Martyn Lyons’s The Typewriter Century, A Cultural History of Writing Practices takes the machine as a starting point to examine its relationship to work, creative and otherwise and, like Hazzard’s novel, finds a complex network of relationships that it creates or facilitates. This social and literary history is interspersed with reckonings on gender and labour as Lyons considers the technical, personal and even mythical roles that the typewriter played in offices, homes and imaginations for most of the twentieth century.
ALT-Text Guide in the Works!
With the help of SHARP member Ellen Forget, SHARP News is putting together an alt text guide for book historians. We need your support to make this happen: send us you bookish images! Click to read more about the kinds of images and content we’re hoping to receive.
Call for Organizers: SHARP 2024
The annual SHARP conference for 2024 is looking for organizers and a host institution. Click to learn more about how to submit a proposal. Deadline March 13, 2023.
Project-Based Teaching in Special Collections: Building Digital Cruikshank
In Fall 2022, students in my combined undergraduate and graduate English seminar at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County participated in a semester-long collaboration with our Special Collections Library. Head of Special Collections, Beth Saunders, and Special Collections librarian, Susan Graham, and I secured seed funding from our university to design and run an upper-level course centered on digitizing a library collection and then curating and building a digital resource.
Book History in South America: A Bibliography of Scholarship and Sources
We return to our regional bibliographies with a list of scholarship and sources on South America. Compiled collaboratively by Alexandra Wingate, Gloria Johana Morales Osorio, Gabriel Antúnez de Mayolo Kou, Alfredo Ruiz Chinchay, Maria Rita Viana, and William Weber Wanderlinde.