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

 

By Ed Goedeken

 

Spring 2016

 

 

1. UNITED STATES 

Blair, Amy L.  “Tasting and Testing Books: Good Housekeeping’s Literary Canon for the 1920s and 1930s,” REAL Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature v. 31 (2015): 167-83.

 

Bostaph, Samuel.  Andrew Carnegie: An Economic Biography (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015) 125 pp. $75.00 ISBN 978-0-7391-898-32.

 

Buschman, John and Dorothy A. Warner.  “On Community, Justice, and Libraries,” Library Quarterly 86 (January 2016): 10-24.

 

Cortana, James W.  “Doing History in the Olden Days, 1970s-1990s,” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing v. 37 (2015): 84-88.

 

Coyle, Karen.  “The Evolving Catalog,” American Libraries 47 (January/February 2016): 48-53.

 

Davis, Donald G. Jr. and John Mark Tucker.  “The Impact of the Christian Faith on Books, Publishing, and Libraries: American Organizations and Leaders in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries,” Library and Information History 32 (February/May 2016): 112-22.

 

Dunkin, Paul S.  “The Development of Technical Services Training,” Journal of Education for Library & Information Science 56 (Winter 2015): 27-35.

 

Fitch, John W. and David M. Hovde.  “Library Programs in Indiana in the 1850s,” Indiana Magazine of History 111 (December 2015): 422-53.

 

Gioia, Michael.  “The Accidental Librarian,” State Legislatures 42 (January 2016): 25-27 [about Charles McCarthy and the Wisconsin Idea]

 

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.

 

Intrator, Miriam.  “A Temporary Haven: Jewish World War II Refugee Scholars at the New York Public Library, 1933-1945,” Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften v. 21, no. 3 (2010): 10-35.

 

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

 

Knott, Cheryl.  Not Free, Not for All: Public Libraries in the Age of Jim Crow (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2105) 312 pp. $90.00 ISBN 978-1-62534-177-8.

 

Lear, Bernadette A.  “Libraries and Reading Culture at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, 1879–1918,” Book History v. 18 (2015):  166-96.

 

Lee, Mollie Huston.  “North Carolina Negro Library Association,” North Carolina Libraries (Online) 73 (Spring/Summer 2015): 25-36.

 

Mercer, Paul.  “We Were There Charlie!: Joseph Gavit and the 1911 New York State Library Fire,” Hudson River Valley Review 28 (Spring 2012): 68-83.

 

Nappo, Christian A.  The Librarians of Congress (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016) 160 pp. $75.00 ISBN 978-1-4422-6260-7.

 

Nuñez, Victoria. “Remembering Pura Belpré’s Early Career at the 135^th Street New York Public Library: Interracial Cooperation and Puerto Rican Settlement during the Renaissance,” Centro Journal 21 (Spring 2009): 52-77.

 

Reuben, Neptune H.  “The Irony of Un-American Historiography: Daniel J. Boorstin and the Rediscovery of a U.S. Archive of Decolonization,” American Historical Review v. 120 (2015): 935-50.

 

Schnapp, Jeffrey T. and Matthew Battles.  The Library Beyond the Book (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014) 167 pp. $25.00 ISBN 978-0-674-72503-4.

 

Schott, Michael C. “A History of New Jersey Libraries, 1997-2012,” Journal of the Medical Library Association 102 (2015): 109-110.

 

Sherman, Scott.  Patience and Fortitude: Power, Real Estate, and the Fight to Save a Public Library (Brooklyn, NY: Melville House, 2015) 256 pp. $21.00 ISBN 978-1-61219-429-5.

 

Stewart, J. Brenton.  “To Support the Southern Medical Public: The Medical College of Georgia as a Southern Information Agency, 1828-1861,” Information & Culture v. 50, no. 4 (2015): 554-77.

 

Strader, C. Rockelle.  “Cataloging Music Sound Recordings in the United States: An Evolution of Practice and Standards,” Notes 72 (December 2015): 276-327.

 

Tanselle, G. Thomas.  Portraits and Reviews (Charlottesville, VA: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 2015) 500 pp. $55.00 ISBN 978-1-883631-16-1.    

Thatcher, Sanford G.  “Open Access Monograph Publishing and the Origins of the Office of Digital Scholarly Publishing at Penn State University,” Journal of Scholarly Publishing v. 46 (2015): 203-223.

 

Trace, Ciaran B.  “Atlanta between the Wars: The Creation of the Georgia Department of Archives and History, 1918–1936,” Information & Culture v. 50, no. 4 (2015): 504-53.

 

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.

 

Warner, Michael.  “Notes on the Evolution of Computer Security Policy in the US Government, 1965-2003," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing v. 37 (2015): 8-18.

 

Weihs, Jean.  “Tracking Descriptive Cataloging History,” Technicalities 35 (November/December 2015): 1-9.

 

Westphall, Allan F.  Books and Religious Devotion: The Redemptive Reading of an Irishman in Nineteenth-Century New England (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014) 228 pp. $80.00 ISBN 978-0-271-06404-8.

 

Wilson, Thomas D.  “The Library of James Edward Oglethorpe,” The Georgia Historical Quarterly 99 (Winter 2015): 323-47.

 

Wulf, Andrew James.  U.S. International Exhibitions during the Cold War (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015) 356 pp. $85.00 ISBN 978-1-4422-4642-3.

 

 

 

2. NON-US WESTERN HEMISPHERE

 

Milligan, Ian.  “A Haven for Perverts, Criminals, and Goons: Children and the Battle for an against Canadian Internet Regulation, 1991-1999,” Histoire Sociale/Social History v.48 (2015): 245-74.

 

 

 

3. EUROPE

 

Agar, Jon.  “Putting the Spooks Back In? The UK Secret State and the History of Computing,” Information & Culture v. 51, no. 1 (2016): 102-24.

 

Attar, K. E.  “The Earliest Books at the University of London (1838): 185 Volumes Presented by Nathaniel Vye, Esq.” Library and Information History 32 (February/May 2016): 100-111.

 

Beales, Ross W., Jr.  “Ebenezer Parkman’s World of Print: A Country Parson and     the Print Culture of Eighteenth-Century Anglo-America,” Library & Information History 31 (November 2015): 229-57.

 

Beavan, Iain.  “Marischal College Library, Aberdeen, in the Nineteenth Century: An Overview,” Library & Information History 31 (November 2015): 258-79.

 

Black, Alistair.  “The Librarian as Observer, Ambassador, and Tourist: Visits by Three Mid-Twentieth-Century British Librarians to the United States,” Library and Information History 32 (February/May 2016): 146-59.

 

Black, Alistair and K. A. Manley.  “Peter Hoare: A Festschrift for His Eightieth Birthday,” Library and Information History 32 (February/May 2016): 1-7.

 

Blyth, Tilly.  “Exhibiting Information: Developing the Information Age Gallery at the Science Museum,” Information & Culture v. 51, no. 1 (2016): 1-28.

 

Boag, Andrew and Christopher Burke, eds.  History of the Monotype Corporation (London: Printing Historical Society, 2014) 432 pp. $75.00 ISBN 978-0-9930510-0-5.

 

Burke, Colin.  Information & Intrigue: From Index Cards to Dewey Decimals to Alger Hiss (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014) 370 pp. $50.00 ISBN 978-0-262-0270-21.

 

Crawford, John C.  “Mutual Improvement and Library Activity: Overviewing the Evidence,” Library and Information History 32 (February/May 2016): 34-45.

 

Duckett, Bob.  “The Library at Thrushcroft Grange: The Pennine Library of Robert Heaton,” Library and Information History 32 (February/May 2016): 72-87.

 

Epstein, Barbara A.  “In Their Own Words: Oral Histories of Medical Library Association Past Presidents,” Journal of the Medical Library Association 104 (January 2016): 3-14.

 

Erünsal, İsmail E.  “A Brief Survey of the Book Trade in the Ottoman Empire,” Libri 65 (September 2015): 217-35.

 

Hingley, Sheila M. “A Well-Run Library in the Early Eighteenth Century: Durham Cathedral Library under Thomas Rud, 1717-25,” Library and Information History 32 (February/May 2016): 8-19.

 

Hodge, Alexander.  “The Origins of Archival Training at the University of Liverpool,” Archives: The Journal of the British Records Association 40 (April-October 2014): 53-64.

 

Holstein, Jurgen, ed.  The Book Cover in the Weimar Republic (Köln: Taschen, 2015) 450 pp. $70.00 ISBN 978—3-8365-4980-6.

 

Jefcoate, Graham.  “Mr. Cavendish’s Librarian: Charles Haydinger and the Library of Henry Cavendish, 1783-1801,” Library and Information History 32 (February/May 2016): 58-71.

 

Mandelbrote, Giles.  “Proposals for Printing a Catalogue of Sion College Library (1721)” Library and Information History 32 (February/May 2016): 20-33.

 

Manley, K. A.  “A Matter of Life and Death: A Note on a Religious Book Club in Fethard, County Tipperary, in 1835,” Library and Information History 32 (February/May 2016): 123-31.

 

Montalbano, Kathryn A.  “Misunderstanding the Mongols: Intercultural Communication in Three Thirteenth-Century Franciscan Travel Accounts,” Information & Culture v. 5

 

Nipss, Karen.  “The Distaff Side,” Library Quarterly 85 (October 2015): 454-60. [History of women in European book trade and printing industry]

Penney, Christine.  “Peter Hoare and the Hurd Library at Hartlebury Castle, Worcestershire,” Library and Information History 32 (February/May 2016): 46-57.

 

Piñeiro, Manuel Vaquero.  “Readings for Farmers: Agrarian Almanacs in Italy from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century,” Agricultural History Review v. 63, pt. 2 (2015): 243-64.

 

Purcell, Mark.  “Clumber, Nottinghamshire: The Rise and Fall of a Ducal Library,” Library and Information History 32 (February/May 2016): 88-99.

 

Ricketts, Rita.  Scholars, Poets & Radicals: Discovering Forgotten Lives in the Blackwell Collections (London: Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 2015) 302 pp. $50.00 ISBN978-1-85124-425-6.

 

Rubery, Matthew.  “From Shell Shock to Shellac: The Great War, Blindness, and Britain’s Talking Library,” Twentieth Century British History v. 26, no. 1 (2015): 1-25.

 

Rudy, Kathryn M.  Postcards on Parchment: The Social Lives of Medieval Books (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015) 359 pp. $85.00 ISBN 978-0-300-20989-1.

 

Rundle, David.  “Good Duke Humfrey: Bounder, Cad, and Bibliophile,” The Bodleian Library Record 27 (2014): 36-53.

 

Sumner, James.  “Making Computers Boring: Thoughts on Historical Exhibition of Computing Technology from the Mass-Market Era,” Information & Culture v. 51, no. 1 (2016): 29-53.

 

Vincent, John.  LGBT People and the UK Cultural Sector: The Response of Libraries, Museums, Archives and Heritage since 1950 (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014).

 

Vodosek, Peter.  “The Teaching Diary of a German Library School, 1942-1952: Analysis and Interpretation,” Library and Information History 32 (February/May 2016): 132-45.

 

Wirtén, Eva Hemmungs. Making Marie Curie: Intellectual Property and Celebrity Culture in an Age of Information (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2015) 223 pp. $35.00 ISBN 978-0-226-23584-4.

 

 

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

 

 

Al-Kanan, Asma J.  “Kuwait’s Higher Education Libraries,” IFLA Journal 42 (March 2016): 59-65.

 

Franks, Rachel.  “There’s a Dead Body in My Library: Crime Fiction Texts and the History of Libraries,” Australian Library Journal 64 (November 2015): 288-300.

  Golvers, Noël.  “The Pre-1773 Jesuit Libraries in Peking as a Medium for Western Learning in Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century China,” The Library 16 (December 2015): 429-45.


  Mchombu, Kingo and Catherine Maggy Beukes-Amiss.  “The Role of Libraries in Contemporary African Society,” Library Trends 64 (Summer 2015): 112-24.

 

Shu, Xu.  “The Shen Bao Index: Its Academic Significance and Effect on the Development of Chinese Indexing,” Indexer 33 (December 2015): 126-30.

 

Tise, Ellen R. and Reggie Raju. “African Librarianship: A Relic, a Fallacy, or an Imperative?” Library Trends 64 (Summer 2015): 3-18.

 

Titangos, Hui-Lan H.  “Xujiahui Library: A Cultural Crossroads between East and West,” Chinese Librarianship Issue 41 (June 2016): 1-19.

 

 

 

 

5. HISTORY OF BOOKS, READING, INFORMATION, and BOOK CULTURE
6.  

 

Breay, Claire and Bernard Meehan, eds.  The St. Cuthbert Gospel: Studies on the Insular Manuscript of the Gospel of John (London: British Library, 2015) 224 pp. $65.00 ISBN 978-0-7123-5765-4.

 

Burke, Peter.  What is the History of Knowledge? (Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2016) 156 pp. $20.00 ISBN 978-0-7456-6984-7.

 

Calasso, Roberto.  The Art of the Publisher (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015) 148 pp. $23.00 ISBN 978-0-374-18823-8.

 

Furedi, Frank.  Power of Reading: From Socrates to Twitter (New York: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2015) 262 pp. $35.00 ISBN 978-1-472-91477-4.

 

Hench, John B.  “The Publishers Who Lunch: The Social Networking of American Publishers,” Book History v. 18 (2015): 283-301.

 

Jones, Allan.  “Brains, Tortoises, and Octopuses: Postwar Interpretations of Mechanical Intelligence on the BBC,” Information & Culture v. 51, no. 1 (2016): 81-101.

 

Kamph, Jamie.  Tricks of the Trade: Confessions of a Bookbinder (New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2015) 144 pp. $25.00 ISBN 978-1-58456-334-1.

 

Kidwell, Peggy Aldrich.  “Playing Checkers with Machines—from Ajeeb to Chinook,” Information & Culture v. 50, no. 4 (2015): 578-87.

 

Light, Jennifer S.  “Computing and the Big Picture: A Keynote Conversation,” Information & Culture v. 51, no. 1 (2016): 125-32.

 

Luck, Sarah Elizabeth, et al. The Book: Production and Participation,” Library Review v. 65, nos. 1/2 (2016): 2-19.

 

McCutcheon, R. W.  “Silent Reading in Antiquity and the Future History of the Book,” Book History v. 18 (2015): 1-32.

 

Moore, Nicole, ed.  Censorship and the Limits of the Literary: A Global View (New York: Bloomsbury, 2015) 260 pp. $110.00 ISBN 978-1-6289-2009-3.

 

Mugglestone, Lynda.  Samuel Johnson & the Journey into Words (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015) 289 pp. $65.00 ISBN 978-0-19-967990-4.

 

Murphy, Kevin D. and Sally O-Driscoll, eds.  Studies in Ephemera: Text and Image in Eighteenth-Century Print (Lanham, MD: Bucknell University Press, 2015) 318 pp. $45.00 ISBN 978-1-61148-661-2.

 

Nwagwu, Williams E. and Bosire Onyancha. “Back to the Beginning—The Journal is Dead, Long Live Science,” Journal of Academic Librarianship 41 (September 2015): 669-79.

 

Perry, Timothy P. J.  “Early Depictions of the Printing Press: A Model Source,” Printing History Issue 18 (July 2015): 27-53.

 

Pettegree, Andrew.  Brand Luther: 1517, Printing, and the Making of the Reformation (New York: Penguin Press, 2015) 383 pp. $   ISBN 978-1-59420-496-8.
 

Scinto, Janet E.  “The Panel Stamp in Early and Modern Bindings,” Library Quarterly 85 (January 2015): 106-111.

 

Scouvig, Laura and Jack Andersen.  “Understanding Information History from a Genre-Theoretical Perspective,” Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology 66 (October 2015): 2061-70.

 

Stetler, Pepper.  Stop Reading! Look!: Modern Vision and the Weimar Photographic Book (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2015) 252 pp. $60.00 ISBN 978-0-472-11966-0.

   

Stevens, Hallam.  “The Politics of Sequence: Data Sharing and the Open Source Software Movement,”   Information & Culture v. 50, no. 4 (2015): 465-503.

 

Supper, Alexandra.  “Sound Information: Sonification in the Age of Complex Data and Digital Audio,” Information & Culture v. 50, no. 4 (2015): 441-64.

 

Svenson, Nanette.  The United Nations as a Knowledge System (New York: Routledge, 2016) 252 pp.  $$145.00 ISBN 978-0-415-73517-9.

 

Towheed, Shafquat and Edmund G. C. King, eds.  Reading and the First World War: Readers, Texts, Archives (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) 266 pp. $90.00 ISBN 978-1-137-30270-0.

 

 

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

 

Bales, Stephen.  The Dialectic of Academic Librarianship: A Critical Approach (Sacramento, CA: Library Juice Press, 2015) 194 pp. $35.00 ISBN 978-1-936117-89-5.

 

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

 

Furedi, Frank.  “The Information Overload Myth,” American Interest 11 (Spring 2016): 11-16.

 

Gorichanaz, Tim.  “How the Document Got Its Authority,” Journal of Documentation v. 72, no. 2 (2016): 299-305.

 

Lowenthal, David.  The Past is a Foreign Country—Revisited (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015) 660 pp. $76.00 ISBN 978-0-521-85142-8.

 

Pagowsky, Nicole and Miriam E. Rigby.  The Librarian Stereotype: Deconstructing Perceptions and Presentations of Information Work (Chicago, IL: ACRL, 2014) 294 pp. $60.00 ISBN 978-0-8389-87-049.

 

 

 

Weber, Marc.  “Self-Fulfilling History: How Narrative Shapes

Preservation of the Online World,” Information & Culture v. 51, no. 1 (2016): 54-80.

 

Willison, Ian.  “On the History of the Archival Library and Scholarship in the West since the Alexandrian Library: An Overview,” Alexandria v. 25 (2014): 87-110.

 

Yale, Elizabeth.  “The History of Archives: The State of the Discipline,” Book History v. 18 (2015): 332-59.