International Sculpture Center donates special collection of books and articles to Alfred University

woman with hat moving a couple boxes — Sarah Blood, associate professor of glass, moves some boxes of books on sculpture into Scholes Library. The books were donated by the International Sculpture Center to Alfred University and were delivered Thursday to Scholes Library, where they will be housed on a special collection.

Alfred University is the recipient of some 5,000 books and articles on sculpture, donated by the International Sculpture Center (ISC).

A team of students and faculty from the School of Art and Design’s Sculpture Dimensional Studies Division was on hand Thursday morning to unload approximately 300 boxes of books and take them into Scholes Library, where they will be housed in a special collection.

Coral Lambert, professor of sculpture, said she was contacted by a representative of ISC over the summer, asking if she would be interested in receiving the donation from ICS’s special collections library, which contained approximately 5,000 books and articles on sculpture, many of them signed by artists.

John Hosford, art librarian at Scholes Library drove to the ICS offices in New Jersey to pick up the boxes of material and deliver them to campus. The collection is being catalogued and housed permanently in Scholes Library, where it will be a valuable resource to sculpture students for years to come.