Curriculum vitae / David Dean Oberhelman. Part 4 : other individual authors and sources. The David Oberhelman collection of science fiction, fantasy, and Tolkieniana at Oklahoma State University / Phillip Fitzsimmons -- Cataloging creatively / Michele Seikel -- Part 2 : Surveys and multiple sources. The novel in the library and the library in the novel : at the intersection of literature and library science / Conner Kirk and Victoria Gaydosik -- "Books! Best weapons in the world" : how libraries save the world in popular culture / Kristine Larsen -- When you have read it, it will be destroyed : the fugitive archive in fantasy and science fiction / Nicholas Birns -- Books within books in fantasy and science fiction : "You are the dreamer and the dream" / Phillip Fitzsimmons -- Is there an index to the prophecies? Or, finding the needle in the enchanted haystack / Janet Brennan Croft -- Part 3 : topics in Tolkien studies. Legal precedent and Noldorin history : Míriel's weaving / Cami Agan -- Recovering lost tales : found manunscripts in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien / Jason Fisher -- A brief history of libraries in Middle-earth : manuscript and book repositories in Tolkien's legendarium / David D. Oberhelman -- Education (and poetry recital) in Middle-earth and in England / Nancy Martsch -- Part 4 : other individual authors and sources. L-Space : libraries and liminality, a place of magic / Elise Caemasache McKenna -- Fforde's BookWorld as meta-library / David L. Emerson -- Libraries as a fulcrum of change : Eric Flint's Ring of Fire: 1632 / Susan Adams-Johnson and Anna Holloway -- "My kind of librarian or your kind of librarian?" : information seeking behavior in Supernatural / Liorah Golomb -- Curriculum vitae / David Dean Oberhelman.
Summary:
"David Dean Oberhelman (1965-2018) was a librarian and scholar with wide-ranging research interests, who had a long association with the Mythopoeic Society. He was an enthusiastic supporter of other scholars, a gifted editor, and an outstanding teacher. The core concept of this collection developed from panel discussions in which David drew together a group of fantasy, science fiction, and comics scholars to discuss libraries, librarians, archives, research, writing, and related topics as depicted in these genres. In this collection, his friends and colleagues explore the enduring importance of the historical record in its many forms, the concept of writing as a creative gateway to other worlds, the otherworldly geometries of the interconnectedness of information represented as what Terry Pratchett called "L-space," and the depiction of learning and scholarship in invented worlds. There is something recursively satisfying in books about books, research about research, writing about writing, the librarianship section in a library" -- Back cover.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.