Collecting the imagination
Subtitle: the first fifty years of the Ransom Center
By: edited by Megan Barnard ; introduction by Thomas F. Staley.
Contributors: Barnard, Megan, 1978-
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center imprint series
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780292714892
Subjects: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center -- History; Research libraries -- Texas -- Austin -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-123) and index.
Table of contents: title: Beginnings : the Rare Books Collection, 1897-1955 / by John B. Thomas, III; title: The birth of an institution : the Humanities Research Center, 1956-1971 / by Cathy Henderson; title: Years of consolidation : the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, 1972-1988 / by Richard W. Oram; title: The expanding mission : the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, 1988-present / by Megan Barnard.