Past Imperfect: Essays on History, Libraries, and the Humanities
- ISBN-10
- 0226810429
- ISBN-13
- 9780226810423
- Series
- Past Imperfect
- Category
- Education
- Pages
- 298
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1993-06-15
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Author
- Lawrence W. Towner
Description
While at the Newberry Library he built and focused its prestigious collections, in his words "an uncommon collection of uncommon collections." He pioneered in the preservation of books and manuscripts, and created major research centers, establishing the library as a community of scholars with a broad outreach to a variety of publics. He established research centers for cartography, Renaissance Studies, the history of the American Indian, and family and community history; the last two reflected his longstanding interest in utilizing underused library resources to develop neglected aspects of history.
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