To honor Faculty Librarian Stokley Towles upon his retirement, the Rare Books Room staff and Stokley have co-curated an exhibition of materials highlighting ways in which we take note... and notice. Join us in exploring these materials by visiting the Rare Books Room during open hours. Want to see material up close? Ask a Rare Books Room staff member to open the display cases for you.
“You keep a notebook to teach yourself to pay attention.” – Writer John DuFresne
“I use sketchbooks to collect lines and marks and to help me stand still and be quiet in order to observe and look closely.” – Artist Pauline Burbidge
Like the artists quoted above, I think of a notebook as something that helps us slow down and take notice. The theme for this exhibition centers around this idea of close inspection. We have divided the titles into five categories. Collections that feature, among other things, public places to urinate and couches encountered on the street; Diaries that look outward at the city of Olympia and inward at “ME.”; Found Diaries that reproduce the thoughts of another; Nature Observed, books that witness the natural history of Puget Sound and social life of a ping pong table; and Boundless, a book that required its own category. – Stokley Towles
Materials on display include:
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