https://padlet.com/mjr11/FWWedit A wall full of ideas and examples en-us 2017-11-29 10:16:11 UTC 2023-03-09 11:42:53 UTC hello@padlet.com mjr11 https://padlet.com/mjr11/FWWedit/wish/211315894 ‘what the bibliographer is concerned with is pieces of paper or parchment
covered with certain written or printed signs. With these signs he
is concerned merely as arbitrary marks; their meaning is no business of
his’]]> 2017-11-29 10:17:07 UTC https://padlet.com/mjr11/FWWedit/wish/211315894 mjr11 https://padlet.com/mjr11/FWWedit/wish/211317144 The problem is, I think, that the moment we are required to explain
signs in a book, as distinct from describing or copying them, they
assume a symbolic status. If a medium in any sense effects a message,
then bibliography cannot exclude from its own proper concerns the
relation between form, function, and symbolic meaning.]]> 2017-11-29 10:21:31 UTC https://padlet.com/mjr11/FWWedit/wish/211317144 mjr11 https://padlet.com/mjr11/FWWedit/wish/211317517 If, by contrast, we were to delineate the field in a merely pragmatic
way, take a panoptic view and describe what we severally do as bibliographers,
we should note, rather, that it is the only discipline which has
consistently studied the composition, formal design, and transmission
of texts by writers, printers, and publishers; their distribution through
different communities by wholesalers, retailers, and teachers; their collection
and classification by librarians; their meaning for, and – I must
add – their creative regeneration by, readers. However we define it, no
part of that series of human and institutional interactions is alien to
bibliography as we have, traditionally, practised it.]]> 2017-11-29 10:22:42 UTC https://padlet.com/mjr11/FWWedit/wish/211317517 mjr11 https://padlet.com/mjr11/FWWedit/wish/211319131 Herbert Spencer’s The Study of Sociology, published in that year, provides a succinct description of its role: ‘Sociology has to recognize truths of social development, structure and function’.... At one level, a sociology simply reminds us of the full range of social realities which the medium of print had to serve, from receipt blanks to bibles. But it also directs us to consider the human
motives and interactions which texts involve at every stage of their
production, transmission, and consumption. It alerts us to the roles of
institutions, and their own complex structures, in affecting the forms
of social discourse, past and present.]]> 2017-11-29 10:27:44 UTC https://padlet.com/mjr11/FWWedit/wish/211319131 mjr11 https://padlet.com/mjr11/FWWedit/wish/211322548 I am not bold enough to speak of paradigm shifts, but I think I am
safe in saying that the vital interests of most of those known to me as
bibliographers are no longer fully served by description, or even by
editing, but by the historical study of the making and the use of books
and other documents.]]> 2017-11-29 10:38:08 UTC https://padlet.com/mjr11/FWWedit/wish/211322548 mjr11 https://padlet.com/mjr11/FWWedit/wish/211327249

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