In a lively next to last class of the semester, as students worked on final projects, questions arose. How to bind a book with a plexiglass cover? Which glues and adhesive tapes are archival? What weight of Arches paper works for pages meant to be turned? Evoking parallel issues, Caydance responded with copies or slides of recent artists books -- first, a Minnesota Center for Book Arts catalog for an exhibition of Sol LeWitt's artist books. In this passed around and discussed catalog, each of LeWitt's books was imaged and documented; the whole accompanied with an essay by curator Betty Bright. The title of the Catalog was Pick Up the Book, Turn the Page and Enter the System.

Then, she projected slides of Joyce Cutler-Shaw's The railing of the wild river grasses. Created for the staircase balcony in the San Diego-based Mission Valley Library, this work consisted of 39 glass panels etched with wild grasses native to Southern California. To create an associated artists book, digital prints of the panels were enclosed in covers of wild grasses on handmade Japanese paper. Next, from the Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago library, Caydance projected an image of Peter Barnett's Scrolling encoding/decoding construction, a work that consisted of computer printed text rolled into a plastic tube. How was the meaning of the text echoed in the creation of this potent tube?