The Cultural Work of Child’s Play: Examples from Three Picture Books in Readex Digital Collections
Benjamin Franklin’s “The Way to Wealth”: Documenting Its Dissemination through Bibliographical Work
Teaching Bibliography and Research: Using Early American Imprints in an Online Graduate Class
The Index of Virginia Printing: Building an Online Reference with Print and Digital Resources
How does a researcher handle dated reference works still in print and still widely used? From the masthead of a Virginia newspaper This has been a recurring challenge in my twenty years of research into Virginia’s early printing trade. Historians of the Old Dominion have long repeated the assertions of...
Digging Up Crime Stories from America's Past: Tips and Technique from a Librarian-Scholar
As a librarian, I love to recommend the perfect Boolean search phrase to unearth the exact documents wanted, but as a writer who digs up stories from America’s criminal past, I generally find myself using simple search phrases. This search strategy, however, does not mean that I conduct simple searches...