Library Excavations #10 Health & Safety
$6.00
Created by Marc Fischer and Public Collectors
36 pages paper back, staple bound, color offset and two-color risograph, full color offset cover, interiors are full color offset and two-color risograph
Edition size: 519, 5.5 in X 8.5 inches
Published by Chicago, IL, Public Collectors, 2019
Edition of 519
Description:
After a bit of the break, the Public Collectors Library Excavations series is back, this time with a focus on a 1970s booklet series published by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
University of Illinois at Chicago’s Richard J. Daley Library has a vast Government Documents collection. This edition of Library Excavations was created using that collection, which is freely accessible to the public. It focuses on a series of booklets issued between 1975-1978 by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). NIOSH is the U.S. federal agency responsible for conducting research and making recommendations for the prevention of work-related injury and illness. NIOSH and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) were created when President Richard M. Nixon signed The Occupational Safety and Health Act on December 29, 1970. At a time in American politics where prioritizing the health and safety of citizens feels like it’s in great disregard, these 40+ year old publications are a reminder of what citizen outreach can look like on a national level. – Marc Fischer
Library Excavations is a project and publication series by Public Collectors that highlights and activates physical materials found in public libraries. Library Excavations encourages intensive browsing of paper and print resources, particularly those that are under-utilized, or at risk of being withdrawn and discarded.
About the Publisher:
Public Collectors is founded upon the concern that there are many types of cultural artifacts that public libraries, museums and other institutions and archives either do not collect or do not make freely accessible. Public Collectors asks individuals that have had the luxury to amass, organize, and inventory these materials to help reverse this lack by making their collections public.
