BCS Public Libraries 2025 Author Series: From Clay Tablets to Parlor Presses with Madeline Keyser

Cushing Library’s rich and unique holdings of rare books and manuscripts document the cultural history of the book, allowing students and scholars to supplement their work in the pressroom with scholarly research, and making Cushing Library a unique environment for studying the book as both object and idea. Madeline Keyser, the Book Arts & Historic Pressroom Librarian at Cushing Library, will trace the evolution of the book history and book arts program at Texas A&M. After the talk, attendees will be able to print a keepsake to take home with them on a handcrafted replica of a 19th-century parlor press!