SOME OF TRAISTER'S PAPERS
IN-PROGRESS & OTHERS

These papers are here for anyone who would like to read them. Traister would, however, be grateful if you did not use them without letting him know about it. If you foresee using them in some way, please send a message to traister@pobox.upenn.edu explaining what you'd like to do. Remember: but for a very few exceptions that are all specifically noted, these texts are drafts.

1. "'You Must Remember This . . . '; or, Libraries as a Locus of Cultural Memories"
   This paper is now available in Cultural Memory and the Construction of Identity, edited by Dan Ben-Amos and Liliane Weissberg (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1999), pp. 202-230.

2. Two related papers, although both are emphatically NOT in final form, can also be found here:

   • The first deals, en passant, with regional (specifically Indiana) writers although its ostensible topic is new paths for book collectors. (It was originally a talk at the symposium on book collecting run by the Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies, Philadelphia, May 1998.)

   • The second, delivered at the University of Virginia in July of 1998, deals with the question of what makes a book dead.

3. academic theory and special collections librarianship

4. A polemical essay about rare book librarianship is now in print.
   It can be read as "Is There a Future for Special Collections? and Should There Be?" RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage, 1 (2000), 54-76.

5. "Teaching the History of Books and Printing" (presented at the July 1999 SHARP annual meeting)

6. "Among School Children" (talk at an undergraduate honors student dinner)

7. "James Tanis" (talk at Bryn Mawr College on the retirement of Director of Libraries James R. Tanis)

8. "Noticing Howard Fast"
   A published paper, this essay appeared in Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies, 20 [1995], 525-541, and is now found (as above) on the web at the site of Steve Trussel, a Fast collector.

9. An essay on the Horace Howard Furness Memorial [Shakespeare] Library at the University of Pennsylvania Library:
   This essay is available on the web at http://www.library.upenn.edu/special/at250/furness/furness.html.