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UCLA Information Studies Seminar

Fine Printing in Southern California

Sidney E. Berger
UCLA Department of Information Studies

** NOTE NEW DAY AND TIME **

Wednesday, December 11th, 2002, 3:30pm-5pm
GSE&IS Building, Room 111
(just west of the Research Library)

Co-sponsored by the California Center for the Book and the UCLA Forum for the Study of Print and Electronic Culture.

A festive farewell reception will follow.

Abstract: Fine Printing has existed in southern California for more than a century, though not too many people know of its history or its most honored practitioners. This talk will be a combination of historical fact, anecdote, and personal reminiscence of my more than 30 years in the field. There will not be an exam.

Sidney Berger received his PhD from the University of Iowa in Medieval English Literature and Bibliography. In his career at UCLA, UC Davis, UC Riverside, and elsewhere, he has taught courses on literature, the book arts, bibliography and textual editing, and many other subjects. He has spoken widely on these topics, and on such other topics as special collections librarianship, papermaking, printing, the history of the book, and fine press printing. He and Michele Cloonan are the proprietors of Doe Press, a private press which has issued first editions of poets such as Richard Ebrhard, Gary Snyder, and Donald Justice. Dr. Berger served as the Director of the California Center for the Book from May 2000 to October 2002. He is currently teaching a course in the Department of Information Studies and the Department of English at UCLA. In addition he is working on an exciting project tentitively entitled: An Electronic Bibliography of Library History, Bookselling, Fine Printing, and the Book Arts in California. He has now identified over a hundred printers who will be included in this bibliography.

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