New Books in Library Science
Episodes
Yael A. Sternhell, "War on Record: The Archive and the Afterlife of the Civil War" (Yale UP, 2023)
23 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Yael A. Sternhell's War on Record: The Archive and the Aftermath of the Civil War (Yale University Press, 2023) is a history of the United States' g...
Simone Gigliotti, "Restless Archive: The Holocaust and the Cinema of the Displaced" (Indiana UP, 2023)
16 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The global refugee, the ship passenger, the displaced person. How did their homeseeking routes and visual motifs intersect and diverge in the early Ho...
Abigail Bainbridge, "Conservation of Books" (Routledge, 2023)
15 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Editor Abigail Bainbridge and contributing author Sonja Schwoll join this discussion of Conservation of Books (Routledge 2023), the highly anticipat...
Sarah Hartman-Caverly and Alexandria Chisholm, "Practicing Privacy Literacy in Academic Libraries" (ACRL, 2023)
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Privacy is not dead: Students care deeply about their privacy and the rights it safeguards. They need a way to articulate their concerns and guidance ...
Matthew Dennis, "American Relics and the Politics of Public Memory" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)
10 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The gold epaulettes that George Washington wore into battle. A Union soldier's bloody shirt in the wake of the Civil War. A crushed wristwatch after t...
Raquel Ukeles et al., "101 Treasures from the National Library of Israel" (Scala Arts, 2022)
09 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
101 Treasures from the National Library of Israel (Scala Arts, 2022) provides a thematic journey through the rich and diverse collections of the Nati...
Ann Medaille, "The Librarian's Guide to Learning Theory: Practical Applications in Library Settings" (ALA Editions, 2023)
09 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Demonstrating how learning theories are applicable to a variety of real-world contexts, The Librarian's Guide to Learning Theory: Practical Applicati...
Elizabeth Hoover, "The Archive Is All in Present Tense" (Barrow Street Press, 2022)
02 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Archive Is All in Present Tense (Barrow Street Press, 2022) attempts to capture the feeling of archival research, which, despite being an attempt...
Andrew Pettegree, "The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict" (Basic Books, 2023)
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chairman Mao was a librarian. Stalin was a published poet. Evelyn Waugh served as a commando - before leaving to write Brideshead Revisited. Since the...
Anne Baillot, "From Handwriting to Footprinting: Text and Heritage in the Age of Climate Crisis" (Open Book Publishers, 2023)
26 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How do we currently preserve and access texts, and will our current methods be sustainable in the future? In From Handwriting to Footprinting: Text a...
Lydia Zvyagintseva and Mary Greenshields, "Land in Libraries: Toward a Materialist Conception of Education" (Library Juice Press, 2022)
23 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The question of land is largely absent in libraries. Deeply committed to the neoliberal project as a guiding ideology of the profession, libraries exi...
Andrea Jamison, "Decentering Whiteness in Libraries: A Framework for Inclusive Collection Management Practices" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Decentering Whiteness in Libraries: A Framework for Inclusive Collection Management Practices (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023) serves as a "how to" guide...
Gabriella Giannachi, "Archive Everything: Mapping the Everyday" (MIT Press, 2016)
18 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Archive Everything: Mapping the Everyday (MIT Press, 2016; paperback edition, 2023), Gabriella Giannachi traces the evolution of the archive int...
Maura C. Flannery, "In the Herbarium: The Hidden World of Collecting and Preserving Plants" (Yale UP, 2023)
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In In the Herbarium: The Hidden World of Collecting and Preserving Plants (Yale University Press, 2023), Maura C. Flannery elucidates how herbaria ...
Elisabet Kennedy, "Embracing Culturally Responsive Practice in School Libraries" (ALA Editions, 2023)
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
School librarians have always connected learners’ life experiences, cultures, and communities to materials, projects, and processes. As schools look...
David Alan Richards, "I Give These Books: The History of the Yale University Library, 1656-2016" (Oak Knoll, 2022)
04 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The disparate stories of the libraries of the fledgling colleges in the colonies of the Eastern Seaboard, beginning more than one hundred fifty years ...
Diana Kamin, "Picture-Work: How Libraries, Museums, and Stock Agencies Launched a New Image Economy" (MIT Press, 2023)
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How the image collection, organized and made available for public consumption, came to define a key feature of contemporary visual culture. The origin...
Noa Shaindlinger, "Displacement and Erasure in Palestine: The Politics of Hope" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
22 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Noa Shaindlinger's Displacement and Erasure in Palestine: The Politics of Hop (Edinburgh UP, 2023) explores the ways in which Palestinians negotiat...
Ian Jones, "Using the Past: Authenticity, Reliability, and the Role of Archives in Barclays PLC's Use of the Past Strategies" (U Liverpool, 2021)
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Recent scholarship in organisation studies has begun to address how organisations perceive and use their history. However, how organisations preserve ...
Stephen Bales, "Serapis: The Sacred Library and Its Declericalization" (Library Juice Press, 2023)
12 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Greco-Egyptian syncretistic god Serapis was used by the 3rd century BCE Ptolemaic pharaohs to impose Greek cultural hegemony and consolidate polit...
Free Books for the Children of Chicago
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A wonderful interview with Kristen Daniels, Executive Director of Bernie's Book Bank. Since 2009, Bernie's Book Bank has provided 24 million books f...
Paul A. Thomas, "Inside Wikipedia: How It Works and How You Can Be an Editor" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this book, Paul A. Thomas—a seasoned Wikipedia contributor who has accrued about 60,000 edits since he started editing in 2007—breaks down the ...
Janice Rieger, "Design, Disability and Embodiment: Spatial Justice and Perspectives of Power" (Routledge, 2023)
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Janice Rieger's book Design, Disability and Embodiment: Spatial Justice and Perspectives of Power (Routledge, 2023) explores the spatial and social ...
Jody N. Polleck, "Facilitating Youth-Led Book Clubs As Transformative and Inclusive Spaces" (Teachers College Press, 2023)
03 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Facilitating Youth-Led Book Clubs as Transformative and Inclusive Spaces (Teachers College Press) teaches us how to integrate book clubs into seconda...
Debra Ramsay, "Archives of War: Technology, Emotion, and History" (Routledge, 2023)
24 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Archives of War: Technology, Emotion and History (Routledge, 2023) offers a comparative analysis of British Army Unit War Diaries in the two World W...
Avery Dame-Griff, "The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet" (NYU Press, 2023)
17 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Avery Dame-Griff's The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet (NYU Press, 2023) explores how the rise of the internet shaped transg...
Margaret Galvan, "In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
16 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s (U Minnesota Press, 2023), Margaret Galvan explores a number of feminist and ...
A Better Way to Buy Books
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bookshop.org is an online book retailer that donates more than 80% of its profits to independent bookstores. Launched in 2020, Bookshop.org has alre...
Stephen Ramsay, "On the Digital Humanities: Essays and Provocations" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
06 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Stephen Ramsey's On the Digital Humanities: Essays and Provocations (University of Minnesota Press, 2023) is a witty and incisive exploration of th...
Diana W. Anselmo, "A Queer Way of Feeling: Girl Fans and Personal Archives of Early Hollywood" (U California Press, 2023)
02 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In A Queer Way of Feeling: Girl Fans and Personal Archives of Early Hollywood (University of California Press, 2023), Diana W. Anselmo queers the ea...
Dagmar Schafer, "Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property" (MIT Press, 2023)
30 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property (MIT Press, 2023) provides a framework for knowledge ownership that challenges the mechanisms of...
Kalani Adolpho et al., "Trans and Gender Diverse Voices in Libraries" (Library Juice Press, 2023)
20 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the library profession, and in the world as a whole, the experiences of trans and gender diverse people often go unnoticed, hidden, and ignored. T...
Edward Wilson-Lee, "The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World's Greatest Library" (Scribner, 2019)
17 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Edward Wilson-Lee's book A Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World’s Greatest Library (Scr...
Jeff Deutsch, "In Praise of Good Bookstores" (Princeton UP, 2022)
08 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Do we need bookstores in the twenty-first century? If so, what makes a good one? In Praise of Good Bookstores (Princeton UP, 2022), Jeff Deutsch--th...
Bianca Vienni-Baptista et al., "Foundations of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research" (Bristol UP, 2023)
05 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bianca Vienni-Baptista, Isabel Fletcher, and Catherine Lyall's Foundations of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research (Bristol University P...
Jade E. Davis, "The Other Side of Empathy" (Duke UP, 2023)
30 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In The Other Side of Empathy (Duke UP, 2023), Jade E. Davis contests the value of empathy as an affective or critical tool. Whether focusing on tech...
Nina Lager Vestberg, "Picture Research: The Work of Intermediation from Pre-Photography to Post-Digitization" (MIT Press, 2023)
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Picture Research: The Work of Intermediation from Pre-Photography to Post-Digitization (MIT Press, 2023) focuses on how pictures were saved, stored, ...
Margareta von Oswald and Jonas Tinius, "Awkward Archives: Ethnographic Drafts for a Modular Curriculum" (Archive Books, 2022)
18 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Awkward Archives: Ethnographic Drafts for a Modular Curriculum (Archive Books, 2022) proposes a manual for academic teaching and learning contexts. A...
Svetlana Kochkina, "Frances Burney’s 'Evelina': The Book, its History, and its Paratext" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
25 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Evelina, the first novel by Frances Burney, published in 1778, enjoys lasting popularity among the reading public. Tracing its publication history thr...
Myka Kennedy Stephens, "Integrated Library Planning: A New Model for Strategic and Dynamic Planning, Management, and Assessment" (ACRL, 2023)
19 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Many library project plans, from small projects to institution-wide strategic planning committees, follow a linear trajectory: create the plan, do the...
Alexandra Dane, "White Literary Taste Production in Contemporary Book Culture" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
17 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Despite initiatives to 'diversify' the publishing sector, there has been almost no transformation to the historic racial inequality that defines the f...
Myra Tawfik, "For the Encouragement of Learning: The Origins of Canadian Copyright Law" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
24 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Myra Tawfik's book For the Encouragement of Learning: The Origins of Canadian Copyright Law (U Toronto Press, 2023) addresses the contested history ...
Michelle R. Warren, "Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet" (Stanford UP, 2022)
16 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Medieval books that survive today have been through a lot: singed by fire, mottled by mold, eaten by insects, annotated by readers, cut into fragments...
Anne Kaun and Fredrik Stiernstedt, "Prison Media: Incarceration and the Infrastructures of Work and Technology" (MIT Press, 2023)
13 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Prisons are not typically known for cutting-edge media technologies. Yet from photography in the nineteenth century to AI-enhanced tracking cameras to...
Emma Hagström Molin, "Spoils of Knowledge: Seventeenth-Century Plunder in Swedish Archives and Libraries" (Brill, 2023)
05 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Spoils of Knowledge: Seventeenth-Century Plunder in Swedish Archives and Libraries (Brill, 2023), Emma Hagström Molin offers novel perspectives ...
Brahim El Guabli, "Moroccan Other-Archives: History and Citizenship After State Violence" (Fordham UP, 2023)
30 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Moroccan Other-Archives: History and Citizenship After State Violence (Fordham UP, 2023) investigates how histories of exclusion and silencing are wr...
Jeannette A. Bastian, "Archiving Cultures: Heritage, Community and the Making of Records and Memory" (Routledge, 2023)
22 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“Archivists feel that what their mission is, is to document society. And the question is: how can you document society if you only look at or value ...
Geoffrey Roberts, "Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books" (Yale UP, 2022)
06 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this engaging life of the twentieth century’s most self-consciously learned dictator, Geoffrey Roberts explores the books Stalin read, how he rea...
The Internet, Inequality, and the “Digital Divide”
04 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Information scholar Daniel Greene, an assistant professor at University of Maryland, talks about his book, The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequali...
Mark A. Schneegurt, "Anthology of Religious Poetry from the Mexican Inquisition Trials of 16th-Century CryptoJews" (2020)
30 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A century after being expelled from Portugal, cryptoJews in Mexico, false converts to Christianity, could not speak of their beliefs for fear of becom...
Bridget Whearty, "Digital Codicology: Medieval Books and Modern Labor" (Stanford UP, 2022)
14 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Medieval manuscripts are our shared inheritance, and today they are more accessible than ever—thanks to digital copies online. Yet for all that wide...
Irene Hilden, "Absent Presences in the Colonial Archive: Dealing with the Berlin Sound Archive's Acoustic Legacies" (Leuven UP, 2022)
03 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dealing with the colonial archive entails acknowledging the inability to know everything, accounting for the archive’s limited and incomplete condit...
Books, Antisemitism, and a Viral Tweet: A Conversation with Library Director Susan Kusel
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Need help curating a list of Holocaust books for your students or library patrons? What’s on your shelf? What should be there? This podcast episode ...
Seeing Truth in Collections, Memory and Death Studies
03 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jane Wildgoose claims she just expanded a beachcomber’s collection but in fact her Wildgoose Memorial Library is a subversive infiltration into the ...
Ann Blair et al., "Information: A Historical Companion" (Princeton UP, 2021)
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Information is everywhere. We live in an “Information” Society. We can get more of it faster, quicker, and in more different shapes and sizes than...
Marika Cifor, "Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
15 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Serving as a vital supplement to the existing scholarship on AIDS activism of the 1980s and 1990s, Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of A...
Heide Hinrichs and Jo-Ey Tang, "Shelf Documents: Art Library as Practice" (Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, 2021)
05 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How can a library change the world? How can an art library change the art school or the gallery? Or even an art practice? In Shelf Documents: Art Lib...
John Gillis, "The Fadden More Psalter: The Discovery and Conservation of a Medieval Treasure" (Wordwell Books, 2022)
28 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In The Faddan More Psalter: The Discovery and Conservation of a Medieval Treasure Dr. John Gillis explores the conservation, construction, and conte...
Elisheva Carlebach and Deborah Dash Moore, "The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization (6): Confronting Modernity, 1750-1880" (Yale UP, 2019)
22 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 6: Confronting Modernity, 1750–1880 (Yale University Press, 2019), covers a period in ...
R. David Lankes, "The New Librarianship Field Guide" (MIT Press, 2016)
31 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Can libraries be radical positive change agents in their communities? R. David Lenkes offers a guide for librarians who see their profession as a chan...
Andrew Pettegree and Arthur Der Weduwen, "The Library: A Fragile History" (Basic Books, 2021)
07 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Famed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, destroyed in a single day, ornamented with gold leaf a...
William Germano, "On Revision: The Only Writing That Counts" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
02 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to this interview of William Germano, Professor of English at Cooper Union, New York, We talk about his new book On Revision: The Only Writin...
Underrepresented Groups in Archives: A Conversation About Ethics, Inclusion, and Acquisitions
02 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about: Megan Fraser’s job collecting and curating a Punk Rock archive, her current work ...
Beatrice Gruendler, "The Rise of the Arabic Book" (Harvard UP, 2020)
22 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How did it happen that, in the 13th century, Europe's largest library owned fewer than 2,000 volumes while Baghdad alone boasted of several libraries ...
68 Martin Puchner: Writing and Reading from Gilgamesh to Amazon
18 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Book Industry Month continues with a memory-lane voyage back to a beloved early RtB episode. This conversation with Martin Puchner about the very or...
Deanna Marcum and Roger C. Schonfeld, "Along Came Google: A History of Library Digitization" (Princeton UP, 2021)
07 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When Google announced that it planned to digitize books to make the world's knowledge accessible to all, questions were raised about the roles and res...
Online Dharmaśāstra Library: A Conversation with Don Davis
09 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Don Davis (Professor and Chair, Department of Asian Studies) speaks about the newly launched Resource Library for Dharmaśāstra Studies, a digiti...
Archival Etiquette: What To Know Before You Go
09 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to bri...
Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen, "The Bookshop of the World: Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age" (Yale UP, 2019)
27 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
After a turbulent political revolt against the military superpower of the early modern world, the tiny Dutch Republic managed to situate itself as the...
Roopika Risam and Kelly Baker Josephs, "The Digital Black Atlantic" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
05 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can scholars use digital tools to better understand the African diaspora across time, space, and disciplines? And how can African diaspora studies...
Careers: A Discussion with Dorothy Berry, Digital Archivist
22 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s podcast, I am chatting with Dorothy Berry, Houghton Library's Digital Collections Program Manager. In it, we discuss why she became an a...
L. Ferlier and B. Miyamoto, "Forms, Formats and the Circulation of Knowledge: British Printscape’s Innovations, 1688-1832" (Brill, 2020)
19 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Forms, Formats and the Circulation of Knowledge: British Printscape’s Innovations, 1688-1832 (Brill, 2020) explores the printscape – the mental m...
Jeremy Black, "A History of the Second World War in 100 Maps" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
06 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The First World War was marked by an exceptional expansion in the use and production of military cartography. But World War II took things even furthe...
A Road into the Past: Reading a 19th-Century Illustrated Map of the Himalayas
30 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The British Library preserves a unique collection of pictorial maps and descriptions of places and cultures along the road from Lhasa to Leh. But find...
Scholarly Communication: An Interview with Joerg Heber of PLOS
14 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Open Access is spelled with a capital O and a capital A at the Public Library of Science (or PLOS, for short), a nonprofit Open Access publisher. ...
Kristin O’Donnell Tubb, "The Story Collector" (Henry Holt, 2018)
26 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this special kids-at-home episode of the New Books Network, Dr. Lee Pierce (s/t) interviews middle grade reader author Kristin O’Donnell Tubb abo...
Benjamin Balint, "Jerusalem: City of the Book" (Yale UP, 2019)
15 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“The library is a gathering pool of narratives and of the people who come to find them. It is where we can glimpse immortality; in the library, we c...
Tamara Hundorova, "The Post-Chornobyl Library: Ukrainian Postmodernism of the 1990s" (ASP, 2019)
29 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Tamara Hundorova’s The Post-Chornobyl Library: Ukrainian Postmodernism of the 1990s (Academic Studies Press, 2019) is a compelling study of the lite...
Stephen H. Grant, “Collecting Shakespeare: The Story of Henry and Emily Folger” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2014)
21 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Henry and Emily Folger were linked together not just by their love for one another, but their shared passion for the works of William Shakespeare. In ...
Scot McKendrick and Kathleen Doyle, “The Art of the Bible: Illuminated Manuscripts from the Medieval World” (Thames and Hudson, 2016)
28 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s program, I talk with Scot McKendrick and Kathleen Doyle about their new book, The Art of the Bible Illuminated Manuscripts from the Medie...
Payal Arora, “The Leisure Commons: A Spatial History of Web 2.0” (Routledge, 2014)
02 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Scholars and commentators have used metaphor in an attempt to describe the Web since public access began. Think of ideas like the information highway,...
Robert Darnton, “On the Future of Libraries”
25 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Darnton, author of books, articles, and Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library at Harvard. Darnton joi...
Timothy J. Brook, “Mr. Selden’s Map of China: Decoding the Secrets of a Vanished Cartographer” (Bloomsbury, 2013)
29 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The story opens with a closing and closes with an opening. The closing is the sale of the map of Martin Waldseemuller, “America’s birth certificat...
Timothy J. Brook, “Mr. Selden’s Map of China: Decoding the Secrets of a Vanished Cartographer” (Bloomsbury, 2013)
29 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The story opens with a closing and closes with an opening. The closing is the sale of the map of Martin Waldseemuller, “America’s birth certificat...
Ron Kaplan, “501 Baseball Books Fans Must Read before They Die” (University of Nebraska Press, 2013)
17 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
WorldCat is the largest online catalog in the world, accessing the collections of more than 72,000 libraries in 170 countries and territories. Using t...
Jonathan Green, “Green’s Dictionary of Slang” (Hodder Education, 2010)
26 Jan 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Over the last thirty years, Jonathon Green has established himself as a major figure in lexicography, specialising in English slang. During this time ...
Ian McNeely, “Reinventing Knowledge: From Alexandria to the Internet” (Norton, 2008)
22 Aug 2008
Contributed by Lukas
We don’t think much about institutions. They just seem to “be there.” But they have a history, as Ian McNeely and Lisa Wolverton show in their i...