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Mark Collins

Commitment to collecting

December 9, 2015 - Harry Ransom Center

Going back to the origins of research libraries, there is a long history of scholars building collections to suit personal interests, constructing around themselves an athenaeum of books that supported their individual research goals.

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Filed Under: Acquisitions, Research + Teaching Tagged With: acquisition, Acquisitions, archive, archives, B. S. Johnson, collecting, collection strengths, collections, David Mamet, Doris Lessing, Elizabeth Hardwick, humanities, Mark Collins, Norman Mailer, Penelope Lively, Research

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