{"id":1836,"date":"2020-03-01T04:04:54","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T04:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/?p=1836"},"modified":"2020-03-01T04:04:54","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T04:04:54","slug":"books-and-bites-in-rotch-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/2020\/03\/01\/books-and-bites-in-rotch-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Books and Bites displays new books, zines, and other media in Rotch Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/03\/Books-and-Bites.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1837\" src=\"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/03\/Books-and-Bites-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/03\/Books-and-Bites-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/03\/Books-and-Bites-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/03\/Books-and-Bites-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/03\/Books-and-Bites-624x416.jpg 624w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/03\/Books-and-Bites.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Art, Architecture and Urban Studies and Planning Librarian <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.mit.edu\/profiles\/kaias\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kai Alexis Smith<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/authorities\/6971\">Matt Saba<\/a>, Visual Resources Librarian in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/services-and-staff\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">AKDC<\/span><\/a>, <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">joined forces to host the first Books and Bites at <a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/rotch\/\">Rotch Library<\/a>. This event welcomed visitors to peruse featured new books, zines, and ephemera while also enjoying snacks. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Among the highlights were recent additions to the library&#8217;s ephemera collection including the music album from the Lithuanian Pavilion, the winning international pavilion at the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/library.mit.edu\/F\/HK21M7SVD8TBHA6KM7CCDBV6A698B335SMD8DJI45BFYGE7U79-08723?func=find-acc&amp;acc_sequence=038177705\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2019 Venice Biennale<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">; select items from the new zine collection which included items collected from the 2018 Feminist Zinefest and the 2019 Black in Design Conference at Harvard Graduate School of Design; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/new-books\/akbooks\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">an array of just-published books on art, architecture, urban studies, and cultural history of the Muslim world<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and a booklet of mounted albumen photographs of Kashmir attributed to Samuel Bourne (1860s-1880s), a gift of MIT Architecture alum <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonplans.org\/about-us\/staff\/staff-detail?id=208\">Prataap Patrose<\/a>. In addition to print material, recently digitized and cataloged images available at the Aga Khan Documentation Center and on<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/archnet.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Archnet <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">were displayed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Books and Bites will be an ongoing event at Rotch Library every fall and spring semester. Join us for the next Books and Bites in Fall 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art, Architecture and Urban Studies and Planning Librarian Kai Alexis Smith and Matt Saba, Visual Resources Librarian in AKDC, joined forces to host the first Books and Bites at Rotch Library. This event welcomed visitors to peruse featured new books, zines, and ephemera while also enjoying snacks. Among the highlights were recent additions to the library&#8217;s ephemera collection including the music album from the Lithuanian Pavilion, the winning international pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale; select items from the new zine collection which included items collected from the 2018 Feminist Zinefest and the 2019 Black in Design Conference at Harvard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_this_an_event":false},"categories":[268,273,274,276],"tags":[317,320,380,437,451,488,537],"class_list":["post-1836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-akdc-news","category-events","category-mit-libraries","category-staff-news","tag-architecture","tag-archnet","tag-events","tag-mit-libraries","tag-music","tag-rotch-library","tag-zines"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1836"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1844,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions\/1844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}