Bibliography of Writings on the History of Libraries, Librarianship, and Book Culture
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Spring 2008
Compiled by Ed Goedeken, Coordinator of Collections, Iowa State University.
Originally appeared in the Spring 2008 issue of the LHRT Newsletter. Entries are grouped by geographical area. As always, the author is grateful if ommissions or errors are brought to his attention.
Contents
B. Non-U.S. Western Hemisphere
D. Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Other
E. History of Books, Reading, and Book Culture
F. General, Historiography, Philosophy, and Library and Information Science Education
A. UNITED STATES
Anderson, Heather. “History of the Winterville Library,” North Carolina Libraries (online) 65 (Spring/Summer 2007): 6-11. []
Augst, Thomas. “Faith in Reading: Public Libraries, Liberalism, and the Civil Religion,” in Augst and Carpenter, eds. Institutions of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the United States (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007), pp. 148-83.
Augst, Thomas and Kenneth Carpenter, eds. Institutions of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the United States (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007) 368 pp. $80.00 ISBN 978-1-55849-590-6.
Baenen, Michael A. “A Great and Natural Enemy of Democracy?: Politics and Culture in the Antebellum Portsmouth Athenaeum,” in Augst and Carpenter, eds. Institutions of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the United States (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007), pp. 72-98.
Basler, Teresa T and David C. Wright. “The Making of a Collection: Mesoamerican Manuscripts at Princeton University,” Libraries & the Cultural Record v. 43, no. 1 (2008): 29-55.
Bluh, Pamela, ed. Commemorating the Past, Celebrating the Present, Creating the Future: Papers in Observance of the 50th Anniversary of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (Chicago, IL: ÂÜÀòÍøÊÓƵ, 2007).
Carpenter, Kenneth. “Toward a New Cultural Design: The American Council of Learned Societies, the Social Science Research Council, and Libraries in the 1930s,” in Augst and Carpenter, eds. Institutions of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the United States (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007), pp. 283-309.
Dimaya, Pedro Damo. “Relationships of Some Service Aspects of the Libraries under the Bureau of Public Libraries in the Philippines,” (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Tulsa), 1959, 84 pp.
Green, James. “Subscription Libraries and Commercial Circulating Libraries in Colonial Philadelphia and New York,” in Augst and Carpenter, eds. Institutions of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the United States (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007), pp. 53-71.
Hills-Nova, Clare. “Highly Idiosyncratic and Only Half Trained: The Institute of Fine Arts Libraries and Art History in the United States,” Art Libraries Journal v. 32 no. 3 (2007): 17-25.
Hussey, Lisa K. “Why Librarianship?: An Exploration of the Motivations of Ethnic Minorities to Choose Library and Information Science as a Career,” (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Missouri-Columbia), 2006, 209 pp. [Advisor: John Budd]
Koontz, Christie M. “A History of Location of U.S. Public Libraries within Community Place and Space: Evolving Implications for the Library's Mission of Equitable Service,” Public Library Quarterly v. 26, no.1/2 (2007): 75-100.
Latham, Joyce M. “White Collar Read: The American Public Library and the Left-Led CIO: A Case Study of the Chicago Public Library, 1929-1952,” (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), 2007, 259 pp. [Advisor: Leigh Estabrook]
Lear, Bernadette A. “Wishing They Were There: Old Postcards and Library History,” Libraries & the Cultural Record v. 43, no. 1 (2008): 77-101.
McHenry, Elizabeth. “An Association of Kindred Spirits: Black Readers and Their Reading Rooms,” in Augst and Carpenter, eds. Institutions of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the United States (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007), pp. 99-118.
Mitchell, Barbara A. “Boston Library Catalogues, 1850-1875: Female Labor and Technological Change,” in Augst and Carpenter, eds. Institutions of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the United States (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007), pp. 119-47.
Nappo, Caroline M. “Library Services for Indigenous Populations in the United States and Australia: A Cross-Cultural Comparison,” Rural Libraries v. 27, no. 1 (2007): 31-48.
Nix, Larry T. “Cultural Record Keepers: The New York Mercantile Library and its Home Delivery Service,” Libraries & the Cultural Record v. 42, no. 4 (2007): 452-55.
Paulus, M. J. “Beyond Pabulum for the Undergraduates: The Development of the Princeton Theological Seminary Library in the Nineteenth Century,” Libraries & the Cultural Record v. 42, no. 3 (2007): 231-67.
Pawley, Christine. “Blood and Thunder on the Bookmobile: American Public Libraries and the Construction of the \ Reader, 1950-1995,” in Augst and Carpenter, eds. Institutions of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the United States (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007), pp. 264-82.
Peterson, K. L. “American Academic Librarians’ Attitudes toward Recreational Reading: A Content Analysis of the Periodical Literature,” (Master’s Thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), 2006, 52 pp.
Phillips, Faye. “To Build upon the Foundation: Charles Gayarré’s Vision for the Louisiana State Library,” Libraries & the Cultural Record v. 43, no. 1 (2008): 56-76.
Preer, Jean. “Promoting Citizenship: How Librarians Helped Get Out the Vote in the 1952 Presidential Election,” Libraries & the Cultural Record v. 43, no. 1 (2008): 1-28. [Awarded 2007 Justin Winsor Prize]
Radway, Janice. “The Library as Place, Collection, or Service: Promoting Book Circulation in Durham, North Carolina, and at the Book-of-the-Month Club, 1925-1945,” in Augst and Carpenter, eds. Institutions of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the United States (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007), pp. 231-63.
Rauen, Marjorie B. “Reading Controversy: The Narratives of San Francisco Public Library’s New Main Building,” (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles), 2006, 424 pp.
Raven, James. “Social Libraries and Library Societies in Eighteenth-Century North America,” in Augst and Carpenter, eds. Institutions of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the United States (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007), pp. 24-52.
Robbins, Louise S. “Responses to the Resurrection of Miss Ruth Brown: An Essay on the Reception of a Historical Case Study,” Libraries & the Cultural Record v. 42, no. 4 (2007): 422-37.
Roffman, Karin. “Women Writers and Their Libraries in the 1920s,” in Augst and Carpenter, eds. Institutions of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the United States (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007), pp. 203-30.
Stauffer, Suzanne M. “In Their Own Image: The Public Library Collection as a Reflection of its Donors,” Libraries & the Cultural Record v. 42, no. 4 (2007): 387-408.
Wendorf, Richard, ed. America’s Membership Libraries (New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2007) 354 pp. $39.95 ISBN 978-1-58456-199-6.
Whitmire, Ethelene. “Breaking the Color Barrier: Regina Andrews and the New York Public Library,” Libraries & the Cultural Record v. 42, no. 4 (2007): 409-21.
Young, Sheridan Eleanor. “Setbacks and Successes: Cameron University’s Library, 1909-2000,” Chronicles of Oklahoma 85 (Fall 2007): 280-307.
B. NON-U.S. WESTERN HEMISPHERE
MacLennan, Birdie. “The Library and its Place in Cultural Memory: The Grande Bibliothèque du Québec in the Construction of Social and Cultural Identity,” Libraries & the Cultural Record v. 42, no. 4 (2007): 349-86.
Ortega, Alma C. “A History of the Fundação Biblioteca Nacional (FBN) and its role in the creation of National Library Reading Initiatives in Brazil,” World Libraries 14 (Fall 2004). [available at: ]
Williams, Dorothy W. “Sankofa: Recovering Montreal’s Heterogeneous Black Print Serials,” (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, McGill University, Canada), 2006, 374 pp.
C. EUROPE
Black, Alistair. “Mechanization in Libraries and Information Retrieval: Punched Cards and Microfilm before the Widespread Adoption of Computer Technology in Libraries,” Library History 23 (December 2007): 291-99.
Bowman, J. H. “OPACS: The Early Years, and User Reactions,” Library History 23 (December 2007): 317-29.
Bowman, J. H. “Retrospective Conversion: The Early Years,” Library History 23 (December 2007): 331-40.
Carlsson, Anna. “The Geography of Scientific Culture in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Case of Bamburgh Castle Library,” Library History 23 (September 2007): 179-90.
Crawford, John. “Recovering the Lost Scottish Community Library: The Example of Fenwick,” Library History 23 (September 2007): 201-212.
Fishburn, Matthew. “Books are Weapons: Wartime Responses to the Nazi Bookfires of 1933,” Book History 10 (2007): 223-51.
Lilja, Johanna. “Developing the International Distribution of Humanities Studies in Finland: The Exchange of Publications of Two Learned Societies in 1831-1914,” Library History 23 (September 2007): 213-21.
López, Genaro Luis García. “The Current State of Research on the History of Public Libraries in Spain,” Library History 23 (September 2007): 191-99.
Love-Rodgers, Christine. “New College Library: From a Library Apart to a Library Online,” Bulletin of the Association of British Theological & Philosophical Libraries 14 (June 2007): 16-21. [New College Library in Edinburgh, Scotland]
Meehan, William, III. “The Importance of Cosimo de Medici in Library History,” Indiana Libraries v. 26, no. 3 (2007): 15-17.
Naylor, Bernard. “Early Developments in the Automation of Higher Education Libraries,” Library History 23 (December 2007): 283-90.
Niessen, James. “The Persistence and Decline of German Scholarship in Hungarian Library Collections and Culture in the Twentieth Century" Slavic & East European Information Resources v. 8, no. 4 (2007): 55-70.
Niessen, James. “Records of Empire, Monarchy, or Nation?: The Archival Heritage of the Habsburgs in East Central Europe,” Ab Imperio (March 2007). Available online at: =
Pöppinghege, Rainer. “The Battle of the Books: Supplying Prisoners of War,” in Mary Hammond and Shafquat Toweed, eds., Publishing in the First World War: Essays in Book History (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), pp. 78-92.
Schürer, Norbert. “Four Catalogues of the Lowndes Circulating Library, 1755-66,” The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 101 (September 2007): 329-57.
Sjöbohm, Anders. “The Carlscrona Reading Society Library: The Library of My Great-Grandfather’s Great-Grandfather,” Library History 23 (September 2007): 171-78.
Skouvig, Laura. “The Construction of the Working-Class User: Danish Free Public Libraries and the Working Classes, 1880-1920,” Library History 23 (September 2007): 223-38.
Smith, N. “Finding a Place: Librarians, Local History and the Search for Professional and Social Status, 1890-1925,” (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Sussex, United Kingdom), 2006.
Stimpson, Felicity. “I Have Spent My Morning Reading Greek: The Marginalia of Sir George Otto Trevelyan,” Library History 23 (September 2007): 239-50.
Tedd, Lucy A. “Library Management Systems in the UK: 1960s-1980s,” Library History 23 (December 2007): 301-316.
Thomson, Erik. "Axel Oxenstierna and Books," Sixteenth Century Journal 38 (Fall 2007): 705-729.
Woods, Rollo G. “How It All Began,” Library History 23 (December 2007): 275-82 [beginnings of automation at Southampton University Library]
D. ASIA, AFRICA, THE MIDDLE EAST, AND OTHER
Krätli, Graziano. “The Book and the Sand: Restoring and Preserving the Ancient Desert Libraries of Mauritania — Part 1,” World Libraries 14 (Spring 2004). [available at: ]
Krätli, Graziano. “The Book and the Sand: Restoring and Preserving the Ancient Desert Libraries of Mauritania — Part 2,” World Libraries 14 (Fall 2004). [available at: ]
E. HISTORY OF BOOKS, READING, AND BOOK CULTURE
Acree, Jill. “The Sorrows of Parson Weems: His Life and Legacy,” (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Claremont Graduate University), 2007, 271 pp. [Weems was an author, minister, and bookseller]
Amann, Elizabeth. “Domesticating Spain: 1898 and the Hispanic Society of America,” in Augst and Carpenter, eds. Institutions of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the United States (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007), pp. 184-202.
Brown, Matthew P. The Pilgrim and the Bee: Reading Rituals and Book Culture in Early New England (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007) 265 pp. $65.00 ISBN 978-0-8122-4015-3.
Cody-Fuller, Carolyn. “Historical Case Study of Women Editors: Leadership in Children’s Book Publishing in America, 1900-1950,” (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Phoenix), 2007, 116 pp.
Currier, James David. “Greedy for Facts: Charles Darwin’s Information Needs and Behaviors,” (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh), 2007, 318 pp.
Davies, J. Keith and Gerhard Fichtner, eds. Freud’s Library: A Comprehensive Catalogue (London: Freud Museum, 2007) 144 pp. (plus CD), $50.00 ISBN 978-3-89295-752-2.
Desmarais, Robert J. Randolph Caldecott: His Books and Illustrations for Young Readers (Edmonton, Canada: University of Alberta Press, 2006) 118 pp. $40.00 ISBN 1-55195-209-2.
Dilevko, Juris and Keren Dali. “Book History and Ideological Hierarchies,” Intercultural Education 17 (May 2006): 221-33.
Gabler, Jay. “From Captains Courageous to Captain Underpants: Children’s Books as a Cultural Field in the Twentieth Century,” (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Harvard University), 2007, 309 pp.
Hunter, Christopher. “From Print to Print: The First Complete Edition of Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography,” The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 101 (December 2007): 481-505.
Jacobson, Timothy C. Knowledge for Generations: Wiley and the Global Publishing Industry, 1807-2007 (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2007) 548 pp. $50.00 ISBN 978-0471757214.
Joachim, Martin D. “Books and Other Reading Material in Early Monroe County, Indiana,” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly v. 44, no. 1/2 (2007): 55-117.
Kim, Jinah. “Unorthodox Practice: Rethinking the Cult of Illustrated Buddhist Books in South Asia,” (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley), 2006, 530 pp.
Kosofsky, Scott-Martin. The SP Century: Boston’s Society of Printers through One Hundred Years of Change (New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2006) 268 pp $45.00 ISBN 1-58456-194-7.
Longworth, Kate. “Between Then and Now: Modern Book History,” Literature Compass 4 (December 2007): 1428-1443. [available at: ]
Loughran, Trish. The Republic in Print: Print Culture in the Age of Nation Building, 1770-1870 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007) 537 pp. $45.00 ISBN 978-0-231-13908-3.
Mondlin, Marvin and Roy Meador. Book Row: An Anecdotal and Pictorial History of the Antiquarian Book Trade (New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2005) 405 pp. $16.00 ISBN 0-7867-1652-5.
Peden, William Harwood. “Thomas Jefferson: Book-Collector,” (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Virginia), 1942, 239 pp.
Polastron, Lucien X. Books on Fire: The Destruction of Libraries throughout History (Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 2007) 371 pp. $25.00 ISBN 978-1-59477-167-5.
Rose, Jonathan. “Lady Chatterley's Broker: Banking on Modernism,” The Common Review (Winter 2008):
Rosenzweig, Roy. “Scarcity or Abundance?: Preserving the Past in a Digital Era,” in Augst and Carpenter, eds. Institutions of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the United States (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007), pp. 310-42.
Shaw, M. J. “Keeping Time in the Age of Franklin: Almanacs and the Atlantic World,” Printing History new ser. no. 2 (July 2007): 17-37.
F. GENERAL, HISTORIOGRAPHY, PHILOSOPHY, AND LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE EDUCATION
Barrett, Neil. The Binary Revolution: The Development of the Computer (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006) 304 pp. $24.95 ISBN 0-297-84738-4.
Cacaly, Serge and Yves-Francois Le Coadic. “Fifty Years of Scientific and Technical Information Policy in France (1955-2005)” Journal of Information Science v. 33, no. 3 (2007): 377-384.
Galgano, Michael J., J. Chris Arndt, and Raymond M. Hyser. Doing History: Research and Writing in the Digital Age (Boston, MA: Thomson Higher Education, 2008) 198 pp. $33.95 ISBN 978-0-534-61953.
Low, Kathleen. Casanova Was a Librarian: A Light-Hearted Look at the Profession (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2007) 176 pp. $45.00 ISBN 978-0-7864-2981-3.
Presnell, Jenny L. The Information-Literate Historian: A Guide to Research for History Students (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007) 242 pp. $14.95 (pbk) ISBN 0-19-517651-0.
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