Recently, our Youth Services department held a bookmark contest, and four lucky winners are getting their designs made into bookmarks shortly.

I was just about to upload a bunch of old photographs from the Chandler Pavilion construction from 2004, and was hit with pangs of guilt thinking about these great drawings getting buried on our Flickr account only hours after they were posted. So, writing a blog with links featuring the winners' work is the least I could do.

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Happy New Year from Special Collections and the Sabatini Gallery!

Our 2008 exhibit schedule will bring visions of hell, bug machines, bingo-playing seniors, a national contemporary print competition, impressions of Kansas from TSCPL's permanent collection and recent developments in the field of book arts.

First up is Dante's Inferno: Interpretations by Edward Navone and Robert Rauschenberg opening Friday, January 25. The last time I made contact with Mr. Alighieri's Commedia was junior year of high school, 1986, between Canturbury Tales and Wycherley's Country Wife, none of which I can resurrect in conversation without help. So, I refreshed my memory here and with the help of this and this, and came away thinking the Inferno was kind-of like a 14th-century roast of who's who in western civilization (but without the laughs).