Course:LIBR548F/2009WT1

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About the LIBR 548F book encyclopedia

In LIBR 548F, you are both an author and an editor of the book encyclopedia wiki. Each session, members of LIBR 548F will contribute to this wiki and edit or update existing entries. Sept 2009 is the first iteration of this wiki, and as such, you will have the opportunity to create all new entries. The goal of this wiki is to build our collaborative knowledge base with respect to the history of the book.

You are responsible for authoring one major entry and you will be an active editor of your own entry. You will also edit/comment on entries written by your LIBR 548F colleagues. If you have any questions about what might be an appropriate topic for the book encyclopedia wiki, feel free to consult your instructor or make a posting to the “Book Encyclopedia Wiki” forum within WebCT Vista.

You may also want to consider playing some role in helping to build coherence across entries by contributing to this introductory page that links together the sub-topics or themes that have been authored by other students. As the book encyclopedia wiki grows, it will be increasingly important to develop top-level views to assist readers in navigating.

Please refer to the book encyclopedia wiki discussion and the wiki encyclopedia assignment in WebCT Vista for more information about these activities.

Topics

The following list comes from the proposal for The Oxford Companion to the Book, to be published in 2010. Use it to prompt your choice of a topic. Please get the approval of the instructor before you start working on a topic.

1. Genres of Books: e.g., cookbooks, confession books, commonplace books, dictionaries, medical books, atlases.

2. The Physical Book: e.g., scroll and codex, paper and other surfaces, bindings, furniture, ink, type, typography, design, illustration.

3. Authorship: General essays on the history, sociology, economics, organization, and theory of authorship.

4. Reproduction: e.g., scribes, printers, printing technology, lithography, typesetting, mimeograph, xerography, desktop publishing, the electronic book.

5. Publishing: Publishers, imprints, patrons, literary agents, publishers’ readers.

6. Property: Copyright and other forms of literary property, such as royal privileges.

7. Distribution and Sales: e.g., booksellers (retail and wholesale), colporteurs, postal systems, book clubs.

8. Preservation: e.g., libraries and librarians, archives and archivists, preservation techniques, classification and cataloguing, private book collecting.

9. Suppression: Censorship, bookburning, surveillance, pornography.

10. Scholarship: e.g., bibliography, editing, teaching and historiography of literature, translation.

11. Reading: e.g., literacy, literary critics and criticism, reading habits, reception studies, literary prizes.

12. Case Studies: books with particularly important publishing and reception histories, dealing with their publication, editing, critical reception, and scholarly treatment. Examples: William Shakespeare’s plays, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Book of Kells, Beowulf, The Tale of Genji, The Canterbury Tales, Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, Don Quixote, Pilgrim’s Progress, Robinson Crusoe, Diderot’s Encyclopedia, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Das Kapital, Mein Kampf, How to Win Friends and Influence People, Animal Farm, The Second Sex, Silent Spring, and the holy books of all the world’s major religions.

13. National Histories: Concise surveys of the book histories of all the nations and regions of the world.

Instructions

For this encyclopedia project, you will create a new wiki page for your chosen topic.

  1. Make sure you have read the instructions and have cleared your topic with your instructor.
  2. When you are ready to create your own page, log in in to the UBC wiki with your CWL either above or at http://wiki.ubc.ca.
  3. Next, enter your chosen URL directly into your browser's address bar; for example http://wiki.ubc.ca/LIBR548F_Name_Of_Topic. IT IS IMPORTANT THAT YOU FOLLOW THIS NAMING CONVENTION. Please note that the address is case-sensitive. You will be asked whether you would like to create a new page. To create a new page, select 'edit this page' from the page prompt.
  4. Once you have created your new page and saved your content, return to this page.
  5. Scroll down to the 'ENTRIES' section and select edit from the menu on the right. Add a link to your new page and save the entry. (Reminder: use double square brackets around the name to create a link when in edit mode in the wiki software: e.g. [[LIBR548F_Name_Of_Topic]] or [[LIBR548F Name Of Topic]]. Save your work.

For more information on page naming conventions, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Page_name.

Support

For help on editing and formatting this wiki please go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing

ENTRIES

Add your entry here.


Artists' Books

Atlases

Authorship

Beowulf

Bibliographic Genre

Book of Kells

Censorship of Comics and Graphic Novels

Commonplace Book

Cookery Books

Early Canadian Aboriginal Communication Devices

Gothic Literature and Publishing In 19th Century England

Gutenberg's Inks

History of Cookbooks

Literary Prizes

Lithography

The Romance Novel

Scroll and Codex