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		<title>The Spoils of the Book Fair</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 23:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marissa K. Mason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you were at the fair yesterday, you would have seen old postcards and trading cards, manuscripts and maps, posters and prints, ephemera of all sorts, and of course lots and lots of books. My modest acquisitions were five old &#8230; <a href="http://marissakmason.com/2011/10/24/the-spoils-of-the-book-fair/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marissakmason.com&amp;blog=4127980&amp;post=799&amp;subd=marmason&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Miss: Albany&#8217;s 37th Annual Antiquarian Book &amp; Ephemera Fair</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 02:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 37th Annual Antiquarian Book &#38; Ephemera Fair, presented by the Albany Institute of History &#38; Art, will be held at the Washington Avenue Armory at 195 Washington Avenue in Albany on Sunday, October 23 from 10:00 AM-4:00 PM. Admission &#8230; <a href="http://marissakmason.com/2011/10/16/dont-miss-albanys-37th-annual-antiquarian-book-ephemera-fair/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marissakmason.com&amp;blog=4127980&amp;post=783&amp;subd=marmason&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Brief Publishing History of Virginia Woolf&#8217;s To the Lighthouse</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marissa K. Mason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Virginia Woolf (image from George Charles Beresford [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons) The first written assignment for IST 655: Rare Books was to research the publishing history of a major twentieth century work. For me, the choice was easy: Virginia &#8230; <a href="http://marissakmason.com/2011/10/16/a-brief-publishing-history-of-virginia-woolfs-to-the-lighthouse/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marissakmason.com&amp;blog=4127980&amp;post=712&amp;subd=marmason&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wuthering Heights, pt. 2: Domestic Violence, Confinement, and Power</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 18:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marissa K. Mason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post has been brewing for nearly three weeks since I finished Wuthering Heights; the start of the semester brought three graduate classes in addition to my full-time job, and during that adjustment period blogging quite fell by the wayside. &#8230; <a href="http://marissakmason.com/2011/09/17/wuthering-heights-pt-2-domestic-violence-confinement-and-power/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marissakmason.com&amp;blog=4127980&amp;post=531&amp;subd=marmason&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Mount and the Restoration of Edith Wharton&#8217;s Library</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 00:23:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marissa K. Mason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently spend a day at The Mount, which was once the estate and gardens of Edith Wharton, prolific twentieth-century writer of The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth, and Ethan Frome, first female to receive the Pulitzer Prize &#8230; <a href="http://marissakmason.com/2011/08/21/the-mount-and-the-restoration-of-edith-whartons-library/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marissakmason.com&amp;blog=4127980&amp;post=590&amp;subd=marmason&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Masters in Library and Information Sciences: To Dual or Not to Dual?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 23:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marissa K. Mason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At my current job at a law library, I do a lot of digitizing and preservation of documents, and it&#8217;s interesting enough that I&#8217;m now planning to follow the archives track in my MSIS program at UAlbany. For the fall &#8230; <a href="http://marissakmason.com/2011/08/10/masters-in-library-and-information-sciences-to-dual-or-not-to-dual/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marissakmason.com&amp;blog=4127980&amp;post=365&amp;subd=marmason&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wuthering Heights, pt. 1: Wild Moors and Passionate Natures</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 23:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marissa K. Mason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I did some travelling around the English countryside in the Fall of 2009, but to my incalculable disappointment, never made it to the moors, and found everywhere I did go to be perpetually sunny and mild. The above photo, taken &#8230; <a href="http://marissakmason.com/2011/08/05/wuthering-heights-pt-1/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marissakmason.com&amp;blog=4127980&amp;post=524&amp;subd=marmason&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I want to take a real book to bed with me, not an electronic device.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 18:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marissa K. Mason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I covet books as objects. The physical details are what distinguish a must-have edition from today&#8217;s typical mass market paperback. These could include: a striking cover design, original artwork, aged leather binding, gilded or deckled page edges, curiosities found in &#8230; <a href="http://marissakmason.com/2011/07/23/future-books/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marissakmason.com&amp;blog=4127980&amp;post=394&amp;subd=marmason&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bibliophile Goes to Library School, or How Did I End Up Here?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 02:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marissa K. Mason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where does this story begin? Getting started has always been the hardest part for me. I believe nothing in my life would have been the same without books. My third grade best friend and I penned our earliest tales in &#8230; <a href="http://marissakmason.com/2011/07/19/library-school/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marissakmason.com&amp;blog=4127980&amp;post=308&amp;subd=marmason&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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