“The Adventures of Chet Blake – Plastic Man” is one of 2,000 books that Katrin Hornek will use to create an on-site sculpture in the Borland Project Space. Photo credit: Penn State

Several Libraries faculty and staff have been involved in coordinating “The Great Book Move,” a performative event to be held on Tuesday, Feb. 2, where the public is invited to help transport hundreds of books with “plastic” in the title from the Curtin Road entrance of Pattee Library to the College of Arts and Architecture’s Borland Project Space. They will be used to form a sculpture of more than 2,000 University Libraries books with “plastic” in the title by visiting artist Katrin Hornek.

Approximately 700 books originating from Pattee/Paterno and several campus libraries will be picked up inside Pattee Library outside Foster Auditorium for Hornek’s “Visible (Plastic) Entanglements: A Working Exhibition.” Volunteers are asked to enter at the Curtin road entrance between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Participants will not be required to check out books under personal accounts but are asked to RSVP at hmd17@psu.edu.

The books will be staged on a couple of large blue book trucks. Representatives from the Libraries and the College of Arts and Architecture and the artist will be on hand to facilitate the move.  In addition, a documentary videographer and photographers from the college will be record the activities.

Volunteers willing to make a second run will then pick up identified books at University Park branch libraries:

— 5 books at the Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library ,111 Stuckeman Family Building;

— 48 books at the Physical and Mathematical Sciences Library , 201 Davey Laboratory;

— 112 books at the Fletcher L. Byrom Earth and Mineral Sciences Library , 105 Deike Building; and

— 146 books at the Engineering Library , 325 Hammond Building.

Volunteers will be given reusable bags by the College of Arts and Architecture to transport the books.

In addition, the Libraries’ receiving room will be delivering approximately 1,000 books Feb. 1-2 from annex locations directly to the Borland Project Space.