theyear that Estonia lost its independence, one can surmise the artist’sbelief and hope that his beloved Estonia would someday becomefree again

The “second lives” of three Amy Sacker bookplates, and a postscript

Boston artist, illustrator and book cover designer Amy Sacker (1872-1965) created about two dozen known bookplates during her career [see http://www.amysacker.net/documents/sackerbookplates.htm ]. Two of the twelve bookplates that appeared in the 1903 publication by Boston bookseller Charles Goodspeed, “The Book Plates of Amy Sacker”, actually had a second usage in a different setting. The Boston artist modified her work and employed it to serve new, quite different purposes

Throw Out Those Paper Bookplates! The Digital Bookplate Program at The University of Western Ontario

Western Libraries (The University of Western Ontario) has recently developed a digital bookplate program. We create a digital bookplate in Fireworks (a graphics design program) using a set of standard templates. Then we link a web page with information about the bookplate to a search, which displays all of the material purchased for that donation in the catalogue. The donor is provided with the web-link and can view the bookplate and the catalogue records for the material that was purchased or donated