Alex Leslie Rutgers University Readers are idiosyncratic. Recent work with library data has underscored this fact more than ever, but it has also drawn attention…
FRANK FELSENSTEIN The paper utilizes What Middletown Read, an NEH-funded database, as a medium to track socio-economic patterns of popular readership during the 1890s, America’s so-called Gilded Age. The 175,000 borrowing records of the Muncie Public Library in Indiana, the main source of the…
Shafquat TowheedThe OpenUniversity In this paper, I will be presenting a ‘work in progress’ update on READ-IT (2018-2021), the pan European successor project to UK-RED,…
Lynne TatlockWashington University in St. Louis Doug KnoxWashington University in St. Louis Steve PentecostWashington University in St. Louis Lynne Tatlock, Steve Pentecost, and Doug Knox…
John ShanahanDePaul University This presentation will be an overview of the “Reading Chicago Reading” project’s use of data associated with the “One Book One Chicago”…
Matthew SangsterUniversity of Glasgow Katie HalseyUniversity of Stirling This joint presentation, by Katie Halsey (Stirling) and Matthew Sangster (Glasgow) will discuss the AHRC-funded Books and…
Kyle RobertsAmerican Philosophical Society Follow-on initiatives for established digital library projects, whether funded through granting agencies or undertaken through the personal efforts of project team…
Jennifer Burek Pierce, Ph.D.University of Iowa Digital reading communities tend to self-document their interests and habits, activity than can allow researchers a window into what…
Christine PawleyUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison A key problem in studying the history of “ordinary” people’s reading, (people who lived largely anonymous lives and for whom few…
Julieanne LamondAustralian National University The Australian Common Reader is a database of loan records from six regional Australian libraries from 1861 to 1928. Built in…