{"id":2394,"date":"2016-11-25T17:19:34","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T22:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/?p=2394"},"modified":"2017-12-04T17:30:20","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T22:30:20","slug":"rare-books-take-on-an-added-dimension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/rare-books-take-on-an-added-dimension\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Books Take on an Added Dimension"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Ann Marie Holland<\/strong><\/p>\n

As technology continually reshapes the world, modern academic libraries are finding innovative new digital projects and presentations to breathe renewed life into rare treasures from centuries past. Moving from the physical to the digital is allowing McGill students, faculty and researchers to explore ROAAr<\/a>‘s rich holdings in creative new ways.<\/p>\n

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Visualization wall in the Research Commons<\/p><\/div>\n

Last year, the McGill Library launched its new Research Commons<\/a>, an innovative, collaborative space that provides next-generation tools to students and researchers. The Commons includes a high-tech visualization studio capable of projecting high-resolution images onto a large video wall comprised of eight video screens.<\/p>\n

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Emeritus Professor Ian MacLaren\u00a0 presenting \u201cFrom ‘nothing but a pasenger [sic]’ to Canadian Hero: Paul Kane’s Authorship of Wanderings of an Artist (1859).”<\/p><\/div>This October, ROAAr put that new technology to the test during a public lecture by Emeritus Professor Ian MacLaren (University of Alberta) about prominent 19th-century Canadian artist Paul Kane (1810-1871). Kane travelled from Ontario to the northwest quadrant of North America in the 1840s, sketching and painting the life and customs of the indigenous peoples across the vast northwestern Canadian wilderness. This initiative would eventually grow into a key documentary and visual history of the west, a portion of which was published in London in 1859 as Wand<\/em>erin<\/em>gs<\/em> of<\/em> an<\/em> A<\/em>rt<\/em>i<\/em>st<\/em> among<\/em> the<\/em> I<\/em>nd<\/em>ia<\/em>ns<\/em> of North America : from Canada to Vancouver\u2019s Island and Oregon through the Hudson\u2019s Bay Company\u2019s Territory and Back Again.<\/em><\/p>\n

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PAUL KANE, 1810-1871. Wanderings\u00a0of an artist among the Indians of North America. London: Longman, 1859. Rare Books and Special Collections – Lande Canadiana 01258<\/p><\/div>\n

\"CATLIN,<\/a>

CATLIN, GEORGE, 1796-1872. Letters and notes on the manners, customs and condition of the North American Indians. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1842. Rare Books and Special Collections E77 C38 1842<\/p><\/div>\n

The Library\u2019s rich collection provides researchers with a wealth of Paul Kane editions including the\u00a01859 first edition of Wande<\/em>rin<\/em>gs<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and related books in the prized Lande Collection of Canadiana <\/a>and the Lande Arkin Collection of Western Canada<\/a> such as: Catlin\u2019s Letters & Notes on the Manners, customs and condition of the North American Indians (New York, 1842)<\/em>;\u00a0and the extraordinary copy of Warre\u2019s Sketches in North\u00a0 America and the Oregon Territory<\/em>, (London, c1848) <\/em>with chromolithographed plates. The Blackader-Lauterman rare collections.<\/a> holds numerous important catalogues raisonn\u00e9s on Kane the artist.<\/p>\n

Inspired by those materials, ROAAr co-sponsored MacLaren\u2019s public lecture about the transformation of Kane\u2019s original notes and sketches into the published work. In his talk, \u201cFrom ‘nothing but a pasenger [sic]’ to Canadian Hero: Paul Kane’s Authorship of Wande<\/em>rin<\/em>gs<\/em> of an Artist <\/em>(1859),” MacLaren used Kane\u2019s field notes and drawings to make a meticulous comparison between the first draft of Kane\u2019s manuscript copy versus the published work and its embellishment to fulfill the expectations of a reading public which had been nourished by scenes of the Wild West from prior sources.<\/p>\n

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WARRE, H. (HENRY), 1819-1898. Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory \/ By Captain H. Warre. [London]: Dickinson & Co., [1848] Rare Books and Special Collections \u2013 elf Lande Canadiana 01508<\/p><\/div>This was not only the first public event sponsored by ROAAr, but also a prime opportunity to utilize the Research Commons as an alternative setting, outside the walls of RBSC yet within the Library. By virtue of having the digital images, the audience could learn from the surrogate in lieu of the original, and take advantage of its added digital value: blown-up images, produced with extra graphic work, which allow for unfolding layers of data showcasing the complexities of the illustrations.<\/p>\n

Kane\u2019s national reputation and appeal attracted a wide variety of audiences from the academic community: from book and Canadian history to indigenous and cultural studies, as well as from the general public. Understanding the importance and the cross-disciplinary nature of the topic, ROAAr co-sponsored this public lecture organized by the\u00a0Montreal Book History Group,<\/a> a group led by Professor Eli MacLaren<\/a>, McGill English Department, and Marie-Claude Felton<\/a>, Affiliate\u00a0Member at McGill\u2019s History Department.<\/p>\n

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PAUL KANE, 1810-1871. Wanderings of an artist among the Indians of North America. London: Longman, Brown, Green,…., 1859. Rare Books and Special Collections – Lande Canadiana 01258<\/p><\/div>\n

Good things happen with our collections when there is collaboration with our colleagues. The image scanning and enhancements were achieved with the graphic skills of Greg Houston, New Media & Digitization Administrator in McGill\u2019s Digital Library Services<\/a>, with whom RBSC collaborates for many of its high-resolution digitization requests. The event was coordinated by Ann Marie Holland, RBSC Liaison subject specialist in the History of Printing and the Library Rep. for the Montreal Book History Group. Technical and on-site assistance was provided by: Entrepreneurship Liaison Librarian Mike Groenendyk, Jennifer Garland (Liaison Librarian, Art and Architecture), and RBSC student navigators Timothy Sullivan and Connor Peltz.<\/p>\n

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Les livres rares prennent une autre dimension<\/h2>\n

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Alors que la technologie remod\u00e8le continuellement notre monde, les biblioth\u00e8ques universitaires modernes utilisent la technologie num\u00e9rique dans des pr\u00e9sentations et des projets novateurs de mani\u00e8re \u00e0 insuffler une nouvelle vie aux tr\u00e9sors rares des si\u00e8cles pass\u00e9s. Passer du physique au num\u00e9rique permet aux \u00e9tudiants, professeurs et chercheurs de McGill d\u2019explorer les richesses du ROAAr <\/a>de fa\u00e7on cr\u00e9ative.<\/p>\n

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Le mur de visualisation<\/p><\/div>\n

L\u2019ann\u00e9e derni\u00e8re, la biblioth\u00e8que McGill a lanc\u00e9 son nouveau Research Commons<\/a>,<\/a> un espace novateur collaboratif qui offre aux \u00e9tudiants et chercheurs des outils de nouvelle g\u00e9n\u00e9ration. Cet espace comprend un studio de visualisation de pointe capable de projeter des images \u00e0 haute r\u00e9solution sur un grand mur constitu\u00e9 de huit \u00e9crans vid\u00e9o.<\/p>\n

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Le professeur \u00e9m\u00e9rite Ian MacLaren \u00ab From ‘nothing but a passenger [sic]’ to Canadian Hero: Paul Kane’s Authorship of Wanderings of an Artist (1859) \u00bb.<\/p><\/div>En octobre, le ROAAr a mis cette nouvelle technologie \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9preuve dans le cadre d\u2019une conf\u00e9rence donn\u00e9e par le professeur \u00e9m\u00e9rite Ian MacLaren (Universit\u00e9 de l\u2019Alberta) au sujet du c\u00e9l\u00e8bre artiste canadien Paul Kane qui a v\u00e9cu au XIXe\u00a0si\u00e8cle (1810-1871). Kane a voyag\u00e9 de l\u2019Ontario jusqu\u2019au nord-ouest de l\u2019Am\u00e9rique du Nord dans les ann\u00e9es 1840, pour esquisser et peindre des tableaux repr\u00e9sentant la vie et les coutumes des peuples indig\u00e8nes dans la vaste \u00e9tendue sauvage du Nord-ouest canadien. Cette initiative a finalement donn\u00e9 lieu \u00e0 un important documentaire illustr\u00e9 sur l\u2019histoire de l\u2019Ouest, dont une partie a \u00e9t\u00e9 publi\u00e9e \u00e0 Londres en 1859 dans un ouvrage intitul\u00e9: Wanderings<\/em> of an Artist among the Indians of North America : from Canada to Vancouver\u2019s Island and Oregon through the Hudson\u2019s Bay Company\u2019s Territory and Back Again.<\/em><\/p>\n

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PAUL KANE, 1810-1871.
Wanderings of an artist among the Indians of North America. Londres : Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans et Roberts, 1859. Livres rares et collections sp\u00e9cialis\u00e9es – Lande Canadiana 01258<\/p><\/div>\n

La riche collection de la biblioth\u00e8que offre aux chercheurs une foule de documents publi\u00e9s par Paul Kane, telle que la premi\u00e8re \u00e9dition de Wa<\/em>nd<\/em>erings<\/em><\/a> publi\u00e9e en 1859, ainsi que d\u2019autres sources contextuelles secondaires dans la pr\u00e9cieuse collection de Canadiana, et la collection d\u2019Arkin sur l\u2019Ouest canadien de Lande<\/a>. Les catalogues raisonn\u00e9s plus r\u00e9cents qui se retrouvent dans les collections rares de Blackader-Lauterman.<\/a><\/p>\n

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CATLIN, GEORGE, 1796-1872.
Letters and notes on the manners, customs and condition of the North American Indians. New York: Wiley et Putnam, 1842. Livres rares et collections sp\u00e9cialis\u00e9es, E77 C38 1842<\/p><\/div>\n

La transformation des notes et croquis originaux de Kane dans l\u2019ouvrage publi\u00e9 en 1859 a \u00e9t\u00e9 le sujet de la conf\u00e9rence du professeur Ian MacLaren en octobre. Durant sa pr\u00e9sentation intitul\u00e9e \u00ab From ‘nothing but a pasenger [sic]’ to Canadian Hero: Paul Kane’s Authorship of Wanderings<\/em> of an Artist <\/em>(1859) \u00bb, MacLaren a utilis\u00e9 les notes et les croquis de Kane prisent sur le terrain pour faire une comparaison minutieuse entre la premi\u00e8re \u00e9bauche du manuscrit de Kane et l\u2019ouvrage publi\u00e9 avec les embellissements visant \u00e0 r\u00e9pondre aux attentes des lecteurs \u00e0 qui on avait servi des sc\u00e8nes du Far West en provenance de sources ant\u00e9rieures.<\/p>\n

Ce n’\u00e9tait pas seulement le premier \u00e9v\u00e9nement public parrain\u00e9 par le ROAAr, c\u2019\u00e9tait aussi une excellente occasion d\u2019utiliser le Research Commons comme cadre alternatif, en dehors des murs du groupe des Livres rares et collections sp\u00e9cialis\u00e9es tout en demeurant \u00e0 l\u2019int\u00e9rieur de la biblioth\u00e8que. Gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 la num\u00e9risation, le public pouvait \u00e9tudier la reproduction plut\u00f4t que l\u2019original et profiter de la valeur ajout\u00e9e de la technologie num\u00e9rique : images agrandies, cr\u00e9\u00e9es gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 un travail graphique suppl\u00e9mentaire, permettant d\u2019acc\u00e9der \u00e0 des couches de donn\u00e9es qui mettaient en \u00e9vidence la complexit\u00e9 des illustrations.<\/p>\n

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WARRE, H. (HENRY), 1819-1898. Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory \/ By Captain H. Warre. [London]: Dickinson & Co., [1848] Rare Books and Special Collections \u2013 elf Lande Canadiana 01508<\/p><\/div>La r\u00e9putation de Kane et l\u2019int\u00e9r\u00eat qu\u2019il suscite \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9chelle nationale ont attir\u00e9 un public d\u2019une grande diversit\u00e9, et provenant \u00a0notamment du milieu universitaire: l’ histoire de l\u2019art,\u00a0\u00e9tudes litt\u00e9raires, l\u2019histoire du Canada, l\u2019histoire du livre et des \u00e9tudes autochtones et culturelles. R\u00e9alisant l\u2019importance et le caract\u00e8re interdisciplinaire du sujet, le ROAAr a parrain\u00e9 conjointement cette conf\u00e9rence publique avec le Groupe d\u2019Histoire du Livre de Montr\u00e9al<\/a>, un groupe organis\u00e9 par le professeur Eli MacLaren<\/a>, du d\u00e9partement de litt\u00e9rature anglaise \u00e0 McGill et Marie-Claude Felton<\/a>, membre affili\u00e9 au d\u00e9partement d\u2019histoire de McGill.<\/p>\n

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PAUL KANE, 1810-1871. Wanderings of an artist among the Indians of North America. Londres : Longman, Brown, Green,… 1859. Livres rares et collections sp\u00e9cialis\u00e9es – Lande Canadiana 01258<\/p><\/div>\n

Nos collections connaissent du succ\u00e8s quand nous collaborons entre coll\u00e8gues. La num\u00e9risation et les am\u00e9liorations des images ont \u00e9t\u00e9 possibles gr\u00e2ce aux comp\u00e9tences en graphisme de Greg Houston, l\u2019administrateur des nouveaux m\u00e9dias et de la num\u00e9risation des services de la biblioth\u00e8que num\u00e9rique de McGill<\/a>, avec qui nous faisons affaire pour bon nombre de demandes de num\u00e9risation \u00e0 haute r\u00e9solution. L\u2019\u00e9v\u00e9nement a \u00e9t\u00e9 coordonn\u00e9e par Ann Marie Holland, biblioth\u00e9caire de liaison, sp\u00e9cialiste en histoire de l\u2019imprimerie, et repr\u00e9sentant de la biblioth\u00e8que au sein du Groupe d\u2019Histoire du Livre de Montr\u00e9al. Les personnes qui ont particip\u00e9 \u00e0 la mise en \u0153uvre du mur de visualisation \u00a0: Mike Groenendyk, biblioth\u00e9caire de liaison \u00e0 la Biblioth\u00e8que des sciences humanes et sociales; et \u00a0pour le travail technique et mise en place: Jennifer Garland, biblioth\u00e9caire de liaison, arts et architecture, et Timothy Sullivan et Connor Peltz, navigateurs \u00e9tudiants du groupe Livres rares et collections sp\u00e9cialis\u00e9es.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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