Introduction - Private, Public and Personal Libraries In Situ and In Circulation - Jason Camlot Part I: Private Libraries Made Public 1. In Memory of Alexandria - Alberto Manguel 2. William Osler and the Collecting of the Middle Ages - Anna Dysert 3. A Gift to the Nation Worth While": The Library of William Lyon Mackenzie King - Meaghan Scanlon 4. Personal Libraries of the State - Bart Vautour 5. Remaindering the Difference: Book Collections of Radical Protest Libraries - Sherrin Frances 6. Serious House: On the Future of Library Print Collections - Andrew Stauffer Part II: The Personal Library as a Field of Interpretation 7. The Promise of Paradise: Reading, Researching, and Using the Private Library: Virginia Woolf's Poetry Library - Emily Kopley 8.
Unpacking Duncan's Books: Remarks on the Personal Library of Robert Duncan - James Maynard 9. "Her Books Filed for Divorce": Embeddedness and the Question of Belonging in Relation to Sheila and Wilfred Watson's Personal Library - Linda Morra 10. Al Purdy's Lives and Libraries: A Bibliographical Essay - Nicholas Bradley 11. jwcurry's Room 3o2 Books: The Small Press Bookstore as Library and Archive - Cameron Anstee Conclusion--Jeffrey Aaron Weingarten CONTRIBUTORS Jason Camlot (Concordia University) - Montreal, QC, Canada Jeffrey Aaron Weingarten (Fanshawe College) - Toronto, ON, Canada Alberto Manguel (former Director of the National Library of Argentina) - Bueonos Aires, Argentina, and Ottawa, ON, Canada Anna Dysert (McGIll University) - Montreal, QC, Canada Meaghan Scanlon (Library and Archives Canada) - Ottawa, ON, Canada Bart Vautour (Dalhousie University) - Halifax, NS, Canada Sherrin Frances (Saginaw Valley State University) - University Center, MI, USA Andrew Stauffer (University of Virginia) - Charolottesville, VA, USA Emily Kopley (Concordia University) - Montreal, QC, Canada James Maynard (SUNY, Buffalo) - Buffalo, NY, USA Linda Morra (Bishop's University) - Montreal, QC, Canada Nicholas Bradley (University of Victoria) - Victorian, BC, Canada Cameron Anstee (Independent Scholar) - Ottawa, ON, Canada.