Paper Session 12: Reappraising the Redundant: The Value of Copies in the Study of Textual Artifacts

Session Organizer: Katherine Mintie (DePauw University)

Moderator: David Whitesell (Curator, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia)

Kristin Jensen (University of Virginia)

“Discovering Unique Specimens in Print Collections: Lessons from Book Traces @ UVA”

Jim Kuhn (Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin)

“Portraits and Principles in Multiples”

Adrienne Lundgren (Library of Congress)

“Rewards of Redundancy: Recognizing the Research Value of Nineteenth-Century Photograph Manuals”

Bryan Sinche (University of Hartford)

“Redundancy is the Point: Nineteenth Century African American Literature in Motion”

See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.