Reviews
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Nicola Wilson et al., eds. The Edinburgh Companion to Women in Publishing, 1900-2020.
The companion disrupts traditional histories by attending not only to women’s work in publishing but also to the networks and collaborations that sustained so many women’s careers in the publishing…
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Roland Allen. The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper.
Allen’s book offers an engaging and well-written overview of the notebook-as-object, notebook-as-container, and notebook-as-tool for critical thinking and intellectual advancement.
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Samuel V. Lemley, ed. The Four Shakespeare Folios, 1623-2023: Copy, Print, Paper, Type.
This collection presents a fascinating case for examining a specific library’s collections to see how that library presents a version of a rare book.
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Shelby Shapiro. Words to the Wives: The Yiddish Press, Immigrant Women, and Jewish-American Identity.
This book argues that the Yiddish press of the early twentieth century played a fundamental role in shaping Jewish immigrant women’s identities.
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SHARP 2025 Rochester Conference Report III: “Transforming Libraries” Panel Review
We are thrilled to share with you the final of report on the SHARP 2025 conference that took place in Rochester, NY July 7-10. Library Transformations If judging by the…
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SHARP 2025 Rochester Conference Report II
Tell us a little about yourself and your research! I’m Mykhailo Tupytsia. I graduated from a PhD program in History at the Ukrainian Catholic University and now I am finalising…
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SHARP 2025 Rochester Conference Reports: Part I
We are thrilled to share with you a number of short reports on the SHARP 2025 conference that took place in Rochester, NY July 7-10. Read below to learn more…
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Rhae Lynn Barnes and Glenda Goodman, eds. American Contact: Objects of Intercultural Encounters and the Boundaries of Book History.
American Contact is a collection of object biographies that takes seriously the epistemological aliveness of its subjects.