Apr
10
What Would William Thomas Stead Do - click here
Two events happening this week. National Library Week is one of the activities and you probably had more than your fill about the Titanic. So, to celebrate both in one shot, we honor the memory of William Stead. Though not a librarian, he certainly provided many like services to the profession as a journalist, editor, pacifist, and compiler of indexes (Stead’s Index to Periodicals). He responded to the famous catastrophe of the sinking of the Titanic by quietly reading a book in the First Class Smoking Room. Your mission, what was the title of the book? What book would you ‘die’ to read?
What might seem like strange behavior becomes merely the last item on a long list of fascinating eccentricities one finds when digging a bit deeper into the story of this larger than life character. In honor of the anniversary of the most famous shipwreck in history, Paratext takes a look at one of the disaster’s victims whose contributions to greater resource discovery are only a small part of his larger contributions to culture and society at large.
