Projects, Articles and Papers
- Notabilia
An in-progress registry of provenance, bindings, annotations, and other
evidence for book history from the rare book collections at Princeton
in the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections,
Princeton University Library - Rare Book Collections @ Princeton
News of acquisitions, holdings, and activities of the Rare Book Division
in the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library - Davies Project
Research into the history of libraries in the United States,
especially those at universities and the history of their collections - Keeping the Code: The College Library in the United States at the Middle of the Nineteenth Century [Draft as of April 2002]
- Documents and pictures relating to the history of the Princeton University Library
- Google: The View from the Library [May 17, 2006]
2023 "Rare Books at Princeton, 1873-1940" in Princeton University Library Chronicle (Vol. 80, no. 1) 2009 "Preface" to Liberty & the American Revolution Selections from the Collection of Sid Lapidus, Class of 1959: An Exhibtion Catalogue (Princeton, 2009). Further details.
2006 [On collecting] in "Matriculants' Responses [to] Books and Their Readers to 1800 and Beyond, Perspectives on the 2006 Summer Seminar Led by Jay Fliegelman" in The Book Number 69, July 2006, p. 5-6, published by the American Antiquarian Society.
2005 "Collecting and Researching in the History of the Book" with Robert Darnton, in Princeton University Library Chronicle (Vol. 67, no. 1 [Autumn]).
2001 Head and end notes for "The Morris L. Parrish Collection of Victorian Novelists" by Alexander D. Wainwright in Princeton University Library Chronicle (Vol. 62, no. 3 [Spring]).
1999 "History of the Book: Field Notes of a Curator" in Rare Books and Manuscripts Librarianship (Vol. 14, no. 1) [Text of paper presented at the 1997 RBMS Preconference in Claremont, CA.].
1991 "The 1753 Carte chronographique of Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg" in the Princeton University Library Chronicle. (Winter). Précis in Historical Abstracts.
1988 Excerpt from "Materials for Publishing History in the Princeton University Library" in Newsletter of the Book Trade History Group Issue 7, September 1988 (Milton Keynes, England, 1988).
1988 "ACRL/RBMS Preconference Institutes and Preconferences, 1959-1988: Record of Published Lectures and Papers," in Alice Schreyer, "RBMS at 30: Growing Along with the Profession," Rare Books and Manuscripts Librarianship (Vol. 3, no. 1).
1987 "System and Schema: Tabulae of the Fifteenth to Eighteenth Centuries recently acquired by the Princeton University Library" in Princeton University Library Chronicle (Autumn)[vol. 49, no. 1]. Précis in Historical Abstracts.
1987 "Rare Books in University Libraries" in Library Trends (Summer, 1987).
1987 "Special Collections" in the 1987 ALA Yearbook covering events of 1986.
1986 "Special Collections" in the 1986 ALA Yearbook covering events of 1985.
1981 "Introduction: Part II. Printing and Literary History of The Goff" in The Goff: Facsimiles of the Heroi-Comical Poemby Thomas Mathison . Poems were first published at Edinburgh in 1747. Far Hills, New Jersey: United States Golf Association, 1981.
1981 "E.V. Connett III: A Brief Biography" in The Derrydale Press: A Bibliography. Goshen, Conn.: Angler's and Shooter's Press, 1981. Reprinted in the Summer 1991 issue of The American Fly Fisher.
1980 "Friends of the the Princeton University Library: A Photographic Essay" in Princeton University Library Chronicle (Winter). Also guest editor of the Chronicle for this issue honoring the fiftieth anniversary of the Friends of the Library.
1979 "The Gentlemen's Recreation" in Princeton University Library Chronicle. (Spring.) Précis in Historical Abstracts.
1978 "Recently Identified Braziliana" in The Inter-American Review of Bibliography. (July-Sept.) Précis in Historical Abstracts .
1976 "A Triple Volley" in Princeton University Library Chronicle . (Spring).
1975 Annual report on the Library at the Scottish Rite Masonic Museum of our National Heritage, Lexington, Massachusetts.
1974 "The Codigo Brasiliense: Brazil's First Legal Code" in The Inter-American Review of Bibliography. (April-June.) Summary of this article appears in Francis A. Dutra. A Guide to the History of Brazil, 1500-1822. The Literature in English. Santa Barbara, 1980. Also, précis in Historical Abstracts.
1974 "West Indian Medical Graduates of Edinburgh to 1800" in The Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. (January).
Project Manager / Editor
- Yearning to Breathe Free: Jews in Gilded Age America Princeton: Princeton University Library, 2022
- Catalogue of the Cotsen Children's Library Princeton: Princeton University Library, 2000. Vol. 1 / 2019, 19th century books (2 vol.) / 2020, Pre-1801 Imprints (2 vol.) / 2021, Index to all six volumes
- By Dawn's Early Light: Jewish Contributions to American Culture from the Nation's Founding to the Civil War Princeton: Princeton University Library, 2016
- [Video] By Dawn's Early Light: Introduction from the Curators Princeton: Princeton University Library, 2016. [ https://vimeo.com/163149334 ]
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