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The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts
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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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August 9, 2016
Published Online: 2016-8-9
Published in Print: 2016-7-1
© 2016 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
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