Partially in an effort at procrastination, I have set up a wiki at wiki.subjectobject.net. Hopefully I can work on research there and have it open to the public.

Right now my classes are so introductionary, it is hard to find anything interesting to say about them. For instance, my theory course, Information and its Social Contexts, has some every scholarly readings, but I find the classes to be at a very elementary level. However, I realize that they are core and required courses–hopefully I can do some interesting work in the assignments.

I will say that my Introduction to Bibliographic Control is much more interesting then I thought it could be, but I am falling behind on the non-graded assignments (which I will work on right after this post).

But, as expected, my Book History and Print Culture class is amazing. Partially because it gathers together students from a variety of departments: English, French, Fine Art, History (that is, others not in a professional-ish Master’s). The theoretical level of discussion is really high, and there are only 15 people in the course which makes for a great 3 hours.

I don’t know which way I am going to go yet as per interests and professional life, but I am really interested in the possibility of Analytic and Historical Bibliography in some respects, maybe working with Rare Books as well in some kind of scholarship. Although I am still interested as well in the future of the book, and I cannot seem to disconnect the two in my mind.

The founder of the Book History Program here was also the General Editor of the 3 vol. History of the Book in Canada. She came in and gave a lecture on National Histories of the Book on Monday. I hope I can go to some lectures held by the Toronto Centre for the Book over the next few weeks to get a feel for things.