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Books as Artifacts  
History of bookmaking in the West: how the European Renaissance imagination linked storytelling with technologies of cloth making; the emergence of the printed book in the fifteenth century with the Gutenberg Bible; the first printer, William Caxton, who was first a textile maker. The book as a physical object from a librarian's point of view and the role of preservation and of organization in research libraries. The benefits for some resources, such as the Rossetti Archive, of being available on the World Wide Web.
Program 90
  Participants
Jerome McGann
Karin A. Trainer
Linda Woodbridge

 

 
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