The ARTBOUND 2011 Exhibition features contemporary works by students making books in book arts and/or fine arts programs across the United States. The exhibited works have been selected by renowned book artist, photographer, and an alumnus of the University of Florida, Bea Nettles. These artists' books will become part of the permanent collection at The University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries. Twenty-five handmade artists' books were selected for the exhibition from over 60 submissions.

Object List and First, Second, and Third Place Winner

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Part of the Digital Library of the Caribbean

Coinciding with the annual Jewish Heritage Month in May 2011, this exhibit highlights items from one of America's foremost Judaica research collections, The Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica, to emphasize and celebrate the great richness and diversity of Jewish culture in various communities throughout the world. Exhibit items were selected from the over 90,000 cataloged volumes, imprints, booklets, newsletters, periodicals and miscellaneous ephemeral items archived in a collection noted for its exceptional depth, scope and singularity.

Object List, Exhibit Poster and Online Exhibit

Commemorating the 30th anniversary of the naming of the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica, the exhibition features highlights from the collection.

A rededication event was held on March 6, 2011 with introductory remarks by UF's president, Bernie Machen followed by speakers Professor Emeritus Harold P. Hanson, former UF Vice President; University Librarian Emeritus Robert Singerman; Dean Emeritus, Professor Ralph Lowenstein, College of Journalism and Communications and Professor Jack Kugelmass, Director, Center for Jewish Studies.

Slides and Online Exhibit

Exhibit featuring Cuban imprints and other materials from the Cuban Collections at the UF Libraries.

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ARTBOUND features contemporary works by students making books in book arts and/or fine arts programs across the United States.

First Place and Second Place Winners

Online Exhibit

Exhibit featuring selections from the University of Florida Libraries & Digital Collections celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15 - Oct. 15, 2010).

Slides and Online Exhibit

This exhibition features selections from the Efraín Barradas Collection of Mexican & Cuban Film Posters collected and donated by Dr. Ramón A. Figueroa. The collection, which is preserved and housed in the Popular Culture Collections of the Department of Special and Area Studies Collections, consists of 378 film posters, lobby cards and window cards. Selected posters from the collection were on display January 15 - February 28, 2010 in the Special Collections Gallery. A special dedication ceremony for the collection and opening reception for the exhibition was held January 22. The entire collection has been digitized, and is available online.

Slides and Online Exhibit

"The Civil War and the Southernmost State: Highlights from the P.K. Yonge Florida History Collection" is intended to highlight documents from the P.K. Yonge Florida History Collection, located in the Special & Area Studies Collections of the University of Florida Libraries. These particular documents help illustrate the interesting and often untold story of Florida and Floridians participating in the American Civil War.

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This exhibition features correspondence, photographs, maps and other historical documents pertaining to the Everglades. The materials are gropued into four themes: Exploration, Dredging, Development, and Conservation. A general timeline, from 1890 through 1950 is also presented.

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This exhibition features architectural models, drawings, and photographs from John Howey's Sarasota School of Architecture Collection in the UF Architecture Archives. Architects Ralph Twitchell, Paul Rudolph, Victor Lundy, Tim Seibert, Jack West, and Gene Leedy, among others, are represented. The exhibition was on display November 11 - December 24, 2009 in the Special Collections Gallery. An opening reception was held November 18 with special guest speaker, John Howey. A complementary online catalog features additional images and text.

Rotating 360 degree views of architectural models:
William Morgan's Conners Residence and Paul Rudolph's Walker Guest House

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To support the Between the Beads: Reading African Beadwork exhibit at Harn Museum of Art (2008-9), the UF Digital Library Centers digitized many museum objects. Those objects can be seen online in rotation with 360 degree views, in the Arts of Africa Digital Collection here.

This online exhibit supports the Radical Women in Gainesville Digital Collection and is online here.

Presented by Rita Smith, curator of the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, the display features copies of children's books that have been challenged or banned from 1990 to 2008. The exhibition was on display September 16 - November 4, 2009 in the Special Collections gallery.

Exhibit Poster and Installation Photographs

Over the last decade the Smathers Libraries has been actively building the Chinese Studies Collection in print as well as electronic, film and other non-book formats, to meet the curricular, research and informal reading/viewing needs of the UF community. This exhibit of artifacts, many coming to the library courtesy of a recent generous donation, features art that may or may not contain literary components, but that illustrates the refined aesthetic and literate sensibilities that underlie traditional Chinese cultural production, as it played out in such works as scroll paintings that include calligraphic word puzzles and ancestral portraits that honor the family names through history. The magnificent 13th-century Head of Guanyin, the Goddess of Mercy and Protector of Children, who was highly revered and often portrayed in Chinese literature influenced by Buddhism and Taoism, forms the centerpiece of this exhibit.

Asian Art Digital Collection

Alternative UF: Counterculture Through the Decades was created by Anastasia Bower, Candice Ellis, Ian Gaffney, and Bronwyn McCarthy, who were enrolled in HIS 4944 Preserving History and working as undergraduate student interns in Special Collections during the Spring 2009 semester. Covering three decades of UF history and culture, the exhibits feature photographs, UF yearbooks, letters, newspaper articles, graphic materials, artifacts and other items from the holdings of the University Archives, the P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History, and the Department of Special and Area Studies Collections. The exhibition covers political activism, sit-ins and other Civil Rights demonstrations, protests against the Vietnam War, the alternative press at UF, women on campus, student life, and the hunt for homosexuals and other "subversives" on campus by the Johns Committee in the 1950s and 60s. A physical exhibit was also on display April 20 - May 31, 2009 in the Smathers Library Gallery.

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The exhibition For This Is An Enchanted Land was open in the Smathers Library Gallery through April 3, 2009. The exhibition featured books, manuscripts, photos, letters and artifacts from the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Papers, held in the Department of Special and Area Studies Collections. The exhibition was on display in conjunction with the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society in Gainesville on March 20-21.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Digital Collection

Cuba: Past, Present and Future, features rare books, manuscripts, maps, photographs and other items from the holdings of the Smathers Libraries covering over 200 years of Cuban history and culture. These include early imprints on Cuba's colonial past, efforts for self-governance, slavery, nationalism, foreign investment, crime, women's rights, spirituality, popular culture and human rights. Special attention is given to twentieth century political movements and upheavals. January 2009 marks the 50th anniversary of Fidel Castro's revolution, and the far reaching impacts of those events and their lasting changes on Cuba, Florida and the world will be examined. The exhibition was on display January 9-23, 2009 in the Smathers Library Gallery, with an opening reception held Sunday, January 11. The opening reception featured a panel discussion, "Lessons of 1959," with guest panelists: José Alvarez, Professor of Food and Resource Economics at UF; Lisandro Pérez, Professor of Sociology at Florida International University; and moderator Carmen Diana Deere, Director of the UF Center for Latin American Studies.

Exhibit Poster and Invitation.

Brochure Cuban Collections at the University of Florida.

Cuban Imprints Digital Collection

Pop-up, Spin, Pull, Fold: Toy Books from the Baldwin Library features pop-up and movable books from the Baldwin Library that was on display from September 2 to October 31, 2008, in the Smathers Library Gallery. The exhibition is a chronological display of children's books which foster an interactive experience between the reader and the book, including the complex pop-up books of current paper engineers such as Robert Sabuda. The exhibit reception included a talk by paper engineer, Kyle Olmon, entitled, "How to Build a Castle: Contemporary Pop-up Book Production with a Look at the Past." Following the reception, Olmon led a hands-on workshop for registered participants, featuring construction of pop-ups.

Exhibit video 1; video 2; video 3; video 4; video 5

Exhibit Poster

Presented by The Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica and the P. K. Yonge Library of Florida History, this exhibition features selections from the Elizabeth Pagel and Jacob H. Kaplan gift to Smathers Libraries. The photographs document Jerusalem, Cairo, Tel Aviv, and the Middle East through the eyes of Jacob H. Kaplan, a rabbi at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati and Temple Israel in Miami who traveled to the Middle East in the early 20th Century. The exhibit was on display in Library West, May 27 - June 13, 2008.

Exhibit Poster and Glass Lantern slides in the Judaica Digital Collections

This colorful exhibition traces the continued presence of the text and images of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in American culture, by presenting a variety of editions, illustrators, media and artifacts, and showcasing the 1969 portfolio edition illustrated by Salvador Dali. The exhibition was held in the Smathers Library Gallery October 15 - December 15, 2007.

Photographs of the opening reception and Online exhibit

Featuring comics selected from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, this exhibition primarily focuses on popular superheroes appearing in DC Comics from 1960 through present day, covering most of the "Silver Age." Displays are organized around heroes including Superman, Batman, The Flash, Green Lantern, Green Arrow, Hawkman, Aquaman, The Atom, The Martian Manhunter, and Wonder Woman. Along with each hero's history and context, information is provided about the individual comic book issues included in the exhibit.

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This exhibition focuses on the botanical illustrations found in works from the Rare Book Collection and the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature. The exhibit is divided into six sections: Herbals, Gardening, Botany of Places: The Americas, Individual Plants, Periodicals, and Children's Literature. The various techniques employed to create the illustrations are explained to give some sense of the means used to create the different effects.

Exhibit Catalog and Online exhibit

This exhibition features a sampling of materials from our Special Collections holdings that document and illuminate the experience of African Americans. The items, selected with care by our curators, suggest a broad coverage of that experience in terms of both chronology and endeavors. We hope that this exhibit will broadcast the department's goal of enhancing our holdings in African American history and that we are interested in obtaining materials from the local to national level.

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The Libraries marked the four-millionth volume in 2003 with Urania Propitia, QB11.C837 1650 oversize (Excudebat typographus Olsnensis J. Seyffertus, 1650) by Maria Cunitz (1610-1664). The book examines the theory and art of astronomy, as well as presents her calculations, and a guide to astronomy for nonscientists. According to Cunitz, there were four components to astronomy: carefully recorded observations, the construction of astronomical instruments, theory, and the calculations or tables of predictions.

Cunitz was the first modern female astronomer. The book is onlyone of nine copies in existence — and is an important addition to the Libraries because it celebrates the University’s commitments to women’s studies, history of science, astronomy, and the printed word as the prime means of communication for more than five hundred years.

Funding was provided by the University Athletic Association to purchase this four-millionth volume.

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The 19th Century saw the introduction of cloth covered boards as bindings for books. This exhibit, highlighting of the holdings of the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, is a chronologically arranged visual trip through the cloth covers of 19th-century American children's books.

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Based upon holdings of the Belknap Collection, this exhibit features photographs, posters, memorabilia, publications, and other items highlighting 75 years of Academy Award-winning movie magic.

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This exhibit displays selected maps of the Holy Land from 1493 through 1887, including woodcuts, copperplates, lithographs, and steel engravings. They trace mapmaking technologies and collaborations evident from the cradle of printing to the dawn of contemporary society and the digital age. Each map represents a concentrated production (among cartographer, engraver, publisher, patron, etc.) that, until the late nineteenth-century, stressed aesthetic and religious imagery over geographical accuracy.

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From the William and Sue Goza Collection, this portfolio of 72 photographs depicts the hotels and sights of St. Augustine and a trip to Magnolia on the St. Johns in 1888 at the time of the opening of the Ponce de Leon Hotel. Included are images of St. Augustine's churches, the Castillo de San Marcos, the Ponce de Leon, Alcazar, and Casa Monica, views of the beach, and many others taken by a private photographer and not published in other sources.

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May 3, 2001 marks the 100th anniversary of the great fire of Jacksonville. To commemorate the event, we present a digitized version of a little-known pamphlet depicting the fire and its aftermath. Joseph A. Ingram captured images of the conflagration shortly after it broke out. In a series of before and after shots, his photographs depict the city, the people who fought to save it, and the ruins left by the flames.

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In December, 1865, George F. Thompson commenced a tour through Florida as Inspector, District 5, for the Freedmen's Bureau. His notes and final report, filled with information about the early months of Reconstruction, present lively observations on Gainesville, Ocala, Silver Springs, Tampa, Ft. Myers, Charlotte Harbor, Key West, and South Florida.

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Explore the marvelous sink holes, prairies, and citrus groves of Alachua County in the 1890s. An online presentation of historic photographs, prints, sketches, and watercolors, including the work of James Calvert Smith.

Exhibit was made possible by the E. Ashby Hammond Memorial Fund.

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This web exhibit documents one of the most heinous episodes in modern Florida history, the witch hunt for communists and homosexuals conducted by the Johns Commission during the McCarthy era of the 1950s. Produced by Allyson A. Beutke and Scott Litvak at the University of Florida School of Journalism. A videotape of their television program on this subject is also available.

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The 1st South Carolina Volunteers, commanded by abolitionist Thomas Wentworth Higginson, was one of the first black regiments to serve in the Union Army during the Civil War. This exhibit reproduces Higginson's stirring account of the regiment's operations on the St. Marys River, Florida.

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This exhibit is based upon the presentation by William E. Brown, Jr. (Richter Library, University of Miami) and Cecilia E. Botero (Smathers Library, University of Florida) delivered at the Library of Congress on May 22, 1997.

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