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Unpacking the personal library : the public and private life of books
- Title
- Unpacking the personal library : the public and private life of books / Jason Camlot and J.A. Weingarten, editors.
- Publication
- Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2022]
- ©2022
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- Description
- x, 273 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Unpacking the Personal Library is an edited collection of essays that ponders the cultural meaning and significance of private book collections in relation to public libraries. Collectively, the chapters articulate a poetics of the personal library within its extended social, aesthetic and cultural contexts."--
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic formats.
- Contents
- Introduction: Private, Public and Personal Libraries In Situ and In Circulation / Jason Camlot -- In Memory of Alexandria / Alberto Manguel -- William Osler and the Collecting of the Middle Ages / Anna Dysert -- A Gift to the Nation Worth While : The Library of William Lyon Mackenzie King / Meaghan Scanlon -- Personal Libraries of the State / Bart Vautour -- Remaindering the Difference : Book Collections of Radical Protest Libraries / Sherrin Frances -- Serious House : On the Future of Library Print Collections / Andrew Stauffer -- Virginia Woolf's Poetry Library / Emily Kopley -- Unpacking Duncan's Books : Remarks on the Personal Library of Robert Duncan / James Maynard -- "Her Books Filed for Divorce" : Embeddedness and the Question of Belonging in Relation to Sheila and Wilfred Watson's Personal Library / Linda Morra -- Al Purdy's Lives and Libraries : A Bibliographical Essay / Nicholas Bradley -- jwcurry's Room 3o2 Books : The Small Press Bookstore as Library and Archive / Cameron Anstee -- Conclusion: "In My End Is My Beginning" : The Library as Heraclitean Archive / J. A. Weingarten.
- ISBN
- 9781771125680
- 1771125683
- 9781771124645 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781771124621 (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- on1261877890
- 1261877890
- SCSB-14242292
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library