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Have you reached the halfway point yet on your summer reading challenge? Once you do, come into the library to get a Decker Library reading light and your pick from the treasure chest 🪎!

🔦 Special Collections Spotlight!

Title: Pathogenesis
Book Artist: Todd Thyberg

"This book as object looks at gun violence in America through the lens of disease. Pathogenesis is the process by which a disease or disorder develops. It can include factors which contribute not only to the onset of the disease or disorder, but also to its progression and maintenance. The pathogenic mechanisms of a disease (or condition) are set in motion by the underlying causes, which if controlled would allow the disease to be prevented. There are six hexagonal pages for each phase. Each of these pages are illustrated with images for that particular phase and overprinted with the underlying causes or pathogens. 42 pages including colophon. The book is bound in a 3-D printed pathogen with a bullet casing tray to hold the pages together. The binding is hand-painted and fitted with four different caliber slugs"

Books in Decker Library’s Special Collections can be viewed by appointment only. Email [email protected] to schedule a time to look at the collection!

What are you reading this summer? Here’s some of our faves 🤗 Don’t forget to log each day you read on your summer reading game board!

Special Collections Spotlight! 🔦

Title: Biobay Crankie
Book Artist: Jessica White

"This is a hand-printed scroll housed in a wooden box with a hand-cranking mechanism, all individually made. This crankie is about kayaking through Biobay in Puerto Rico, where bioluminescent bacteria glow as you make your way through the mangrove forest into the open bay. They speckled as small dots and made me feel like I could hold the stars. Linoleum cut printed on Japanese Kozo paper, printed in an edition of 30. The text is letterpress printed from metal type. It measures approximately 7" high by 9" wide by 3" deep." -- Artist's website.

Books in Decker Library’s Special Collections can be viewed by appointment only.