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"My Library Was Dukedom Large Enough": Academic Libraries Mediating the Shakespeare Authorship Debate
(Partnership: The Journal of Canadian Library and Information Practice and Research, 2013)
The "Shakespeare Authorship Question"—regarding the identity of the poet-playwright—has been debated for over 150 years. Now, with the growing list of signatories to the "Declaration of Reasonable Doubt," the creation of ...
Stratfordian Epistemology and the Ethics of Belief
(The Oxfordian, 2022-09-08)
This article considers belief in the traditional biography of Shakespeare -- that he was the "man from Stratford" -- in terms of belief ethics, to determine whether or not it is ethical and praiseworthy, or unethical and ...
Knowledge Ill-Inhabited: The Subjugation of Post-Stratfordian Scholarship in Academic Libraries
(The Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship, 2015-09-13)
Since 2000 there has been a surge of scholarly and popular publishing supporting the proposition that the name “Shake-Speare” was a pseudonym disguising a nobleman named Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, while the ...
Questions re. the Prospective Copying of Images
(University of Winnipeg Library, 2021-05-07)
The Curious Case of Academic Publishing
(Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, 2013)
The recent controversy over The Edwin Mellen Press lawsuit against McMaster University librarian Dale Askey is considered a symptom of a larger problem: the unsustainable demands from the academy itself which have created ...
A User-Centric Case for Rights Reversions and Other Mitigations: The Cultural Capital Project Submission to ISED Consultation on Term Extension
(2021-03-09)
Term extension is unlikely to benefit any but the largest of rightsholders, and indeed, in general independent creators typically do not benefit greatly from the promised financial exploitation promised by copyrights. This ...
A Library Matter of Genocide: Native North American Genocides in Library of Congress subject Headings and Classification
(2016-02-03)
The ways in which genocides, war crimes and atrocities are recognized by history can often depend on political considerations and alliances, and are, as a result, reflected in the language used to describe them. So it is ...
A Characterization of Wilson-Lerch Primes
(Integers, 2016-07)
This note presents criteria in terms of Bernoulli numbers for a prime to be simultaneously a Wilson prime and a Lerch prime.
Lenaerts and Sassenbroeck, ancestors of the Nevius Family of New Netherland
(New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 2009)