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About the Collection
This digital collection was a collaborative book arts, writing and journaling project for the people of south central Wisconsin. The book collection was originally hosted by the South Central Library System (SCLS), and produced by the Bone Folders’ Guild (BFG), a book arts group based in Madison. This project was supported by a Madison CitiARTS grant.
The BFG book artists created sixty handmade blank books. Each book was catalogued into each of the sixty libraries in the South Central Library System. Unlike other library books, patrons were invited to write, draw, paint or collage in the books, producing community-wide collaborative works of art. Members of the Bone Folders’ Guild who created the Sixty Books include: Suzanne Berland, Susie Carlson, Carol Chase Bjerke, Nan Killoran, Laura Komai, Kathy Malkasian, Tricia Schriefer, Karen Timm, Alexis Turner, Marilyn Wedberg, Carey Weiler, Kristin Yates.
Some content in this collection has been edited because of copyright infringement concerns and to protect the personal information of contributors.
Funding
The Sixty Books Project is a collaborative project completed by the UWDCC, The Bone Folders’ Guild, The Wisconsin Humanities Council, Madison Public Library and South Central Library System.
Contact Information
The Bone Folders’ Guild
Laura Tomoko Komai
ltkomai@yahoo.com
Wisconsin Humanities Council
Alison Jones Chaim
atjoneschaim@wisc.edu
Madison Public Library
Molly Warren
mjwarren@scls.lib.wi.us
Technical Note
Please note that full-text searching for the electronic-facsimile texts in our collections is based on uncorrected OCR (Optical Character Recognition) results. While such text is often highly accurate, it will contain errors that may affect your search results. In particular, texts with the following characteristics are particularly prone to error (in some cases, accuracy for such texts is so low that we have decided not to attempt to provide full-text searching):
- Hand-written texts;
- Texts that contain diacritics;
- Texts that contain non-Latin scripts;
- Texts that contain obsolete characters (including the "long S" [looks like an "f"]);
- Texts that are printed in a font in which the letters are difficult for the software to differentiate.
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