• Acknowledgments Figures Note to the Reader
• Introduction
• 1 The Legacy
• 1 The Classical Heritage
• 2 The Fatimid and Ayyubid Legacies
• 2 Mamluk Libraries
• 1 Patronage of the Mamluk Book
• 2 A Palace Library?
• 3 The Libraries of Religious Institutions
• 4 The Librarians in Religious Institutions
• 3 Private Libraries and Endowments
• 4 Book Circulation and Storage
• 1 Borrowing Practices
• 2 The Size of Libraries
• 3 The Size of Books
• 4 The Physical Setting
• 5 The Market
• 1 Location and Environment
• 2 Dealers and Publishers
• 3 Value, Prices, and Fees
• 6 The Mamluk Scribe: Background and Formation
• 1 Terminology and Definition
• 2 Writing and Copying
• 3 From Oral to Written Books and Back
• 4 Books from the Barracks
• 7 The Mamluk Master Calligraphers
• 1 The Art and Practice of Calligraphy
• 2 Teaching Writing and Calligraphy
• 3 The Social and Cultural Contexts
• 4 Calligraphers and Craftsmen
• 5 Calligraphers and the Aristocracy
• 8 The Chain of Mamluk Calligraphers
• 1 The Syrian School
• 2 The Egyptian School
• Epilogue
• Bibliography Index.
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This book is the first to date to be dedicated to the circulation of the book as a commodity in the Mamluk sultanate. It discusses the impact of princely patronage on the production of books, the formation and management of libraries in religious institutions, their size and their physical setting. It documents the significance of private collections and their interaction with institutional libraries and the role of charitable endowments (waqf ) in the life of libraries. The market as a venue of intellectual and commercial exchanges and a production centre is explored with references to prices and fees. The social and professional background of scribes and calligraphers occupies a major place in this study, which also documents the chain of master-calligraphers over the entire Mamluk period. For her study the author relies on biographical dictionaries, chronicles, waqf documents and manuscripts.
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• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Lost and Found: Antiquarianism and the Fantasy of Preservation
• Chapter 2. Puritan Redux: John Winthrop and Cotton Mather in Nineteenth-Century New England
• Chapter 3. The South in Fragments: Printing Anachronisms in the Old Dominion
• Chapter 4. The Letter and the Spirit: Materializing Quaker History and Myth
• Chapter 5. Romance and Repulsion: The Imperial Archive and Washington Irving's Columbus Epilogue. (Re)Born Digital
• Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments.
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In the long nineteenth century, the specter of lost manuscripts loomed in the imagination of antiquarians, historians, and writers. Whether by war, fire, neglect, or the ravages of time itself, the colonial history of the United States was perceived as a vanishing record, its archive a hoard of materially unsound, temporally fragmented, politically fraught, and endangered documents. Colonial Revivals traces the labors of a nineteenth-century cultural network of antiquarians, bibliophiles, amateur historians, and writers as they dug through the nation's attics and private libraries to assemble early American archives. The collection of colonial materials they thought themselves to be rescuing from oblivion were often reprinted to stave off future loss and shore up a sense of national permanence. Yet this archive proved as disorderly and incongruous as the collection of young states themselves. Instead of revealing a shared origin story, historical reprints testified to the inveterate regional, racial, doctrinal, and political fault lines in the American historical landscape. Even as old books embodied a receding past, historical reprints reflected the antebellum period's most pressing ideological crises, from religious schisms to sectionalism to territorial expansion. Organized around four colonial regional cultures that loomed large in nineteenth-century literary history-Puritan New England, Cavalier Virginia, Quaker Pennsylvania, and the Spanish Caribbean-Colonial Revivals examines the reprinted works that enshrined these historical narratives in American archives and minds for decades to come. Revived through reprinting, the obscure texts of colonial history became new again, deployed as harbingers, models, reminders, and warnings to a nineteenth-century readership increasingly fixated on the uncertain future of the nation and its material past.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780812250626 20181203

• Acknowledgements
• Table of illustrations
• Textual Note
• Notes on Contributors
• Sophie Chiari (Clermont Auvergne University), General Introduction: `"To be seen and allowed": Early Modern Regulation Practices'
• Burning, Forbidding, Controlling: The Power of Censors
• 1. Edward Paleit (City University, London), `An Incident in the History of English Book Burning'
• 2. Per Sivefors (Linnaeus University, Sweden), `Satire, Immoderation and the Bishops' Ban of 1599'
• 3. Janet Clare (University of Hull), `"I like not this": Censorship, Self-Censorship and Collaboration in Early Modern Dramatic Manuscripts'
• 4. Richard Dutton (Queen's University, Belfast), `The Limits of a Censor's Authority: The Case of the Masters of the Revels'
• Dramatic Constraints, Dramatic Freedom: Case Studies
• 5. Roy Eriksen (University of Agder), `Revisiting an Old Controversy: Censorship in Doctor Faustus'
• 6. Dympna Callaghan (Syracuse University), `"An you talk in blank verse": the Poetics of Liberty in As You Like It'
• 7. Pelin Dogan (Ankara University), `The Malcontent's Fool, Censorship, and the Construction of the Subject'
• 8. Joseph Sterrett (Aarhus University), `"Let him speak no more": Trust, Censorship, and Early Modern Anti-Confession'
• Censorship on the Page: Translation, Poetry, and Editorial Practices
• 9. Jonathan Pollock (Universite de Perpignan-Via Domitia), `What Florio did not Translate: the Return of the Repressed in the English Rendering of Montaigne's Essays'
• 10. Laetitia Sansonetti (Universite Paris Nanterre), `Spenser's Strategies of Indirect Representation in The Faerie Queene (1590)'
• 11. Aurelie Griffin (Universite Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle), `(Self-)Censorship in Lady Mary Wroth's The Countess of Montgomery's Urania (1621-1630)'
• 12. Line Cottegnies (Sorbonne Universite), `"No cloudy stuff to puzzle the brain": `Fair Editing' and Censorship in John Benson's Edition of Shakespeare's Poems (1640)'
• Roger Chartier (College de France and University of Pennsylvania), Coda-- `Early Modern English Censorship in European Context'
• General Bibliography
• Index.
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Broadening the notion of censorship, this volume explores the transformative role played by early modern censors in the fashioning of a distinct English literature in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In early modern England, the Privy Council, the Bishop of London and the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Stationers' Company, and the Master of the Revels each dealt with their own prerogatives and implemented different forms of censorship, with the result that authors penning both plays and satires had to juggle with various authorities and unequal degrees of freedom from one sector to the other. Text and press control thus did not give way to systematic intervention but to particular responses adapted to specific texts in a specific time. If the restrictions imposed by regulation practices are duly acknowledged in this edited collection, the different contributors are also keen to enhance the positive impact of censorship on early modern literature. The most difficult task consists in finding the exact moment when the balance tips in favour of creativity, and the zone where, in matters of artistic freedom, the disadvantages outweigh the benefits. This is what the twelve chapters of the volume proceed to do. Thanks to a wide variety of examples, they show that, in the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, regulations seldom prevented writers to make themselves heard, albeit through indirect channels. By contrast, in the 1630s, the increased supremacy of the Church seemed to tip the balance the other way.
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• 1 Introduction to Scholarly Journal and Book Publishing in the U.S. State of Scholarly Publishing Today
• 2 The Impact of the Depression and Nuclear Research on Universities, Research, and Scholarly Publishing: 1929-1941
• 3 The Impact of World War II on American Society and Scholarly Publishing: December 7, 1941-1942
• 4 The War and Its Impact on Research: 1943-1945
• 5
• 1946: A Turning Point in the Growth of Scholarly Publishing.
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This book analyzes the dynamic growth of the scholarly publishing industry in the United States during 1939-1946, a critical period in the business history of scholarly publications in STM and the humanities and the social sciences. It explains how the key publishing players positioned themselves to take advantage of the war economy and how they used different business and marketing strategies to create the market and demand for scholarly publications. Not only did the atomic threat necessitate a surge in scholarly research, but at the same time scholarly publishing managers prepared for the dramatic shift by anticipating the potential impact of the GI Bill on higher education, creating superb printed products, and by becoming the brand, the source of knowledge and information. The creation of strategic business units and value chains as well as the development of marketing targeting strategies resulted in brand loyalty to certain publishers and publications but also accelerated the growth of the US scholarly publishing industry. Business historians and marketing professors interested in the business strategies of scholarly publishers during World War II will find this book to be a valuable resource.
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• Prologue : Les Français, le livre et la lecture à la veille de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale
• Les héritages du temps long
• La lecture dans le projet pédagogique républicain
• La France, nation littéraire ?
• Parler des livres
• Les autorités de prescription : lire en catholique, lire en communiste
• Le lecteur ordinaire : des pratiques différenciées
• La conjoncture des années 1930 : le livre et la lecture entre espoirs et inquiétudes
• L'ordre des livres dans le désordre des temps
• La fin d'un monde : l'ordre des livres de la drôle de guerre à l'effondrement de 1940
• Le livre et la lecture dans le processus de mobilisation culturelle
• Protéger, contrôler, divertir
• Maintenir une vie du livre en temps de guerre
• De nouveaux usages de la lecture
• Lire à l'arrière : entre évasion et quêtes de sens
• Lire au front : l'art de gérer les contraintes
• La déroute de 1940
• Livres et lectures dans la tourmente
• L'ordre des livres dans la débâcle
• La vie du livre dans la France occupée : entre contraintes et pénurie
• La loi de l'occupant
• Des listes d'interdiction à la convention de censure
• Propagande : les multiples dispositifs d'influence
• Spoliations et pillages
• Le dispositif vichyste : le livre au service de la Révolution nationale
• L'oeil du censeur
• La profession encadrée : le Comité d'organisation
• La part de la lecture scolaire
• La question de la lecture publique
• Le resserrement des contraintes (1942-1944)
• La circulation du livre dans l'espace fragmenté du régime d'armistice
• À la recherche du lecteur des années noires
• La soif de lecture des années d'Occupation
• Cent éditeurs vous parlent : "ce que lit et pense la France à l'heure présente"
• Le retour au livre : pesées globales
• Une géographie de la lecture ?
• Des horizons d'attente divers
• L'aube de la lecture : des Ji aux h
• Lectures d'évasion : les droits maintenus du divertissement
• Des lectures à l'instant du danger
• Lectures captives : les prisonniers de guerre
• Lectures de proscription : lire au temps de l'exclusion
• Lectures de salut, lecture de combat
• Les tribulations de la communauté des lecteurs professionnels
• Portrait de l'écrivain en lecteur : entre intimité et sociabilité
• Des revues et des hommes : le relief bouleversé du paysage critique
• Académies et jurys : la sociabilité conflictuelle des prix littéraires
• Les prix littéraires
• Lire pour reconstruire : un patrimoine disputé
• Lever de rideau : la querelle des mauvais maîtres ou la lecture en accusation
• Le temps des inventaires : relire la tradition littéraire
• Ferveur anthologique : retour aux textes
• Figures votives : un panthéon littéraire revisité
• Recours au poème, interrogations sur le roman
• Naissance d'une bibliothèque de l'ombre : la promotion d'un art de lire clandestin
• Epilogue : Sortir de la guerre
• L'échec du nouvel ordre des livres : le rétrécissement de l'espace public de la lecture
• Les tensions internes de la corporation du livre
• La préparation des relèves culturelles : de la scène publique d la scène clandestine
• Libération : le nouveau cours de l'ordre des livres

• Épurer : tourner la page de l'Occupation
• Reconstruire : les nouvelles fondations de l'ordre du livre
• Réparer : la restitution des livres volés.

"Que lisait-on dans la France des années noires ? Comment expliquer la "faim de lecture" propre à la période de l'Occupation ? Quelle fut la part prise par le régime de Vichy dans la circulation, la diffusion, l'orientation des livres publiés ? Et celle de la Résistance dans la propagation des écrits clandestins? Comment accéder à l'intimité des millions de lecteurs qui, cherchant à s'évader hors d'un quotidien éprouvant, trouvèrent alors refuge dans un ailleurs fait de phrases imprimées ? Stratégies et pratiques des éditeurs, querelles autour du patrimoine littéraire, réorganisation corporative de la chaîne du livre, listes d'interdictions et spoliations de l'occupant, écrivains partagés entre collaboration, accommodement, évitement, insoumission : Jacques Cantier signe la première histoire totale du livre et de la lecture entre 1939 et 1945, des politiques de censure mises en oeuvre par Vichy à l'ébullition culturelle de la Libération. Archives publiques, critiques littéraires, notes de lecture mais aussi écrits du for privé permettent de retrouver les traces intimes des actes de lecture : écoliers de la France rurale cherchant à élargir leur horizon, adolescents parisiens en quête d'initiation, prisonniers de guerre tentant de maintenir une vie de l'esprit, victimes de la persécution antisémite en quête de réarmement moral... Jacques Cantier montre qu'en dépit de la défaite, de la peur et des privations, la France continue à lire et à être le théâtre d'une foisonnante vie littéraire et intellectuelle."--Page 4 of cover.

• Introduction The Theory of Open Access A Framework for Open Access in Nigeria Open Access Jounals Open Educational Resources Public Sector Information Guidelines for Developng a Framework for Access to Knowledge in Nigeria Conclusion.
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This book provides an analysis of the legal and policy dimensions of open access to research, education and public sector information with a focus on Nigeria. Kunle shows how open access has evolved across the world and how such initiatives could be implemented in Nigeria and other countries in the developing world. The author argues for a platform where Nigerians are able to freely connect to the `global library', through the open access dual platforms of self-archiving and open access publishing, thereby providing access to knowledge. The importance of connecting local works to the `global library' to increase visibility and impact of such works is also underscored. This book furthers our understanding of open educational resources as alternative avenues to accessing education and seeks to foster citizenry participation, good governance, accountability, democratic values and spur creativity and innovation through open governance and access to public sector information. Providing a framework for open access in developing countries, Open Access to Knowledge in Nigeria is an important read for scholars interested in knowledge production in Africa, development of the knowledge economy and the open access and Access to Knowledge movements.
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• Contents Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part 1: The Babylonian Talmud
• 1 Amsterdam-Benveniste Talmud: Preparatory Phase
• 2 Amsterdam: Benveniste Talmud
• 3 Frankfurt on the Oder-First Edition: Background
• 4 Frankfurt on the Oder: The Talmud
• 5 Amsterdam: The Incomplete Edition
• 6 Berlin and Frankfurt on the Oder
• 7 Frankfurt on the Main: 1720-1722
• 8 Prague-The Censored Edition: Background
• 9 Prague: Berakhot-1728-- Talmud-1830-1835
• 10 Amsterdam-Proops Talmud: 1752-1765
• 11 Sulzbach Editions: Red (1755-63) and Black (1766-70)
• 12 Metz: Two-Amud Tractates
• 13 Vienna
• 14 Nowy Dwor Mazowiecki
• 15 Dyhernfurth: Early Tractates
• 16 Dyhernfurth: Talmud Editions
• Part2: The Jerusalem Talmud
• 17 Amsterdam: Seder Nashim with Commentaries
• 18 Livorno: Seder Nezikin with Commentaries
• 19 Other Editions of the Jerusalem Talmud
• Part3: Minor Tractates and Translations
• 20 Massekhtot Ketanot (Minor Tractates)
• 21 Christian-Hebraists: The Talmud (Mishnah) in Translation
• 22 William Wotton and His Translation of Shabbat and Eruvin Bibliography Index.
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Printing the Talmud: Complete Editions, Tractates and Other Works, and the Associated Presses from the Mid-17th Century through the 18th Century is a profusely illustrated major work describing the complete editions of the Talmud printed from about 1650 to slightly after 1800. Apart from the intrinsic value of those editions, their publication was often contentious due to disputes, often bitter, between rival publishers, embroiling rabbis and communities throughout Europe. The cities and editions encompassed include Amsterdam, Frankfort am Main, Frankfurt on the Oder, Prague, and Sulzbach. This edition of Printing the Talmud addresses these editions as an opening to discuss the history of the subject presses, their other titles and their general context in Jewish history.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9789004376724 20190128

Popular conceptions of Catholic censorship, symbolized above all by the 'Index of Forbidden Books', figure prominently in secular definitions of freedom. To be intellectually free is to enjoy access to knowledge unimpeded by any religious authority. But how would the history of freedom change if these conceptions were false? In this panoramic study of Catholic book culture in Germany from 1770-1914, Jeffrey Zalar exposes the myth of faith-based intellectual repression. Catholic readers disobeyed the book rules of their church in a vast apostasy that raised personal desire and conscience over communal responsibility and doctrine. This disobedience sparked a dramatic contest between lay readers and their priests over proper book behavior that played out in homes, schools, libraries, parish meeting halls, even church confessionals. The clergy lost this contest in a fundamental reordering of cultural power that helped usher in contemporary Catholicism.

• About the Editors. List of Contributors. Acknowledgments. Introduction, Victor R. Lee and Abigail L. Phillips I. Reconceptualizing Libraries and Communities
• 1. Libraries Will be Essential to the Smart and Connected Communities of the Future, Victor R. Lee
• 2. Makerspaces in Libraries: Social Roles and Community Engagement, Kyungwon Koh, June Abbas, and Rebecca Willett II. Reconceptualizing Library Experience
• 3. Making Connected Messages: Designing Community-Relevant Murals with Youth in Public Libraries, Yasmin Kafai, Orkan Telhan, Richard Lee Davis, K-Fai Steele, and Barrie Adleberg
• 4. Building Expansive Family STEAM Programming Through Participatory Design Research, Carrie Tzou, Philip Bell, Megan Bang, Rekha Kuver, Amy Twito, and Ashley Braun
• 5. Designing Alternate Reality Games for the Public Library's Summer Reading Programs, Elizabeth Bonsignore, Derek Hansen, and Kari Kaus
• 6. Improving Digital Experience Through Modeling the Human Experience: The Resurgence of Virtual (& Augmented & Mixed) Reality, Diana Hellyar, Renee Walsh, and Micah Altman III. Reconceptualizing Librarianship
• 7. Designing for STEM in Libraries Serving Underserved Communities, Crystle Martin
• 8. Redefining Mentorship in Facilitating Interest-Driven Learning in Libraries, Tamara Clegg and Mega Subramaniam
• 9. Small Town Librarians as Experience Engineers, Abigail L. Phillips, Victor R. Lee, and Mimi Recker
• 10. Cultivating School Librarian Discernment as E-Learning Technology Stewards of the Future, Rebecca Reynolds and Chris Leeder Part IV. Reconceptualizing Library Research
• 11. The Design of Digital Learning Activities for Libraries Through Participatory Design, Jason Yip and Kung Jin Lee
• 12. Probing Causal Relationships Between What School Librarians Do and What Learners Gain in School Libraries: A Reconceptualization of the Profession's Research Agenda, Marcia Mardis, Faye R. Jones, Lenese Colson, Shana Pribesh, Sue Kimmel, Barbara Schultz-Jones, Laura Pasquini, and Laura Gogia
• 13. Using Research-Practice Partnerships to Support Interest-Related Learning in Libraries, William R. Penuel, Josephina Chang-Order, and Vera Michalchik
• 14. Learning Through New Experiences: A Researcher of Modern-Day Librarianship Discovers the Learning Sciences, Abigail L. Phillips. Conclusion: Looking Back to See Forward, Beth Yoke.
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Reconceptualizing Libraries brings together cases and models developed by experts in the information and learning sciences to identify the potential for libraries to adapt and transform in the wake of new technologies for connected learning and discovery. Chapter authors explore the ways that the increased interest in the design research methods, digital media emphases, and technological infrastructure of the learning sciences can foster new collaborations and formats for education within physical library spaces. Models and case studies from a variety of library contexts demonstrate how library professionals can act as change agents and design partners and how patrons can engage with these evolving experiences. This is a timely and innovative volume for understanding how physical libraries can incorporate and thrive as educational resources using new developments in technology and in the learning sciences.
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• Preface to the Second Edition Acknowledgements Introduction
• 1 Materiality Matters A Detailed Sketch of the Current State of Knowledge and Outline of the Research The Information Value of Binding Structures The Present Situation of the Book Archaeology of Islamic Manuscripts Obstacles in the Study of Islamic Bookmaking Linking Physical Analysis, Catalogue Data, and Literature Selection and Justification of the Corpus
• 2 The Anatomy of the Islamic Manuscript A Detailed Overview of the Different Methods of Construction Vocabulary and Images as Tools Techniques Used to Construct the Textblock Covering and Board Attachment A Problematic Term: Case-binding Other Characteristics Meaning and Validity of the Diversity
• 3 A Comparative Study of the Historic Sources and Recent Literature on the Making of Islamic Manuscripts Historic Sources Secondary Sources: Related Studies and General Reference Works Founders of our Knowledge on the Use of Structure and Materials in Islamic Bookmaking Structure as a Starting Point Structure as a Side Issue Structure as a Conservation Issue The Sum of the Parts
• 4 Multiplicity within the Tradition n Account of the Methodology and Quantitative Results of the Survey Methodology Survey Results-Quantitative Analysis
• 5 Mapping the Variations in Time and Place Datable and Localisable Features and a Further Interpretation of the Findings Sewing Spine-lining Endbanding Covering Spine-endings Interior Covering of the Boards The Envelope and Fore-edge Flap Miscellaneous Features Southeast Asia as a Sub-category in the Islamic Tradition Summary
• 6 Considerations and New Perspectives Recapitulation Development of the Tradition Discussion Conclusion
• Appendices
• 1 Glossary
• 2 Corpus
• 3 Example of a Record of the Database
• 4 List of Manuscripts Used in Illustrations Bibliography Index.
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The Technique of Islamic Bookbinding is the first monograph dedicated to the technical development of the bookbinding tradition in the Islamic world. Based on an assessment of the extensive oriental collections in the Leiden University Library, the various sewing techniques, constructions and the application of covering materials are described in great detail. A comparative analysis of the historic treatises on bookbinding provides further insight into the actual making of the Islamic book. In addition, it is demonstrated that variations in time and place can be established with the help of distinctive material characteristics. Karin Scheper's work refutes the perception of Islamic bookbinding as a weak structure, which has generally but erroneously been typified as a case-binding. Instead, the author argues how diverse methods were used to create sound structures, thus fundamentally challenging our understanding of the Islamic bookbinding practice. Karin Scheper has been awarded the De La Court Award 2016 by The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences for her study of the bookbinding tradition in the Islamic world.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9789004385481 20190121

• Contents
• List of Figures v
• Acknowledgements vi
• Note on Quotation vii
• Abbreviations viii
• Introduction: Print and the Difference it Makes
• 1
• Implications
• 7
• Critical Mapping
• 16
• Cases
• 26
• Chapter 1: Instructional Texts and Print Symbolism: Christopher Plantin, Hieronymus Hornschuch, and Joseph Moxon
• 51
• Processes
• 55
• People
• 69
• Conclusion
• 77
• Chapter 2: An Emergent Typographic Imaginary in William Caxton's Paratexts
• 86
• Life in Literature, Diplomacy, and Commerce
• 88
• The Benefits of Printing in Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye
• 90
• Imagined Typographic Space
• 96
• Reorganising Continuity: Mirrour of the World
• 104
• Conclusion
• 112
• Chapter 3: Robert Copland, Thomas Blague, and the Printer-Author Dialogue
• 124
• Printer-Author Dialogue and its Mutations
• 126
• Characterising the Printer: Gatekeepers of the Press
• 130
• Print and Metacommunication: Uses of the Dialogue Form
• 145
• Conclusion
• 153
• Chapter 4: Protestant Printing and Humanism in Beware the Cat: Undoing Printing
• 164
• Protestant Printer and Humanist Scholar
• 168
• Dead Bodies and Printer's Devils
• 174
• Printing and Penning
• 178
• Conclusion
• 183
• Chapter 5: George Gascoigne and Richard Tottel: Negotiating Manuscript and Print in the Poetic Miscellany
• 193
• Typographic Value in the Prefatory Poses of A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres
• 199
• The Benefits of Printing in The Posies of George Gascoigne Esquire
• 209
• Conclusion
• 215
• Chapter 6: Edmund Spenser's Early and Mid Career: Public Image and Machine Horror
• 223
• Early Career Self-Presentation: The Shepeardes Calender and Three Proper, and Wittie, Familiar Letters
• 225
• Monstrous Typographic Fertility in The Faerie Queene
• 232
• Resonant Errour in `The Teares of the Muses'
• 244
• Conclusion
• 247
• Chapter 7 St Paul's Churchyard and the Meanings of Print: Pierce Penilesse His Supplication to the Divell
• 259
• Nashe's Mosaic of the Print Trade
• 266
• Waste and Matter
• 274
• The Figurative Authority of Print
• 280
• Conclusion
• 282
• Conclusion: Love and Loathing in Grub Street 289.
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The typographic imaginary is an aesthetic linking authors from William Caxton to Alexander Pope, this study centrally contends. Early modern English literature engages imaginatively with printing and this book both characterizes that engagement and proposes the typographic imaginary as a framework for its analysis. Certain texts, Rachel Stenner states, describe the people, places, concerns, and processes of printing in ways that, over time, generate their own figurative authority. The typographic imaginary is posited as a literary phenomenon shared by different writers, a wider cultural understanding of printing, and a critical concept for unpicking the particular imaginative otherness that printing introduced to literature. Authors use the typographic imaginary to interrogate their place in an evolving media environment, to assess the value of the printed text, and to analyse the roles of other text-producing agents. This book treats a broad array of authors and forms: printers' manuals; William Caxton's paratexts; the pamphlet dialogues of Robert Copland and Ned Ward; poetic miscellanies; the prose fictions of William Baldwin, George Gascoigne, and Thomas Nashe; the poetry and prose of Edmund Spenser; writings by John Taylor and Alexander Pope. At its broadest, this study contributes to an understanding of how technology changes cultures. Located at the crossroads between literary, material, and book historical research, the particular intervention that this work makes is threefold. In describing the typographic imaginary, it proposes a new framework for analysis of print culture. It aims to focus critical engagement on symbolic representations of material forms. Finally, it describes a lineage of late medieval and early modern authors, stretching from the mid-fifteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries, that are linked by their engagement of a particular aesthetic.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781472480422 20181112

Beginning in 1611 with the King James Bible and ending in 2014 with Elizabeth Kolbert's 'The Sixth Extinction', this extraordinary voyage through the written treasures of our culture examines universally-acclaimed classics such as Pepys' 'Diaries', Charles Darwin's 'The Origin of Species', Stephen Hawking's 'A Brief History of Time' and a whole host of additional works.

A chronological survey of the world's most influential books. Many books have become classics, must-reads or overnight publishing sensations, but how many can genuinely claim to have changed the way we see and think? In 100 Books that Changed the World, authors Scott Christianson and Colin Salter bring together an exceptional collection of truly groundbreaking books - from scriptures that founded religions, to scientific treatises that challenged beliefs, to novels that kick-started literary genres. This elegantly designed book offers a chronological survey of the most important books from around the globe, from the earliest illuminated manuscripts to the age of the ebook publication. Entries include: The Iliad and The Odyssey, Homer (750 BC), Gutenberg Bible (1450s), The Quran (AD 609-632), On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, Nicolaus Copernicus (1543), Shakespeare's First Folio (1623), Philosophae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Isaac Newton (1687), The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith (1776), The Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft (1792), On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin (1859), Das Kapital, Karl Marx (1867), The Interpretation of Dreams, Sigmund Freud (1899), The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank (1947), Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (1964), A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking (1988).
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• Begleitwort
• Von Cologne zur Festung Köln : 1818-1840 : die Gründer-Generation / Johann Peter und Lambert Bachem
• Zwischen Attacke und Alaaf : 1840-1868 / Lambert und Josef Bachem
• "Mein Feld ist die Welt" : 1869-1914 / Josef, Julius, Robert, Karl und Franz Xaver Bachem
• "Die Hoffnung Stirbt Zuletzt" : 1914-1945 / Hans, Franz Carl und Josef Bachem
• Von "Stunde Null" Auf Hundert : 1945-2018 / Josef, Franz, Peter, Lambert und Claus Bachem, Martin Trompertz
• Quellenverzeichnis
• Personenregister
• Bildnachweis, Impressum
• Autor.

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Background
• 3. Academic Library Organization
• 4. Literature Review
• 5. Data, Results and Discussion
• 6. Conclusion
• Appendix 1. List of Universities
• Appendix 2. Discourse Analysis Instrument.
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The 21st Century Academic Library: Global Patterns of Organization and Discourse discusses the organization of academic libraries, drawing on detailed research and data. The organization of the library follows the path of a print book or journal: acquisitions, cataloguing, circulation, reference, instruction, preservation and general administration. Most libraries still have public services and technical services, and are still very print-based in their organization, while their collections and services are increasingly electronic and virtual. This book gathers information on organizational patterns of large academic libraries in the US and Europe, providing data that could motivate libraries to adopt innovative organizational structures or assess the effectiveness of their current organizational patterns.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780081018668 20171030

• Context
• Higher education's historic legacy
• Faculty
• Students
• Curriculum
• Governance
• Funding
• Facilities
• Technology
• The academy, accreditation, and accountability
• Collections
• Services
• Staffing
• Career development.

Ideal for practitioners looking to advance their careers and for use in LIS programs, this "comprehensive overview" (Journal of Access Services) has been thoroughly revised and updated to provide a timely exploration of the characteristics of academic librarianship and its place in the ever-changing environment of higher education. Evans and new coauthor Greenwell guide readers towards understanding what is required to have a successful career in academic librarianship, explaining why academic libraries are distinct from other types of libraries and lending practical insight into their unique political and operational characteristics. The text offers comprehensive coverage of such key issues as: teaching faculty roles and the status of the academic librarian; governance and the growing tension on some campuses between faculty and administration; curriculum, with a discussion of the balance between general education requirements and applied courses; the student body; collections, data management, digitization, and metadata; scholarly communication, plus alternative models such as open educational resources (OERs); providing quality service, and the role of user experience (UX) in assessment; ACRL's Information Literacy Framework; funding, including how and where to find detailed higher education expenditure data; classrooms, common learning spaces, and other facilities; staffing and professional development; technology and IT support; career development, with advice on preparing a vita and undergoing a successful interview; and the future of academic librarianship. This updated edition enables readers to understand how academic libraries deliver information, offer services, and provide learning spaces in new ways to better meet the needs of today's students, faculty, and other communities of academic library users.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780838915639 20181029

Did you know that more than 85% of U.S. undergraduates commute to college? Yet the literature geared to academic libraries overwhelmingly presumes a classic, residential campus. This book redresses that imbalance by providing a research-based look at the specific academic needs of commuter students. Edited by a team of librarians and anthropologists with City University of New York, the largest urban public university in the U.S, it draws on their ongoing research examining how these students actually interact with and use the library. The insights they've gained about how library resources and services are central to commuter students' academic work offer valuable lessons for other institutions. Presenting several additional case studies from a range of institution types and sizes, in both urban and suburban settings, this book provides rigorous analysis alongside descriptions of subsequent changes in services, resources, and facilities. Topics include: why IUPUI interior designers decided to scrap plans to remove public workstations to make way for collaborative space; how ongoing studies by University of North Carolina anthropologist Donna Lanclos shaped the design of the Family Friendly Library Room, where students may bring their children; ways that free scanners and tablet lending at Brooklyn College supports subway studiers; ideas from students on how best to help them through the use of textbook collections; using ACRL's Assessment in Action model to learn about student engagement and outcomes with library instruction at a community college; and guidance on enlisting the help of anthropology students to conduct interviews and observations in an ethnographic study. With its emphasis on qualitative research, this book will help readers learn what commuter students really need from academic libraries.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780838917015 20180903