Library History Round Table Cumulative Bibliography of Library History

   


1990-Spring 1995
Part Two: H-P


Compiled by Ed Goedeken
Bibliographer for the Humanities,
Iowa State University

This bibliography originally appeared in issues of the LHRT Newsletter.
Entries are alphabetical by author.

H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P

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Hafner, Arthur W. and Jennifer Sterling-Folker. "Democratic Ideals and the American Public Library," in Arthur W. Hafner, ed. Democracy and the Public Library: Essays on Fundamental Issues (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1993) pp. 9-43.

Hafner, Arthur W. and Thomas M. Mick. "Mortimer J. Adler's and Robert M. Hutchins's Vision of the Great Books," in Arthur W. Hafner, ed. Democracy and the Public Library: Essays on Fundamental Issues (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1993) pp. 67-95.

Hahn, Gerhard, "Die Volkskammerbibliothek der DDR: Abriss Ihrer Geschichte, "Bibliotheksdienst 28 (March 1994): 337-45. [History of East German Parliamentary library]

Hahn, Gregory. "Anti-Copyright: 18th- and 20th-Century Arguments Against Copyright," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Indiana University), 1993, 208 pp.

Haider, Syed J. "Library Literature in Pakistan," International Library Review 20, no. 1 (1988): 65-100. [Traces and analyzes the development of research on libraries in Pakistan since 1915]

Hall, David D. "Readers and Reading in America: Historical and Critical Perspectives," Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society: A Journal of American History and Culture Through 1876 v. 103, pt. 2 (1993): 337-57.

Hall, David D. and John B. Hench, eds. Needs and Opportunities in the History of the Book: America, 1639-1876. (Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1987) 281 pp. $55.00 ISBN 0-912296-87-9.

Hall, J.R. "William G. Medlicott (1816-1883): An American Book Collector and His Collection," Harvard Library Bulletin 1, no. 1 (1990): 13-46.

Hall, Marie Boas. The Library and Archives of the Royal Society, 1660-1990. (London: Royal Society, 1992) 81 pp. $15.00 ISBN 0-854-034641.

Hamel, M. "Arthurian Romance in Fifteenth-Century Lindsey: The Books of the Lords Welles," Modern Language Quarterly 51 (September 1990): 341-61.

Hamilton, Mary Jane. Frank Lloyd Wright & the Book Arts (Wisconsin: Friends of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, 1994) 120 pp. $20.00. [Discusses how Wright's involvement in the Caxton Club, the Chicago organization of bibliophiles, influenced his work]

Hamilton, W.F. "A History of the Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana," LLA Bulletin 55 (Fall 1992): 83-92.

Hampe-Marinez, Teodoro. "The Diffusion of Books and Ideas in Colonial Peru: A Study of Private Libraries in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries," Hispanic American Historical Review 73 (May 1993): 211-33.

Hannestad, Stephen E. "Clay Tablets to Micro Chips: The Evolution of Archival Practice into the Twenty-First Century," Library Hi Tech v.9, no. 4 (1991): 75-96.

Hanson, D.A. "Baron Frederick Wilhelm von Egloffstein: Inventor of the First Commercial Halftone Process in America," Printing History v. 15, no. 1 (1993): 12-24.

Hanson, E.R. "College Libraries: The Colonial Period to the Twentieth Century," in McCabe, Gerald B. and Bernard Kreissman, eds. Advances in Library Administration and Organization,v. 8, 1989 (JAI Press, 1989), 302 pp. $58.50 ISBN 0-89232-967-X.

Harding, Les. A Book in Hand is Worth Two in the Library: Quotations on Books and Librarianship (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1994) $21.00 ISBN 0-89950-933-9.

Harris, Michael and Stanley Hannah. "Why Do We Study the History of Libraries? A Meditation on the Perils of Ahistoricism in the Information Era," Library & Information Science Research 14 (April-June 1992): 123-130.

Harris, P.R., ed. The Library of the British Museum: Retrospective Essays on the Department of Printed Books (London: The British Library, 1991) 305 pp. $45.00 ISBN 0-7123-0242-5.

Harrison, K.C. "COMLA: The First 21 Years and After," Library Review v. 42, no. 7 (1993): 20-28.

Harton, J.H., Jr. "Fighting the Good Fight: The American Public Library in World War II," (Unpublished Masters Thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), 1989, 96 pp.

Harvey, Louis-Georges. "Books and Culture in French Canada: The Library of the Institut-Canadien de Montreal, 1852-1880," Primary Sources and Original Works 1 (1991): 153-74.

Harvey, Louis-Georges. "Writing the History of Readers: Histoire du Livre and the Social History of Ideas in America," Journal of History and Politics 6 (1988-1989): 155-77.

Harvey, Margaret. "An Englishman at the Roman Curia during the Council of Basle: Andrew Holes, His Sermon of 1433 and His Books, "The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 42 (January 1991): 19-38.

Harvey, Ross, Wallace Kirsop, and B.J. McMullin. "An Index to Civilisation: Studies of Printing and Publishing History in Honour of Keith Maslen," Australian Library Review 11 (February 1994): 100-101.

Haugland, Ann Beret. "Defining the Book: Culture and Commerce in The New York Times Books Review," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Iowa), 1992, 210 pp. [Examines role of books as contributors to culture and as mechanisms for making a profit]

Hayes, Kevin Jon. The Library of William Byrd of Westover (Madison: Madison House, 1994) 560 pp. $70.00 ISBN 0-945612-41-9. [Catalogue of 17th and 18th century library of prominent Virginia family]

Hayes, Kevin Jon. "William Byrd's Library," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Delaware), 1991, 890 pp. [Catalogue of 17th and 18th century library of prominent Virginia family]

Haywood, Jennifer Poole. "Trash, Strips, and Soap: Serial Fictions and Mass Audiences, 1836-1992," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Princeton University), 1992, 287 pp.

Heath, John. The Heath Family Engravers 1779-1878. 2 vols. (Brookfield, VT: Scolar Press, 1993) $150.00 ISBN 0-85967-908-X (set).

Heffernan, M.J. "Rogues, Rascals and Rude Books: Policing the Popular Book Trade in Early-Nineteenth-Century France," Journal of Historical Geography 16 (January 1990): 90-107.

Heidenry, John. Theirs Was the Kingdom: The Uncondensed Story of the Reader's Digest and its Founders, DeWitt and Lila Acheson Wallace (New York: Norton, 1993) $29.95 ISBN 0-393-03466-6.

Heim, Kathleen M. "Adult Services within the American Library Association: A Historical Examination of the Move to Synthesis," RQ 30 (Spring 1991): 386-394.

Heins, E.L. "Frances Clarke Sayers: A Legacy," Horn Book 66 (January/February 1990): 31-35.

Hench, John B. "Toward a History of the Book in America," Publishing Research Quarterly 10 (Fall 1994): 9-21.

Henchy, Patrick. The National Library of Ireland, 1941-1976; A Look Back (Cumann Leabhariann Naisiunta Na hEireann, 1986), 28 pp. ISBN 0-9511585-0-3.

Henderson, Harold. Catalyst for Controversy: Paul Carus of Open Court (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1993) 205 pp. $25.00 ISBN 0-8093-1797-4. [History of Open Court Publishing Company]

Herendeen, W.H. and K.R. Bartlett. "The Library of Cuthbert Tunstall, Bishop of Durham," The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 85 (September 1991): 235-96.

Herna'ndez-Delgado, Julio L. "Pura Teresa Belpre, Storyteller and Pioneer Puerto Rican Librarian," Library Quarterly 62 (October 1992): 425-40.

Hesse, Carla. Publishing and Cultural Politics in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1810 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992) 312 pp. $29.95.

Hicks, Michael A. "John Nettleton, Henry Savile of Banke, and the Post-Medieval Vicissitudes of Byland Abbey Library," Northern History 26 (1990): 212-17.

Higginbotham, Barbra B. "'You Have Only to Touch the Keys . . .': Nineteenth Century Visions of Twentieth Century Technology," Urban Academic Librarian 7 (Winter 1989): 40-44.

Higginbotham, Barbra B. Our Past Preserved: a History of American Library Preservation, 1876-1910 (Boston: G.K. Hall, 1990) 346 pp. $38.00 ISBN 0-8161-1932-5.

Higley, G.M. "The Land-Grant College Movement and Western Libraries; Women Librarians at Selected Land-Grant Institutions," (Unpublished Master's Thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), 1989, 152 pp.

Hildenbrand, Suzanne. "A Historical Perspective on Gender Issues in American Librarianship," The Canadian Journal of Information Science 17 (September 1992): 18-28.

Hiller, Mary Ruth. "The Electic Review, 1805-1868," Victorian Periodicals Review 27 (Fall 1994): 179-278.

Hindman, Sandra., ed. Printing the Written Word: The Social History of Books, Circa 1450-1520 (Ithaca: Cornell U. Press, 1992) 332 pp. $45.00 ISBN 0-8014-2578-6.

Hirtle, P.B. "Historical Note: Atherton Seidell and the Photoduplication of Library Material," Journal of the American Society for Information Science 40 (November 1989): 424-31.

History of Education Quarterly 30 (Winter 1990). [Special issue on the history of literacy with essays on the United Kingdom, United States, Spain, Japan, and Canada]

Hoare, Peter. "The Librarians of Glasgow University over 350 Years: 1641-1991," Library Review 40, nos.2/3 (1991): 27-43.

Holst, R. "Hospital Libraries in Perspective," Bulletin of the Medical Library Association 79 (January 1991): 1-9.

Hobson, Anthony. Humanists and Bookbinders: The Origins and Diffusion of the Humanistic Bookbinding, 1459-1559 (New York Cambridge University Press, 1989) 296 pp. $125. ISBN 0-52135-536-2.

Hoffecker, Carol E. and John A. Munroe. Books, Bricks & Bibliophiles: The University of Delaware Library (Newark, Delaware: University of Delaware Press, 1984) 156 pp.

Hollis, Karen Anne. "Print Culture and the Commercialization of Sexuality, 1690-1750," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, San Diego), 1993, 344 pp.

Horne, Alan. The Dictionary of 20th-Century British Book Illustrators (Woodbridge: Antique Collector's
Club, 1994) 456 pp. $50.00 ISBN 1-85149-108-2.

Horowitz, Irving Louis. "Toward a History of Social Science Publishing in the United States," Publishing Research Quarterly 7 (Summer 1991): 59-67.

Horsfall, Nicholas. "Empty Shelves on the Palatine," Greece & Rome 40 (April 1993): 58-67. [Examines history of Temple of Palatine Apollo in ancient Rome]

Horton, M.C. "St. Mary's College Library; Growth and Development, 1929-1979," (Master's Thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), 1988, 158 pp.

Hosford, Stacilee Ford. "Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard: Reconsidering a Life," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Columbia University Teachers College), 1991, 196 pp. [Useful for understanding background to Columbia library school]

Houston, R.A. "Literacy, Education and the Culture of Print in Enlightenment Edinburgh," History: The Journal of the Historical Association 78 (October 1993): 353-92.

Houston, Robert A. Literacy in Early Modern Europe: Culture and Education 1500-1800 (London: Longman, 1988) 266 pp. ISBN 0-582-03080-3. [contains a chapter on "The World of the Book" pp.155-203.]

Hovde, David M. "The American Merchant Marine Library Association: The Public Library of the High Seas," Public Libraries 33 (July/August 1994): 205-210.

Howell, R. Patton, ed. Beyond Literacy: the Second Guttenberg Revolution (Dallas, Texas : Saybrook Pub. Co., 1990) $7.95 pbk. ISBN 0-933071-32-9.

Howes, R. "Libraries in Northern Portugal," Focus and International and Comparative Librarianship 22, No.2 (1991): 42-43.

Howsam, Leslie. Cheap Bibles: Nineteenth-Century Publishing and the British and Foreign Bible Society (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991) $55.00 ISBN 0-521-39339-6.

Hoyt, Dolores J. "The Role of Libraries in the American Turner Organizations," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Indiana University), 1993, 243 pp.

Hufford, J.R. "The Pragmatic Basis of Catalog Codes: Has the User Been Ignored?" Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 14 no.1 (1991): 27-38. [looks at major catalog codes in U.S. and Britain since 1841]

Humphreys, Kenneth W. The Friar's Libraries (London: British Library in Association with the British Academy, 1990) 281 pp. $75.00 ISBN 0-7123006-8-6.

Hunter,Clarence W. "Mississipi's Library Heritage: Ruby Stutts Lyles--A Woman for All Seasons," Mississippi Libraries 58 (Spring 1994): 14-15.

Hunter, Clarence W. "Mississippi's Library Heritage: Virginia Brocks-Shedd," Mississippi Libraries 57 (Spring 1993): 19-20.

Hunter, Clarence W. "The Integration of the Mississippi Library Association," Mississippi Libraries 56 (Fall 1992):68-71.

Hunter, David Chalmers. "English Opera and Song Books, 1703-1726: Their Contents, Publishing, Printing, and Bibliographical Description," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), 1989, 734 pp.

Huttner, Sidney F. and Elizabeth Huttner, comps. A Register of Artists, Engravers, Booksellers, Bookbinders, Printers and Publishers in New York City, 1821-42 (New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1993) 299 pp. $50.00 ISBN 0-914930-15-X.

Hutton, Frankie. The Early Black Press in America, 1827 to 1860 (New York: Greenwood Press, 1993) 182 pp. $45.00 ISBN 0-313-28696-5.

Hux, Roger. The South Carolina Library Association: Advocate for Libraries (Columbia, S.C.: South Carolina Library Association, 1990), 35 pp., n.p.

Hyland, Paul and Neil Sammells, eds. Writing and Censorship in Britain (London: Routledge, 1992) 272 pp. $70.00, $19.00 pbk. ISBN 0-415-07332-4, 0-415-08353-2 pbk.

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Illich, Ivan. In the Vineyard of the Text: A Commentary to Hugh's Didascalicon (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993) 154 pp. $25.00 ISBN 0-226-37235-9. [Illich examines fundamental changes in text production in 12th century work by Hugh of St. Victor and its impact on future history of the book]

Inamdar, N.B. "Development of Public Libraries in Andhra Pradesh," Granthana: Indian Journal of Library Studies 3 (July 1992): 115-31.

Inglesby, Pamela. "Historical Work in Mass Communication Studies: Literacy, Libraries, and Popular Reading," (Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, 75th Montreal, Quebec, Canada, August 5-8, 1992), Aug. 1992, 31 pp. ED 350563.

International History of Paper and Paper Making: The Loeber Collection of the Dutch Foundation for Paper History (Lisse, Neth.: MMF Publications, 1992) 668 microfiches, incl. indexes, Dfl. 12,400.

Irvine, Martin. The Making of Textual Culture: Grammatical and Literary Theory, 350-1100 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994) 604 pp. $65.00 ISBN 0-521-41447-4. [Contains sophisticated analysis of the development of text and writing in the Middle Ages]

Ishak, S.A. "Malay Book Publishing and Printing in Malaya and Singapore, 1807-1949," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Stirling University, United Kingdom), 1992.

Iwuji, H.O.M. "Librarianship and Oral Tradition In Africa," International Library Review 22, no. 1 (1990): 53-59.

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Joicey, Nicholas. "A Paperback Guide to Progress: Penguin Books, 1935-1951," Twentieth Century British History v. 4, no. 1 (1993): 25-56. [Assesses the cultural and political impact of Penguin Books]

Jackanicz, Donald W. "Theft at the National Archives: The MurphyCase, 1962-1975," Library and Archival Security 10 (1990): 23-50.

Jackson, Eugene B. "Historical Note: Out of the Cloudy Crystal Ball," Journal of the American Society for Information Science 42 (December 1991): 747-753. [Reprint of 1951 presentation concerning the Rapid Selection Device]

Jackson, Louise and Michael Day. "The Wyoming Literary and Library Association, 1870-1878," Journal of the West 30 (July 1991): 14-24.

James Ford Bell and His Books (Minneapolis: Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, 1993) 83 pp. 0-9601798-3-6. [Bell was founder and president of General Mills Company]

Jenkins, John H. Printer in Three Republics: A Bibliography of Samuel Bangs; First Printer in Texas and First Printer West of the Louisiana Purchase (Austin, TX: Jenkins Publishing Co., 1990) 190 pp. $15.00.

Jochum, Uwe. Kleine Bibliotheksgeschichte (Stuttgart: Philipp Reclam Jun., 1993) 232 pp. 10 DM ISBN 3-15-008915-8.

John, C. " The Advocates' Library Three Hundred and Ten Years On," Law Librarian 23 (September 1992): 111-14.

Johns, A. "Wisdom in the Concourse: Natural Philosophy and the History of the Book in Early Modern England," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Cambridge University), 1992.

Johns, Adrian. "History, Science, and the History of the Book: The Making of Natural Philosophy in Early Modern England," Publishing History 30 (1991): 5-30.

Johnson, Charles N. "Early Booksellers of Los Angeles and Santa Barbara," AB Bookman's Weekly v. 93 (January 31, 1994): 387+

Johnson, K.A. "University Libraries of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln," Nebraska Library Association Quarterly 20 (Fall 1989): 11-14.

Johnson, Nancy Louise Becker. "Sarah N. Bogle: Librarian at Large," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Michigan), 1991, 406 pp.

Johnson, William A. "Pliny the Elder and Standardized Roll Heights in the Manufacture of Papyrus," Classical Philology 88 (January 1993): 46-50.

Jolliffe, Lee. "Women's Magazines in the 19th Century," Journal of Popular Culture 27 (Spring 1994): 125-40.

Jones, Barbara. "The Center of Culture and Helpfulness: Buhl, Minnesota, Public Library's Impact on the Early Twentieth-Century Iron Range," Journal of the West 30 (July 1991): 53-62.

Jones, Barbara. "The Minnesota Historical Society Reference Library: A Room, a Collection, a Service," Minnesota History 52 (1990): 154-60.

Jones, C.E. "Pioneer in Religious Publishing: The African Methodist Episcopal Zion (A.M.E. Zion) Publishing House, 1841-1974," (Master's Thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), 1992, 84 pp.

Jones, David John. "William Herbert Ifould and the Development of Library Services in New South Wales, 1912-1942," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of New South Wales, Australia), 1994.

Jones, Kirkland C. Renaissance Man from Louisiana: A Biography of Arna Wendell Bontemps (New York: Greenwood Press, 1992) 210 pp. $50.00 ISBN 0-313-28013-4.

Jones, Plummer Alston, Jr. "American Public Library Service to the Immigrant Community, 1876-1948; a Biographical History of the Movement and its Leaders: Jane Maud Campbell (1869-1947), John Foster Carr (1869-1939), Eleanor (Edwards) Ledbetter (1870-1954), and Edna Phillips (1890-1968)" (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), 1991, 630 pp.

Josephy, Robert. Taking Part: A Twentieth-Century Life (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1993) 225 pp. $19.95 ISBN 0-87745-412-4. [Josephy designed books for Knopf, Viking, Simon and Schuster, and Harcourt.]

Joyce, Donald Franklin. Black Book Publishers in the United States; A Historical Dictionary of the
Presses, 1817-1990 (Greenwood Press, 1991) 256 pp. $55.00 ISBN 0-313-26783-9.

Julian, Charles Anthony. "An Analysis of the Historical Growth and Development of the West Virginia Library Association and its Effect upon the Advancement of Public Librarianship in the State of West Virginia," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Florida State University), 1990, 381 pp.

Jumonville, Florence M. "Books, Libraries, and Undersides for the Skies of Beds: The Extraordinary
Career of A.L. Boimare," Louisiana History 34 (Fall 1993): 437-59. [Boimare was a bookseller in nineteenth century New Orleans and the first bibliographer of Louisiana]

Jumonville, Florence M. "Frenchmen at Heart: New Orleans Printers and Their Imprints, 1764-1803," Louisiana History 32 (Summer 1991): 279-310.

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Kabel, Carole J. "In the Beginning . . .; or, The History of Off-Campus Library Services at National-Louis University," Illinois Libraries 76 (Winter 1994): 43-44.

Kaegbein, Paul, Bryan Luckham, and Valeria Stelmach, eds. Studies on Research in Reading and Libraries: Approaches and Results from Several Countries (Munich: Saur, 1991), 284 pp.

Kaegbein, Paul, ed. International Directory of Experts in Library History. IFLA Professional Reports, no. 32 (1992) ERIC Document 350013. [Includes addresses and areas of research for 210 persons in 18 countries]

Kaestle, Carl F., et al. Literacy in the United States; Readers and Reading since 1880 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1991) 338 pp. $35.00 ISBN 0-300-04946-3.

Kaimowitz, Jeffrey H. and Doris Kammradt, comps. Albrecht Durer, Book Illustrator (Hartford, Conn.: Watkinson Library, Trinity College, 1994) 26 pp.

Kaniki, Andrew M. "Library Education and Training and the Professionalization of Librarianship in Zambia," African Journal of Library, Archives & Information Science 2 (October 1992): 111-118.

Karetsky, Stephen. "The International Ideology of Library and Information Science: The Past Three Decades," Reference Librarian No. 33 (1991): 173-181

Karr, C.A. "A Preliminary Examination of the Involvement of Women's Clubs in the Establishment of Selected Public Libraries in Georgia, 1896-1920," (Master's Thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), 1992, 86 pp.

Kasinec, Edward and Robert H. Davis, Jr. "Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich (1847-1909) and His Library," Journal of the History of Collections 2 (1990): 135-142.

Katz, Bill, ed. History of Book Illustration: 29 Points of View History of the Book Series, no. 1 (Albany: Suny, 1994) 689 pp. $73.00 ISBN 0-8108-2742-5.

Katz, Israel J., ed. Libraries, History, Diplomacy, and the Performing Arts: Essays in Honor of Carleton Sprague Smith (Stuyvesant, NY: Pendragon, 1991), 459 pp. $48.00 ISBN 0-945193-13-0. [Smith was chief of NYPL music division from 1931-1959]

Kaula, P.N. "Works by and on Ranganathan Published during the Centenary Year: A State of the Art Review [Annotated Bibliography]" Herald of Library Science 32 (January/April 1993): 94-100.

Keeling, Denis F. British Library History: A Bibliography, 1985-1988 (London: St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1991) 192 pp. $45.00 ISBN 0-906795-95-8.

Keeling, Denis F., ed. British Library History: Bibliography, 1981-1984 (London: Library History Group of the Library Association, 1987), 190 pp. $25.00 (pbk) ISBN 0-85365-837-4.

Keeling, Denis F. Wanstead House: The Owners and Their Books (Wanstead: The Tylney Press in assoc. with the Wanstead Historical Society, 1994) 54 pp. $5.00 ISBN 0-9518960-1-6.

Keller, Dean H., ed. Academic Libraries in Greece: The Present Situation and Future Prospects (New York: Haworth, 1993) 226 pp. $50.00 ISBN 1-5602-4365-1.

Kennedy, M. "Civic Pride versus Financial Pressure: Financing the Dublin Public Library Service, 1884-1920," Library History 9, no. 2-3 (1992): 83-96.

Khan, Geoggrey. Bills, Letters and Deeds: Arabic Papyri of the 7th to 11th Centuries (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993) 292 pp. $160.00 ISBN 0-19-7276059.

Kilgour, F.G. "Locating Information in an Egyptian Text of the 17th Century B.C." Journal of the American Society for Information Science 44 (June 1993): 292-97.

Killen, J. "History of the Linen Hall Library, 1788-1989," (Master's Thesis, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland), 1989. [Linen Hall is the oldest public library in Belfast]

Kimmage, Dennis A., ed. Russian Libraries in Transition: An Anthology of Glasnost Literature (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1992) ISBN 0-89950-718-2.

Kinane, Vincent. A History of the Dublin University Press, 1734-1976 (Dublin: Gill & Mcmillan, 1994) 386 pp. $35.00 ISBN 0-7171-21151.

King, Martha Joanne. "Making an Impression: Women Printers in the Southern Colonies in the Revolutionary Era," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, College of William and Mary), 1992, 426 pp.

Knieriem, K. Lesley. "Book-Fools of the Renaissance," University of Illinois GSLIS, Occasional Papers, no. 195 (June 1993): 1-75.

Knopf, Sabine. "Berliner Kinderbuchverlage des 19. Jahrhunderts," Aus dem Antiquariaat 48 (1992): A55-A60.

Kocojowa, Maria. History of Polish Libraries (Krakow: Universitas, 1993).

Konnur, M.B. Transnational Library Relations: The Indo-American Experience (New Delhi: Concept Pub., 1990) 191 pp. $35.00 ISBN 81-7022-260-5.

Korsten, Frans. A Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Baker (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990) 426 pp. $75.00. [Baker (1656-1740) was a book collector and bibliographer]

Koyama, Noboru. "Cultural Exchange between Britain and Japan: The Trade in Books and Art Objects," Japan Forum 3, no. 2 (1991): 325-40. [Study of trade between 1882 and 1931]

Krause, Paul L. "Patronage and Philanthropy in Industrial America: Andrew Carnegie and the Free Library in Braddock, Pennsylvania," Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine 71 (1988): 127-145.

Kronick, David A. "A Lending Library for Medical Students in the Eighteenth Century," Bulletin of the Medical Library Association 76 (January 1989): 69-70.

Kronick, David A. "Medical Publishing Societies in Eighteenth-Century Britain," Bulletin of the Medical Library Association 82 (July 1994): 277-82.

Kronick, David A. Scientific and Technical Periodicals of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; A Guide (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1991) 332 pp. $39.50 ISBN 0-8108-2492-2.

Kruger, Linda M. "Home Libraries: Special Spaces, Reading Places," in Jessica H. Foy and Thomas J.Schlereth, eds. American Home Life, 1880-1930: A Social History of Spaces and Services (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1992), pp. 94-119.

Krummel, Donald W. "Born Yesterday and Other Forms of Original Sin: Two Perspectives on Library Research," Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 34 (Fall 1993): 279-286.

Krummel, Donald W. "Singing the Body Eclectic: Immigrant Cultural Resources in America's Music Libraries," Harvard Library Bulletin 2, no. 1 (1991): 77-84.

Krummel, Donald W. The Literature of Music Bibliography; An Account of the Writings on the History of Music Printing & Publishing (Berkeley: Fallen Leaf Press, 1992) 447 pp. $75.00 ISBN 0-914913-21-2.

Kumar, Girja. S.R. Ranganathan: An Intellectual Biography (New Delhi: Har-Anand, 1992) 327 pp. ISBN 81-24-005-5.

Kupiec, A. "Le Livre Sauveur" Bulletin des Bibliotheques de France 34 (1989): 124-30. ["The Saviour Book" : status of books during the French Revolution]

Kusnerz, Peggy Ann. "Picturing the Past: Photographs at the Library of Congress, 1865-1954," (Unpublished Ph.D.Dissertation, University of Michigan), 1992, 252 pp. [Discusses development of Prints and Photographs Division during tenure of Archibald MacLeish]

Kwasitsu, Lishi. "Caribbean Publishing, 1711-1900: A Preliminary Subject Analysis," Scholarly Publishing 22 (July 1991): 231-40.

Kwasitsu, Lishi. "Printing in Victoria, Australia 1850-1900," The Library 6th series, v.16 (March 1994): 30-42.

Kyriaki-Manessi, Daphne. "A Subject Analysis of Greek Language Books Printed between 1474 and 1669," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Toronto [Canada]), 1993, 619 pp.

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Lambert, Frank. "Subscribing for Profits and Piety: The Friendship of Benjamin Franklin and George Whitefield," The William and Mary Quarterly 50 (July 1993): 529-54.

Lambert, Sheila, "Journeymen and Master Printers in the Early Seventeenth Century," Journal of the Printing Historical Society No. 21 (1992): 13-27.

Lamond, Yvan. La Librairie et l'Edition a Montreal, 1776-1920 (Montreal: Bibliotheque Nationale du Quebec, 1991) 198 pp.

Lamoureux-Fallon, T.A. "St. Nicholas Magazine (1874-1904): The Absence of Urbanization," (Master's Thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), 1994, 59 pp.

Lancaster, F.W. "The Curriculum of Information Science in Developed and Developing Countries," Libri 50 (December 1994): 201-205.

Landwehrmeyer, R. "The Berlin State Library/Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin: A Library in Transition," Alexandria 5, no. 1 (1993): 53-69.

Lane, J.A. "Arthur Nicholls and His Greek Type for the King's Printing House," Library 6th ser. (December 1991): 297-322.

Lange, Holley R. "Catalogers and Workstations: A Retrospective and Future View," Cataloging & Classification Quarterly v. 16, no. 1 (1993): 39-52.

Lankage, Jayasiri. "Library Education in Sri Lanka," International Library Review 21, no. 1 (1989): 67-72. [Provides overview of Sri Lankan library science education since 1961]

Leach, A., C. Stillwell and J. Verbech. "The Reading of Black South Africans: A Historical Overview," African Journal of Library, Archives, and information Science 4 (April 1994): 1-13.

Leasher, Evelyn. "A Brief History of Ladies' Library Associations in Michigan," Michigan Academician 25 (Summer 1993): 422-30.

Leach, Athol and Jennifer Verbeek, "The Reading Habits of Adults in Anglophone Sub-Saharan Africa: A Historical Overview," African Journal of Library, Archives & Information Science 2 (October 1993): 95-106.

Leatherman, Carolyn H. "Richmond Considers a Free Public Library: Andrew Carnegie's Offer of 1901," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 96 (April 1988): 181-92. [Leatherman's 1992 dissertation expands on this topic]

Leatherman, Carolyn Hall. "Richmond Rejects a Library: The Carnegie Public Library Movement in Richmond, Virginia, in the Early Twentieth Century," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Virginia Commonwealth University), 1992, 331 pp.

Lee, C.C. "Libraries and Librarianship in the People's Republic of China," Journal of Educational Media and Library Science 31 (Winter 1994): 119-128. [Provides historical overview of librarianship in China]

Lee, F.S. "Lillian Bradshaw and the Dallas Public Library: From the Innocent Voyage to the Razor's
Edge," Public Library Quarterly 11, No.1/2 (1991): 1-164.

Lee, Hwa-Wei. "Trends in Automation in American Academic Libraries: Ohio University's Experience," (Revised and updated version of a paper presented at the Pacific Conference on New Information Technologies for Library and Information Professionals (1st, Bangkok, Thailand, June 16-17, 1987). 20 p. May 10, 1989 ED 315081. [Examines past 30 years of automation in library at Ohio University]

Lee , Poingsoon and Young A. Um. Libraries & Librarianship in Korea (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994) $55.00 ISBN 0-313-28743-0.

Lehman, K.D. "Die Deutsche Bibliothek: Germany's National Library and National Bibliographic Agency," Alexandria v. 5, no.3 (1993): 161-74.

Lehuu, Isabelle. "Changes in the Word: Reading Practices in Antebellum America," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Cornell University), 1992, 344 pp. [Examines popular print culture and reading practices between 1825 and 1850]

Leonard, Irving A. Books of the Brave: Being an Account of Books and of Men in the Spanish Conquest and Settlement of the Sixteenth-Century New World (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992) 453 pp. $16.00 ISBN 0-520-07816-0.

LeMire, E.D. "William Morris in America: A Publishing History from Archives," The Book Collector 43 (Summer 1994): 201-28.

Leonard, Thomas C. "The Democratic Revolution and the News: Reading as Performance in the Early Republic," Valley Forge Journal 5 (1991): 195-208.

Levarie , Norma. The Art & History of Books (New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1995) 328 pp. $45.00 ISBN 1-884718-02-7.

Lincove, David A. "Propaganda and the American Public Library from the 1930s to the Eve of World War II," RQ 33 (Summer 1994): 510-23.

Linville, James, Jeanne McCulloch, and George Plimpton. "The Paris Review at Forty," Publishing Research Quarterly 9 (Winter 1993/94): 53-65.

Lipartito, Kenneth. "When Women Were Switches: Technology, Work, and Gender in the Telephone Industry, 1890-1920," American Historical Review 99 (October 1994): 1074-1111. [Examines impact of technology on skills and also importance of women workers to success of the industry]

Littleton, Isaac T. The D.H. Hill Library: An Informal History, 1887-1987 (Raleigh: Friends of the Library, North Carolina State University, 1993) 113 pp.

Liya, Li. "A History of Chinese Library Classification: 1949-1991," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale), 1992, 132 pp.

Locke, Jill L. "Summer Reading Activities--Way Back When,"Journal of Youth Services in Libraries 6 (Fall 1992): 72-78. [Projects in Hartford, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and elsewhere, 1897 to the 1930's]

Lopez-Vidriero, Marbia Luisa and Catedra, Pedro M. El Libro Antiguo Espanol: Actes del Primer Coloquio Internacional (Salamanca: Ediciones de la Universidad de Salamanca, 1988) 437 pp. ISBN 8-47815-03-7.

Lopez-Vidriero, Marbia Luisa and Catedra, Pedro M. El Libro Antiguo Espanol: Actes del Segundo Coloquio Internacional (Salamanca: Ediciones de la Universidad de Salamanca, 1992) 569 pp. ISBN 8-47817-07-2.

Lovatt, Roger. "The Library of John Blackman and Contemporary Carthusian Spirituality," The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 43 (April 1992): 195-230.

Love, Harold. Scribal Publication in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993) 379 pp. $65.00 ISBN 0-19-811219-X.

Lowry, Martin. Nicolas Jenson and the Rise of Venetian Publishing in Renaissance Europe (London: Basil Blackwell, 1991) 330 pp. $75.00.

Luber, Steven. "Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate: A Cultural History of the Punch Card," Journal of American Culture v. 15, no. 4 (1992): 43-55.

Ludtke, Helga, ed. Leidenschaft und Bildung: Zur Geschichte der Frauenarbeit in Bibliotheken (Berlin: Orlanda Frauenverlag, 1992) 305 pp. ISBN 3-922166792. [Suzanne Hildenbrand and Dee Garrison have essays in this collection on women in German and American librarianship].

Lundin, Anne Hutchison. "The Critical Reception of Kate Greenaway in England and America, 1879-1901," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Alabama), 1992, 384 pp.

Lundin, Anne Hutchison. "Victorian Horizons: The Reception of Children's Books in England and America, 1880-1900," The Library Quarterly 64 (January 1994): 30-59.

Lyons, Martyn. Australian Readers Remember: An Oral History of Reading, 1890-1930 (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1992) 230 pp. $30.00 ISBN 0-19-553304-6.

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Ma, Tai-loi. "Libraries of the Private Academies in Ming China (1368-1644)" Committee on East Asian Libraries Bulletin, no. 101 (December 1993): 182-85.

Maack, Mary Niles. "Women as Visionaries, Mentors, and Agents of Change," in Grotzinger, Laurel A., James V. Carmichael, Jr., and Mary Niles Maack. Women's Work: Vision and Change in Librarianship: Papers in Honor of the Centennial of the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois GSLIS Occasional Papers nos. 196/197 (July 1994), pp. 105-130.

Maccioni, P. Alessandra. "Guglielmo Libri and the British Museum: A Case of Scandal Averted," The British Library Journal 17 (Spring 1991): 36-60.

Macdonald, Agnus and A.D. Morrison-Low, eds. A Heavenly Library: Treasures from the Royal Observatory's Crawford Collection (Edinburgh: Royal Observatory, Blackford Hill, 1994) 72 pp. $20.00 ISBN 0-902553-37-2. [Earl of Crawford (1847-1913), amateur astronomy, was a dedicated bibliofile who collected widely, including, for example, Charles Babbage's mathematical and astronomical books]

MacDonald, Bertrum Harold. "'Public Knowledge': The Dissemination of Scientific Literature in Victorian Canada as Illustrated from the Geological and Agricultural Sciences," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Western Ontario, Canada), 1990.

MacDonald, Mary Lu. "English and French-Language Periodicals and the Development of a Literary Culture in Early Victorian Canada," Victorian Periodicals Review 26 (Winter 1993): 221-27.

Mace, Nancy A. "The History of the Grammar Patent, 1547-1620," The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 87 (December 1993): 419-36. [The Grammar patent established the Office of Royal Printer and Typographer in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew]

MacFadyen, Heather. "Lady Delacour's Library: Maria Edgeworth's Belinda and Fashionable Reading," Nineteenth-Century Literature 48 (March 1994): 423-39.

MacGregor, Arthur, ed. Sir Hans Sloane: Collector, Scientist, Antiquary, Founding Father of the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1994) 308 pp. $70.00 ISBN 0-7141-20855.

Machet, M.P. "Historical Overview of the Effect of the Concept of the Child in Society on Children's Literature," South African Journal of Library and Information Science 58 (Sept. 1990): 295-300.

Macleod, Anne Scott, "Reading Together: Children, Adults, and Literature at the Turn of the Century," in Jessica H. Foy and Karal ann Marling, eds. The Arts and the American Home, 1890-1930 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1994), pp. 111-23.

MacMillen, A.D.S. "Colonialism and the Development of Libraries and Archives in French Indochina," in Anthony Oden and Michael Wise, eds. Information and Libraries in the Developing World, v. 2: South-East Asia and China (London: Library Association, 1993) pp. 65-79.

MacMillen, S. "Library and Information Needs in Vietnam," Focus on International and Comparative Librarianship 22, No.2 (1991): 49-54.

Madison , Avril Johnson and Dorothy Porter Wesley. "Dorothy Burnett Porter Wesley: Enterprising Steward of Black Culture," The Public Historian 17 (Winter 1995): 15-40. [Wesley was, among other things, the curator of the African-American collection of Howard University for 43 years]

Maher, Terry. Against My Better Judgement: Adventures in the City and in the Book Trade (London: Sinclair-Stevens, 1994) 223 pp. $20.00 ISBN 1-85619-518X.

Mallory, Mary. "The Rare Vision of Mary Utopia Rothrock: Organizing Regional Library Services in the Tennessee Valley," Library Quarterly 65 (January 1995): 62-88.

Manget, C.A. "A Library for the Children of the World," Journal of Youth Services in Libraries 4 (Winter 1991): 169-71.

Manning, Leslie A. "The Public Library in the American West: A Bibliographic Essay," Journal of the West 30 (July 1991): 90-91.

Marco, Guy A. "The Demise of the American Core Curriculum," Libri 44 (September 1994): 175-89. [Provides historical overview of library science educational curriculum]

Marcum, Deanna B. Good Books in a Country Home: The Public Library as Cultural Force in Hagerstown, Maryland, 1878-1920 (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994) $50.00 ISBN 0-313-28626-4.

Marcum, Deanna Bowling. "The Rural Public Library: Hagerstown, Maryland, 1878-1920," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park), 1991, 296 pp.

Margeton, S.G. "Of Legislative Histories and Librarians," Law Library Journal 85 (Winter 1993): 81-97.

Marotti, Arthur F. Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994) 336 pp. $45.00 [Explores how poetry was circulated in both print and manuscript form in 16th and 17th England]

Marrow, James H. The Hours of Simon de Varie (London: Thames and Hudson, 1994) 249 pp. $90.00 ISBN 0-500-09242-7.

Martin, Angus. "Fiction and the Female Reading Public in Eighteenth-Century France: The Journal des Dames (1759-1778)" Eighteenth-Century Fiction 3, no. 3 (1991): 241-58.

Martin, Henri-Jean. The History and Power of Writing (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994) 591 pp. $40.00 ISBN 0-226-50835-8. [Originally published in 1988 as Histoire et Pouvoirs de l'Ecrit]

Martin, Henri-Jean. Print, Power, and People in 17th-Century France (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1993) $82.50 ISBN 0-8108-2477-9.

Martin, Marilyn J. "From Altruism to Activism: The Contributions of Women's Organizations to Arkansas Public Libraries," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Texas Woman's University), 1993, 252 pp. [Focuses on period from 1880-1900]

Martin, Robert Sidney, ed. Carnegie Denied: Communities Rejecting Carnegie Library Construction
Grants, 1898-1925 (Westport, Ct.: Greenwood Press, 1993) $45.00 ISBN 0-313-28609-4.

Martin, Robert Sidney. "The Gospel of Education: Louis Round Wilson and Library Development," North Carolina Libraries 50 (Spring 1992): 22-26.

Martinez, Jose Luis. El Libro en Hispanoamerica: Origen y Desarrollo 3rd ed. (Madrid: Fundacion German Sanchez Ruiperez, 1987) 400 pp. ISBN 8-4861-6814-7.

Maslen, Keith. An Early London Printing House at Work: Studies in the Bowyer Ledgers (New York: Bibliographic Society of America, 1993) 256 pp. $50.00 ISBN 0-91493-016-8.

Mason, Ellsworth. "The Development of Library Lighting: The Evolution of the Lighting Problems We Are Facing Today," Advances in Library Administration and Organization 10 (1992): 129-44.

Mason, Ellsworth. The University of Colorado Library and its Makers, 1876-1972 (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1994) 387 pp. $43.00 ISBN 0-8108-2685-2.

Matson, Molly. An Independent Woman: The Autobiography of Edith Guerrier (Amherst: University of Massachussets Press, 1992) 200 pp. $27.50.

Matteson, R.S. "Archbishop William King and the Conception of His Library," Library 6th ser 13 Sept. 1991): 238-54.

Mattioli, Hary Nicoletta. "The Vatican Library and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: The History, the Impact, and the Influence of their Collaboration in 1927-1947," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Indiana University), 1991, 1155 pp.

Mayer, Robert. "Nathaniel Crouch, Bookseller and Historian: Popular Historiography and Cultural Power in Late Seventeenth-Century England," Eighteenth-Century Studies 27 (Spring 1994): 391-419.

McAleer, Joseph. Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain, 1914-1950 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992) 284 pp. $55.00 ISBN 0-19-820329-2.

McClaskey, K. "Orphelia Parrish, 1850-1915: Librarian, First District Normal School, Kirksville, Missouri," Show-Me Libraries 41 (Summer 1990): 20-22.

McCorison, Marcus A. "Lawrence William Towner," Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society v. 102, no. 2 (1992): 283-89. [Obituary of Towner, who directed the Newberry Library from 1962-1986]

McCrank, L.J. "Historical Information Science and Communications: A Report and Review Essay," International Information & Library Review 26 (December 1994): 229-42.

McCrank, Lawrence J. "The Trans-Canadian French Connection with the Pacific Northwest Frontier:
Missionaries, Books, and Media in Oregon, 1835-1855," Primary Sources and Original Works 1 (1991): 175-88.

McCrank, Lawrence J. "A Medieval Information Age: Documentation and Archives in the Crown of Aragon," Primary Sources & Original Works v. 2, nos. 1/2 (1993): 19-102. [Examines changes in written and oral communication in 12th century Spain]

McCrank, Lawrence J. "Documenting Reconquest and Reform: The Growth of Archives in the Medieval Crown of Aragon," American Archivist 56 (Spring 1993): 256-318.

McElderry, Margaret K. "Remarkable Women: Anne Carroll Moore & Company," School Library Journal 38 (March 1992): 156-62. [Pioneer children's librarian]

McGarry, Kevin. The Changing Context of Information: An Introductory Analysis 2nd ed. (London: Library Association Publishing, 1993) 201 pp. $45.00 ISBN 1-85604-069-0.

McGrath, Eileen. "Hayes Library and the Private Library in Antebellum North Carolina," North Carolina Libraries 50 (Spring 1992): 19-21.

McIver, Minna Holman. "The Conversion from the Dewey Decimal Classification to the Library of Congress Classification in Academic Libraries, 1955 to 1975," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Rutgers University), 1989, 161 pp.

McKitterick, David. A History of Cambridge University Press, Volume 1: Printing and the Book Trade in Cambridge, 1534-1698 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992) 512 pp. $125.00 ISBN 0-521-30801-1. [Three volumes projected]

McKitterick, Rosamond. Books, Scribes, and Learning in the Frankish Kingdoms, 6th-9th Centuries (Aldershot: Variorum/Ashgate, 1994) 350 pp. $90.00 ISBN 0-86078-406-1. [Collection of previously published essays]

McKitterick, Rosamond, ed. The Uses of Literacy in Early Medieval Europe (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990) $54.50 ISBN 0-521-34409-3.

McKitterick, Rosamond. "Script and Book Production," in Rosamond McKitterick, ed. Carolingian Culture: Emulation and Innovation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. 221-247.

McKitterick, Rosamond. The Carolingians and the Written Word (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1989) 290 pp. $54.50 ISBN 0-521-30539-X.

McLain, A. "The History of the Glaxo Inc. Library [Pharmaceutical]," (Masters' Thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), 1990, 73 pp.

McLeod, J. "A Bookseller in Revolutionary Bordeaux," French Historical Studies 16 (Fall 1989): 262-83.

McLeod, J. "The Bordeaux Book Trade to the West Indies at the End of the Ancient Regime," Primary Sources and Original Works 1 (1991): 201-18.

McMullen, Glenn L. "A History of the Virginia Tech Libraries," Virginia Librarian 32 (May-June 1986): 52-54, 60.

McNair, John. "The Reading Library and the Reading Public: The Decline and Fall of Biblioteka Dlia Chteniia," The Slavonic and East European Review 70 (April 1992): 213-27.

McReynolds, Rosalee. "The Progressive Librarians' Council and its Founders," Progressive Librarian 2 (Winter 1990/91): 23-29.

Meadow, Charles T. "A Life in the Information Trade," Journal of the American Society for Information Science 46 (April 1995): 217-24. [Meadow discusses his varied career in information science from the mid 1950s to today]

Meadows, Arthur J. Innovation in Information: Twenty Years of the British Library Research and Development Department (London: Bowker-Saur, 1994) ISBN 1-85739-100-4.

Meckler, Alan, ed. Oral History Index: An International Directory of Oral History Interviews (Westport Conn.: Meckler, 1990) 434 pp. $145.00 ISBN 0-88736-349-0.

Medick, Hans. "Ein Volk Mit Buchern. Buchbesitz und Buchkultur auf dem Lande am Ende der Fruhen Neuzeit: Laichingen, 1748-1820," Aufklarung v. 6, no. 1 (1991): 59-94. [Disputes traditional view that rural people were generally illiterate and owned few books]

Meijer, J.G. "Periodizing Western Library History; A Proposal," South African Journal of Library and Information Science 59 (June 1991): 60-76.

Melcher, Margaret S. "A Time of Growth: The Early Years at SLJ," School Library Journal 40 (August 1994): 18-20.

Menache, Sophia. The Vox Dei: Communication in the Middle Ages (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990) 353 pp. ISBN 0-19-504916-0.

Merian, Sylvie Louise Alice. "The Structure of Armenian Bookbinding and its Relation to Near Eastern Bookbinding Traditions," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Columbia University), 1993, 265 pp.

Merlet, S.R. "Islamic Libraries of the Middle East," Libri 39 (June 1989): 127-40.

Metzger, Marcia Lee. "Failure and Success? Mary, Elizabeth and the Printing Industry in England, 1553-1568," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Washington University), 1993, 327 pp.

Meyer, Horst. Bibliographie der Buch- und Bibliotheksgeschichte Vols. I-II (Bad Iburg: Bibliographischer Verlag Horst Meyer, 1986-1991.

Midwinter, Arthur and Murray McVicar. "Size and Efficiency in Public Library Provision: A Review of the Arguments," Library Review 41, no. 2 (1992): 5-19.

Miko, Arpad. "The Bibliophile King: Bibliotheca Corviniana: 1490-1990. An Exhibition at the National Szechenyi Library, April 6-October 6, 1990," New Hungarian Quarterly v. 32, no. 121 (1991): 132-38. [Discusses the library created by Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus (1443-90), much of which was looted by the Turks in 1526]

Miksa, Francis L. "The Concept of the Universe of Knowledge and the Purpose of LIS Classification," in Nancy J. Williamson and Michele Hudon, eds. Classification Research for Knowledge Representation and Organization (Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Pub., 1992) pp.101-26.[Historical overview of classification from nineteenth century]

Milhous, Judith. "The Drury Lane Theater Library 1768," Yale University Library Gazette 68 (April 1994): 116-34.

Mills, Carol. "The Bookstall Novel: An Australian Paperback Revolution, 1904-1946," Australian Cultural History 11 (1992): 87-99.

Mironov, Boris N. "The Development of Literacy in Russia and the USSR from the Tenth to the Twentieth Centuries," History of Education Quarterly 31 (Summer 1991): 229-252.

Mitch, David F. The Rise of Popular Literacy in Victorian England: The Influence of Private Choice and Public Policy (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992) 340 pp. $34.95 ISBN 0-8122-3075-2.

Mitchum, David C. and Loriene Roy. "An Inventory of Library Display Themes: 1933-1992," Collection Management v. 18, nos. 1-2 (1993): 129-34.

Monaghan, E. Jennifer. "Family Literacy in Early 18th-Century Boston: Cotton Mather and His Children," Reading Research Quarterly 26 (1991): 342-370.

Moon, Eric. A Desire to Learn: Selected Writings (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1993) $47.50 ISBN 0-8108-2686-0.

Moon, Marjorie. Benjamin Tabart's Juvenile Library: A Bibliography of Books for Children Published, Written, Edited and Sold by Mr. Tabart, 1801-1820 (Winchester: St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1990) 180 pp. $90.00.

Mooney, Jack. Printers in Appalachia: The International Printing Pressmen and Assistants' Union of North America, 1907-1967 (Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1993) 193 pp. $40.00 ISBN 0-87972-576-1.

Moore, Sarah J. "In Search of an American Iconography: Critical Reaction to the Murals at the Library of Congress," Winterthur Portfolio 25 (1990): 231-39.

Moreton, C.E. "The Library of a Late-Fifteenth-Century Lawyer [Roger Townsend]" Library 6th ser. (December 1991): 338-46.

Morgan, Paul. "Oxford College Libraries in the Eighteenth Century," Bodleian Library Record v. 14, no. 3 (1992): 228-36.

Morrison, I. "Culture, Education, and Municipalisation: Libraries and Politics in the 1930s [in Australia]" Australian Library Journal 42 (February 1993): 50-61.

Morrison, S. "Records of a Bibliophile: Catalogues of Consul Joseph Smith and Some Aspects of His Collecting," The Book Collector 43 (Spring 1994): 27-58.

Mortimer, Ruth. "St. Catherine of Siena and the Printed Book," The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 86 (March 1992): 11-22.

Morton, Herbert C. The Story of Webster's Third: Philip Gove's Controversial Dictionary and Its Critics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994) 332 pp. $55.00 ISBN 0-521-46146-4.

Mueller, Suzana Pinheiro Machado. "Education for Librarianship and the Role of Libraries in Brazil," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Scheffield, United Kingdom), 1982, 422 pp.

Muensterberger, Werner. Collecting: An Unruly Passion, Psychological Perspectives (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994) 295 pp. $45.00 ISBN 0-691-03361-7. [Contains a chapter on book collecting]

Murray, Barbara June. "A Historical Look at the ALA Code of Ethics," (Master's Thesis, San Jose State University), 1990, 97 pp.

Murray, Craig Compton. "Benjamin Vaughan (1751-1835): The Life of an Anglo-American Intellectual," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Columbia University), 1990, 571 pp. [Vaughn was a bibliophile whose personal library supposedly equalled Harvard's]

Murray, Rebecca. This Essential Part: The First One Thousand Books of the Library of Baptist Female University (Raleigh: Friends of the Carlyle Campbell Library, Meredith College, 1991) 41 pp.

Musmann, Klaus. Technological Innovations in Libraries, 1860-1960: An Anecdotal History (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1993) 240 pp. $50.00 ISBN 0-313-28015-0.

Mutaboba, J. Wasonga. "Development of Libraries in Zaire: Inventory and Review of the Literature . Part One," African Research and Documentation (1990): 10-19.

Muto, Albert. The University of California Press: The Early Years, 1893-1953 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993) 300 pp. $30.00 ISBN 0-520-07732-6.

Myburgh, Pieter Abraham. "The History of the State Archives in South Africa, 1876-1910," (Masters' Thesis, University of Pretoria, South Africa), 1993.

Myers, Robin and Michael Harris, eds. Aspects of Printing from 1600 (Winchester: St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1987) 186 pp. $28.00 ISBN 0-902692-36-4.

Myers, Robin and Michael Harris. eds. Censorship and the Control of Print in England and France, 1600-1910 (Winchester: St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1992) 154 pp. $50.00 ISBN 1-87304-0164.

Myers, Robin and Michael Harris, eds. Pioneers in Bibliography (Winchester: St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1988) 117 pp. $24.00 ISBN 0-906795-69-9.

Myers, Robin and Michael Harris, eds. Property of a Gentleman: The Formation, Organisation and Dispersal of the Private Library, 1620-1920 (Winchester: St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1991) 164 pp. $65.00 ISBN 0-906795-99-0.

Myers, Robin and Michael Harris, eds. Serials and Their Readers, 1620-1914 (New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1993) $50.00 ISBN 0-938768-48-4.

Myers, Robin and Michael Harris, ed. Spreading the Word: Distribution Networks of Print, 1550-1850 (Winchester: St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1990) 241 pp. $70.00.

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Nagar, M. William Alanson Borden: An Apostle of International Librarianship (Columbia, MO: International Library Center, 1991) $12.00 ppk ISBN 0-943913-21-7.

Nagar, Murari Lal. Contributions of Asa Don Dickinson (1876-1960) First American Library Pioneer in British India (Columbia, MO: International Library Center, 1990) $15.00 ISBN 0-943913-16-0.

Nagar, Murari Lal. Indo-American Library Cooperation (Columbia, MO: International Library Center, 1991) $15.00 ppk ISBN 0-943913-22-5.

Nagel, Beate. "The Library of the Technische Universitat Braunschweig: Past and Present," IATUL Quarterly 5 (March 1991): 59-69.

Nance, Patricia Kay. "The Vatican Film Library at Saint Louis University: 950-1990," (Master's Thesis, Central Missouri State University), 1991, 201 pp.

Nash, Paul W. and A.J. Flavell. The Corvinus Press: A History and Bibliography (London: Scolar Press, 1994) 245 pp. $70.00 ISBN 0-85967-9527.

Neale, Marilyn. "A Historical Overview of the Pontifical College Josephinium and the A.T. Wehrle Memorial Library," (M.L.S. Unpublished Research Paper, Kent State University), 1993. Available as an ERIC Document: ED367329.

Needham, Paul. "Aldus Manutius's Paper Stocks: The Evidence of Two Uncut Books," Princeton University Library Chronicle 55 (Winter 1994): 287-307.

Negrao, M.B. "Public Libraries and Culture in the Latin America and Caribbean Context," Libri 44 (June 1994): 145-52.

Nelson, J and Farley, J.R. "Full Circle: Ninety Years of Service in the Main Reading Room," Library of Congress Information Bulletin 50 (May 20, 1991): 181-85+.

Nelson, Jack Richard. "H.C.L. Anderson, Principal Librarian at the Public Library of New South Wales, 1893-1906: His Achievements and Significance," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation), 1991.

Nissen, Hans J., et. al. Archaic Bookkeeping: Early Writing and Techniques of Economic Administration in the Ancient Near East (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994) 169 pp. $35.00.

Nixon, Howard M. and Mirjam M. Foot. The History of Decorated Bookbinding in England (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992) 124 pp. $45.00 ISBN 0-19-818182-5.

Nixon, T.J. "Andy Horn, UNC Librarian, 1954-1957; An Overview and Assessment," (Masters' Thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), 1990, 123 pp.

Norman, R. "I Have a Complaint; or, Citizen's Requests for Re-evaluation of Library Materials: 1973-1991; or, 'Is There Good Nutrition in a Garbage Pail?'" Nebraska Library Association Quarterly 22 (Winter 1991): 11-15.

Nunberg, Geoffrey. "The Places of Books in the Age of Electronic Reproduction," Representations no. 42 (Spring 1993): 13-37. [This is part of a special issue entitled Future Libraries]

Nweke, Ken M.C. "Legal Deposit Laws in Nigeria and Bibliographic Control of Negeriana since 1950," Government Publications Review 18 (1991): 339-346.

Nyce, James M. and P. Kahn, eds. From Memex to Hypertext: Vannevar Bush and the Mind's Machine (San Diego: Academic Press, 1991) $45.00 ISBN 0-12-523270-5.

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O'Brien, F. "The Log Library at Warren Wilson College: 1933-1964," (Masters' Thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), 1990, 59 pp.

O'Callaghan, Joseph F. "Origin and Development of Archival Record-Keeping in the Crown of Castile-Leon," Primary Sources & Original Works v. 2, nos. 1-2 (1993): 3-18.

O'Donnell, James J. "St. Augustine to NREN: The Tree of Knowledge and How it Grows," Serials Librarian 23, nos.3/4 (1993): 21-41.

O'Neill, Patrick B. "The Impact of Copyright Legislation Upon the Publication of Sheet Music in Canada, Prior to 1924," Journal of Canadian Studies 28 (Fall 1993): 105-22.

Oehlerts, Donald E. Books and Blueprints: Building America's Public Libraries (New York: Greenwood Press, 1991) $42.95 ISBN 0-313-26570-4.

Offenberg, Adri K. "The Chronology of Hebrew Printing at Mantua in the Fifteenth Century," The Library, 6th ser., v. 16 (December 1994): 298-315.

Ogundipe, O.O. "International and Comparative Librarianship in Developing Countries," Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 35 (Summer 1994): 236-48.

Ohles, F. Germany's Rude Awakening: Censorship in the Land of the Brothers Grimm (Kent: Kent State University Press, 1992) 227 pp. $35.00 ISBN 0-87338-460-1.

Olaechea Labayan, Juan Batista. El Libro en el Ecosistema de la Comunicacion Cultural (Salamanca: Fundacion German Sanchez Ruiperez, 1986) 398 pp. ISBN 8-4861-6818-X.

Olden, Edward Anthony. "The Beneficiaries of Library and Information Policy in British and Ex-British Africa: Steps from the White Women's League to the Electronic Library," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), 1987, 175 pp. [Examines libraries in Kenya, Gold Coast, and Nigeria from the 1920s to the 1980s]

Oldfield, John. Printers, Booksellers and Libraries in Hampshire, 1750-1800 (Winchester: Hampshire County Council, 1993) 28 pp. ISBN 1-873595-73-5.

Olmert, Michael. The Smithsonian Book of Books (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books, 1992) 319 pp. $45.00 ISBN 0-89599-030-X.

Olsen, M. and L. G. Harvey. "Reading in Revolutionary Times: Book Borrowing from the Harvard College Library, 1773-1782," Harvard Library Bulletin New Series, Vol. 4 (Fall 1993): 57-72.

Olson, Grant A. "Thai Cremation Volumes: A Brief History of a Unique Genre of Literature," Asian Folklore Studies v. 51, no. 2 (1992): 279-94.

Ongaro, Giulio M. "The Library of a Sixteenth-Century Music Teacher," The Journal of Musicology 12 (Summer 1994): 357-75.

Orenstein, Nadine Monica. "Henrik Hondius (Duffel 1573-The Hague 1650) and the Business of Prints," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, New York University), 1992, 766 pp. [Hondius was one of the major Dutch publishers of the period]

Ostroff, Harriet. "From Clay Tablets to MARC AMC: The Past, Present, and Future of Cataloging Manuscript and Archival Collections," Provenance 4 (1986): 1-11. [Provides overview of cataloging archival and manuscript material from 1876-1986.]

Ourgay, M. "Libraries in Ethiopia before 1900," International Library Review 23 (December 1991): 391-399.

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Ovenden, R. "Scipio Le Squyer and the Fate of Monastic Cartularies in the early Seventeenth Century," Library 6th ser. (December 1991): 323-37.

Owen, D.B. "The Lafayette Public Library: Its Origin and Development," LLA Bulletin 56 (Fall 1993): 63-75.

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Parker, Alison Marie. "Purifying America: The Women's Moral Reform Movement and Pro-Censorship Activism, 1883-1933," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Johns Hopkins University), 1994, 366 pp. [Examines activities of WCTU and the ALA concerning censorship and the monitoring of what people read]

Parkes, Malcolm B. Scribes, Scripts and Readers: Studies in the Communication, Presentation and Dissemination of Medieval Texts (Londres: The Hambleton Press, 1991) 325 pp.

Parks, M.B. Pause and Effect: An Introduction to the History of Punctuation in the West (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993) 327 pp. $55.00 ISBN 0-520-07941-8.

Parmelee, Lisa Ferraro. "Printers, Patrons, Readers, and Spies: Importation of French Propaganda in Late Elizabethan England," The Sixteenth Century Journal 25 (Winter 1994): 853-72.

Passet, Joanne E. "Men in a Feminized Profession," Libri 28 (Fall 1993): 401-406. [Examines socioeconomic backgrounds of men in library schools between 1887 and 1921]

Passet, Joanne E. Cultural Crusaders: Women Librarians in the American West, 1900-1917. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994) 224 pp. $40.00 ISBN 0-8263-1530-5.

Passet, Joanne. "Bringing the Public Library Gospel to the American West," Journal of the West 30 (July 1991): 45-52.

Passet, Joanne. "Entering the Professions: Women Library Educators and the Placement of Female Students, 1887-1912," History of Education Quarterly 31 (Summer 1991): 207-228.

Pastoureau, Mireille. "1694: Les Academiciens Publient Leur Dictionnaire," L'Histoire no. 182 (Novembre 1994): 80-81.

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Payne, Kathryn. "Information Collection and Transmission in Classical Greece," Libri 43 (October-December 1993): 271-88.

Pearson, David. "English Centrepiece Bookbindings 1560-1640," The Library 6th series, v.16 (March 1994): 1-17.

Pearson, David. "The Libraries of English Bishops, 1600-40," Library, 6th ser., 14 (September 1992): 221-57.

Pearson, David. Provenance Research in Book History: A Handbook (London: The British Library, 1994) 326 pp. $60.00 ISBN 0-7123-0344-8.

Peattie, R.W. "Frank W. Burgess: Bookseller and Book Cover Artist," The Book Collector 43 (Spring 1994): 59-74.

Peck, Shirley Smith. "Research, Transfer, and Information Flow in Former Soviet Bloc Nations: The Case of Hungary," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Maryland), 1991, 199 pp. [Examines effect of Soviet Union and scientific research and library funding between 1949 and 1989]

Peel, Bruce. "Fernando Columbus and His Library," Canadian Library Journal 49 (August 1992): 295-97. [Bibliophile son of Christopher Columbus]

Perlmann, Joel. "When Did New England Women Acquire Literacy?" William and Mary Quarterly 48 (January 1991): 50-67.

Perry, E.M. "The Historical Development of Computer-Assisted Literature Searching and its Effects on Librarians and Their Clients," Library Software Review 11 (March 1992): 18-24.

Petersen, Dag-Ernst, et. al. Gebunden in der Dampfbuchbinderei: Buchbinden im Wandel des 19. Jahrhunderts (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1994) 138 pp. ISBN 3-447-035097-2. [Provides brief overview of German bookbinding from 1775-1900]

Peterson, William S. The Kelmscott Press: A History of William Morris's Typographical Adventure (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1991) 371 pp. $95.00 ISBN 0-520-06138-1.

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Phelps, C. Deirdre. "American Authorship and New York Publishing History, 1827-1842: The Market Experience of Catharine Maria Sedgwick and William Cullen Bryant," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Boston University), 1993, 190 pp.

Phelps , Connie L. "Louisiana Parish Libraries and World War II: A Survey," LLA Bulletin 56 (Winter 1994): 137-42.

Phillips, A. "Leaving the Reading Room: Some Personal Reflections from within the British Library," Alexandria v. 5, no. 3 (1993): 201-13.

Pierce, Sydney J. "On the Origin and Meaning of Bibliometric Indicators: Journals in the Social Sciences, 1886-1985," Journal of the American Society for Information Science 43 (August 1992): 477-87.

Pifalo, V. "Circuit Librarianship: A Twentieth Anniversary Appraisal," Medical Reference Services Quarterly 13 (Spring 1994): 19-33.

Piggot, M. "'An Important and Delicate Assignment': The Patton Inquiry [led to the establishment of the National Library of Australia and Australian Archives]" Australian Academic & Research Libraries 21 (December 1990): 213-223.

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Pirozynski, Jan. Die Herzogin Sophie von Braunschweig-Wolfenbuttel aus dem Hause der Jagiellonen (1522-1575) und ihre Bibliothek (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1992) 341 pp. ISBN 3-447-03154-9.

Pisha, Louis John. "Library Collections at Harvard, Yale, and Brown from the 1780's to the 1860's," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Columbia University), 1991, 833 pp.

Popa, Opritsa D. and Sandra J. Lamprecht. "Romania and United States Library Connections," Advances in Librarianship 18 (1994): 189-213.

Potter, Esther. "The London Bookbinding Trade: From Craft to Industry," Library, 6th ser. 15 (December 1993): 259-80.

Poulain, Martine, ed. Histoire des Bibliotheques Francaises: Les Bibliotheques au XXe Siecle: 1914-1990 (Paris: Promodis, 1992) 793 pp. 990 FFr ISBN 2-7654-0510-7.

Power, Eugene B., with Robert Anderson. Edition of One: the Autobiography of Eugene B. Power, Founder of University Microfilms (Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms, 1990) 420 pp. $24.95 ISBN 0-8357-0898-5.

Prosekova, S.N. "The Development of Interlending in the USSR," Interlending and Document Supply 19 (July 1991): 91-93.

Prucha, Franicis P. Handbook for Research in American History (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994) 289 pp. $25.00 ISBN 0-8032-3701-4.

Purdy, Daniel Leonhard. "Reading to Consume: Fashionable Receptions of Literature in Germany, 1774-1816," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Cornell University), 1992, 318 pp.

Puvogel, John Cole. "George Brinley, Pioneer Americanist," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Michigan), 1991, 422 pp.



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