I am very excited about this University of Iowa project to recycle their retired card catalog cards into mail art. I hope i can get a good chunk of cards. I’d like to set up the common area at work with cards, paints, markers, and crayons so staff cna decorate the cards. Christine suggested i could make some RLG logo artistamps and a cork cancel for the project, too.
It’s quite possibble RLG produced some of the cards; it would be a wonderful recycling project!
“Kristin Baum, an assistant conservator in the UI preservation unit, salvaged a fraction of the catalogue cards before they were hauled off to recycling in February. Her plan for cARTalog is to distribute the 1 million cards, which represent one-fifth of the library’s total cards….
Those interested in contributing a creation may have until January 2006 to complete their projects.
Submissions will be considered for exhibition and inclusion in the library’s permanent holdings. Baum is most excited about the plans for the mail art submissions, which will be housed in an on-site collection in an old card catalogue drawer. In this way, “people can experience the act of physically paging through the card catalogue, but what they are paging through is also art.” ” —
www.dailyiowan.com/news/2005/08/24/Arts/Card-Catalogue.Redux-969068.shtml
See also: http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2005/july/070505cartalog.html