Bookshelves in the Age of the COVID-19 Pandemic (Hardcover)

Foreword, Lydia Pyne.- Introduction, Corinna Norrick-Ruhl and Shafquat Towheed.- Section 1: Private and public reading spaces.- Chapter 1: ‘An examination of Bookshelves in the Age of the COVID-19 Pandemic as a liminal space’, Shafquat Towheed (The Open University, UK).- Chapter 2: ‘Crisis Book Browsing: Restructuring the Retail Shelf Life of Books’, Kenna MacTavish (University of Melbourne, Australia).- Chapter 3: ‘Your Bookshelf is Problematic’: Progressive and Problematic Publishing in the Age of COVID-19' Chiara Bullen (University of Stirling, Scotland).- Chapter 4: ‘Old Books on New Media: Reader Responses to The Thorn Birds and Late Night with Seth Meyers’ Jennifer Burek Pierce (Universit of Iowa, USA).- Section 2: Material culture on screen.- Chapter 5: ‘Zoom as a Digital Medium: Bookshelves in Backgrounds throughout History’ Paizha Stoothoff (California State University, Los Angeles, USA).- Chapter 6: ‘You Can Look but You Can’t Touch: Representations of the Materiality of the Printed Book on Screen’, Amanda Lastoria (Simon Fraser University, Canada).- Chapter 7: ‘Bookish Objects on the Bookshelf’, Emily Baulch (University of Queensland, Australia).- Chapter 8: ‘Writing with Spines: Bookshelf Art, Found Poetry, and the Practice of Assemblage’ Claire Battershill (University of Toronto, Canada).- Section 3: Libraries, pedadogy and reading during the pandemic.-Chapter 9: ‘Books, reading and #parentinginapandemic’ Corinna Norrick-Ruhl (University of Munster, Germany).- Chapter 10:  ‘A Bookshelf of the World. Bringing Students’ Books inside the Classroom: a Means for Epistemic Democracy?’, Nelleke Moser (Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands).- Chapter 11:  ‘Online Learning, Library Access and Bookcase Insecurity: A German Case Study’ Chandni Ananth, Ellen Barth, Laura Ntoumanis and Natalia Tolpstopyat (University of Munster, Germany).- Chapter 12: ‘ “Ummmmm, guys? Don't microwave your books”: Readers, Authors, and Institutions in #PandemicReading Tweets’ Leah Henrickson (University of Leeds, UK).