{"id":2450,"date":"2019-04-15T11:59:32","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T16:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/?p=2450"},"modified":"2020-05-02T12:00:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T17:00:14","slug":"highlights-of-our-april-9-chapter-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/?p=2450","title":{"rendered":"Highlights of our April 9 Chapter Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><\/h2>\n<p>We were wowed by the book presentation by Dr. Jane Pinzino, Coordinator for Scholarly Resources for the Humanities at Howard-Tilton Memorial Library. Dr. Pinzino gave us a behind-the-scenes look at Tulane&#8217;s Rare Books Collection.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Special Collections&#8217; Rare Books<\/strong>\u00a0unit preserves approximately 100,000 titles dating from a leaf of the Gutenberg Bible (ca. 1456) to recent first editions. These include a wide range of formats, from miniatures no larger than one inch high, to volumes forty inches tall; from five-hundred year-old books in as fine a condition as the day they were printed to twentieth-century first editions crumbing from the acidity of their paper.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/library.tulane.edu\/libraries\/rare-books\">https:\/\/library.tulane.edu\/libraries\/rare-books<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2116\" src=\"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Rare-books-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"362\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Rare-books-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Rare-books-1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 362px) 100vw, 362px\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2117\" src=\"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Rare-Books-3-242x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"386\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Rare-Books-3-242x300.jpg 242w, https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Rare-Books-3.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 386px) 100vw, 386px\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2118\" src=\"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Rare-Books-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"506\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Rare-Books-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Rare-Books-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Rare-Books-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 506px) 100vw, 506px\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2119\" src=\"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Rare-Books-4-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Rare-Books-4-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Rare-Books-4.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were wowed by the book presentation by Dr. Jane Pinzino, Coordinator for Scholarly Resources for the Humanities at Howard-Tilton Memorial Library. Dr. Pinzino gave us a behind-the-scenes look at Tulane&#8217;s Rare Books Collection. Special Collections&#8217; Rare Books\u00a0unit preserves approximately 100,000 titles dating from a leaf of the Gutenberg Bible (ca. 1456) to recent first &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/?p=2450\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","post","publish","author-admin","post-2450","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2451,"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450\/revisions\/2451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}