E

by Alex

Before I started my World of Warcraft research, I would never have known what E was about. Luckily I now know: the US and North America. I don’t know how I managed to get a Ph.D. in a social science without reading anything about the US, which is after all my home country. When I first ventured down there — for a book by David Hollinger — I encountered those ‘American Intellectual Tradition’ books and, even more delightfully, an Australian journal of American studies full of cultural studies interpretations of action flicks.

And second, I know this sounds unfair, I have to admit that I was sort of surprised to find out that Canada has its own section in the LOC. Obviously, they do. Although you wouldn’t know it from our holdings. If ever there was a library for whom the Great White North was not a priority, I’m afraid it’s us. Although I’d expect us to have decent First Nations stuff.

E is an icy, ivory translucent E.