Bookwoman: Kerry Pettis: A crowd-sourced project that worked

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Bookwoman: Kerry Pettis: A crowd-sourced project that worked

“The Dictionary People,” by Sarah Ogilvie Sarah Ogilvie, one-time editor for the Oxford English Dictionary, finds a small black book in the basement archives of the Oxford University Press. She discovers that it dates from the 1800’s and is the address book of James Murray, the editor of the original OED. In it he kept records and information about the thousands of ordinary people who contributed to the Dictionary. She begins researching these u…