Bibliography of Writings on the History of Libraries, Librarianship, and Book Culture Fall 2010
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Compiled by Ed Goedeken, Coordinator of Collections, Iowa State University.
A. UNITED STATES
B. NON-US WESTERN HEMISPHERE
C. EUROPE
D. ASIA, AFRICA, THE MIDDLE EAST, AND OTHER
E. HISTORY OF BOOKS, READING, AND BOOK CULTURE
F. GENERAL, HISTORIOGRAPHY, PHILOSOPHY, AND LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE EDUCATION
Bleisch, Pamela R. “Spoilsmen and Daughters of the Republic: Political Interference in the Texas State Library during the Tenure of Elizabeth Howard West, 1911-1925,” Libraries & the Cultural Record v. 45, no. 4 (2010): 383-413.
Bolze, Thomas A. “From Private Passion to Public Virtue: Thomas B. Lockwood and the Making of a Cultural Philanthropist, 1895-1935,” Libraries & the Cultural Record v. 45, no. 4 (2010): 414-41.
Burnley, Alesia. “Lebanon-Wilson County Library,” Tennessee Libraries (online) v. 59, no. 2 (2009):
Burk, William R. “The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library and the Sciences, 1795-1902,” North Carolina Libraries 67 (Spring/Summer 2009): 2-16 [
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Campbell, Gail C. “History of the Johnson City Public Library,” Tennessee Libraries (online) v.59, no. 2 (2009):
Cohen, Charles and Paul S. Boyer, eds. Religion and the Culture of Print in Modern America (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008) 392 pp. $30.00 ISBN 978-0-299-22574-2. [Part of Print Culture History in Modern America Series]
Emery, Robert A. “The Official Bulletin, 1917-1919: A Proto-Federal Register,” Law Library Journal 102 (Summer 2010): 441-48.
Fenderson, Jonathan. "Evolving Conceptions of Pan-African Scholarship: W.E.B. Du Bois, Carter G. Woodson, and the Encyclopedia Africana, 1909-1963." Journal of African American History 95 (Winter 2010): 71-91.
Fulton, Crystal. “An Ordinary Life in the Round: Elfreda Annmary Chatman,” Libraries & the Cultural Record v. 45, no. 2 (2010): 238-59.
Galbi, Douglas A. “Non-Book Items in US Public Libraries,” Public Library Quarterly 28 (January/March 2009): 64-67.
Given, Lisa M. and Lianne McTavish. “What’s Old is New Again: The Reconvergence of Libraries, Archives, and Museums in the Digital Age,” Library Quarterly 80 (January 2010): 7-32.
Goedeken, Edward A. “Our Historiographical Enterprise: Shifting Emphases and Directions,” Libraries & the Cultural Record v. 45, no. 3 (2010): 350-58.
Gracy, David B., II. The State Library and Archives of Texas: A History, 1835-1962 (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2010) 264 pp. $45.00 ISBN 978-0-292-72201-9.
Grossman, Hal B. “Without Reserve: Jesse Shera in the Wilson Library Bulletin and Elsewhere, 1961-1970,” Library & Information History 26 (June 2010): 152-69.
Hahn, Trudi Bellardo and Diane L. Barlow, eds. “Women Pioneers in the Information Sciences, Part II,” Libraries & the Cultural Record v. 45, no. 2 (2010): entire issue.
Heckman, Marlin Leroy. “Abraham Harley Cassel: Nineteenth-Century American Book Collector,” (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Chicago), 1970.
Hitchcock, Eloise. “History of the Library at Cumberland University,” Tennessee Libraries (online) v. 59, no. 2 (2009):
Jeffrey, Jonathan D. “Looking Back: Growing Pains for the Bowling Green Public Library, 1950-1961,” Kentucky Libraries 74 (Summer 2010): 22-25.
Jeffrey, Jonathan D. “Looking Back: Letters of Persuasion: Posturing for a Carnegie Library in Middlesboro,” Kentucky Libraries 73 (Fall 2009): 28-32.
La Barre, Kathryn. “Pauline Atherton Cochrane: Weaving Value from the Past,” Libraries & the Cultural Record v. 45, no. 2 (2010): 210-37.
Latham, Joyce M. “Clergy of the Mind: Alvin S. Johnson, William S. Learned, the Carnegie Corporations, and the 91´«Ã½,” Library Quarterly 80 (July 2010): 249-65.
Laugesen, Amanda. “Books for the World: American Book Programs in the Developing World, 1948-1968,” in Barnhisel, Greg and Catherine Turner, eds. Pressing the Fight: Print, Propaganda, and the Cold War (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2010), pp. 126-44.
Little, Geoffrey. Library Architecture at Yale (New Haven, CT: Yale University Library, dist. By Yale University Press, 2009) 157 pp. $50.00 ISBN 978-0-300-16477-0. [Also published as 2009 issue of Yale Library Studies]
Miller, Jonathan. “On and On We Go with Copyright: The Role of the Association of Research Libraries in the Development of the Copyright Act of 1976,” (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh), 2009, 284 pp.
Nelson, Adam R. and John L. Rudolph, eds. Education and the Culture of Print in Modern America (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2010) 240 pp. $30.00 ISBN 978-0-299-23614-4. [Part of Print Culture History in Modern America Series]
Ochi, Hiromi. “Democratic Bookshelf: American Libraries in Occupied Japan,” in Greg Barnhisel and Catherine Turner, eds. Pressing the Fight: Print, Propaganda, and the Cold War (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2010), pp. 89-111.
Osborne, Amy B. “The University of Kentucky College of Law Library: A Short History,” Kentucky Libraries 74 (Spring 2010): 8-13.
Parisian, Catherine M., ed. The First White House Library: A History and Annotated Catalogue (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010) 398 pp. $55.00 ISBN 978-0-271-03713-4. [Part of Penn State Series in the History of the Book]
McReynolds, Rosalee and Louise S. Robbins. The Librarian Spies: Philip and Mary Jane Keeney and Cold War Espionage (Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2009) 183 pp. $45.00 ISBN 978-0-275-99448-8.
Schuitema, Joan E. “The Future of Cooperative Cataloging: Curve, Fork, or Impasse?” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly v. 48, nos. 2/3 (2010): 258-70.
Seaver, Barry W. “Rebecca Rankin’s Campaign for a Municipal Archives in New York, 1920-1952,” Libraries & the Cultural Record v. 45, no. 3 (2010): 263-96.
Smith, Linda C. and Carol Tenopir. “Martha E. Williams: Pioneer Information Scientist and Online Industry Guru,” Libraries & the Cultural Record v. 45, no. 2 (2010): 185-209.
Taylor, Deborah. “Teen Services at Baltimore’s Pratt Library: A Long History and Sustained Emphasis,” Public Library Quarterly 28 (October/December 2009): 326-35.
Turner, Catherine. “Turning Libraries into Public Works: Funding Arguments on the Local Level in Wilkes-Barre and Scranton, Pennsylvania,” in Bonnie Gunzenhauser, ed., Reading in History: New Methodologies from the Anglo-American Tradition (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2010), pp. 101-17.
Valentine, Patrick M. “Books in Tolerable Supply: College Libraries in North Carolina from 1795 to the Civil War,” North Carolina Libraries 65 (Fall-Winter 2007): 62-69.
Valentine, Patrick M. “School Libraries in 19th Century North Carolina, 1800-1876: The Want of Books is Now an Immediate, Practical and Pressing One,” North Carolina Libraries v. 68, no. 1 (2010): 6-10 [
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Valentine, Patrick M. “Useful Books: Community Libraries in North Carolina from 1800 to the Civil War,” North Carolina Libraries 64 (Fall-Winter 2006): 60-69.
Vinson, Julia. “Fostering the Profession of Law: The Lifetime Achievements of Harry Bitner,” Legal Reference Services Quarterly 29 (April/June 2010): 85-100.
Vogel, Brenda. “Reachin’ Behind Bars: Library Outreach to Prisoners, 1798-2000,” in Vogel, The Prison Library Primer: A Program for the Twenty-First Century (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2009), pp. 1-17.
Weihs, Jean. “A Brief History of Classification, Part 1,” Technicalities 30 (January/February 2010): 14-16.
Widzinski, Lori. “Step Away from the Machine: A Look at Our Collective Past,” Library Trends 58 (Winter 2010): 358-77.
Williams, Kaurri C. “History of the Sevier County Public Library System,” Tennessee Libraries (online):
Williams, Robert V. “Madeline M. Henderson: From Chemical Information Science Pioneer to Architect of the New Information Science,” Libraries & the Cultural Record v. 45, no. 2 (2010): 167-84.
Griffis, Matthew. “Living History: The Carnegie Library as Place in Ontario,” Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science 34 (June 2010): 185-211.
Jones, Phillip. “The Mission of Little Star: Juana Manrique de Lara’s Contributions to Mexican Librarianship,” Libraries & the Cultural Record v. 45, no. 4 (2010): 469-90.
McNally, Peter and Rosemary Cochrane. Quebec Library Association: An Historical Review, 1932-2007 (Montreal: Association des Bibliothecaires de Québec, 2009) 32 pp. $30.00.
Nilsen, Kirsti. “Thirty-Seven CAIS-ASCI Conferences, 1973-2009,” Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science 34 (June 2010): 131-59.
Pérez-Matos, N. and Juan Carlos Fernández-Molina. “The History of Library and Information Activities in Cuba: The Relationship with its Constitutional Periods,” Library & Information History 26 (September 2010): 213-24.
C. EUROPE
Birkwood, Katherine. “Our Learned Primate and that Rare Treasurie: James Ussher’s use of Sir Robert Cotton’s Manuscript Library, c. 1603-1655,” Library & Information History 26 (March 2010): 33-42.
Black, Alistair, Simon Pepper, and Kaye Bagshaw. Books, Buildings and Social Engineering: Early Public Libraries in Britain from Past to Present (Farnham: Ashgate, 2009) 465 pp. $125.00 ISBN 978-0-7546-7207-4.
Chamier, George. The First Light: The Story of the Innerpeffray Library (Crieff, England: Library of Innerpeffray, 2009) 138 pp. $225.00.
Duckett, Bob. “T. J. Wise and the City Librarian: Bibliographical Research—1917 Style,” Library & Information History 26 (March 2010): 43-55.
Eide, Elisabeth S. “Reading Societies and Lending Libraries in Nineteenth-Century Norway,” Library & Information History 26 (June 2010): 121-38.
Gwynn, Lucy. “The Architecture of the English Domestic Library, 1600-1700,” Library & Information History 26 (March 2010): 56-89.
Háry, Nicoletta Mattioli. The Vatican Library and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: The History, Impact, and Influence of Their Collaboration (1927-1947) (Vatican City: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 2009) 749 pp. $250.00 ISBN 978-88-210-0849-8.
McCarthy, Muriel and Ann Simmons, eds. Marsh’s Library—A Mirror on the World: Law, Learning and Libraries (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2009) 311 pp. $40.00 ISBN 978-18486-215-23.
Moledina, Sheza. “Books in Exile: The Case of the Jesuit Seminary Library in Jersey, 1880-1945,” Library & Information History 26 (June 2010): 105-120.
Moran, Barbara B. “E. W. B. Nicholson and the Bodleian Library Staff-Kalendar,” Libraries & the Cultural Record v. 45, no. 3 (2010): 297-319.
Peterson, Herman A. “The Genesis of Monastic Libraries,” Libraries & the Cultural Record v. 45, no. 3 (2010): 320-32.
Rial, Benito. “Sixteenth-Century Private Book Inventories and Some Problems Related to their Analysis,” Library & Information History 26 (March 2010): 70-82.
Rozier, Gilles. “The Bibliotheque Medem: Eighty Years Serving Yiddish Culture,” Judaica Librarianship v. 15 (2009): 25-34.
Screen, J. E. O. “From Helsinki to Irkutsk: Military Libraries in Finland, 1812-1918,” Library & Information History 26 (June 2010): 139-51.
Yeo, M. M. “The Acquisition of Books by Chetham’s Library, 1655-1700: A Case Study in the Distribution and Reception of Texts in the English Provinces in the Late Seventeenth Century,” (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Manchester University), 2007.
D. ASIA, AFRICA, THE MIDDLE EAST, AND OTHER
Luyt, Brendan. “Collectors and Collecting for the Raffles Museum in Singapore: 1920-1940,” Library & Information History 26 (September 2010): 183-95.
Roe, George. “Challenging the Control of Knowledge in Colonial India: Political Ideas in the Work of S. R. Ranganathan,” Library & Information History 26 (March 2010): 18-32.
Thomas, Patricia. “The Habits and Institutions of Englishmen: Using the Pamphlet and Small Book Collections of Two New Zealand Research Libraries,” Library & Information History 26 (September 2010): 196-212.
Too, Yun Lee. The Idea of the Library in the Ancient World (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010) 250 pp. $90.00 ISBN 978-0-19-957780-4.
Yared, Mammo. “Haramaya University Library and Information Services: Looking Back to Look Forward,” International Information & Library Review 42 (March 2010): 14-26. [in Ethiopia]
E. HISTORY OF BOOKS, READING, AND BOOK CULTURE
Adam, Christian. Lesen under Hitler: Autoren, Bestseller, Leser im Dritten Reich (Köln: Galiani Berlin, 2010) 383 pp. $50.00 ISBN 978-3-86971-027-3.
Angeletti, Norberto and Alberto Oliva. Time: The Illustrated History of the World’s Most Influential Magazine (New York: Rizzoli, 2010) 431 pp. $50.00 ISBN 978-0-8478-3358-0.
Balint, Benjamin. Running Commentary: The Contentious Magazine That Transformed the Jewish Left into the Neoconservative Right (New York: PublicAffairs, 2010) 304 pp. $27.00 ISBN 978-1-58648-749-2.
Barker-Benfield, B. C., ed. St. Augustine’s Library, Canterbury 3 vols. (London: British Library, 2010) $250.00 ISBN 978-0-7123-4987-1.
Barnhisel, Greg and Catherine Turner, eds. Pressing the Fight: Print, Propaganda, and the Cold War (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2010) 285 pp. $40.00 ISBN 978-1-55849-736-8. [part of Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book series]
Brinkley, Alan. The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century (New York: Knopf, 2010) 560 pp. $35.00 ISBN 978-0-679-41444-5.
Butler, Betsy. “There Ain't Anything in This World That Sells a Book Like a Pretty Cover”: Nineteenth-Century Publishers' Bookbindings in Library Collections,” Art Documentation 29 (Spring 2010): 23-30.
Carbonell, John. The Early Printings of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and What They Reveal about His Spoken Words (New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2008) 51 pp. $20.00 ISBN 978-1-58456-256-6.
Colomer, Teresa. “The Evolution of Children's and Young Adults Literature in Spain,” Bookbird 48 (July 2010): 1-8.
de la Mare, A. C. and Laura Nuvoloni. Bartolomeo Sanvito: The Life and Work of a Renaissance Scribe edited by Anthony R.A. Hobson and Christopher de Hamel (Paris: Association Internationale de Bibliophilie, 2010) 464 pp. $260 ISBN 978-0-9563-7020-4.
Garvey, Mark. Stylized: A Slightly Obsessive History of Strunk & White’s The Elements of Style (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009) 208 pp. $22.95 ISBN 978-1-4165-9092-7.
Gross, Robert A. and Mary Kelley, eds. An Extensive Republic: Print, Culture, and Society in the New Nation, 1790-1840 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2010) 697 pp. $60.00 ISBN 978-0-8078-3339-1. [Volume 2 of A History of the Book in America]
Gunzenhauser, Bonnie, ed. Reading in History: New Methodologies from the Anglo-American Tradition (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2010)183 pp. $99.00 ISBN 978-1-85196-628-8. [Part of The History of the Book series]
Hench, John B. Books as Weapons: Propaganda, Publishing, and the Battle for Global Markets in the Era of World War II (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010) 333 pp. $35.00 ISBN 978-0-8014-4891-1.
Huculak, John Matthew. “Middlebrow Politics and the Book War: Periodicals, Print History, and the Commercialization of Literature, 1905-1932,” (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Tulsa), 2009, 224 pp. [focused on Great Britain]
Johnson, William A. Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire: A Study in Elite Communities (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010) 227 pp. $65.00 ISBN 978-0-19-517640-7.
Kafker, Frank A. and Jeff Loveland, eds. The Early Britannica: The Growth of an Outstanding Encyclopedia (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2009) 349 pp. $90.00 ISBN 978-0-7294-0981-0.
Luey, Beth. Expanding the American Mind: Books and the Popularization of Knowledge (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2010) 218 pp. $80.00 ISBN 978-1-55849-816-7.
Manguel, Alberto. A Reader on Reading (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010) 308 pp. $27.50 ISBN 978-0-300-15982-0.
McCorison, Marcus A. “Printers and the Law: The Trials of Publishing Obscene Libel in Early America,” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 104 (June 2010): 181-217.
Miller, Kathleen. “Writing the Plague: William Austin’s Epiloimia Epe, or, the Anatomy of Pestilence (1666) and the Crisis of Modern Representation,” Library & Information History 26 (March 2010): 3-17.
Pettegree, Andrew. The Book in the Renaissance (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010) 421 pp. $40.00 ISBN 978-0-300-11009-8.
Regier, Willis G. “What is an American Book?” Journal of Scholarly Publishing 4 (July 2010): 449-82. [Review essay]
Round, Phillip H. Removal Type: Histories of the Book in Indian Country, 1663-1880 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2010) 282 pp. $25.00 ISBN 978-0-8078-7120-1.
Runge, Laura L. and Pat Rogers, eds. Producing the Eighteenth-Century Book: Writers and Publishers in England, 1650-1800 (Newark, DE: University of
Delaware Press, 2009) 298 pp. $65.00 ISBN 978-0-87413-069-0.
Shiao, Ling A. “Printing, Reading, and Revolution: Kaiming Press and the Cultural Transformation of Republican China,” (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Brown University), 2009, 404 pp.
Sicherman, Barbara. Well-Read Lives: How Books Inspired a Generation of American Women (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2010) 380 pp. $35.00 ISBN 978-0-8078-3308-7.
Stephenson, Liisa. “Reading Matter: Modernism and the Book,” (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, McGill University, Canada), 2008, 356 pp.
Stevenson, Iain. Book Makers: British Publishing in the Twentieth Century (London: British Library, 2010) 314 pp. $40.00 ISBN 978-0-7123-0961-5.
F. GENERAL, HISTORIOGRAPHY, PHILOSOPHY, AND LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE EDUCATION
Ando, M. “Treatment of Records and Archives in the Japanese Colonies and Occupied Territories in Asia during the Second World War and its Aftermath,” (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, London University), 2008.
Banner, James M., Jr., ed. A Century of American Historiography (Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2010) 182 pp. $12.95 ISBN 978-0-312-53948-1.
Budd, John M., Heather Hill, and Brooke Shannon. “Inquiring into the Real: A Realist Phenomenological Approach,” Library Quarterly 80 (July 2010): 267-84.
Collins, Jim. Bring on the Books for Everybody: How Literary Culture Became Popular Culture (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010) 287 pp. $80.00 ISBN 978-0-8223-4588-6.
Dalton, Margaret Stieg. “The Publishing Experiences of Historians,” in Albert N. Greco, ed. The State of Scholarly Publishing: Challenges and Opportunities (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2009), pp. 107-46.
Fullilove, Courtney. “The Archive of Useful Knowledge,” (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Columbia University), 2009, 389 pp. [social history of knowledge production in the nineteenth century]
Gilchrist, Alan, ed. Information Science in Transition (London: Facet Publishing, 2009) 401 pp. $100.00 ISBN 978-1-8560-469-30. [Collection of historically-oriented essays]
Haycock, Ken. “Predicting Sustainability for Programs in Library and Information Science: Factors Influencing Continuance and Discontinuance,” Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 51 (Summer, July 2010): 130-41.
Hayes, Kevin J. “The Public Library in Utopia,” Libraries & the Cultural Record v. 45, no. 3 (2010): 333-49.
Leckie, Gloria J., Lisa M. Given, and John E. Buschman, eds. Critical Theory for Library and Information Science: Exploring the Social Form Across the Disciplines (Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited, 2010) 326 pp. $55.00 ISBN 978-1-59158-938-9.
Plotnick, Rachel. “Computers, Systems Theory, and the Making of a Wired Hospital: A History of Technicon Medical Information System, 1964-1987,” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 61 (June 2010): 1281-94.
Prince, Jacques. “Du Placard a l'Institution: l'Histoire des Archives Gaies du Quebec (AGQ),” Archivaria no. 68 (Fall 2009): 295-309.
Rasmussen, Hans C. “Records Management and the Decline of the English Archival Establishment, 1949-1956,” Libraries & the Cultural Record v. 45, no. 4 (2010): 442-68.
Rees, Graham and Maria Wakely. Publishing, Politics, and Culture: The King’s Printers in the Reign of James I and VI (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010) 280 pp. $99.00 ISBN 978-0-19-957631-9.
Shepherd, Elizabeth. Archives and Archivists in 20th Century England (Farnham and Burlington, England: Ashgate, 2009) 245 pp. $90.00 ISBN 978-0-75464-785-0.
Steffens, Jo. Ed. Unpacking My Library: Architects and Their Books (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009) 182 pp. $30.00 ISBN 978-0-300-15893-9.
Swigger, Boyd Keith. The MLS Project: An Assessment after Sixty Years (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2010) 163 pp. $50.00 ISBN 978-0-8108-7703-0.
Weller, Toni. “An Information History Decade: A Review of the Literature and Concepts, 2000-2009,” Library & Information History 26 (March 2010): 83-97.