{"title":"A Librarian's Stroll Through Milton's Afterlife","authors":"Michael Joseph","doi":"10.14713/JRUL.V65I0.1787","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14713/JRUL.V65I0.1787","url":null,"abstract":"“A Librarian’s Stroll through Milton’s Afterlife†is a brief gallery tour of our favorite books in the exhibition, The Afterlife of John Milton. They are not necessarily curatorial favorites, assuming curators should want books that best illustrate the arguments underlying their show, nor a reader’s favorite—books with the most powerful or influential or recognizable texts. Although all of them do support the theme of the show and possess famous and astonishing texts, our favorites are first and foremost distinctive, one-of-a-kind objects, with their own unique histories and compelling stories. A few of these are modest in scope—amusing anecdotes, or bibliographic jokes—but one or two are truly remarkable.","PeriodicalId":247763,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121696962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How Cleanth Brooks Read his Seventeenth Century News Letter: James Marshall Osborn, Joseph Milton French, and the Organization of English as a Profession in Mid-Century America","authors":"K. James","doi":"10.14713/JRUL.V65I0.1781","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14713/JRUL.V65I0.1781","url":null,"abstract":"The founding of the Seventeenth Century News Letter, publishedNew Brunswick, New Jersey, from 1942–1951 and described in the Yale University Library online catalog as a “Quarterly (irregular),” marks a particular moment in English literature as a profession in mid-twentieth century America. The original newsletter offers a glimpse into the organization of literary scholarship in the period, and the practices by which English literature as a professional community functioned. This period, with its battles over the centrality of literary criticism and literary history, and with the heated opposition to successive fashions in literary theory, has been usefully studied, and within the context of Yale in particular, by Gerald Graff. Yet there are spheres of literary scholarship which Graff’s study does not address, in part through its focus on the workings of academic departments, and their courses and curricula, in university English departments. Important professional spaces—the library, most notably—and practices, such as collecting and corresponding, are excluded from this study. These are precisely the spheres occupied by Osborn and his colleagues in this period. This paper turns to two examples of Osborn’s work as a literary scholar and collector in the 1940s, to illustrate the networks by which professional practice was governed, and complicated, in English literature in mid-century America. In the imagined community of seventeenth-century scholarship found in the Seventeenth Century News Letter, and the collaboration between Osborn and literary critic Cleanth Brooks on a scholarly edition, one finds a lived experience of English literature which was by no means as polarized, as exclusionary, as that portrayed by Graff and others.","PeriodicalId":247763,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries","volume":"168 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128235800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Seventeenth-Century Scribal Culture and \"A Dialogue between King James and King William\"","authors":"E. Kelly","doi":"10.14713/JRUL.V65I0.1783","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14713/JRUL.V65I0.1783","url":null,"abstract":"Kelly shows how political poems were circulated in manuscript in the later seventeenth century, not unlike some of Milton’s own political sonnets, which had a limited manuscript circulation, and were not printed in some cases some until many years after his death. The author of the anonymously-circulated poem, “A Dialogue between King James and King William,†is Charles Blount (1654–1693), a radical Whig author who wrote mostly in prose. In the manuscript poem, Blount imagines a conversation between King James and King William after James fled to Ireland, when William rose to power in what is known as the Glorious Revolution of 1688.","PeriodicalId":247763,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries","volume":"386 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114365995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Edition of the Rutgers Manuscript of Donne's Elegy, \"Love's Progress,\" and Matthew Mainwaring's \"Sonnet\"","authors":"J. Donne, Matthew Mainwaring, Stephanie Hunt","doi":"10.14713/JRUL.V65I0.1786","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14713/JRUL.V65I0.1786","url":null,"abstract":"This article consists of a complete transcription of the two poems and an illustration of the manuscript.","PeriodicalId":247763,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123159434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Greetings from the University President On the Occasion of The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries’ Seventy-fifth Anniversary","authors":"R. Barchi","doi":"10.14713/JRUL.V65I0.1776","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14713/JRUL.V65I0.1776","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":247763,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries","volume":"28 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116711786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Seventy-five Years of The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries","authors":"R. Sewell","doi":"10.14713/JRUL.V65I0.1777","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14713/JRUL.V65I0.1777","url":null,"abstract":"Will the Journal last another twenty-five years to its one hundredth anniversary? That is difficult to say. While many bibliographic library journals have ceased in the last few decades, I feel there is still a place for the Journal. As Tom Fulton notes in his article in this volume, “One of the most exciting developments in the study of reading over the past twenty years has been a return to books themselves as evidence for the way in which people read.†Along with a reinvigorated interest in the history of the book at Rutgers and elsewhere, the Journal offers an important venue for articles reflecting these trends. But with the rapid transformation in technology, who knows what will happen to the genre of the academic journal itself? We at least have taken steps that have brought us strongly into the digital age.Â","PeriodicalId":247763,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117032233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"To Cultivate Piety, Learning and Liberty: The College of New Jersey and Queen's College, 1746-1794","authors":"Thomas J. Frusciano","doi":"10.14713/JRUL.V55I2.1726","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14713/JRUL.V55I2.1726","url":null,"abstract":"On October 29, 1793, in a meeting of the board, the Trustees of Queen's College convened in New Brunswick to discuss a plan to merge with the College of New Jersey at Princeton. Queen's College was in a precarious state. In 1790 following the death of its first president, the Reverend Jacob R. Hardenbergh, the college was unable to secure a successor. Its finances were meager and any support from the General Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church was dependent upon the college's ability to attract a leader who would also serve as Professor of Divinity. The logical choice was the Reverend John Henry Livingston, architect of the 1773 Articles of Union, which united the two factions in the Dutch Reformed Church. When Livingston declined, the trustees found themselves hard pressed to continue instruction, and were forced to explore ways of keeping the doors of their fledgling institution open. A \"Plan of Union,\" formulated by a joint committee of trustees from Queen's and Princeton in September 1793, called for the elimination of collegiate instruction in New Brunswick, to be replaced by a preparatory academy. Princeton would maintain a liberal arts college. Under this new arrangement the trustees of both colleges would surrender their respective charters and request a new one, to be issued by the State Legislature of New Jersey. This charter would call for a consolidated board of trustees, to include the governor of the state, the president of the college, and twenty-six members, selected evenly by the existing governing boards of Queen's and Princeton. Only inhabitants of New Jersey would be permitted to serve as trustees on the newly constituted governing body.","PeriodicalId":247763,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126806659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rutgers Labor Union Archives: A Recollection","authors":"Bernard F. Downey","doi":"10.14713/JRUL.V57I1/2.1739","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14713/JRUL.V57I1/2.1739","url":null,"abstract":"On June 19,1947, the law establishing T h e Institute of Management and Labor Relations (IMLR) at Rutgers University became effective. Shortly thereafter the institute's structure was formed, composed of a director and four programs: Labor, Management, Public and Research. Initially, the IMLR Library functioned as a sub-unit within the Research Program. In the late 1950s it was designated as a separate program, initially under the director's office and later as one of the functioning units within the institute. In its formative era the entire IMLR was located on the upper floors of Winants Hall on College Avenue. T h e fledgling library occupied one large room on the top floor. Its holdings were extremely small, composed of a relatively few number of books, a pamphlet file and a growing collection of periodicals, most of which were gifts or donations from Rutgers faculty members. During this early period the IMLR was affiliated with the University Extension Division (UED), a non-degree granting entity which extended its educational services to labor, management, and the public throughout the state. Both the Research Program and the IMLR Library supported the U E D teaching programs with appropriate research and information services. Within this institutional structure the labor union archives at Rutgers had its beginning. One of the first efforts to develop a cohesive policy on preserving labor union records can be traced to the establishment of an ad Aoc Committee for the Preservation of Labor Reports in early 1959. T h e original committee had as its chairman, Robert W. Hill, Keeper of Manuscripts at the New York Public Library. Other members included: Edward DiRoma, Economics Division of the New York Public Library; Leone Eckert, Records Librarian at Cornell University's New York School of Industrial and Labor Relations; Louise Heinze, Librarian of the Tamiment Institute; and Dorothy Kuhn Oko, Head of Library Service to Labor Unions, the New York Public Library. Later, the IMLR librarian was added to the committee. This committee surveyed libraries throughout the country and devoted","PeriodicalId":247763,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127731131","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Labor Education at Rutgers University, 1931-1981, and the Establishment of IMLR","authors":"Eugene McElroy","doi":"10.14713/JRUL.V57I1/2.1740","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14713/JRUL.V57I1/2.1740","url":null,"abstract":"In 1997, the Institute of Management and Labor Relations (IMLR) will mark its 50th anniversary. It was on June 19,1947 that New Jersey Governor Alfred Driscoll signed into law, Assembly Bill 250-A. Passed against the backdrop of the great postwar strike wave that engulfed the United States, this legislation formally established the IMLR. Its primary mission was to promote \"harmony and co-operation between management and labor, and greater understanding of industrial and labor relations, thereby to enhance the unity and welfare of the people of the state.\" In order to carry out this assignment, the IMLR was authorized to \"establish programs in order to develop new material and techniques to aid in carrying on the educational activities.\"","PeriodicalId":247763,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123814331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preface for Special Issues: Consumerism, Labor Unions, and the Pursuit of the American Dream","authors":"R. Sewell","doi":"10.14713/JRUL.V57I1/2.1734","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14713/JRUL.V57I1/2.1734","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":247763,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116680281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}