Sep 29, 2026
Reading this on Library and Archives Canada’s website:
Amid the threats to Canada’s nationhood in recent months and in the global context of social division and eroding democracy, Library and Archives Canada (LAC) has a unique and critical role to play in asserting Canada’s identity, promoting national unity...
Sep 19, 2026
Bloomsbury Publishing has been in business for almost forty years. Last year it earned £361.0 million. Over the past five years it’s taken in more than £1.4 Billion. It’s one of, if not the most successful publishing ventures of the past century. How does this work? I asked Founder and Chief...
May 11, 2025
Mar 28, 2025
Some years ago I interviewed David McKnight about a collection of Canadian “little magazines” he’d hunted down and later donated to the University of Alberta’s Bruce Peel Library. It was very easy to get caught up in David’s enthusiasm, and I was really impressed by the catalogue he’d produced. Shortly...
Feb 15, 2025
Michael Erdman is Head of Middle East and Central Asian Collections at The British Library with overall responsibility for all manuscript holdings in Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Chagatai, Coptic, Hebrew, Kurdish, Ottoman Turkish, Persian, and Syriac.
I talked with him about my recent magazine hunting exploits...