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Books + Manuscripts

Meet the Staff: Pforzheimer project digitization specialist Cassandra Chen

January 31, 2019 By Jared Neuharth

Cassandra Chen was recently appointed the Pforzheimer project digitization specialist. Four years ago, she came to the University of Texas at Austin via Taiwan. [Read more…] about Meet the Staff: Pforzheimer project digitization specialist Cassandra Chen

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Conservation, Featured1 Tagged With: digitization, Meet the Staff, Pforzheimer

Collated & perfect

January 31, 2019 By Aaron Pratt

The publication and series of programs Collated & Perfect tracks the changing standards that collectors, institutions, and scholars have used to describe and evaluate early printed books. Doing so reveals why the books take the often surprising forms they do today. [Read more…] about Collated & perfect

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1, Research + Teaching Tagged With: Beinecke Library, collated and perfect, Pforzheimer Symposium

Magic moments

November 30, 2018 By Nelson McKeown

A young Shakespeare scholar inspired by the Ransom Center wants to spark others’ sense of wonder.

[Read more…] about Magic moments

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Featured1, literature, Research + Teaching Tagged With: intern, Shakespeare, Undergraduate

Central Texas to west Texas and beyond

November 14, 2018 By Matthew Harrison

“What do the books smell like?” asked one of my students. In my Shakespeare class at West Texas A&M University, we must use the internet as our rare book room. Our institution could never afford the kinds of specialized resources we use every week online: my students can easily flip through digitized Shakespeare quartos, see performance clips and stills, and trawl through databases of historical records. [Read more…] about Central Texas to west Texas and beyond

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Featured1, Research + Teaching Tagged With: Fellowships, Shakespeare

A conversation on “Dying Well in Early Modern England” with curator Aaron Pratt

October 30, 2018 By Austin Downey

A current Stories to Tell display embraces the Halloween spirit with a collection of early printed books from throughout the Ransom Center’s collections that take on the topic of death. [Read more…] about A conversation on “Dying Well in Early Modern England” with curator Aaron Pratt

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1 Tagged With: dying, England, Halloween, Stories to Tell

The Digitized Dylan Thomas: The single word as thing, dropped on to the page

October 25, 2018 By Nina Tarnawsky

“To begin at the beginning:

It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters’ – and – rabbits’ wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea.”

[Read more…] about The Digitized Dylan Thomas: The single word as thing, dropped on to the page

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Digital Collections, Featured1 Tagged With: Dylan Thomas

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