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“Enriching the Collective Resources: An Historical Analysis of the Network of Alabama Academic Libraries, 1984-2009,” (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Alabama), 2013, 245 pp.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

 

 

 

 

 

2. 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.

 

 

3. 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.

 

 

 

4. 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.

 

5. 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 3^rd 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.

 

6. 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]

 

 

 

 

 

2. 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.

 

 

3. 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.

 

 

 

4. 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.

 

5. 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 3^rd 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.

 

6. 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.