Unpacking the Personal Library

Jason Camlot is Professor of English and Research Chair in Literature and Sound Studies at Concordia University. Recent books include Phonopoetics (Stanford, 2019), CanLit Across Media (MQUP, 2019) and Vlarf (MQUP 2021). He is director of the SSHRC-funded SpokenWeb research partnership that focuses on literary audio collections. J.A. Weingarten is a Professor in the School of Language and Liberal Studies at Fanshawe College. He is also the author of Sharing the Past (UTP, 2019), as well as more than three dozen articles, book reviews, and papers on Canadian arts and culture.

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. The Promise of Paradise: Reading, Researching, and Using the Private Library: 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: A Bibliographical Essay – Nicholas Bradley
11. jwcurry’s Room 3o2 Books: The Small Press Bookstore as Library and Archive – Cameron Anstee
Conclusion—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) – University Center, 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