From the History of a Book to a "History of the Book"

English and American Literature and Languag

Index

Contents of volume 59: Subject Index, Tables of Cases, Articles, Authors, Book Review

Welcome by the President of IMEKO, Professor Kenneth Grattan

The XXII World Congress of the International Measurement Confederation (IMEKO) is held in the UK in 2018 for the first time in over 40 years. Hosted by the Institute of Measurement and Control, the UK's specialist Professional Engineering Institute in the fields of measurement, automation and control and supported by the Institute of Physics, the World Congress covers all aspects of current research in the field of measurement and attracts some of the worlds' largest companies from the sensor, instrumentation, automation and 'Internet of Things' (IoT) industries. Belfast, the capital city of Northern Ireland, sees delegates from across the world come together for an interesting and scientifically challenging World Congress, bringing together leading experts from many countries to report on the latest exciting developments in their fields. The city is also an excellent centre to explore the beautiful countryside and historic landmarks to be seen across Ireland List of Co-located conferences, Keynote Speakers and Committees are available in this PDF

What We Would Have Done Differently Now That It Is Too Late

We might as well begin on a note of candor by admitting the worst error we ever made, for of all the things that we would have done differently this surely heads the list. On the errata page of volume 8 appears the note: Volume 4, p. 309, n. 1. The man wrongly identified as Robert Brown Elliott [a black man] was actually William Elliott, a white man. The letter to BTW, Apr. 25,1898, was from Rev. G. M. Elliott of Beaufort, S.C. Not only had we confused a black man with a white man and another black man, but in a display of erudition we gratuitously had mentioned a letter that Elliott-the wrong Elliott-wrote to Booker T. Washington fourteen years after our own annotation indicated his death date. And they say that dead men tell no tales. At least there were no errata in our erratum. Such a compounding of errors could only have been achieved by a committee. For most of our annotations, we are able to trace back responsibility by checking the raw data notes, but in this case these had mysteriously disappeared. It all reminds us of the famous Nast cartoon about the Tweed ring. It shows a circle of bloated politicians. The caption reads, Who Stole the People\u27s Money? Each man is pointing his finger at the man on his left. That is our worst error yet, but we still have to do the cumulative index with its infinite possibilities. Without trying to explain away an error that gross, we can only say that it is the kind of error that occurred only once, and occurred in spite of our editorial method rather than because of it. Most of the other outright errors were less egregious: misspelled names; failure to annotate at first mention-we now have a system for that; and attributing to the A. M. E. Church what should properly be credited to the A. M. E. Zion Church-there is a man in Atlanta who reads our volumes apparently for no other purpose than to catch any slighting of his church

Erica Jong : 04-04-1974

In an interview recorded April 4, 1974, Erica Jong reads two poems, Becoming a Nun and Man on the Moon ; discusses her training as a writer, and women\u27s sexual repression and struggle for equal rights; and reads from her novel Fear of Flying.https://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/writers_videos/1047/thumbnail.jp

What We Would Have Done Differently Now That It is Too Late

Without trying to explain away an error that gross, we can only say that it is the kind of error that occurred only once, and occurred in spite of our editorial method rather than because of it. Most of the other outright errors were less egregious: misspelled names; failure to annotate at it appeared in the original, though we doubt that history was changed by the omission of that particular punctuation. We would still continue to correct obvious typographical errors in typewritten or printed documents. Maybe a type does reveal something deeply hidden, but is it deeply hidden in the author or the stenographer? Only a psycho-historian can analyze all the typos of a lifetime and reach conclusions as to their psychological significance, and for that he would surely want to see the originals, to see if the typist was agitated enough to punch out all the O\u27s

Beyond the mainstream: examining alternative sources for stock selection.

There are thousands of small publishers, small presses and individuals in Britaincurrently producing textbooks, monographs, novels, poetry, journals,newspapers and other, non-standard, publications. Their output ranges from thestocklists of such long-standing political publishers as Pluto and Verso, to themore idiosyncratic and erratic publishers of The Bug and Mark’s Little Bookabout Kinder Eggs (of which more later). Political and social commentaries;humour and satire; poetry and drama; environmental issues; sexual politics:every topic that might be encountered on the shelves of any library will have itscounterpart in the alternative press. Furthermore, the small presses will oftenprovide publications on topics never found on library shelves or, for that matter,never even dreamed of by many people

Building communities of practice while building learning spaces [slides]

Slides from a presentation on open access journal publishing, Open Educational Resources (OERs), and the Journal of Learning Spaces. Delivered October 5, 2018 at the Consortium of College and University Media Centers conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. Co-presented by Mike Crumpton and Anna Craft