# Looking for Text Work in Twentieth-Century Secretarial Manuals with Erin McGuirl (Five College Faculty Seminar in Book History) #### calendar\_today Date and Time **November 14, 2024** 05:00PM - 05:00PM EST #### pin\_drop Location **Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, UMass Amherst, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst MA** More information and updates at Erin McGuirl is the Executive Director of the [Bibliographical Society of America](http://bibsocamer.org/), the oldest scholarly society in North America dedicated to the study of books and manuscripts as physical objects. She has published in *Printing History, Atlas Obscura*, the *Journal of the History of Ideas Blog*, and in *[Information: A Historical Companion](https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691179544/information)* (Princeton University Press, 2021). The results of her recent work, "Women's Work in Film Production & The Documents of Film History" is forthcoming in *The Journal of Cinema and Media Studies* in September 2025. She has worked at the [Columbia University's Avery Art & Architectural Library's Classics Collection](https://library.columbia.edu/libraries/avery/classics.html) and then at the [New York Society Library](http://nysoclib.org/) (NYSL) as Special Collections Librarian. At the NYSL she led a project to redesign and launch [City Readers](https://cityreaders.nysoclib.org/About/Index), a digital humanities tool for the study of reading and readers at the Library, New York City's oldest cultural institution (founded in 1754). She also works with [Robert M. Rubin](https://robertmelvinrubin.com/) and his [collection of screenplays](https://grolierclub.omeka.net/exhibits/show/nmc-2020/rubin-2020). See also:- [ Lecture ](/event-categories/lecture) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://bookhistory.harvard.edu/node/1856046/event-feed.ics) Copy link link