Author: Robert Bingham Downs
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Category : Academic libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Book Traces
Author: Andrew M. Stauffer
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812252683
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
In most college and university libraries, materials published before 1800 have been moved into special collections, while the post-1923 books remain in general circulation. But books published between these dates are vulnerable to deaccessioning, as libraries increasingly reconfigure access to public-domain texts via digital repositories such as Google Books. Even libraries with strong commitments to their print collections are clearing out the duplicates, assuming that circulating copies of any given nineteenth-century edition are essentially identical to one another. When you look closely, however, you see that they are not. Many nineteenth-century books were donated by alumni or their families decades ago, and many of them bear traces left behind by the people who first owned and used them. In Book Traces, Andrew M. Stauffer adopts what he calls "guided serendipity" as a tactic in pursuit of two goals: first, to read nineteenth-century poetry through the clues and objects earlier readers left in their books and, second, to defend the value of keeping the physical volumes on the shelves. Finding in such books of poetry the inscriptions, annotations, and insertions made by their original owners, and using them as exemplary case studies, Stauffer shows how the physical, historical book enables a modern reader to encounter poetry through the eyes of someone for whom it was personal.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812252683
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
In most college and university libraries, materials published before 1800 have been moved into special collections, while the post-1923 books remain in general circulation. But books published between these dates are vulnerable to deaccessioning, as libraries increasingly reconfigure access to public-domain texts via digital repositories such as Google Books. Even libraries with strong commitments to their print collections are clearing out the duplicates, assuming that circulating copies of any given nineteenth-century edition are essentially identical to one another. When you look closely, however, you see that they are not. Many nineteenth-century books were donated by alumni or their families decades ago, and many of them bear traces left behind by the people who first owned and used them. In Book Traces, Andrew M. Stauffer adopts what he calls "guided serendipity" as a tactic in pursuit of two goals: first, to read nineteenth-century poetry through the clues and objects earlier readers left in their books and, second, to defend the value of keeping the physical volumes on the shelves. Finding in such books of poetry the inscriptions, annotations, and insertions made by their original owners, and using them as exemplary case studies, Stauffer shows how the physical, historical book enables a modern reader to encounter poetry through the eyes of someone for whom it was personal.
Virginia's College and University Libraries
Author: Robert Bingham Downs
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Category : Academic libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Publisher:
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Category : Academic libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Study of Virginia's College and University Library Needs
Author: State Council of Higher Education for Virginia
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Category : Academic libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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Category : Academic libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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Library Services in Virginia's Institutions of Higher Education
Author: Errett Weir McDiarmid
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Category : Academic libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Category : Academic libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Staff Report 9: Library Services in Virginia's Institutions of Higher Education
Author: Virginia Higher Education Study Commission
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Category : Academic libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Publisher:
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Category : Academic libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Staff Report[s]: Library services in Virginia's instituions of higher education, by E.W. McDiarmid
Author: Virginia. Commission on Higher Education
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Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Publisher:
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Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Academic Libraries in Virginia
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Category : Academic libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Category : Academic libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Book Service in College and University Libraries with Special Reference to a Book Collection in American History for West Virginia University
Author: Vivian Reynolds Boughter
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Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Report of a Survey of the Libraries of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Author: Maurice Falcolm Tauber
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Category : Library surveys
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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Category : Library surveys
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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Library Statistics of Colleges and Universities
Author: National Center for Educational Statistics
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Category : Academic libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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Publisher:
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Category : Academic libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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