Rare Book School Lectures

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 Pressure” Brad Eden (Valparaiso University) “The Library of Michael H. R. Tolkien: A Snapshot of Twentieth-Century British Politics and Culture” Alea Henle (Western New Mexico University) “Books and their Histories: Sources Survival in Historical Scholarship” Eric Holzenberg (The Grolier Club of New York) “The Aesthetic Movement in Print & Beyond” See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.

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” Fenella France (Library of Congress) “The Digital Cultural Object: New Digital Layers for Document and Object Archaeology” Margaret Hagerty Gamm (University of Iowa) “The Global Manuscript and the Digital Boutique” Jessica Savage (Princeton University) “Dynamics of a Digital Art History Collection: Index of Christian Art 2.0” See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.

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?” Chris Hunter (California Institute of Technology) “The American Instructor: Teaching Minds and Hands in Colonial America” Bryan C. Keene (J. Paul Getty Museum and Courtauld Institute of Art) “Manuscripts and the Global Middle Ages” Holly Shaffer (Brown University) “Edward Moor’s The Hindu Pantheon (1810)” See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.

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 Black Transatlantic” Kyle Dugdale (Yale School of Architecture) “Bibliographical Architectures” Adam Hooks (University of Iowa) “How Does It Work and Why Is It Here? Teaching Text as Technology” Rebecca Wingfield (Stanford University) “Hearing the Voices of the Past: Teaching with Audio Recordings of Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’” See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.

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 Recognition, Image-matching and Digital Annotation: Early Printed Book Illustrations within the 15cBOOKTRADE Project” Elyse Graham (The State University of New York, Stony Brook University) “Database Thinking and Deep Description: Designing a Digital Archive of the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS)” Rebecca Hankins (Texas A&M University) “A Catalyst for Social Activism: The Digital Black Bibliographic Project at Texas A&M University” Dot Porter (University of Pennsylvania) “VisColl: Visualizing the Physical Structure of M

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 Musinsky (Musinsky Rare Books) “Artifacts or Time Machines? Examples from the Field” Elizabeth Ott (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) “Ethical Collecting in Special Collections Librarianship” Todd Pattison (Northeast Document Conservation Center) “A Profitable Examination: The Binding of Six Months in a Convent” Setsuko Yokoyama (University of Maryland, College Park) “Negotiating Open Access for All Interested Parties” See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more inform

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 Representing Scientific Data through Book Art” Todd Victor Samuelson (University of Utah) “Lexical Substrate: The Materiality of Language in the History of the Book” Leslie Smith (Winston-Salem, NC) “From Wonder to New Artwork” Simran Thadani (San Francisco, CA) “Rare Books Beyond the Ivory Tower” See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.

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 Representations of Female Bodies in Literary Archives” Charles R. Welsko (West Virginia University) “Raising the Buried Voices: Nineteenth-Century African-Americans and Digital Archives” Sarah Werner (Rockville, MD) “Collaborating for an Accessible Past” See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.