scholarly journals The Curious Case of a "Mayflower Bible"

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-15
Author(s):  
Carolyn K. Coates
Keyword(s):  
Print Culture ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
History Of The Book ◽  
Limited Attention ◽  
Liberal Arts University ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
Liberal Arts Institution ◽  
History Of ◽  
Rare Books

A library at a small liberal arts university receives from a donor an old book, which has long been assumed to be a Mayflower Bible. A staff librarian who is not accustomed to dealing with rare books reflects on the process of determining the true identity of the volume, its provenance, and the story behind it, with particular interest in the value of this experience to a library whose special collections are limited. Attention to the history of the book and of print culture demonstrate that even the most unlikely library gifts can serve the liberal arts institution through their value both as text and as artifact.

scholarly journals LICENSING THE USE OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS MATERIALS

2002 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 124-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Browar ◽  
Cathy Henderson ◽  
Michael North ◽  
Tara Wenger
Keyword(s):  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
History Of ◽  
Rare Books

This article has been written to assist special collections administrators who want to establish a fee policy and schedule for the publication (in any media or format) of original materials in their charge. The article examines the history of special collections’ approaches to this practice, offers a rationale for charging fees, discusses relevant copyright issues, and offers model policies and fee schedules. The article grew out of the work of an ad hoc committee of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries. The Licensing and Reproduction of Special Collections Committee had been asked . . .

scholarly journals From The History of a Book to a "History of the Book"

2009 ◽  
Vol 108 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leah Price
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
History Of The Book ◽  
History Of

The ambition of this article is to wrest attention away from the fraction of any book's life cycle spent in the hands of readers and toward, instead, the whole spectrum of social practices for which printed matter provides a prompt. It asks, how accounts of print culture would look if narrated from the point of view not of human readers and users, but of the book. Turning to the nineteenth-century genre of "it-narrative"——which traces the travel of a book among a series of owners and handlers——it asks how such a narrative might compare to more familiar accounts of selves shaped by texts.

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