We Need Your Input!! Please read and respond to the following wonderful initiative described here and headed by Greg Londe.
As part of the continuing renovation and awesome-ification project of the English Graduate Study Room in Firestone, we are in the process of recategorizing the books that currently spill over from the Scribner collection (all those SE # books) in a newly established library location unto themselves. We will also be buying books for this new location, and that’s where you all come in. Please suggest below books that you would like to see purchased for a non-circulating English Grad. collection. For this modest (to begin with) collection, we particularly have in mind books of criticism and theory that extend and supplement the now decades out-of-date Scribner collection: works that have made a major contribution to the field, that are cross-period to whatever extent possible, that appear regularly on exams reading lists or on syllabi, and/or that you just have regularly had difficulty finding. Of course, if you have suggestions that meet none of those criteria, it’ll still be valuable to consider them (primary texts? works of theory?). Feel free to post suggestions (as comments to this entry) as they occur to you, perhaps as paper writing season descends and flaws in the library’s holdings become more obnoxiously apparent. Once we have the long list, we’ll work on voting, narrowing, and all that.
