c/o Katina Strauch Post Office Box 799 Sullivan’s Island, SC 29482 CHARLESTON CONFERENCE ISSuE TM VOLuME 29, NuMbER 5 NOVEMbER 2017 “Linking Publishers, Vendors and Librarians” ISSN: 1043-2094 The Evolving Role of the Library in Supporting a Changing Research Landscape by Karen Phillips (SVP Global Learning Resources, SAGE Publishing) In this special issue of Against the Grain, We will draw on the perspective of the needs of researchers. Roz Tedford’s article, we aim to highlight some of the diverse academic and student researcher, the librarian “Expert, Guide, Cheerleader, Coach, Fake ways that academic librarians support the as researcher, as well as the librarian as pro- News Combatant,” focuses on the librarian research endeavors of researchers in their in- vider of research materials and resources and support for the student researcher ranging from stitutions at all levels and across all disciplines as advisor in managing research data. As new a whole class session to one-to-one support for and in a changing methods landscape. At types of big data research emerge, the need a research project. In an era of fake news, she SAGE Publishing, we share with librarians a will only increase for knowledgeable support points to a faculty need for the library to help focus of supporting the researcher, and we do in how to manage data and maintain openness students learn which sources to trust. this primarily through our research methods and transparency in both data and research. We are delighted to bring to this issue the publishing program, from our introductory ref- In this issue we start with two librarian per- voices of both a researcher and student, Diane erence resources, our journals spectives on how they support research Hirshberg and Iain Miller, each talking publishing, through to our in their institutions. Anne Langley’s about how they use library services and take QASS series of quantitative article, “How Research Libraries Sup- advantage of the expertise of their librarians, techniques for the advanced port the Research Process,” points when they find the library most helpful, researcher, and of course our to how the research process has and tips for librarians looking to strengthen digital library research tool become more complicated for their relationship with faculty and support SAGE Research Methods. researchers with new funder for students. We also bring the voice of the In this issue, we want to requirements, metrics to un- librarian as researcher with an article by Frans draw on our publishing ex- derstand, and demands of in- continued on page 8 perience to highlight some formation management. She of the trends in research outlines how librarians have as well as the library’s re- become more service-orient- What To Look For In This Issue: sponse to these changes. ed, listening and responding to the Blogs & Research ..............................38 If Rumors Were Horses Deciphering and Archiving History ...............................................46 Jack Walsdorf: Bookman Nonpareil ...........................................48 Yo everyone! We are all gearing up for to help students trans- the 37th Charleston Conference! Can form their learned Book Proposals ..................................66 it be? Really? skills into successful Peering into Peer Review ..................67 careers. Sounds ex- Surprise! Just heard from the awesome Print Journals at a Regional citing. We are interviewing Franny in the (does she ever sit still?) Franny Lee. She University Library .............................74 Penthouse during the Charleston Confer- has jumped into a new gig! 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From Your Editor ................................6 Deadlines ..............................................6 Editor: Katina Strauch (College of Charleston) FEATURES Associate Editors: Cris Ferguson (Murray State) Tom Gilson (College of Charleston) The Evolving Role of the Library in Supporting a Changing John Riley (Consultant) Research Landscape — Guest Editor, Karen Phillips Research Editors: Judy Luther (Informed Strategies) The Evolving Role of the Library Primary Sources as a Vital Part of An Assistants to the Editor: in Supporting a Changing Research Academic Library Collection: The Ileana Strauch Landscape ............................................1 university of Denver Experience .....26 Toni Nix (Just Right Group, LLC) by Karen Phillips — This issue highlights by Michael Levine-Clark — At the University Editor At Large: Dennis Brunning (Arizona State University) some of the diverse ways that academic li- of Denver, we have invested heavily in digital brarians support the research endeavors of primary source collections from a range of Contributing Editors: Glenda Alvin (Tennessee State University) researchers in their institutions. vendors, and our reference librarians have Rick Anderson (University of Utah) How Research Libraries Support worked closely with our special collections li- Sever Bordeianu (U. of New Mexico) brarians to integrate print and digital primary Todd Carpenter (NISO) the Research Process: From Idea To sources into a variety of humanities and social Bryan Carson (Western Kentucky University) Publishing ..........................................12 science courses. Eleanor Cook (East Carolina University) by Anne Langley — Librarians now support Anne Doherty (Choice) Data Management and Preservation Ruth Fischer (SCS / OCLC) faculty and post-graduate researchers through- of Digital Research Data ...................30 Michelle Flinchbaugh (U. of MD Baltimore County) out multiple stages of the research process, and Joyce Dixon-Fyle (DePauw University) thus researcher interaction with the library by Sayeed Choudhury — How can libraries Laura Gasaway (Retired, UNC, Chapel Hill) has increased. evolve data management services to support Regina Gong (Lansing Community College) the changing needs of researchers? Linked Chuck Hamaker (UNC, Charlotte) Expert, Guide, Cheerleader, Coach, data graphs and moving data closer to the William M. Hannay (Schiff, Hardin & Waite) Fake News Combatant: The Many Mark Herring (Winthrop University) active phase of research are two approaches. Hats of Academic Research Librarians Bob Holley (Retired, Wayne State University) Q&A with Dr. Arthur Lupia on the Donna Jacobs (MUSC) in Supporting Students ......................14 State of Openness and Transparency Lindsay Wertman (IGI Global) by Roz Tedford — Students come to college Ramune Kubilius (Northwestern University) in Science ............................................36 Myer Kutz (Myer Kutz Associates, Inc.) with varying degrees of research experience Tom Leonhardt behind them. But research librarians at all by Eric Moran — What gave rise to the cur- Rick Lugg (SCS / OCLC) levels are nothing if not flexible. rent call for better sharing of research data Jack Montgomery (Western Kentucky University) and methods? Faculty & Student Perspectives on the Bob Nardini (ProQuest) Op Ed .................................................68 Jim O’Donnell (Arizona State University) Role of the Library ............................18 Ann Okerson (Center for Research Libraries) Pelikan’s Antidisambiguation — Encoding, by Diane Hirshberg and Iain Miller — These Rita Ricketts (Blackwell’s) Reproduction, and Fidelity by Michael P. Jared Seay (College of Charleston) are perspectives from a university professor Pelikan — Michael was recently struck by the and a recent university graduate on the library ATG Proofreader: value of the printed medium. Rebecca Saunders (College of Charleston) role in teaching and research. back Talk .........................................102 Graphics: A Librarian’s Journey to becoming a Bowles & Carver, Old English Cuts & Illustrations. Researcher-Practitioner....................22 Come Flash With Me! (at IFLA 2017) by Grafton, More Silhouettes. 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Read and Adobe CS6 Premium software under Communications, Inc. and Berkley Publish- about the consequences for a person found Mac OS X Mountain Lion. ing Group. with illegally reproduced music, movies, etc. Against the Grain is copyright ©2017 by Katina Strauch 4 Against the Grain / November 2017 CHARLESTON CONFERENCE ISSuE “Linking REVIEWS Publishers, Vendors Wryly Noted.......................................44 From the Reference Desk .................50 and Librarians” books About books by John Riley — A look in- Reviews of Reference Titles by Tom Gilson side Literary Wonderlands: A Journey Through — Tom reviews Great Events From History: the Greatest Fictional Worlds Ever Created. African-American History; Historical Dictio- booklover ...........................................46 nary of Popular Music; and more! Deciphering and Archiving History by Collecting to the Core .......................51 Donna Jacobs — This one’s about Roger Chemical Safety in the Academic Lab by Martin du Gard. Jeremy R. Garritano — Books we need to Uncommon ... Oregon Trails .....................................48 keep in our collections. Against the Grain is your key to Jack Walsdorf: bookman Nonpareil by book Reviews .....................................56 the latest news about libraries, Thomas W. Leonhardt — A wonderful re- Monograph Musings by Regina Gong — In publishers, book jobbers, and membrance of Jack. this issue books reviewed include Digital Cura- subscription agents. ATG is a unique tion; 40+ New Revenue Sources for Libraries collection of reports on the issues, and Nonprofits; plus more. literature, and people that impact the world of books, journals, and PUBLISHING electronic information. bet You Missed It ..............................10 Little Red Herrings ...........................67 Unconventional ... by bruce Strauch — What do fake art and Peering into Peer Review by Mark Y. Her- food have in common? Read about it here! ring — Peer review is fallible. When people ATG is published six times a year, Notes From Mosier ............................62 are involved despite their best intentions, the in February, April, June, September, train of good reason may go off the rails. November, and December/January. Thoughts on the Past, the Present, and the A six-issue subscription is available Future... by Scott Alan Smith — Scott dis- And They Were There .......................86 for only $55 U.S. ($65 Canada, $90 cusses how libraries and vending have changed Reports of Meetings — Another batch of foreign, payable in U.S. dollars), during his career and he does not want to reports from the 2016 Charleston Conference making it an uncommonly good buy speculate about the future. by Ramune Kubilius and her team of reporters for all that it covers. Make checks The Scholarly Publishing Scene .......66 can be found here. payable to Against the Grain, LLC book Proposals by Myer Kutz — A look at Don’s Conference Notes ....................92 and mail to: book proposals and how they should stack up Striking A balance: The 39th SSP Annual Against the Grain with the competition. Still, the wizard behind Meeting by Donald T. Hawkins — Don was c/o Katina Strauch the door is the boss or editorial board that can in Boston for SSP. Read his takeaways from Post Office Box 799 say yes or no. the meeting here. Sullivan’s Island, SC 29482 *Wire transfers are available, email BOOKSELLING AND VENDING for details, however, credit cards are the preferred being Earnest with Collections ........72 Optimizing Library Services ............75 alternative to checks ($25 fee applies). If I Had a Nickel for Every Time I’m Asked Donations to Libraries: An Ancient Problem for a bookmark, I’d be Rich by Jennifer Al- Prefiguring Today’s Access to Electronic Re- _ _ _ _ _ _ bers-Smith — Can education about digital mar- sources? by Caroline J. Campbell and Lind- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ keting help librarians use their (usually limited) say Wertman — Is the problem of donations _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ marketing resources to reach a wider audience becoming a central issue? Does an acquisitions _ _ _ _ _ _ which doesn’t already frequent their library? strategy need to be developed for donations? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ biz of Acq ...........................................74 Let’s Get Technical ............................78 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Print Journals at a Regional university Li- One Library’s Collaborative Approach _ _ _p_ _ _ _ _ _i_ _ _ brary by Joe badics — Budget and staffing for to Simplifying the Ordering Process with _ _ _Z_ _ _ print resources is diminishing in favor of online Spreadsheets by Susan J. Martin and Chris- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ and virtual resources. In informal chats with tie Thomas — Susan and Christie describe _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ colleagues, Joe says that none of the libraries how they handled a backlog of orders for _ _ _ _e_ _ hfoarvsee esatobplep feudtu rreec beuivt iinng m purcihn ts, mita ilsle hr eqruea fnotrit itehse. foreign language titles. _____ _____ _____State _____Phon_____ _____ TECHNOLOGY AND STANDARDS _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ To blog or Not To blog......................38 Wandering the Web ..........................81 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ blogs & Research by Pat Sabosik — These YOGA Websites Webliography by Dr. Lu- _ _ _ _ _ _ three examples of scholarly blogs extending cretia T. Dye and Roxanne Myers Spencer — _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ research are accessible to a wider audience Did you know that Yoga has become a program _ _ _ _ _ _ and play a significant communications role. offering at many libraries? __ __ __ __ __ __ Future Through the Past ..................77 Library Analytics: Shaping the __ __ __ __ __ __ QEP Impact & Conclusion by Donald bea- Future .................................................84 __ __ __ __ __ __ gle — Can any single factor in our QEP be The Future of Libraries is Analytics by John __ __ __ __y __ __ identified as being primarily responsible for McDonald and Kathleen McEvoy — Ana- _s_ _ _n_ _ fcroelslhegmeasn a tnod s efrnoimor aSlAl IiLnsSt itteustti socnosr?es from peer loyft ilcibs rwariilel sh aanved ath eh udgaeta i misp tahcetr eo nto t hilelu fsutrtuartee me___dres___ ___y ___mpa___ail___ the impact that libraries can have on student a__d__ __it__o__m__ outcomes and faculty research. N_A_ _C_C_E_ Against the Grain / November 2017 5 From Your (hurricane-hating) Editor: This year has been especially tiresome ford (supporting students), Diane Hershberg Library and Penn State university Libraries with all the tropical storms and hurri- and Iain Miller (faculty and student perspec- as well as Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries. canes. Hurricane Hugo (September tives), Frans Albarillo (a librarian research Regina Gong, Tom Gilson, Donna Jacobs, 22, 1989) is emblazoned in my memory. Had practitioner), Michael Levine-Clark (impor- Jeremy Garritano, and John Riley review to bundle computers, dogs, kids, and as many tance of primary sources), Sayeed Choudhury and discuss books. Tom Leonhardt pens a belongings as could fit in the car and evacuate (preservation of digital research data) touching remembrance of our old Charleston! The devastation afterwards was and Eric Moran (a question and colleague Jack Walsdorf. unbelievable. My condolences and sympathies answer session with Dr. Arthur Scott Smith returns with go out to Puerto Rico, Florida Keys, Houston, Lupia on the state of transpar- “Notes From Mosier,” Mark Louisiana, Alabama, and all those affected by ency in science). Herring is into peer review, these natural disasters. Our Op Ed is about the Myer Kutz talks about el- This issue of ATG – The Evolving Role fidelity of encoding and re- ements of book proposals, of the Library in Supporting a Changing production, back Talk is Caroline J. Campbell and Research Landscape is guest edited by Kar- about IFLA’s annual World Lindsay Wertmen explore the en Phillips and we extend special thanks to Library and Information problem (is it?) of donations, Camille Gamboa who helped brainstorm the Congress. Our interview is with Ann Mi- Susan J. Martin and Christie Thomas want contents. We have papers by Anne Langley chael, President and founder of DeltaThink. to simplify the ordering process, Joe badics (libraries and the research process), Roz Ted- There are library profiles of brooklyn College talks about staffing and print journals, Jenni- fer Albers-Smith talks about marketing and bookmarks. We have a brand new column Letters to the Editor from John McDonald and Kathleen McEvoy, dealing with library analytics, Don beagle returns to part 3 of belmont Abbey’s QEP, Pat Sabosik talks about blogs and their importance Send letters to , phone or fax 843-723-3536, or snail mail: to research, and the YOGA webliography is Against the Grain, Post Office Box 799, Sullivan’s Island, SC 29482. You can also send the focus of Dr. Lucretia T. Dye and Roxanne a letter to the editor from the ATG Homepage at http://www.against-the-grain.com. Myers Spencer. We have meeting reports from Don Hawkins and Ramune Kubilius and more and more! 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Hinds and Carol Apollo came up with the continued on page 8 6 Against the Grain / November 2017 The Evolving Role of the Library ... from page 1 Ta Albarillo, “A Librarian’s Journey to Becoming ke a closer look at.... a Researcher-Practitioner,” which brings insights of the process and skills involved in a librarian becoming a researcher and how the joint roles support each other. A key part of library support for the researcher comes from library collections, The CHARLESTON REPORT from journals databases to primary source special collections. 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Leah left the College trends, setting up Data Access & Research idea! The moderators are Jonathan Harwell in 2005 when her family moved upstate, where Transparency (DA-RT), and providing trans- (Rollins) and Eleanor Cook (ECU). she continued to work as an independent con- parency and openness guidelines for research- https://www.facebook.com/groups/ATGme- tractor for the Conference and ATG part time. ers. He sees librarians as being on the frontline diagroup/ As her role and responsibilities have grown and of these initiatives for change and working The fabulous Glenda Alvin was reminisc- changed in the 12 years she’s worked with us, together with DA-RT and the Center for Open ing about past conferences and colleagues. Leah has helped the Charleston Conference Science they can help bring about changes that There used to be a bunch of African American and Against the Grain to grow and flourish. are needed to maintain the legitimacy of Higher Librarians that sat together when we were Leah lives in Gilbert, SC, an idyllic little com- Education research as the source of valid and meeting in the Lightsey Center. Two of them munity near Columbia, SC, where she home reliable knowledge. retired this year (Deborah broadwater at schools her two children (Maddie and Jacob). This is a time of change in both the meth- Vanderbilt and Pam Theus at William Pat- Her husband Patrick is a construction manager ods of research, and the roles of the academic erson in NJ) and two retired last year (Sharon for SCANA. In her spare time with the help of librarian. These changes come with chal- Johnson at Austin Peay and Gloria Harvell Maddie and Jacob and Patrick, Leah takes lenges of dealing with increasing complexity, at Virginia State). Glenda is hoping that care of a farm full of horses, dogs, goats, rab- increased demands for transparency and some of the younger generation will step up bits, chickens, etc.... And they all participate openness, and more complex research datasets and attend the Charleston Conference. We in 4-H activities. Talk about multi-tasking! to manage. This all means more pressure for were gratified to learn that Aaisha Haykal, Leah says, “I’m honored and thrilled to be librarians to continually evolve their roles as Manager of Archives at the Avery Center for named Executive Director of the Charleston supporting research of students and faculty Research in African American History will Conference. I feel extremely fortunate to have comes with new demands. At SAGE Pub- attend this year! Katina as a mentor and look forward to con- lishing, we are keen to find ways of supporting tinuing to build on the conference’s tradition big Announcement! — Leah Hinds is academic librarians to rise to these challenges. of excellence.” now Executive Director of the Charleston As several of our contributors point out, this Conference! We all know Leah as the hardest www.charlestonlibraryconference.com is also an exciting time to find new ways of working member of the Charleston team! www.charlestonbriefings.com inserting the library into the research process Leah handles everything! She is smart, quick, More exciting news! Choice and the of their institutions, developing new skills and and determined! Leah graduated from the Charleston Company have announced the bringing in new specialist roles to the library. College of Charleston in 2000 and worked launch of ccAdvisor, an online review source I’d like to thank our contributors for sharing at the College of Charleston as an Assistant for information databases and digital resourc- their experiences and insights and giving us Director of Admissions of Graduate Studies es. ccAdvisor draws upon Choice’s and The all lots of food for thought in how to keep the for four years. She began to work with The Charleston Advisor’s objectivity and schol- research of the institution at the heart of the Charleston Information Group (AKA arly excellence. Rather than a digital edition activities of the library. Charleston Conference) when she was hired continued on page 28 8 Against the Grain / November 2017 NEW Digital Platform Launching Fall 2017 T A Y L O R & F R A N C I S E B O O K S www.taylorfrancis.com A single destination for eBooks from Taylor & Francis with increased functionality and an improved user experience to meet the needs of our customers. 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We’re listening! — KS LET’S READ REVENGE LET’S READ ABOUT WW II CORRESPONDENTS by Bruce Strauch (The Citadel, Emeritus) by Bruce Strauch (The Citadel, Emeritus) Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (1861) (the jilted Miss Eric Sevareid, Not So Wild a Dream (1946) (hired by Ed Murrow, Havisham takes revenge on the world); (2) Ian Fleming, Moonrak- later a major TV newsman); (2) Alan Moorehead, Eclipse (1945) er (1955) (ex-Nazi Hugo Drax plans to blow up London; Fleming (graphic account of the Falaise Gap is unsurpassed by any other writing writing in his prime); (3) Agatha Christie, the Mirror Crack’d From of the war); (3) Osmar White, Conquerors’ Road (1996) (his dark Side to Side (1962) (Miss Marple allows sympathetic killer to escape side of the war accounts of black marketeering, criticism of Patton and justice); (4) Émile Zola, Thérèse Raquin (1867) (lovers murder girl’s revulsion at Nuremberg trials got him rejected by publishers immedi- husband, destroyed by madness and guilt); (5) Arthur Conan Doyle, ately post-war, much later in print); (4) Ernie Pyle, Brave Men (1944) A Study in Scarlet (1887) (Doyle’s first big novel and the first modern (focused on the ordinary grunt, he became the most read correspondent detective story). of the war); (5) George Weller, Weller’s War (2009) (covered more See — Anthony Horowitz, “Five Best,” The Wall Street Journal, battle-fronts than anyone; first into Nagasaki). June 10-11, 2017; p. C10. See — Ray Moseley, “Five Best,” The Wall Street Journal, July Horowitz is the creator of “Foyle’s War” and author of “Magpie 1-2, 2017, p. C10. Murders.” Moseley is the author of “Reporting War: How Foreign Corre- spondents Risked Capture, Torture and Death to Cover World War II.” CHASING KEATS IN SCOTLAND RED CLOUD: CATHER COUNTRY by Bruce Strauch (The Citadel, Emeritus) by Bruce Strauch (The Citadel, Emeritus) In the early 1800s, Scotland was a hot literary tourist destination. “There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating It had been made famous by Wordsworth, boswell and Johnson, and themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened.” — Willa Cather. Robert burns. Red Cloud, Nebraska is like Hannibal, MO and Oxford, MS — each In the summer of 1818, Keats set off on a fanboy hike. At Word- inscribed with a writer’s identity. The National Willa Cather Center sworth’s home in the Lake District, the great man was out. Keats has opened with archives, museum exhibits, apartments for scholars left a note. and book store. At burns’ home in Alloway, south of Glasgow, Keats found the “Cather People” as the locals call the literary tourists are a key cottage turned into a pub and a drunk old fool spinning yarns in a swap element of the local economy. The Cather home has been preserved, for ale. and the train station is a museum. A 600-acre preserved prairie — the Today, the town museum holds the world’s largest collection of Willa Cather Memorial Prairie — has the never-plowed grassland of burns manuscripts plus a “Burns Jukebox” with “Power Ballads” and the 1880s when she moved there from Virginia. “Tearjerkers.” This is quite a worthwhile article that reviews Cather’s life and Keats went on to Mull, Iona and Inverness. He returned to London career at McClure’s and as a novelist, her lesbian romances and her for the most productive year of his life, penning “Ode to a Nightingale” place as a major modernist rivaling Woolf and Joyce. and “Ode on a Grecian Urn.” See — Alex Ross, “Cather People,” The New Yorker, Oct. 2, 2017, See — Anna Russell (who recently made the journey by car), p.32. “Poetry in Motion,” The Wall Street Journal, July 15-16, 2017, p. D3. LET’S READ ABOUT ADULTERY LET’S READ NOVELS SET IN LONDON by Bruce Strauch (The Citadel, Emeritus) by Bruce Strauch (The Citadel, Emeritus) Evelyn Waugh, A Handful of Dust (1934) (this is Waugh’s great Elizabeth bowen, The Heat of the Day (1948) (espionage and one where the cuckolded husband ends up trapped by a lunatic on the blackmail in wartime); (2) J.M. Coetzee, Youth (2002) (self-loathing Amazon endlessly reading aloud from Dickens); (2) Ford Madox S. African poet lives in drab bedsits working as computer programmer Ford, The Good Soldier (1915) (wealthy British and American couples while trying to write); (3) Nell Dunn, Poor Cow (1967) (working at German spa); (3) Henry James, The Golden Bowl (1904) (impoverish class girl with boyfriend in prison turns tricks for cash); (4) Arnold Roman prince and his no-money American lover each marry money and bennett, Riceyman Steps (1923) (over-the-top miser runs second hand then continue their affair); (4) Stendhal, The Red and the Black (1830) book store in Clerkenwell); (5) Muriel Spark, A (provincial aristocrat wife and the teenage tutor of her children); (5) Far Cry From Kensington (1988) (young war Guy de Maupassant, Like Death (1889) (politician’s wife has affair widow lives in wretched boarding house with portrait painter who in turn falls in love with her daughter). amidst malice, secrecy and paranoia yet book See — Anka Muhlstein, “Five Best,” The Wall Street is a revenge comedy). Journal, Sept. 30-Oct. 1, 2017, p.C16. See — Helen Simpson, “Five Best,” Muhlstein is the author of “The Pen and the Brush: The Wall Street Journal, June 17-18, 2017, How Passion for Art Shaped 19th-Century French p. C10. Novels.” 1 0 Against the Grain / November 2017

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