The Story Behind the Book: Preserving Authors' and Publishers' Archives

摘要

Designed to introduce archives and their preservation to authors and publishers, Laura Millar's The Story Behind the Book discusses the importance of authors' and publishers' archives, and provides strategies for maintaining records in-house and for approaching an archival institution to preserve them. The book is a follow-up to her 1989 publication Archival Gold; it covers extended territory by treating the archives of authors as well as those of publishers in an international context, and by discussing digital archives. The title hints that it may provide the history of the acquisition and preservation of literary and publishing archives; however, the work is not a deep analysis for archivists. Rather, its light tone is meant to entice writers and publishers into preserving their archives.