Richard W. Clement is Dean of Libraries and Adjunct Professor of History at Utah State University. He is the author of seven books and more than 40 scholarly articles. His most recent book, Books on the Frontier: Print Culture in the American West, 1768-1875, was published in 2003 by the University Press of New England and the Library of Congress. He is the founding president of the Mediterranean Studies Association and is co-editor of the journal Mediterranean Studies published by Manchester University Press. Before coming to USU, he was Head of the Department of Special Collections at the University of Kansas, where he was also Courtesy Professor of English and taught the History of the Book. He edited RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscrips and Cultural Heritage from 2003-2008. He was a Fulbright Educational Partnership Fellow in Peru in 2004 and received the Gretchen and Gene A. Budig Distinguished Librarian Award from the University of Kansas in 2003. He is active in the area of Scholarly Communication and Open Access publication. Currently he is working on creating a program for institutional academic digital publishing at USU.
Articles
The Mediterranean: What, Why, and How, Mediterranean Studies (2012)
Many of us who study the Mediterranean have been confronted with surprise and even disbelief...
Library and University Press Integration: A New Vision for University Publishing, Journal of Library Administration (2011)
American university presses are struggling to maintain their core mission to publish scholarly monographs. Several...
The Frontier in Books, Publishing Research Quarterly (1998)
Unique among contemporary Western nations, the American national identity was created from present and living...
The Beginnings of Printing in Anglo-Saxon Type, 1565-1630, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (1997)
Contributions to Books
Thomas James, 1572-1629, Dictionary of Literary Biography: British Book-Collectors and Bibliographers: Pre-Nineteenth-Century Bookmen (1999)
This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and...
Richard Verstegan's Reinvention of Anglo-Saxon England: A Contribution from the Continent, Reinventing the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Constructions of the Medieval and Early Modern Periods (1998)
The reinvention of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance is an historicized approach to constructions...
Medieval and Renaissance book production, Library Faculty & Staff Publications (1997)
There is a widely held, yet erroneous, belief that the invention of the book was...
The Production of the Pastoral Care: King Alfred and His Helpers, Studies in Earlier Old English Prose (1986)
Old English prose before the late tenth century is examined in this collection of hitherto...
Unpublished Papers
Scribal Practice in the Beowulf Manuscript, Library Faculty & Staff Publications (2010)
There was a time, not too long ago, when we thought we knew a great...
Presentations
Library as Publisher: Articulating the Impact of Digital Monographic Publishing within the University, ACRL Conference (2013)
This PowerPoint considers the impact at Utah State University in moving the USU Press backlist...
Opening the Backlist at Utah State University, Charleston Conference (2012)
This PowerPoint presentation presents data showing that making the USU Press backlist open access has...
Recapturing the Essence of the Past: Integrating the University Press into the Library, Association of Research Libraries and the Society for Scholarly Publishing Seminar (2010)
The original role of a press in a research university was to publish and disseminate...
The Library as Publisher: Increasing Library Relevance through Institutional Repository Services, American Library Association Midwinter (2010)
Closing remarks, Institutional Repositories: Disseminating, Promoting, and Preserving Scholarship (2009)
Other
Glossary of terms for pre-industrial book history, Library Faculty & Staff Publications (2009)
Glossary of terms on pre-industrial book history, compiled by Rich Clement.