front cover of The Making of Shakespeare's First Folio
The Making of Shakespeare's First Folio
Emma Smith
Bodleian Library Publishing, 2015
Shakespeare is synonymous with English literature. Well-loved the world over, his work endures for its ability to speak powerfully to the follies and foibles of human nature. We endlessly debate not only the finer points of each of his plays and sonnets but also the identity of the Bard himself. Yet no fanfare surrounded the initial publication of Shakespeare’s First Folio—no queue of eager readers, no launch to the top of the best seller list. It wasn’t until four hundred years after Shakespeare’s death that the book would be the subject of a national book tour.
           
The Making of Shakespeare’s First Folio offers the first comprehensive biography of the earliest collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays. In November 1623, the book arrived in the bookshop of the London publisher Edward Blount at the Black Bear. Long in the making, Master William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, and Tragediesas the First Folio was then known—appeared seven years after Shakespeare’s death. Nearly one thousand pages in length, the collection comprised thirty-six plays, half of which had never been previously published. Emma Smith tells the story of the First Folio’s origins, locating it within the social and political context of Jacobean London and bringing in the latest scholarship on the seventeenth-century book trade.
           
Extensively illustrated, The Making of Shakespeare’s First Folio is a landmark addition to the copious literature on Shakespeare. It will shed much-needed light on the birth of the First Folio—of which fewer than 250 copies remain—and the birth of Shakespeare’s towering reputation.
[more]

logo for American Library Association
Making Sense of Business Reference
A Guide for Librarians and Research Professionals
Celia Ross
American Library Association, 2020

“It reads as if you have an expert coach in business reference helping you each step of the way." That’s how Academic BRASS summarized the first edition of this unique, unparalleled resource authored by Ross, a past winner of the Gale Cengage Learning Award for Excellence in Business Librarianship. Now she’s revised and updated it to tackle even more “bizref” headscratchers related to investment and finance, consumer behavior and statistics, company, and industry research. In addition to general reference strategies in each chapter that give you the lay of the land, inside you’ll find

  • overviews of more than fifty databases for articles, company and industry, directories, consumer, international, or raw data;
  • 33 real-life "Stumper" questions, all new for this edition, drawn from librarians in the field;
  • why asking “who cares about this kind of question” reveals potential sources;
  • techniques for applying reference interview techniques to business questions;
  • advice on where to find the numbers for answering finance questions;
  • expanded coverage of venture capital research and business information literacy;
  • “Start Making Sense” suggestions for further skill-building; and
  • questions to consider when building a bizref collection.

This is the guide to keep at your side when serving business students, job-seekers, investors, or entrepreneurs in your library.

[more]

logo for American Library Association
Making Sense of Business Reference
A Guide for Librarians and Research Professionals
Celia Ross
American Library Association, 2013

front cover of Managing Grey Literature
Managing Grey Literature
Technical Services Perspectives
Michelle Leonard
American Library Association, 2021

An important resource for scholarly research, grey literature is relevant to every discipline. It’s also often more current than commercial publications. Unfortunately, though it provides a richness of content, this type of scholarly resource is often overlooked when conducting research. This book aims to change that, describing the importance of grey literature and offering a holistic approach to successfully integrating it into library collections. Readers will learn

  • an overview of grey literature that discusses its importance to researchers, scholars, and students;
  • collections policies for selection and deselection, complete with a suggested workflow;
  • information about vendors, OA, and other aspects of acquisitions;
  • guidance on cataloging, such as collection categories in the public-facing catalog, and preservation; and
  • methods for promoting grey literature in library collections, including institutional repositories; and
  • tips for marketing, branding, outreach, and best communication practices for colleagues, administrators, and patrons.
[more]

front cover of Managing Readers
Managing Readers
Printed Marginalia in English Renaissance Books
William W. E. Slights
University of Michigan Press, 2001
Managing Readers explores the fascinating interchange between text and margin, authorship and readership in early modern England. Printed marginalia did more than any other material feature of book production in the period between 1540 and 1700 to shape the experience of reading. William W. E. Slights considers overlooked evidence of the ways that early modern readers were instructed to process information, to contest opinions, and to make themselves into fully responsive consumers of texts.
The recent revolution in the protocols of reading brought on by computer technology has forced questions about the nature of book-based knowledge in our global culture. Managing Readers traces changes in the protocols of annotation and directed reading--from medieval religious manuscripts and Renaissance handbooks for explorers, rhetoricians, and politicians to the elegant clear-text editions of the Enlightenment and the hypertexts of our own time. Developing such concepts as textual authority, generic difference, and reader-response, Slights demonstrates that printed marginalia were used to confirm the authority of the text and to undermine it, to supplement "dark" passages, and to colonize strategic hermeneutic spaces. The book contains twenty-two illustrations of pages from rare-book archives that make immediately clear how distinctive the management of the reading experience was during the first century-and-a-half of printing in England.
William W. E. Slights is Professor of English, University of Saskatchewan. He is also author of Ben Jonson and the Art of Secrecy.
[more]

logo for University of Manitoba Press
Manitoba architecture to 1940
A Bibliography
Jill Wade
University of Manitoba Press, 1976

front cover of Marketing the Bard
Marketing the Bard
Shakespeare in Performance and Print, 1660-1740
Don-John Dugas
University of Missouri Press, 2006

To posterity, William Shakespeare may be the Bard of Avon, but to mid-seventeenth-century theatergoers he was just another dramatist. Yet barely a century later, he was England’s most popular playwright and a household name. In this intriguing study, Don-John Dugas explains how these changes came about and sealed Shakespeare’s reputation even before David Garrick performed his work on the London stage.

            Marketing the Bard considers the ways that performance and publication affected Shakespeare’s popularity. Dugas takes readers inside London’s theaters and print shops to show how the practices of these intersecting enterprises helped transform Shakespeare from a run-of-the-mill author into the most performed playwright of all time—persuasively demonstrating that by the 1730s commerce, not criticism, was the principal force driving Shakespeare’s cultural dominance.
            Displaying an impressive command of theater and publishing history, Dugas explains why adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays succeeded or failed on the stage and shows that theatrical and publishing concerns exerted a greater influence than aesthetics on the playwright’s popularity. He tells how revivals and adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays while he was relatively unknown fueled an interest in publication—exploited by the Tonson publishing firm with expensive collected editions marketed to affluent readers—which eventually led to competition between pricey collections and cheap single-play editions. The resulting price war flooded the market with Shakespeare, which in turn stimulated stage revivals of even his most obscure plays.
In tracing this curious reemergence of Shakespeare, Dugas considers why the Tonsons acquired the copyright to the plays, how the famous edition of 1709 differed from earlier ones, and what effect its publication had on Shakespeare’s popularity. He records all known performances of Shakespeare between 1660 and 1705 to document productions by various companies and to show how their performances shaped the public’s taste for Shakespeare. He also discloses a previously overlooked eighteenth-century engraving that sheds new light on the price war and Shakespeare’s reputation.
            Marketing the Bard is a thoroughly engaging book that ranges widely over the Restoration landscape, containing a wealth of information and insight for anyone interested in theater history, the history of the book, the origins of copyright, and of course Shakespeare himself. Dugas’s analysis of the complex factors that transformed a prolific playwright into the inimitable Bard clearly shows how business produces and packages great art in order to sell it.
[more]

front cover of The Martin Gardner Bibliography
The Martin Gardner Bibliography
Edited by Dana Richards
CSLI, 2023
The first comprehensive bibliography of the publications of polymath Martin Gardner.

Martin Gardner (1914–2010) was a polymath whose international reputation extended from mathematics to literature, philosophy to science, and magic to fiction. This comprehensive bibliography covers every aspect of Gardner’s lengthy publishing career, from 1930 to 2010, and features detailed descriptions and indices of his writings on mathematics and many other topics. Editor Dana Richards worked directly with Gardner on this project from 1978 until Gardner’s death; it draws on the two hundred boxes of Gardner’s mathematical papers held in the Stanford archives
 
[more]

front cover of Mary Lincoln for the Ages
Mary Lincoln for the Ages
Jason Emerson
Southern Illinois University Press, 2019
In this sweeping analytical bibliography, Jason Emerson goes beyond the few sources usually employed to contextualize Mary Lincoln’s life and thoroughly reexamines nearly every word ever written about her. In doing so, this book becomes the prime authority on Mary Lincoln, points researchers to key underused sources, reveals how views about her have evolved over the years, and sets the stage for new questions and debates about the themes and controversies that have defined her legacy.
 
Mary Lincoln for the Ages first articulates how reliance on limited sources has greatly restricted our understanding of the subject, evaluating their flaws and benefits and pointing out the shallowness of using the same texts to study her life. Emerson then presents more than four hundred bibliographical entries of nonfiction books and pamphlets, scholarly and popular articles, journalism, literature, and juvenilia. More than just listings of titles and publication dates, each entry includes Emerson’s deft analysis of these additional works on Mary Lincoln that should be used—but rarely have been—to better understand who she was during her life and why we see her as we do. The volume also includes rarely used illustrations, including some that have never before appeared in print.
 
A roadmap for a firmer, more complete grasp of Mary Lincoln’s place in the historical record, this is the first and only extensive, analytical bibliography of the subject. In highlighting hundreds of overlooked sources, Emerson changes the paradigm of Mary Lincoln’s legacy.
 
[more]

logo for University of Wisconsin Press
Max Brand
Western Giant: The Life and Times of Frederick Schiller Faust
William F. Nolan
University of Wisconsin Press, 1985
Called the King of the Pulps, Frederick Schiller Faust, aka Max Brand, wrote nearly 400 Westerns from The Untamed to Destry Rides Again—a total of more than 220 books in this genre. Yet Max Brand also created Dr. Kildare (of books, films, and television) and wrote under twenty-one pseudonyms, in another dozen genres. This book removes the mask, with deeply personal memoirs from family, friends and fellow writers, taking us through his orphaned boyhood on the brutal ranches of California, his frustrating decades in Italy, as both a classical poet and a fast-action pulpist, to his heroic death as a war correspondent on the World War II battlefields. Faust’s life story is augmented by a complete bibliography of his work—over a thousand books, stories, and films—plus the first listing of works about Faust.
[more]

logo for American Library Association
The Medical Library Association Guide to Finding Out about Complementary and Alternative Medicine
The Best Print and Electronic Resources
American Library Association
American Library Association, 2010

logo for American Library Association
The Medical Library Association Guide to Finding Out about Diabetes
The Best Print and Electronic Resources
Dana L. Ladd
American Library Association, 2013

logo for American Library Association
The Medical Library Association Guide to Finding Out about Heart Disease
The Best Print and Electronic Resources
Jeanette American Library Association
American Library Association, 2013

front cover of Medieval Latin
Medieval Latin
An Introduction and Bibliographical Guide
F.A.C. Mantello
Catholic University of America Press, 1996

front cover of Middle English Dictionary
Middle English Dictionary
Plan and Bibliography
Robert E. Lewis, Editor-in-Chief
University of Michigan Press, 1984
The most important modern reference work for Middle English studies
[more]

front cover of Middle English Dictionary
Middle English Dictionary
Plan and Bibliography, Supplement 1
Robert E. Lewis, Editor-in-Chief
University of Michigan Press, 1985
The most important modern reference work for Middle English studies
[more]

logo for Rutgers University Press
Middle English Prose
EDWARDS, ANTHONY
Rutgers University Press, 1984
The purpose of this book is to provide an authoritative guide to a number of important authors and genres of Middle English prose. Although, distinguished work has been undertaken on particular authors or groups of works, no previous study has attempted a comprehensive overview of this highly diversified range of material.
[more]

logo for American Library Association
Mind-Bending Mysteries and Thrillers for Teens
A Programming and Readers' Advisory Guide
Amy Alessio
American Library Association, 2014

logo for American Library Association
More Storytime Action!
American Library Association
American Library Association, 2009

logo for American Library Association
Multicultural Programs for Tweens and Teens
Linda B. Alexander
American Library Association, 2010

logo for American Library Association
Multiethnic Books for the Middle-School Curriculum
Cherri Jones
American Library Association, 2013

logo for Harvard University Press
Music in Harvard Libraries
A Catalogue of Early Printed Music and Books on Music in the Houghton Library and the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library
David A. Wood
Harvard University Press, 1980

logo for American Library Association
Mystery Reader's Advisory
The Librarian's Clues to Murder and Mayhem
American Library Association
American Library Association, 2002


Send via email Share on Facebook Share on Twitter