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.