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Penelope Lively

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: 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

Coleccionismo comprometido

October 21, 2015 - Harry Ransom Center

Undated photograph of Mailer with wife Beatrice Silverman. Unknown photographer.

Cuando se busca en tiempo atrás los orígenes de las bibliotecas de investigación, damos con una larga historia de académicos dedicados a recabar colecciones de acuerdo a su interés personal, construyendo en torno suyo ateneos de libros que documentaran sus muy particulares metas de investigación. Y muchas veces, cuando dicho académico proseguía su carrera –en otro trabajo o en otro contexto intelectual- la colección emprendida se marchitaba, sin la mente directriz inicial que siguiera contando su historia. [Read more…] about Coleccionismo comprometido

Filed Under: Authors Tagged With: acquisition, Acquisitions, B. S. Johnson, collecting, collection strengths, David Mamet, Doris Lessing, Elizabeth Hardwick, Norman Mailer, Penelope Lively, Research

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