Dr. Erin Valentio’s first-year seminar class, “The Information Age and the Digital Divide” did a small exhibition on the school’s rare books collection in the Watkinson library, including this mini-Bible (pictured). Every student was assigned a book: almanacs, old text books, atlases, prayer books, fliers that were once in circulation, or household “doctor” books, and asked to study the physical aspects of these books.  The research was presented in the exhibition, and was written and produced with narratives and for the class blog.   Mini-books, such as this one, are leather-bound and were once manufactured just like larger books.

(photo by Abbey Schlangen ’16)