The exhibition Readers Make Their Mark: Annotated Books at the New York Society Library explores the practice of reading through the handwritten notes in the margins of books from the Library’s Special Collections. As modern-day readers of annotated books, we peer over the shoulders of readers past and watch them work to comprehend, analyze, or even correct printed texts. The exhibition is open to the public in the Peluso Family Exhibition Gallery during the Library’s open hours.

Get an in-depth look at the Library’s annotated books with Erin Schreiner, the Library’s Special Collections Librarian and co-curator of the current exhibition. Each hour-long tour will consider details of the displayed books, their readers, and their readers’ marks, with discussion of the importance of marginalia in understanding the reading practices of the past. Tours meet in the Reference Room on the first floor.

This exhibition is funded in part by the H.W. Wilson foundation, as well as by Tobias Abeloff, Cohen & Taliaferro, LLC, James Cummins Bookseller, Martayan Lan, Inc., and New York Bound Books.