A research visit to the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale last week afforded me the opportunity to see its current, magnificent exhibition,
Dedicated to rare books and manuscripts, Yale University's Beinecke Library also houses a massive collection of videocassettes and is currently in the process of digitizing the tapes to preserve
A concept I find absolutely fascinating is the social history of
books--learning something about through whose hands a volume may have
passed, and the various lives it has touched--not just the d