Table of Contents
Introduction - Private, Public and Personal Libraries In Situ and In Circulation – Jason Camlot
Part I: Private Libraries Made Public
1. In Memory of Alexandria – Alberto Manguel
2. William Osler and the Collecting of the Middle Ages – Anna Dysert
3. "A Gift to the Nation Worth While”: The Library of William Lyon Mackenzie King – Meaghan Scanlon
4. Personal Libraries of the State – Bart Vautour
5. Remaindering the Difference: Book Collections of Radical Protest Libraries – Sherrin Frances
6. Serious House: On the Future of Library Print Collections – Andrew Stauffer
Part II: The Personal Library as a Field of Interpretation
7. Virginia Woolf’s Poetry Library – Emily Kopley
8. Unpacking Duncan’s Books: Remarks on the Personal Library of Robert Duncan – James Maynard
9. Her Books Filed for Divorce: Embeddedness and the Question of Belonging in Relation to Sheila and Wilfred Watson’s Personal Library – Linda Morra
10. Al Purdy’s Lives and Libraries: Speculations on Poetry and Biography – Nicholas Bradley
11. jwcurry’s Room 3o2 Books: The Small Press Bookstore as Library and Archive – Cameron Anstee
Conclusion: "In My End Is My Beginning": The Library as Heraclitean Archive—Jeffrey Aaron Weingarten
CONTRIBUTORS
Jason Camlot (Concordia University) – Montreal, QC, Canada
Jeffrey Aaron Weingarten (Fanshawe College) – Toronto, ON, Canada
Alberto Manguel (former Director of the National Library of Argentina) – Bueonos Aires, Argentina, and Ottawa, ON, Canada
Anna Dysert (McGIll University) – Montreal, QC, Canada
Meaghan Scanlon (Library and Archives Canada) – Ottawa, ON, Canada
Bart Vautour (Dalhousie University) – Halifax, NS, Canada
Sherrin Frances (Saginaw Valley State University) – UniversityCenter, MI, USA
Andrew Stauffer (University of Virginia) – Charolottesville, VA, USA
Emily Kopley (Concordia University) – Montreal, QC, Canada
James Maynard (SUNY, Buffalo) – Buffalo, NY, USA
Linda Morra (Bishop’s University) – Montreal, QC, Canada
Nicholas Bradley (University of Victoria) – Victorian, BC, Canada
Cameron Anstee (Independent Scholar) – Ottawa, ON, Canada