Lecture 229 (23 March 1987). Full title "Printing and Typefounding in the Late 17th-Century 'Description of Trades' of the French Academy of Science" Note: This recording is not in stereo, so be sure you have both your headphones in.
Lecture 228 (9 February 1987) Note: This recording is not in stereo, so be sure you have both your headphones in.
Lecture 225 (1 December 1986) Note: This recording is not in stereo, so be sure you have both your headphones in. It also ends abruptly in the 46th minute, but the remainder is so interesting we thought it might be of interest, its incompleteness notwithstanding.
Lecture 224 (24 November 1986) Note: This recording is not in stereo, so be sure you have both your headphones in.
Lecture 223 (10 November 1986) Note: This recording is not in stereo, so be sure you have both your headphones in.
Lecture 220 (6 October 1986) Note: This recording is not in stereo, so be sure you have both your headphones in.
Lecture 215 (17 July 1986) Note: The audio on this one is rather wobbly. Apologies.
Lecture 214 (15 July 1986) Full title: "Wheel of Fortune; or, Strategic Planning in a Small Research Library and a Popular TV Game Show Compared"
Lecture 213 (9 July 1986)
Lecture 212 (7 July 1986)
Lecture 208 (3 March 1986)
Lecture 206 (3 February 1986)
Lecture 201 (19 November 1985) Note: The audio on this one is a little wobbly in places, and not in stereo for a stretch in the middle.
Lecture 200 (18 November 1985). Full title: "The Development of Conservation and Bookbinding at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center" Note: The audio for the Q&A portion is very quiet.
Lecture 283 (27 July 1989)
Lecture 425 (19 July 1999)
Short Presentations 6: The Book and Its Time: Developing a ‘Period Eye’ Session Organizer: Marie-Stéphanie Delamaire (Winterthur Museum) Moderator: Catharine Dann Roeber (Assistant Professor of Decorative Arts and Material Culture at the Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library) Gabriella Angeloni (University of South Carolina) & Molly Bruce Patterson (Newport Historical Society) “William Ellery as Reader at the Newport Historical Society” David Brewer (Ohio State University) “Objects under Pr...
Short Presentations 5: Dynamics of Digital Collections Session Organizer: Paul Fyfe (North Carolina State University) & Zachary Hines (The University of Texas at Austin) Moderator: Alex Gil (Digital Scholarship Coordinator, Humanities and History Division, Columbia University Libraries) Lindsay DiCuirci (University of Maryland) & Molly Hardy (American Antiquarian Society) “Serials Cataloging and Alternative Access in the Classroom, or the Making of Mill Girls in Nineteenth-Century Print”...
Short Presentations 4: Teaching Global Book History Session Organizers: Devin Fitzgerald (Harvard University) & Ben Nourse (University of Denver) Moderator: Joseph Howley (Associate Professor of Classics, Columbia University) Devin Fitzgerald (Harvard University) “Stone, Wood, Copper, Lead: The Multimedial Adventures of the Xi’an Nestorian Stele in the 17th-Century World” Florence C. Hsia & Robin Rider (University of Wisconsin, Madison) “Traduttore, Traditore: What’s in a Translation?” C...
Short Presentations 3: Hands-on Demonstration – Teaching with Stuff: Building Bibliographical Collections at Rare Book School with Limited (or no) Financial Resources; or, Necessity Is the Mother of Invention Session Presenter: Terry Belanger (Founding Director, Rare Book School, University of Virginia), with Barbara Heritage (Rare Book School) See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.
Short Presentations 2: Innovative Pedagogy with Material Objects Session Organizer: Elizabeth Yale (University of Iowa) Moderator: Michael F. Suarez, S.J. (Director, Rare Book School; Professor of English, University Professor, Hon. Curator of Special Collections, University of Virginia) Rhae Lynn Barnes (University of Southern California; Princeton University) & Stephanie Elizabeth Beck Cohen (Indiana University) “Stitched Histories of Government & Grief: Teaching Quilts as Texts in the...
Short Presentations 1: Tools for Data Analysis & Visualization Session Organizer: Ryan Cordell (Northeastern University) Moderator: Meredith L. McGill (Associate Professor of English, Rutgers University) Kathryn Desplanque (Duke University) “Accountable Note-Taking: Qualitative Data Analysis Software as an Augmented Personal Research Tool” Alessandra Panzanelli Fratoni (University of Oxford; The British Library) & Matilde Malaspina (University of Oxford, Lincoln College) “Visual Recognit...
Roundtable 6: Ethics & Responsibility in the Bibliosphere Session Organizer: Claire Eager (University of Virginia) Moderator: Katherine Reagan (Assistant Director for Collections & Ernest L. Stern Curator of Rare Books & Manuscripts, Cornell University) Jeremy Dibbell (Rare Book School) “Announcing Major Acquisitions: A Responsibility” Eliza Gilligan (University of Virginia) “Through the Fold: Choices in Book Conservation and the Impact on the Social History of the Book” Nina Musinsk...
Roundtable 5: Materiality as a Sustainable Humanistic Discourse Session Organizers: Dahlia Porter (University of Glasgow) & Elizabeth Yale (University of Iowa) Moderator: Heather Wolfe (Curator of Manuscripts, Folger Shakespeare Library) Erika Mary Boeckeler (Northeastern University) “The Linguistic Biases of Descriptive Bibliography” Raina Joines (University of North Texas) “The Scholar’s Art: Making & Mining Material Artifacts” Robert Riter (University of Alabama) “Engaging and Represe...
Roundtable 4: Digitization, Representation & Access Session Organizers: Paul Fyfe (North Carolina State University) & Sonia Hazard (Franklin & Marshall College) Moderator: Rebecca Hankins (Associate Professor and Archivist/Librarian of Africana Studies and Women’s & Gender Studies, Texas A&M University) Dan Blim (Denison University) “The Complete Package: Reissuing Albums, Reshaping Histories” Eleanor Jane Reeds (University of Connecticut) “Digitizing the Corpus: Responsible ...
Roundtable 3: Authorship Session Organizers: András Kiséry (The City College of New York) & Caroline Wigginton (University of Mississippi) Moderator: Matt Cohen (Associate Professor of English, University of Nebraska-Lincoln) Katy Chiles (University of Tennessee) “Alternative Black Authorship” Molly Des Jardin (University of Pennsylvania) “Rethinking the Oeuvre: Modern Japanese Periodicals as Corporate Authors” Sonja Drimmer (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) “Undeciding the Author in th...
Roundtable 2: Performance, Textuality & Orality Session Organizer: Glenda Goodman (University of Pennsylvania) Moderator: Kate van Orden (Dwight P. Robinson Jr. Professor of Music, Harvard University) Bethany Cencer (Crane School of Music, State University of New York at Potsdam) “Imagining Aurality in Smart’s Vocal Pocket Companion” Andrew Ferguson (University of Virginia) “Catching Them All: Videogame Performance and the Bibliography of Play” Leslie Gay, Jr. (University of Tennessee) “Shad...
Pop-Up Session 1: Critical Bibliography and Social Justice (Roundtable) Please note: due to a technical difficulty (the recorder got unplugged, we only have audio of the question and answer session for this panel) Organizer & Moderator: Caroline Wigginton (University of Mississippi) Melissa Adler (Western University) Rhae Lynn Barnes (University of Southern California; Princeton University) Alex Galarza (Haverford College) Chris Hunter (California Institute of Technology) Dorothy Kim (Vassar...
Paper Session 12: Reappraising the Redundant: The Value of Copies in the Study of Textual Artifacts Session Organizer: Katherine Mintie (DePauw University) Moderator: David Whitesell (Curator, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia) Kristin Jensen (University of Virginia) “Discovering Unique Specimens in Print Collections: Lessons from Book Traces @ UVA” Jim Kuhn (Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin) “Portraits and Principles in Multiples”...
Paper Session 11: Comparative Histories of the Book Session Organizers: Megan McNamee (Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts) & Caroline Wigginton (University of Mississippi) Moderator: Will Noel (Director of the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts and Director of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania) Melissa Adler (Western University – London) “A Book is Being Cataloged” Paul Dilley (University of Iowa) “Cultural an...
