{"id":2892,"date":"2016-09-27T14:16:18","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T20:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/?p=2892"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:05:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:05:42","slug":"art-made-from-digitized-non-circulating-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2016\/09\/27\/art-made-from-digitized-non-circulating-books\/","title":{"rendered":"art made from digitized non-circulating books"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Temple<\/a>Craig Conley<\/a> makes visual art from digitized “non-circulating” library books. As he explains in his artist’s statement:<\/p>\n

Some library books, for a variety of reasons, become “non-circulating.”\u00a0 … It’s a precious status, indicative of value, rarity, and refererence-worthiness. \u00a0Yet there’s a tinge of sadness, too \u2014\u00a0a hint of decrepitude and dormancy. \u00a0We asked a book-whisperer and learned that books do wish to circulate, to be worldly, to mingle, to be at large. …\u00a0 Then, through a painstaking process involving collaged elements from non-circulating volumes of old magazines, we add\u00a0some talisman-like flowing imagery to break the stagnation …<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Craig Conley makes visual art from digitized “non-circulating” library books. As he explains in his artist’s statement: Some library books, for a variety of reasons, become “non-circulating.”\u00a0 … It’s a precious status, indicative of value, rarity, and refererence-worthiness. \u00a0Yet there’s a tinge of sadness, too \u2014\u00a0a hint of decrepitude and dormancy. \u00a0We asked a book-whisperer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenanigans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-KE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3785,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2892\/revisions\/3785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}