Wine Librarians Studying More Than Just Books
Members present restored wax and celluloid wine artifacts
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A wax model of the early grape variety Hector is among items found at the Geneva Station. |
Marjorie Parrott Adams, archival and curatorial consultant at the station library, reported on the discovery of a forgotten collection of more than 400 models of fruit, vegetables and fungi, packed away almost 40 years ago in a non-climate-controlled warehouse at the Geneva Experiment Station. The models were an important teaching tool in the days before color photography. More than 90 of the 400-plus models were of grapes.
Andrea Davis, a student at the Simmons School of Library and Information Science in Boston, Mass., spent two years working on a wine film preservation project at the Sonoma County Library in Healdsburg, Calif. The library rescued a stockpile of 16mm films marking the emergence of the California "wine renaissance," and Davis preserved 15 public relations films made for the California Wine Institute and the Wine Advisory Board dating back to the late 1950s and 1960s.
This was the first annual meeting of the Wine Librarians Association held in the East. It was hosted by Marty Schlabach at the station's Frank A. Lee Library. For further information about the association, contact Bo Simons, librarian at the Sonoma County Library and the current president of the association. For membership information, contact the secretary, Gail Unzelman, by e-mail at nomis@jps.net.