Rutgers Initiative for the Book

The Rutgers Book Initiative provides a home for talks and workshops on the history of the book. We are building a collection of bibliographical examples and a book arts makerspace; we support graduate and undergraduate classes that draw on the Mason Gross School’s letterpress as well as on library collections in New Jersey, New York and Philadelphia; we are developing “tool swapping” through teaching exchanges within and beyond Rutgers; and we sponsor graduate student attendance at Rare Book School as well as graduate student internships in area libraries.

Coming Soon: Douglass Day Transcribe-a-Thon

January 13, 2020 | By David Tate | Notes

Please join us for first event of the Rutgers Book Initiative Lecture Series

October 20, 2019 | By David Tate | Notes

Isabel Hofmeyr (Professor of African Literature, University of the Witwatersrand & Global Distinguished Professor, NYU): “Hydrocolonial Print Cultures: Coast, Custom House and Dockside Reading” With a response by Meredith McGill (Professor of English, Rutgers University) November 6 at 4:30pm Seminar room 6051, CCA, 15 Seminary Place, New Brunswick Questions: leah.price@rutgers.edu What does the oceanic turn … Read More

New RIB postcards

October 17, 2019 | By David Tate | Notes

Printed at The Arm public access letterpress studio in Williamsburg, Brookyln on Chandler & Price Pilot Press.

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