User:Msmith

About Michelle

Michelle C. Smith (she/her), is the Book Coordinator for the Book and Paper Group Wiki. Her term began in May 2020. In collaboration with Sandrine Blais, the Paper Coordinator, Michelle is responsible for overseeing revisions, raising awareness of the Wiki, keeping BPG members informed of its progress, recruiting contributors, organizing editing events, and assisting anyone that comes forward with research and expertise they want to share. For wiki inquiries, please contact her at bookandpapergroup.wiki@gmail.com or leave a message on her talk page.

Michelle is a book conservator and received her MA and CAS from Buffalo State College.

Michelle's wiki goals and projects in progress

Updated April 2024

• Develop a new page for Artists' Books
• Assist BPG and OSG Wiki volunteers in creating a joint page on leather (draft here)
• Working with Rachael Arenstein to prepare for the semantic wiki update and new navbox automation
  • Draft version of new BPG "portal" here: User:Msmith/New BPGPortal
• Divide up the Bookbinding Traditions by Region or Culture page into individual pages for each binding tradition and recruiting contributors for this effort
  • Topics that have their own working group/wiki page: East Asian Book Formats, Ethiopian Bindings, Greek-Style Bindings, and Western African Books and Manuscripts
  • Topics that still need a working group/wiki page: Armenian Bindings, Islamic/Islamicate Bindings, Palm Leaf Manuscripts, Syriac Books and Manuscripts, Thai Manuscripts, and Tibetan Manuscripts
• Create and utilize Categories for BPG Wiki pages
• Overhaul and consolidate the BPG Wiki help pages:
  • Contributors' Toolbox
  • Reference and Bibliography Protocols
  • Help Wanted
  • Template for New Page
  • Wiki Templates
• Organize of all the BPG Housings Pages (improve navigation and findability, reduce overlapping content)
  • Main page: BPG Housings
  • Paper housing pages: BPG Encapsulation, BPG Housing of Oversized Prints and Drawings, BPG Matting and Framing,
  • Book housing pages: BPG Corrugated Clamshell Box, BPG Drop Spine Box, BPG Drop Spine Box with Interior Cradle, BPG Phase Box, BPG Phase Box Variations
• Fix image files on BPG Board Attachment and BPG Sewing and Leaf Attachment
• Address content overlap on BPG Washing and BPG Washing of Books
• New page wishlist: Historic Book Models; Books and Paper in Historic Houses; Blank Books, Ledgers, and Stationers Bindings