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The Clark Library was featured in the Fall 2023 issue of UCLA magazine. Multiple photos of the Clark Library can be seen throughout this issue. On page 4, in the table of contents, is a photo of the vestibule ceiling. Page 11, under “Bruinology” is a lovely photo of the North Book Room as Arie…

Erin Severson, UCLA Ph.D. student and former student library assistant at the Clark Library, was one of the winners of this year’s David Ruggles Prize in Book Collecting. Erin was featured in Fine Books and Collections’ “Bright Young Collectors” series (November 2023): https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/david-ruggles-prizewinner-erin-severson-collecting-18th-century-and-odd-volumes

On December 1 and 2, 2023, scholars from various disciplines convened at a two-day conference titled “Converting Natural Resources: Representations, Performances, Narratives,” hosted by the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library in Los Angeles. This gathering, building upon discussions initiated at the Renaissance Society of America meetings in Dublin in 2022 and San Juan in 2023…

Dr. Marissa Nicosia recently spoke at the Clark on manuscript recipe books and their connection to Early Modern English literature, as well as how she adapts the recipes for modern kitchens. She walked the audience through some contemporary recipe-book history, telling listeners about the connectedness of food and medicine, the practice of sending recipes in…

On November 15, 2023, I had the pleasure of being in attendance at Arthur L. Little, Jr.’s “Citing Race and Seeing Death in Shakespeare,” the inaugural talk in The Clark Memorial Library’s Spotlight Talk series. Dr. Little’s presentation, which begins with Ben Jonson’s reading of Shakespeare in the First Folio and concludes with a careful…

In what was no doubt a particularly laborious act of diplomacy, representatives from the Netherlands sent three gargantuan lanterns to Japan as diplomatic gifts during the Edo period (1603-1868). Unbeknownst to the Dutch, however, the lanterns’ true provenance was later altered to further enhance the objects as markers of shogunal authority and prestige. One of…

“A library is a focal point, a sacred place to a community; and its sacredness is its accessibility, its publicness,” author Ursula K. Le Guin famously said. “It’s everybody’s place.” To celebrate one such world-class resource, the UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library held its annual open house and adopt-a-book fair Oct. 7, inspiring more…

May 17, 2024 One-day conference May 18, 2024 Public lecture on science Workshop on flora and fauna on the Clark grounds Organized by: Rebecca Fenning Marschall; rfenning@humnet.ucla.edu Anna Chen; achen@humnet.ucla.edu Summary: The early modern period was a hothouse for the study of physical things in the natural world, and for the collection and assembly of…

Center/Clark Director Helen Deutsch is pleased to announce a new head librarian for the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. Anna Chen will begin her tenure at the Clark on 1 August 2017. She is currently Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts as well as Assistant Professor of Medieval Studies and Library Administration at the University…

Details from an annotated copy of Peter Heylyn’s A Help to English History (1680) The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library has been awarded $261,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to describe and digitize a large group of either copiously or extensively annotated printed books from the hand-press era (ca. 1455–1830). The Clark holds…

The Center/Clark has been awarded a grant from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation to transcribe at least nine of the Clark’s codex manuscripts digitized through a grant from the Council of Library and Information Resources. Three UCLA graduate students from the history and English departments will be hired over the 2017 summer quarter. The students…

The Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies is delighted to announce a new award from the Pine Tree Foundation for a project entitled “Diversifying the Classics: Library of Translated Hispanic Classical Plays.” Funding will provide five summer stipends (over two summers) for graduate students in The Comedia in Translation and Performance working group, directed by…

Dean David Schaberg has announced that Professor Helen Deutsch will become the new director for the Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, beginning January 1, 2017. Professor Deutsch joined UCLA’s English department in 1995 and was first affiliated with the Center/Clark as an Ahmanson-Getty Postdoctoral Fellow in 1992–93….

The Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies and William Andrews Clark Memorial Library are pleased to announce the appointment of Philip S. Palmer as Head of Research Services. For the past two years Phil was the CLIR Fellow in Data Curation for Early Modern Studies at the Clark and has served as Interim Head of…

After five years of innovative and tireless service, Professor Barbara Fuchs has stepped down as Director of the Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. In consultation with the Center’s Faculty Advisory Committee, David Schaberg, Dean of Humanities, has asked Mary Terrall, Department of History, to take over as…

The Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival returns with a series of four free concerts on UCLA’s main campus. This year the midday performances will take place in a new location, the distinguished Powell Library rotunda. The first one-hour concert, beginning at noon, offers a return engagement of the iPalpiti Soloists, performing works by…