Comics Librarianship: A Handbook
by Randall W. Scott /
1990 / English / PDF
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Academic libraries and scholars have been reluctant to collect and study comics. Popular opinion among those of us who do take comics seriously has generally ascribed this reluctance to a pervasive and debilitating conservatism within academia. The idea seems to be that the general run of librarians and professors don't want to take a chance on anything so new that it might be ephemeral. This haze of snobbishness, according to the model, should clear up in about 100 years if we let nature take its course, and at some point midway through the 21st century there will be many dissertations on Superman. Although this train of thought is amusing, it too is passing through a foggy area. There are conservatives in academia, of course, but there are plenty of ambitious people willing to try new things.
