#ArchivalKismet is back with "Making Books One's Own"! Presentations by Jose Guerrero, @rhi_mixed, & @joliebraun

Like the previous panel, we're starting off w/ convents! Only this time, in 18th-ce Mexico. Guerrero is a cataloger @SutroLibrary & talking about how his job lets him see so many cool things coming in

These books have female provenance. Interesting b/c nuns took vow of poverty & thus technically weren't allowed to hold private property. But here, indication of institutional and personal ownership

Exchange b/w spiritual goods and worldly goods -- donate stuff (including books) & get prayers

The book owned by the convent has an inscription: "I no longer remember if this book was given or lent to me and so to be safest give it to the convent so that I may die and not sin"
Moral of the story: return the books you borrow!

Or, to paraphrase another nun: "For the love of God," return borrowed books
(Now I really feel guilty for the borrowed books that I've shelved alongside the ones I own)

@rhi_mixed on “Marginalia in the Cookbook's Endpapers”
She studies materiality of writing, which in the case is leading her into history.

Thanking archivists & librarians upfront -- yes! #ArchivalKismet has included a lot of discussion of archivist labor

Cookbook as micro-archive! Marginalia often disagree w/ the printed recipes, indicate how recipes were adapted, individual labor & lives.

Every inch of endpapers often covered with own recipes - often just lists of ingredients, w/ no instructions. But ppl didn't use the blank pages printed for own recipes. Why?

Laughter in the archives!

@joliebraun, another curator, discussing Laurence Dunbar and “Poetry Book Turned Scrapbook"

The printed book is beautiful, with amazing pictures. Owners also pasted in pictures & copied in additional poems

I wish that I could cut & paste all the images & clippings from this presentation into this thread... (Would that make this thread a form of scrapbook?) But at least the recording will be available!

Scrapbook showing network of writers -- it's not as polished as an anthology, but it shows us how readers would have seen and placed Dunbar