2006 Florida Artists' Book Prize: A Virtual Exhibition Catalog

The Bienes Museum of the Modern Book and the Florida Center for the Book present the tenth annual Florida Artists’ Book Prize exhibition in this e-catalog. All of the books selected for the exhibition are shown here in their entirety, and a few of them are even shown using moving images. 

2007 Florida Artists' Book Prize: A Virtual Exhibition Catalog

The Bienes Museum of the Modern Book and the Florida Center for the Book present the eleventh annual Florida Artists’ Book Prize exhibition in this e-catalog. All of the books selected for the exhibition are shown here in their entirety, and a few of them are even shown using moving images. 

2008 Florida Artists' Book Prize: A Virtual Exhibition

The Bienes Museum of the Modern Book and the Florida Center for the Book present the twelfth annual Florida Artists’ Book Prize exhibition in this e-catalog. All of the books selected for the exhibition are shown here in their entirety.

Alex Haley Collection: The Voyages of Alex Haley, Notebooks and Memoirs of an African-American Writer

The Alex Haley Collection at AARLCC includes eight typed, unfinished manuscripts, including drafts and handwritten notes. It also includes large amounts of correspondence between Haley and aspiring writers such as Tom Feelings, students of all ages, friends, peers such as Danielle Steele, politicians, and noted celebrities such as Quincy Jones, Johnny Carson.

Bienes Museum of the Modern Book: The Publications

Exhibition catalogs and other publications from the first ten years of the Dianne and Michael Bienes Special Collections and Rare Book Library.

Civilian Conservation Corps Collection: The CCC, A Young Man's Opportunity to Work

The Bienes Museum 's CCC collection includes books, pamphlets, posters, banners, clothing, memory books, newspapers and newsletters, certificates, games, matchbook covers, menus, patches, pillow cases, posters, and postcards.

Education by Design: Educational Visual Aids from the Bienes Museum WPA Museum Extension Project Collection

The Museum Extension Project (MEP) and the Visual Aids Project (VAP) were among some of the smaller and lesser-known sections that fell under the administrative control of the WPA's Women's and Professional Division. The MEP and the VAP were created to "help public schools to obtain visual education aids designed to give life and reality to the things children study."

Fontaneda Society, Book Collectors of South Florida Members' Exhibition, January 17-March 14, 2008

The Fontaneda Society serves the interests of booklovers through studies in book collecting, fine printing and related graphic arts, and more. Highlighted in this exhibition are selected items from a variety of collection subject areas including 19th century cookbooks, Frank Lloyd Wright books, books on jazz discography, and many others.

Pop-Ups And Other Illustrated Books, Ephemera, and Graphic Designs of Vojtêch Kubašta (1914-1992)

From the Collection of the Bienes Museum of the Modern Book.

Series Americana: An Exhibition of Selected Post Depression-Era Regional Literature from the Collection of Carol Fitzgerald

A Selected Exhibition from the Collection of Carol Fitzgerald, October 25, 2007-January 8, 2008.

So This Is Florida: An Exhibition of Decorative Book Bindings and Book Jackets, 1873-1999

Seventy Floridiana books and pamphlets from the collections of Broward County Main Library’s Bienes Museum of the Modern Book, The Dianne and Michael Bienes Special Collections and Rare Book Library, chronicling the evolution of American book design and publishing from the 1873 to 1999.

WPA Children's Books: by the Pennsylvania Writers' Project, the New York City New Reading Materials Program, and the Milwaukee Handicraft Project

The ninety WPA children’s books on exhibit inform and explore literature and art published and created for young Americans during President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s (FDR) New Deal and Works Progress Administration (WPA).