{"id":567,"date":"2013-10-02T11:09:34","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T15:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/?p=567"},"modified":"2013-10-02T11:09:34","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T15:09:34","slug":"exhibition-flights-of-fancy-illustrated-childrens-books-and-the-sheila-r-bourke-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/exhibition-flights-of-fancy-illustrated-childrens-books-and-the-sheila-r-bourke-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibition: Flights of Fancy: Illustrated Children&#8217;s Books and the Sheila R. Bourke Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/files\/2013\/10\/bourke_exhibition_sign.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-568 alignleft\" alt=\"bourke_exhibition_sign\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/files\/2013\/10\/bourke_exhibition_sign-260x300.jpg\" width=\"260\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/files\/2013\/10\/bourke_exhibition_sign-260x300.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/files\/2013\/10\/bourke_exhibition_sign.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/a>This exhibit explores the Children\u2019s Illustrated Books featured in The Sheila R. Bourke Collection. Sheila R. Bourke is a Montreal area resident and life-long collector of children\u2019s books.\u00a0 The Sheila R. Bourke collection of twenty-two hundred books, the earliest of which is dated 1571 and progresses to the present date, is a definitive and important collection within McGill\u2019s Rare Books and Special Collections.\u00a0 It documents some of the most important international illustrators and authors who have contributed to the world of children\u2019s literature.\u00a0 From the perspective of a researcher, this collection is important in its scope and content.\u00a0 The collection addresses, quite extensively, research interests of individual artists and illustrators, and colour reproduction as documented through the eighteenth to twenty-first centuries.<b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The exhibition is curated by Lindsey Skeen, McGill School of Information Studies for GLIS 689 \u2013 Selected Topics. Supervised by: Professor P.F. McNally and Ms. Sharon Rankin.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition can be viewed in the Rare Books and Special Collections Reading Room Alcove, 4<sup>th<\/sup> floor, McLennan Library Building from\u00a0 Monday to Friday 10 am &#8211; 6 pm until November 30, 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This exhibit explores the Children\u2019s Illustrated Books featured in The Sheila R. Bourke Collection. Sheila R. Bourke is a Montreal area resident and life-long collector of children\u2019s books.\u00a0 The Sheila R. Bourke collection of twenty-two hundred books, the earliest of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/exhibition-flights-of-fancy-illustrated-childrens-books-and-the-sheila-r-bourke-collection\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":569,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions\/569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}