Arts & Humanities Research Series

Matt Wranovix presents “Reconstructing Lost Libraries”

April 16th at 4:30 in Harugari 229

How can we reconstruct the libraries of individuals or small institutions from the past? Is it possible to estimate the number of books once in circulation from the number of extant books? How representative are these survivors in terms of content? These are the questions that drove me crazy when writing my first book.