HATTIESBURG – A lecture on book art collections will be presented Feb. 9 at the University of Southern Mississippi International Building Auditorium, Room 101, at 6 p.m., featuring Jae Rossman, a special collections librarian with Yale University’s Arts of the Book Collection. Admission is free.

Rossman’s presentation, titled “Campus Collaborations: The Book Arts at Yale University,” will include a discussion of the culture of book art on campus, highlighting the various places where examples of the book arts are collected and exhibited.

As a curator of the Collection, Rossman assists researchers, curates exhibitions of materials in the collection, and promotes the use of the collection in addition to other activities.  Rossman is on the board of directors at the Center for Book Arts in New York City. In 2005, she curated a show there titled “30 Years of Innovation:  A Survey of Exhibition History at the Center for Book Arts, 1974-2004.” Once a year, she publishes a book art essay through her private press, the Jenny-Press.