Libraries as history: the importance of libraries beyond their texts

http://involve.jisc.ac.uk/wpmu/digitisation/2007/07/19/conference-2007-chris-batt/

Gregg Sapp, A Brief History of the Future of Libraries: an Annotated Bibliography, Lanham, 2002.

Bernard Naylor, The libraries of the University of London to the 1960s, in A. Black and P. Hoare (eds), The Cambridge History of Libraries, v.3, Cambridge, 2006, 345-356.

Liz Chapman and Frank Webster, Libraries and Librarians in the Information Age, CHL v.3, 639-653.

http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/awards/award_detail.asp?id=324573

N. Barker, Treasures from the Libraries of National Trust Country Houses, New York, 1999.

G. Mandelbrote and Y. Lewis, Learning to Collect: the Library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) at Blickling Hall, London, 2004.

M. Purcell, Books and readers in eighteenth-century Westmorland: the Brownes of Townend, Library History 17 (2001), 91-106.

Anthony Hobson, Great Libraries, London, 1970, 202-211.

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The tract is referred to in S. Schama, A history of Britain volume 1: At the edge of the world?, London, 2000, p. 316.

B. Rosenthal, The Rosenthal Collection of Books with Manuscript Annotations, New Haven, 1997.

Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves, London, 2003, p.177. The SHL book in question is E. Partridge, You Have a Point There, London, 1953, shelfmark YAH Par.

D. F. McKenzie, Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts, London, 1986.

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SHL [S.L.] I [Browning, E.B. – 1857]

“Libraries critical to HE success”, CILIP Update 6(5), May 2007, p.17.

http://www.shef.ac.uk/infocommons/

Philip Gaskell, A New Introduction to Bibliography, Oxford, 1972, p.1.

Lucien Febvre and H.-J. Martin, L’apparition du livre, Paris, 1958.

Stanley Katz, “Form and substance in the electronic age” in Richard Wendorf (ed), Rare book and manuscript libraries in the twenty-first century (Cambridge, 1993), 17-21, p.18.

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/programme_digitisation.aspx.

P. Hoare (ed), The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland (3 vols), Cambridge, 2006.