Center for Book Arts

The Center for Book Arts will undertake the cataloging of its collection of prints of artist books and related art to improve their preservation and accessibility to researchers, scholars, artists, and students. The project addresses a problem of access and control first identified by a formal collection assessment and represents a step in the museum's longer-term process of organizing, cataloging, preserving, rehousing, and digitizing its permanent collection. The museum will hire a part-time prints specialist to catalog and digitize the prints, rehouse them in acid-free enclosures, and make the print records freely available online. The museum will purchase archival supplies, make upgrades to the collections management software, and replace obsolete equipment.