William La Moy to Offer Gallery Talk on Fine Press Books
Thursday, March 4
4:00pm
6th Floor Gallery
E.S. Bird Library
On Thursday, March 4, 2004, at 4 p.m. in the sixth-floor gallery of E.S. Bird Library on the SU campus, William La Moy will offer an introductory talk and guided tour of the exhibition titled Paper-Type-Image: Elements of the Fine Press Book, which is currently on display in the Special Collections Research Center. According to La Moy, fine press books are collaborative productions "in which the individual components have a unity that overcomes their disparateness." His selection of primarily recent works from the Center's holdings includes books to which local artists contributed, among them printers Michael and Winifred Bixler of Skaneateles, and the Library's conservators, Peter Verheyen and Donia Conn. The exhibition can be viewed Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. through March 26, 2004.
La Moy joined Syracuse University Library's Special Collections Research Center on December 1, 2003. Previously, he was James Duncan Phillips Librarian and director of publications of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. He has been involved in large-scale scholarly editing projects, including the catalogs of the Harvard-Yenching Library and The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence. La Moy holds a B.A. in English language and literature from Yale University and an M.S. from Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science.
CONTACT
Mary Beth Hinton
Syracuse University Library
315-443-2130
mbhinton@syr.edu
