Watch, Read, Listen

Join Huntington Library curators and members of the trade, library, and collecting communities for a panel discussion on individual and institutional collecting today. Moderated by Claudia Funke and Erin Chase—curators of the Huntington exhibition “What Now: Collecting for the Library in the 21st Century”—the conversation will address the significance of collecting in this unprecedented period and include perspectives from the Huntington, greater Los Angeles, and beyond.

Moderators
Claudia Funke, Avery Chief Curator and Associate Director of Library Collections, The Huntington
Erin Chase, Assistant Curator of Architecture and Photography, The Huntington

Panelists
Brad Johnson, Johnson Rare Books & Archives, and President, Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America (ABAA)
Todd Lerew, Director of Special Projects, Library Foundation of Los Angeles (LFLA), and curator of the Los Angeles Public Library exhibition “21 Collections: Every Object Has a Story”
Miroslava Chávez-García, Professor of History at the University of California at Santa Barbara and Huntington donor
Nancy Rosin, President Emerita, Ephemera Society of America, and collector, The Nancy and Henry Rosin Collection of Valentine, Friendship, and Devotional Ephemera at The Huntington
Joel Klein, Molina Curator for the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, The Huntington
Li Wei Yang, Curator of Pacific Rim Collections, The Huntington

This event is presented in partnership with the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America and the Library Foundation of Los Angeles as part of Virtual Bibliography Week.

Dr. Einor Cervone, the Mozhai Foundation Curatorial Fellow in the department of Chinese art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), explores the unlikely links between Ming dynasty (1368–1644) garden culture and waterborne culture. The talk showcases how refined activities like painting, calligraphy, and music were transformed when relocated to the waterscape.

Cataloging in the Time of COVID: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at How The Huntington’s American History Materials Are Made Accessible by Archival Processing

Join three panelists for a behind-the-scenes look at how a recent acquisition of American history materials—the Shapiro collection—came to be in The Huntington’s collections, how the foundational American collections have been accessed by researchers over time, and how all these materials are being made more accessible through the art of archival processing, a crucial element of collections care and stewardship. This event is part of an ongoing webinar series presented by the Library’s Reader Services Department, the Multi-Storied Library.