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

By Ed Goedeken

Fall 2015

UNITED STATES

Alkalimat, Abdul and Kate Williams.  Roots and Flowers: The Life and Work of Afro-Cuban Librarian Marta Terry González (Sacramento, CA: Library Juice Press, 2015) 300 pp. $35.00 ISBN 978-1-936117-64-2.

Brander, Elisabeth.  “A Tale of a Dentist and His Books: Classic Dental Books in the Becker Medical Library,” Journal of the Medical Library Association 103 (April 2015): 107-108.

Castronovo, Russ.  Propaganda 1776: Secrets, Leaks, and Revolutionary Communications in Early America (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014) 256 pp. $30.00 ISBN 978-01-99354-90-0.

Clark, Rachel Ivy.  “Breaking Records: The History of Bibliographic Records and Their Influence in Conceptualizing Bibliographic Data,” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 53 (April-June 2015): 286-302.

Coppersmith, Jonathan.  Faxed: The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015) 308 pp. $55.00 ISBN 978-1-142-1415-9-18.

de Groat, Greta.  “A History of Video Game Cataloging in U.S. Libraries,” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 53 (February-March 2015): 135-56.

Driscoll, Kevin.  “Professional Work for Nothing: Software Commercialization and An Open Letter to Hobbyists,” Information & Culture v. 50, no. 2 (2015): 257-83.

Drucker, Donna J.  The Classification of Sex: Alfred Kinsey and the Organization of Knowledge (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014) 244 pp. $30.00 ISBN 978-0-8229-6303-5.

Eamon, Michael.  Imprinting Britain: Newspapers, Sociability, and the Shaping of British North America (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015) 263 pp. $35.00 ISBN 978-0-7735-4491-8.

Farlow, Jonathan M.  I’ve Seen It All at the Library: The View from Behind the Desk (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2015) 185 pp. $35.00 ISBN 978-0-7864-9684-6.

Felsenstein, Frank and James J. Connolly.  What Middletown Read: Print Culture in an American Small City (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2015) 304 pp. $90.00 ISBN 978-1-62534-140-2.

Furlong, Jennifer.  “Libraries, Booksellers, and Readers: Changing Tastes at the New York Society Library in the Long Eighteenth Century,” Library & Information History 31 (August 2015): 198-212. 

Goedeken, Edward A.  “History with an Impact: The Most Cited Articles in the Journal of Library History and Its Successors over the Past Fifty Years,” Information & Culture v. 50, no. 3 (2015): 285-314.

Gorman, Michael.  Our Enduring Values Revisited: Librarianship in an Ever-Changing World (Chicago, IL: ALA Editions, 2015) 240 pp. $45.00 ISBN 978-0-8389-1300-0.

Johanningsmeier, Charles.  “The Awakening and American Libraries: An Update,” Studies in American Naturalism 8 (Winter 2013): 236-48.

Johanningsmeier, Charles.  “Henry James and American Public Libraries, 1875-1916,” The Henry James Review 36 (Winter 2015): 45-63.

Johanningsmeier, Charles.  “Realism, Naturalism, and American Public Libraries, 1880-1914,” American Literary Realism 48 (Fall 2015): 1-24.

Jones, Elisabeth A. and Paul A. Courant.  “Monograph Publishing Trends in Academic Libraries: Did the Serials Crisis Really Destroy the University Press?” Journal of Scholarly Publishing 46 (October 2014): 43-70.

Jordan, Mary Wilkins.  “Public Library History on the Lewis and Clark Trail,” Public Library Quarterly 34 (April-June 2015): 162-77.

Kaplan, Richard L.  “Press, Paper and the Public Sphere: The Rise of the Cheap Mass Press in the USA, 1870-1910,” Media History 21 (February 2015): 42-54.

Kate-Riin, Kont.  “How to Optimize the Cost and Time of the Acquisitions Process?” Collection Building v. 34, no.2 (2015): 41-50.  [historical treatment]

Katz-Kimchi, Merav.  “Singing the Strong Light Works of [American] Engineers: Popular Histories of the Internet as Mythopoetic Literature,” Information & Culture v. 50, no. 2 (2015): 160-80.
 

Kline, Ronald R.  The Cybernetics Moment: Or Why We Call Our Age the Information Age (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015)

Kozak, Nadine I. “If You Build It, They Will Come: Lusk, Wyoming, and the Information Highway Imaginaire, 1989-1999,” Information & Culture v. 50, no. 2 (2015): 236-56.

Laskowski, Mary S., Jennifer A. Maddox Abbott, and Michael A. Norman.  “A Collection Explosion: Finding Our Collection Roots and Examining How We Got from there to Here,” Collection Building v. 34, no. 4 (2015): 136-43.  [History of the University of Illinois collection]

Mays, Andrea E.  The Millionaire and the Bard: Henry Folger’s Obsessive Hunt for Shakespeare’s First Folio (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015) 350 pp. $27.00 ISBN 978-1-439-1182-38.

McGrath, Ellen.  “A Century’s Worth of Access: A Historical Overview of Cataloging in Law Library Journal,” Law Library Journal 106 (Summer 2014): 407-30.

Mellen, Roger.  “The Press, Paper Shortages and Revolution in Early America,” Media History 21 (February 2015): 23-41.

Morris, Sara E.  “Spreading Their Butter too Thin: Land-Grant Libraries, 1900-1940,” in Alan I. Marcus, ed. Science as Service: Establishing and Reformulating Land-Grant Universities, 1865-1930 (Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2015), pp. 239-67.

Ocepek, Melissa G., Unmil P. Karadkar, and William Aspray.  “A Perspective on the Larger World: Newspaper Coverage of National and International Events in Three Small US Cities, 1870–1920,” Information & Culture v. 50, no. 3 (2015): 417-40.

Oggolder, Christian.  “From Virtual to Social: Transforming Concepts and Images of the Internet,” Information & Culture v. 50, no. 2 (2015): 181-96.

Plotnick, Rachel.  “What Happens When You Push This?: Toward a History of the Not-So-Easy Button,” Information & Culture v. 50, no. 3 (2015): 315-338.

Rains, Stephanie. “Going in for Competitions: Active Readers and Magazine Culture, 1900–1910,” Media History 21 (May 2015): 138–49.

Rankin, Joy.  “From the Mainframes to the Masses: A Participatory Computing Movement in Minnesota Education,” Information & Culture v. 50, no. 2 (2015): 197-216.

Rich, Rachel. “If You Desire to Enjoy Life, Avoid Unpunctual People: Women,

Timetabling and Domestic Advice, 1850–1910,” Cultural and Social History v. 12, no. 1 (2015): 95–112.

Robertson, Craig.  “Paper, Information, and Identity in 1920s America,” Information & Culture v. 50, no. 3 (2015): 392-416.

Schafer, Valérie.  “Part of a Whole: RENATOR, a Twenty-Year-Old Network within the Internet,” Information & Culture v. 50, no. 2 (2015): 217-35.

Tanselle, G. Thomas.  “A Bibliographer’s Creed,” Harvard Library Bulletin 25 (Spring 2014): 1-17.

Taylor, Mary Virginia.  “Impressions of an Old Master: Hospital Libraries and Librarians, 1970-2014,” Medical Reference Services Quarterly 34 (January-March 2015): 104-112.

Turner, Hannah.  “Decolonizing Ethnographic Documentation: A Critical History of the Early Museum Catalogs at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 53 (July-September 2015): 658-76.

Vilks, Andris, and Jana Dreimane, ‘Modernization of Libraries in a Postcommunist

State: The Roles of the George Soros, Andrew W. Mellon, and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundations in the Development of Latvian Libraries,” Library Trends 63 (Fall 2014): 233–51.

Westphall, Allan F.  Books and Religious Devotion: The Redemptive Reading of an Irishman in Nineteenth-Century New England (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2015) 228 pp. $80.00 ISBN 978-0-271-06404-8.

Wiegand, Wayne A.  Part of Our Lives: A People’s History of the American Public Library (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015) 331 pp. $35.00 ISBN 978-0-19-02480-00.

Wiegand, Wayne A.  “Tunnel Vision and Blind Spots Reconsidered Part of Our Lives (2015) as a Test Case,” Library Quarterly 85 (October 2015): 347-70.

Witkowski, Terrance H.  “General Book Store in Chicago, 1938-1947: Linking Neighborhood to Nation,” Journal of Historical Research in Marketing v. 1, no. 1 (2009): 93-121.

Zhang, Liang, Justin J. W. Powell, and David P. Baker.  “Exponential Growth and the Shifting Global Center of Gravity of Science Production, 1900-2011,” Change: The Magazine of Higher Education 47 (July/August 2015): 46-49.

NON-US WESTERN HEMISPHERE

 EUROPE

Aitchison, Briony and Peter H. Reid.  “The Owner of One of the Largest and Most Valuable Private Libraries in Scotland: David Hay Fleming as Book Collector” Library & Information History 31 (May 2015): 95-116.

Ballantyne, Tony.  “Contesting the Empire of Paper: Cultures of Print and Anti-Colonialism in the Modern British Empire,” in Jane Carey and Jane Lydon, eds., Indigenous Networks: Mobility, Connections and Exchange (London: Routledge,    2014), pp. 219-40.

Bradley, Matthew and Juliet John, eds.  Reading and the Victorians (Farnham:   Ashgate, 2015) 180 pp. $110.00 ISBN 978-1-4094-408-02.

Brudin, Abigail and Dunstan Roberts.  “Book-Buying and the Grand Tour:

          The Italian Books at Belton House in Lincolnshire,” The Library 16 (March 2015): 51-79.

Chang, Ku-ming (Kevin). “Communications of Chemical Knowledge: Georg Ernst

Stahl and the Chemists at the French Academy of Sciences in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century,” Osiris v. 29, no. 1 (2014): 135–57.

Clapinson, Mary.  A Brief History of the Bodleian Library (Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2015) 202 pp. $25.00 ISBN 978-1-85124-273-3.

Duroselle-Melish, Caroline and David A. Lines.  “The Library of Ulisse Aldrovandi (1605): Acquiring and Organizing Books in Sixteenth-Century Bologna,” The Library: Transactions of the Bibliographical Society 16 (June 2015): 133-61.

 

Eamon, Michael. Imprinting Britain: Newspapers, Sociability, and the Shaping of

British North America (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2015) 263 pp. $35.00 ISBN 978-0-7735-449-18.

Erünsal, İsmail E. “A Brief Survey of the Book Trade in the Ottoman Empire,” Libri: International Journal of Libraries & Information Services 65 (September 2015): 217-235.

Ferlier, Louisiane.  “Tace Sowle-Raylton (1666–1749) and the Circulation of Books in the London Quaker Community,” Library & Information History 31 (August 2015): 157-70.
 

Finlay, John.  “Local Lawyers and Their Libraries in Eighteenth-Century Scotland,” Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society v. 9 (2014): 43-60.

Garrett, Jeffrey.  “Klostersturm and Secularization in Central Europe: What Happened to the Libraries?” Theological Librarianship v. 8, no. 1 (2015): 61-69.

Hershenzon, Daniel.  “Traveling Libraries: The Arabic Manuscripts of Muley Zidan and the Escorial Library,” Journal of Early Modern History v. 18 (2014): 535-58.

Krefting, Ellen, et al., eds.  Eighteenth-Century Periodicals as Agents of Change: Perspectives on Northern Enlightenment (Leiden: Brill, 2015) 346 pp. $140.00 ISBN 978-90-04-29005-1.

Longás Lacasa, María Ángeles.  Historia de la Biblioteca de la Universidad de Mallorca (1767-1829) (Madrid, Spain: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Figuerola Institute of Social Science History, 2015) 437 pp. [Freely available at: http://e-archivo.uc3m.es/bitstream/handle/10016/21552/historia_longas_hu...

O’Neill, Lindsay.  The Opened Letter: Networking in the Early Modern British World (The Early Modern Americas.) 264 pp.  $47.50 (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015) ISBN: 978-0-8122-464-83.

O’Neill, Timothy, ed.  The Irish Hand: Scribes and Their Manuscripts from the Earliest Times rev. ed. (Cork: Cork University Press, 2014). [first published in 1984]

Rebecchini, Damiano and Raffaella Vassena, eds., Reading in Russia: Practices of Reading and Literacy Communication, 1760-1930 (Milan: Ledizioni, 2014).

Rivers, Isabel.  “Thomas Jackson (1783-1873): Book Collector, Editor and Tutor,” Wesley and Methodist Studies v. 6 (2014): 63-89.

Saumarez Smith, John.  “Hugh Trevor-Roper’s Library,” The Book Collector v. 63 (2014): 427-34.

Slack, Paul.  The Invention of Improvement: Information and Material Progress in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).

Steiner, Emily and Lynn Ransom, eds.  Taxonomies of Knowledge: Information and Order in Medieval Manuscripts (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015) 176 pp. $45.00 ISBN 978-0-8122-4759-6.

Sternberg, Else.  “Whose Acquisitions Policy? Panizzi and his Predecessors,” Electronic British Library Journal (2015), article 1. [http://www.bl.uk/eblj/2015articles/pdf/ebljarticle12015.pdf]

Walker, Alison.  “Sir Hans Sloan and the Library of Dr. Luke Rugeley,” The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society 15 (December 2014): 383-409. 
 

Warkentin, Germaine, Joseph L. Black, and William R. Bowen, eds.  The Library of the Sidneys of Pennhurst Place circa 1665 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015) 420 pp. $200.00 ISBN 978-0-8020-4293-4.

ASIA, AFRICA, THE MIDDLE EAST, AND OTHER

Karabinos, Michael.  “The Djogdja Documenten: The Dutch-Indonesian Relationship Following Independence through an Archival Lens,” Information & Culture v. 50, no. 3 (2015): 372-91.

Luyt, Brendan.  “Replacing the Ideology of Information by Exploring Domains of Knowledge: A Case Study of the Periodization of Philippine History and its Application to Information Studies,” Journal of Documentation v.71, no. 6 (2015): 1289-99.

Marcon, Federico.  The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015) 415 pp. $45.00 ISBN 978-0-226-25190-5.

Ryan, Catherine.  “LGBT People and the UK Cultural Sector: The Response of Libraries, Museums, Archives and Heritage since 1950,” Australian Academic & Research Libraries 46 (June 2015): 138-39.

Zhang, Yao, ‘The Development of Library and Information Science in China (1840–2009)” IFLA Journal 40 (December 2014): 296–306.

 HISTORY OF BOOKS, READING, INFORMATION, and BOOK CULTURE

Aaronson, Akiva.  People of the Book: Five Hundred Years of the Hebrew Book from the Beginning of Printing until the Twentieth Century (Nanuet, NY: Feldheim Publishers, 2014) 231 pp. $40.00 ISBN 978-11-59826-956-7.

Battles, Matthew.  Palimpsest: A History of the Written Word (New York: W. W. Norton, 2015) 256 pp. $27.00 ISBN 978-0-393-0588-57.

Bishop, Ted.  The Social Life of Ink: Culture, Wonder, and Our Relationship with the Written Word (New York: Viking, 2014) 377 pp. $30.00 ISBN 978-0-670-06861-6.

Blythe, Tilly, ed.   Information Age: Six Networks that Changed Our World (London: Scala Arts & Heritage, 2014) 224 pp. $55.00 ISBN 978-1-85759-901-5.

Buxton, William J., Michael R. Cheney, and Paul Heyer, eds.  Harold Innis’s History of Communications: Paper and Printing—Antiquity to Early Modernity (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015) 185 pp. $70.00 ISBN 978-1-4422-4338-5.

Cave, Roderick and Sara Ayad. The History of the Book  in 100 Books: The Complete Story, from Egypt to e-Book (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, Inc., 2014) 288 pp. $35.00 ISBN 978-1-77085-406-2.

Cloonan, Michèle Valerie.  Preserving Our Heritage: Perspectives from Antiquity to the Digital Age (Chicago, IL: American Library Association, 2015) 693 pp. $95.00 ISBN 978-1-55570-937-2.

Colatrella, Carol.  “Information in the Novel and the Novel as Information System: Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit and Margaret Drabble’s Radiant Way Trilogy,” Information & Culture v. 50, no. 3 (2015): 339-71.

Cox, Richard J.  “Lester J. Cappon and the Publishing of Modern Documentary Editions,” Journal of Scholarly Publishing 46 (April 2015): 224-50.

Hellinga, Lotte.  Texts in Transit: Manuscript to Proof and Print in the Fifteenth Century (Leiden: Brill, 2015) 452 pp. $200.00 ISBN 978-90-04-27716-8.

Howsam, Leslie, ed.  The Cambridge Companion to the History of the Book (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015) 284 pp. $90.00 ISBN 978-1-107-02373-4.

Jung, Sandro and Stephen Colclough, eds.  “The History of the Book,” The Yearbook of English Studies v. 45 (2015): entire issue.

Kemp, Geoff, ed.  Censorship Moments: Reading Texts in the History of Censorship and Freedom of Expression (London: Bloomsbury, 2015) 208 pp. $104.00 ISBN 978-1-4725-0822-5.

Lees-Maffei, Grace.  Design at Home: Domestic Advice Books in Britain and the USA since 1945 (New York: Routledge, 2014) 230 pp. $140.00 ISBN 978-0-415-6566-69-6.

Monro, Alexander.  The Paper Trail: An Unexpected History of the World’s Greatest Invention (London: Allen Lane, 2015) 384 pp. $30.00 ISBN 978-1-846-14189-8.

Müller, Lothar.  White Magic: The Age of Paper (Malden, MA: Policy Press, 2014) 311 pp. $25.00 ISBN 978-0-7456-7253-3.

Nerone, John.  “The History of Paper and Public Space,” Media History 21 (February 2015): 1-7.

Proctor, James and Bethan Benwell.  Reading across Worlds: Transnational Book Groups and the Reception of Difference (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) 274 pp. $90.00 ISBN 978-1-137-27639-1.  [part of New Directions in Book History series]   

Puglisi, Paola.  “Book-Jackets in Library Catalogs,” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 53 (April-June 2015): 368-81.

Regazzi, John J.  Scholarly Communications: A History from Content as King to Content as Kingmaker (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015) 278 pp. $75.00 ISBN 978-0-8108-9087-9.

Rohrbach, Augusta.  Thinking Outside the Book (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2014) 161 pp. $25.00 ISBN 978-1-6234-125-9. [part of Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book series]

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Black, Jeremy.  Clio’s Battles: Historiography in Practice (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2015) 323 pp. $85.00 ISBN 978-0-253-01675-1.

Blyth, Tilly. Information Age: Six Networks that Changed our World (London:

Scala, 2014) 224 pp. $55.00 ISBN: 978-1-8575-990-15.

 Brügger, Niels.  “A brief history of Facebook as a Media Text: The Development of an Empty Structure,” First Monday v. 20, no. 5 (May 4, 2015): 1+.

Conventz, Sven, et al.  Hub Cities in the Knowledge Economy: Seaports, Airports, Brainports (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, 2014) 268 pp. $120.00 ISBN 978-1-4094-459-13.

Crawford, Alice, ed.  The Meaning of the Library: A Cultural History (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015) 328 pp. $35.00 ISBN 978-691-16639-1.

Einasto, Olga.  “Transforming Library Communication: From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg,” New Library World v. 116, nos. 5/6 (2015): 247-63.

Halpern, Orit.  Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason since 1945 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014) 342 pp. $100.00 ISBN 978-08223-5730-8.

Hidalgo, César.  Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies (New York: Basic Books, 2015) 232 pp. $27.00 ISBN 978-0-465-04899-1.

Hjørland, Birger.  “The Phrase Information Storage and Retrieval (IS&R): An Historical Note,” Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology 66 (June 2015): 1299-1302.

Julien, Heidi and Michael O’Brien.  “Information Behaviour Research: Where Have We Been, Where Are We Going? / La Recherche en Comportement Informationnel : D’où nous Venons, vers quoi nous nous Dirigeons?” Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science 38 (December 2014): 239-50.

Kagan, Alfred.  Progressive Library Organizations: A Worldwide History (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., Pub., 2015) 300 pp. $55.00 ISBN 978-0-7864-6400-5.

Ocholla, Dennis, et al.  “A Comparison of Cataloguing and Classification Education (CCE) in Library and Information Science in South Africa, Brazil and the USA (SOBUSA): An Overview,”  African Journal of Library, Archives & Information Science 25 (April 2015): 15-27.

Pinfield, Stephen, et al.  “Open-Access Repositories Worldwide, 2005-2012: Past Growth, Current Characteristics, and Future Possibilities,” Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 65 (December 2014): 2404-21.

Radford, Gary P., Marie L. Radford, and Jessica Lingel.  “The Library as Heterotopia: Michel Foucault and the Experience of Library Space,” Journal of Documentation v. 71, no. 4 (2015): 733-51.

Richards, Pamela Spence, Wayne A. Wiegand, and Marija Dalbello, eds.  History of Modern Librarianship: Constructing the Heritage of Western Cultures (Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited, 2015) 248 pp. $60.00 ISBN 978-1-61069-099-7.

Steele, Patricia, et al.  The Living Library: An Intellectual Ecosystem (Chicago, IL: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2015) 138 pp. $42.00  ISBN 978-0-8389-8680-6.