Rare Book School Lectures

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.