Compiled By Ed Goedeken
Spring 2012
United States
Non-US Western Hemisphere
Europe
Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and other
History of Books, Reading, and Book Culture
General, Historiography, Philosophy, and Library and Information Science Education
A. UNITED STATES
Brown-Syed, Christopher. Parents of Invention: The Development of Library Automation Systems in the Late 20th Century (Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited, 2011) 145 pp. $60.00 ISBN 978-1-59158-792-7.
Buchanan, Sarah A. “Regional information science: Education and disciplinary precept in the Los Angeles Chapter of ASIST, 1961-2011,” Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology 62 (November 2011): 2277-89.
Gangewere, Robert J. Palace of Culture: Andrew Carnegie’s Museums and Library in Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011) 332 pp. $35.00 ISBN 978-0-8229-4397-6.
Goedeken, Edward A. “The Literature of American Library History, 2008-2009,” Libraries & the Cultural Record v. 46, no. 4 (2011): 412-41.
MacLeod, Kirsten. “The Librarian’s Dream-Prince: Carl Van Vechten and America’s Modernist Cultural Archives Industry,” Libraries & the Cultural Record v. 46, no. 4 (2011): 360-87.
Razer, Bob. “A Chapter in Arkansas Library History: The Library Association's Fourth Quarter Century, 1987-2011, (Part 2)” Arkansas Libraries 68 (Winter 2011): 14-19.
Stiffler, Stuart A. “Books and Reading in the Connecticut Western Reserve: The Small-Settlement Social Library, 1800-1860,” Libraries & the Cultural Record v. 46, no. 4 (2011): 388-411.
Valentine, Patrick. “The Origin of College Libraries in North Carolina: A Social History, 1890-1920,” Information & Culture: A Journal of History v. 47, no. 1 (2012): 79-112.
Welch, Cindy C. “Children’s Stories through the Air: Librarian-Broadcasters, 1922-1941,” Library Quarterly 82 (April 2012): 141-59.
York, Maurice C. “The North Carolina State Library as a Cultural Resource, 1812-1914,” North Carolina Historical Review 89 (January 2012): 1-26.
White, Cody. “Rising from the Ashes: The Impact of Proposition 13 on Public Libraries in California,” Libraries & the Cultural Record v. 46, no. 4 (2011): 345-59. [Winner of Justin Winsor Prize for 2010-2011]
B. NON-US WESTERN HEMISPHERE
Vogeley, Nancy. The Bookrunner: A History of Inter-American Relations-Print, Politics and Commerce in the United States and Mexico, 1800-1830 (Philadelphia, PA: American Philosophical Society, 2011) 350 pp. $35.00 ISBN 978-1-60618-011-2.
C. EUROPE
Bivens-Tatum, Wayne. Libraries and the Enlightenment (Duluth, MN: Library Juice Press, 2012) $25.00 ISBN 978-1-936117-42-0.
Bodemer, Brett. “Rabelais and the Abbey of Saint-Victor Revisited,” Information & Culture: A Journal of History v. 47, no. 1 (2012): 4-17.
Henkel, Anne-Katrin. Vom Krieg und von Büchern : Evakuierung, Rückführung und Beschlagnahme von Bibliotheksbeständen der Vormals Königlichen und Provinzialbibliothek Hannover während und nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg ([Hannover] : Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek ; [Hameln] : Niemeyer, 2011) 72 pp. $15.00 ISBN 978-3-8271-8905-9.
Hoare, Peter. “Some Parochial Libraries in the East Midlands,” Library & Information History 27 (December 2011): 223-28.
Issakhov, Orynbassar. The National Library of the Republic of Kazakhstan: History and Priorities for Development,” Alexandria v. 22 (2011): 39-45.
Jacob, W. M. “Parochial Libraries and Their Users,” Library & Information History 27 (December 2011): 211-16.
Manley, Keith A. “Parochial Libraries: Past, Present, and Future,” Library & Information History 27 (December 2011): 209-10.
Perkin, Michael. “Parochial Libraries: Compiling a Directory, and its Aftermath,” Library & Information History 27 (December 2011): 217-22.
Shaw, David. “Parochial Libraries in Kent,” Library & Information History 27 (December 2011): 239-45.
Thomas, Andrea and Hilary Ely. “The Cranston Library, Reigate: The First Three Hundred Years,” Library & Information History 27 (December 2011): 246-54.
Warren, Gundren. “Peck's Porch Picnic Parties, or The Bishop's Committee for Books and Documents,” Library & Information History 27 (December 2011): 229-38.
D. ASIA, AFRICA, THE MIDDLE EAST, AND OTHER
Franz, Gerald. “The Ancient Library at Alexandria: Embracing the Excellent, Avoiding its Fate,” in Dawn M. Mueller, ed., Declaration of Interdependence (Proceedings of the ARCL 2011 Conference, March 30-April 2, 2011) (Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2011), pp. 1-6.
Hamilton, Alistair. The Arcadian Library: Western Appreciation of Arab and Islamic Civilization (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011) 408 pp. $250.00 ISBN 978-0-19-960963-5.
E. HISTORY OF BOOKS, READING, AND BOOK CULTURE
Beale, Nigel. “Publishers’ Biographies and Publishing Histories,” LOGOS: The Journal of the World Book Community 22 (July 2011): 45-50.
Bell, Richard. “Weeping for Werther: Suicide, Sympathy and the Reading Revolution in Early America,” in Shafquat Towheed and W. R. Owens, eds., The History of Reading, Volume 1: International Perspectives (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), pp. 49-63.
Csiszar, Alex Attila. “Broken Pieces of Fact: The Scientific Periodical and the Politics of Search in Nineteenth-Century France and Britain,” (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Harvard University), 2010, 486 pp.
Dickens, M. Elizabeth. “Bringing Books to the Public: British Intellectual Weekly Periodicals, 1918-1939,” (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Toronto, Canada), 2010, 252 pp.
Hanzlik, Christie Cern. “Education beyond Borders: Exchanging Ideas through World’s Fairs, Congresses, and Academic Journals, 1851 to 1904,” (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2010) 267 pp.
Kamei-Dyche, Andrew T. “The History of Books and Print Culture in Japan,” Book History 14 (November 2011): 270-304.
Lehuu, Isabelle. “Reconstructing Reading Vogues in the Old South: Borrowings from the Charleston Library Society, 1811-1817,” in Shafquat Towheed and W. R. Owens, eds., The History of Reading, Volume 1: International Perspectives (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), pp. 64-83.
Linthout, Ine van. Das Buch in der nationalsozialistischen Propagandapolitik (Berlin : De Gruyter, 2012) 437 pp. $125.00 ISBN 978-3-11-025271-6.
Stewart, David M. Reading and Disorder in Antebellum America (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, $50.00 ISBN 978-0-8142-1158-8.
van den Heuvel, Charles and W. Boyd Rayward. “Facing Interfaces: Paul Otlet’s Visualizations of Data Integration,” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 62 (December 2011): 2313-26.
Wirten, Eva Hemmungs. “A Diplomatic Salto Mortale,” Book History 14 (November 2011): 88-109.
F. GENERAL, HISTORIOGRAPHY, PHILOSOPHY, AND LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE EDUCATION
Brothman, Brien. “The Society of American Archivists at Seventy-Five: Contexts of Continuity and Crisis, A Personal Reflection,” The American Archivist 74 (Fall/Winter 2011): 387-427.
Cox, Douglas. “National Archives and International Conflicts: The Society of American Archivists and War,” The American Archivist 74 (Fall/Winter 2011): 451-81.
Cronin, Blaise. “Collaboration in Art and in Science: Approaches to Attribution, Authorship, and Acknowledgement,” Information & Culture: A Journal of History v. 47, no. 1 (2012): 18-37.
Donnelly, Mark and Claire Norton. Doing History (New York: Routledge, 2011) 237 pp. $95.00 ISBN 978-0-415-56576-9.
Finlay, Craig S., et al. “LIS Dissertation Titles and Abstracts (1930-2009): Where Have All the Librar* Gone?” Library Quarterly 82 (January 2012): 29-46.
Floridi, Luciano. The Philosophy of Information (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011) $55.00 ISBN 978-0-19-923238-3.
Galloway, Patricia. “Playpens for Mind Children: Continuities in the Practice of Programming,” Information & Culture: A Journal of History v. 47, no. 1 (2012): 38-78.
Hall, David J. “Quaker Meeting Libraries,” Library & Information History 27 (December 2011): 255-62.
Parkes, Robert John. Interrupting History: Rethinking History Curriculum after The End of History (New York: Peter Lang, 2011): 153 pp. $35.00 ISBN 978-1-4331-1240-9.
Shaw, Ryan Benjamin. “Events and Periods as Concepts for Organizing Historical Knowledge,” (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 2010) 144 pp. [Advisor: Michael Buckland]
Vieth, Lynne S. “Borges Envisions the Library’s Future” in Dawn M. Mueller, ed., Declaration of Interdependence (Proceedings of the ARCL 2011 Conference, March 30-April 2, 2011) (Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2011), pp. 58-65.
Wilson, Concepción S., et al. “Fifty Years of LIS Education in Australia: Research Productivity and Visibility of LIS Educators in Higher Education Institutions,” Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 53 (January 2012): 49-68.