Clearing House for Bibliographical Projects

In a spirit of scholarly openness, the Centre for the Book at Otago is keen to promote analytical and historical bibliographical study of print materials.

The following topics are projects that various bibliographers think are worth doing, if someone has the time and interest to pursue them. All are posted here for the taking; we ask only that you let us know you would like to run with a topic so that we can alter the status the idea to ‘underway’ and attach your name to it in case others might wish to contact you.

Prospective postgraduate students who might wish to investigate any of these topics should contact Shef Rogers or other Otago staff who would be willing to supervise most of these topics and would be happy to discuss funding possibilities available to Otago postgraduate students. But students at other institutions should feel free to adopt an idea and build a degree around it, ideally posting a copy of their theses or a summary of their findings and enabling us to move the topic into the ‘completed’ category. And other scholars are invited to add their names to the list of ‘Interested Scholars’.

Finally, those wishing to suggest other topics are most welcome to do so. The current topics are often NZ-focused, but all places, periods and languages are welcome. The aim is to keep the page as an up-to-date wish list and gradually to build links to other sites as projects are taken up.