Unpacking the personal library : the public and private life of books / Jason Camlot and J. A. Weingarten, editors.
| Other author | Camlot, Jason, 1967- editor. |
| Other author | Weingarten, J. A., 1984- editor. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2022] |
| Description | 1 online resource (x, 273 pages) |
| Supplemental Content | Click here to view book |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Abstract | "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."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Other forms | Issued also in print format. |
| Source of description | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 07, 2023). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Unpacking the personal library. Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2022 1771125683 9781771125680 |
| ISBN | 9781771124645 electronic book |
| ISBN | 1771124644 electronic book |
| ISBN | 9781771124621 electronic book |
| ISBN | 1771124628 electronic book |
| ISBN | 9781771125727 electronic book |
| ISBN | 1771125721 electronic book |
| ISBN | hardcover |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |