Owen Massey McKnight

Publications

My Erdős number is 8.

2018

• 'Griffith Davies: alumnus and benefactor' (with David Cram)
  The Jesus College Record 2018, pp. 90-93
• Articles for the Jesus College Libraries blog:
  'Initial Impressions'
  'Invisible mending'

2016

• Articles for the Jesus College Libraries blog:
  'Lib Lab'
  'New online: Welsh manuscripts'
  'Organ donation'

2015

• 'In memoriam Chris Jeens, College Archivist (1954-2015)'
  The Jesus College Record 2015, pp. 84-85
• 'Meet the staff: Owen McKnight'
  Jesus College Newsletter issue 24 (Michaelmas 2015), p. 17
• Articles for the Jesus College Libraries blog:
  'A book for each month'
  'April 2015 Book of the Month: A Catalogue of Books Printed at the Theater in Oxford (1686)'
  'May 2015 Book of the Month: Theocriti, Moschi, Bionis, Simmii quæ extant (1604)'
  'July 2015 Book of the Month: Several essays in political arithmetick by William Petty (1699)'
  'August 2015 Book of the Month: Steganographia by Johannes Trithemius (1606)'
  'Lawrence in the Library'
  '150 years of the Meyricke Library'

2014

• 'A book for each month'
  The Jesus College Record 2014, pp. 60-61
• Articles for the Jesus College Libraries blog:
  'Folio firsts'
  'Opening the Fellows' Library'
  'Hergest appearance'
  'Counting books' [simultaneously published on the blog of the Directory of Rare Book and Special Collections in the UK and Republic of Ireland]
  'Book marks'
  'Gifts of tongues'

2013

• 'Reading for servants'
  Worcester College Record 2013, pp. 96-100 [PDF]
• 'The college librarian'
  The Oxford Guide to Careers 2014, p. 167 [PDF/Flash]

2011

• 'Treasure of the week'
  Outline: Bodleian Libraries Staff Newsletter 517 (9 December 2011), p. 3 [PDF]
• 'Oxford's other treasures: from Mill to Milligan'
  The Conveyor: News from Special Collections at the Bodleian Libraries (11 November 2011) [text]
• 'Future of college libraries'
  Outline: Bodleian Libraries Staff Newsletter 497 (1 July 2011), p. 3 [PDF]
  Original presentation, 22 June 2011: [Word]

2010

• 'Key differences between AACR2 and DCRM(B)' (with Hugh Cahill)
  UK Bibliographic Standards Committee of the CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Group [PDF]
  Original version, July 2009: 'Key differences between DCRM(B) and AACR2' [Word]

2008

• 'Notes on the Orrery collection'
  Christ Church Library Newsletter
  4(2) (Hilary 2008), pp. 9-11
  5(1) (Michaelmas 2008), pp. 6-8
  Full report for the Early Printed Books Project: 'The Orrery books in Christ Church Library' [PDF]

2007

• 'Pressing matters: learning to print in the Bodleian'
  Christ Church Library Newsletter 4(1) (Michaelmas 2007), pp. 3-4 [PDF]
• 'Locke stock'
  Christ Church Library Newsletter 3(3) (Trinity 2007), pp. 4-5 [PDF]

2005

• 'Surgical pamphlets'
  Presentation to the conference 'Exploring Medical History: What's Happening in Libraries and Archives' at the Royal Society of Medicine, 17 October 2005 [PDF: slides | text]
• 'Naval history uncovered online: The seaman's medical instructor by ND Falck'
  Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 87(9) (October 2005), p. 315 [PDF]
• 'Tracts and pamphlets in the Royal College of Surgeons of England'
  Rare Books Newsletter 74 (March 2005), pp. 32-34 [Word]

2004

• 'Tracts and pamphlets in the Royal College of Surgeons of England'
  Friends of the Wellcome Library & Centre for the History of Medicine Newsletter 32 (Spring 2004), p. 10 [text]

2003

• '"Check out those buns"; or, What do you say to a male librarian?'
  Pp. 142-144 in: Roberto & West, Revolting librarians redux: radical librarians speak out. Jefferson, N.C. & London: McFarland, 2003.
• '"Adopt a book" and safeguard our literary treasures' (with Tina Craig)
  Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 85(7) (July 2003), pp. 234-235 [PDF]
• 'Tracts and pamphlets in the Library of The Royal College of Surgeons of England'
  CURL News 9 (March 2003)

2002

• 'William Rowley (1743-1806): Cow-pox inoculation no security against small-pox infection (London, 1805)'
  Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 84(9) (October 2002), p. 332 [PDF]
• 'A catalogue quality audit tool' (with Ann Chapman)
  Library and Information Research News 26(82) (Spring 2002), pp. 26-37 [PDF 1 | PDF 2]
  Library Management 23(6/7) (2002), pp. 314-324 [PDF for subscribers]
  Summary of: 'Auditing catalogue quality by random sampling'
  M.A. dissertation, Department of Information Science, Loughborough University [text]

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