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Linda E. Connors

Title:
Head, Acquisitions and Collection Development
Description:
The Acquisitions department orders books and maintains records of books on order and of fund allocation and expenditure. Collection development includes review of recommendations for purchase, selection of titles and funding (within budget limits) of those which support the academic programs of the University.

Location/
Contact
Information:

Rose Library 117
lconnors@drew.edu
Phone: 973-408- 3474
Interests:
My research interests center on the role of early nineteenth-century British periodicals in the formation of national consciousness in the United Kingdom.  I am also interested in the role of periodical editors in the same time period.

Web Pages:

Drew Library Web Page: http://depts.drew.edu/lib/
Publications:

Linda E. Connors, "Creating a Useable Past:  The Role of the Quarterly Review in Shaping a National Identity for Its Provincial Readers, 1820s-1850s.  Epilogue,13 (2003), pp. 11-20.

Linda E. Connors, Mary Lu MacDonald and Elizabeth Morrison, "Introduction: The Periodicals    and Newspapers of Nineteenth-Century Britain and Its Empire:  Three Case Studies in 'Being British,'"  Epilogue, 13 (2003), pp. 1-10.

Linda E. Connors, Sara L. Henry and Jonathan W. Reader, "From Art to Corporation:  Harry N. Abrams, Inc. and the Cultural Effects of Merger,"  Book Research Quarterly, I (Winter 1985), p. 28-59.  Reprinted in:  The Structure of International Publishing in the 1990s.  Edited by Fred Kobrak and Beth Luey.  New Brunswick, NJ:  Transaction Publishers, 1992, pp. 39-70.
Education & Experience:
  • M.A. and Ph.D. Rutgers University.  Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.  History.
  • M.L.S.  Rutgers University.  Graduate School of Library Service.  Academic librarianship
  • A.B. cum laude.  Drew University.  History  
University Committees:
Chair, Drew University Alumni/ae College Advisory Board, 2004-

Professional Memberships:
American Library Association; American Historical Asociation; Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP), Member Board of Directors, 1998-2007; Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP), North American Conference on British Studies.

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