The Bonds, The Mitchells & The Dawn of Time: Revisiting the Shelves of Yore

Nantucket Atheneum Podcast

English - December 16, 2022 14:00 - 15 minutes - 10.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
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This week we revisit Season 2, Episode 7 featuring Reference Library Associate Jim Borzilleri and Historian and Librarian Betsy Tyler, where they discuss the amazing feat of creating the 1900 card catalogue with a cutting edge device called a typewriter and the newly publish method called the Dewey Decimal System. They also discuss Maria Mitchell's and Sarah Bond's involvement in the library's collection.

References and more information:

If you want to know more about this topic, check our this very thorough list of resources that Jim has compiled: FURTHER READING

Check out Betsy's book The Nantucket Atheneum: A History, and her latest book A Thousand Leagues of Blue.

Credits
The Shelves of Yore is a production of the Nantucket Atheneum. It was written, narrated, and edited by Janet Forest and researched by Jim Borzilleri. Voice of Clara Parker by Sammy Aguiar.

The Nantucket Atheneum is located at 1 India Street in Nantucket, Massachusetts.

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