Book review of Portals: The Visionary Architecture of Paul Goesch by Robert Wiesenberger and Raphael Koeing. Yale University Press, April 2023. 104 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-300-26969-7 (pbk.), $25.00. Reviewed July 2023 by Barbara Ann Opar, Librarian for Architecture and French language and literature, Syracuse University Libraries, baopar@syr.edu.

Book review of From Lapland to Sápmi: Collecting and Returning Sámi Craft and Culture by Barbara Sjoholm. University of Minnesota Press, March 2023. 352 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-5179-1197-3 (h/c), $34.95. https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/from-lapland-to-sa-pmi. Reviewed July 2023 by Amy Furness, Head, Library & Archives, Art Gallery of O…[Read more]

Book review of Nominal Things: Bronzes in the Making of Medieval China by Jeffrey Moser. The University of Chicago Press, April 2023. ISBN 978-0-226-82246-4 (h/c), $50.00. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo182595907.html. Reviewed July 2023 by Fong Ku, Reference and Learning Services Specialist, Alberta University of the Arts,…[Read more]

Book review of The Other Kabul: Remains of the Garden by Susann Wintsch et al. Hirmer, February 2023. 139 p. ill. ISBN 978-3-7774-4033-0 (pbk.), $39.95. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/O/bo196843842.html. Reviewed July 2023 by Lenge Hong, Special Collections Cataloger, Morgan Library & Museum, lhong@themorgan.org.

Book review of The Sassoons by Esther da Costa Meyer and Claudia J. Nahson. Yale University Press, May 2023. ISBN 978-0-300-26430-2 (h/c), $60.00. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300264302/the-sassoons/. Reviewed July 2023 by Jordan Gorzalski, Research & Instruction Librarian, SCAD, jgorzalski@scad.edu.

Book review of Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability by Vivian L. Huang. Duke University Press, November 2022. 240 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-4780-1635-9 (pbk.), $25.95. https://dukeupress.edu/surface-relations. Reviewed July 2023 by Shandy Frey, Research and Instruction Librarian, Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD),…[Read more]

Book review of Rediscovering Black Portraiture by Peter Brathwaite et al. Getty Publications, May 2023. 168 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-60606-844-1 (h/c), $40.00. https://shop.getty.edur/products/rediscovering-black-portraiture-978-1606068168. Reviewed July 2023 by Andrea Walton, MA/MLS, krw1@nyu.edu.

Our poster engages a collaboration between Library Instruction and Black Studies/English, examining how we used an interdisciplinary pedagogy to create an environment where students understand themselves as contributors to the disciplines. Over the course of four years, the librarian came to the professor’s courses to provide scaffolded library i…[Read more]