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The All Access Bookclub: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Beginning in January 2024, the Princeton Public Library and Special Collections at Princeton University Library launched a book club together for the first time. Called “All Access,” every six weeks, the club reads a book chosen by Princeton Public Library staff.
A Standing Bear from the Vault
Published in 1928, this book is one of the first published about Indigenous people, written by an Indigenous person. Princeton University Library’s copy is inscribed by the author, with a wonderful drawing of a standing bear.
Our Favorite Things #5: A 15th Century Book of Hours
I love books of hours in general and find them so beautiful, just knowing how much painstaking work went into creating a manuscript like the kinds we see from the 1400s-1500s–from making the parchment to doing all of the lettering and detail work and copying to binding the book to adding illustrations and gilt; it always results in a truly special and unique object.
An Illuminated Book of Psalms
Princeton University hosts a wonderful site entitled “Middle Ages For Educators”, which is designed to bring experts and primary sources to those who teach the Middle Ages in schools and colleges. It has a lot of video resources, and I was asked to make one about ten minutes long.
