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Exploring the Bancroft Library : the centennial guide to its extraordinary history, spectacular special collections, research pleasures, its amazing future and how it all works
- Title
- Exploring the Bancroft Library : the centennial guide to its extraordinary history, spectacular special collections, research pleasures, its amazing future and how it all works / edited by Charles B. Faulhaber and Stephen Vincent.
- Publication
- Salt Lake City, Utah : Signature Books ; Berkeley : The Bancroft Library, University of California, 2006.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | Z733.B198 E97 2006 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 190 p.; cm.
- Series Statement
- Number fifty in the series of keepsakes issued for its members by the Friends of the Bancroft Library
- Uniform Title
- Series of keepsakes issued for its members by the Friends of the Bancroft Library ; no. 50.
- Subject
- Note
- "Foreword and introduction by Charles B. Faulhaber ... With contributions by Anthony S. Bliss, Gillian Boal, Walter Brem, William T. Brown, Richard Cándida Smith, David Farrell, Todd M. Hickey, Robert H. Hirst, Theresa Salazar, Jack von Euw."
- Issued in three versions: "Trade edition" (clothbound), "Exhibit edition" (paperbound), and as part of the Friends of the Bancroft Library's keepsakes series (500 copies, clothbound). Trade and exhibit editions do not bear series statement.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Foreword / Charles B. Faulhaber -- Introduction / Charles B. Faulhaber -- Bancroft online resources -- Reading room / William T. Brown, Jr. -- Western Americana / Theresa Salazar ; At work: Serendipity / Gray Brechin ; Latin Americana / Walter Brem, Charles B. Faulhaber ; Mexican inquisition documents / Gillian Boal ; At work: Colonial Mexico: priests and their parishes / William B. Taylor -- Pictorial collection / Jack von Euw ; At work: Land-grant research / Elise Brewster -- Rare books and literary manuscripts / Anthony S. Bliss ; At work: Jack Spicer / Keven Killian -- History of science and technology program / David Farrell ; At work: The Rube Goldberg Collection / Cathryn Carson -- University Archives / David Farrell ; At work: Community conflict / Robert M. Berdahl -- Center for the Tebtunis Papyri / Todd Hickey ; At work: Sacred crocodiles / Dorothy J. Thompson -- Mark Twain Papers and Project / Robert H. Hirst ; At work: Mark Twain: a view of the nineteenth century / Robert Middlekauff -- Regional Oral History Office / Richard Cándida Smith ; At work: Dorothea Lange and Paul Taylor / Sandra S. Phillips -- Behind the scenes / Charles B. Faulhaber ; Access ; Technical Services ; Preservation/conservation -- Public outreach. Public programs and publications ; Awards ; Friends of the Bancroft Library.
- ISBN
- 1893663191
- 9781893663190
- 1893663183
- 9781893663183
- LCCN
- 2006042208
- OCLC
- ocm62896560
- 62896560
- SCSB-1411437
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library