Thanks for all your great Zine submissions! We are still accepting them. Below is a selection of some of the zines that we have received so far.
Dave Too – Make Your Own Stickers Mini Zine
Lola Knibb – With The Sun In My Mind
Drop in and browse through the Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design. It is a collection of five hundred designs beginning with the advent of mechanical reproduction all the way through to the contemporary designs of today. In this extensive collection you will find everything from the Gutenberg Bible, Bauhaus, Andy Warhol, maps of the New York Subway to album covers and commissioned posters.
To view this amazing resource just speak to a member of staff at the front desk.
This zine workshop is part of an ongoing research project to look at what we can do to disrupt the structures of power in the library, including promoting underrepresented and marginalised voices, confronting whiteness, understanding microaggressions, and identifying barriers to engagement with the library.
The workshop aims to encourage students to think critically about the collections, the spaces and services and is intended to start a discussion that helps us begin to unravel institutional bias.
The workshop runs from 4.30pm-6.30pm on Tuesday 26th November in the Library’s quiet study space. Spaces are limited, so please email b.winterburke@gsa.ac.uk for more info or to book a space.
To celebrate all things gruesome and ghoulish this Hallowe’en, we’ve digitised a number of spooky images from our Special Collections at https://www.pinterest.co.uk/gsalibrary/gsa-library-halloween/
We have added some new contemporary art resources, including Black artists & modernism, Contemporary And, Contemporary And América Latina and Nka: journal of contemporary African art. These are listed on our Race and Rights subject guide. You can also find out about other ways the library is working on diversifying the library collections at our Emancipating our collections pages.
We’ve digitised our collection of movable and pop-up books. Movable books include various formats such as concertina, lift-the-flap, pull-tabs and revolving pictures. Our collection is varied and includes pop-ups of children’s fairy tales, human anatomy, three dimensional Norman Rockwell paintings, and the expanding little town of Popville. You can view images of the collection here
We’ve digitised over 230 bookplates from our special collections, which you can discover here.
Bookplates are small printed labels pasted into a book, often on the front endpaper, to indicate ownership. Bookplates are often referred to as ‘ex libris’ which means ‘from the books of…’
Our collection includes several armorial plates, featuring the heraldic emblems and mottoes of landed families or estates. Others are designed by artists for their own libraries, or those of their friends and colleagues. Our collection encompasses a wide range of aesthetic styles, from classical to Art Nouveau.
In the early years of GSA Library, many of our books were donated by eminent people, visiting dignitaries, or people associated with the School. Today we can use their bookplates, with documentary records in our Archives, to trace the journey of these books have taken to reach us.
In the past, our students would design GSA Library’s bookplates through open competitions. To date, we have only been able to name one of these students, Elizabeth Jamieson, who designed a plate for us in January 1945. She received £5.5.0 for her design.
Browse our gallery these miniature works of art here.
Glasgow School of Art Library is committed to supporting both institutional and student-led initiatives to diversify the curriculum. To this end, we now link to both internally- and externally-compiled lists of alternative readings, that aim to introduce us all to a broader range of cultural perspectives.
Click here to browse alternative readings lists.
Image courtesy Alessandro Milliucci https://flic.kr/p/eGhiYV Some rights reserved
Glasgow School of Art Library is committed to supporting both institutional and student-led initiatives to diversify the curriculum. Discover the ways in which we are developing our collections and services to achieve this.
Artist and tutor David Bellingham has curated our latest artists’ books display on Level 1. View the complete published run of Colin Sackett’s Uniformagazine