I Give These Books: the History of Yale University Library, 1656-2022 /

Reference Type Book
Year of Publication
2022
Contributors Author: David Alan Richards
Language
Number of Pages
350 pp.
Publisher
Oak Knoll Press
City
New Castle, DE
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ISBN
9781584563945
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Contents: 

  • The Ministers and Their Books
  • The Colonial Agent and the English Donors  
  • The Student Literati
  • The Libraries, Their Catalogues, Their Librarians, and Their Rules  
  • The Classes, the Classics, and the Faculty Book Buyers  
  • The Doctors, the Lawyers, the Divines, the PhDs, and the Card Catalogue
  • Consolidation, Specialization, Expansion, and Electives  
  • Sterling  
  • Rare Books, the Smaller Libraries, and Public Services
  • From Babb to Beinecke to Bass  
  • Alumni Authors, Remote Shelving, and Remote Borrowing
  • Digital Vellum, Biblio Tech