. >> my name is steve woodal and i'm collection specialist for artist books at the fine arts museum of san francisco. i curate the exhibitions and the book gallery at the legion of honor museum. i've been involved to one extent or another and a great admirer of the work that arion press has done and the incredible community resource that m.n.h. type represents. these two institutions have been in a central position in what is really a world-class bay area community in the arts of the hand-made book. as alex said, that is a community that goes back to the 1940s. i think philadelphia may have had a headstart on us, but our community is more well formed than any other in the united states. what that means today is arion and m.n.h. are important partners in extending that history into the future. with its unmatched array of historic equipment, printing and typecasting, arion is sometimes thought of as a museum, but if it is a museum, it is very much a living museum where real production is done every day on books that marry traditional printing techniques with the visions of the most promi