M ARTIN ANTONETTI

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Smith College

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P ROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

1997 Smith College Library, Northampton, Massachusetts

Founding Director of the Book Studies Concentration (2011)

Marketing/Outreach Director (2008 to the present)

Curator of Rare Books (1997 to the present)

Lecturer, Department of Art (1997 to the present)

Director of the Book Studies Concentration: Planned and created a new cross-disciplinary curricular

initiative. Program and curriculum development, supervision of student internships, management of

concentration budget, academic advising, and directing the senior capstone seminar. Reports to the

Provost.

Marketing/Outreach Director: Responsibility for providing the entire Smith College library system

with strategic outreach to key constituencies, including assessment efforts to determine the needs

of those constituencies and the planning for and management of the library s marketing and public

relations programs. The Marketing/Outreach Director is also a member of the Library Leadership

Team and reports to the Director of Libraries.

Curator of Rare Books: In charge of collection development, donor relations, public services,

administration, exhibitions, cataloguing, security, and conservation & preservation for the college s

rare books and literary manuscripts collections. Supervision of three professional and one non-

professional staff. Library liaison to Classics and Italian departments. At various times served on (inter

alia) the Strategic Management Team, Emergency Procedures Working Group, American Studies

Program Advisory Committee, several library renovation project teams, and library and campus

search committees. Reports to the Coordinator for Special Collections.

Lecturer: Teach The Art and History of the Book and The Artist s Book in the 20th Century, semester-

long, full-credit courses offered in alternating years. Supervise individual directed studies and honors

theses. Taught An Introduction to Printing and Typography, a semester-long studio course, spring

1999. Served on the Art Museum/Art Department Committee and Digital Imaging Committee.

Currently on Museums Concentration Advisory Committee.

1991 1997 The Grolier Club, New York City

Librarian and Director

Chief administrator for the oldest American bibliophile organization: coordinated the business of the

Club s nine management committees; oversaw the exhibition, public lecture, publication, and

membership programs; managed annual operating budget; supervised staff of 5 FTE; administered

the bibliographical reference library of 100,000 rare books and manuscripts; maintained the physical

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fabric of the historic clubhouse, a New York landmark; curated the collection of prints, art properties

and antique furniture; reported to the President of the Council.

1985 1991 Mills College Library, Oakland, California

Acting College Librarian (1990-1991)

Founding Director of the Center for the Book (1989 1991)

Special Collections Librarian (1985 1991)

Lecturer and Co-administrator of the Graduate Book Arts Program (1985-1991)

Acting College Librarian: Overall responsibility for all departments of the College Library; supervision

of staff of 16 FTE; fundraising and library relations; management of $600,000 annual materials

budget; reported to the Provost for Academic Affairs.

Director of the Center for the Book: In charge of programs, public relations, and fundraising. The

Center is both a friends group for the College Library and a public clearinghouse for book arts

information, offering a lecture series, workshops, symposia, and an annual book fair.

Special Collections Librarian: In charge of collection development, public services, administration,

conservation & preservation, and exhibitions for the library s rare books and manuscripts collections;

in charge of the College Archives; served on the library s collection development, disaster planning,

automation, and new building committees; supervision of student assistants; reported to the College

Librarian.

Lecturer and Co-administrator of the Graduate Book Arts Program: Taught History of the Book in

1985-1990; thesis supervision; curriculum planning for a graduate program that included courses in

bookbinding, book design, typography and topics in book history.

1983 1985 University of Oregon Library, Eugene

Rare Books / Special Collections Librarian

Lecturer, Department of History

Rare Books / Special Collections Librarian: Collection development, public services, administration,

conservation & preservation, and exhibitions for rare books collections; library subject specialist for

classics and bibliography; reported to the Curator of Special Collections.

Lecturer: Team-taught The History of the Book with Raymond Birn in 1983-1985; teaching assistant

for Western Civilization I in 1984.

1979 1981 Harry L. Stern, Ltd, Antiquarian Books and Maps, Chicago

Rare Book Cataloguer

Bibliographic research, catalogue production, book fair sales, office management, supervision of

part-time staff.

R ARE BOOK SCHOOL: 1984-present

In addition to my regular professional positions I have been involved in Rare Book School, first at

Columbia University and then at the University of Virginia, in various capacities for nearly my entire

career. Rare Book School is an annual series of week-long, professional-level continuing education

courses. RBS was founded by Terry Belanger and is currently directed by Michael Suarez.

1995 Rare Book School Faculty: Taught The History of the Printed Book in the West (from 1995-2001) and

The Printed Book in the West, 1450-1800 (ongoing since 2002).

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1994 2002 Vice-president, Board of Trustees, Book Arts Press (this was the former name of the umbrella

organization that administered Rare Book School)

1989 Director, Rare Book School: Responsible for management of staff, logistics, and financial matters

(summer, at Columbia University; Terry Belanger on sabbatical)

1984 1988 Assistant Director, Rare Book School: Responsible for management of staff and logistics

(summers, at Columbia University)

E DUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

1983 1985 University of Oregon, Eugene

Graduate studies in Latin language and literature and classical archaeology.

1981 1982 Columbia University, New York

MS in Library Service. Rare books concentration: analytical and descriptive bibliography; history of

printing; special collections librarianship. Reference Department Intern, Butler Library.

1977 1979 Loyola University of Chicago

Graduate studies in Greek, Latin, and classical archaeology. Teaching assistant.

1974 1976 Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green

BA in Ancient & Medieval History, minor in Philosophy. Elected to Phi Alpha Theta History Honor

Society (1976).

1974 St. Mary s College, South Bend, Indiana: Rome program. Italian, art history, classical archaeology.

1972 1973 University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana: Italian studies.

C ERTIFICATES, WORKSHOPS & CONTINUING EDUCATION

2012 Collecting Rare East Asian Materials, Mellon 23 workshop at Oberlin College

2011 The Future Perfect of the Book, colloquium sponsored by the Book History Research Network,

School of Advanced Study, University of London

If You ve Got It, Flaunt It; Promoting Our Resources and Services, library marketing workshop at

Dartmouth College

2010 Book Studies and the Liberal Arts, Mellon 23 workshop at Oberlin College

Leadership Institute for Academic Librarians, Harvard Graduate School of Education

2008 Seminar in copyright and digital images, Amherst College

2006 Situational leadership, workshop at Smith College

2004 Book arts workshop at the Stinehour Press, Lunenburg Vermont

2003 The Book in America, 1640-1800, course at Rare Book School, Charlottesville

1999 The Changing Workplace, seminar at Smith College

1998 1999 Five College Supervisory Leadership Development Program

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P UBLICATIONS: Articles, catalogues, chapters

2012 New Clues to the Early Life of Arrighi: Ludovico degli Arrighi s bellissimo Canzoniere for Bartolomeo

della Valle (1508), The Book Collector (Summer 2012), pp.

2011 La guerra a devastato, introduction to Ruth Kennedy, White Magic for Gioviano, Massachusetts

Review (Fall 2011)

2010 Articles on Will Bradley, T.M. Cleland, Ruth Mortimer, Carl Purington Rollins, The Roycroft Printing

Shop, and Frederic Warde for The Oxford Companion to the Book (New York & Oxford: Oxford

University Press, 2010), passim.

2009 The Goffe Bible: Succor for the Regicides? in Cultivating the Past: Essays on the History of Hadley,

Massachusetts (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2009), pp. 122-134.

2008 Werner Pfeiffer Contextualized in Werner Pfeiffer (censor, villain, provocateur, experimenter): Book-

Objects & Artist Books (Red Hook, New York: 2008). This is the catalogue of an exhibition that was

held at Smith College, the University of Toronto, Cornell University, and the University of

Pennsylvania, 2008-2010.

[with Mike Nicholson] Parallel Readings, The Blue Notebook 4 (April 2008)

2006 Preface to Wood Engraving: the Art of Wood Engraving and Relief Engraving by Barry Moser

(Boston: David R. Godine, 2006)

The Archaeology of the Book in the Liberal Arts Curriculum, in Ann R. Hawkins (ed.), Teaching

Bibliography, Textual Criticism, and Book History (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2006), pp. 19-24.

2005 Introduction to Out of the Cellar: a Garland for Cantina by David Bourbeau (Northampton:

Mortimer Rare Book Room, 2005)

2004 Introduction: History of the Club Bindery in Bound to be the Best: The Club Bindery, 1895-1908 (New

York: Grolier Club, 2004). The catalogue of an exhibition held at the Grolier Club in New York,

September through November 2004

2003 [Martin Antonetti (ed.)] Holding In, Holding On: The Artist s Books of Martha A. Hall (Northampton:

Smith College Library, 2003)

Book Arts and Typographic Studies, in Image and Word: Art and Art History at Smith College

(Northampton: Smith College Museum of Art, 2003)

2002 The Arrighi Chancery Italic Type: Popes and Printers in Renaissance Rome, Massachusetts Center

for Renaissance Studies Newsletter (Fall 2002)

2000 Josiah K. Lilly, Jr. (1893-1966) in Daniel D. Chabris (ed.), Grolier 2000 (New York: Grolier Club, 2000)

1999 [with V ronique Plesch] Illuminating Words: the Artist s Books of Christopher Gausby (Northampton:

Smith College Museum of Art, 1999). The catalogue accompanying an exhibition of the same name.

Typographical Ekphrasis: the Description of Typographic Forms in the Nineteenth Century, Word &

Image 15/1 (January-March 1999), pp. 41-53.

1997 The Grolier Club, in Manuale enciclopedico della bibliofilia (Milan: Edizioni Sylvestre Bonnard, 1997)

[with Eric Holzenberg] The Horblit Phillipps Collection at the Grolier Club, Gazette of the Grolier

Club 48 (1997), pp. 51-72.

1996 Al servizio della bibliofilia: il Grolier Club, in L oggetto libro 96 (Milan: Edizioni Sylvestre Bonnard,

1996), pp. 198-205. Translated by Elena Campioni.

The Club Bindery and its Later Incarnations, Gazette of the Grolier Club 47 (1995-1996), pp. 83-102.

1995 The Grolier Club and the Promotion of the Arts of the Book in 19th-Century America in La qualit

nella produzione del libro: Atti del Simposio 1995 (Verona: Stamperia Valdonega, 1995), pp. 63-77.

1993 The Art of the Contemporary Book in Italy, Italian Journal 6/VII (December 1993), pp. 39-41.

Et in Arcadia Ego: a Fine Printing Pastorale in Northern Italy, Bookways 8 (July 1993)

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The Felice Feliciano Award, Bookways 7 (April 1993)

A Conversation with Gunnar Kaldewey in Poestenkill in Livres de Peintre, Artists Books (Paris:

Galerie Yvon Lambert, 1993)

1992 The Grolier Club, Bookways 1/2 (January 1992)

1990 The Classic Broadside, Fine Print 16/3 (Autumn 1990)

1989 The Heller Legacy at Mills College, Mills Quarterly 71/3 (February 1989)

1987 Subtle Symbiosis: Special Collections at Mills College, Library Trends 36/1 (July 1987)

1985 Giambattista Bodoni, Master Printer, Old Oregon (June 1985)

1982 L. Bolchazy, J. Sweeney, M. Antonetti (eds.), Concordantia in Ausonium (Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1982)

P UBLICATIONS: Book reviews

2011 Michael Suarez et al, Oxford Companion to the Book (Oxford University Press, 2011) in Art Libraries

Journal 36/4 (2011)

2010 Richard Benson, The Printed Picture (New York: MoMA, 2008) in Printing History New Series 8 (July

2010)

2008 Scott-Martin Kosofsky (ed.), The SP Century (Boston: The Society of Printers, 2006) in Printing

History New Series 3 (January 2008)

2006 Stuart Bennett, Trade Bookbinding in the British Isles, 1660-1800 (London: British Library; New Castle:

Oak Knoll Press, 2004) and David Pearson, English Bookbinding Styles, 1450-1800 (London: British

Library; New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2005) in Art Libraries Journal 31/4 (2006)

2004 Edmund M.B. King, Victorian Decorated Trade Bindings, 1830-1880: a Descriptive Bibliography

(London: British Library; New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2003) in Art Libraries Journal 29/3 (2004)

2000 Anthony Grafton, The Footnote: A Curious History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999) in

Sixteenth Century Studies (Winter 2000)

1992 The Cimelio of Bodoni: A Facsimile Reprint of Giambattista Bodoni's Cimelio tipografico-pittorico

offerto agli Augustissimi Genitori del Re di Roma (Verona: Edizioni Valdonega, 1990-1) and Leonardo

Farinelli and Corrado Mingardi, eds. Vita del Cavaliere Giambattista Bodoni Tipografo Italiano (Milan:

Franco Maria Ricci, 1990) in Bookways 4 (July 1992)

1990 H. George Fletcher III, New Aldine Studies: Documentary Essays on the Life and Work of Aldus

Manutius (San Francisco: Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1988) in Fine Print (Spring 1990)

1989 Tony Campbell, The Earliest Printed Maps, 1472-1500 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988)

in Information Bulletin of the Western Association of Map Libraries (March 1989)

Janet Ing, Johann Gutenberg and His Bible: A Historical Study (New York: The Typophiles, 1988) in

Fine Print (January 1989)

David Woodward, The Holzheimer Venetian Globe Gores of the Sixteenth Century (Chicago: Newberry

Library, 1987) in Fine Print (January 1989)

1988 Alice D. Schreyer, The History of Books: A Guide to Selected Resources in the Library of Congress

(Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1987) in Fine Print (July 1988)

John Feather, A Dictionary of Book History (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986) in Fine Print

(April 1988)

1986 David Chambers, Specimens of Modern Printing Types by Edward Fry, 1828: a Facsimile with an

Introduction and Notes (London: Printing Historical Society, 1986) in Fine Print (October 1987)

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L ECTURES & CONFERENCE PAPERS

2011 The Mellon 23 Workshop: Book Studies and the Liberal Arts, at the annual meeting of the College

Book Art Association, Bloomington, January 2011

2009 Ludovico degli Arrighi: More of What We Still Don t Know, at the Society of Printers, Boston,

February 2009

2008 Arrighi's New Invention of Letters: Scribes, Printers and Patrons in Renaissance Rome, the 27th

Susan Garretson Swartzburg Lecture, Wells College, East Aurora, New York, April 2008

Artists Books: Toward a Definition for the 21st Century, at the Invited Artists Lecture Series,

Worcester State College, March 2008

2007 New Light on the Early Career of Ludovico degli Arrighi, at the conference Transformations: The

Persistence of Aldus Manutius, University of California, Los Angeles, October 2007

2006 Printing The Ideal Book in America in 1906, at the Guild of Book Workers Centennial Symposium,

New York, October 2006

2005 Ludovico degli Arrighi and his Coryciana of 1524: A Bittersweet Tale of Humanists, Popes, and

Printers in Renaissance Rome, at Smith College (Liberal Arts Luncheon), October 2005

Did Goffe Read Goffe s Bible? The Peregrinations of a 16th-Century Bible in Colonial

Massachusetts, at the Hadley Massachusetts Historical Society, June 2005 (later published)

2004 Questa nuova inventione de littere: Arrighi and the Curialists in Renaissance Rome, the 87th

George Parker Winship Lecture at the Houghton Library, Harvard University, December 2004

Bookbinding with Archaeological Zeal: French Studio Practice in a New York Bindery, 1895-1909,

at the Grolier Club, New York, October 2004 (later published)

Picturing the Future: Illustrated Books in the 21st Century [panelist, with Johanna Drucker

(University of Virginia) and Jae Rossman (Yale University)], at Oak Knoll Fest XI, New Castle,

Delaware, October 2004

2003 The History of the Hampshire Typothetae, at the Museum of Printing, North Andover,

Massachusetts, November 2003

[with James Freeman] General William Goffe: King Killer, Bible Reader, Angel of Hadley, at the

conference Hadley in the Renaissance, University of Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies,

May 2003

2002 [with V ronique Plesch] "The Books of Lucie Lambert, at the International Conference on Word and

Image Studies, Hamburg, Germany, July 2002

The Arrighi Chancery Types: Popes and Printers in Renaissance Rome, at the conference The Art of

the Handpress, University of Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies, March 2002 (later

published)

2001 Exploring the Archaeology of the Book in a Liberal Arts Curriculum at Smith College (Liberal Arts

Luncheon), September 2001 (later published)

[with V ronique Plesch] "Etched in Stucco: Graffiti as Witness of History, the Gryphon Lecture on

the History of the Book at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, March 2001

2000 [with Ann Williams] Books and Printing in the Connecticut Valley: the John Wilson Shop in

Deerfield, at the Conway Massachusetts Historical Society, November 2000

Printing and the Dissemination of Books in the Renaissance at the University of Massachusetts

Center for Renaissance Studies, March 2000

Things in Books Clothing: a User s Guide to Artists Books at the opening of Illuminating Words:

The Artist s Books of Christopher Gausby, Colby College Museum of Art, March 2000

1999 A New Paradigm for Education in the Book Arts, at the symposium The Stinehour Press at

Dartmouth College, Dartmouth College, August 1999

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Rare Books Confront the Digital Era, to the Friends of the Forbes Library, Northampton, April 1999

[with V ronique Plesch] Textual Editing in Three Dimensions: a Chronicle of Local History in Popular

Graffiti, at the Tenth International Interdisciplinary Conference of the Society for Textual

Scholarship, New York, April 1999

Collecting the Book Arts: First the Good News at the symposium The Book as Art, Hampshire College,

March 1999

[with V ronique Plesch] Pilgrim s Progress: Devotional Guidebooks to the New Jerusalem and Other

Northern Italian Pilgrimage Sites, the 1999 Mortimer Lecture, Smith College, March 1999

1998 Le Caract re C est Moi: Form and Meaning in the Romains du Roi Louis XIV, the tenth annual

Stephen Harvard Lecture, Dartmouth College, October 1998

Collecting Artists Books: the Institutional Perspective at the Queens Borough Public Library,

Jamaica, New York, May 1998

Integrating Rare Books into the College Curriculum at the ARLIS/NE Spring Meeting,

Northampton, Massachusetts, May 1998

1997 The Emperor and the Printer: Type As Propaganda in the Napoleonic Era at the Baxter Society,

Portland, Maine, May 1997

When Is a Book Not a Book? And When It s Not, What Is It? at the Portland [Maine] Museum of Art,

May 1997

The Printing, Distribution, and Consumption of Books Since Gutenberg, the Pforzheimer Lecture

on Printing and the Book Arts at the New York Public Library, April 1997

1996 Typographic Ekphrasis: the Description of Printed Letterforms in the 19th Century at the

International Conference on Word and Image Studies, Trinity College, Dublin, August 1996 (later

published)

1995 From Kelmscott to Pennyroyal: Discovering the Art of Modern Fine Printing at the Greenwich

(Connecticut) Public Library, October 1995

Sane, Self-respecting Individuality: Rudolph Ruzicka s Color Wood Engravings of New York (1915)

at the symposium Rudolph Ruzicka: Regarding a Remarkable Life and Career, Dartmouth College,

August 1995

The Grolier Club and the Promotion of the Arts of the Book in 19th-Century America at the

symposium Quality in Book Production, Verona, Italy, June 1995 (later published)

The Club Bindery of New York at the Armstrong Browning Library, Baylor University, Waco, Texas,

April 1995

1994 Fine Printing After Bodoni? A Grand Tour of Contemporary Italian Printers at the Baxter Society,

Portland, Maine October 1994.

Out of the Frying Pan: Fine Bookbinding Comes to Cleveland at the Rowfant Club, Cleveland, April

1994

Six Decades and Two Generations of Fine Printing at the Tallone Press at the Grolier Club, New York,

April 1994

1993 The Waning of Letterpress Culture in Italy at the annual meeting of the Typophiles, New York,

December 1993

Robert Hoe and American Fine Bookbinding at the Turn of the Century at the Baxter Society,

Portland, Maine, December 1993

The Club Bindery and its Later Incarnations at Rare Book School, University of Virginia, Charlottesville,

July 1993

Et in Arcadia Ego: Contemporary Fine Presses in Italy at the Rowfant Club, Cleveland, April 1993

(later published)

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1992 109 Years of Bibliophily at the Grolier Club at the centennial celebration of the Rowfant Club,

Cleveland, November 1992

The Influence of the Kelmscott Press at the symposium Collaboration and Innovation: the Enduring

Legacy of William Morris, Katonah (New York) Museum of Art, March 1992

1990 Goodbye to All That: a Look at Book Arts Education at Rare Book School, Columbia University, New

York, July 1990

1989 The Elinor Raas Heller Legacy at Mills College, Oakland, February, 1989

1987 William Morris and 15th-Century Typography at the Otis/Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles,

March 1987

1986 Exhibiting Fine and Performing Arts Materials at the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section

Preconference, ALA Annual Meeting, Chicago, June 1986

T EACHING: GRADUATE & UNDERGRADUATE

2008 Simmons College

The History of the Book in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. I currently hold an

appointment as Adjunct Professor at Simmons College s GSLIS.

1997 Smith College

History of Artists Materials (co-taught with David Dempsey and Phoebe Dent Weil, 2010)

Mapping the Renaissance (team-taught, 2010)

The Academic Library in the 21st Century (team-taught, 2008)

The Artist s Book in the 20th Century (2004, 2006, 2008 & 2011)

The Art and History of the Book (1997 2012)

Introduction to Printing and Typography (1999)

1991 Columbia University

Descriptive Bibliography in the Graduate School of Library Service

1985 1990 Mills College

The History of the Book in the Graduate Book Arts Program

1983-1984 University of Oregon

The History of the Book (co-taught with historian Raymond Birn)

M USEUM EXHIBITIONS CURATED

In more than twenty years as a curator of rare books I have overseen the design and installation of

well over 100 library exhibitions of rare books and manuscripts, covering a very wide range of

topics, from medieval manuscripts to contemporary book arts. Listed below are larger, more

elaborate museum exhibitions that I curated or co-curated, most of which were accompanied by print

or on-line catalogues.

2005 Too Much Bliss: Twenty Years of Granary Books at the Smith College Museum of Art, November

2005 February 2006 (co-curated with Aprile Gallant)

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2004 Bound to be the Best: The Club Bindery, 1895-1908 at the Grolier Club in New York, September

November 2004 (co-curated with Thomas G. Boss)

2003 Holding In, Holding On: The Artist s Books of Martha A. Hall at Smith College, September October

2003. This was the first showing of the work of this important book artist from Maine. Subsequently

traveled to Wellesley College, Bowdoin College, and Yale University.

2001 The Grand Tour: Books, Prints, Paintings and Objects at the Colby College Museum of Art, February

March 2001 (co-curated with Michael Marlais and V ronique Plesch)

1999 Illuminating Words: the Artist s Books of Christopher Gausby at the Smith College Museum of Art,

October December 1999 and at the Colby College Museum of Art, March April 2000 (co-curated

with V ronique Plesch). This was the first public showing of this artist s work.

1994 Type as Image: the Work of Alberto Tallone Editore. Books from Paris and Alpignano, 1943-1993 at the

Grolier Club, March 1994. This was the first American showing of the work of this important Italian

press.

A CADEMIC / DEVELOPMENT TOURS

2010 Oxfordshire & East Anglia: Planned itinerary and led group of Smith College alumnae to country

house, private & institutional libraries and gardens

2009 Tuscany: Led group of Smith College alumnae to various sites in northern Tuscany; based in Lucca

2007 The Veneto: Planned itinerary and led group of Smith College alumnae to Palladian villas,

Renaissance gardens, and libraries in Venice and the Veneto

2002 The Veneto & the Adriatic Coast of Italy: Led group of Smith College and Yale University alumni to

classical and medieval sites in Venice and the Adriatic Sea, including Padua & Ravenna

2001 Tuscany & Umbria: Led group of Smith College alumnae to hilltowns of central Italy, including

Urbino, Florence and Siena

1999 Ireland: Planned itinerary and led group of Smith College alumnae to libraries and museums in Ireland

1995 Southern California: Planned itinerary and led group of Grolier Club members to libraries in southern

California

1989 Tuscany, Lazio & Campania: Planned itinerary and led group of Mills College alumnae to Etruscan

archaeological sites

L IBRARY & CAMPUS COMMITTEES: Smith College

2011 Library Master Plan Feasibility Committee

2011 Book Studies Concentration Advisory Committee (chair)

2010 Kennedy Professor Committee (chair)

2009 Five College Archives & Special Collections Committee

2008 2009 Library Centennial Committee

2008 Library Leadership Team

2008 Library Marketing Team (chair)

2006 Museum Studies Concentration Advisory Committee

2005 Search Committee for Vice President for Advancement

2003 2004 Library Strategic Management Team

2002 2005 Art Department/Art Museum Committee

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2002 2003 Library Staff Council

2002 Search Committee for Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs, Museum of Arts

2000 Search Committee for Director of Libraries

1999 2000 Fine Arts Complex Design Committee

1999 2000 Emergency Procedures Working Group

1997 Search Committee for Assistant Archivist

P ROFESSIONAL COMMITTEES & BOARDS

2011 Visiting Committee on Library and Archives Conservation Education, Winterthur/University of

Delaware Program in Art Conservation

2010 2011 Library Building Committee, Hatfield Public Library, Hatfield, Massachusetts

2009 Publications Committee, Society of Printers, Boston

2008 2011 Historical Commission, Hatfield, Massachusetts

2007 2009 Library Facility Needs & Assessment Committee, Hatfield Public Library, Hatfield, Massachusetts

2006 2009 Vice-president for Publications, American Printing History Association

2006 2007 Executive Planning Committee for BookMarks, the Five-Colleges/Museums10 program for 2007

2006 2007 Chair, Nominating Committee, American Printing History Association

2004 Editorial Board, Oak Knoll Press, New Castle, Delaware

2002 2006 President, Board of Trustees, American Printing History Association

2002 2006 Treasurer, Board of Directors, Hand Papermaking, Inc.

2001 Advisory Board, Granary Press, New York

200*-****-**-Year Review Committee, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, Providence

1999 2009 Library Committee, Historic Deerfield, Deerfield, Massachusetts

1999 2005 Board of Directors, Hand Papermaking, Inc.

1999 2000 Steering Committee, Hampshire College Center for the Book

1998 2001 Board of Trustees, Conway (Massachusetts) Historical Society

1996 Library Centennial Honorary Committee, Pratt Institute Library, New York City

1995 1999 Judge, The Stephen Harvard Prize for Excellence in the Book Arts, The Baxter Society, Portland,

Maine

1995 1999 Nominating Committee, The Bibliographical Society of America (excluding 1997 & 1998)

1995 1996 Awards Committee Chair, American Printing History Association

1994 2002 Vice-president, Board of Trustees, Book Arts Press, University of Virginia

1992 1996 American Representative, Premio Internazionale Felice Feliciano, Verona, Italy

1992 1995 Board of Directors, Dieu Donn Papermill, Inc., New York

1992 1997 Bibliographical Projects Committee, The Bibliographical Society of America

1992 1995 Board of Advisors, Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing

1991 1999 Board of Trustees, American Printing History Association

1991 1995 Editorial Advisor, Bookways, a Quarterly Journal for the Book Arts

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1989 1990 President, Board of Directors, Pacific Center for the Book Arts

1988 1989 Executive Committee, California Center for the Book, Sacramento, California

1983 1985 Conservators Collations Committee, Rare Books & Manuscripts Section, Association of College &

Research Libraries, American Library Association

1983 1985 Security Committee, Rare Books & Manuscripts Section, Association of College & Research Libraries,

American Library Association

P ROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

2010 College Book Art Association

2007 Society of Printers (elected)

2005 Print Council of America (elected)

2005 Caxton Club of Chicago (elected)

2004 Renaissance Society of America

2002 Association of Art Museum Curators

1999 2006 Hand Papermaking, Inc.

1995 1998 Council of Fellows, Pierpont Morgan Library (elected)

1992 Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing

1991 American Printing History Association

1990 Grolier Club (elected)

1990 2000 Roxburghe Club of San Francisco (elected)

1986 2004 Bibliographical Society of America

1986 2001 Book Club of California

1985 1995 Pacific Center for the Book Arts

1982 American Library Association, Rare Books & Manuscripts Section

L ANGUAGES

Italian (reading & speaking), Latin (high school, undergraduate, and graduate), French (reading),

Spanish (reading), classical Greek (two years graduate level), Russian (two years high school)

G RANTS & AWARDS

Katherine Keyes Leab and Daniel J. Leab American Book Prices Current Exhibition Award (2005)

for Holding In, Holding On: The Artist s Books of Martha A. Hall (awarded by the Rare Books and

Manuscripts Section, Association of College & Research Libraries).

Publications Design Award (2000). Awarded by the New England Museum Association for

Illuminating Words: The Artist s Books of Christopher Gausby.

Martinus Nijhoff International Prize (1992). Awarded once each year by the American Library

Association for a research project in Europe. My project was entitled Forging links with Italian fine

presses and avant-garde publishers and involved bringing the work of little-known contemporary

Italian presses to the notice of American bibliophiles and dealers. It resulted in several publications

and lectures (listed above).

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M ISCELLANEOUS

Consultation The Use of Special Collections Materials in the College Curriculum, Hope College Library, Holland

Michigan, September 2011

Workshop The History of the Book for Book Artists for the Garage Annex School, Easthampton,

Massachusetts, July 2007, 2008, 2010

Organizer The Invitational Conference on Catalogue Collections for the Bibliographical Society of America, New

York, January 1995 (with Roger Stoddard, Houghton Library).

Organizer One-day pre-conference for the Friends of Dard Hunter Annual Meeting, Dalton, Massachusetts,

October 2001

Organizer The RBMS program on Fine Printing in the Bay Area at the ALA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, June 1988

Organizer The first annual J. Ben Lieberman Lecture in the Book Arts for the American Printing History

Association at Mills College, November 1986

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Graduate School of Education

2008 Seminar in copyright and digital images, Amherst College

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