by David Levy After a fruitful visit to the Harry Ransom Center in January, I tweeted, “Who would have thought that I’d run into a Thomas J. Wise “sophistication” in my Hoyle research @ransomcenter?” Like so many tweets, this is a bit tough to parse. Let’s break it into pieces:… read more
Books + Manuscripts
Parnassus on Wheels
On National Bookmobile Day, the American Library Association celebrates the 930 bookmobiles in the United States that provide library services to their communities, an important form of library outreach that has been ongoing for more than 100 years.
University’s foundational rare book collection acquired a century ago
Image: Curator Aaron Pratt is the early and rare book specialist on staff at the Ransom Center. The volumes in the Wrenn Library have multiple layers of research value, including by author, genre, and the way they were created and collected. Wrenn Library inspired journey that led to today’s Ransom Center… read more