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.