Library Circulation Histories Workshop
Keynote (Released April 19)
Discussant: Frank Felsenstein, Ball State University
Panels (Panels 1-6 released on April 20)
Panel 1: Building and Sustaining Databases
Frank Felsenstein, The What Middletown Read Database as an On-Line Resource for Gauging Readership Trends in Late Nineteenth-Century America: J.T. Trowbridge’s The Tinkham Brothers’ Tide-Mill as Exemplar
Julieanne Lamond, The Legacy Database and the Question of the “Representative” Reader
Rafael Acosta, University of Kansas
Panel 2: Eighteenth-Century Readers and Circulation Data
Kyle Roberts, Growing Pains and Digital Library Projects: The Opportunities and Challenges of Follow-on Initiatives
Matthew Sangster and Katie Halsey, Books and Borrowing Across Scotland, 1750-1830
Discussant: Mike Sanders, Manchester University
Panel 3: Placing Readers and Reading in Context
Christine Pawley, Linking Ordinary Readers with Texts–and More!: American Public Libraries and the Infrastructure of Print
John Shanahan and Robin Burke, Modeling Contemporary Reading Behavior at City-Scale: The “Reading Chicago Reading” Project
Discussant: Melanie Walsh, Cornell University
Panel 4: Circulation Data Beyond the Library
Jennifer Burek Pierce, Reading Data Documenting 21st Century Reading: Vlogbrothers, The Nerdfighter Census, and Actual Readers
Brooks E. Hefner and Edward Timke, Circulating American Magazines: Lessons from the Audit Bureau of Circulations Data
Discussant: Kalani Craig, Indiana University
Panel 5: Using What Middletown Read
Lynne Tatlock, Steve Pentecost, Doug Knox, Reading the American South in the Muncie Library
Alexander Leslie, Patterns and Predictability in Borrower Behavior
Discussant: Jordan Bratt, Ball State University
Panel 6: From RED to READ-IT
Edmund King, Looking Back on The Reading Experience Database, 1450-1945
Shafquat Towheed, From UK-RED to READ-IT (2018-2021): Insights and Challenges for the Future
Discussant: Doug Seefeldt, Clemson University
Plenary Session (To be released on April 27)
James Connolly, Circulation Histories: Initial Findings
Discussion forums for each panel remain open through April 30.