Bibliography of Writings on the History of Libraries, Librarianship, Information, and Book Culture, Fall 2017
Bibliography of Writings on the History of Libraries, Librarianship, Information, and Book Culture
Fall 2017
By Ed Goedeken
Contents
A) United States
B) Non-U.S. Western Hemisphere
C) Europe
D) Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Other
E) History of Books, Reading, Information and Book Culture
F) General Historography, Philosophy, and Library and Information Science Education
Adams, Ellen E. and Joshua F. Beatty. "The Foundations of Naval Science: Alfred Thayer Mahan's The Influence of Sea Power on History and the Library of Congress Classification System," Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship v. 2 (2017): 9-26
Augst, Thomas. “New Histories of the Public Library in the United States,” Reviews in American History 45 (March 2017): 40-49.
Austin, Jeanie. “Reform and Revolution: Juvenile Detention Center Libraries in the 1970s,” Libraries: Culture, History, and Society v. 1, no. 2 (2017): 240-66.
Cahill, Maria and Jennifer Moore. “A Sound History,” Children & Libraries: The Journal of the Association for Library Service to Children 15 (Spring 2017): 22-29. [reviews history of audiobooks]
Caminita, Cristina, Michael Cook, and Amy Paster. “Thirty Years of Preserving, Discovering, and Accessing U.S. Agricultural Information: Past Progress and Current Challenges,” Library Trends 65 (Winter 2017): 293–315.
Carruthers, Alexandra. “Social Reproduction in the Early American Public Library: Exploring the Connections between Capital and Gender,” in Erik Estep and Nathaniel Enright, eds. Class and Librarianship: Essays at the Intersection of Information, Labor and Capital (Sacramento, CA: Library Juice Press, 2016), pp. 25-48.
Cohn, Barbara Madgy and Patrice Rafail Merritt. The Detroit Public Library: An American Classic (Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2017) 183 pp. $35.00 ISBN 978-0-8143-4232-9.
Cooke, Nicole A. “The GSLS Carnegie Scholars: Guests in Someone Else’s House,” Libraries: Culture, History, and Society v. 1, no. 1 (2017): 46-71.
Cope, Jonathan. “Libraries, Knowledge, and the Common Good: The Cultural Politics of Labor Republicanism in Progressive-Era Wheeling, West Virginia,” in Kimball, Melanie A. and Katherine M. Wisser, eds. Libraries: Traditions and Innovations: Papers from the Library History Seminar XIII (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2017), pp. 56-69.
Cox, Richard James. “Lester J. Cappon and the Idea of the Public Scholar,” Libraries: Culture, History, and Society v. 1, no. 1 (2017): 126-51.
Daines, J. Gordon, III. “For the City’s Benefit: The Boise Women’s Columbian Club and he Quest for a Carnegie Building, 1893-1914,” Pacific Northwest Quarterly 107 (Fall 2016): 170-85.
Dalbello, Marija. “Ellis Island Library: The Tower of Babel at America’s Gate,” in Kimball, Melanie A. and Katherine M. Wisser, eds. Libraries: Traditions and Innovations: Papers from the Library History Seminar XIII (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2017), pp. 28-55.
DeCoster, Elizabeth. “Which Side Are You On?: Seven Social Responsibility Debates in American Librarianship, 1990-2015,” Library Quarterly 87 (July 2017): 290-92.
Drucker, Donna J. “How Subjects Matter: The Kinsey Institute’s Sexual Nomenclature: A Thesaurus (1976)” Information & Culture v. 52, no. 2 (2017): 207-28.
Dunnigan, Brian Leigh, et al. eds. A Great Library Easily Begets Affection: Memories of the William L. Clements Library, 1923–2015 (Ann Arbor: William L. Clements Library, 2015).
Ellis, Ryan. “Disinfecting the Mail: Disease, Panic, and the Post Office Department in Nineteenth-Century America,” Information & Culture v. 52, no. 4 (2017): 436-61.
Gardner, Sarah E. “History in the Making: The Early Years of the Georgia Historical Quarterly,” Georgia Historical Quarterly v. 101 no. 2 (2017): 102-13.
Goggans, Jan. “What Workers Were Reading, 1830-1930,” in Nicholas Coles and Paul Lauter, eds. A History of American Working-Class Literature (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017), pp. 163-76.
Hansen, Debra Gold. “The Making of Librarianship at the Los Angeles Public Library, 1890-1910,” Libraries: Culture, History, and Society v. 1, no. 1 (2017): 97-125.
Hardy, Molly O’Hagan. “Bibliographic Enterprise and the Digital Age: Charles Evans and the Making of Early American Literature,” American Literary History 29 (Summer 2017): 331-51.
Jaeger, Paul T. “The Public Library and the Larger Society: The Legacy of Glen Holt,” Public Library Quarterly 36 (January-March 2017): 4-9.
Johnson, Nathan R. “Rhetoric and the Cold War Politics of Information Science,” Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 68 (June 2017): 1375-84.
Jones, Elizabeth. “The Public Library Movement, the Digital Library Movement, and the Large-Scale Digitization Initiative: Assumptions, Intentions, and the Role of the Public,” Information & Culture v. 52, no. 2 (2017): 229-63.
Jones, Plummer Alston, Jr. “Elizabeth Cleveland Morriss (1877-1960), Leader of the Literacy and Adult Elementary Education Movement in North Carolina,” Information & Culture v. 52, no. 2 (2017): 186-206.
Kimball, Melanie A. and Katherine M. Wisser, eds. Libraries: Traditions and Innovations: Papers from the Library History Seminar XIII (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2017) 154 pp. $104.00 ISBN 978-3-11-044833-7.
Knowlton, Steven A. “The Negro Branch Library in Memphis: A Case Study of Public Services in a Segregated Southern City,” Libraries: Culture, History, and Society v. 1, no. 1 (2017): 23-45.
Mabbott, Cass. “The We Need Diverse Books Campaign and Critical Race Theory: Charlemae Rollins and the Call for Diverse Children's Books,” Library Trends 65 (Spring 2017): 508-522.
Mahoney, Mary. “The Library as Medicine Cabinet: Inventing Bibliotherapy in the Interwar Period,” in Kimball, Melanie A. and Katherine M. Wisser, eds. Libraries: Traditions and Innovations: Papers from the Library History Seminar XIII (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2017), pp. 100-107.
Matthews, Joe. “A Nostalgic Look Back at Library Hi Tech(nology)” Library Hi Tech v. 35, no. 1 (2017): 92-98.
Miksa, Shawn D. “The Relationship between Classification Research and Information Retrieval Research, 1952 to 1970,” Journal of Documentation v. 73, no. 6 (2017): 1343-79.
Miner, Meg. “Conflicting Philosophies: Two University Librarians and a Presidential Bibliophile,” Libraries: Culture, History, and Society v. 1, no. 2 (2017): 213-39.
Mitchell-Powell, Brenda. “The 1939 Alexandria, Virginia, Public Library Sit-in Demonstration,” in Kimball, Melanie A. and Katherine M. Wisser, eds. Libraries: Traditions and Innovations: Papers from the Library History Seminar XIII (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2017), pp. 70-99.
Noonan, Mark. “Getting the Word Out: Institutions and Forms of Publication,” in Nicholas Coles and Paul Lauter, eds. A History of American Working-Class Literature (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017), pp. 177-96.
Picturing the Big Shop: Photos of the U.S. Government Publishing Office, 1900-1980 (Washington, D. C.: U.S. Government Publishing Office, 2017) 268 pp. ISBN 978-0-16-093624-1.
Poole, Alex H. “As Popular as Pin-Up Girls: The Armed Forces Editions, Masculinity, and Middlebrow Print Culture in the Mid-Twentieth-Century United States,” Information & Culture v. 52, no. 4 (2017): 462-86.
Ress, David. “Changing Course on Freedom of Information: The 1911 Typhoid Records Case,” Information & Culture v. 52, no. 4 (2017): 385-411.
Sharp, Heather and Vicki Parkes. “Representations of National Identity in Fictionalized History: Children’s Picture Books and World War I,” New Review of Children’s Literature & Librarianship 23 (November 2017): 126-47.
Sherman, Scott, ‘The Battle of 42nd Street,” Public Library Quarterly 36 (January-March 2017): 10–25.
Siggelakis, Susan J. “A Plain, Dignified Building: Negotiating for an Academic Carnegie Library in Durham.” Historical New Hampshire 70 (Spring 2017): 36-56.
Sims Stokes, Sally. Documenting the History of the White House Library Fireplace Tiles, 1944-1962,” Art Documentation 36 (March 2017): 50-72.
Skinner, Julia. “Innovation in Harlem: Using the Change in Historic Institutions Model to Study a Public Library’s Development,” Library Quarterly 87 (April 2017): 136-49.
Sly, Jordan S. “Improve the Moment: Mechanics’ Institutes and the Culture of Improvement in the Nineteenth-Century,” in Kimball, Melanie A. and Katherine M. Wisser, eds. Libraries: Traditions and Innovations: Papers from the Library History Seminar XIII (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2017), pp. 16-27.
Smith, A. Arro. Capturing Our Stories: An Oral History of Librarianship in Transition (Chicago: ALA, 2017). 202 pp. $45.00 ISBN 978-0-8389-146-18.
Smith, Mikki and Christine D'Arpa. “What's History Got to Do with It? Seventy Years of Historical Dissertation Research at the School of Information Sciences of the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign,” Library Trends 65 (Spring 2017): 563-88.
Smith, Steven Carl. An Empire of Print: The New York Publishing Trade in the Early American Republic (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2017) 244 pp. $100.00 ISBN 978-0-271-0785-19. [Part of the Penn State Series in the History of the Book]
Soni, Jimmy and Rob Goodman. A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017) 366 pp. $27.00 ISBN 978-1-476-666-83.
Sorce, Christian. “Réflexions sur l'histoire des Bibliothèques Publiques en France et aux États-Unis,” [in Italian] Italian Journal of Library & Information Science 8 (January 2017): 127-38.
Stauffer, Suzanne M. “Libraries Are the Homes of Books: Whiteness in the Construction of School Libraries,” Libraries: Culture, History, and Society v. 1, no. 2 (2017): 194-212.
Velez, LaTesha and Melissa Villa-Nicholas. “Mapping Race and Racism in U.S. Library History Literature, 1997–2015,” Library Trends 65 (Spring 2017): 540-54.
Wiegand, Wayne A. “Any Ideas!: The American Library Association and the Desegregation of Public Libraries in the American South,” Libraries: Culture, History, and Society v. 1, no. 1 (2017): 1-22.
Wiseman, Frederick, Director. “Ex Libris: New York Public Library,” [Documentary; 3 hours 17 minutes] September 2017.
Witt, Steve. “The Evolution of Privacy within the American Library Association, 1906–2002,” Library Trends 65 (Spring 2017): 639-57.
Zhang, Mei and Jonathan Senchyne. Libraries and Publisher Price Control: The Net Price System (1901-1914) and Contemporary E-Book Pricing Libraries: Culture, History, and Society v. 1, no. 2 (2017): 171-93.
Aguerre, Carolina. “The Internet in Argentina and Brazil: The Origins of Networking Experiences,” Information & Culture v. 52, no. 2 (2017): 264-94.
Mullaney, Thomas S. The Chinese Typewriter: A History (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017) 481 pp. $35.00 ISBN 978-0-262-0363-68.
Rivera Mir, Sebastián. “El Expendio de Libros de Viejo en la Ciudad de México (1886-1930): En Busca de un Lugar entre Pájaros, Fierros y Armas,” Informacion, Cultura y Sociedad Issue 36 (2017): 43-63. [used book stores in Mexico City]
Serrano-López, Federico Guillermo and Miguel Somoza-Rodríguez. “Social Constructs Regarding the Physical and Sexual Energy of Whites, Indigenous South Americans and Blacks in Spanish and Colombian Primary School Reading Books between 1900 and 1960,” History of Education 46 (September 2017): 578-94.
Barnard, T. C. Brought to Book: Print in Ireland 1680, 1784 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2017) 395 pp. $70.00 ISBN 978-1-8468-26-29-0.
Black, Alistair. Libraries of Light: Public Library Design in Britain during the Long 1960s (London: Routledge, 2016) 230 pp. $160.00 ISBN 978-1-4724-729-46.
Black, Alistair. “Libraries of Light: Public Library Design in Britain during the Long 1960s,” in Kimball, Melanie A. and Katherine M. Wisser, eds. Libraries: Traditions and Innovations: Papers from the Library History Seminar XIII (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2017), pp. 124-52.
Black, Joseph L., ed. Private Libraries in Renaissance England: A Collection and Catalogue of Tudor and Early Stuart Book-Lists v. IX (PLRE 261-279) (Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2017) 446 pp. ISBN 978-0-86698-561-1.
Bowman, J. H., ed. British Librarianship and Information Work 2011–2015 (London: Lulu Communications, 2017) 562 pp. $70.00 ISBN 978-1-3268-204-73.
Browndorf, Margaret A. (Megan). “World War II and the Building of the Ukranian Library,” in Kimball, Melanie A. and Katherine M. Wisser, eds. Libraries: Traditions and Innovations: Papers from the Library History Seminar XIII (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2017), pp. 108-23.
Collins, Brenda. “Family Networks and Social Connections in the Survival of a Seventeenth-Century Library Collection,” Library & Information History v. 33, no. 2 (2017): 123-42.
Davies, Peter V. et al. The University of Glasgow Library: Friendly Shelves (Glasgow, Scotland: Friends of Glasgow University Library in Association with the University, 2016) 285 pp. $40.00 ISBN 978-0-9935-185-08.
Delbourgo, James. Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Harvard Press, 2017) 504 pp. $35.00 ISBN 978-0-674-737-33-4.
Friedrich, Markus, Philipp Muller, and Michael Riordan. “Practices of Historical Research in Archives and Libraries from the Eighteenth to the Nineteenth Century,” History of Humanities v. 2 (2017): 3-13.
Hamerly, Don. “The Córdovan Library of Caliph al-Hakam II,” in Kimball, Melanie A. and Katherine M. Wisser, eds. Libraries: Traditions and Innovations: Papers from the Library History Seminar XIII (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2017), pp. 4-15.
Higgins, Colin. “Seeing Sights that Don’t Exist: Karl Marx in the British Museum Round Reading Room,” Library & Information History v. 33, no. 2 (2017): 81-96.
Houston, Lloyd. “(Il)legal Deposits: Ulysses and the Copyright Libraries,” The Library v. 18, no. 2 (2017): 131-51.
Husbands, Shayne. Early Roxburghe Club, 1812-1835: Book Club Pioneers and the Advancement of English Literature (London: Anthem Press, 2017) 216 pp. $115.00 ISBN 978-1-7830-869-00.
Jimenes, Remi. “Reconsidering Pierre Haultin's Early Career: Roots, Training, Beginnings (1546–1550),” The Library v. 18, no. 1 (2017): 62 – 80.
Lakuš, Jelena and Anita Bajić. “Interpreting Diaries: History of Reading and the Diary of the Nineteenth-Century Croatian Female Writer Dragojla Bajić,” Information & Culture v. 52, no. 2 (2017): 163-85.
Lobachev, Sergei. “Indexing Books in 18th-century Russia: The Publishing Career of Andrei Bogdanov,” Indexer 35 (June 2017): 50-59.
Louise, Seaward. “The Small Republic and the Great Power: Censorship between Geneva and France in the Later Eighteenth Century,” The Library v. 18, no. 2 (2017): 191-217.
McLelland, Dorothy. “The Development of School Libraries in Scottish Burghs Before 1872: A Preliminary Study,” Library & Information History v. 33, no. 3 (2017): 167-81.
Minter, Catherine. “Systematic or Mechanical Arrangement?: Revisiting a Debate in German Library Science, 1790-1914,” Libri 67 (September 2017): 193-203.
Palmer, Richard. “Sancroft Versus Sheldon: A Case of Books,” The Library 18 (September 2017): 271-91.
Pretorius, Fransjohan. “Reading Practices and Literacy of Boer Combatants in the South African War of 1899–1902,” War in History v. 24, no. 3 (2017): 286-307.
Priddle, Charlotte. “Eliza Giffard and Her Books, 1797-2015: The Legacies of a Regency Library,” Libraries: Culture, History, and Society v. 1, no. 2 (2017): 153-70.
Romani, Gabriella, ed. Formation of a National Audience in Italy, 1750-1890: Readers and Spectators of Italian Culture (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2017) 289 pp. $100.00. ISBN 978-1-6114-780-06. |
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Rooney, Paul Raphael and Anna Gasperini, eds. Media and Print Culture Consumption in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Victorian Reading Experience (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) 241 pp. $100.00 ISBN 978-1-137-58760-2.
Sands-O’Connor, Karen. Children’s Publishing and Black Britain, 1965-2015 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) 197 pp. $100.00 ISBN 978-1-137-579-0-41.
Scarre, Geoffrey. “The Compages, the Bonds and Rivets of the Race: W. E. Gladstone on the Keeping of Books,” Library & Information History v. 33, no. 3 (2017): 182-94.
Shaw, J. David. “John Mower, Vicar of Tenterden in the Late Fifteenth Century: His Will, His Career and His Library,” The Library v. 18, no. 2 (2017): 152-74.
Thomas, Demse, ed. The Autobiography and Library of Thomas Hail B.D. (1610‐1665) (Bristol: Printed for the Worcestershire Historical Society by 4word Ltd., 2015) $50.00.
Thomson, R. M. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts in the Library of Peterhouse, Cambridge (London: D. S. Brewer, 2017) 324 pp. $150.00 ISBN 978-1-84384-441-9.
Weiss, Lauren J. “All are Instructive if Read in a Right Spirit: Reading, Religion, and Instruction in a Victorian Reading Diary,” Library & Information History v. 33, no. 2 (2017): 97-122.
Williams, Abigail. The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2017) 351 pp. $40.00 ISBN 978-0-300-20829-0.
Ali, Irfan and Muhammad Tariq. “Historical Development of Web OPAC in Pakistan,” Pakistan Library & Information Science Journal 48 (January-March 2017): 41-48.
Berg, Daria, ed. Transforming Book Culture in China, 1600-2016 (Wiesbaden, Germany: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2016) 292 pp. $56.00 ISBN 978-3-4471-072-80.
Diao, Junli. “The Absence of Public Libraries in Imperial China: An Alternative Interpretation of Chinese Writing,” Library & Information History v. 33, no. 3 (2017): 195-214.
English, Charlie. Storied City: The Quest for Timbuktu and the Fantastic Mission to Save its Past (New York: Riverhead Books, 2017) 400 pp. $28.00 ISBN 978-1-5946-342-84.
Henrickson, Thomas. Ancient Libraries and Renaissance Humanism: The De Bibliothecis of Justis Lipsius (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2017) 336 pp, $158.00 ISBN 978-9-0043-381-66.
Hirschler, Konrad. Medieval Damascus: Plurality and Diversity in an Arabic Library: The Ashrafiya Library Catalogue (Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press, 2016) 525 pp. $140.00 ISBN 978-1-4744-0877-6.
Nichols, Matthew. “Libraries and Communication in the Ancient World,” in F. S. Naiden and Richard J. A. Talbert, eds. Mercury’s Wings: Exploring Modes of Communication in the Ancient World (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 23-44.
Pandita Ramesh, Meenakshi Koul, and Shivendra Singh. “Growth of Research Journals in India during Last Decade (2005-2014): An Overview,” Collection Building v. 36, no. 4 (2017); 143-54.
Sandwith, Corinne. World of Letters: Reading Communities and Cultural Debates in Early Apartheid South Africa (Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2014).
Wood, Frances. Great Books of China: From Ancient Times to the Present (Katona, NY: Blueridge, 2017) 262 pp. $20.00 ISBN 978-1-62919-00-75.
E. HISTORY OF BOOKS, READING, INFORMATION, AND BOOK CULTURE
Avron, Lisa. “Governmentalities of Conservation Science at the Advent of Drones: Situating an Emerging Technology,” Information & Culture v. 52, no. 3 (2017): 362-83.
Baker, Kenneth. On the Burning of Books: How Flames Fail to Destroy the Written Word (London: Unicorn Press, 2016) 256 pp. $40.00 ISBN 978-1-910787-11-3.
Banou, Christina. Re-Inventing the Book: Challenges from the Past for the Publishing Industry (Cambridge, MA: Chandos Publishing, 2017) 152 pp. $90.00 ISBN 978-0-08-101278-9.
Black, Alison, et al., eds. Information Design: Research and Practice (London: Routledge, 2017) 750 pp. $80.00 ISBN 978-0-415-78632-4.
Brayman, Heidi, et al., eds. The Book in History, the Book as History (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2017) 420 pp. $25.00 ISBN 978-0-300-22316-3.
Brazeau, Alicia. Circulating Literacy: Writing Instruction in American Periodicals, 1880-1910 (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2016) 210 pp. $40.00 ISBN 978-0-8093-3544-2.
Brown, John Seely and Paul Duguid. The Social Life of Information updated ed. (Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review Press, 2017) 282 pp. $32.00 ISBN 978-1-633-692-41-1.
Cohn, Julie. “Data, Power, and Conservation: The Early Turn to Information Technologies to Manage Energy Resources,” Information & Culture v. 52, no. 3 (2017): 334-61.
Douglas, Aileen. Work in Hand: Script, Print, and Writing, 1690-1840 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017) 229 pp. $80.00 ISBN 978-0-19-878918-5.
Elias, Megan J. Food on the Page: Cookbooks and American Culture (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017) 294 pp. $35.00 ISBN 978-0-8122-491-70.
Engerer, Volkmar. “Exploring Interdisciplinary Relationships between Linguistics and Information Retrieval from the 1960s to Today,” Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 68 (March 2017): 660–80.
Fowler, Alastair. The Mind of the Book: Pictorial Title Pages (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017) 220 pp. $40.00 ISBN 978-0-19-8717-66-9.
Goggin, Gerard and Mark McLelland, eds. The Routledge Companion to Global Internet Histories (New York: Routledge, 2017) 547 pp. $240.00 ISBN 978-1-138-81216-1.
Grossman, Carol P. History of the Limited Editions Club (New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2017) 268 pp. $125.00 ISBN 978-1-5845-636-55.
Hanna, Ralph. “Manuscript Catalogues and Book History,” The Library v. 18, no. 1 (2017): 45-61.
Hogan, Kristen. The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Anti-racism and Feminist Accountability (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016) $90.00 ISBN 978-0-822-3611-07.
Hunt, Jeffrey M., R. Alden Smith, and Fabio Stok. Classics from Papyrus to the Internet: An Introduction to Transmission and Reception (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2017) 344 pp. $30.00 ISBN 978-1-4773-1302-2.
Kaisler, Stephen H. Birthing the Computer (Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017) 345 pp. $118.00 ISBN 978-1-4438-8511-9.
Karafantis, Layne. “NORAD’s Combat Operations Center: A Distinctly Cold War Environment,” Information & Culture v. 52, no. 2 (2017): 139-62.
Lahiri, Jhumpa. The Clothing of Books (trans. by Alberto Vourvoulias-Bush) (London: Bloomsbury, 2017) 80. Pp. $20.00 ISBN 978-1-4088-9016-5.
Lécuyer, Christophe. From Clean Rooms to Dirty Water: Labor, Semiconductor Firms, and the Struggle over Pollution and Workplace Hazards in Silicon Valley,” Information & Culture v. 52, no. 3 (2017): 304-333.
Levy, Michelle and Tom Mole. The Broadview Introduction to Book History (Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2017) 229 pp. $32.00 ISBN 978-1-55481-087-1.
Loxley, Simon. Type is Beautiful: The Story of Fifty Remarkable Fonts (Oxford: Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 2016) 262 pp. $35.00 ISBN 978-1-85124-431-7.
Marcus, Leonard S. Golden Legacy: The Story of the Golden Books (New York; Golden Books, Random House, 2007) 245 pp. $40.00 ISBN 978-0-375-82996-3.
Nichols, Jeff. “Propaganda, Chicago Newspapers, and the Political Economy of Newsprint during the First World War,” Journalism History 43 (Spring 2017): 21-31.
Orth, Myra D. Renaissance Manuscripts: The Sixteenth Century (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2016) 2 vols. $375.00 ISBN 978-1-872501-30-7.
Osborne, Huw, ed. The Rise of the Modernist Bookshop: Books and the Commerce of Culture in the Twentieth Century (Farham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2015) 221 pp. $107.00 ISBN 978-1-4724-4669-2. [Part of series Ashgate Studies in Publishing History: Manuscript, Print, Digital]
Romney, J. P. and Rebecca Romney. Printer’s Error: Irreverent Stories from Book History (New York: HarperCollins, 2017) 353 pp. $27.00 ISBN 978-0-06-241231-7.
Rudd, Annie. “Erich Salomon’s Candid Camera and the Framing of Political Authority,” Information & Culture v. 52, no. 4 (2017): 412-35.
Shapiro, Rebecca, ed. Fixing Babel: An Historical Anthology of Applied English Lexicography (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2017) 607 pp. $150.00 ISBN 978-1-61148-809-8.
Spoerhase, Carlos. “Beyond the Book?” New Left Review 103 (January-February 2017): 87-99.
Stamper, Kory. Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (New York: Pantheon, 2017) 396 pp. $27.00 ISBN 978-1-1018-709-45.
F. GENERAL, HISTORIOGRAPHY, PHILOSOPHY, AND LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE EDUCATION
Auerswald, Philip E. The Code Economy: A Forty-Thousand-Year History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017) 298 pp. $35.00 ISBN 978-0-19-0226-76-3.
Bales, Stephen E. “The Academic Library as Crypto-Temple: A Marxian Analysis,” in Erik Estep and Nathaniel Enright, eds. Class and Librarianship: Essays at the Intersection of Information, Labor and Capital (Sacramento, CA: Library Juice Press, 2016), pp. 5-24.
Berger, Sidney E. The Dictionary of the Book: A Glossary for Book Collectors, Booksellers, Librarians, and Others (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017) 334 pp. $125.00 ISBN 978-1-4422-6339-0.
Bird, Amanda and Braden Cannon. “From Steam Engines to Search Engines: Class Struggle in an Information Economy,” in Erik Estep and Nathaniel Enright, eds. Class and Librarianship: Essays at the Intersection of Information, Labor and Capital (Sacramento, CA: Library Juice Press, 2016), pp. 49-71.
Birkwood, Katherine and Eric Howard. “Bibliographies,” Library & Information History v. 33, no. 3 (2017): 226-32. [Extensive list of historical writings on libraries, librarianship, and information throughout the world]
Briggs, Kenneth A. The Invisible Bestseller: Searching for the Bible in America (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdman’s Publishing Company, 2016) 239 pp. $25.00 ISBN 978-0-8028-691-35.
Budd, John M. Six Issues Facing Libraries Today: Critical Perspectives (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017) 180 pp. $75.00 ISBN 978-1-4422-7737-3.
Delsaerdt, Pierre, ed., et al. “Proceedings of the CERL Seminar: Library History: Why, What, How?” Quaerendo v. 46, nos. 2-3 (2016): 101-246.
Dourish, Paul. The Stuff of Bits: An Essay on the Materialities of Information (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017) 244 pp. $35.00 ISBN 978-0-262-03620-7.
Gartner, Richard. Metadata: Shaping Knowledge from Antiquity to the Semantic Web (Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, 2016) 114 pp. $30.00 ISBN 978-3-3194-089-10.
Kidd, Kenneth B. and Joseph T. Thomas, Jr. Prizing Children’s Literature: The Cultural Politics of Children’s Book Awards (New York: Routledge, 2017) 248 pp. $140.00 ISBN 978-1-138-65054-1.
Kloeckner, Christian, et al., eds. Knowledge Landscapes North America (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2016) 305 pp. $73.00 ISBN 973-3-8253-6627-8.
Mirowski, Philip and Edward Nik-Khah. The Knowledge We Have Lost: The History of Information in Modern Economics (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017) 298 pp. $35.00 ISBN 978-0-19-0270-05-6.
Oswald, Godfrey. Library World Records 3rd ed. (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2017) 379 pp. $65.00 ISBN 978-1-4766-6777-5.
Pawley, Christine. “Missionaries of the Book or Central Intelligence Agents: Gender and Ideology in the Contest for Library Education in Twentieth-Century America,” Libraries: Culture, History, and Society v. 1, no. 1 (2017): 72-96
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