Bookmarks by the Student Advisory Committee,
Friends of the Amherst College Library

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Since 1995, one of the special projects undertaken by the Student Advisory Committee (SAC) of the Friends of the Amherst College Library has been to create a series of attractive bookmarks intended as a keepsake to enhance the general awareness of the Friends and the role the SAC plays for the Library. These keepsakes bring books and readers together: each bookmark presents a book recommendation by an Amherst professor, staff member or student.

The bookmark project begins each fall with nominations and individual canvassing to get ideas for that year's book recommendations. SAC members collaborate to choose books they will feature and then individual students prepare a bookmark design for one or two of the selected books. The bookmarks, which are produced by the Harcourt Bindery through the good offices of Sam Ellenport '65, Chairman of the Friends of the Library, are introduced and distributed at the annual spring meeting of the Council of the Friends in April.

The present exhibition features the 44 bookmarks created between 1995 and 2002 and offers 44 inviting book recommendations that we hope will inspire a trip to the library stacks.

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