This volume celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the Harry Ransom Center. Staff members describe the Center's founding, the remarkable growth of its collections as part of a thoughtful and deliberate acquisition plan, and its extensive outreach to scholars, students, and the general public. They pay tribute to the leadership of Harry Ransom, who conceived the idea of a research center in the humanities that would be for the state of Texas what the Biblioth?que Nationale is for France. The authors also tell fascinating stories of how individual collections and archives were acquired, as well as some of the controversies and myths that have arisen as a result of the Ransom Center's liberal spending and rapid growth. Photographs of treasures from the Ransom Center and key figures in its history round out this lovely and authoritative volume.

• ISBN: 0292714890
• ISBN-13: 9780292714892
• Editor : Megan Barnard
• Introduction by : Thomas F. Staley
• Language : English
• Format:  Hardcover
• Publication Date: 3/1/2007
• Publisher Imprint: University of Texas Press
• Price ($AUD): $82.95


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