Spotlights a treasured collection of objects from Carnegie Mellon's special collections to mark the reopening of the Posner Center. Rare Books & Ancestral Machines is a portable guide to the Posner Center--home to Carnegie Mellon University's special collections and the university's repository for rare books, manuscripts, and early technologies. Part museum and part laboratory for the humanities, the Posner Center is Carnegie Mellon's destination for discovery, research, and hands-on engagement with the past.
Published to mark the reopening of the Center in fall 2025 after an extensive renovation, this richly illustrated handbook features nearly one hundred objects from the collection alongside eight interpretive essays. Designed to reflect the layout and logic of the Posner Center itself, the book blends item descriptions, illustrations, and thematic reflections in a compact, visually engaging format. It celebrates both the history and the future of special collections at Carnegie Mellon.
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Samuel V. Lemley is curator of special collections at Carnegie Mellon University Libraries. Lemley has held research fellowships at Princeton University Libraries, the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, Harvard University's Houghton Library, Rare Book School, and Oak Spring Garden Foundation. In 2024, he edited a book on the four Folios of Shakespeare's plays that accompanied a pair of exhibitions at CMU and the Frick Pittsburgh. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife and son. His scholarly work has appeared in The Library, Studies in Bibliography, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Shakespeare Quarterly, and others.
