Library Excavations #3: Periodical Business

Description
Library Excavations is a project and publication series that highlights and activates physical materials found in public libraries. Public Collectors prefers direct experiences of physical media over the digital. Library Excavations encourages intensive browsing of paper and print resources, particularly those that are under-utilized, or at risk of being withdrawn and discarded. 

Library Excavations #3 excerpt from back cover:

"The Chicago Public Library's Harold Washington Library Centre is home to a vast collection of bound business periodicals. The many shelves are filled with titles that will be foreign to industry outsiders. Some date back to the late 1800s...These photos were taken in July and August 2016. I hope that they will entice others to explore these periodicals and interrogate the value systems, ideologies, and visual pleasures they contain." - Marc Fischer

About the Publisher
Public Collectors was founded in 2007 by Marc Fischer, 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.

Author
Marc Fischer

Publisher
Public Collectors

Publication Date
2016

Binding
Softcover, staple-bound, offset three-colour risograph

Size
5.5 x 8.5 inches
32 pages
Edition of 516

Language
English