Bibliography of Writings on the History of Libraries,
Librarianship, and Book Culture
Spring 1995
Compiled by Ed Goedeken,
Bibliographer for the Humanities, Iowa State University
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Alexander, S.L. "The History of the North Carolina Collection under the Leadership of Mary Lindsay
Thornton, 1917-1958," (Master's Thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), 1993, 67 pp.
Altbach, Philip G. and Edith S. Hoshino, eds. International Book Publishing: An Encyclopedia
(Hamden, CT: Garland Publishing, 1995) 750 pp. $95.00 ISBN 0-8153-0786-1.
Albertine, Susan, ed. A Living of Words: American Women in Print Culture (Knoxville: University of
Tennessee Press, 1995) 272 pp. $38.00. [Essays on women in publishing, bookselling, printing, and
literary patronage]
Altman, Ellen. "A New Inqiry for a New Millennium," Public Libraries 33 (September/October 1994):
236-37. [Examines history and impact of the Public Library Inquiry 1949]
Anderson, Patricia. "Factory Girl, Apprentice and Clerk: The Readership of Mass-Market Magazines,
1830-60," Victorian Periodicals Review 25 (Summer 1992): 64-72.
Argetsinger, Mark. "Harmony Discovered: P.J. Conkwright in the Tradition of Classical Typography,"
Princeton University Library Chronicle 56 (Winter 1995): 183-252. [Conkwright was a long-time
typographer for Princeton University Press]
Armstrong, Robert D. "The Work Must be Performed Elsewhere: The Printing of Montana's Laws and
Legislative Journals," The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 88 (December 1994): 437-9.
Arp, L. "An Analytical History of Library Literacy," RQ 34 (Winter 1994): 158-172.
Avery, Gillian. Behold the Child: American Children and Their Books, 1621-1922 (London: The Bodley
Head, 1994) 226 pp. $42.00 ISBN 0-370-31952-4
Baker, William. The Early History of the London Library (Lewiston, NY: Mellen, 1992) 156 pp.
Barclay, John. The Seventy-Year Ebb and Flow of Chinese Library and Information Services,
May 4, 1919 to the Late 1980s (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1995) 334 pp.
$43.00 ISBN 0-8108-2713-1.
Bartlett, Mark C., Fiona A. Black, and Bertrum H. MacDonald, Comps. The History of the Book in
Canada: A Bibliography (Halifax, N.S.: Dalhousie University, 1993) 260 pp.
$45.00 ISBN 0-313-28793-7.
Beidler, Philip D. Scriptures for a Generation: What We Were Reading in the 60's (Athens: University of
Georgia Press, 1994) 254 pp. $25.00 ISBN 0-8203-1641-5.
Belovicz, R.C. "Preservation in American Libraries, 1910-1950; Early Approaches and Conceptual
Development," (Master's Thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), 1992, 54 pp.
Benton, M.L.C. "Volmer Nordlunde: The Grand Old Man of Modern Danish Printing," Printing History
v. 15, no. 1 (1993): 33-42.
Bidwell, J. "The Brandywine Paper Mill and the Anglo-American Book Trade, 1787-1837," (Unpublished
Ph.D. Dissertation, Oxford University), 1992. [The Brandywine Paper Mill was owned by two Philadelphia
merchants, Joshua and Thomas Gilpin]
Birdsall, William F. The Myth of the Electronic Library: Librarianship and Social Change in America
(Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994).
Birkerts, Sven. The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age (London: Faber &
Faber, 1994) 231 pp. $23.00 ISBN 0-571-19849-X. [Interesting essays on libraries, librarians, and
reading in the modern era]
Blackman, Susan Anato. "The Manuscripts and Patronage of Jacques d'Armagnac Duke of Nemours
(1433-1477)," 2 Vols. (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh), 1993, 804 pp.
[d'Armagnac was a French book collector]
Blazek, Ronald D. and Anna H. Perrault. United States History: A Selective Guide to Information Sources
(Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1994) 411 pp. $55.00.
Boilard, Gilberte and Jean-Luc Fortin. Les Bibliotheques Partlementaires: Histoire, Fonctions, Services
(Quebec: Service de la Reference, Direction General de la Bibliotheque de l'Assemblee Nationale, 1992) 78 pp.
Boudreaux, S.A. "World War II and Louisiana's Public Libraries: A Theme Issue," LLA Bulletin 56
(Winter 1994): 131-57.
Boyarin, Jonathan, ed. The Ethnography of Reading (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993)
285 pp. $35.00 ISBN 0-520-07955-8.
Breeze, Andrew. "The Transmission of Aldhelm's Writings in Early Medieval Spain," Anglo-Saxon
England 21 (1992): 5-21.
Brownrigg, Linda L., ed. Making the Medieval Book: Techniques of Production (London: Red Gull, 1995)
346 pp. $90.00 ISBN 0-9626372-2-X.
Buckland, Michael K. "The Centenary of Madam Documentation: Suzanne Briet, 1894-1989," Journal of
the American Society for Information Science 46 (April 1995): 235-37.
[Briet was a leader in the development of documentation and bibliographies for the Bibliotheque Nationale
between 1934-1954]
Canfield, R. "The ALA Committee on the Status of Women in Librarianship; An Examination of its History
and Impact," (Master's Thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), 1993, 115 pp.
Caro, Carmen and Carmen Crespo. "La Bibliotheque Nationale de Madrid," Art et Metiers du Livre 176
(1992): 2-7.
Carter, John. ABC for Book Collectors 7th ed. (New Castle: Oak Knoll, 1995) 224 pp.
$25.00 ISBN 1-88471-805-1.
Casserly, Jack. Scripps: The Divided Dynasty (New York: Donald I. Fine, 1993) 236 pp.
$30.00 ISBN 1-55611-378-1.
Censer, Jack R. The French Press in the Age of Enlightenment (New York: Routledge, 1994) 263 pp.
$65.00 ISBN 0-415-09730-4.
Cherniack, Susan. "Book Culture and Textual Transmission in Sung China," Harvard Journal of Asiatic
Studies 54 (June 1994): 5-125.
Chou, N. L.-S. "Library Development in Sui China (581-618 A.D.)" Committee On East Asian Libraries
Bulletin no. 101 (December 1993): 176-81.
Christianson, C. Paul. "The Stationers of Paternoster Row, 1534-1557," The Papers of the Bibliographical
Society of America 57 (March 1993): 81-91.
Conrad, Charles Phillip. "Fred Jewell (1875-1936): His Life as Composer of Circus and Band Music,
Bandmaster, and Publisher," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Ball State University), 1994, 550 pp.
Crawford, John C. "The Langholm Library Project," Library Review v. 44, no. 1 (1995): 36-44.
[Provides historical overview of subscription library in Dumfriesshire, Scotland]
Czerniejewski, Marilyn. "The History of the Duns Scotus Library at Lourdes College," (M.L.S. Unpublished
Research Paper, Kent State University), 1993. Available as an ERIC Document: ED367328.
Daniels, Peter T. and William Bright, eds. The World's Writing Systems (New York: Oxford University
Press, 1995) 800 pp. $125.00 ISBN 0-19-507993-0.
Darnton, Robert. The Corpus of Forbidden Books (New York: W.W. Norton, 1995)
$32.50 ISBN 0-393-03745-2.
Darnton, Robert. The Forbidden Bestsellers of Pre-Revolutionary France (New York: W.W.Norton, 1995)
$27.50 ISBN 0-393-03720-7.
David, Linda. Children's Books Published by William Darton and His Sons (Bloomington: Lilly Library,
Indiana University, 1992) 88 pp. ISBN 1-879598-11-6. [Darton was an 18th-century British publisher]
De Hamel, Christopher. A History of Illustrated Manuscripts 2nd ed. (London: Phaidon, 1994) 272 pp.
$50.00 ISBN 0-7148-29498.
De Laborde, Leon. Etude sur la Construction des Bibliotheques (Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 1993)
163 pp. 35 DM ISBN 3-478-09716-8.
Delatour, Jerome and Thierry Sarmant. "La Charge de Bibliothecaire du Roi aux XVIIe et XVIIIe Siecles,"
Bibliotheque de L'Ecole Des Chartes no. 152 (1994): 465-502.
De St. Jorre, John. The Good Ship Venus: The Erotic Voyage of the Olympia Press (London: Hutchinson,
1994) 332 pp. $30.00 ISBN 0-09-177874-3.
Deweese, Don B. "History of Arkansas Libraries," Arkansas Libraries 50 (October 1993): 5-8.
[Provides overview of the journal of the Arkansas library association]
Dickinson, Donald C. "Mr. Huntington and Mr. Brigham," The Book Collector 42 (Winter 1993):
507-22. [Clarence Brigham, librarian of the American Antiquarian Society, assisted Henry E. Huntington
in developing the Huntington collection]
Donovan, Claire. The Winchester Bible (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993) 64 pp.
$25.00 ISBN 0-8020-6991-6.
Dow, K.L. "Under the Wholesome Management of Women: The Emergence of a Small Town Public
Library, 1900 to 1989," (Master's Thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), 1992, 83 pp.
Drake, Miriam A. "Georgia Institute of Technology Libraries," Encyclopedia of Library and Information
Science 52 (1993): 99-125. [Historical overview by library's current director]
Dreyfus, John. Into Print: Selected Writings on Printing History, Typography and Book Production
(London: British Library, 1994) 339 pp. $60.00 ISBN 0-7123-0343-X.
Drucker, Johanna. "Artists' Books and the Cultural Status of the Book," Journal of Communication 44
(Winter 1994): 12-42.
Du Mont, Rosemary Ruhig, Lois Buttlar, and William Caynon. Multiculturalism in Libraries (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994) 240 pp. $55.00 ISBN 0-313-28418-0. [Contains chapter by Du Mont on history of multiculturalism in libraries]
Dumville, David N. "English Square Minuscule Script: The Mid-Century Phases," Anglo-Saxon England 23
(1994): 133-164.
Evers, Bernd, ed. Kunst in der Bibliothek: Zur Geschichte der Kunstbibliothek und Ihrer Sammlungen
(Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1994) 568 pp.
Fabian, Bernhard, ed. Handbuch der Historischen Buchbestande in Deutschland 19 vols. (Hildesheim:
Olms-Weidmann, 1992-1996) $2,000.
Feather, John. The Information Society: A Study of Continuity and Change (London: Library Association
Publishing, 1994) 160 pp. $35.00 ISBN 1-85604-058-5.
Felcone, Joseph J. Printing in Princeton, New Jersey, 1786-1876: A Bibliography (Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Library, 1992) 140 pp. $35.00.
Fianu, Janine K. "Histoire Juridique et Sociale de Metiers du Livre a Paris de 1275 a 1521," (Unpublished
Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Montreal, Canada), 1992, 544 pp.
Frasca, Ralph L. "The Virtue of the Art: Benjamin Franklin's Printing Network and the Moral Aspirations
of the Early-American Press," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Iowa), 1994, 478 pp.
Frazier, Meg. "A Brief History of DePaul University's Suburban Libraries," Illinois Libraries 76
(Winter 1994): 48-49.
Freeman, Janet Ing. "Anton Koberger's First Books: Paper Stocks and Sequence of Printing,"
Princeton University Library Chronicle 55 (Winter 1994): 308-322. [Koberger was a fifteenth century
German printer]
Getrost, Christina D. "A History of the Kent Free Library, Kent, Ohio, 1958-1992," (M.L.S. Unpublished
Research Paper, Kent State University), 1993. Available as an ERIC Document: ED367327.
Gleason, Maureen and Katharina J. Blackstead, eds. What is Written Remains: Historical Essays on the
Libraries of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1994) 264 pp.
$24.00 ISBN 0-268-01949-5.
Goodman, Dena. The Republic of Letters: A Cultural History of the French Enlightenment
(Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994) 338 pp. $50.00 ISBN 0-8014-2968-4.
[Excellent intellectual history of the period with good coverage of the print culture of the era]
Grabler, S.L. "Government Information of, by and for the People: The Changing Mission of the American
Library Association's Public Documents Committee, 1876-1956," Journal of Government Information 22
(January-February 1995): 45-72.
Green, Dennis Howard. Medieval Listening and Reading: The Primary Reception of German Literature,
800-1300 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994) 483 pp. $65.00 ISBN 0-521-44493-4.
Greig, Peter. "Historical Perspectives: Comes the Dawn--The Birth of IASC/SCAD," IASC Bulletin/Bulletin
de la SCAD 14 (1992): 2-5. [History of the Indexing and Abstracting Society of Canada]
Griffin, Sean. "The Catholic Book Society and its Role in the Emerging System of National Education,
1824-1834," Irish Educational Studies 11 (1992): 82-98.
Griffiths, Antony. German Printmaking in the Age of Goethe (London: British Museum Press, 1994)
240 pp. $32.00 ISBN 0-71411-659-9.
Gudauskas, R. "Lithuanian Library History," International Information & Library Review 26
(December 1994): 271-88.
Gupta, S. "The Development of Education, Printing and Publishing in Ethiopia," International Information
& Library Review 26 (September 1994): 169-80.
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.
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]
Hench, John B. "Toward a History of the Book in America," Publishing Research Quarterly 10
(Fall 1994): 9-21.
Hiller, Mary Ruth. "The Electic Review, 1805-1868," Victorian Periodicals Review 27 (Fall 1994):
179-278.
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.
Hovde, David M. "The American Merchant Marine Library Association: The Public Library of the High
Seas," Public Libraries 33 (July/August 1994): 205-210.
Hunter,Clarence W. "Mississipi's Library Heritage: Ruby Stutts Lyles--A Woman for All Seasons,"
Mississippi Libraries 58 (Spring 1994): 14-15.
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.
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]
Jochum, Uwe. Kleine Bibliotheksgeschichte (Stuttgart: Philipp Reclam Jun., 1993) 232 pp.
10 DM ISBN 3-15-008915-8.
Johnson, Charles N. "Early Booksellers of Los Angeles and Santa Barbara," AB Bookman's Weekly
v. 93 (January 31, 1994): 387+
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.
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.
Kaimowitz, Jeffrey H. and Doris Kammradt, comps. Albrecht Durer, Book Illustrator (Hartford, Conn.:
Watkinson Library, Trinity College, 1994) 26 pp.
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.
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.
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.
Kinane, Vincent. A History of the Dublin University Press, 1734-1976 (Dublin: Gill & Mcmillan, 1994)
386 pp. $35.00 ISBN 0-7171-21151.
Knopf, Sabine. "Berliner Kinderbuchverlage des 19. Jahrhunderts," Aus dem Antiquariaat 48 (1992):
A55-A60.
Kocojowa, Maria. History of Polish Libraries (Krakow: Universitas, 1993).
LLamoureux-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.
Lee, Poingsoon and Young A. Um. Libraries & Librarianship in Korea (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994) $55.00 ISBN 0-313-28743-0.
LeMire, E.D. "William Morris in America: A Publishing History from Archives," The Book Collector 43
(Summer 1994): 201-28.
Levarie, Norma. The Art & History of Books (New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1995) 328 pp.
$45.00 ISBN 1-884718-02-7.
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]
Love, Harold. Scribal Publication in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993)
379 pp. $65.00 ISBN 0-19-811219-X.
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.
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.
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, 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.
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.
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.
Marco, Guy A. "The Demise of the American Core Curriculum," Libri 44 (September 1994): 175-89.
[Provides historical overview of library science educational curriculum]
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.
McCrank, L.J. "Historical Information Science and Communications: A Report and Review Essay,"
International Information & Library Review 26 (December 1994): 229-42.
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.
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]
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]
Melcher, Margaret S. "A Time of Growth: The Early Years at SLJ," School Library Journal 40
(August 1994): 18-20.
Meyer, Horst. Bibliographie der Buch- und Bibliotheksgeschichte Vols. I-II (Bad Iburg: Bibliographischer
Verlag Horst Meyer, 1986-1991)
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.
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. A Millenium of the Book: Production, Design and Illustration
in Manuscript and Print, 900-1900 (Winchester: St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1994) 196 pp.
$40.00 ISBN 1-873040-25-3. [A collection of essays on pre-1900 monographs and serials]
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.
Offenberg, Adri K. "The Chronology of Hebrew Printing at Mantua in the Fifteenth Century,"
The Library, 6th ser., v. 16 (December 1994): 298-315.
Ongaro, Giulio M. "The Library of a Sixteenth-Century Music Teacher," The Journal of Musicology
12 (Summer 1994): 357-75.
Owen, Dolores B. "The Lafayette Public Library and World War II," LLA Bulletin 56 (Winter 1994):
143-44.
Pampaloni, Paolo. "Natural History Printing in Renaissance Tuscany," AB Bookman's Weekly 93
(June 20, 1994): 2749-50+
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.
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.
Pastoureau, Mireille. "1694: Les Academiciens Publient Leur Dictionnaire," L'Histoire no. 182
(Novembre 1994): 80-81.
Pearson, David. Provenance Research in Book History: A Handbook (London: The British Library,
1994) 326 pp. $60.00 ISBN 0-7123-0344-8.
Perkin, Michael, ed. Illustration Processes and Binding in the Provinces: Aspects of the Provincial Book
Trade in Southeast England (Reading: University of Reading Dept. of Typography & Communication,
1993) 64 pp. ISBN 0-7049-0119-6.
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]
Phelps, Connie L. "Louisiana Parish Libraries and World War II: A Survey," LLA Bulletin 56
(Winter 1994): 137-42.
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.
Popa, Opritsa D. and Sandra J. Lamprecht. "Romania and United States Library Connections," Advances
in Librarianship 18 (1994): 189-213.
Prucha, Franicis P. Handbook for Research in American History (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,
1994) 289 pp. $25.00 ISBN 0-8032-3701-4.
Quintero, Alejandro Pizarroso. Historia de la Prensa (Madrid: Editorial Centro de Estudios Ramon
Areces, 1994) 655 pp. 5,150 pesetas.
Radway, J. "Beyond Mary Bailey and Old Maid Librarians: Reimaging Readers and Rethinking Reading,"
Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 35 (Autumn 1994): 275-296.
Raymond, Boris. "Education for Librarianship in Russia," Encyclopedia of Library and Information
Science 54 (1994): 183-86.
Rayward, W. Boyd, ed. Developing a Profession of Librarianship in Australia: Travel Diaries & Other
Papers by John W. Metcalf (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1994) 0-8108-2944-4.
Reilly, Barbara D. and Laura Street. "Books versus Bullets: Northwest Louisiana Libraries Challenge
the Clash of Ideas and Ideals in World War II," LLA Bulletin 56 (Winter 1994): 145-50.
Reilly, Elizabeth Carroll. "Common and Learned Readers: Shared and Separate Spheres in Mid-Eighteenth
Century New England," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Boston University), 1994, 592 pp.
[Examines types of materials sold by two Boston booksellers between 1750 and 1775 to learned and
wealthy patrons]
Reisenfeld, Robin. The German Print Portfolio, 1890-1930: Serials for a Private Sphere (Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1992) 158 pp. $30.00 ISBN 0-85667-417-6.
Rhodes, Dennis E., ed. Bookbindings & Other Bibliophily: Essays in Honor of Anthony Hobson
(New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, dist., 1994) 368 pp. $125.00 ISBN 88-85033-26-1.
Richards, Trevor B. "Books for the Troops: The Role of Volunteer Organizations in the Provision of
Library Services for the Canadian Military during the World Wars," Epilogue nos. 13-14 (1992): 10-17.
Richardson, Alan. Literature, Education, and Romanticism: Reading as Social Practice (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994) 327 pp. $50.00 ISBN 0-521-462762.
Ring, Daniel F., Helaine Dauphinais, and Gordon B. Neavill. "Has the American Public Library Lost Its
Purpose?" Public Libraries 33 (July/August 1994): 191-96.
Robbins, Louise S. "Anti-Communism, Racism, and Censorship in the McCarthy Era: The Case of Ruth W.
Brown and the Bartlesville Public Library," Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 35
(Autumn 1994): 331-336.
Robbins, Louise S. "The Library of Congress and Federal Loyalty Programs, 1947-1956: No Communists or Cocksuckers," The Library Quarterly 64 (October 1994): 365-85.
Roe, B.J. "The Libraries of Archaeological Institutions during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries,"
(Masters' Thesis, University of Wales), 1993.
Roff, Sandra S. and Steward Bodner. "Historical Notes: The Metropolitan Press and the Librarians
Conference of 1853," Urban Academic Librarian 9 (Winter 1994): 38-45.
Sager, Donald J. "Notable Libraries and Librarians," Public Libraries 33 (May/June 1994): 130-34.
Sale Catalogues of the Libraries of Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Thrale, and James Boswell (New Castle,
Del.: Oak Knoll Books, 1993) 320 pp. $200.00 ISBN 0-938768-44-1.
Salles, Catherine. Lire a Rome (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1992) 140 FFr ISBN 2-2513-38-13-6.
[Examines writers, reading, and readers in Rome in the first century A.D.]
Samek, Toni. "The Canadian-American Library Frontier, 1944-1946: Providing a Context," Epilogue
nos. 13-14 (1992): 18-28.
Saxe, Stephen O. American Iron Hand Presses (New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1992) 128 pp.
$35.00 ISBN 0-938768-35-2.
Schement, Jorge Reina and Terry Curtis. Tendencies and Tensions of the Information Age: The Production
and Distribution of Information in the United States (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1995) 285 pp.
$50.00 ISBN 1-56000-166-6.
Scholler, Wolfgang. "Die Bibliothek der Academie Royale d'Architecture in Paris (1677-1793)"
Archiv fur Geschichte des Buchwesens 38 (1992): 267-76.
Seavey, Charles A. "Philip Lee Phillips and the Growth of the Library of Congress Map Collection,"
Government Publications Review v. 20, no. 3 (1993): 283-95.
Sell, Barry David. "Friars, Nahuas, and Books: Language and Expression in Colonial Nahuatl Publications," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles), 1993, 403 pp.
[Examines corpus of Nahuatl (Aztec) writings from 1650 to 1821]
Sellers, Nicholas. "The Fielding Lewis Turner Law Library," Law Library Journal 86 (Summer 1994):
597-604.
Shaddy, R.A. "A World of Sentimental Attachments: The Cult of Collecting, 1890-1930," The Book
Collector 43 (Summer 1994): 185-200.
Siegel, Jane R. "Paper: A Common Ground; Selections from an Exhibition," Columbia Library Columns 43
(May 1994): 14-25. [Contains a history of paper production]
Silver, Joel. "Belle da Costa Greene and the Morgan Library," AB Bookman's Weekly v. 95, no. 12
(March 20, 1995): 1249-56. [Greene (1883-1950) was the first librarian of The Pierpoint Morgan Library]
Silver, Joel. "David A. Randall: Bookseller, Bibliographer, Librarian," AB Bookman's Weekly v. 95, no. 1
(January 2, 1995): 5-10.
Silver, Joel. "A Pioneering Bookseller: Henry Stevens, Green Mountain Boy," AB Bookman's Weekly v. 93
(May 30, 1994): 2361+.
Smith, James Rodney. "Librarians in the War Effort: New Orleans Public Library during World War II,"
LLA Bulletin 56 (Winter 1994): 151-57.
Smith, Owen G. "Profiles: The Past by Example; James Klotter and the Kentucky Historical Society,"
Kentucky Libraries 57 (Fall 1993): 19-21.
Smith, Virginia Rogers. "Give Good Books, Give More Books: The Victory Book Campaign," LLA Bulletin 56
(Winter 1994): 133-5.
Sprunger, Keith L. Trumpets from the Tower: English Puritan Printing in the Netherlands, 1600-1640
(Leiden: Brill, 1995) 240 pp. ISBN 90-04-09935-2.
Stevens, Wesley M. "The Library at Wolfenbuttel," Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science 54
(1994): 399-400.
Stevick, Robert David. Earliest Irish and English Bookarts: Visual and Poetic Forms before A.D. 1000
(Philadelphia: University of Pennsyvania Press, 1994) 282 pp. $79.00 ISBN 0-81223-220-8.
Sukiasian, Eduard R. "Knowledge Organization in Russia: Problem-Related and Historical Aspects,"
Knowledge Organization v. 20, no. 4 (1993): 189-91.
Sullivan, Garrett A., Jr. "A Story to Be Hastily Gobbled Up: Caleb Williams and Print Culture,"
Studies in Romanticism 32 (Fall 1993): 323-37.
"Symposium on Presidential Libraries and Materials," Government Information Quarterly v. 12, no. 1
(1995): 15-128. [Essays on the Bush, Reagan, Carter, Nixon, Johnson, Ford, Kennedy, FDR, Eisenhower,
and Hoover presidential libraries]
Temple, Kathryn Doris. "The Author in Public: Literary Scandals, Legal Regulation, and National Identity
in Eighteenth-Century Britain," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Virginia), 1994, 234 pp.
[Examines legal issues relating to literary property and publishing]
Thompson, Julius E. The Black Press in Mississippi, 1865-1985 (Gainesville: University Press of Florida,
1993) 228 pp. $35.00 ISBN 0-8139-1472-8.
Tite, Colin G. C. The Manuscript Library of Sir Robert Cotton (The Panizzi Lectures 1993) (London: British
Library, 1994) 116 pp. $20.00 ISBN 0-7123-0359-6.
Townsend, John Rowe. John Newbery and His Books: Trade and Plumbcake for Ever, Huzza! (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1995) 173 pp. $25.00 ISBN 0-8108-2950-9.
Trautmann, Thomas R. and Karl Sanford Kabelac. "The Library of Lewis Henry Morgan," Transactions of the
American Philosophical Society Vol. 84, parts 6-7 (1994)1-336. [Morgan (1818-1881) was a prominent American ethnologist]
Tschichold, Jan. The Form of the Book: Essays on the Morality of Good Design (Point Roberts, Wash.:
Hartley & Marks, 1991) 180 pp. $25.00 ISBN 0-88179-034-6. [Tschichold (1902-74) influenced the appearance
of the 20th century book]
Varey, Simon. "Medical Natural History in the Renaissance: The Strange Case of Francisco Hernandez,"
Huntington Library Quarterly 57 (Spring 1994): 124-51. [Examines interesting publishing history of a significant scientific work on new world plants]
Varry, Dominique. "La Profession de Bibliothecaire en France a l'Epoque de la Revolution Francaise," Revue de Synthese nos. 1-2 (1992): 29-39.
Veylit, Alain. "A Statistical Survey and Evaluation of the Eighteenth-Century Short- Title Catalog,"
(Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Riverside), 1994, 402 pp. [Author analyzes
electronic version of ESTC to learn more about book trade and publishing characteristics of the period]
Wall, Wendy. The Imprint of Gender: Authorship and Publication in the English Renaissance (Ithaca:
Cornell University Press, 1993) 373 pp. $45.00 ISBN 0-8014-2765-7.
Watson, George. Lord Acton's History of Liberty: A Study of His Library, with an Edited Text of His
History of Liberty Notes (Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing Co., 1994) 112 pp.
West, James L.W., III. "Book History and Biography," Publishing Research Quarterly 10 (Fall 1994):
72-83.
West, James L.W., III. "The Chace Act and Anglo-American Literary Relations," Studies in Bibliography 45
(1992): 303-311. [The Chace Act of 1891 was the first American international copyright statute]
White, Herbert S. "The Indiana University School of Library and Information Science, 1974-1991,"
Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science 52 (1993): 125- 40. [This continues the earlier history by
Rufsvold in ELIS 11 (1974): 459-74.
Williams, Christine L. Still a Man's World: Men Who Do Women's Work (Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1995) 243 pp. $40.00 ISBN 0-520-08786-0. [Exams four professions dominated by women: nursing, librarianship, teaching, and social work]
Wu, Eugene W. "The Founding of the Harvard-Yenching Library," Committee on East Asian Libraries Bulletin,
no. 101 (December 1993): 65-69.
Yvert, Louis. "Sur les Categories de Bibliotheques Municipales: Petite Histoire d'une Legislation et d'une
Reglementation Confuses; Le Code des Communes et autres Textes," Bulletin des Bibliotheques de France
v. 37, no. 5 (1992): 54-67+.
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