Images of Blue Spine

The Blue Spine installation at the Mitchell Library on Saturday 19th June 2010
The Blue Spine installation at the Mitchell Library on Saturday 19th June 2010

On Saturday 19th June, Shauna McMullan presented her Blue Spine installation at the Mitchell Library. Over 500 books spanned the Jeffrey room, each with a blue spine, written by a woman and donated by women from across Scotland.

Visitors to the Blue Spine installation
Visitors to the Blue Spine installation

The books made a fascinating and illuminating display, covering a whole range of subjects, with fiction, non-fiction and poetry – choices both popular and obscure, and very often personal. A list of the books, and those who contributed, is available to download:

Download: Blue Spine Book List (pdf)
Download: Blue Spine Contributors (pdf)

Many of the contributors were able to take part in a photograph of the exhibit in the afternoon.

Blue Spine contributers at the installation
Blue Spine contributers at the installation

More images of the Blue Spine installation are available on Flickr, or you can watch a slideshow below.

Shauna spoke to Radio Scotland’s Book Cafe about the Blue Spine project – broadcast on 28th June, it’s available for listening on the BBC iPlayer until the end of this week.

Photographs by Alan Dimmick.

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