OK, so technically this isn't part of my volunteer duties at the Sacramento Room, but I could not pass up the invitation from Special Projects Librarian Gerald Ward to sit in on a I Street Press book publishing workshop offered today from 10am-3pm. Mr. Ward did an amazing job walking a class of roughly 10-12 students through the process of developing a book block and cover using MS Word. There were some source of frustration, pagination and even/odd page breaks are a tricky component of developing the block. However, we had a little more fun developing our covers. I'm writing a publication about the history of Hawaiian/Native families along the Sacramento River from 1839-1916 - you can read more about that project on my blog at http://muliwai.blogspot.com/
After working on our book blocks and covers, Mr. Ward took us up to the second floor to watch a book being printed via the Espresso Book Machine of the I Street Press. The whole process took less than a couple minutes - the pics below show the finished product. Have to admit after watching how easy it is to publish through I Street Press that I'm hooked
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