Bibliography of Writings on the History of Libraries, Librarianship, and Book Culture, Fall 2014

Bibliography of Writings on the History of Libraries, Librarianship, and Book Culture

By Ed Goedeken

Fall 2014

  1. UNITED STATES

Abbott, Andrew. “Googles of the Past: Concordances and Scholarship,” Social Science History 37 (Winter 2013): 427-55.

Anderson, Joseph R. “The Organization and Description of Science Archives in America,” ISIS: Journal of the History of Science in Society 104 (September 2013): 561-72.

Belniak, Theodora. “The History of American Bar Association Accreditation Standards for Academic Law Libraries,” Law Library Journal 106 (Spring 2014): 151-73.

Bellrnore, Audra. “The University of New Mexico’s Zimmerman Library,” New Mexico Historical Review 88 (Spring 2013): 123-63.

Benjamin, Michael. “In Search of the Grail: The Conceptual Origins of the Encyclopedia Africana,” Information & Culture v. 49, no. 2 (2014): 204-233.

Berring, Robert C. “The Education of a Twentieth Century Law Librarian,” Legal Reference Services Quarterly 32 (January-June 2013): 1-12.

Berring, Robert C. “The Education of a Twentieth Century Law Librarian: Part II, 1975-1978,: Days at the Mother Library,” Legal Reference Services Quarterly 33 (April-June 2014): 191-202.

Biswas, Subhankar, and Durga Sankar Rath, “From Maunsell to Lubetzky: A Journey Back in Search of the Root of FRBR among the Cataloguing Codes of Anglo-American Origin” Annals of Library and Information Studies v. 61 (2014): 7–14.

Bourne, Ann. “Enriching the Collective Resources: An Historical Analysis of the Network of Alabama Academic Libraries, 1984-2009,” (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Alabama), 2013, 245 pp.

Burns, C. Sean. “Academic Libraries and Automation: A Historical Reflection on Ralph Halstead Parker,” portal: Libraries & the Academy 14 (January 2014): 87-2012.

Carlson, Sharon. “Ladies First,” Michigan History Magazine 98 (July/August 2014): 32-36. [History of Kalamazoo Ladies’ Library Association]

Carroll, Mary and Sue Reynolds. “There and Back Again: Reimagining the Public Library for the Twenty-First Century,” Library Trends 62 (Winter 2014): 581-95.

Cary, Larry. “The 35-year history of The Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives,” American Communist History 12 (April 2013): 17-29.

Cox, Richard J. “Lester J. Cappon, and Unwritten Textbook, and Early Archival Education in the United States,” Information & Culture v. 49. No. 3 (2014): 327-50.

Dawson, Robert. The Public Library: A Photographic Essay (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2014) 191 pp. $35.00 ISBN 978-1-61689-217-3.

Dekydtspotter, Lori. “Slavic Treasures in the Midwest: The Lilly Library’s Czech Language and Literature Collections.” Indiana Libraries v. 33, no. 1 (2014): 19-21.

Deng, Liya. “The Evolution of Library Reference Services: From General to Special, 1876-1920s,” Libri 64 (September 2014): 254-62.

Donnelly, Francis P. “The Geographic Distribution of United States Public Libraries: An Analysis of Locations and Service Areas,” Journal of Librarianship & Information Science 46 (June 2014): 110-29.

Eaton, Gale. The Education of Alice M. Jordan: Navigating a Career in Children’s Librarianship (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2014) 254 pp. $85.00 ISBN 978-1-4422-3647-9.

Edelman, Hendrik. “Nijhoff in America: Booksellers from the Netherlands and the Development of Research Libraries—Part 3,” Quaerendo v. 43 (2013): 1-24.

Fenton, Michele T. “Stepping Out on Faith: Lillian Haydon Childress Hall, Pioneer Black Librarian.” Indiana Libraries v. 33, no.1 (2014): 5-11.

Fitzpatrick, Siobhan. “The James Library: House of Knowledge,” Pioneer American Society Transactions v. 36 (2013): 44-51. [Public library in Madison, New Jersey]

Gard Marshall, Joanne. “Linking Research to Practice: The Rise of Evidence-Based Health Sciences Librarianship,” Journal of Medical Library Association 102 (January 2014): 14-21.

Grant, Stephen H. Collecting Shakespeare: The Story of Henry and Emily Folger (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014) 264 pp. $30.00 ISBN 978-1-4214-118-73.

Hochman, Barbara. “Investing in Literature: Ernestine Rose and the Harlem Branch Public Library of the 1920s,” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers v. 31, no. 1 (2014): 93-106.

Irwin, John. “Certain Flies in the Ointment: Mulford Winsor and the Development of Arizona's Archives,” Journal of the Southwest 56 (Spring 2014): 83-182.

Jaeger, Paul T. et al. Public Libraries, Public Policies, and Political Processes: Serving and Transforming Communities in Times of Economic and Political Constraint (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014) 178 pp. $55.00 ISBN 978-1-4422-3346-1. [contains historical treatment]

Jaeger, Paul T. and Karen Kettnich. “Special Issue in Honor of John Carlo Bertot,” Library Quarterly 84 (October 2014). [Collection of essays in appreciation of Bertot’s work as editor of LQ and of his scholarship]

Jeffrey, Jonathan. “With the Help of God and Right Thinking People: Establishing Library Services in Allen County,” Kentucky Libraries 78 (Spring 2014): 22-31.

Kevane, Michael and William A. Sundstrom. “The Development of Public Libraries in the United States, 1870-1930: A Quantitative Approach,” Information & Culture v. 49, no. 2 (2014): 117-44.

Kimball, Melanie A. “A Home-Like Atmosphere: The Advent of Children’s Rooms at St. Louis Public Library, 1906-1912,” Library Trends 62 (Winter 2014): 489-503.

Knowlton, Steven A. “Power and Change in the US Cataloging Community: The Case of William E. Studwelľs Campaign for a Subject Cataloging Code,” Library Resources & Technical Services 58 (April 2014): 111-26.

Leslie, Anthony Marcus. “The Career and Collection of Judith A. Hoffberg,” (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles), 2012, 157 pp. [Hoffberg co-founded the Art Libraries Society of North America]

Lorkovic, Tatjana. “The Past as Prologue: Building Yale University Library’s Slavic and East European Collection from the Beginning of the Twentieth Century until Today. Part Two: The Sputnik Era” Solanus v. 23 (2013): 13–34.

McDowell, Kate. “Open Wide the Doors: The Children’s Room as Place in Public Libraries, 1876-1925,” Library Trends 62 (Winter 2014): 519-29.

Popp, Richard K. “Information, Industrialization, and the Business of Press Clippings, 1880-1925,” Journal of American History 101 (September 2014): 427-53.

Pozzi, Ellen Marie. “The Public Library in an Immigrant Neighborhood: Italian Immigrants’ Information Ecologies in Newark, New Jersey, 1889-1919,” (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Rutgers University), 2013, 336 pp.

Prescott, Heather. “The Pill at Fifty: Scientific Commemoration and the Politics of American Memory,” Technology and Culture 54 (October 2014): 735-45.

Prizeman, Oriel. Philanthropy and Light: Carnegie Libraries and the Advent of Transatlantic Standards for Public Space (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2012) 235 pp. $125.00 ISBN 978-1-40942-798-8.

Salvatore, Ricardo D. “Progress and Backwardness in Book Accumulation: Bancroft, Basadre, and Their Libraries,” Comparative Studies in Society & History 56 (October 2014): 995-1026.

Sevetson, Andrea, ed. The Serial Set: Its Make-up and Content (Bethesda, MD: ProQuest, 2013) 288 pp. $50.00 ISBN 978-1-60205-346-5.

Spencer, Brett. “From Atomic Shelters to Arms Control: Libraries, Civil Defense, and American Militarism during the Cold War,” Information & Culture v. 49. No. 3 (2014): 351-85.

Spencer, Brett. “Rise of the Shadow Libraries: America’s Quest to Save its Information and Culture from Nuclear Destruction during the Cold War,” Information & Culture v. 49, no. 2 (2014): 145-76.

Stam, David H. What Happened to Me: My Life with Books, Research Libraries, and Performing Arts (Bloomington, IN: Authorhouse, 2014) 334 pp. $20.00 ISBN 978-1-4918614-9-3.

Totten, Herman. “Wiley College Library: First Library for Negroes West of the Mississippi River Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.” The Quarterly Review of Higher Education among Negroes 36 (July 1968): 145-152.

Trace, Ciaran B. “Information in Everyday Life: Boys’ and Girls’ Agricultural Clubs as Sponsors of Literacy, 1900-1920,” Information & Culture v. 49. No. 3 (2014): 265-93.

Whitmire, Ethelene. Regina Anderson Andrews: Harlem Renaissance Librarian (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2014) 147 pp. $55.00 ISBN 978-0-252-03850-1.

Walch, Timothy. “A Capital Librarian!: The Life and Times of Forrest Spaulding,” Iowa Heritage Illustrated 93 (Summer 2014): 108-112.

Witt, Steven. “Agents of Change: The Rise of International Librarianship and the Age of Globalization,” Library Trends 62 (Winter 2014): 504-18.

Wright, Curtis H. Jesse Shera, Librarianship, and Information Science (Sacramento, CA: Library Juice Press, 2013) 126 pp. $22.00 ISBN 978-1-936117-75-8. [This is a reprint of the 1988 edition published by the School of Information Sciences, Brigham Young University with a new forward and index]

  1. NON-US WESTERN HEMISPHERE

Beredo, Cheryl. Import of the Archive: U.S. Colonial Rule of the Philippines and the Making of American Archival History (Sacramento, CA: Litwin Books, 2013) 157 pp. $30.00 ISBN 978-1-936117-72-7.

Centellas, Kate M. “Cameroon is Just Like Bolivia!: Southern Expertise and the Construction of Equivalency in South-South Scientific Collaborations,” Information & Culture v. 49, no. 2 (2014): 177-203.

Clark, John W., Jr. “Opening the Bishop's Books: John Strachan's Library and Enlightenment Thought,” Journal of the Canadian Church Historical Society 52 (Spring 2014): 3-32.

Gallichan, Gilles. “La Nuit de Feu des Livres et des Archives du Parlement,” Bulletin d'Histoire Politique. 22 (Autumn 2013): 80-91.

Teo, Kam W. “Great Aid to the Creation of Intelligent Citizenship”: The Fight for Library Service in Weyburn, 1905-1930,” Saskatchewan History 66 (Spring/Summer2014): 26-34.

  1. EUROPE

Bilak, Donna. “Alchemy and the End Times: Revelations from the Laboratory and Library of John Allin, Puritan Alchemist (1623-1683)” AMBIX 60 (November 2013): 390-414.

Burke, Colin B. Information and Intrigue: From Index Cards to Dewey Decimals to Alger Hiss (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014) 370 pp. $45.00 ISBN 978-0-262-02702-1. [Part of History and Foundations of Information Science series]

Coleman, Sterling Joseph, Jr. “Eminently Suited for Girls and Women: The Numerical Feminization of Public Librarianship in England, 1914-31,” Library & Information History 30 (August 2014): 195-209.

Coleman, Sterling Joseph, Jr. “No Room for Her Here: The Numerical Feminization of Public Librarianship in England, 1871-1914,” Library & Information History 30 (May 2014): 90-109.

Crawford, John C. “The High State of Culture to Which This Part of the Country Has Attained: Libraries, Reading, and Society in Paisley, 1760-1830,” Library & Information History 30 (August 2014): 172-94.

Doyle, Kathleen and Scot McKendrick, eds. 1,000 Years of Royal Books and Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2014) 322 pp. $60.00 ISBN 978-0-7123-5708-1.

Dunstan, Vivienne. “Professionals, Their Private Libraries, and Wider Reading Habits in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Scotland,” Library & Information History 30 (May 2014): 110-28.

Ellis, Sally. “A History of Collaboration, a Future in Crowdsourcing: Positive Impacts of Cooperation on British Librarianship,” Libri 64 (March 2014): 1-10.

Gerrard, Teresa and Alexis Weedon. “Working-Class Women’s Education in Huddersfield: A Case Study of the Female Educational Institute Library, 1856-1857,” Information & Culture v. 49, no. 2 (2014): 234-64.

Hill, Tracey. “Owners and Collectors of the Printed Books of the Early Modern Lord Mayors’ Shows,” Library & Information History 30 (August 2014): 151-71.

Hilliard, Christopher. “Is it a Book That You Would Even Wish Your Wife or Your Servants to Read?: Obscenity Law and the Politics of Reading in Modern England,” American Historical Review 118 (June 2013): 653-78.

Intrator, Miriam. “Books Across Borders and Between Libraries: UNESCO and the Politics of Postwar Cultural Reconstruction, 1945-1951,” (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, City University of New York), 2013, 319 pp.

Jay, Emma. “Court Patronage Reconsidered: The English Literature in Queen Caroline’s Library,” Library & Information History 30 (May 2014): 75-89.

Liddington, Jill. “Fawcett Saga: Remembering the Women’s Library across Four Decades,” History Workshop Journal 76 (October 2013): 266-80.

MacNeil, Heather and Jennifer Douglas. “The Generic Evolution of Calendars and Guides at the Public Record Office of Great Britain, ca. 1838-1968,” Information & Culture v. 49. No. 3 (2014): 294-326.

Menke, Richard. “The Medium is the Media: Fictions of the Telephone in the 1890s,” Victorian Studies 55 (Winter 2013): 212-21.

Prizeman, Oriel. Philanthropy and Light: Carnegie Libraries and the Advent of Transatlantic Standards for Public Space (Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2012) 235 pp. $120.00 ISBN 978-1-4094-2798-8.

Rayward, W. Boyd. Information Beyond Borders: International Cultural and Intellectual Exchange in the Belle Époch (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014) 318 pp. $120.00 ISBN 978-1-40944-225-7.

Rule, John C. and Ben S. Trotter. A World of Paper: Louis XIV, Colbert de Torcy, and the Rise of the Information State (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014) 829 pp. $50.00 ISBN 978-0-7735-4370-6.

Stein, Gabriele. Sir Thomas Elyot as Lexicographer (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014) 439 pp. $135.00 ISBN 978-01-99683-19-2.

van den Broecke, Marcel. “Abraham Ortelius’s Library Reconstructed,” Imago Mundi 66 (January 2014): 25-50. [Sixteenth century personal library in Antwerp]

Van Hulle, Dirk and Mark Nixon. Samuel Beckett’s Library (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013) 326 pp. $75.00 ISBN 978-1-10700-126-8.

Weller, Toni. “The Puffery and Practicality of Etiquette Books: A New Take on Victorian Information Culture,” Library Trends 62 (Winter 2014): 663-80.

  1. ASIA, AFRICA, THE MIDDLE EAST, AND OTHER

Campbell, Duncan M. “Reflections on the Tower of the Crimson Clouds and the History of the Private Library in Late-Imperial China,” East Asian History Issue 38 (2014): 63-74.

Dilek-Kayaoglu, Hülya and Guler Demir. “Prison Libraries in Turkey: The Results of a National Survey,” Journal of Librarianship & Information Science 46 (June 2014): 130-38.

Gaunt, Heather. “Progressive Reform and the Moral Mission in Australian Public Libraries at the Beginning of the Information Age," Library Trends 62 (Winter 2014): 541-55.

Midrarullah, Ikramul Haq. “Development of Health Sciences Libraries and Medical Librarianship in Pakistan,” Pakistan Library & Information Science Journal 45 (June 2014): 49-57.

Staikos, Konstantinos. Books and Ideas: The Library of Plato and the Academy New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2013) 273 pp. $55.00 ISBN 978-1-58456-324-2.

Tejasen, Chirabodee and Brendan Luyt. “The Hophrasamut Wachirayan: Library and Club of the Siamese Aristocracy, 1881–1905,” Information & Culture v. 49, no. 3 (2014): 386-400.

Yun, Qidong. “From Communization to Commercialization: A Brief History of China’s Publishing, 1949-1992,” Journal of Scholarly Publishing 45 (January 2014): 142-71.

Zheng, Yunyan. “Library History: Seeking the Origin of the Chinese Library from Its Tradition,” Libri 64 (September 2014): 263-76.

  1. HISTORY OF BOOKS, READING, AND BOOK CULTURE

Cassedy, Tim. “A Dictionary which We Do Not Want: Defining America Against Noah Webster, 1783-1810,” William and Mary Quarterly 3rd ser. v. 71 (April 2014): 229-54.

Cheek, Richard. Selling the Dwelling: The Books that Built America’s Houses, 1775-2000 (New York: The Grolier Club, 2013) 286 pp. $50.00 ISBN 978-1-60583-050-6.

Eliot, Simon, Ian Gadd, and William Roger Louis, eds. The History of Oxford University Press 3 vols. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013) $395.00 ISBN 978-0-19-8702-79-5.

Finkelstein, David and Alistair McCleery, eds. An introduction to Book History 2nd ed. (London: Routledge, 2013) 166 pp. $110.00 ISBN 978-0-415-68805-5.

Gillespie, Vincent, and Susan Powell, eds. A Companion to the Early Printed Book in Britain, 1476–1558 (Cambridge: Brewer, 2014).

Gitelman, Lisa. Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014) 210 pp. $96.00 ISBN 978-0-8223-5645-5.

Kamiński, Mariusz. A History of the Chambers Dictionary (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2013) 297 pp. $126.00 ISBN 978-3-11-031250-8.

Kirkpatrick, Robert J. From the Penny Dreadful to the Ha’Penny Dreadfuller (London: British Library, 2014) 528 pp. $75.00 ISBN 978-0-7123-0954-7.

Mak, Bonnie. How the Page Matters (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011) 129 pp. $55.00 ISBN 978-0-8020-9760-6.

McDade, Travis. Thieves of a Book Row: New York’s Most Notorious Rare Book Ring and the Man Who Stopped It (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013) 216 pp. $28.00 ISBN 978-0-19-9922-66-6.

Moodie, Gavin. “Gutenberg’s Effects on Universities,” History of Education 43 (July 2014): 450-67.

Péoux, Gérald. “Will the Annual Bibliography of France History Survive the New Technologies Turn?: A Last Attempt to Enter the Twenty-First Century,” Journal of Scholarly Publishing 45 (April 2014): 237-60.

Schnapp, Jeffrey T. The Electric Information Age Book: McLuhan/Age/Fiore and the Experimental Paperback (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Architectural Press, 2012) 240 pp. $23.00 ISBN 978-161689-03-46.

Schnapp, Jeffrey T. and Matthew Battles. The Library Beyond the Book (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014) 167 pp. $24.00 ISBN 978-0-674-72503-4.

Suarez, Michael, SJ and Henry Woudhuysen, eds. The Book: A Global History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013) 748 pp. $50.00 ISBN 978-01-99679-41-6. [Abridged version of 2 vol. Oxford Companion to the Book (2010)]

Tanselle, G. Thomas. Essays in Bibliographical History (Charlottesville, VA: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 2013) 533 pp. $40.00 ISBN 978-1-883631-14-7.

  1. GENERAL, HISTORIOGRAPHY, PHILOSOPHY, AND LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE EDUCATION

Black, Alistair and Dan Schiller. “Systems of Information: The Long View,” Library Trends 62 (Winter 2014): 628-62.

Campbell, James W. P. The Library: A World History (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2013) 320 pp. $75.00 ISBN 978-0-226-09281-2.

Dasgupta, Subrata. It Began with Babbage: The Genesis of Computer Science (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014) 328 pp. $35.00 ISBN 978-0-19-930941-2.

Poole, Alex H. “The Strange Career of Jim Crow Archives: Race, Space, and History in the Mid-Twentieth-Century American South,” American Archivist 77 (Spring/Summer 2014): 23-63.

Rayward, W. Boyd. “Information Revolutions, the Information Society, and the Future of the History of Information Science,” Library Trends 62 (Winter 2014): 681-713.

Schlipf, Fred. “Remodeling and Expanding Carnegie-Era Library Buildings,” Library Trends 62 (Winter 2014): 556-80.

Van Acker, Wouter, Pieter Uyttenhove, Sylvia Van Peteghem. “Library Towers and the Vertical Dimension of Knowledge,” Library Trends 62 (Winter 2014): 530-40.

Bibliography of Writings on the History of Libraries, Librarianship, and Book Culture

By Ed Goedeken


Fall 2014

  1. UNITED STATES

Abbott, Andrew. “Googles of the Past: Concordances and Scholarship,” Social Science History 37 (Winter 2013): 427-55.

Anderson, Joseph R. “The Organization and Description of Science Archives in America,” ISIS: Journal of the History of Science in Society 104 (September 2013): 561-72.

Belniak, Theodora. “The History of American Bar Association Accreditation Standards for Academic Law Libraries,” Law Library Journal 106 (Spring 2014): 151-73.

Bellrnore, Audra. “The University of New Mexico’s Zimmerman Library,” New Mexico Historical Review 88 (Spring 2013): 123-63.

Benjamin, Michael. “In Search of the Grail: The Conceptual Origins of the Encyclopedia Africana,” Information & Culture v. 49, no. 2 (2014): 204-233.

Berring, Robert C. “The Education of a Twentieth Century Law Librarian,” Legal Reference Services Quarterly 32 (January-June 2013): 1-12.

Berring, Robert C. “The Education of a Twentieth Century Law Librarian: Part II, 1975-1978,: Days at the Mother Library,” Legal Reference Services Quarterly 33 (April-June 2014): 191-202.

Biswas, Subhankar, and Durga Sankar Rath, “From Maunsell to Lubetzky: A Journey Back in Search of the Root of FRBR among the Cataloguing Codes of Anglo-American Origin” Annals of Library and Information Studies v. 61 (2014): 7–14.

Bourne, Ann. “Enriching the Collective Resources: An Historical Analysis of the Network of Alabama Academic Libraries, 1984-2009,” (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Alabama), 2013, 245 pp.

Burns, C. Sean. “Academic Libraries and Automation: A Historical Reflection on Ralph Halstead Parker,” portal: Libraries & the Academy 14 (January 2014): 87-2012.

Carlson, Sharon. “Ladies First,” Michigan History Magazine 98 (July/August 2014): 32-36. [History of Kalamazoo Ladies’ Library Association]

Carroll, Mary and Sue Reynolds. “There and Back Again: Reimagining the Public Library for the Twenty-First Century,” Library Trends 62 (Winter 2014): 581-95.

Cary, Larry. “The 35-year history of The Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives,” American Communist History 12 (April 2013): 17-29.

Cox, Richard J. “Lester J. Cappon, and Unwritten Textbook, and Early Archival Education in the United States,” Information & Culture v. 49. No. 3 (2014): 327-50.

Dawson, Robert. The Public Library: A Photographic Essay (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2014) 191 pp. $35.00 ISBN 978-1-61689-217-3.

Dekydtspotter, Lori. “Slavic Treasures in the Midwest: The Lilly Library’s Czech Language and Literature Collections.” Indiana Libraries v. 33, no. 1 (2014): 19-21.

Deng, Liya. “The Evolution of Library Reference Services: From General to Special, 1876-1920s,” Libri 64 (September 2014): 254-62.

Donnelly, Francis P. “The Geographic Distribution of United States Public Libraries: An Analysis of Locations and Service Areas,” Journal of Librarianship & Information Science 46 (June 2014): 110-29.

Eaton, Gale. The Education of Alice M. Jordan: Navigating a Career in Children’s Librarianship (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2014) 254 pp. $85.00 ISBN 978-1-4422-3647-9.

Edelman, Hendrik. “Nijhoff in America: Booksellers from the Netherlands and the Development of Research Libraries—Part 3,” Quaerendo v. 43 (2013): 1-24.

Fenton, Michele T. “Stepping Out on Faith: Lillian Haydon Childress Hall, Pioneer Black Librarian.” Indiana Libraries v. 33, no.1 (2014): 5-11.

Fitzpatrick, Siobhan. “The James Library: House of Knowledge,” Pioneer American Society Transactions v. 36 (2013): 44-51. [Public library in Madison, New Jersey]

Gard Marshall, Joanne. “Linking Research to Practice: The Rise of Evidence-Based Health Sciences Librarianship,” Journal of Medical Library Association 102 (January 2014): 14-21.

Grant, Stephen H. Collecting Shakespeare: The Story of Henry and Emily Folger (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014) 264 pp. $30.00 ISBN 978-1-4214-118-73.

Hochman, Barbara. “Investing in Literature: Ernestine Rose and the Harlem Branch Public Library of the 1920s,” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers v. 31, no. 1 (2014): 93-106.

Irwin, John. “Certain Flies in the Ointment: Mulford Winsor and the Development of Arizona's Archives,” Journal of the Southwest 56 (Spring 2014): 83-182.

Jaeger, Paul T. et al. Public Libraries, Public Policies, and Political Processes: Serving and Transforming Communities in Times of Economic and Political Constraint (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014) 178 pp. $55.00 ISBN 978-1-4422-3346-1. [contains historical treatment]

Jaeger, Paul T. and Karen Kettnich. “Special Issue in Honor of John Carlo Bertot,” Library Quarterly 84 (October 2014). [Collection of essays in appreciation of Bertot’s work as editor of LQ and of his scholarship]

Jeffrey, Jonathan. “With the Help of God and Right Thinking People: Establishing Library Services in Allen County,” Kentucky Libraries 78 (Spring 2014): 22-31.

Kevane, Michael and William A. Sundstrom. “The Development of Public Libraries in the United States, 1870-1930: A Quantitative Approach,” Information & Culture v. 49, no. 2 (2014): 117-44.

Kimball, Melanie A. “A Home-Like Atmosphere: The Advent of Children’s Rooms at St. Louis Public Library, 1906-1912,” Library Trends 62 (Winter 2014): 489-503.

Knowlton, Steven A. “Power and Change in the US Cataloging Community: The Case of William E. Studwelľs Campaign for a Subject Cataloging Code,” Library Resources & Technical Services 58 (April 2014): 111-26.

Leslie, Anthony Marcus. “The Career and Collection of Judith A. Hoffberg,” (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles), 2012, 157 pp. [Hoffberg co-founded the Art Libraries Society of North America]

Lorkovic, Tatjana. “The Past as Prologue: Building Yale University Library’s Slavic and East European Collection from the Beginning of the Twentieth Century until Today. Part Two: The Sputnik Era” Solanus v. 23 (2013): 13–34.

McDowell, Kate. “Open Wide the Doors: The Children’s Room as Place in Public Libraries, 1876-1925,” Library Trends 62 (Winter 2014): 519-29.

Popp, Richard K. “Information, Industrialization, and the Business of Press Clippings, 1880-1925,” Journal of American History 101 (September 2014): 427-53.

Pozzi, Ellen Marie. “The Public Library in an Immigrant Neighborhood: Italian Immigrants’ Information Ecologies in Newark, New Jersey, 1889-1919,” (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Rutgers University), 2013, 336 pp.

Prescott, Heather. “The Pill at Fifty: Scientific Commemoration and the Politics of American Memory,” Technology and Culture 54 (October 2014): 735-45.

Prizeman, Oriel. Philanthropy and Light: Carnegie Libraries and the Advent of Transatlantic Standards for Public Space (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2012) 235 pp. $125.00 ISBN 978-1-40942-798-8.

Salvatore, Ricardo D. “Progress and Backwardness in Book Accumulation: Bancroft, Basadre, and Their Libraries,” Comparative Studies in Society & History 56 (October 2014): 995-1026.

Sevetson, Andrea, ed. The Serial Set: Its Make-up and Content (Bethesda, MD: ProQuest, 2013) 288 pp. $50.00 ISBN 978-1-60205-346-5.

Spencer, Brett. “From Atomic Shelters to Arms Control: Libraries, Civil Defense, and American Militarism during the Cold War,” Information & Culture v. 49. No. 3 (2014): 351-85.

Spencer, Brett. “Rise of the Shadow Libraries: America’s Quest to Save its Information and Culture from Nuclear Destruction during the Cold War,” Information & Culture v. 49, no. 2 (2014): 145-76.

Stam, David H. What Happened to Me: My Life with Books, Research Libraries, and Performing Arts (Bloomington, IN: Authorhouse, 2014) 334 pp. $20.00 ISBN 978-1-4918614-9-3.

Totten, Herman. “Wiley College Library: First Library for Negroes West of the Mississippi River Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.” The Quarterly Review of Higher Education among Negroes 36 (July 1968): 145-152.

Trace, Ciaran B. “Information in Everyday Life: Boys’ and Girls’ Agricultural Clubs as Sponsors of Literacy, 1900-1920,” Information & Culture v. 49. No. 3 (2014): 265-93.

Whitmire, Ethelene. Regina Anderson Andrews: Harlem Renaissance Librarian (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2014) 147 pp. $55.00 ISBN 978-0-252-03850-1.

Walch, Timothy. “A Capital Librarian!: The Life and Times of Forrest Spaulding,” Iowa Heritage Illustrated 93 (Summer 2014): 108-112.

Witt, Steven. “Agents of Change: The Rise of International Librarianship and the Age of Globalization,” Library Trends 62 (Winter 2014): 504-18.

Wright, Curtis H. Jesse Shera, Librarianship, and Information Science (Sacramento, CA: Library Juice Press, 2013) 126 pp. $22.00 ISBN 978-1-936117-75-8. [This is a reprint of the 1988 edition published by the School of Information Sciences, Brigham Young University with a new forward and index]

  1. NON-US WESTERN HEMISPHERE

Beredo, Cheryl. Import of the Archive: U.S. Colonial Rule of the Philippines and the Making of American Archival History (Sacramento, CA: Litwin Books, 2013) 157 pp. $30.00 ISBN 978-1-936117-72-7.

Centellas, Kate M. “Cameroon is Just Like Bolivia!: Southern Expertise and the Construction of Equivalency in South-South Scientific Collaborations,” Information & Culture v. 49, no. 2 (2014): 177-203.

Clark, John W., Jr. “Opening the Bishop's Books: John Strachan's Library and Enlightenment Thought,” Journal of the Canadian Church Historical Society 52 (Spring 2014): 3-32.

Gallichan, Gilles. “La Nuit de Feu des Livres et des Archives du Parlement,” Bulletin d'Histoire Politique. 22 (Autumn 2013): 80-91.

Teo, Kam W. “Great Aid to the Creation of Intelligent Citizenship”: The Fight for Library Service in Weyburn, 1905-1930,” Saskatchewan History 66 (Spring/Summer2014): 26-34.

  1. EUROPE

Bilak, Donna. “Alchemy and the End Times: Revelations from the Laboratory and Library of John Allin, Puritan Alchemist (1623-1683)” AMBIX 60 (November 2013): 390-414.

Burke, Colin B. Information and Intrigue: From Index Cards to Dewey Decimals to Alger Hiss (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014) 370 pp. $45.00 ISBN 978-0-262-02702-1. [Part of History and Foundations of Information Science series]

Coleman, Sterling Joseph, Jr. “Eminently Suited for Girls and Women: The Numerical Feminization of Public Librarianship in England, 1914-31,” Library & Information History 30 (August 2014): 195-209.

Coleman, Sterling Joseph, Jr. “No Room for Her Here: The Numerical Feminization of Public Librarianship in England, 1871-1914,” Library & Information History 30 (May 2014): 90-109.

Crawford, John C. “The High State of Culture to Which This Part of the Country Has Attained: Libraries, Reading, and Society in Paisley, 1760-1830,” Library & Information History 30 (August 2014): 172-94.

Doyle, Kathleen and Scot McKendrick, eds. 1,000 Years of Royal Books and Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2014) 322 pp. $60.00 ISBN 978-0-7123-5708-1.

Dunstan, Vivienne. “Professionals, Their Private Libraries, and Wider Reading Habits in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Scotland,” Library & Information History 30 (May 2014): 110-28.

Ellis, Sally. “A History of Collaboration, a Future in Crowdsourcing: Positive Impacts of Cooperation on British Librarianship,” Libri 64 (March 2014): 1-10.

Gerrard, Teresa and Alexis Weedon. “Working-Class Women’s Education in Huddersfield: A Case Study of the Female Educational Institute Library, 1856-1857,” Information & Culture v. 49, no. 2 (2014): 234-64.

Hill, Tracey. “Owners and Collectors of the Printed Books of the Early Modern Lord Mayors’ Shows,” Library & Information History 30 (August 2014): 151-71.

Hilliard, Christopher. “Is it a Book That You Would Even Wish Your Wife or Your Servants to Read?: Obscenity Law and the Politics of Reading in Modern England,” American Historical Review 118 (June 2013): 653-78.

Intrator, Miriam. “Books Across Borders and Between Libraries: UNESCO and the Politics of Postwar Cultural Reconstruction, 1945-1951,” (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, City University of New York), 2013, 319 pp.

Jay, Emma. “Court Patronage Reconsidered: The English Literature in Queen Caroline’s Library,” Library & Information History 30 (May 2014): 75-89.

Liddington, Jill. “Fawcett Saga: Remembering the Women’s Library across Four Decades,” History Workshop Journal 76 (October 2013): 266-80.

MacNeil, Heather and Jennifer Douglas. “The Generic Evolution of Calendars and Guides at the Public Record Office of Great Britain, ca. 1838-1968,” Information & Culture v. 49. No. 3 (2014): 294-326.

Menke, Richard. “The Medium is the Media: Fictions of the Telephone in the 1890s,” Victorian Studies 55 (Winter 2013): 212-21.

Prizeman, Oriel. Philanthropy and Light: Carnegie Libraries and the Advent of Transatlantic Standards for Public Space (Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2012) 235 pp. $120.00 ISBN 978-1-4094-2798-8.

Rayward, W. Boyd. Information Beyond Borders: International Cultural and Intellectual Exchange in the Belle Époch (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014) 318 pp. $120.00 ISBN 978-1-40944-225-7.

Rule, John C. and Ben S. Trotter. A World of Paper: Louis XIV, Colbert de Torcy, and the Rise of the Information State (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014) 829 pp. $50.00 ISBN 978-0-7735-4370-6.

Stein, Gabriele. Sir Thomas Elyot as Lexicographer (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014) 439 pp. $135.00 ISBN 978-01-99683-19-2.

van den Broecke, Marcel. “Abraham Ortelius’s Library Reconstructed,” Imago Mundi 66 (January 2014): 25-50. [Sixteenth century personal library in Antwerp]

Van Hulle, Dirk and Mark Nixon. Samuel Beckett’s Library (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013) 326 pp. $75.00 ISBN 978-1-10700-126-8.

Weller, Toni. “The Puffery and Practicality of Etiquette Books: A New Take on Victorian Information Culture,” Library Trends 62 (Winter 2014): 663-80.

  1. ASIA, AFRICA, THE MIDDLE EAST, AND OTHER

Campbell, Duncan M. “Reflections on the Tower of the Crimson Clouds and the History of the Private Library in Late-Imperial China,” East Asian History Issue 38 (2014): 63-74.

Dilek-Kayaoglu, Hülya and Guler Demir. “Prison Libraries in Turkey: The Results of a National Survey,” Journal of Librarianship & Information Science 46 (June 2014): 130-38.

Gaunt, Heather. “Progressive Reform and the Moral Mission in Australian Public Libraries at the Beginning of the Information Age," Library Trends 62 (Winter 2014): 541-55.

Midrarullah, Ikramul Haq. “Development of Health Sciences Libraries and Medical Librarianship in Pakistan,” Pakistan Library & Information Science Journal 45 (June 2014): 49-57.

Staikos, Konstantinos. Books and Ideas: The Library of Plato and the Academy New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2013) 273 pp. $55.00 ISBN 978-1-58456-324-2.

Tejasen, Chirabodee and Brendan Luyt. “The Hophrasamut Wachirayan: Library and Club of the Siamese Aristocracy, 1881–1905,” Information & Culture v. 49, no. 3 (2014): 386-400.

Yun, Qidong. “From Communization to Commercialization: A Brief History of China’s Publishing, 1949-1992,” Journal of Scholarly Publishing 45 (January 2014): 142-71.

Zheng, Yunyan. “Library History: Seeking the Origin of the Chinese Library from Its Tradition,” Libri 64 (September 2014): 263-76.

  1. HISTORY OF BOOKS, READING, AND BOOK CULTURE

Cassedy, Tim. “A Dictionary which We Do Not Want: Defining America Against Noah Webster, 1783-1810,” William and Mary Quarterly 3rd ser. v. 71 (April 2014): 229-54.

Cheek, Richard. Selling the Dwelling: The Books that Built America’s Houses, 1775-2000 (New York: The Grolier Club, 2013) 286 pp. $50.00 ISBN 978-1-60583-050-6.

Eliot, Simon, Ian Gadd, and William Roger Louis, eds. The History of Oxford University Press 3 vols. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013) $395.00 ISBN 978-0-19-8702-79-5.

Finkelstein, David and Alistair McCleery, eds. An introduction to Book History 2nd ed. (London: Routledge, 2013) 166 pp. $110.00 ISBN 978-0-415-68805-5.

Gillespie, Vincent, and Susan Powell, eds. A Companion to the Early Printed Book in Britain, 1476–1558 (Cambridge: Brewer, 2014).

Gitelman, Lisa. Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014) 210 pp. $96.00 ISBN 978-0-8223-5645-5.

Kamiński, Mariusz. A History of the Chambers Dictionary (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2013) 297 pp. $126.00 ISBN 978-3-11-031250-8.

Kirkpatrick, Robert J. From the Penny Dreadful to the Ha’Penny Dreadfuller (London: British Library, 2014) 528 pp. $75.00 ISBN 978-0-7123-0954-7.

Mak, Bonnie. How the Page Matters (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011) 129 pp. $55.00 ISBN 978-0-8020-9760-6.

McDade, Travis. Thieves of a Book Row: New York’s Most Notorious Rare Book Ring and the Man Who Stopped It (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013) 216 pp. $28.00 ISBN 978-0-19-9922-66-6.

Moodie, Gavin. “Gutenberg’s Effects on Universities,” History of Education 43 (July 2014): 450-67.

Péoux, Gérald. “Will the Annual Bibliography of France History Survive the New Technologies Turn?: A Last Attempt to Enter the Twenty-First Century,” Journal of Scholarly Publishing 45 (April 2014): 237-60.

Schnapp, Jeffrey T. The Electric Information Age Book: McLuhan/Age/Fiore and the Experimental Paperback (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Architectural Press, 2012) 240 pp. $23.00 ISBN 978-161689-03-46.

Schnapp, Jeffrey T. and Matthew Battles. The Library Beyond the Book (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014) 167 pp. $24.00 ISBN 978-0-674-72503-4.

Suarez, Michael, SJ and Henry Woudhuysen, eds. The Book: A Global History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013) 748 pp. $50.00 ISBN 978-01-99679-41-6. [Abridged version of 2 vol. Oxford Companion to the Book (2010)]

Tanselle, G. Thomas. Essays in Bibliographical History (Charlottesville, VA: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 2013) 533 pp. $40.00 ISBN 978-1-883631-14-7.

  1. GENERAL, HISTORIOGRAPHY, PHILOSOPHY, AND LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE EDUCATION

Black, Alistair and Dan Schiller. “Systems of Information: The Long View,” Library Trends 62 (Winter 2014): 628-62.

Campbell, James W. P. The Library: A World History (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2013) 320 pp. $75.00 ISBN 978-0-226-09281-2.

Dasgupta, Subrata. It Began with Babbage: The Genesis of Computer Science (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014) 328 pp. $35.00 ISBN 978-0-19-930941-2.

Poole, Alex H. “The Strange Career of Jim Crow Archives: Race, Space, and History in the Mid-Twentieth-Century American South,” American Archivist 77 (Spring/Summer 2014): 23-63.

Rayward, W. Boyd. “Information Revolutions, the Information Society, and the Future of the History of Information Science,” Library Trends 62 (Winter 2014): 681-713.

Schlipf, Fred. “Remodeling and Expanding Carnegie-Era Library Buildings,” Library Trends 62 (Winter 2014): 556-80.

Van Acker, Wouter, Pieter Uyttenhove, Sylvia Van Peteghem. “Library Towers and the Vertical Dimension of Knowledge,” Library Trends 62 (Winter 2014): 530-40.