Lynne M Thomas
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Museums or Libraries |
| Occupation | Rare Books |
| Location | DeKalb, IL, United States |
| Introduction | I'm the Curator of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University, a teaching and research collection with a special emphasis on American popular culture materials from the 19th and 20th centuries. I blog about items from our collections, and around the web, that are of interest to me, and possibly, our users. I'm also the co-author with Beth M. Whittaker of Special Collections 2.0, Which examines Web 2.0 tech for cultural heritage collections, from Libraries Unlimited. |
| Interests | American popular culture, dime novels, children's literature, series literature, story papers, Horatio Alger, Jr., GLBT literature, SF literature,Fantasy Literature, comic books, rare books. |
| Favorite movies | Desk Set, Party Girl, and The Name of the Rose (for library movies, anyway). I'm also a big SF and Rom-com fan. |
| Favorite books | Every one of the 100,000+ that we are responsible for. |