Category: Cotsen Children’s Library
The Marrakesh Treaty and Early Tactile Design for the Blind
By Charles Doran The Marrakesh Treaty was adopted on June 27, 2013, in Marrakesh, Morocco, and is administered by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The core component of the treaty is to align and create exceptions to existing copyright laws of its signatories, which […]
A 15th-Century Alphabet
It’s a funny alphabet. In the first place, it doesn’t begin with an A, but with an illuminated cross: You clearly cross yourself before you begin the alphabet. So then you begin the alphabet, but with a stutter: you have two consecutive a’s.