Book Traces: Nineteenth-Century Readers and the Future of the Library

by Andrew M Stauffer and Andrew M. Stauffer

In most college and university libraries, materials published before 1800 have been moved into special collections, while the post-1923 books remain in general circulation. But books published between these dates are vulnerable to deaccessioning, as libraries increasingly reconfigure access to public-domain texts via digital repositories such as Google Books. Even libraries with strong commitments to their print collections are clearing out the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812252683
• ISBN13: 9780812252682
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.1" x 10.1"