Bibliography of Writings on the History of Libraries, Librarianship, and Book Culture
Fall 1995
Compiled by Ed Goedeken,
Bibliographer for the Humanities, Iowa State University
Contents:
A. United States
B. Non-U.S. Western Hemisphere
C. Europe
D. Asia, Africa, Other
E. General; Historiography; Philosophy; Library & Information Science
A. UNITED STATES
Abbate, Janet Ellen. "From ARPANET to Internet: A History of ARPA-
Sponsored Computer Networks, 1966-1988," (Unpublished Ph.D.Dissertation,
University of Pennsylvania), 1994, 185 pp.
Abel, Richard. "The Origins of the Library Approval Plan," Publishing Research
Quarterly 11 (Spring 1995): 46-56.
Adamovich, Shirley Gray and Diane R. Tebbetts. "The Stone Library: Library of
the Adams Family," Wilson Library Bulletin 69 (May 1995): 46-48.
[Library of Boston Adams family]
Anderson, Bill. "History of the CONSER Program (1986-1994)" Serials Review 21
(Summer 1995): 1-16.
Armstrong, Robert D. "This Nice Little Stealage Game: Printing, Politics, and Patronage
in Territorial Idaho," Idaho Yesterdays 38 (Winter 1994): 21-34.
Ashton, Jean W. "New York's First Printer: William Bradford," Columbia Library
Columns 43 (February 1994): 25-31.
Banta , Brady M. "Football, Fiefdoms, and Frustration: The Political Reality of Planning
a New Library for Louisiana State University, 1941-1956," LLA Bulletin 56 (Spring 1994): 187-96.
Barrett, D.J. and J.W. Hopkins. "Our Past & Future: The U.S. Air Force Academy Library,"
Colorado Libraries 20 (Spring 1994): 48-50.
Boden, Dana W.R. "A History of the Utilization of Technology in Academic Libraries,"
(Unpublished report, Dec. 1993), 19 pp. ED 373806.
Bond, William Henry. "Jack Blanck and BAL," Papers of the Bibliographical Society of
America v. 86, no. 2 (1992): 129-45.
Bourke, Thomas A. "Washington Irving's Dialogue with an Unread Book: A Famous
Nineteenth Century American Author Deliberates the Relationship between Preservation
and Access . . ." Microform Review 23 (Summer 1994): 130-35.
Bowen, Janet Wolf. "Novel Rooms: American Architecture and the Book, 1840-1940,"
(Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Chicago), 1993.
Brown, Cynthia Farr. "Leading Women: Female Leadership in American Women's Higher
Education, 1880-1940," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation), 1992, 502pp.
Carle, Daria O. "A Longitudinal Study of Associates at the National Library of Medicine,
1957-1990," Bulletin of the Medical Library Association 83 (July 1995): 275-79.
Carmichael, James V., Jr. "Sex in Public (Libraries): An Historical Primer of What Every Librarian Should Know," North Carolina Libraries 53 (Summer 1995): 59-64.
Chapman, Carleton B. Order Out of Chaos: John Shaw Billings and America's Coming of Age
(Boston: Boston Medical Library, 1994) 420 pp. $50.00 ISBN 0-88135-187-3.
Charter, Jody. "Arkansas Lives: Marcella Grider," Arkansas Libraries 49 (February 1992): 23-29. [Grider was a pioneering Arkansas librarian]
Cole, John Y. On These Walls: Inscriptions and Quotations in the Buildings of the Library of
Congress (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1995) 106 pp. 0-8444-0485-X.
Conn , Steven. "To Organize and Display: Museums and American Culture, 1876-1926,"
(Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania), 1994, 427 pp.
Dessoff, A.L. "Intellectual Property: LC's Copyright Office Looks toward its 125th Anniversary," Library of Congress Information Bulletin 53 (November 28, 1994): 450-54.
Dickinson, C. Donald. Henry E. Huntington's Library of Libraries (San Marino: Huntington
Library, 1995) 286 pp. $25.00 ISBN 0-873281-53-5.
Dietz, Margaret N. Akron's Library: Commemorating Twenty-Five Years on Main Street
(Akron: Akron-Summit County Public Library, 1994) 148 pp. $10.00 ISBN 0-9643208-0-0.
Dodge, Chris and Jan DeSirey, eds. Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sandy
Berman but Were Afraid to Ask (Jefferson, SC: McFarland Publishing Co., 1995) 199 pp.
$25.00 ISBN 0-7864-0081-1.
Donoghue, S.J. "Thomas Oestreich and the Founding of a Great Library," Catholic Library
World 65 (January/February/March 1995): 33-35.
Dunagan, Kathlyn. "Fifty Years with Ward County Library, 1942-1992," Permian Historical
Annual no. 32 (1992): 3-26. [Story of public library in Monahans, Texas]
Eshelman, William R., ed. Take Hold Upon the Future: Letters on Writers and Writing by William Everson and Lawrence Clark Powell, 1938-1946 (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1994)
603 pp. $70.00 ISBN 0-8108-2878-2.
Foote, Janet. "John Shaw Billings: A 19th Century Information-Age Pioneer," AB Bookman's
Weekly 93 (June 13, 1994): 2620+.
Gillette, Gerald W. and John M. Walker, III. "The Library: The Primary Venture," American Presbyterians v. 70, no. 1 (1992): 23-40. [Traces history of Samuel Angrew, first librarian of the Presbyterian Historical Society]
Grimes , Deborah J. "Marian the Librarian--The Truth Behind the Image," in Mary Jane Scherdin, ed. Discovering Librarians: Profiles of a Profession (Chicago: ACRL, ALA, 1994), pp. 3-11.
Gubert, Betty Kaplan. "Sadie Peterson Delaney: Pioneer Bibliotherapist," American Libraries 24 (February 1993): 124-29.
Gully , Kathie. "The Library of the Denver Museum of Natural History," Colorado Libraries 19
(Fall 1993): 50-52.
Horn , Zoia. ZOIA! Memoirs of Zoia Horn, Battler for the People's Right to Know
(Jefferson, SC: McFarland Publishing Co., 1995) 316 pp. $25.00 ISBN 0-7864-0071-4.
[Horn was part of Harrisburg Seven and also involved in controversy over film The Speaker]
A Houghton Library Chronicle (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard College Library, 1992). 98 pp.
ISBN 0-914630-06-7.
Hyland, Pat. Presidential Libraries and Museums: An Ilustrated Guide (Washington, D.C.:
Congressional Quarterly, Inc., 1995) 175 pp. $25.00 ISBN 0-87187-961-1.
Jumonville, Florence M. "Acquiring Minds: The Early Collectors of Louisiana Books,"
LLA Bulletin 55 (Spring 1993): 179-91.
King, Patricia Miller. "The Power of Preservation: The Schlesinger Library at Fifty,"
American Libraries 24 (July/August 1993): 665-67.
Kraus, Joe Walker. "New York Publishing Near the Turn of the Century: R.H. Russell,"
AB Bookman's Weekly 93 (April 11, 1994): 1558+.
Kraus, Joe Walker. "Small, Maynard & Company: The First Ten Years, 1897-1907,"
AB Bookman's Weekly 94 (November 7, 1994): 1868+.
Lundin, Anne H. "A Delicate Balance: Collection Development and Women's History,"
Collection Building v. 14, no. 2 (1995): 42-46. [Explains impact of Anne Carroll Moore
and Caroline Hewins on development of children's librarianship in America]
Matthews, J. "Milestones in the History of ARLIS, 1968-1994," Art Libraries Journal v. 19,
no. 3 (1994): 61-63.
McCorison, Marcus A. "Lawrence William Towner," Proceedings of the American Antiquarian
Society v. 102, no. 2 (1992): 283-89. [Towner (1921-1992) was librarian of the Newberry Library]
McElderry, Margaret K. "Remarkable Women: Remembering Anne Carroll Moore and Company," School Library Journal 38 (March 1992): 156-62.
Moore, Gay. "Arkansas Lives: Miss Gladys Sachse," Arkansas Libraries 49 (June 1992): 13-15.
Nobunaga, W.Y. "Life and Times of John H. Hickcox: Government Publications History
Revisited," Journal of Government Information 22 (September-October 1995): 403-412.
O'Connor, Thomas F. "The National Organization for Decent Literature: A Phase in American
Catholic Censorship," Library Quarterly 65 (October 1995): 386-414.
Olson, David J. "North Carolina and Paper Preservation: Ninety Years of Leadership,"
North Carolina Libraries 52 (Spring 1994): 10-12.
Olson, Frederick I. "A Lifetime of Collecting Books," Milwaukee History v. 16, no. 1 (1993):
15-21. [Olson was an historian at the U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee]
Olson, Margaret S. "The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: East-West
Exchanges 1960-1993," Library Resources & Technical Services 39 (January 1995): 5-21.
Owens , Larry. "The Counterproductive Management of Science in the Second World War:
Vannevar Bush and the Office of Scientific Research and Development," Business History
Review 68 (Winter 1994): 515-76.
Peterson, Stephen L. "A Steady Aim Toward Completeness: The Day Mission Library Centennial Lecture," Yale University Library Gazette v. 67, nos. 3-4 (1993): 138-50.
[Surveys history of Yale Divinity School's library established by George E. Day (1815-1905)]
Petrie, William L. and Douglas Stover. Bibligraphy of the Frederick Douglass Library at
Cedar Hill (Fort Washington, MD: Silesia Companies, Inc., 1995) 496 pp. $30.00.
Piehl, Frank J. Caxton Club, 1895-1995: Celebrating a Century of the Book in Chicago
(New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1995) 191 pp. $75.00 ISBN 0-940550-09-1.
Pungitore, Verna L. Innovation and the Library: The Adoption of New Ideas in Public Libraries (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1995) 189 pp. $40.00 ISBN 0-313-28673-6.
[Contains chapter on public libraries from 1920-1965]
Puniello, Francoise S. "The Mabel Smith Douglass Library," Journal of the Rutgers University
Libraries v. 54, no. 2 (1992): 52-66. [Founded in 1918 to support New Jersey College for
Women, now a part of Rutgers library system]
Quint, Paula. "A Celebration of Reading: 75 Years of National Children's Book Week,"
School Library Journal 40 (November 1994): 22-25.
Robin , Ron. The Barbed-Wire College: Reeducating German POWs in the United States during
World War II (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995) 217 pp. $40.00 ISBN 0-691-03700-0. [Includes interesting chapter on selection of reading material to German POWs]
Robbins, Louise S. "Segregating Propaganda in American Libraries: Ralph Ulveling Confronts the Intellectual Freedom Committee," Library Quarterly v. 62, no. 2 (1993): 143-65.
Rosenberg, Janice. "Home at Last," Chicago History v. 22, no. 2 (1993): 24-37.
[Describes 19th century founding of the Chicago Public Library]
Rosenblum, Joseph. "The Library of John Alden Spoor," AB Bookman's Weekly 95
(May 8, 1995): 2028-2044. [Spoor, (1851-1926) a Chicago businessman, was an avid collector
and trustee of the Newberry Library]
Sarber, Mary A. "A Century of Growth: The El Paso Public Library, 1894-1994, "Texas Library
Journal 70 (Fall 1994): 116-19.
Schoenberg, Wilfred. Jesuit Mission Presses in the Pacific Northwest: A History and Bibliography
of the Imprints, 1876-1899, Plus Other Early Catholic Presses and a Critical Study of the
Lapwai Press, 1839-1846 (Fairfield, WA: Galleon Press, 1994) ISBN 0-87770-529-1.
[Revision of 1957 edition]
Skemer, Don C. "German Emigre Publishers in New York: The Archives of the Frederick Ungar Publishing Company, 1940-86," Publishing History no. 31 (1992): 77-84.
Sloan, William D. and Julie H. Williams. The Early American Press, 1690-1783 (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994) 233 pp. $45.00 ISBN 0-313-27525-4.
Smith , Beryl. "Alexander Library: The Past, the Present, the Future," Journal of the Rutgers
University Libraries v. 54, no. 2 (1992): 3-16. [Surveys history of library since its beginnings
in 1773]
Steinberg, Theodore. "New England in a Pocketbook: Gazetters and the Modernization of
Landscape," American Studies 35 (Fall 1994): 59-72. [Examines use of gazateers as a guide to the changing New England landscape in the 18th and 19th centuries]
Stielow , Frederick J. "The FBI and Library Spying: A World War II Precent," American Libraries 24 (September 1993): 709-11.
"Symposium on Presidential Libraries and Materials ," Government Information Quarterly
v. 12, no. 1 (1995):15-125.
Teloh, Mary H. and James Thweatt, comps. "Tennessee Medical Imprints of the Nineteenth Century," Tennessee Historical Quarterly 53 (Fall 1994): 208-17.
Thomas, V. "The First Carnegie Library," Wilson Library Bulletin 69 (JUne 1995): 52+
VanHorne, John C. "Edwin Wolf II," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society
v. 137, no. 2 (1993): 299-304. [Wolf worked to expand research role of Library Company of Philadelphia]
Waldstreicher , David. "Rites of Rebellion, Rites of Assent: Celebrations, Print Culture, and
the Origins of American Nationalism," Journal of American History 82 (June 1995):37-61.
Weiss, Stephen C. "A Graphic Look at GPO Depository Distribution: 1975-1993," Journal of Government Information 22 (July/August 1995): 337-44.
Wilson, John Scott. "Race and Manners for Southern Girls and Boys: The Miss Minerva Books
and Race Relations in a Southern Children's Series," Journal of American Culture 17 (Fall 1994):
69-74. [Examines how race was portrayed in these children's books between the world wars]
Wosh, Peter J. Spreading the Word: The Bible Business in Nineteenth-Century America
(Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1994) 271 pp. $40.00 ISBN 0-8014-2928-5.
[Examines Bible publication and distribution]
Zhou, Yuan. "Analysis of Trends in Demand for Computer Literacy for Librarians in Academic and Public Libraries from 1974 to 1989," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign), 1994, 284 pp.
Anderson, Beryl L. "List of Books for a Public Library in Halifax, 1793," Nova Scotia Historical
Review v. 12, no. 1 (1992): 119-50. [Identifies 137 items recommended for public library in
Halifax, N.S.]
Connor, Jennifer J. "The Canadian Medical Book in the 19th Century," AB Bookman's Weekly 95
(May 1, 1995): 1934-39.
Fraser , Alex. "Nicaraguan Libraries: A Brief History and Outlook for the Future," International
Leads 9 (Summer 1995): 9-11.
Hamelin, Danielle. "Nurturing Canadian Letters: Four Studies in the Publishing and Promotion of English-Canadian Writing, 1890-1920," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Toronto, Canada), 1994, 318 pp. [Examines publishing history of Canadian Methodist Book and Publishing
House and Macmillan Company of Canada]
Hanson, Elizabeth Ida. "A Jewel in a Park: Westmount Public Library, 1897-1918," (Unpublished
Ph.D. Dissertation, Indiana University), 1994, 222 pp. [Examines first tax-supported public library
in the Province of Quebec, Canada]
Hotchkiss , Ron. "Terrifying and Beautiful: Parliament in Flames, 1916," Beaver (Canada)
v. 72, no. 2 (1992): 6-18. [Tells how library survived the fire]
Rubenstein, Anne G. "Mexico Sin Vicios: Conservatives, Comic Books, Censorship and the Mexican State, 1934-1976," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Rutgers University), 1994, 375 pp.
Whiteman, Bruce. Lasting Impressions: A Short History of English Publishing in Quebec
(Montreal: Vehicule Press, 1994) 98 pp. $14.00 ISBN 1-55065-051-3.
Williams, Beverley A. "Leisure as Contested Terrain in Late Nineteenth Century Halifax (Nova Scotia)" (Master's Thesis, Saint Mary's University, Canada), 1991, 159 pp.
[Examines role of libraries as place to spend leisure time]
Zhang, Jun. "A Comparative Study of Education and Learning in Canada, China, and Sweden: Government Expenditures (1978-1988) on Education, Public Libraries and Museums,"
(Master's Thesis, University of Toronto, Canada), 1993, 64 pp.
C. EUROPE
Akbulut, M. and D. Atilgan. "Libraries and Librarianship in Turkey," IFLA Journal 21
(May 1995): 83-88.
Alexander, Jonathan J.G., ed. The Painted Page: Italian Renaissance Book Illustration,
1450-1550 (London: Prestel, 1994) 273 pp. $75.00 ISBN 3-7913-1385-1.
Alonso, A. Miguel and Gonzalez Bueno. "La Biblioteca del Real Colegio de San Fernando de
Madrid (1806-1843)" Asclepio v. 44, no. 2 (1992): 193-205.
Aparac-Gazivoda, Tatjana and Dragutin Katalenca. Wounded Libraries in Croatia (Zagreb: Croatian Library Association, 1993) 58 pp. ISBN 953-6001-00-4.
Backhouse , Janet. The Lindisfame Gospels: A Masterpiece of Bookpainting (London: British Library, 1995) 64 pp. $10.00 ISBN 0-7123-0400-2.
Barber, Giles. Arks for Learning: A Short History of Oxford Library Buildings (Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1995) 176 pp. ISBN 0-901420-51-4 .
Barry , Johanthan. "Literacy and Literature in Popular Culture: Reading and Writing in Historical Perspective," in Tim Harris, ed. Popular Culture in England, c. 1500-1850 (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995), pp. 69-94.
Bearman, T.C., ed. "Information and the Free Market: Reading, Publishing and Libraries in
Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union since 1989," International Information & Library
Review 27 (March 1995). [Entire issue devoted to this topic with essays on Russia, Estonia,
Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic.]
Bell, David N. What Nuns Read: Books and Libraries in Medieval English Nunneries (Cistercian
Studies Series, no. 158) (Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 1995) 300 pp.
$40.00 ISBN 0-87907-558-9.
Birn , Raymond. "Rousseau et ses Editeurs," Revue de'Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine
v. 40, no. 1 (1993): 120-36. [Explores Rousseau's concept of literary property and copyright]
Black , Alistair. "Libraries for the Many: The Philosophical Roots of the Early Public Library
Movement," Library History v. 9, nos. 1-2 (1991): 23-36.
[Examines movement in 19th century Britain]
Brack , O.M., ed. Writers, Books, and Trade: An 18th Century Miscellany for William R. Todd
(New York: AMS, 1995) 412 pp. $58.00 ISBN 0-404-635-19-9.
Brinkman, Herman. "The Composition of a Fifteenth-Century Aristocratic Library in Breda:
The Books of John IV of Nassau and Mary Van Loon," Quaerendo v. 23, no. 3 (1993): 162-83.
Brown, Cynthia J. "The Interaction between the Author and Printer: Title Pages and Colophons
of Early French Imprints," Soundings 23 (1992): 33-53.
Brown, Cynthia J. Poets, Patrons, and Printers: Crisis of Authority in Late Medieval France
(Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995) 293 pp. $40.00 ISBN 0-8014-2578-6.
[Examines impact of printing on production of poetry and also copyright issues]
Bullard, M.R.A. "Talking Heads: The Bodleian Frieze, Its Inspiration, Sources, Designer and Significance," The Bodleian Library Record 14 (April 1994): 461-500.
Cerquiglini-Toulet, Jacqueline. "L'Imaginaire du Livre a la Fin du Moyen Age: Pratiques de
Lecture, Theorie de l'Ecriture," MLN 108 (September 1993): 680-95.
Cibelli, Deborah Hildegard. "Architectural Title Pages and Frontispieces in Renaissance Printed
Books," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, SUNY at Binghamton), 1994, 488 pp.
Coates, Alan. "The Bodleian's Incunabula in the Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Their Acquisition, Cataloguing and Housing," The Bodleian Library Record 15 (April 1995): 108-18.
Coppems, C., ed. Reading in Exile: The Libraries of John Ramridge (d. 1568), Thomas Harding (d.1572), & Henry Joliffe (d. 1573), Recusants in Louvain (Cambridge: LP Publications, 1993)
231 pp. $26.00 ISBN 0-951881-1-6.
Darnton, Robert. "Censorship, A Comparative View: France, 1789--East Germany, 1989," Representations No. 49 (Winter 1995): 40-60.
Davies, Martin. Aldus Manutius: Printer and Publisher of Renaissance Venice (London: British Library, 1995) 64 pp. $15.00 (pbk.) ISBN 0-7123-0389-8.
Doyle, Robert P. "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place: The American Library in Paris Celebrates 75 Years
of Rich History," International Leads 9 (Summer 1995): 1-4.
Eames, Bruce. "Baron D'Holbach's Library," Australian Journal of French Studies v. 28, no. 3
(1991): 249-53. [Private library of French philosopher, Paul- Henri Dietrich, Baron d'Holbach
(1723-89)]
Eisenberg-Bach, Susi. "Dutch Publishers of German Exile Literature," Quaerendo v. 20, no. 3
(1990): 216-19.
Erskine, Andrew. "Culture and Power in Ptolemaic Egypt: The Museum and Library of Alexandria," Greece & Rome 42 (April 1995): 38-48.
Etayo-Pinoi, M.A. "Impact du Siecle d'Or Espagnol en France a Travers l'Edition Lyonnaise,"
Revue Historique v. 286, no. 1 (1991): 35-41. [Examines role of Lyon publishers in making
available Spanish works in the 16-17 centuries]
Fahy, Conor, ed. Printing a Book at Verona in 1622: The Account Book of Francesco Calozari
Junior (Paris: Fondation Custodia, 1993) 193 pp. Dfl. 165.
Feather, John. Publishing, Piracy and Politics: An Historical Study of Copyright in Britain
(London: Mansell Publishing Ltd., 1994) 261 pp. $50.00 ISBN 0-7201-2135-3.
Ferenbach, R.J., ed. Private Libraries in Renaissance England: A Collection and Catalogue of
Tudor and Early Stuart Book Lists, vols. 1-3 (Binghamton- Marlborough: Medieval & Renaissance
Texts and Studies, Adam Matthew Publications, 1992).
Friedman, John B. Northern English Books, Owners, and Makers in the Late Middle Ages
(Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1995) 423 pp. $40.00 ISBN 0-8156-2649-5.
Furnas, Glen Tomlin. "Book Culture and Civil Society: A History of the Yugoslav Book Trade
Before the Second World War," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Washington),
1994, 394 pp.
Geh, Hans-Peter, John Davies, and Marc Walckiers, eds. Knowledge for Europe: Librarians and Publishers Working Together: European Conference, 11-13 November 1992, Brussels
(Munchen: K.G. Saur, 1993) 234 pp. $70.00 ISBN 3-598-11164-9.
Goldberg, P.J.P. "Lay Book Ownership in Late Medieval York: The Evidence of Wills,"
Library 6th ser. v. 16 (September 1994): 181-89.
Goldman, Paul. Victorian Illustrated Books, 1850-1870: The Heyday of Wood-Engraving:
The Robin de Beaumont Collection (Boston: David R. Godine, 1994) 144 pp.
$35.00 ISBN 1-5679-014-4.
Greening, J.M. "Ten Years in the Life of Russian Libraries," International Information &
Library Review 27 (June 1995): 113-128.
Haavisto, T. "The Finnish Library--A Dynamic 200-Year-Old," Scandinavian Public Library
Quarterly v. 27, no.3 (1994): 7-9.
Herrmann, Frank. "Maldon's Treasure: The Library of Thomas Plume," Antiquarian Book
Monthly 22 (June 1995): 12-16. [Plume (1630-1704, was vicar of Greenwich, England]
Hillyard, Brian. David Steuart Esquire: An Edinburgh Collector (Edinburgh: Edinburgh
Bibliographical Society with the National Library of Scotland, 1993) 88 pp.
$20.00 ISBN 1-872116-03-5. [Steuart (1747-1824) was a Scottish book collector]
Hunt , Arnold. "A Study in Bibliomania: Charles Henry Hartshorne and Richard Heber," The Book Collector 42 (Spring 1993): 24-43.
Husser, Beate. "Lieux et Domaines de la Recherche: La Bibliotheque d'Histoire Contemporaine de Stuttgart," Bulletin de l'Institute d'Histoire du Temps Present no. 48 (1992): 19-26.
[Describes the history and holdings of the Stuttgart Library of Contemporary History]
Jacobs, Edward. "A Previously Unremarked Circulating Library: John Roson and the Role
of Circulating-Library Proprietors as Publishers in Eighteenth-Century Britain," The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 89 (March 1995): 61-71.
Jeschke, Ingrid. "Der Verlag Carl Gerolds Sohn: Seine Bedeutung fur die Osterreichische
Literatur der Ersten Halfte des 19. Jahrhunderts," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University
of Vienna, Austria), 1990.
Johnson, Margaret Ann. "Plus €a Change: C.G. Heyne, Librarian of the University of Gottingen," Technicalities 13 (December 1993): 7-9.
Jones, Huw Ceiriog. The Library of David Jones (1895-1974): A Catalogue (Aberystwyth:
National Library of Wales, 1995) 356 pp. $25.00 ISBN 0-907158-79-X.
Jordan, John D., ed. Literature in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century British Publishing and
Reading Practices (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995) 338 pp.
$60.00 ISBN 0-521-45247-3.
Kinnell, M. "Policy for Secondary School Library Provision in England and Wales: An Historical Perspective," Journal of Librarianship and Information Science 27 (March 1995): 17-26.
Kneeley, Richard J. and Edward Kasinec. "The Slovanska Knihovna in Prague and its RZIA
Collection," Slavic Review v. 51, no. 1 (1992): 122-30.
Kuzmin, E. "Russian Libraries in the Context of Social, Economic and Political Reforms,"
IFLA Journal 21 (May 1995): 106-109.
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.
Landwehrmeyer, Richard. "The Berlin State Library/Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin: A Library in
Transition," Alexandria v. 5, no.1 (1993): 53-69.
LeCalloc'h, Bernard and Gyula Bat ri. "Un Bibliothecaire Original: Alexandre Csoma de Koros,"
Revue Fran‡aise d'Histoire d'Outre-Mer v. 79, no. 3 (1992): 341-65.
[Csoma de Koros was the chief librarian from 1838-41 of the Asiatic Society of Bengal]
Lehmann, Klaus Dieter. "Die Deutsche Bibliothek: Germany's National Library and National Bibliographic Agency," Alexandria v. 5, no. 3 (1993): 161-74.
Lehmann, Stephen. "Library Journals and Academic Librarianship in Germany: A Sketch,"
College & Research Libraries 56 (July 1995): 301-12. [Overview of German library science journals]
Lewis, Roger C. Thomas James Wise and the Trial Book Fallacy (Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate
Publishing Co., 1994) $75.00 ISBN 1-85928-036-6. [Describes one of the most remarkable book forgeries in history]
Lincoln, Evelyn. "Printing and Visual Culture in Italy, 1470-1575," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley), 1994, 334 pp.
Lindenbaum, Peter. "Authors and Publishers in the Late Seventeenth Century: New Evidence on
Their Relations," The Library 17 (September 1995): 250-61.
Lorincz, Judit. "Changes in the Booktrade and Publishing in Hungary, 1985-1994," International Information and Library Review 27 (March 1995): 59-67.
Main, Steven J. "The Creation and Development of the Library System in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War (1918-1920): A Historical Introduction," Library Quarterly 65
(July 1965): 319-32.
Mays, Kelly J. "Pleasures, Dangers, and Uses: Reading, Subjectivity, and Community in Britain,
1790-1900," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Stanford University), 1994, 294 pp.
Macmillen, Alexander D.S. "Colonialism and the Development of Libraries and Archives in French Indochina," in Michael Wise and Anthony Olden, eds.
Information and Libraries in the Developing World: v. 2 South-East Asia and China (London:
Library Association, 1993), pp. 65-79.
McKitterick, David, ed. Making of the Wren Library: Trinity College, Cambridge (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1995) 153 pp. $90.00 ISBN 0-521-44305-9.
Midwinter, Arthur and Murray McVicar. "Size and Efficiency in Public Library Provision:
A Review of the Arguments," Library Review v. 41, no. 2 (1992): 5-19.
[Looks at impact on libraries of 1974 local government reorganization legislation]
Miller, Bonny Hough. "A Mirror of Ages Past: The Publication of Music in Domestic Periodicals,"
Notes 50 (March 1994): 883-901.
Moeller, Bernd. "Les Villes, les Livres et la Reforme en Allemagne," Bulletin de la Societe de
l'Histoire du Protestantisme Francais v. 139, no. 1 (1993): 5-40.
[First of two part essay which examines the print culture in Germany during the Reformation]
Moore, J.K. Primary Materials Relating to Copy and Print in English Books of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1992) 104 pp.
$12.00 ISBN 0-901420-49-2.
Moran, Peter A. "The Library of the Scots College Douai," Innes Review v. 433, no. 1 (1992):
65-69. [Based on inventory of collection taken in 1793]
Morgan, Paul. "Oxford College Libraries in the Eighteenth Century," The Bodleian Library Record 14 (October 1992): 228-36.
Muller, Harald. "History of EC Legislation on Copyright and Lending Rights," IFLA Journal
v. 19, no. 2 (1993): 181-84.
Murphy, Paul Thomas. Toward a Working-Class Canon: Literary Criticism in British Working-Class Periodicals, 1816-1858 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1995) 211 pp.
$40.00 ISBN 0-8142-0654-9. [Examines role of this type of publication on working-class
culture in England]
Netzer , Nancy. Cultural Interplay in the Eighth Century: The Trier Gospels and the Making of a Scriptorium at Echternach (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994) 258 pp.
$65.00 ISBN 0-521-41255-2.
O'Connor, B. and S. Roman. "Building Bridges with Books: The British Council's Sixty Year
Record," Logos v. 5, no. 3 (1994): 133-38.
Olson, Margaret S. "The End of the Cold War and its Effect on Slavic and East European
Collections in the West," International Information and Library Review 27 (March 1995): 89-112.
Ovenden, Richard. "Jaspar Gryffyth and His Books," The British Library Journal 20
(Autumn 1994): 107-39. [Gryffyth was a 16th century collector]
Pasta, Renato. "Prima della Rivoluzione: Il Mercato Librario Italiano nelle Carte della Societe Typographique de Neuchatel (1769-1789)" Melanges de
L'Ecole Francaise de Rome, Italie et Mediterranee v. 102, no. 2 (1990): 281-320.
[Examines extent of Italian publishing industry in latter 18th century]
Pastoureau, Mireille. "La Tres Grande Bibliotheque de Charles V," L'Histoire no. 189
(Juin 1995): 20-21.
Peterson, Bo Ingvar. "The Printer as Publisher: The Publishing Functions and Editorial Policy
of P.A. Norstedt & Soner, 1879-1910," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Stockholm, Sweden), 1993, 392 pp.
Petrucci, Armando. Edited and translated by Charles M. Radding. Writers and Readers in Medieval
Italy: Studies in the History of Written Culture (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995)
272 pp. $30.00.
Pettas, William. "A Sixteenth-Century Spanish Bookstore: The Inventory of Juan de Junta,"
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society v. 85, pt. 1 (1995): 1-247.
Pickwood, Nicholas. "The Interpretation of Bookbinding Structure: An Examination of
Sixteenth-Century Bindings in the Ramey Collection in the Pierpoint Morgan Library,"
The Library 17 (September 1995): 209-49.
Radkova, Rumjana. "Advertising the Publication of Books during the National Revival," Bulgarian Historical Review v. 20, no. 3 (1992): 72-82.
Renoult, Daniel, ed. Les Bibliotheques dans l'Universite (Paris: Editions du Cercle de la Librarie,
1994) 358 pp. ISBN 2-7654-0548-4.
Richardson, Brian. Print Culture in Renaissance Italy: The Editor and the Vernacular Text, 1470-1600 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994) 265 pp. $55.00 ISBN 0-521-42032-6.
Roche, Daniel. "Imprimes et Cultures Politiques de L'Ancien Regime a la Revolution," Melanges de L'Ecole Francaise de rome, Italie et Mediterranee v. 102, no. 2 (1990): 223-31.
[Examines impact of French Revolution on making printed works more available to public]
Rodrigue, Jeanne-Mance. "La Biblioth‚que de Hernando Col¢n (1488-1539) et la Censure,"
(Master's Thesis, Universit‚ de Sherbrooke, Canada), 1994, 201 pp.
Rose, Jonathan. "Marx, Jane Eyre, Tarzan: Miners' Libraries in South Wales, 1923-52,"
Leipziger Jahrbuch zur Buchgeschichte v.4 (1994): 187-207.
Rovelstad, Mathile V. "Baroque Libraries," Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science 55
(1995): 42-50.
R™ck, Peter. Rationalisierung der Buchherstellung in Mittelalter und in de--?? Fr™hnen Neuzeit (Herstellung: Druckerei Schr”eder, 1994) 204 pp. ISBN 3-8185-0170-X.
Salman, Jeroen and Garrelt Verhoeven. "The Comptoir-Almanacs of Gillis Joosten Saeghman," Quaerendo v. 23, no. 2 (1993): 93-114. [Explores selling of almanancs to gain insight into
17th Dutch book trade]
Sayegh, Sharlene Shalimar. "For the Continuance of Their Favours: Women, the Public Sphere
and the Print Culture in England, 1750-1760," (Master's Thesis, University of Nevada, Las Vegas), 1994, 168 pp.
Shernan, William H. John Dee: The Politics of Reading and Writing in the English Renaissance
(Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1995) 291 pp. $35.00 ISBN 0-8702-3940-6.
[Examines Dee's (1527-1608) career based on contents of his personal library]
Simons, Rachel Cropsey. "The Rohan Societe Anonyme: A Study in Collective Creativity,"
(Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Maryland), 1994, 316 pp.
[Rohan was one of the prominent 15th century French manuscript production centers]
Smith, Lesley and Jane H.M. Taylor, eds. Women, the Book and the Godly: Selected Proceedings
of the St. Hilda's Conference, 1993 Vol. I (Woodbridge, Suffolk: D.S. Brewer, 1995) 191 pp.
$55.00 ISBN 0-85991-420-8. [Collection of articles on medieval women, religion, and print culture]
Sochocky, Christine M. "Glasnost in Soviet Librarianship: LVIV, A Case Study," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh), 1994, 161 pp. [Focuses on years 1985-1991]
Spatharakis, Ioannis. Studies in Byzantine Manuscript Illumination and Iconography (London:
Pindar Press, 1995) 390 pp. $200.00 ISBN 0-907132-863.
Spens, Michael. Viipuri Library, 1927-1935, Alvaar Aalto (London: Academy Editions, 1994) 95 pp. $35.00 ISBN 1-85490-366-7. [Aalto was a prominent European architect]
Stanley, Tim, ed. Turkish Bookbinding in the 15th Century: The Foundations of an Ottoman
Court Style (London: L'Association Internationale de Bibliophile/Azimuth Editions, 1995)
$125.00 ISBN 1-898592-01-2.
Stelmakh, V.D. "Russian Reading in a Period of Social and Cultural Change," International
Information and Library Review 27 (March 1995): 7-23.
Tank, E. "Union of Danish Librarians--One Angle on the Danish Story," Scandinavian Public
Library Quarterly v. 27, no. 3 (1994): 21-24.
Templeton, Joan. "Paris's Scandinavian Treasure: The Biblioteque Nordique," Scandinavian
Studies v. 65, no. 3 (1993): 411-14. [Largest Scandinavian library outside of Scandinavia]
Thomas, V. "The First Carnegie Library [Dunfermline Library, Scotland]" Wilson Library Bulletin 69 (June 1995): 52-54.
Topp, Chester W. Victorian Yellowbacks & Paperbacks, 1849-1905 Vol. II: Ward & Lock (Denver, Colorado: Hermitage Antiquarian Bookshop, 1995) 440 pp. $135.00 ISBN 0-9633920-1-8.
Turfan, Barbara, ed. Emerging Democracies and Freedom of Information (London: Library
Association Publishing, 1995) 174 pp. $50.00 ISBN 1-85604-170-0.
[Contains especially good section of essays on Eastern European libraries and librarianship]
Venzke, Andraes. Johannes Gutenberg: Der Erfinder des Buchdrucks (Zurich: Benziger, 1993)
370 pp. ISBN 3-545-34099-6.
Wagner, Bettina. "Bodleian Incunables from Bavarian Monasteries," The Bodleian Library Record
15 (April 1995): 90-107. [Explains how the British obtains these materials in the late 18th and
early 19th centuries]
Walker, Thomas D. "The State of Libraries in Eighteenth-Century Europe: Adalbert Blumenschein's Beschreibung Verschiedener Bibliotheken in Europa," Library Quarterly 65 (July 1995): 269-94.
Walters, G. "Thhe Library of Thomas Burgess (1756-1837)" The Book Collector 43 (Autumn 1994): 351-75.
Waquet , Francoise. "La Lumiere . . . Vient de France: Le Livre Francais en Italie a la Veille de la Revolution," Melanges de L'Ecole Francaise de rome, Italie et Mediterranee v. 102, no. 2 (1990):
233-59. [Investigates Italian readers' interest in French books before the French Revolution]
Whatmore, G. "Getting the Editor's Ear: The Manchester Guardian Library in the 1950s,"
Library Review v. 43, no. 3 (1994): 8-16.
Worth, George J. "Alexander Macmillan and His Magazine," Victorian Periodicals Review
v. 26, no. 2 (1993): 105-107. [Examines Macmillan's Magazine between 1859 and 1883]
Woronzoff-Dashkoff, A. "Princess E. R. Dashkova's Moscow Library," The Slavonic and
East European Review 72 (January 1994): 60-71.
Yamada , Akihiro. Thomas Creede: Printer to Shakespeare and His Contemporaries (Hino-shi
Tokyo: Meisei University Press, 1994) 287 pp. ISBN 4-89547-113-7.
Zotova , Kremena. "Political Power and Periodicals," Serials Librarian v. 26, no. 2 (1995): 87-94. [Surveys history of serials publication in Bulgaria since 1844]
D. ASIA, AFRICA, AND OTHERBolton, G.K. From England to Australia for Two Pounds: An Autobiography (Cairns: G.K. Bolton, 1994) 208 pp. ISBN 0-646186-97-3. [Author was a printer in Australia]
Burton, J.E. "The History of Medical Literature and Medical Libraries," New Zealand Libraries 47 (December 1994): 226-29.
Cho, Chansik. "Development of Librarianship in South Korea, 1945-1992: A Historical Study," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Rutgers University), 1995, 279 pp. (Directed by Pamela Spence Richards)
Cochrane, T. "The Development of Document Delivery Services in Australia: An Overview,
1980-1994," Journal of Librarianship and Information Science 27 (March 1995): 27-32.
Cross, Frank Moore. The Ancient Library of Q of Qumran (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995) 204 pp. œ27.50 ($41.00) ISBN 1-85075-511-6. [Dead Sea Scrolls]
Davis, Donald G., Jr. "Library History in India: Historiographical Assessment and Current Trends,"
Third World Libraries 3 (Spring 1993): 40-44.
Evans, John. "Development of Rural Libraries in the Solomon Islands," International Information
and Library Review 24 (March 1992): 57-70.
Evans, John and Etekiera Kunei. "Rural Library Service in the Republic of Kiribati (Gilbert Islands)" International Library Review v. 22, no. 4 (1990): 225-37.
Everts, R. Alain. "The Pioneers: Herbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo and the Development of Library
Services to the African in South Africa," Third World Libraries 3 (Spring 1993): 7-19.
Hernon, Peter and Harold C. Relyea. "Government Publishing: Past and Present," Government Information Quarterly v.12, no. 3 (1995): 309-30. [Focuses on U.S. government publishing]
Hubber, B. "Libraries and Life in a Changing World: The Metcalfe Years, 1920-1970" Australian Academic & Research Libraries 25 (June 1994): 137-40.
Ibrahim , A.B.N. "Publishing in Malaysia: A Survey of Private Sector Publishing,"
(Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Wales), 1994.
Karim, Bakri Musa A. "The Emergence of Libraries in the Sultanate of Oman," International Library Review v. 23, no. 3 (1991): 229-36. [Covers period from 1970-1990]
Leach, Athol, et. al. "The Reading of Black South Africans: A Historical Overview," African
Journal of Library, Archives and Information Science 4 (April 1994): 1-14.
Lui, Ziming. "A Comparative Study of Library and Information Science Education: China and
the United States," International Information & Library Review v. 24, no. 2 (1992): 107-18.
[Covers period from 1920-1990]
Metikou, Ourgay. "Libraries in Ethiopia before 1900," International Library Review v. 23,
no. 4 (1991): 391-99.
Metikou, Ourgay. "Printing, Publishing, and Book Development in Ethiopia up to the Era of
Emperor Menelik II," International Information & Library Review v. 24, no. 3 (1992): 221-27.
[Covers period from 1500-1900]
Newa, John M. "Libraries in National Literacy Education Programmes in Africa south of the
Sahara: The State-of-the-Art," International Library Review v. 22, no. 2 (1990): 73-94.
[Examines role of public and village libraries in literacy programs]
Nicolau, Melanie Desiree. "Provision of Selected Public Services in the Black Townships of
South Africa, 1980-1988," (Master's Thesis, University of Pretoria, South Africa), 1993.
Schidorsky, D. "Modernization and Continuity in Library Development in Palestine under the British Mandate (1920-1948)" Libri 45 (March 1995): 19-30.
Sharf, Frederic A. "The Origins of the Distribution of Western Books in Meiji Japan," Essex Institute Historical Collections v. 129, no. 3 (1993): 255-67.
Xiao, Y.Y. "Professional Library and Information Education in the United Kingdom and the
People's Republic of China," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Queen's University, Belfast), 1993.
Younis, Abdul Razeq. "Professional Library Development, Manpower Education and Training
in Jordan," International Information & Library Review v. 24, no. 1 (1992): 15-43.
[Covers period since 1950s]
Walker, Clare M. "From Carnegie to NEPI: Ideals and Realities: Governmental and Conference
Reports on Library Development in South Africa, 1928 to the Present Day," Mousaion
v. 11, no. 2 (1993): 58-83.
Wise, Michael and Anthony Olden. Libraries in the Arab World (London: Library Association
Publishing, 1994) 288 pp. $70.00 ISBN 1-85604-085-2.
Zell, Hans M. Publishing and Book Development in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1960-1994: An Annotated Bibliography (Oxford: Hans M. Zell Publishers, 1995) 320 pp. $80.00 ISBN 1-873836-46-5.
E. GENERAL, HISTORIOGRAPHY, PHILOSOPHY, AND LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE EDUCATIONAbel , Trudi Johanna. "A Man of Letters, a Man of Business: Edward Stratemeyer and the Adolescent Reader, 1890-1930," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Rutgers University), 1993, 361 pp.
[Stratemeyer authored Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew and other mysteries; this dissertation examines
rise of juvenile popular fiction from 1890-1930 and remarkable growth of Stratemeyer's literary
empire]
Ahearn, Allen and Patrica Ahearn. Book Collecting: A Comprehensive Guide (New York:
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1995) 480 pp. $35.00 ISBN 0-399-14049-2.
Albertine, Susan, ed. A Living of Words: American Women in Print Culture (Knoxville:
University of Tennessee Press, 1995) 246 pp. $40.00 ISBN 0-87049-867-3.
Alexander, Jonathan J.G., ed. Painted Page: Italian Renaissance Book Illumination, 1450-1550
(Munich: Prestel Art, 1994) 273 pp. $75.00 ISBN 3-79131-385-1.
Ali, M. Farooq. "The Concept of a Balanced Collection: An Analysis of the Collection
Development Literature, 1970-1990," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Texas Woman's
University), 1992, 161 pp.
Allen , Sue and Charles Gullens. Decorated Cloth in America: Publishers' Bindings, 1840-1910
(Los Angeles: Williams Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 1994) 107 pp. $35.00.
Alpern, Sara, et. al, eds. The Challenge of Feminist Biography: Writing the Lives of Modern
American Women (Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1992) 210 pp.
$45.00 ISBN 0-252-01926-1.
Alston, R.C. "Library History: A Place in the Education of Librarians? Library History
v. 9, nos. 1-2 (1991): 37-51.
Angerhofer, Paul J., Mary Ann Addy Maxwell, and Robert L. Maxwell. In Aeidibus Aldi:
The Legacy of Aldus Manutius and His Press (Provo, Utah: Friends of the Harold B. Lee
Library, 1995) 172 pp. $30.00 ISBN 0-8425-2329-4.
Avella, Steven. "Catholic Lay Activism in Milwaukee: The Bruce Family," Records of the
American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia v. 103, nos. 3-4 (1992): 1-11.
[Examines history of Bruce Press, an important publisher of Catholic literature]
Badaracco, Claire Hoertz. Trading Words: Poetry, Typography, and Illustrated Books in the
Modern Literary Economy (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 1995) 259 pp.
$35.00 ISBN 0-8018-4859-8.
Baldwin, Patricia Lynne. "Covering the Campus: The History of The Chronicle of Higher Education," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of North Texas), 1994, 195 pp.
Basbanes, Nicholas A. A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion
for Books (New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1995) 638 pp. $35.00.
Baudin, Fernand. L'Effet Gutenberg (Paris: Cercle de la Librarie, 1995) 467 pp. 590 FFr
ISBN 2-7654-0555-7. [Examines effects of printing press on relationship between scribe and script]
Bennett, Tony. The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics (London: Routledge, 1995)
278 pp. $60.00 ISBN 0-415-05387-0.
Benton , Megan. "Measured Markets: Limited Edition Publishing and the Grabhorn Press,
1920-1930," Publishing Research Quarterly 11 (Summer 1995): 90-102.
[Grabhorn Press was located in San Francisco]
Bliss, Nonie J. "International Librarianship," Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science
56 (1995): 214-33.
Boedeker, H.E., ed. Histoires du Livre: Nouvelles Orientations (Paris: IMEC Editions/Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1995) 478 pp. 139 FFr.
Bonfont, Larisse, et. al. La Naissance des Ecritures, du Cuneiforme a l'Alphabet .
(Paris: Seuil, 1994) 507 pp. $70.00.
Budd, John M. "An Epistemological Foundation for Library and Information Science,"
Library Quarterly 65 (July 1995): 295-318.
Cady, Susan A. "Machine Tool of Management: A History of Microfilm Technology,"
(Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Lehigh University), 1994, 336 pp.
Canonne, Andre. Lecture, Biblioth‚que et Soci‚t‚: Recueil de Textes Choisis par un Groupe
d'Amis (Paris: Edition du CEFAL, 1994) 244 pp. 164 FFr ISBN 2-87130-040-2.
Ceppos, Karen F. "Library School Survival," Encyclopedia of Library and Information
Science 54 (1995): 178-91.
Chartier, Roger. "Labourers and Voyagers: From the Text to the Reader," Diacritics v. 22,
no. 2 (1992): 49-61. [Reprinted in Andrew Bennett, ed. Readers and Reading (London:
Longman, 1995), pp. 132-49. Bennett's book contains an interesting collection of essays
on various aspects of reading and book culture]
Connor, Jennifer J. "Medical Journals and L'Histoire du Livre," AB Bookman's Weekly 94
(July 4, 1994): 5-6+.
Crubellier, Maurice. "Lire, 1880-1980: Au Coeur d'une Histoire Culturelle," Histoire de
L'Education v. 53 (1992): 3-12.
Dardis, Tom. Firebrand: The Life of Horace Liveright (New York: Random House, 1995)
394 pp. $27.00 ISBN 0-6794-0675-1.
Dewalt, Bryan. "Technology and Canadian Printing: A History from Lead Type to Lasers," Transformation Series No. 3 (1995): 8-161.
Diamond, Edwin and Stephen Bates. "The Ancient History of the Internet," American Heritage
46 (October 1995): 34-45.
Dick, Archie L. "Library and Information Science as a Social Science: Neutral and Normative Conceptions," Library Quarterly 65 (April 1995): 216-35. [Discusses historical and philosophical background to LIS]
Drucker, Johanna. "The Alphabet Explained; or, The Origin and Progress of Letters," Columbia
Library Columns 43 (February 1994): 15-24.
Drucker, Johanna. Alphabetic Labyrinth: The Letters in History and Imagination (New York:
Thames & Hudson, 1995) 328 pp. $47.00 ISBN 0-500001-608-9.
Drucker, Johanna. The Visible Word: Experimental Typography and Modern Art, 1909-1923
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994) 298 pp. $35.00 ISBN 0-226-16501-9.
Elegant Editions: Aspects of Victorian Book Design (Toronto: Thomas Fisher Rare Book
Library, 1995) 60 pp. $20.00 ISBN 07-927-6014-4.
Farber, Ivan Ira. "Bibliographic Instruction, Briefly," in Information for a New Age:
Redefining the Librarian compiled by Fifteenth Anniversary Task Force, Library Instruction
Round Table, ALA (Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1995), pp. 23-34.
[Contains historical summary of BI]
Frasca, Ralph. "Benjamin Franklin's Printing Network and the Dissemination of Moral Virtue
in Early America," Michigan Academician 27 (March 1995): 125-34.
Freeman, M.J. "Investigating the Supply and Demand Relationship in a Profession: The English
and Welsh Schools of Librarianship and Information Studies and the Higher Education Library
and Information Services Employment Sector in England and Wales," (Unpublished Ph.D.
Dissertation, University of Aston, United Kingdom), 1994.
Freytag, J. "Development Trends in Librarianship and Schools of Library and Information
Science in the Neue Bundeslander of the Federal Republic of Germany," International Forum on Information and Documentation 19 (October 1994): 3-16.
Gamble, Harry Y. Books and Readers in the Early Church: A History of Early Christian Texts
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995) 337 pp. $32.50 ISBN 0-300-06024-6.
Gaur, Albertine. A History of Calligraphy (New York: Cross River Press, 1994) 232 pp.
$50.00 ISBN 1-55859-870-7.
Gibbons, Michael, et. al. The New Production of Knowledge: The Dynamics of Science and
Research in Contemporary Societies (London: Sage Publications, 1994) 179 pp.
$50.00 ISBN 0-8039-7793-X.
Greenhalgh, Liz and Ken Worpole. Libraries in a World of Cultural Change (London: UCL
Press, Ltd., 1995) 182 pp. $35.00 ISBN 1-85728-468-2.
Haley , Allan. Alphabet: The History, Evolution, and Design of the Letters We Use Today
(New York: Watson-Guptill, 1995) 127 pp. $25.00 ISBN 0-823-00170-9.
Hare , Steve, ed. Penguin Portrait: Allen Lane and the Penguin Editors, 1935-1970 (West
Drayton: Penguin, 1995) 357 pp. $18.00 ISBN 0-14-0238522.
Harris, Michael H. History of Libraries of the Western World 4th ed. (Metuchen, NJ:
Scarecrow Press, 1995) 309 pp. $40.00 ISBN 0-8108-2972-X.
Harrison, John M. "A Confirmed Typomaniac: Carroll Coleman and the Prairie Press,"
Books at Iowa no. 62 (April 1995): 15-74.
Havard-Williams, Peter. "Information Education in Botwana," Information Development 11
(June 1995): 99-101.
Haywood, Trevor. Info-Rich - Info Poor: Access and Exchange in the Global Information
Society (London: Bowker Saur, 1995) 274 pp. $45.00 ISBN 0-86291-631-3.
Heller, Steven. Jackets Required: An Illustrated History of American Book Jacket Design,
1920-1950 (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1995) 143 pp. $20.00 ISBN 0-8118-0396-1.
Higashi, Julie. "UNESCO's Experimental World Literacy Program: The Influence of American
Social Scientists," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, New York University), 1994, 291 pp.
[Discusses literacy program of the 1950s and 1960s]
Hobbs , Catherine, ed. Nineteenth-Century Women Learn to Write (Charlottesville: University
Press of Virginia, 1995) 343 pp. $45.00 ISBN 0-8139-1605-4.
Icimsoy, A.O. "The Development of Record Services in Turkey," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of London), 1993. [Exmines development of archival practices from 1300 to the present]
Isenberg, Nancy. "Second Thoughts on Gender and Women's History," American Studies 36
(Spring 1995): 93-103.
Jacobs, Edward and Antonia Forster. "Lost Books and Publishing History: Two Annotated
Lists of Imprints for the Fiction Titles Listed in the Circulating Library Catalogs of Thomas
Lowndes (1766) and M. Heavisides (1790), of Which no Known Copies Survive," The Papers
of the Bibliographical Society of America 89 (September 1995): 260-97.
Justice, George Lewis. "The Production of Literature in Eighteenth-Century Britain,"
(Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania), 1994, 293 pp. [Uses theories of Habermas to dissect 18th century British publishing milieu]
Karl, J. "A History of Children's Book Publishing," Journal of Youth Services in Libraries 8
(Spring 1995): 259-65.
Katz, Bill, ed. Dahl's History of the Book 3rd ed. (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1995)
328 pp. $40.00 ISBN 0-8108-2852-9. [Revised edition of Svend Dahl's History of the Book
2nd ed. (1968)]
Kaye, Barbara. Second Impression: Rural Life with a Rare Bookman (New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll
Press, 1995) 350 pp. $35.00 ISBN 1-884718-04-3. [Kaye was wife of Percy Muir (1894-1979),
well-known British bibliophile. This volume succeeds earlier Company We Kept (1986)]
Kronick , David A. "Economic Aspects of Scientific Journalism in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," Publishing Research Quarterly 11 (Summer 1995): 62-79.
Lancaster, F.W. "The Evolution of Electronic Publishing," Library Trends 43 (Spring 1995):
518-27.
Levine, Susan. Degrees of Equality: The American Association of University Women and the
Challenge of Twentieth-Century Feminism (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995)
227 pp. $40.00 ISBN 1-56639-326-4.
Lowood , Henry and Robin E. Rider. "Literary Technology and Typographic Culture: The
Instrument of Print in Early Modern Science," Perspectives on Science v. 2, no. 1 (1994): 1-37.
Maack, Mary Niles and Joanne Passet. Aspirations and Mentoring in an Academic Environment:
Women Faculty in Library and Information Science (Contributions in Librarianship and Information Science, no. 75) (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994) 216 pp. $40.00 ISBN 0-313-27836-9.
MacLeod, Anne Scott. American Childhood: Essays on Children's Literature of the Nineteenth
and Twentieth Centuries (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994) 242 pp.
$40.00 ISBN 0-8203-1551-6.
MacLeod, Anne Scott. "Children's Literature in America from the Puritan Beginnings to 1870,"
in Peter Hunt, ed. Children's Literature: An Illustrated History (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1995), pp. 102-129.
Markham , Sandra J. "Memento Mori on Silk and Stone: Reuben Manley, Printer, 1818-42,"
Printing History v. 15, no. 1 (1993): 3-11.
Marshall, V.C. "The Development of Bookbinding Structures in the Early Middle Ages:
During the Period s.iii-s.ix/x as Evidenced by Extant Binding Structures from Egypt and
Western Europe," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of London), 1993.
Martin, Robert S. "The Development of Professional Education for Librarians and Archivists
in the United States: A Comparative Essay," American Archivist 57 (Summer 1994): 544-58.
McLean, Ruari, ed. Typographers on Type: An Illustrated Anthology from William Morris to
the Present Day (London: Lund Humphries, 1995) 188 pp. $40.00 ISBN 0-85331-657-0.
Merrill, Hugh. Esky: The Early Years at Esquire (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press,
1995) 188 pp. $28.00 ISBN 0-8135-2165-3. [Traces history from 1933 to early 1950s]
Meyer, Daniel Lee. "The Chicago Faculty and the University Ideal, 1891-1929," (Unpublished
Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Chicago), 1994, 538 pp. [Provides background information to University of Chicago prior to establishment of library school]
Mokia, Rosemary Ntumnyuy. "Publishers, United States Foreign Policy, and the Third World,
1960-1967," Publishing Research Quarterly 11 (Summer 1995): 90-102.
Mood, Terry Ann. "Bookbinding in Colorado: Edward McLean and His Students," AB Bookman's Weekly 96 (August 7, 1995): 400+.
Morrisey, David H. "Interpreting the Freedom of Information Act in the Age of Electronic
Government," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Indiana University), 1994, 383 pp.
Myers, Robin and Michael Harris, eds. A Genius for Letters: Booksellers & Bookselling from
the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries (New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1995) 208 pp.
$30.00 ISBN 1-884718-16-7.
Norton, Mary Beth, ed. American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature 3rd ed.
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1995) 2 vols. $150.00 ISBN 0-19-505727-9.
Offenberg , A.K. "How to Define Printing in Hebrew: A Fifteenth-Century List of the Goods of
a Jewish Traveler and His Wife," Library 6th series, v. 16 (March 1994): 43-49.
Ogden, Patti. "Mastering the Lawless Science of Our Law: A Story of Legal Citation Indexes,"
Law Library Journal 85 (Winter 1993): 1-48.
Okker, Patricia. Our Sister Editors: Sarah J. Hale and the Tradition of Nineteenth-Century American Women Editors (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1995) 264 pp.
$40.00 ISBN 0-8203-1686-5. [Explores impact of women editors on significant popular periodicals
in 19th century America]
Ostler, Larry J., Therrin C. Dahlin, and J.D. Willardson. The Closing of American Library Schools: Problems and Opportunities (Contributions in Librarianship and Information Science, no. 85)
(Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1995) 158 pp. $40.00 ISBN 0-313-28461-X.
[Contains short chapters on the history of higher education and library education]
Parkinson, Richard and Stephen Quirke. Papyrus (Egyptian Bookshelf series) (Austin: University
of Texas Press, 1995) 96 pp. $25.00 ISBN 0-292- 76563-0. [Provides concise overview]
Perkinson , Henry J. How Things Got Better: Speech, Writing, Printing, and Cultural Change
(Westport, Conn.: Bergin & Garvey, 1995) 172 pp. $50.00 ISBN 0-89789-431-6.
[Last half of book is devoted to role of printing in development of western culture]
Philips, Faye. Local History Collections in Libraries (Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited,
1995) 164 pp. $32.00 ISBN 1-56308-141-5.
Postgate, Nicholas, Tao Wang, and Toby Wilkinson. "The Evidence for Early Writing:
Utilitarian or Ceremonial?" Antiquity 69 (September 1995): 459-80.
Pritchard, Sarah. "Backlash, Backwater, or Back to the Drawing Board? Feminist Thinking
and Librarianship in the 1990s," Wilson Library Bulletin 68 (June 1994): 42-46.
Putrucci , Armando. Writers and Readers in Medieval Italy: Studies in the History of Written
Culture (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995) 257 pp. $30.00 ISBN 0-300-06089-0.
Robinson, Andrew. The Story of Writing: Alphabets, Hieroglyphs and Pictograms
(London: Thames and Hudson, 1995) 224 pp. $20.00 ISBN 0-500-01665-8.
Rose, Jonathan. "How to do Things with Book History," Victorian Studies 37
(Spring 1994): 461-72.
Rosenblum, Joseph. A Bibliographic History of the Book: An Annotated Guide to the Literature (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1995) 439 pp. $55.00 ISBN 0-8108-3009-4.
Ross, Catherine Sheldrick. "If They Read Nancy Drew, So What?: Series Book Readers Talk
Back," Library & Information Science Research 17 (Summer 1995): 201-36.
[Examines historical dimensions of public library fiction debate]
Ruck, Peter, ed. Pergament: Geschichte, Struktur, Restaurierung, Herstellung (Historische Hilfswissenschaften, no. 2) (Signaringen: Jan Thorbecke, 1991) 480 pp.
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and book conservators]
Semonin, Paul. "Citizens and Strangers: The American Museum before Barnum," (Unpublished
Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Oregon), 1994, 884 pp.
Serrai, Alfredo, ed. Biblioteche e Bibliografia: Vademecum Disciplinare e Professionale.
(Roma: Bulzoni, 1994) 446 pp. Lire 70,000. ISBN 88-7119-701-1.
Shields, Gerald R. "Censorship, Social Violence, and Librarian Ethics: A Review Article,"
Library Quarterly v. 62, no. 2 (1992): 217-22. [Examines recent literature on censorship and
intellectual freedom]
Silver, Joel. "Falconer Madan and Oxford Books," AB Bookman's Weekly 96 (September 11, 1995): 860-70. [Madan was Librarian of the Bodleian Library from 1912-1919]
Silver, Joel. "Sir William Jones and Bibliographical Diversity," AB Bookman's Weekly 96
(September 4, 1995): 745-52.
Solterer, Helen. "Seeing, Hearing, Tasting Women: Medieval Senses of Reading," Comparative
Literature 46 (Spring 1994): 129-45. [Explores sensorial nature of medieval reading]
Southern, R.W. Scholastic Humanism and the Unification of Europe: Vol. I: Foundations (London: Blackwell Pub., Ltd., 1995) 329 pp. $45.00 ISBN 0-631-19111-9.
[First of three projected volumes of an outstanding explication of the Scholastics and their impact on modern culture]
Stelmakh, Valeria D., ed. The Image of the Library: Studies and Views from Several Countries.
Haifa: IFLA Round Table on Research in Reading and University of Haifa Library, 1994)
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Stern, Madeleine B. Studies in the Franco-American Booktrade during the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries (London: Pindar Press, 1994) 251 pp. $40.00 ISBN 0-907132-72-3.
Stiles, Cindy Ann. "Windows into Antebellum Charleston: Caroline Gilman and the Southern Rose Magazine," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of South Carolina), 1994, 357 pp.
[Examines role periodicals played in antebellum culture]
Swensen, Rolf and Suzanne Garrison-Terry. "Dispelling the Old Green Spinach: Impressions of Bibliographic Instruction in Eastern Europe," Research Strategies 12 (Spring 1994): 94-114.
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Tedd , Lucy A. "OPACs through the Ages, 1960s-1990s," Library Review v. 43, no. 4
(1994): 27-37.
Turner, John R. "The Camelot Series, Everyman's Library, and Ernest Rhys," Publishing History
no. 31 (1992): 27-46.
Vanden Bossche, Chris R. "The Value of Literature: Representations of Print Culture in the Copyright Debate of 1837-1842," Victorian Studies 38 (Autumn 1994): 41-68.
Varanka, Dalia. "Editorial and Design Principles in the Rise of English World Atlases, 1606-1729," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), 1994, 386 pp.
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Vickery, Brian C., ed. Fifty Years of Information Progress: A Journal of Documentation Review
(London: Aslib, 1994) 235 pp. $55.00 ISBN 0-8514-232-7-2.
Walls, Patricia Carol. "Defending Their Liberties: Women's Organizations during the McCarthy Era," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Maryland), 1994, 327 pp. [Examines impact of McCarthyism on such groups as the D.A.R., League of Women Voters, and the American Association
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Warner, Julian. "Writing and Literary Work in Copyright: A Binational and Historical Analysis,"
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Warner, Robert M. Diary of a Dream: A History of the National Archives Independence Movement,
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Weidenfeld, George W. Remembering My Good Friends: An Autobiography (New York:
HarperCollins, 1994) 483 pp. $30.00 ISBN 0-06-017286-X.
Weissman, Stephen. "What Use is Bibliography?: The Life and Opinions of an Antiquarian Bookseller," The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 89 (June 1995): 133-48.
Wilder, Ken. The Company You Keep: A Publisher's Memoir (Sydney: State Library of NSW Press, 1994) 276 pp. $40.00. ISBN 0-730589-18-8.
Willinksy, John. Empire of Words: The Reign of the OED (Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1995) 250 pp. $35.00 ISBN 0-691-03719-1.
Willison, Ian and Tim Rix. "Remembrance of Things Past: Worldwide Activity on Book and
Book Trade History," Logos v. 4, no. 2 (1993): 99-104.
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