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2014-10-14 14:33:18 UTC
While trying to stay awake during a BIBFRAME webinar recently, my flagging
attention was caught by a typo that appeared a couple of times on the
monitor: Bibliogrpahic. Some typos are rather fun to sound out, and as I
silently rolled this one around on my tongue, I was unaccountably put in
mind of the state of New Jersey. It took a few moments, but I soon figured
out why: the last part of it sounds a bit like Passaic. And just south of
Passaic is Newark, the largest city in the Garden State. (Which
demographical distinction further calls to mind the wonderful sister act
known as The Roches, who would often trill, "We come from deepest New
Jersey..." and who once recorded a song that began: "Didn't you ever feel
like the largest Elizabeth in the world?") Wilberforce Eames, a truly
formidable force of nature, was born in Newark, New Jersey, on October 12,
1855, and later moved to Brooklyn with his family. Former New York Public
Library director Harry Miller Lydenberg, as part of a memorial tribute
delivered at the 1956 meeting of the American Antiquarian Society, tells
the amazing story of this life-long book collector, bookseller, librarian,
and bibliographer, one that I can merely hint at here with the following
quote: "Books, books, books, there was no end, bought from auction
catalogues, from dealers' lists, wherever they were seen, from home and
from the ends of the earth. Fred Morris, that faithful agent and loyal
soul, came to me more than once, genuinely distressed because he felt that
Eames was buying beyond his means and he felt that 'something must be
done.' Equally sympathetic, equally fond of our friend, we could but say
finally that the man was prudent enough in other ways, and with such
matters we could feel that as he had proven able to meet his other
responsibilities with credit, here we could do nothing more than wish him
well..." Let us all wish Wilberforce well this weekend, with gratitude for
his contributions to all things bibliographic. (Note: I've truncated the
original typo for better access; there were 47 in OhioLINK and "too many
records found for your search" in WorldCat.)
(Wilberforce Eames, painted for the Society by Mr. DeWitt M. Lockman, 1931,
from Wikimedia Commons.)
Carol Reid
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attention was caught by a typo that appeared a couple of times on the
monitor: Bibliogrpahic. Some typos are rather fun to sound out, and as I
silently rolled this one around on my tongue, I was unaccountably put in
mind of the state of New Jersey. It took a few moments, but I soon figured
out why: the last part of it sounds a bit like Passaic. And just south of
Passaic is Newark, the largest city in the Garden State. (Which
demographical distinction further calls to mind the wonderful sister act
known as The Roches, who would often trill, "We come from deepest New
Jersey..." and who once recorded a song that began: "Didn't you ever feel
like the largest Elizabeth in the world?") Wilberforce Eames, a truly
formidable force of nature, was born in Newark, New Jersey, on October 12,
1855, and later moved to Brooklyn with his family. Former New York Public
Library director Harry Miller Lydenberg, as part of a memorial tribute
delivered at the 1956 meeting of the American Antiquarian Society, tells
the amazing story of this life-long book collector, bookseller, librarian,
and bibliographer, one that I can merely hint at here with the following
quote: "Books, books, books, there was no end, bought from auction
catalogues, from dealers' lists, wherever they were seen, from home and
from the ends of the earth. Fred Morris, that faithful agent and loyal
soul, came to me more than once, genuinely distressed because he felt that
Eames was buying beyond his means and he felt that 'something must be
done.' Equally sympathetic, equally fond of our friend, we could but say
finally that the man was prudent enough in other ways, and with such
matters we could feel that as he had proven able to meet his other
responsibilities with credit, here we could do nothing more than wish him
well..." Let us all wish Wilberforce well this weekend, with gratitude for
his contributions to all things bibliographic. (Note: I've truncated the
original typo for better access; there were 47 in OhioLINK and "too many
records found for your search" in WorldCat.)
(Wilberforce Eames, painted for the Society by Mr. DeWitt M. Lockman, 1931,
from Wikimedia Commons.)
Carol Reid
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AM
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