Library History Round Table

   

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

Spring 1996

Compiled by Ed Goedeken, 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

Beck, Clare. "A Private Grievance against Dewey," American Libraries 27
(January 1996): 62-64.

Bergman, Jed I. Managing Change in the Nonprofit Sector: Lessons from the Evolution of Five Independent Research Libraries (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1996) 249 pp.
$30.00 ISBN 0-7879-0138-5.
[Examines selected developments at Huntington, Pierpoint Morgan, Newberry, Folger Shakespeare,
and American Antiquarian Society libraries since the 1950s]

Biggs, B. and D. Whitehorse. "Sovereignty, Collaboration and Continuing Challenge: A History
of Tribal Libraries in San Diego County," Special Libraries 86 (Fall 1995): 279-91.

Bolton, Bonnie J. "A Community Documents Its History: A Brief Account of the Shaker
Historical Society and the Elizabeth Nord Library," (Master's Research Paper, Kent State
University, 1994) 44 pp. ED 376860. [Examines history of library in Shaker Heights, Ohio]

Bowers, Richard A. "The History of Media and Media Technology: Resource Directory,"
CD-ROM Professional 8 (July 1995): 26-27.

Bruce, Norma J. "Serials for the Farm Family of 80 Years Ago," Serials Review 21 (Fall 1995):
1-22. [Examines 70 magazines and newspapers read in an Illinois farm]

Buckland, Michael. "Documentation, Information Science, and Library Science in the U.S.A." Information Processing Management 32 (January 1996): 63-76.

Buckland, Michael K. and Ziming Liu. "History of Information Science," Annual Review of
Information Science and Technology 30 (1995): 385-418. [Focuses on literature published
between 1989 and 1994]

Burke, Colin. "A Rough Road to the Information Highway. Project Intrex: A View from the CLR Archives," Information Processing & Management 32 (January 1996): 19-32.

Carmichael, James V., Jr. "The Last Socially Acceptable Prejudice: Gay and Lesbian Issues,
Social Responsibilities, and Coverage of These Topics in M.L.I.S./M.L.S. Programs,"
Library Quarterly 66 (January 1996): 21-58.

Cartwright, Derrick Randall. "Reading Rooms: Interpreting the American Public Library Mural,
1890-1930," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Michigan), 1994, 430 pp.
[Examines in particular murals in the Boston PL and LC]

Cedar Rapids Public Library: The First 100 Years (Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Cedar Graphics, 1996)
80 pp. $15.00.

Childs, Ann Waybright. "My Dear Aunties...: Recollections of Mr. Dewey's School," American
Libraries 27 (January 1996): 66-68. [Account by May Springer Childs of her experiences in 1900]

Ellis, Helen E. and Bernard A. Drabeck with Margaret E.C. Howland. Archibald MacLeish:
A Selective Annotated Bibliography (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1995) 344 pp.
$58.00 ISBN 0-8108-3022-1.

Engle, Michael O. "Forty-Five Years After Lamont: The University Undergraduate Library in the
1990s," Library Trends 44 (Fall 1995): 368-86. [Includes discussion of historical dimensions of undergraduate library development]

Faries, Cindy. "Reference Librarians in the Information Age: Learning from the Past to Control the Future," Reference Librarian no. 43 (1994): 9-28. [Contains brief historical section]

Goedeken, Edward A. "The Rainbow Survivors of Some Vanished Grey Moment of Reality: A Prosopographical Study of the Dictionary of American Library Biography and Its Supplement,"
Libraries & Culture 30 (Spring 1995): 153-69.

Gregory, David. "The Evolving Role of Student Employees in Academic Libraries," Journal of
Library Administration v. 21,nos. 3/4 (1995): 3-27. [Includes historical survey. Reprinted in
William K. Black, ed. Libraries and Student Assistants: Critical Links (New York: Haworth
Press, Inc., 1995)]

Hahn, Trudi Bellardo. "Pioneers of the Online Age," Information Processing & Management 32
(January 1996): 33-48.

Handlin, Oscar. "A Career at Harvard," American Scholar 65 (Winter 1996): 47-58.
[Handlin briefly reflects on his experiences as teacher and librarian]

Hansen, Andrew M. "RASD: Serving Those Who Serve the Public, 1956-1972," RQ 34
(Spring 1995): 314-38.

Hardesty, Larry. "Faculty Culture and Bibliographic Instruction: An Exploratory Analysis,"
Library Trends 44 (Fall 1995): 339-67. [Contains historical aspects]

Hayes, Robert M. "Joseph Becker: A Lifetime of Service to the Profession of Library and
Information Science," Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science 22
(October-November 1995): 24-26.

Hildebrand, Suzanne, ed. Reclaiming the American Library Past: Writing Women In (Norwood,
N.J.: Ablex Publishing Corp., 1996).

"History of Information Science," Information Processing & Management 32 (January 1996):
1-88. [Essays by Buckland, Richards, Rayward, et. al.]

Howard, John B. "The Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library at Harvard University," Library Quarterly
v. 62, no. 2 (1994): 163-76.

Howell, J.B. "SELA and the Mississippi Connection," Mississippi Libraries 58 (Fall 1994): 74-75. [Deals with the years 1920-1980]

Jeffrey, Jonathan. "Friends of Kentucky Libraries from its Beginnings in the 1930s to Today,"
Kentucky Libraries 59 (Winter 1995): 18-22.

Kaplan, Michael. "From Worksheet to Workstation: Technical Services Workstations in
Harvard College Library's Cataloging Services Department," Harvard Library Bulletin 6
(Spring 1995): 8-12.

Keillor, Steven J. "Rural Norwegian-American Reading Societies in the Late Nineteenth Century," Norwegian-American Studies v. 33 (1992): 139-64.

King, C.N. "Profile of the Edward Waters College Library, 1901- 1994," Florida Libraries 38
(February 1995): 26-27.

Kisling, Vernon N. Jr. "Libraries and Archives in American Zoological Parks and Aquariums," Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science 57 (1996): 292-307.

Krieger, Michael T. "The Seminary Library of the Franciscan Province of St. John the Baptist,"
Libraries & Culture 30 (Summer 1995): 284-308.

Latimer, Carlos. "Edward Christopher Williams and His Impact on Librarianship," (Master's
Research Paper, Kent State University, 1994) 49 pp. ED 376857. [Williams was the first African-American to graduate from a library school]

Leavy, Marvin D. "Faculty Involvement in Early Research University Libraries: The Case of the University of Chicago, 1892-1912, "Libraries & Culture 30 (Winter 1995): 57-68.

Luttrell, J.D. "Clarence Darrow and the Books in His Life," AB Bookman's Weekly 95 (April 24, 1995): 1805-6+.

Malone, Cheryl Knott. "Louisville Free Public Library's Racially Segregated Branches,
1905-35," Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 93 (Spring 1995): 159-79.

McHenry, Elizabeth. "Dreaded Eloquence: The Origins and Rise of African American
Literary Societies and Libraries," Harvard Library Bulletin 6 (Spring 1995): 32-56.

Medina, Sue O. "Duplication and Overlap among Library Collections: A Chronological
Review of the Literature," Advances in Collection Development and Resource Management
v. 1 (1995): 1-60.

Milum, Betty. "Eisenhower, ALA, and the Selection of L. Quincy Mumford as Librarian
of Congress," Libraries & Culture 30 (Winter 1995): 26-56.

Mokia, Rosemary Ntumnyuy. "The United States 1967 National Policy on International
Book and Library Activities," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Indiana University,
1994, 300 pp.)

Naylor, Bernard and Marilyn Geller. "A Prehistory of Electronic Journals: The EIES and
BLEND Projects," Advances in Serials Management v. 5 (1995): 27-47.

Panella, N.M. "The Patient's Library Movement: An Overview of Early Efforts in the United
States to Establish Organized Libraries for Hospital Libraries," Bulletin of the Medical
Library Association 84 (January 1996): 52-62.

Perry, Rebecca A. "The Lloyd Library and Museum," Caduceus: A Humanities Journal for
Medicine and the Health Sciences v. 9, no. 1 (1993): 63-69. [Established in 1885 in
Cincinnati, it specialized in the fields of pharmacy, botany, and medical botany]

Rayward, W. Boyd. "The History and Historiography of Information Science: Some
Reflections," Information Processing & Management 32 (January 1996): 3-17.

Robbins, Louise S. "After Brave Words, Silence: American Librarianship Responds to Cold
War Loyalty Programs, 1947-1957, "Libraries & Culture 30 (Fall 1995): 345-65.

Salony, Mary F. "The History of Bibliographic Instruction: Changing Trends from Books
to the Electronic World," Reference Librarian nos. 51/52 (1995): 31-51.

Sarber, M.A. "A Century in the Sun: El Paso, State's Oldest City Library, Celebrates 100
Years," Texas Libraries 55 (Fall/Winter 1994-95): 72-74.

Shanley, Catherine. "The Library Employees' Union of Greater New York, 1917-1929:
The First Union of Public Library Workers in the United States," Libraries & Culture 30
(Summer 1995): 235-64.

Silver, Joel. "James Lenox and His Library," AB Bookman's Weekly 97 (January 1, 1996):
5-11.

Silver, Joel. "Justin Winsor's Narrative and Critical History of America" AB Bookman's
Weekly 96 (November 6, 1995): 1734-50.

Silver, Joel. "Robert Hoe (1839-1909) and His Library," AB Bookman's Weekly 95
(April 10, 1995): 1574+

Smith, Linda C. and Ruth C. Carter, eds. Technical Services Management, 1965-1990:
A Quarter Century of Change and a Look to the Future: Festschrift for Kathryn Luther
Henderson (New York: Haworth Press, Inc., 1995) 370 pp. $40.00 ISBN 1-5602-4960-9.

Swain, Martha H. "A New Deal in Libraries: Federal Relief Work and Library Service,
1933-1943," Libraries & Culture 30 (Summer 1995): 265-83.

Thomas, Alan R. "Blissful Beliefs: Henry Evelyn Bliss Counsels on Classification,"
Cataloging & Classification Quarterly v. 19, nos. 3/4 (1995): 17-22. [Thomas uses Bliss'
personal papers as a source]

Wagner, Ralph D. "Not Recommended: A List for Catholic High School Libraries, 1942,"
Libraries & Culture 30 (Spring 1995): 170-98.

Walters, John Spencer. "The Presuperhighway Politics of U.S. Government Printing and
Publishing, 1917-1960," Journal of Government Information (March/April 1996): 93-122.

Wiegand, Wayne. "Dewey Declassified: A Revelatory Look at the Irrepressible Reformer,"
American Libraries 27 (January 1996): 54-60.

Wiegand, Wayne. Irrepressible Reformer: A Biography of Melvil Dewey (Chicago: ALA
Editions, 1996)

Wiegand, Wayne A. "Jew Attack: The Story Behind Melvil Dewey's Resignation as New
York State Librarian in 1905," American Jewish History 83 (September 1995): 359-79.

Wong-Martinez, Carlos Gabriel. "Determinants of Innovation in U.S. Public Libraries,"
(Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Drexel University), 1995. [Examines period from 1969-1990]

   B. NON-US WESTERN HEMISPHERE

Marshall, Penny. "A National Library Association is born: CLA," Feliciter 41 (September 1995):
4-5. [History of Canadian Library Association]

Rochester, Maxine K. "Bringing Librarianship to Rural Canada in the 1930s: Demonstrations
by Carnegie Corporation of New York," Libraries & Culture 30 (Fall 1995): 366-390.

   C. EUROPE

Alvarez, Ram¢n Rodr¡quez. La Biblioteca de la Universidad de Oviedo, 1765-1934 (Oviedo:
Universidad de Oviedo, 1993) 444 pp. 4,155 ptas. ISBN 84-7468-789-6.

Bouldin, Wood. "Renaissance Libraries, Publications, and the Textual Condition, Sixteenth
Century Journal 26 (Summer 1995): 379-85.

Cavallo, Guglielmo, ed. Libros, Editores y P£blico en el Mundo Antiguo (Madrid: Alianza
Universidad, 1995) 171 pp.

Charing, Sarah. "Self-Help v. State Intervention; The 1850 Public Libraries Act as a Reflection
of Mid-Victorian Doctrine in England," Australian Library Journal 44 (February 1995): 47-54.

Cox, Dennis. "The Leeds Library," Library Review v. 44, no. 3 (1995): 12-16.

Damien, R. BibliothŠque et Etat: Naissance d'une Raison Politique dans la France du XVII
Siecle (Paris: PUF, 1995) 316 pp.

Doyle, Robert P. "Paris Library Celebrates 75 Years by Taking Aim at the 21st Century,"
American Libraries 27 (February 1996): 30-33.

Duckett, R.J. "Mute Testimony: Yorkshire's Historic Library Buildings," Library Review
v. 44, no. 3 (1995): 44-68.

Duckett, R.J. "Standing on Forgotten Shoulders--Who Was Butler Wood," Library Review
v. 44, no. 2 (1995): 6-27. [Wood was the director of Bradford Public Library]

Friman, Mari, Paivi Jansson, and Vesa Suominen. "Chaos or Order? Aby WArburg's Library
of Cultural History and its Classification," Knowledge Organization v. 22, no. 1 (1995): 23-29.

Gigante, Marcello. Philodemus of Italy: The Books from Herculaneum (Ann Arbor: University
of Michigan Press, 1995) 153 pp. $40.00 ISBN 0-472-10569-8. [Surveys contents of the ancient
library buried by Vesuvius in A.D. 79]

"The History of the Patent Office Library, 1945-1973," Science Reference and Information Service Newsletter no. 25 (November 1995): 4-5.

Hundhausen, Felicitas. Heinrich Schneider: Bibliothekar and Gelehrter (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz
Verlag, 1995) 276 pp. ISBN 3-447-03732-6.

Jacobs, Edward. "Anonymous Signatures: Circulating Libraries, Conventionality, and the
Production of Gothic Romances," ELH 62 (Fall 1995): 603-29.

Kusukawa, Sachiko. A Wittenberg University Library Catalogue of 1536 (Cambridge: LP
Publications, 1995) 258 pp. $60.00 ISBN 0-9518811-24.

Langa, Genaro Lamarca. La Cultura del Libro de la ?poca de la Ilustraci¢n Valenciana,
1740-1808 (Valencia: Edicions Alfonsel Magnanim, 1994) 214 pp.
1,650 ptas. ISBN 84-7822-117-4.
[Statistical study of 256 private libraries in Valencia during this period]

Nelles, Paul Neave. "The Public Library and Late Humanist Scholarship in Early Modern
Europe: Antiquarianism and Encyclopaedism," (Unpublished PhD Dissertation, Johns Hopkins University), 1995.

Oliver, Bette W. and Hermina G.B. Anghelescu. "The History of Libraries in France: Histoire
des Bibliotheques Francaises, 4 Vols." Libraries & Culture 30 (Fall 1995): 409-27.

Pierard, Richard V. "The Renewal of the Fancke Foundation Libraries in Halle, Germany,"
Libraries & Culture 3 (Winter 1995): 69-81.

Pum, Gabriele. "Bibliothekskataloge als Geschichtsquellen: ein Beitrag zur Bibliotheksgeschichte
und Literatursoziologie an Hand des Buchbesitzes Kaiser Ferdinands II," (Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Universitaet Wien), 1992, 717 pp.

Raymond, B. "Russian Librarianship after Perestroika," Canadian Journal of Information and
Library Science 20 (July 1995): 1-9.

Richards, Pamela Spence. "Scientific Information for Stalin's Laboratories, 1945-1953,"
Information Processing & Management 32 (January 1996): 77-88.

Smurthwaite, John S. Life of John Alexander Symington, Bibliographer and Librarian 1887-1961:
A Bookman's Rise and Fall (Lewiston: Edwin Mellen, 1995) 155 pp. ISBN 0-7734-9021-3.

Sprudzs, A. "Thirty-Five Years of International Cooperation: The Case of the IALL," Law
Libraries 26 (June 1995): 321-26.

Steele, M.W. "A Study of the Books Owned or Used by John Grandisson, Bishop of Exeter
(1327-1369) (Unpublished Ph.D Dissertation, Oxford University), 1992.

Stuart, Mary. "Creating Culture: The Rossica Collection of the Imperial Public Library and the Construction of National Identity," Libraries & Culture 30 (Winter 1995): 1-25.

Sturges, Paul. "Conceptualizing the Public Library, 1850-1919," in Margaret Kinnell and
Paul Sturges, eds. Continuity and Innovation in the Public Library: The Development of a Social Institution (London: Library Association Publishing, 1996), pp. 28-47.

Verity, David. "History of the Bradford Mechanics' Institute Library," Library Review
v. 44, no. 3 (1995): 8-11.

Volodin, Boris. "The Public Library in Russia and the World Around It," Graduate School of
Library and Information Science Occasional Papers nos. 200/201 (October 1995): 69-76.
[This is entitled "Russian-American Seminar on Critical Thinking and the Library"]

   D. ASIA, AFRICA, AND OTHER

Al-Shorbaji, Najeeb. "The Message of the Library: A Story of Survival," Information Development
11 (March 1995): 46-49. [The Message of the Library is the journal of the Jordan Library Association]

Cho, Chansik. "Development of Librarianship in South Korea, 1945-1992: A Historical Study," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Rutgers University), 1995. [Dissertation advisor: Pamela Spence Richards]

Davis, L. and D.J. Burger. "OSALL: Reflections on a Proud Twenty Years," Law Librarian 26
(June 1995): 364-66. [Organization of South African Law Libraries]

Evans, John. "Development of Rural Libraries in the Solomon Islands," International Information
and Library Review 24 (March 1994): 57-70.

Fettahi, A. "The Bibliobus and Rural Reading in Tunisia," Seminar on Information Provision to
Rural Communities in Africa (Proceedings of the Seminar held in Gaborone, Botswana, June 22-25, 1994), pp. 86-88.

Golder, Hilary. Documenting a Nation: Australian Archives, the First Fifty Years (Canberra:
Australian Govt. Pub. Service 1994) 76 pp. ISBN 1-64433-386-3.

Gupta, S. "Development of Libraries, Documentation and Information Centres in Ethiopia in the
Twentieth Century," International Information & Library Review 27 (December 1995): 317-32.

Jarvis, Helen. "The National Library of Cambodia: Surviving for Seventy Years," Libraries &
Culture 30 (Fall 1995): 391-408.

McHale, Shawn Frederick. "Printing, Power, and the Transformation of Vietnamese Culture,
1920-1945," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Cornel University), 1995, 439 pp.

Metcalfe, John Wallace. Developing a Profession of Librarianship in Australia: Travel Diaries
and Other Papers of John Wallace Metcalfe, Edited by W. Boyd Rayward. (Lanham, Md.:
Scarecrow Press, 1995) 382 pp. $47.50 ISBN 0-8108-2944-4.

Northey, G. "The New Zealand Library Association, 1910-1970: Its Role in the Demise of a
Feminised Profession," New Zealand Libraries 48 (May 1995): 25-30.

Olden, Anthony. Libraries in Africa: Pioneers, Policies, Problems (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow
Press, 1995) 170 pp. $40.00 ISBN 0-8108-3093-0.

Taylor, Alice. Books Arts of Isfahan: Diversity and Identity in 17th-Century Persia (Malibu:
J. Paul Getty Museum, 1995) 86 pp. $27.50 ISBN 0-89236-338-X.

Walker, C.M. "Dreams, Policies, Problems and Practitioners: Learning to Provide Information
for all," South African Journal of Library and Information Science 62 (December 1994): 117-27. [Discusses documents covering the development of libraries in South Africa, 1928-1994]

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

Alexander, Philip and Elizabeth Sandager. "Towards Cultural Diffusion: The Rockefeller
Foundation and Archives Abroad, 1936-1946," Primary Sources & Original Works v. 3,
nos. 1-2 (1994): 49-70. [Focuses on survey of archives in Central America and the West Indies]

Anninger, Anne. "Parisian Book Illustration, 1530-1560: The Decades of Liberation,"
(Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Harvard University), 1994, 435 pp.

Ash, Timothy Garton, ed. Freedom for Publishing, Publishing for Freedom: The Central and
East European Publishing Project (London: C.E. University Press, 1995) 201 pp.
$15.00 ISBN 1-85866-0556.

Atiyeh, George N., ed. Book in the Islamic World: The Written Word and Communication in
the Middle East (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995) 305 pp.
$60.00 ISBN 0-7914-2473-1.

Ayoub, Lois Jean. "John Crophill's Books: An Edition of British Library MS Harely 1735," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Toronto, Canada), 1994, 313 pp.
[Crophill was a fifteenth century medical practicioner from Wesex]

Badaracco, Claire. American Culture & the Marketplace: R.R. Donnelley's Four American Books Campaign, 1926-1930 (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1992) 67 pp. $15.00
ISBN 0-8444-0724-0.

Bagnall, Roger S. Reading Papyri, Writing Ancient History (London: Routledge, 1995) 145 pp.
$55.00 ISBN 0-415-09376-7. [Contains chapter on the culture of papyrus]

Barbier, F. L'Empire du Livre: Le Livre Imprim‚ et la Construction de l'Allemagne Contemporaine,
1815-1914 (Paris: Le Cerf, 1995) 612 p. 240 FFr.

Beadle, Richard and A.J. Piper, eds. New Science Out of Old Books: Studies in Manuscripts
and Early Printed Books in Honour of A.I. Doyle (Aldershot: Scolar, 1995) 455 pp.
$85.00 ISBN 1-85928-003-X.

Beckles, Colin Anthony. "PanAfrican Sites of Resistance: Black Bookstores and the Struggle to
Re-Present Black Identity," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles), 1995, 440 pp.

Berghaus, Peter, ed. Graphische Portr„ts in Buchern des 15. bis 19. Jahrhunderts (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 1995) 210 p. DM 128 ISBN 3-447-03730-X.

Bowker, G.C. "The History of information Infrastructures: The Case of the International
Classification of Diseases," Information Processing & Management 32 (January 1996): 49-61.
[Examines development of ICD and some of its conceptual similarities with the Dewey Decimal system]

Bracken, James K. and Joel Silver, eds. The British Literary Book Trade, 1700-1820 (Detroit: Gale Research Inc., 1995) [This is v. 154 of Dictionary of Literary Biography]

Brotherston, Gordon. Painted Books from Mexico: Codices in UK Collections and the World
They Represent (London: British Museum Press, 1995), 224 pp. $55.00 ISBN 0-7141-2519-9.

Bury, Stephen. Artists' Books: The Book as a Work of Art, 1963- 1995 (London: Scolar Press, 1995) 207 pp. $80.00 ISBN 1-85928-163-X.

Cecil, Mirabel. Sebastian Walker, 1942-91: A Kind of Prospero (London: Walker, 1995) 192 pp.
$20.00 ISBN 0-7445-4423-8. [Walker was the publisher of Walker Books, which specializes in children's literature]

Chatterjee, A., Prabhash N. Rath, and Ashok Poddar. "Research Trends in Library and Information Science in India," Annals of Library Science and Documentation 42 (June 1995): 54-60.

Chou, N. L-S. "The Liao Dynasty (916-1125 A.D.) and Printing," Journal of Information, Communication, and Library Science 1 (Summer 1995): 32-40.

Cloonan, Michele Valerie. "Bookbinding, Aesthetics, and Conservation," Libraries & Culture 30
(Spring 1995): 137-52.

Cole, William. "The Book & the Artist: Rethinking the Traditional Order," Word & Image
v. 8, no. 4 (1992): 378-82.

Conway, Melissa. "The Diario of the Printing Press of San Jacupodi Ripoli: Commentary and Transcription," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Yale University), 1994. [Diary reveals day-to-day operation of a fifteenth-century Italian monastery printing office]

Cooper, John. Artists in Crime: An Illustrated Survey of Crime Fiction First Edition Dustwrappers,
1920-1970 (Aldershot: Scolar/Ashgate, 1995) 203 pp. $85.00 ISBN 1-8592-8188-5.

Cox, Bonita Mae. "The Book as Relic: The Lindisfarne Gospels and the Politics of Sainthood," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Stanford University), 1995, 211 pp.

Cvelijo, Katherine. "International Students in American Library and Information Science Schools," Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science 57 (1996): 209-68. [Contains some historical information on library science education]

Delaney, John, ed. The House of Scribner, 1846-1904: An Illustrated Chronicle (Detroit: Gale
Research Inc. 1995) [This is volume 13 in the Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series]

Ellis, Estelle, Caroline Seebohm, and Christopher S. Sykes. At Home with Books (New York:
Southern Books, 1995) $35.00 ISBN 0-517595-00-1. [Examines development and maintenance of a private library]

Escolar, Hipolito, ed. Historia Ilustrada del Libro Espanol v. 1 Los Manuscritos (Madrid: Ediciones Piramide, 1993) ISBN 8-4368-0751-0. [Examines history of illlustrated manuscripts and other
early books]

ffrench, Patrick. The History of Theory: A History of Tel Quel" (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995)
306 pp. $50.00 ISBN 0-19-815897-1. [Tell Quel was a prominent French intellectual journal]
On the same topic see, Philippe Forest. Histoire de Tel Quel, 1960-1982 (Paris, Seuil, 1995)
655 pp. 180 Ffr ISBN 2-02-017346-8.

The First Twenty-Five Years of the Beehive Press (Savannah, Georgia: The Beehive Foundation,
1995) 47 pp.

Flood, John L., ed. German Book, 1450-1750: Studies Presented to David L. Paisey in His
Retirement (Boston Spa: British Library, 1995) 382 pp. $130.00 ISBN 0-712304-404-5.

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.

Friedricks, William B. "The Newspaper that Captured a State: A History of the Des Moines
Register, 1849-1985," Annals of Iowa 54 (Fall 1995): 303-37.

Gilbar, Steven. Reading in Bed: Personal Essays on the Glories of Reading (Boston: David R.
Godine, 1995) 152 pp. $20.00 ISBN 1-5679-2035-7.

Goldsmith, Elizabeth C. and Dena Goodman, eds. Going Public: Women and Publishing in Early
Modern France (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995) 280 pp. $40.00.

Griffin, Jasper. "The Library of Our Dreams," American Scholar 65 (Winter 1996): 59-70.
[Interesting essay on libraries in the classical period]

Guernsey, Daniel Robert. "Virtue and Fortune: French Republicanism and Eugene Delacroix's
Library Murals in the Palais Bourbon and Palais du Luxembourg," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation,University of Wisconsin-Madison), 1995, 367 pp. [Discusses Delacroix's paintings as a promotion
for French liberal civic virtue programs]

Hundley, Norris, Jr. "What Manner of Monument: The Pacific Historical Review and the Profession," Pacific Historical Review 64 (February 1996): 1-26. [Surveys 63 year history of the journal]

Hunter, David, ed. Music Publishing & Collecting: Essays in Honor of Donald W. Krummel
(Urbana-Champaign: Graduate School of Library and Information Science, 1994) 252 pp.
$45.00 ISBN 0-87845-095-5.

Huq, Abdul. World Librarianship: Its International and Comparative Dimension: An Annotated Bibliography, 1976-1992 (Merrifield, VA: NAFCO Systems International, 1996) 418 pp.
$40.00 ISBN 984-080134-1.

Ikoja-Odongo, R. "History of Books and Publishing in Uganda: 1876- 1962," Focus on
International & Comparative Librarianship 26 (May 10, 1995): 32-43.

Jacobsen, Kristin. "Time to Put the Internet in Perspective," C&RL News 56 (March 1995):
144-47.

Karetzky, Joanne Louise. "Edward Bok Goes to War: The Mobilization of The Ladie's Home
Journal, 1917-1918," (Master's Thesis, California State University, Dominguez Hills), 1994,
177 pp.

Karl, Jean. "A History of Children's Book Publishing," Journal of Youth Services in Libraries 8
(Spring 1995): 259-65.

Kirsop, Wallace. Books for Colonial Readers: The Nineteenth-Century Australian Experience
(Melbourne, Victoria: The Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, 1995) 107 pp.
AUS $20.00 ISBN 0-959-82714-5.

Knupfer, Anne Meis. "Toward a Tenderer Humanity and a Nobler Womanhood: African-American Women's Clubs in Chicago, 1890 to 1920," Journal of Women's History 7 (Fall 1995): 58-76.

Knuth, R. "Factors in the Development of School Libraries in Great Britain and the United States:
A Comparative Study," International Information & Library Review 27 (September 1995): 265-82.

Kularatne, T. "Introduction of Printing to Sri Lanka (Ceylon): the Dutch Press in Ceylon (1736-1796)" Libri 45 (June 1995): 65-78.

Landon, Richard. "The Antiquarian Book Trade in Britain, 1695- 1830: The Use of Auction and Booksellers' Catalogues," The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 89 (December 1995): 409-17.

Laugero, Gregory Vincent. "Infrastructures of Enlightenment: Road- Making, the Circulation of
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Levine, Marilyn M. "A Brief History of Information Brokering," Bulletin of the American Society
for Information Science 21 (February-March 1995): 8-9.

Martin, Stoddard, ed. Colin Haycraft: Maverick Publisher (London: Duckworth, 1995) 152 pp.
$20.00 ISBN 0-7156-26817.

McCrank, Lawrence J. "History, Archives, and Information Science," Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 30 (1995): 281-382. [Extensive review of the literature on this topic]

Mullen, Richard D. "From Standard Magazines to Pulps and Big Slicks: A Note on the History of
U.S. General and Fiction Magazines," Science-Fiction Studies 22 (March 1995): 144-56.

Ongaro, Guilio M. "The Library of a Sixteenth-Century Music Teacher with Appendix: Inventory
of Music Books Owned by Francesco Scudieri," Journal of Musicology 12 (Summer 1994): 357-75.

P”hlmann, Egert. Einf™hrung in die šberlieferungsgeschichte und in die TExtkritik der
Antiken Literatur: v. 1 Antike (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1994)
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Preston, Cathy Lynn, ed. Other Print Tradition: Essays on Chapbooks, Broadsides, and Related
Ephemera (New York: Garland Publishing, 1995) 286 pp. $45.00 ISBN 0-8153-0376-9.

Price, Kenneth M. and Susan Belasco Smith, eds. Periodical Literature in Nineteenth-Century
America (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995) 292 pp. $45.00 ISBN 0-8139-1629-1.

Proudfoot, I. "Early Muslim Printing in Southeast Asia," Libri 45 (September-December 1995):
216-23.

Reddick, Allen Hillard. Making of Johnson's Dictionary, 1746-1773 Rev. ed. (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1996) 252 pp. $18.00 ISBN 0-521-56838-2.

Rhodes, Dennis E. Silent Printers: Anonymous Printing at Venice in the Sixteenth Century
(London: British Library Marketing Pub., 1995) 286 pp. $75.00 ISBN 0-7123-03855.

Ruju, P. Alessandra Maccioni and Marco Mostert. The Life and Times of Guglielmo Libri
(1802--1869) Scientist, Patriot, Scholar, Journalist and Thief: A Nineteenth-Century Story
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Sagna, R. "Popular Reading in Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa," Seminar on Information
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Schaeffer, Roy. "From Craft to Profession: The Evolution of Archival Education and Theory
in North America," Archivaria v. 37 (1994): 21-34.

Schulze, Sabine, ed. Leselust: Niederl„ndische Malerei von Rembrandt bis Vermeer (Frankfurt:
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Sullivan, Richard E., ed. The Gentle Voices of Teachers: Aspects of Learning in the Carolingian
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Teferra, Damtew. "The Status and Capacity of Science Publishing in Africa," Journal of Scholarly Publishing 27 (October 1995): 28-36. [Analyzes African publishing during the 1980s]

Tinkler, Penny. Constructing Girlhood: Popular Magazines for Girls Growing Up in England,
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Verba, Ericka Kim. "The Circulo de Lectura de Senoras [Ladies' Reading Circle] and the Club de
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Voss-Hubbard, Anke. "No Documents--No History: Mary Ritter Beard and the Early History of
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of Kentucky, 1996) 292 pp. $40.00 ISBN 0-8231-1929-4.

Webster, Frank. Theories of the Information Society (London: Routledge, 1995) 257 pp.
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Winship, Michael. American Literary Publishing in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The Business of
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