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A continuation from Part 2 of the journey through each series within the Barbara Mertz collection. Subject Files I spent probably several ... Journey to the Center of the Mertz…

By Becky Craft and Brandis Malone In Spring 2023, students in the History of the Book course (ILS-Z681) were tasked ... The Ostroh Bible: A Book Encrusted with History

A continuation from Part 1, in which we began the journey through each series within the Barbara Mertz collection. Correspondence ... Journey to the Center of the Mertz (Part 2 of…

The first step to transforming roughly 200 boxes of correspondence, typescripts, royalties, scrapbooks, photo albums, gin glasses, dioramas, typewriters, and ... Journey to the…

Madeline Kripke was born in 1943, so she lived through the rise of teen culture and teen-directed marketing in real ... Dig This Dictionary!

John Florio (1552–1625) was well-positioned to write an Italian–English dictionary. His father Michelangelo, an Italian Protestant (of all things), fled ... It Wasn’t All Greek to…

By Edward O’Shea, Emeritus Professor of English, SUNY Oswego, Author:  Seamus Heaney’s American Odyssey Many readers know Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) ... The poet and the scholar…

Early dictionaries were books for readers. Lacking the tools of twenty-first century marketing, early dictionary publishers advertised a forthcoming dictionary ... Advertising…

Two spools of thread in a box. A pen that looked like it had been chewed on. A plexiglass lamp. ... Poem or No-Em: Processing the Papers of Mary Ellen Solt

Madeline Kripke’s collection is famous as a collection of dictionaries and related works, so it comes as a surprise to ... The All-American Spelling Bee