Bibliography of Writings on the History of Libraries, Librarianship, and Book Culture, Fall 2013
Bibliography of Writings on the History of Libraries, Librarianship, and Book Culture
By Ed Goedeken
Fall 2013
A. UNITED STATES
Agur, Colin. “Negotiated Order: The Fourth Amendment, Telephone Surveillance, and Social Interactions, 1878-1968,” Information & Culture: A Journal of History v. 48. No. 4 (2013): 419-47.
Aiken, Jane. “A Search for Better Ways into the Future: The Library of Congress and its Users in the Interwar Period,” in Christine Pawley and Louise S. Robbins, eds., Libraries and the Reading Public in Twentieth-Century America (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2013), pp. 78-93.
Alteri, Suzan A. “Curriculum Materials Laboratories: Blast from the Past or Institutionally Relevant?” in Rita Kohrman, ed. Curriculum Materials Collections and Centers: Legacies from the Past, Visions of the Future (Chicago, IL: ACRL, 2012), pp. 23-41.
Berg, Kristi, Tom Seymour, and Richa Goel. “History of Databases,” International Journal of Management & Information Systems 17 (2013 1st Quarter): 29-35.
Bond, Trevor James. “The Hunt for Oregon Missionary Sources: Clifford M. Drury’s Enduring Archives Legacy,” Oregon Historical Quarterly 114 (Spring 2013): 38-63.
Bowen, Amanda and Robert Sennett, eds. “The Fine Arts Library at 50,” Harvard Library Bulletin 23 (Fall 2012): entire issue.
Charles, Patrick J. “Legal Publishing Advertisements During the Second World War, Korean War, Cold War, and Vietnam War,” AALL Spectrum 17 (February 2013): 20-43.
Felsenstein, Frank, et al., “Reading Library Records: Constructing and Using the What Middletown Read Database,” in Christine Pawley and Louise S. Robbins, eds., Libraries and the Reading Public in Twentieth-Century America (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2013), pp. 40-63.
Fenton, Michele T. “Way Down Yonder at the Cherry Street Branch: A Short history of Evansville’s Negro Library,” Indiana Libraries 30 (2012): 37-41.
Finn, Megan. “Information Infrastructure and Descriptions of the 1857 Fort Tejon Earthquake,” Information & Culture: A Journal of History v. 48, no. 2 (2013): 194-221.
Ford, Douglas. “Informing Airmen?: The US Army Air Forces’ Intelligence on Japanese Fighter Tactics in the Pacific Theatre, 1941-5,” International History Review v. 34 (2012): 725-52.
Frazier, Jennifer. “The History of the Kentucky State Law Library,” Kentucky Libraries 77 (Spring 2013): 12-23.
Gaffney, Loretta M. “Is Your Library Family Friendly?: Libraries as a Site of Conservative Activism, 1992-2002,” in Christine Pawley and Louise S. Robbins, eds., Libraries and the Reading Public in Twentieth-Century America (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2013), pp. 185-99.
Goedeken, Edward A. “The Literature of American Library History, 2010-2011,” Information & Culture: A Journal of History v. 48. No. 4 (2013): 506-36.
Grossman, Hal B. “Underfunded and Outshone: The Library Profession at A Century of Progress International Exposition, Chicago, 1933-1934,” Library & Information History 29 (May 2013): 103-117.
Harvey, Ross. “Story Develops Badly, Could not Finish: Member Book Reviews at the Boston Athenaeum in the 1920s,” in Christine Pawley and Louise S. Robbins, eds., Libraries and the Reading Public in Twentieth-Century America (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2013), pp. 64-77.
Henle, Alea. “The Widow’s Mite: Hannah Mather Crocker and the Mather Libraries,” Information & Culture: A Journal of History v. 48, no. 3 (2013): 323-43.
Jaeger, Paul T., et al. “Democracy, Neutrality, and Value Demonstration in the Age of Austerity,” The Library Quarterly 83 (October 2013): 368-82.
Jones, Plummer Alston, Jr. “Cleveland’s Multicultural Librarian: Eleanor (Edwards) Ledbetter, 1870-1954,” The Library Quarterly 83 (July 2013): 249-70.
Knox, Emily. “The Challengers of West Bend: The Library as a Community Institution,” in Christine Pawley and Louise S. Robbins, eds., Libraries and the Reading Public in Twentieth-Century America (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2013), pp. 200-214.
Latham, Joyce M. “A Liberal and Dignified Approach: The John Toman Branch of the Chicago Public Library and the Making of Americans, 1927-1940,” in Christine Pawley and Louise S. Robbins, eds., Libraries and the Reading Public in Twentieth-Century America (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2013), pp. 111-28.
Kohrman, Rita. “From Collections to Laboratories to Centers: Development of the Curriculum Materials Collections or Centers to 1940,” in Rita Kohrman, ed. Curriculum Materials Collections and Centers: Legacies from the Past, Visions of the Future (Chicago, IL: ACRL, 2012), pp. 3-21.
Martens, Marianne. “The Librarian Lion: Constructing Children’s Literature through Connections, Capital, and Criticism (1906-1941)” Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 53 (Fall, October 2013): 307-19.
Nicholson, Scott. “Playing in the Past: A History of Games, Toys, and Puzzles in North American Libraries,” The Library Quarterly 83 (October 2013): 341-61.
Olcott, Jocelyn. “Empires of Information: Media Strategies for the 1975 International Women’s Year,” Journal of Women’s History v. 24 (2012): 24-48.
Pawley, Christine and Louise S. Robbins, eds. Libraries and the Reading Public in Twentieth-Century America (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2013) 273 pp. $40.00 ISBN 978-0-299-2932-46. [Part of Print Culture History in Modern America series]
Pozzi, Ellen M. “Going to America: Italian Neighborhoods and the Newark Free Public Library, 1900-1920,” in Christine Pawley and Louise S. Robbins, eds., Libraries and the Reading Public in Twentieth-Century America (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2013), pp. 97-110.
Preer, Jean. “Counter Culture: The World as Viewed from Inside the Indianapolis Public Library, 1944-1956,” in Christine Pawley and Louise S. Robbins, eds., Libraries and the Reading Public in Twentieth-Century America (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2013), pp. 129-47.
Preer, Jean and Lydia Spotts. “Meeting under the Dome: The ALA Holds Its 1928 Conference in West Baden,” Indiana Libraries v. 31, no. 2 (2012): 11-16.
Radway, Janice A. “From the Underground to the Stacks and Beyond: Girl Zines, Zine Librarians, and the Importance of Itineraries through Print Culture,” in Christine Pawley and Louise S. Robbins, eds., Libraries and the Reading Public in Twentieth-Century America (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2013), pp. 237-59.
Ryan, Susan M. “An Idea Likely Too Big: John B. Stetson University’s Pursuit of an Academic Carnegie Library in the Early Twentieth Century,” Library & Information History 29 (March 2013): 38-58.
Sappol, Michael, ed. Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine (Bethesda, MD: National Library of Medicine, 2012) 239 pp. $50.00 ISBN 978-0-922233-42-7.
Sellie, Alycia. “Meta-Radicalism: The Alternative Press by and for Activist Librarians,” in Christine Pawley and Louise S. Robbins, eds., Libraries and the Reading Public in Twentieth-Century America (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2013), pp. 217-36.
Skinner, Julia. “Censorship in the Heartland: Eastern Iowa Libraries during World War I,” in Christine Pawley and Louise S. Robbins, eds., Libraries and the Reading Public in Twentieth-Century America (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2013), pp. 151-67.
Solomon, David J. “Digital Distribution of Academic Journals and its Impact on Scholarly Communication: Looking Back after 20 Years,” Journal of Academic Librarianship 39 (January 2013): 23-28.
Spencer, Rhonda. “Story: Indiana Libraries and the West Baden Springs Hotel,” Indiana Libraries v. 31 (2012): 6-10.
Taylor, Joan Bessman. “Locating the Library in the Nonlibrary Censorship of the 1950s: Ideological Negotiations in the Professional Record,” in Christine Pawley and Louise S. Robbins, eds., Libraries and the Reading Public in Twentieth-Century America (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2013), pp. 168-84.
Wiegand, Wayne A. “Community Places and Reading Spaces: Main Street Public Library in the Rural Heartland, 1876-1956,” in Christine Pawley and Louise S. Robbins, eds., Libraries and the Reading Public in Twentieth-Century America (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2013), pp. 23-39.
Wilkerson, Laura M. “Lura Slaughter and Mary Ahern: In the Service of Libraries,” Indiana Libraries v. 31, no. 2 (2012): 33-39.
B. NON-US WESTERN HEMISPHERE
Bruce, Lorne D. “Building Canadian Electronic Libraries: The Experience in Ontario Public Libraries, 1960-2010,” in Ravindra N. Sharma, ed., Libraries in the Early 21st Century 2 vols. (Berlin: Walter De Gruyter, 2012), 1:91-104.
Cukierman, Henrique Luiz. “Computer Technology in Brazil: From Protectionism and National Sovereignty to Globalization and Market Competitiveness,” Information & Culture: A Journal of History v. 48. No. 4 (2013): 479-505.
Salman, Judith, et al., The Canada IFLA Adventure: 85 Years of Canadian Participation in the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, 1927 to 2012 (Ottawa: Canadian Library Association, 2013) ISBN 978-0888-02339-1.
C. EUROPE
Allan, David. “Politeness and the Politics of Culture: An Intellectual History of the Eighteenth-Century Subscription Library,” Library & Information History 29 (September 2013): 159-69.
Atkinson, Juliette. “The London Library and the Circulation of French Fiction in the 1840s,” Information & Culture: A Journal of History v. 48. No. 4 (2013): 391-418.
Bowd, Rebecca. “Useful Knowledge or Polite Learning?: A Reappraisal of Approaches to Subscription Library History,” Library & Information History 29 (September 2013): 182-95.
Cortada, James W. “The Information Ecosystems of National Diplomacy: The Case of Spain, 1815-1936,” Information & Culture: A Journal of History v. 48, no. 2 (2013): 222-259.
Feather, John. “Space in the University Library: An Historical Perspective,” in Graham Matthews and Graham Walton, eds. University Libraries and Space in the Digital World (Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2013), pp. 19-34.
Gerrard, Teresa and Alexis Weedon. “The Lower Classes are Very Hard Readers: Kidderminster Municipal Library, 1855-1856,” Library & Information History 29 (May 2013): 81-102.
Kolar, Kelly Ann. “Russian Archives and Libraries: Their Development since the Introduction of Technology,” in Ravindra N. Sharma, ed., Libraries in the Early 21st Century 2 vols. (Berlin: Walter De Gruyter, 2012), 1:269-279.
Manley, Keith A. “Jeremy Bentham has been Banned: Contention and Censorship in Private Subscription Libraries before 1825,” Library & Information History 29 (September 2013): 170-81.
Pearson, David. “The English Private Library in the Seventeenth Century,” The Library v. 13 (2012): 379-99.
Raven, James. “Debating Bibliomania and the Collection of Books in the Eighteenth Century,” Library & Information History 29 (September 2013): 196-209.
Reid, Peter H. and Margaret Molloy. “Church and State: Censorship and Political Interference in the Libraries of County Mayo,” Library & Information History 29 (May 2013): 118-34.
Riordan, Michael. “The King’s Library of Manuscripts: The State Paper Office as Archive and Library,” Information & Culture: A Journal of History v. 48, no. 2 (2013): 181-93.
Schotte, Margaret. “Expert Records: Nautical Logbooks from Columbus to Cook,” Information & Culture: A Journal of History v. 48, no. 3 (2013): 281-322.
Spencer, Stephanie. “Just a Book in a Library?: The Sybil Campbell Library Collection Fostering International Friendship amongst Graduate Women,” History of Education v. 42, no. 2 (2013): 257-74.
Towsey, Mark. “I Can’t Resist Sending You the Book: Private Libraries, Elite Women, and Shared Reading Practices in Georgian Britain,” Library & Information History 29 (September 2013): 210-22.
Vaughn, W. E., ed. The Old Library, Trinity College Dublin, 1712-2012 (Dublin: Four Courts, 2013) 462 pp. $70.00 ISBN 978-1-84682-377-0.
Woodward, Hazel and Fytton Rowland. “The History of Library Automation in the United Kingdom,” in Ravindra N. Sharma, ed., Libraries in the Early 21st Century 2 vols. (Berlin: Walter De Gruyter, 2012), 1:361-73.
D. ASIA, AFRICA, THE MIDDLE EAST, AND OTHER
König, Jason, Katarina Oikonomopoulou, and Greg Woolf, eds. Ancient Libraries (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013) 497 pp. $120.00 ISBN 978-1-107-01256-1.
E. HISTORY OF BOOKS, READING, AND BOOK CULTURE
Apple, Rima D., Gregory J. Downey, and Stephen L. Vaughn., eds. Science in Print: Essays on the History of Science and the Culture of Print (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012). 235 pp. $35.00 ISBN 978-029928614-9. [Part of Print Culture History in Modern America series]
Gardner, Jared. The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2012) 203 pp. $50.00 ISBN 978-0-252-03670-5.
Hoover, John Neal. “Lights! Camera! Action! American Cinematic Use of Books in Scenery and Plot, 1900-1970,” The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 106 (December 2012): 403-415.
Reisch, Alfred A. Hot Books in the Cold War: The CIA-Funded Secret Western Book Distribution Program Behind the Iron Curtain (Budapest, Hungary: Central European University Press, 2013) 574 pp. $63.00 ISBN 978-61552-252-39.
Salter, Elisabeth. Popular Reading in English, c. 1400-1600 (Manchester, England: Manchester University Press, 2012) 260 pp. $105.00 ISBN 978-0-7190-7799-9.
Smith, Steven Carl. “Elements of Useful Knowledge: New York and the National Book Trade in the Early Republic,” The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 106 (December 2012): 487-538.
F. GENERAL, HISTORIOGRAPHY, PHILOSOPHY, AND LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE EDUCATION
Bernstein, William J. Masters of the Word: How Media Shaped History from the Alphabet to the Internet (New York: Grove Press, 2013) 420 pp. $50.00 ISBN 978-0-8021-2138-7.
Carey, John. “Scientific Communication before and after Networked Science,” Information & Culture: A Journal of History v. 48, no. 3 (2013): 344-67.
Ekbia, Hamid R. and Venkata Ratnadeep Suri. “Of Dustbowl Ballads and Railroad Rate Tables: Erudite Enactments in Historical Inquiry,” Information & Culture: A Journal of History v. 48, no. 2 (2013): 260-78.
Guns, Raf. “Tracing the Origins of the Semantic Web,” Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology 64 (October 2013): 2173-2181.
Gracy, Karen F. “The Evolution and Integration of Moving Image Preservation Work into Cultural Heritage Institutions,” Information & Culture: A Journal of History v. 48, no. 3 (2013): 368-89.
Gray, Sara Wingate. “Locating Librarianship’s Identity in its Historical Roots of Professional Philosophies: Towards a Radical New Identity for Librarians of Today (and Tomorrow)” IFLA Journal 39 (March 2013): 37-44.
Kafka, Ben. The Demon of Writing: Powers and Failures of Paperwork (Cambridge, MA: Zone Books/MIT Press, 2012) 208 pp. $29.00 ISBN 978-1-9354-082-6-0.
Partner, Nancy and Sarah Foot, eds. The SAGE Handbook of Historical Theory (Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 2013) 527 pp. $150.00 ISBN 978-1-4129-3114-4.
Procter, Margaret. “A Smart Parchment-Rooter: Hubert Hall, British Archives and American Scholarship, 1880-1940,” American Archivist 76 (Spring/Summer 2013): 215-36.
Shaw, Ryan. “Information Organization and the Philosophy of History,” Journal of the Society for Information Science & Technology 64 (June 2013): 1092-1103.
Slayton, Rebecca. “Efficient, Secure Green: Digital Utopianism and the Challenge of Making the Electrical Grid Smart,” Information & Culture: A Journal of History v. 48. No. 4 (2013): 448-78.
Wilhite, Jeffrey M. 85 Years IFLA: History and Chronology of Sessions 1927-2012 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012) 224 pp. $70.00 ISBN978-31102-532-90.
Wolters, Timothy S. Information at Sea: Shipboard Command and Control in the U.S. Navy, from Mobile Bay to Okinawa (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013) 317 pp. $55.00 ISBN 978-1-4214-1026-5.
