Dear Mike, That WAS an excellent exchange. Thank you for reminding me of it. (Is it too braggy to mention that I gave the keynote talk at that conference? -- I was probably preoccupied with my own problems at the time, and didn't focus enough on that wonderful session.) I remember asking dealers at that session if they had detritus -- paper and broken signatures and so forth -- that we might acquire for our history of the book. Some said yes, and indicated that they would let me know or send me something, but somehow the follow through didn't happen. I should get back to the list of participants. I appreciate your jogging my memory on this. Yours, Deirdre _____________ Deirdre C. Stam Director of the New York Center for the Book and Associate Professor at the Palmer School, Long Island University Address: Palmer School LIU, Bobst Library NYU #707, 70 Washington Square South, New York NY 10012 Tel.: 212-998-2681; FAX: 212-995-4072; Email: deirdre.stam@liu.edu; web pages: www.newyorkbooks.org and www.newyorkbooks.org/stam. Web page for the Rare Book and Special Collections concentration at Palmer: http://palmer.cwpost.liu.edu/mslis/mslisrbsc.html. Note: The main office for the Palmer School is at the C.W. Post Campus, 720 Northern Boulevard, Brookville, NY 11548-1300. Web page: palmer.cwpost.liu.edu; email: palmer@cwpost.liu.edu; tel.: 516-299-2487. ________________________________ From: Exlibris on behalf of Mike Garabedian Sent: Sat 7/29/2006 1:04 PM To: EXLIBRIS@mail.ecw.name Subject: Re: Grad. course on the Antiquarian Book Trade planned Dear Deirdre, While I don't recall there being any in-depth then-and-now analyses, the 2005 RBMS Preconference entitled Going Over to the Dark Side: Librarianship and the Book Trade was a stellar discussion about the relationships between the worlds (and worldviews) of rare book librarians versus antiquarian book dealers. If you could find a transcript of this exchange, I think your library students might find it very informative reading. Mike Garabedian On 7/29/06, Deirdre Stam <Deirdre.Stam@liu.edu> wrote: > In the fall of 2006, the Palmer School of Library Science (Long Island Univ. at its Bobst Library NYU site) is offering a course on the Antiquarian Book Trade as part of its MSLIS degree program. (The School has an active Rare Book and Special Collections concentration in Manhattan.) I am very grateful to all contributors for the excellent suggestions of readings on this subject that have turned up on the list in recent days. > > I would be very interested to learn about any other courses touching on the antiquarian book trade in any context. (I have attended the wonderful Colorado summer camp which I highly recommend.) And I would be very grateful to learn about analyses of the antiquarian book trade, both "then" and now. > > Deirdre > _____________ > Deirdre C. Stam > Director of the New York Center for the Book > and Associate Professor at the Palmer School, Long Island University > Address: Palmer School LIU, Bobst Library NYU #707, 70 Washington Square South, New York NY 10012 > Tel.: 212-998-2681; FAX: 212-995-4072; Email: deirdre.stam@liu.edu; web pages: www.newyorkbooks.org and www.newyorkbooks.org/stam. Web page for the Rare Book and Special Collections concentration at Palmer: http://palmer.cwpost.liu.edu/mslis/mslisrbsc.html. > > > Note: The main office for the Palmer School is at the C.W. Post Campus, 720 Northern Boulevard, Brookville, NY 11548-1300. Web page: palmer.cwpost.liu.edu; email: palmer@cwpost.liu.edu; tel.: 516-299-2487. > > > ________________________________ > > From: Exlibris on behalf of Germaine Warkentin > Sent: Thu 7/27/2006 11:19 AM > To: EXLIBRIS@mail.ecw.name > Subject: Re: Best Memoirs of Book Collectors/Dealers? > > > > I'll second the Altick recommendation -- I read it right at the > beginning of my grad student career, and it changed my life; I had the > pleasure of telling him this when he visited Toronto many years later. I > have pressed it on many a subsequent grad student. It is full of > bibliographical and book history information and anecdotes, and it > stands up very well after many decades. A sheer delight! Germaine > > -- > *********************************************************************** > Germaine Warkentin // English (Emeritus) > VC 205, Victoria College (University of Toronto), > 73 Queen's Park Crescent East, Toronto, Ont. M5S 1K7, CANADA > g.warkentin@utoronto.ca (fax number on request) > *********************************************************************** > > > >
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