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The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts

  • Corrie Commisso

    Corrie Commisso is a graduate student in Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, with research interests in special collections and historic / cultural preservation. She currently lives and works in Dakar, Senegal, West Africa, where she is a freelance writer and graphic artist. Her article on the Timbuktu manuscripts was published in PDT&C 44.2 (2015), cited above. She may be reached at: corrie.commisso@gmail.com.

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Hammer Joshua The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts New York Simon & Schuster 2016 278 pp. 978-1-4767-7740-5 978-1-4767-7743-6 $26.00


About the author

Corrie Commisso

Corrie Commisso is a graduate student in Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, with research interests in special collections and historic / cultural preservation. She currently lives and works in Dakar, Senegal, West Africa, where she is a freelance writer and graphic artist. Her article on the Timbuktu manuscripts was published in PDT&C 44.2 (2015), cited above. She may be reached at: corrie.commisso@gmail.com.

Published Online: 2016-8-9
Published in Print: 2016-7-1

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