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. 

Contributions to Books

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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...
 

Presentations

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Leveraging Institutional Repositories to Support Your Institution's Strategic Mission (July), Library Faculty & Staff Presentations (2009)
This presentation was given at the 2009 American Library Association annual conference. It addresses how...
 

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Leveraging Institutional Repositories to Support Your Institution's Strategic Mission (March), Library Faculty & Staff Presentations (2009)
This presentation was given at the 2009 Association for College and Research Libraries conference during...
 

Other

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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.