Book Use Book Theory:1500 - 1700
Web Exhibits - Special Collections Research CenterThe University of Chicago Library
  • Introduction

  • Section 1: Technologies of Use
  • Making Books, Using Books
  • Marking Books
  • Size
  • Title
  • Plate
  • Layout
  • Book

  • Section 2: Parts and Wholes: From Matter to Method
  • Bookends: Preface and Errata
  • Index
  • Diagram
  • Commonplace Thinking
  • Case Thinking

  • Section 3: The How-to Book
  • How to Express Yourself
  • How to Do Things
  • How to Be Somebody
  • How to Look After Yourself
  • How to Find Your Way

  • Section 4: Dimensional Thinking
  • Measuring Space
  • Coordinating Time
  • Toward Another Dimension
  • Representing the Unseen
  • Place, Time, Memory

  • Section 5: Taking Liberties
  • Collective Authority and the Encyclopedia
  • Use and Abuse: Anatomy and Pornography

  • Exhibit Checklist
  • About this Exhibit
  • Rights and Reproductions

About this Exhibit

This Web exhibit is based on the exhibit “Book Use, Book Theory: 1500 – 1700,” held in the Special Collections Research Center, The University of Chicago Library, March - June 2005. The exhibit was curated by faculty members Bradin Cormack and Carla Mazzio. Alice Schreyer, Director, Special Collections, was the coordinator and editor for the exhibit. Kerri Sancomb, Special Collections Exhibit Specialist, produced the exhibit.

An illustrated catalog, also entitled Book Use,Book Theory 1500-1700, was published to accompany the exhibit. Text for this exhibit is available online.

This Web site was created in the summer of 2009 with a templating system developed by Marc Gasser, Digital Library Development Center (DLDC), University of Chicago Library, with input from Alice Schreyer, Director, Special Collections Research Center (SCRC); Daniel Meyer, Associate Director, SCRC, and University Archivist; Elisabeth Long, Co-director, DLDC;  and Kerri Sancomb, Exhibit Specialist, SCRC. Photography for exhibit banner and Web site by Ted Lacey; Web site design by Marc Gasser and Kerri Sancomb.

Book Use, Book Theory: 1500-1700. Bradin Cormack and Carla Mazzio.
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