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Marshall Mcluhan Library Collection Title Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library: Marshall McLuhan Library Collection Title: Marshall McLuhan Library Collection Creator/compiler: McLuhan, Marshall (1911-1980) Physical extent: Approximately 6000 volumes. January 2014 release: approximately 2500 volumes. Biographical note: Herbert Marshall McLuhan was born in Edmonton, Alberta on 21 July 1911 to Herbert Ernest McLuhan, a salesman, and Elsie Naomi (Hall) McLuhan, an actress and monologist. The family moved to Winnipeg, where McLuhan attended the University of Manitoba from 1929 to 1934, receiving a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts in English literature. McLuhan earned a second masters degree and a PhD, from Cambridge University in 1939 and 1943. After teaching English at various American universities, McLuhan returned to Canada in 1944 to teach at Assumption College in Windsor. From 1946 until shortly before his death, he taught English at St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto. In 1963, McLuhan became the director of the University of Toronto’s newly established Centre for Culture and Technology. The Centre conducted research on questions of sensory perception and other communications-related issues and offered academic courses. McLuhan married Corinne Lewis in 1939. The couple had six children: Eric McLuhan, Teri C. McLuhan, Michael McLuhan, Mary McLuhan, Elizabeth McLuhan, Stephanie McLuhan. McLuhan’s books include the following: The Mechanical Bride (1951); The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), for which he was awarded the Governor General’s prize for critical prose; Understanding Media (1964); The Medium is the Massage (1967, with Quentin Fiore); War and Peace in the Global Village (1968, with Quentin Fiore); Through the Vanishing Point (1968, with Harley Parker); Counterblast (1969, with Harley Parker); Culture is Our Business (1970); From Cliché to Archetype (1970 with Wilfred Watson); Take Today (1972 , with Barrington Nevitt); and The City as Classroom (1977, with Eric McLuhan and Kathryn Hutchon.) Scope and content: Collection consists of approximately 6000 books, journals and pamphlets that comprise the working library of Herbert Marshall McLuhan. The library reflects McLuhan’s diverse personal and academic interests, from Catholicism to the environment, from communications theory to James Joyce. McLuhan read with pen in hand and the majority of the items bear annotations made by him at various stages in his career, as well as occasional annotations made by family and friends who also made use of, and contributed to, the library (see Note on Annotations, below). The collection also includes the Page 1 of 214 Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library: Marshall McLuhan Library Collection many notes, bookmarks, items of correspondence, newspaper clippings, and other documents laid into the books by McLuhan. These have been removed, indexed, and housed separately with its own Finding Aid. Note on annotations: Annotations have been qualified as “lightly annotated”, “annotated”, and “heavily annotated.” For the purposes of this index an annotation is defined as words or marks (including underlining and asterisks) written in the margins, on the end papers, or on the dust jackets of the books. McLuhan’s signature as a mark of ownership is not noted as annotation. Shelf markings, if any, are also not noted as annotations. McLuhan’s practice of annotation changed over time. As a student he was is in the habit of quoting long passages from other relevant works; whereas, annotations in later years tended to be shorter, drew directly from the book at hand, and became increasingly coded with his own short forms (see Index to Short Forms, below). While McLuhan generally favoured writing on the end papers and avoided underling, there are exceptions to this. Note on handwriting: While annotations are predominantly the creation of Marshall McLuhan, Eric McLuhan has also made heavy use of this library and made notes on certain items. This has been indicated where found. The image below provides a side-by-side example of both handwriting styles, with Eric McLuhan’s handwriting on top and Marshall McLuhan’s at bottom. From note found inside Harold Innis’s, The Bias of Communication (mcluhan add 01648) Page 2 of 214 Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library: Marshall McLuhan Library Collection Index to Short Forms: c/m: Center Margin (i.e., fragmented) poss.: Possible c-m: Center Without Margin (i.e., inclusive) sp.: Spoke EOM: Extensions of Man C/A: Cliché to Archetype, both book and process LOM: Laws of Media C/B: Culture is Our Business RB: Right Brain 20/B: 20th Century Baedecker, a book Marshall LB: Left Brain McLuhan and Eric McLuhan discussed but TOC: Theories of Communication never wrote x: By (“ed x env” = education by environment) SI/SC: Sensory impact / structural closure f: following (i.e., “pg. 2f” = page 2 and (enhancing of one sense impacts the others) following page(s) HW: Hardware not.: Noticed. SW: Software pop.: Populated. H/S: City as Classroom (“the high school book”) Custodial history: Following Marshall McLuhan’s death in 1980, his books were removed from his offices at St. Michael’s College, boxed, and stored in various locations. Their original ordering on those shelves has been lost, though shelf marks made by McLuhan’s secretary, Margaret Stewart, appear on some items. A small percentage of the books bear marks of fire, water, and mould damage as a consequence of a house fire in 2000. The library was purchased from Eric McLuhan in 2013 by the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. Restrictions: 1. Folders housing material formerly laid into books in the McLuhan Library may only be used one at a time. 2. Should any loose material be found inside a book or journal you are viewing, please note the place of insertion and turn the item over to the reading room attendant. Links: Marshall McLuhan Library, added material list Marshall McLuhan fonds at Library and Archives Canada. Marshall McLuhan timeline. McLuhan related holdings at the John M. Kelly Library, St. Michaels College, University of Toronto. Page 3 of 214 Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library: Marshall McLuhan Library Collection Call number Author Title Publisher Date(s) Pagination Notes Index to the Marshall McLuhan Library Collection mcluhan [s.n.] Ecrits de Paris. Paris: [s.n.] 1952 1 v. 1. Serial. June, 1952. 02091 mcluhan [s.n] [A dictionary of the English language.] s.l.: s.n. [1951?] 450+p 1. Item is missing cover and title 01715 . page. mcluhan Aarons, Edward S. Catspaw ordeal. Greenwich, Conn.: 1950 160 p. 1. Lightly annotated. 01047 (Edward Sidney), Fawcett 1916-1975. Publications mcluhan Aarons, Edward S. Assignment… Toyko. Greenwich, Conn.: 1971 192 p. 01067 (Edward Sidney), Fawcett 1916-1975. Publications mcluhan Abbott, Edwin Flatland: a romance of many dimensions Oxford: Basil 1944 102 p. 02070 Abbott, 1838- Blackwell 1926. mcluhan Abbott, Walter M. The documents of Vatican II. New York: Guild 1966 792 p. 1. Annotated. 00469 Press 2. Includes items removed to mcluhan add 00469. 3. Inscribed to MM by Bob [Madden?] mcluhan Memoirs of the Emperor Napolean: from Washington: M. 1901 3 v. 01633 Ajaccio to Waterloo, as soldier, Emperor, Walter Dunne husband. mcluhan Adams, Brooks, The law of civilization and decay: an New York: Alfred A. 1943 349 p. 1. Annotated. 01126 1848-1927. essay on history Knopf 2. Includes items removed to mcluhan add 01126. 3. Inscribed to MM and Corinne McLuhan by Bernard J. Muller- Thym. mcluhan Adams, Henry, The education of Henry Adams. Boston: Houghton 1961 517 p. 1. Annotated. 00755 1838-1918. Mifflin 2. Includes items removed to mcluhan add 00755. mcluhan Adelman, Clifford. Generations: a collage on youthcult. New York: Praeger 1972 319 p. 1. Includes items removed to 00812 mcluhan add 00812. Page 4 of 214 Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library: Marshall McLuhan Library Collection Call number Author Title Publisher Date(s) Pagination Notes mcluhan Afferbeck, Lauder. Let stalk Strine: a lexicon of modern Sydney: Ure Smith 1969 47 p. 00709 Strine usage. mcluhan Agnew, Neil McK.; The science game: an introduction to Englewood Cliffs, 1969 188 p. 1. Heavily annotated. 02114 Pyke, Sandra W., research in the behavioral sciences. N.J.: Prentice-Hall 2. Includes items removed to 1937-. mcluhan add 02114. mcluhan Aiken, Conrad, Ushant, an essay. New York: Duell, 1952 365 p. 01939 1889-1973. Sloan and Pearce mcluhan Aikman, Lonnelle. We, the people: the story of the United [Washington]: 1966 143 p. 01209 States Capitol, its past and its promise. United States Capitol Historical Society in cooperation with the National Geographic Society mcluhan Ainslie, Tom. Ainslie’s complete guide to harness New York: Simon 1970 480 p. 1. Lightly annotated. 00514 racing. and Schuster 2. Includes items removed to mcluhan add 00514. mcluhan Albertson, Environment and society in transition: New York: New 1970 699 p. 1. Lightly annotated 00096 Peter, ed.; scientific developments, social York Academy of 2. Includes items removed to Barnett, consequences, policy implications Sciences mcluhan add 00095 Margery, ed.. 3. Serial. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. vol. 184, (April 27-May2, 1970) mcluhan Albran, Kehlog. The profit. Los Angeles : 197 93 p. 1. Includes items removed to 01195 Price/Stern/Sloan mcluhan add 01195. Publishers 2. Inscribed to MM from “Elizabeth” [McLuhan] and [?], 1976. mcluhan Alden, Edward C. Alden’s Oxford Guide. [48th edition] Oxford: Alden & 1919 158 p. 1. Lightly annotated. 01280 Co., Bocardo Press mcluhan Aldington, Great French romances… New York: Duell, 1946 632 p. 02045 Richard, 1892- Sloan and Pearce 1962, comp. mcluhan Aldo Garzanti Dizionario garzanti: Italiano-Inglese, Milano: Aldo 1972 1067 1. Lightly annotated. 01798 Editore Inglese-Italiano. Garzanti p. Page 5 of 214 Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library: Marshall McLuhan Library Collection Call number Author Title Publisher Date(s) Pagination Notes mcluhan Alexander, F. The resurrection of the body. New York: 1969 204 p. 1. Includes items removed to 01224 Matthias University Books mcluhan add 01224.
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