Comments on: RSR and the William & Mary Book Store http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2007/03/rsr-and-the-william-mary-book-store/ Truth Will Prevail Sun, 12 Feb 2012 07:57:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: woodboy http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2007/03/rsr-and-the-william-mary-book-store/#comment-221174 woodboy Tue, 03 Apr 2007 02:09:49 +0000 http://www.timesandseasons.org/?p=3794#comment-221174 The Harvard Bookstore (next to Bartley\'s) is not affiliated with Harvard University. The University\'s \"bookstore\" is the Harvard Coop. The Harvard Bookstore (next to Bartley\’s) is not affiliated with Harvard University. The University\’s \”bookstore\” is the Harvard Coop.

]]> By: Adam L http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2007/03/rsr-and-the-william-mary-book-store/#comment-220870 Adam L Sun, 01 Apr 2007 14:20:23 +0000 http://www.timesandseasons.org/?p=3794#comment-220870 Jonathan, thanks! Jonathan, thanks!

]]> By: Jonathan Green http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2007/03/rsr-and-the-william-mary-book-store/#comment-220844 Jonathan Green Sun, 01 Apr 2007 07:01:55 +0000 http://www.timesandseasons.org/?p=3794#comment-220844 Adam, as an off-topic reply to your off-topic request, one of the other Mormon blogs is actively looking for questions just like yours. Contact the good folks at www.bycommonconsent.com, and there's a good chance your question will get good exposure. Adam, as an off-topic reply to your off-topic request, one of the other Mormon blogs is actively looking for questions just like yours. Contact the good folks at http://www.bycommonconsent.com, and there’s a good chance your question will get good exposure.

]]> By: a random John http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2007/03/rsr-and-the-william-mary-book-store/#comment-220842 a random John Sun, 01 Apr 2007 06:11:37 +0000 http://www.timesandseasons.org/?p=3794#comment-220842 I bought my copy of By the Hand of Mormon at the Harvard Coop. Or at least I think I did. My wife is insisting that I bought it at a different Harvard bookstore down the street near Mr. Bartley's Burger Bar. I bought my copy of By the Hand of Mormon at the Harvard Coop. Or at least I think I did. My wife is insisting that I bought it at a different Harvard bookstore down the street near Mr. Bartley’s Burger Bar.

]]> By: Adam L http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2007/03/rsr-and-the-william-mary-book-store/#comment-220796 Adam L Sat, 31 Mar 2007 21:50:59 +0000 http://www.timesandseasons.org/?p=3794#comment-220796 COMPLETELY OFF TOPIC REQUEST FOR HELP: I'm a long timer lurker at T&S (and a very infrequent poster). I'm working on a research project that I was hoping the incredible brain-trust at T&S might be able to help with. I'm trying to locate nineteenth-century texts (of any size) that defend women's preaching. As a non-Mormon, I don't have a good idea of any extant LDS writings on the subject and I was wondering if anyone here could point me in the right direction (or even recommend titles/bibliographies). Thank you for any help any of you can provide! My e-mail is lloyda@umd.edu Sincerely, Adam COMPLETELY OFF TOPIC REQUEST FOR HELP:

I’m a long timer lurker at T&S (and a very infrequent poster). I’m working on a research project that I was hoping the incredible brain-trust at T&S might be able to help with.

I’m trying to locate nineteenth-century texts (of any size) that defend women’s preaching. As a non-Mormon, I don’t have a good idea of any extant LDS writings on the subject and I was wondering if anyone here could point me in the right direction (or even recommend titles/bibliographies).

Thank you for any help any of you can provide!

My e-mail is lloyda@umd.edu

Sincerely,
Adam

]]> By: Nate Oman http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2007/03/rsr-and-the-william-mary-book-store/#comment-220585 Nate Oman Sat, 31 Mar 2007 00:43:53 +0000 http://www.timesandseasons.org/?p=3794#comment-220585 William & Mary has an all right Mormon collection but not a great one. On the other hand, I keep having the librarians ILL volumes from all over to me, and everytime I have to return one they ask me if it ought to be added to the school's collection. I generally say yes, and I know that several volumes have been added. I even persuaded the law school that they need a copy of Hosea Stout's diary because after all he was an early Mormon lawyer. I am with Kaimi on this: one of the (many, many, many) advantages of being a law prof is that law libraries are required by the ABA accredidation process to have some ridiculously huge budget in relation to the school as a whole. They are looking for ways to spend money. William & Mary has an all right Mormon collection but not a great one. On the other hand, I keep having the librarians ILL volumes from all over to me, and everytime I have to return one they ask me if it ought to be added to the school’s collection. I generally say yes, and I know that several volumes have been added. I even persuaded the law school that they need a copy of Hosea Stout’s diary because after all he was an early Mormon lawyer. I am with Kaimi on this: one of the (many, many, many) advantages of being a law prof is that law libraries are required by the ABA accredidation process to have some ridiculously huge budget in relation to the school as a whole. They are looking for ways to spend money.

]]> By: Costanza http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2007/03/rsr-and-the-william-mary-book-store/#comment-220568 Costanza Fri, 30 Mar 2007 22:36:37 +0000 http://www.timesandseasons.org/?p=3794#comment-220568 That is Indiana University, Bloomington. That is Indiana University, Bloomington.

]]> By: Costanza http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2007/03/rsr-and-the-william-mary-book-store/#comment-220567 Costanza Fri, 30 Mar 2007 22:35:51 +0000 http://www.timesandseasons.org/?p=3794#comment-220567 The library at Indiana, Bloomington, is one of the best research libraries in the country in general, and it has an immense Mormon collection. It is second only to Yale's, in my personal experience anyway, in terms of Mormon collections outside of the West. The library at Indiana, Bloomington, is one of the best research libraries in the country in general, and it has an immense Mormon collection. It is second only to Yale’s, in my personal experience anyway, in terms of Mormon collections outside of the West.

]]> By: Kaimi Wenger http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2007/03/rsr-and-the-william-mary-book-store/#comment-220563 Kaimi Wenger Fri, 30 Mar 2007 22:17:31 +0000 http://www.timesandseasons.org/?p=3794#comment-220563 "In my experience it takes little more than developing a good relationship with the religion librarian at your university." Hmm. In my experience, pretty much all it takes is an e-mail to the law librarian, saying "please order a copy of Sally Gordon, Kathleen Flake, and Ed Firmage. . ." YMMV. :p “In my experience it takes little more than developing a good relationship with the religion librarian at your university.”

Hmm. In my experience, pretty much all it takes is an e-mail to the law librarian, saying “please order a copy of Sally Gordon, Kathleen Flake, and Ed Firmage. . .”

YMMV. :p

]]> By: Melissa http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2007/03/rsr-and-the-william-mary-book-store/#comment-220561 Melissa Fri, 30 Mar 2007 21:52:52 +0000 http://www.timesandseasons.org/?p=3794#comment-220561 Ah Homer. That explains it. I just couldn't see Nate reading Wallace Stevens---even furtively---and we already knew it wasn't Plath, Rossetti, or Dickinson. I was in the Princeton bookstore two days ago. Two copies of Givens' was all they had. I'm looking into ways to remedy that situation. You might too. LDS academics can also influence university library holdings. I regularly ask the Princeton religion librarian to order books for the library I think we ought to own (usually books I want to read or need for my own research and don't want to have to buy. The latest of which was the outrageously expenseive _A Statistical Profile of Mormons: Health, Wealth, and Social Life_). Sometimes I order books from publishers that should be on the Religion Librarian's radar screen (I had him order Bradley's _Pedestals and Podiums_ just this morning---even though I own the book myself----because I noticed that Signature books are lacking at Princeton. I've had him order books from DB for the same reason. Every institution's oversights will be different. Universities with Divinity Schools tend to have a more complete collection in my experience (i.e. HDS has a better collection than Brown does and I imagine that would be true of Chicago or Vanderbilt, etc.). Yale University's Mormon Studies collection is the best I've seen (outside of Utah) by far (including journals, trade, university presses, etc.) I think this is one small but important way those of us in the position to do so can take care of the scholars who will come after us. In my experience it takes little more than developing a good relationship with the religion librarian at your university. Ah Homer. That explains it. I just couldn’t see Nate reading Wallace Stevens—even furtively—and we already knew it wasn’t Plath, Rossetti, or Dickinson.

I was in the Princeton bookstore two days ago. Two copies of Givens’ was all they had. I’m looking into ways to remedy that situation. You might too.

LDS academics can also influence university library holdings. I regularly ask the Princeton religion librarian to order books for the library I think we ought to own (usually books I want to read or need for my own research and don’t want to have to buy. The latest of which was the outrageously expenseive _A Statistical Profile of Mormons: Health, Wealth, and Social Life_). Sometimes I order books from publishers that should be on the Religion Librarian’s radar screen (I had him order Bradley’s _Pedestals and Podiums_ just this morning—even though I own the book myself—-because I noticed that Signature books are lacking at Princeton. I’ve had him order books from DB for the same reason.

Every institution’s oversights will be different. Universities with Divinity Schools tend to have a more complete collection in my experience (i.e. HDS has a better collection than Brown does and I imagine that would be true of Chicago or Vanderbilt, etc.). Yale University’s Mormon Studies collection is the best I’ve seen (outside of Utah) by far (including journals, trade, university presses, etc.)

I think this is one small but important way those of us in the position to do so can take care of the scholars who will come after us. In my experience it takes little more than developing a good relationship with the religion librarian at your university.

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