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Collecting, Curating, and Researching Writers' Libraries - A Handbook (Hardcover)
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Collecting, Curating, and Researching Writers' Libraries - A Handbook (Hardcover)
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Academic collection practices in recent years have extended to the
private libraries of notable individual authors. As a consequence,
book historians have become more interested in the study of
provenance of the contents of these libraries, while literary
scholars have devoted more attention to authorial annotations. At
the same time, the Internet has encouraged both scholarly and
hobbyist reconstructions of private libraries (see, for example,
the "Legacy Libraries" on Librarything.com). Although there are
many bibliographies and reconstructions of the libraries of
authors, this is the first general consideration of these libraries
and serves as an introduction to best practices for academic
libraries in their acquisition, cataloging and issues of access.
This collection begins with principal editor Richard Oram's
historical overview of writers' libraries and institutional
collecting, focusing primarily on English-language authors. The
co-editor, Joseph Nicholson, has provided a definitive review of
best cataloging and arrangement practices that facilitate scholarly
access. The bookseller Kevin Mac Donnell discusses the marketing of
these collections and obstacles to placing intact author libraries
in institutions. Also included are case studies by Amanda Golden
and David Faulds relating to the personal libraries of the poets
Anne Sexton and Ted Hughes, indicating how these collections have
the potential to enhance archival research. Fiction writers Iain
Sinclair, Russell Banks, Jim Crace, poet Ted Kooser, and biographer
Ron Powers describe their (sometimes passionate) relationship with
books and their own personal libraries. The concluding chapter, a
location guide to over 500 individual libraries, will be invaluable
to scholars and librarians who want to know where writers'
libraries are currently located, what happened to them (if they are
known to have been sold or dispersed), and what has been written
about them.
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