Bibliography of Writings on the History Of Libraries,
Librarianship and Book Culture
Spring 1997
compiled by Ed Goedeken
Contents:
A. United States
B. Non-U.S. Western Hemisphere
C. Europe
D. Asia, Africa, Middle East, other
E. General, Historiography, Philosophy, LIS Education
Berger, C. "Reference Service: A Thing of the Past?" Reference Librarian v. 54 (1996):
115-23. [Traces influence of Samuel Green on contemporary reference service]
Bonfanti, Phillip Gerard. "A History of the Yuma Territorial Prison and Yuma Carnegie
Libraries, 1876-1958 with Special Emphasis on Madora Ingalls and Addie Ingalls Kline"
(Unpublished Master's Thesis, University of Arizona),1996, 100 pp.
[Advisor: Charles A. Seavey]
Carpenter, Kenneth E. Readers & Libraries: Toward a History of Libraries and Culture
in America (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1996) 39 pp.
$3.95 ISBN 0-8444-0766-6.
Cesn, Luozhu. "The Development of the University Libraries at the State University of New
York at Buffalo, 1962-1981," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, State University of New York at Buffalo), 1996, 258 pp. [Dissertation Advisor: Maxine S. Seller]
Cresswell, Stephen. "The Last Days of Jim Crow in Southern Libraries," Libraries & Culture 31
(Summer & Fall 1996): 557-73.
Dickey, Ellen Elizabeth. "Serving the African American Population in Durham County, North
Carolina: A History of the Bragtown Branch Library," (Master's Thesis, North Carolina Central University), 1993, 42 pp.
Dillon, Mary Jane. "History of the Development of the Two Large Regional Branches of the
Cape May County Library System," (Master's Thesis, Glassboro State College), 1992,
49 pp.
Edwards, R.G. "John Newberry: Bookseller, Entrepreneur, and Advocate for Children's
Literature," Journal of Youth Services in Libraries 10 (Fall 1996): 58-64.
Ernest, Douglas J. Agricultural Frontier to Electronic Frontier: A History of Colorado State
University Libraries, 1870-1994 (Ft. Collins, CO.: Colorado State University, 1996)
209 pp. $25.00 ISBN 0-9651056-0-1.
Eshelman, William R. No Silence!: A Library Life (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1997)
328 pp. $59.00 ISBN 0-8108-3241-0.
Freeman, Michael Stuart. "Almost a Unified Library: Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore
College Library Cooperation during the 1940s," Libraries & Culture 32 (Winter 1997): 1-37.
Gailey, Kathleen Jennings. "The Emerging Profession: School Library Media Specialists,"
(Thesis, Ed.S., Georgia State University), 1992, 75 pp.
Gifford, Linda June. "Into Bookless Louisiana: Essae Martha Culver and the Louisiana State
Library," (Master's Thesis, Louisiana State University in Shreveport), 1993, 28 pp.
Goedeken, Edward A. "The Literature of American Library History, 1993- 1994," Libraries &
Culture 31 (Summer & Fall 1996): 603-44.
Holley, Edward G. "More than Just News: C&RL News at 30," College & Research
Libraries News 57 (December 1996): 730-33.
Houdek, Frank G. "Annual meetings of AALL 1906-1996," Law Library Journal 88
(Winter 1996): 82-9.
Hovde, David M. "YMCA Libraries on the Mexican Border, 1916," Libraries & Culture 32
(Winter 1997): 113-24.
Jones, Alan Clifford. "History of the Temple, Texas, Public Library, 1900-1996," (Master's
Thesis, Baylor University), 1996, 176 pp.
Jones, Theodore. Carnegie Libraries Across America: A Public Legacy (New York; John Wiley
& Sons, Inc., 1997) 160 pp. $30.00 ISBN 0-471-1442-23.
Karachuk, Robert Feikema. "A Workman's Tools: The Law Library of Henry Adams Bullard,"
(Master's Thesis, University of New Orleans), 1996, 44 pp.
Katz, Jeffrey P. "The Library of the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers
University: A Resource to New Jersey and Beyond," Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries
v. 57, nos. 1-2 (1995): 87-93.
Kimmel, Leigh Husband. "The History of the Implementation of the Library Computer System
(LCS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign," (Master's Thesis, Illinois State University), 1996, 104 pp.
Kirilova, Ilona. "Development of Access Policies at the Massachusetts Historical Society from
1791 until 1916," (Master's Thesis, University of Massachusetts), 1994, 108 pp.
Kokabi, Mortaza. "The Internationalization of MARC. Part I: The Emergence and Divergence of
MARC," OCLC Systems & Services v. 12, no. 1 (1996): 21-31. [Contains concise history of MARC]
Lawton, Kelley Ann. "This was a man's university": the career of Susan Grey Akers at the
University of North Carolina's School of Library Science," (Master's Thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), 1995.
Malinconico, S.M. "Librarians and Innovation: An American Viewpoint," Program [London] 31
(January 1997): 47-58. [Historical overview of librarian responses to technological developments]
Malone, Cheryl Knott. "Accommodating Access: Colored Carnegie Libraries, 1905-1925,"
(Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Texas at Austin), 1996, 291 pp.
[Dissertation Advisor: Donald G. Davis, Jr.]
McCoy, Earnestine C. "A Historical Study of Stanford L. Warren Branch of the Durham Public
Library (1955 through 1990)" (Master's Thesis, North Carolina Central University), 1994, 134 pp.
Meyers, M., et. al. "Union Listing on OCLC: Past, Present, and Future," Serials Review 22
(Summer 1996): 45-56.
Moore, A.D. "Reference Librarianship: It Was the Best of Times, It Was . . ." Reference Librarian
v. 54 (1996): 3-10. [Examines briefly late nineteenth century reference services]
Morris, Leslie A. "Harry Elkins Widener and A.S.W. Rosenbach: Of Books and Friendship,"
Harvard Library Bulletin 6 (Winter 1995): 7-28.
Nelson, Marilyn. "Seven Library Women Whose Humane Presence Enlightened Society in the
Harlem Renaissance Iconoclastic Ethos," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, State University ofNew York at Buffalo), 1996, 235 pp. [Dissertation Advisor: Maxine S. Seller]
Pitard, Susan Marie. "Jefferson's Legacy: A Classification System and the Library of Congress," (Master's Thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), 1996, 49 pp.
Ravenstine, Ann. "History of the Euclid Public Library," (Master's Thesis, Kent State University),
1994, 87 pp.
Ring, Daniel F. "Outpost of New England Culture: The Ladies' Library Association of Kalamazoo, Michigan," Libraries & Culture 32 (Winter 1997): 38-56.
Robbins, Louise S. Censorship and the American Library: The American Library Association's
Response to Threats to Intellectual Freedom, 1939-1969 (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 1996) 272 pp. $60.00 ISBN 0-313-29644-8.
[Part of Greenwood's series, Contributions in Librarianship and Information Science, no. 89]
Rodgers, Terry. Library Paraprofessional: Notes from the Underground (Jefferson, SC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1997) 361 pp. $45.00 ISBN 0-7864-0222-9. [Solid historical overview]
Silver, Joel. "Falconer Madan and Oxford books," AB Bookman's Weekly 96 (September 11, 1995): 860+ [librarian at Bodleian Library]
Special Libraries 87 (Fall 1996):247-321. [Contains reprints of articles in SL from over the past
80 years]
Spicher, Karen M. "The development of the MARC format," Cataloging & Classification Quarterly
v. 21 no3-4 (1996): 75-90.
Tucker, John Mark. "Let the Circle Be Unbroken: The Struggle for Continuity in African-American Library Scholarship, 1970-1995 [Review Essay]," Libraries & Culture 31 (Summer & Fall 1996):
645-55.
Valentine, Patrick M. "The Spread of Public Libraries: The Community of the Book in North Carolina, 1900-1960," North Carolina Libraries 54 (Fall 1996): 113-21.
Vlatas, M.E. "Copyright Law: A Legislative History of Mandatory Deposit," (Master's Thesis,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), 1994, 30 pp.
Walker, Robert Burke. "Georgia's Carnegie Libraries: A Study of Their History, Their Existing Conditions, and Conservation," (Master's Thesis, University of Georgia), 1994, 105 pp.
Watson, M., J.B. Foote, and R.C. Person. "Twenty Years of Undergraduate Libraries: Whence
and Whither?" College and Undergraduate Libraries v. 3, no. 2 (1996): 11-25.
Dumont, L.M.M. "Carro-Biblioteca e Leitura no Brasil: Um Binomio Inseparavel," Revista da
Escola de Biblioteconomia 24 (July-December 1995): 192-205. [Examines history of book-mobiles inBrazil]
Ho, Mahn Trinh. "Les Bibliotheques d'Enseignement au Canada et en Asie du Sud-Est: DÇveloppement et Sous-DÇveloppement," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of
Montreal), 1995, 347 pp.
Maymi-Sugranes, Hector J. "Modernizing underdevelopment: Inter-American Library Relations,
1890-1974," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison), 1996, 515 pp.
Biagetti, M.T. "Biblioteconomia Italiana dell' Ottocento," Bibliotecario no. 10 (1996): 5-177.
[Provides short biographical sketches on over 40 Italian librarians]
Breitwieser, Markus. Die Stadtbibliothek Lindau im Bodensee: Eine Untersuchung zu Geschichte
und Funktion (Wiesbaden:Harrssowitz, 1996) 142 pp. 98 DM ISBN 3-447-03803-9.
Fabre, M. "Cinquante Ans de Batiments en Bibliotheques Departmentales de Pret," Bulletin des Bibliotheques de France v. 41, no. 5 (1996): 43-48.
Gabel, G. "French Rural Services," Public Library Journal 11 (September/October 1996): 134-36. [Examines rural services in France since 1945]
Gionfrida, Alessandro. "Gabriel Naude Biblitecario di Mazzarino," Dimensioni e Problemi della
Ricerca Storica no. 1 (1994): 146-68. [Naude (1600-1653) was the librarian of the first public
library in France]
Gneuss, Helmut. Books and Libraries in Early England (Aldershot: Variorum, 1996) 308 pp.
$70.00 ISBN 0-86078-6021.
Gregori, G.d. "Renato Pagetti e il Rinnovacmento dell' Associazione Italiana Biblioteche,"
Bolletino AIB 36 (June 1996): 141-48. [Traces Pagettis work for the Italian Library Association
between 1960 and 1976.
Hiller, Marlene P. "BÅcher als Beute: Das Schicksal Sowjetischer und Deutscher Bibliotheken
als Folge des Zweiten Weltkrieges," Nordost-Archiv v. 4, no. 1 (1995): 9-27.
Kolasa, Ingo. "Where Have All the Volumes Gone? A Contribution to the Discussion of Captured Cultural Property and Trophy Commissions," College & Research Libraries 57 (November 1996):
501-12.
LeRoy, Ladurie Emmanuel. "La Bibliotheque Nationale: Son Passe, Son Avenir," Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Western Society for French History v. 22 (1995): 1-9.
Medlin, Dorothy. "Andre Morellet's Library," Libraries & Culture 31 (Summer & Fall 1996):
574-602.
Neale, Kenneth. Essex: Full of Profitable Things; Essays Presented to Sir John Ruggles-Brise
(Oxford: Leopard's Head Press, 1996) 465 pp. ISBN 0-904920-36-4.
[Includes essays on historical aspects of Essex libraries]
Norton, David Fate. The David Hume Library (Edinburgh: Edinburgh Bibliographical Society,
1996) 156 pp. $20.00 ISBN 1-872116-213.
Nowak, Maria J. "The History of the Jagiellonian Library," Libraries & Culture 32 (Winter 1997):
94-106. [Library in Cracow, Poland]
Prosperi, Adriano. La Biblioteca Antica dell'Osservatorio Ximeniano (Firenze: Regione Toscana,
Giunta Regionale, 1994) 2 vols. [Volumes in the private library of an eighteenth-century Italian
scientist]
RefaussÇ, Raymond. "The Representative Church Body Library and the Records of the
Church of Ireland," Archivium Hibernicum v. 49 (1995): 115-124.
Rovelstad, Mathile V. "Pictures of the Mind: The Decor of 18th-Century Monastic Libraries,"
Libri 46 (March 1996): 41-51.
Schmitz, W. "Das Gutachten von Richard Lepsius Åber die Reorganisation der Kîniglichen Bibliothek Berlin aus dem Jahre 1884," Bibliothek v. 18, no. 1 (1994): 77-88.
Stoica, Dan. "Une bibliotheque pas comme les autres," INSPEL v. 29, no. 4 (1995): 302-306.
[Library of the Seminar of Mathematics, Al. I. Cuza University, Iasi, Romania]
Tondel, Janusz. "Zur VerfÅgbarkeit der BuchbestÑnde der Nova Bibliotheca in
Koenigsberg in der Herr-Schaftszeit des Herzogs Albrecht von Preussen," Nordost-Archiv
v. 4, no. 2 (1994): 331-55.
Vannucci, L. "Il Ragionamento di Ottavio Andreucci e la Biblioteca dell' Arcispedale di Santa
maria Nuova in Firenze," Bibliotecario no. 1 (1996): 221-35.
Wehmeyer, Jeffrey M. "The Chartophylax: Archivist and Librarian to the Patriarch in Constantinople," Libraries & Culture 32 (Winter 1997): 107-12.
Zanders, Viesturs. "Das Deutsche Buch in der National-Bibliothek Lettlands," Nordost-Archiv
v. 4, no. 1 (1995): 197-202. [Contains brief history of Latvian National Library since 1919]
Cho, Chansik. "Development of Librarianship in South Korea, 1945-1992: A Historical Study," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Rutgers University), 1995, 279 pp.
Chou, L.S. "The Library Development and Book Related Business of the Northern Sung (960-1127 A.D.)" Journal of Information, Communication, Library Science 2 (Spring 1996): 29-55.
Cobley, Alan G. "Literacy, Libraries, and Consciousness: The Provision of Library Services for
Blacks in South Africa in the Pre-Apartheid Era," Libraries & Culture 32 (Winter 1997): 57-80.
Greyling, Annemarie. "The South African Cultural History Museum library," Art Libraries Journal
v. 20 no. 4 (1995):25-26.
Hua, Xie Zhuo. "Libraries and the Development of Culture in China," Libraries & Culture 31
(Summer & Fall 1996): 533-39.
McMullin, B.J. Instruction and Amusement: Papers from the Sixth Australian Library History
Forum, Monash University, 1 November 1995 (Melbourne: Ancora Press, 1996) 203 pp.
$45.00 ISBN 0-86862-022-X. [Collection of essays on various aspects of Australian library
history]
Schidorsky , Dov. "The Municipal Libraries of Tel Aviv during the British Mandate, 1920-1948,"
Libraries & Culture 31 (Summer & Fall 1996): 540-56.
Talbot, M. "Multicultural Library Services in South Australia Prior to World War One,"
Australian Library Journal 44 (November 1995): 195-211.
Tu, Kuang-Pei. "Transformation and Dissemination of Western Knowledge and Values:
The Shaping of Library Services in Early Twentieth Century China," (Unpublished Ph.D.
Dissertation), 1996, 502 pp.
Van Niekerk, H. and J.A. Kruger. "Die Ontwikkeling van die Staatsargiefdiens in Suid-Afrika,
1876-1910," Mousaion v. 14, no. 2 (1996): 103-119. [The Development of the State Archive
Services in South Africa, 1876-1910]
Walt, T.B. v.d. "Ontstaan en Ontwikkeling van die Department Inligtingkunde van die Universiteit
van Suid-Afrika: 'n Oorsig," Journal of Library and Information Science 64 (September 1996):
150-60. [Historical overview of U. of South Africa Library school]
INFORMATION SCIENCE EDUCATION
Ach£gar, Hugo. La Biblioteca in Ruinas: Reflexiones Culturales desde la Periferia
(Montevideo: Trilce, 1994) 125 pp. $24.00 ISBN 9974-32-076-3.
Andersen, Deborah Lines. "User-Driven Technologies: Assessing the Information Needs of
History Faculty as a Special User Population," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation,
State University of New York at Albany), 1996, 298 pp.
Apeji, E.A. "Book Production in Nigeria: An Historical Survey," Information Development 12
(December 1996): 210-14.
Ballantine, Betty. "The paperback conquest of America," Logos v. 7, no. 1 (1996): 58-64.
[History of paperback publishing, from 1939 to today]
Barron, Daniel D. "Distance Education in North American Library and Information Science
Education: Applications of Technology and Commitment," Journal of the American Society for Information Science 47 (November 1996): 805-810. [Provides historical overview]
Behrends, Elke. Technisch-Wissenschaftliche Dokumentation in Deutschland von 1900-1945
(Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1996) 337 pp. 198 DM ISBN 3-447-03704-0.
Bell, Bill. A Half Century of Publishing: Smith & Elder Imprints, 1817-1870 (Bristol: Simon Eliot
and Michael Turner, 1996) 53 pp. 0-9528078-07.
Birrell, T.A. "The Making of a Bookseller: The Journals of John Petheram (1807-1858)" The Bodleian Library Record 15 (October 1996):455-67.
Bottigheimer, Ruth B. The Bible for Children: From the Age of Gutenberg to the Present
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996) 338 pp. $40.00 ISBN 0-300-06488-8.
[Sophisticated overview of Biblical publishing for young people]
"The Book Disease: Atlantic Provinces Book Collectors," Dalhousie University. Occasional
Papers no. 58 (1996): 1-117.
Bracken, James K. and Joel Silver, eds. The British Literary Book Trade, 1700- 1820
(Detroit: Gale Research Inc., 1996) [This is v. 170 of Dictionary of Literary Biography]
Braithwaite, Brian. Women's Magazines: The First 300 Years (London: Peter Owen, 1995) 192 pp. $20.00 ISBN 0-7206-0936-4.
Brown, Matthew Pentland. "Orbits of Reading: The Presence of the Text in Early New England," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Virginia), 1996, 240 pp.
Buja, Maureen Elizabeth. "Antonio Barrä and Music Printing, in Mid-Sixteenth Century Rome," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), 1996, 547 pp.
Calvet, Louis-Jean. Histoire de L'Ecriture (Paris: Plon, 1996) 296 pp. 148 FFr.
Canning, Peter. American Dreamers: The Wallaces and Reader's Digest: An Insider's Story
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996) 379 pp. $27.00 ISBN 0-684-80928-1.
Carley, James P. and Colin G.C. Tite, eds. Books and Collectors, 1200-1700: Essays Presented to Andrew Watson (London: British Library Marketing Pub., 1997) 501 pp.
$80.00 ISBN 0-7123-4506-X.
Carroll, Frances L., ed. International Biographical Directory of National Archivists, Documentalists,
and Librarians (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1997) 225 pp. $45.00 ISBN 0-8108-3223-2.
Cassedy, K. "Men of Letters: Librarians of Congress Who Authored Books," Library of Congress Information Bulletin 55 (February 5, 1996): 30-32.
Charon, Annie and Genevi Guilleminot. "L'Histoire du Livre en France au XVIe Siecle: Bilan Bibliographique (1980-1993) (Seconde Partie)" Nouvelle Revue du Seizi v. 13, no. 1 (1995): 105-23.
Chavannes-Mazel, Claudine A. and Margaret Smith, eds. Medieval Manuscripts of the Latin Classics: Production and Use (Los Altos Hills, CA: Anderson-Lovelace, 1997) 256 pp.
$90.00 ISBN 0-962372-4-6.
Clement, Richard W. The Book in America, with Images from the Library of America (Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing, 1996) 160 pp. $40.00 1-5559-123-46.
Cooksey, Elizabeth B. "George Boole: The Man Behind And/Or/Not," Libraries & Culture 32
(Winter 1997): 81-93.
Davies, Martin. "Juan de Carvajal and Early Printing: The 42 Line Bible and the Sweynheym and
Pannartz Aquinas," Library 6th ser. 18 (September 1996): 193-215.
DeMarco, Eileen Sposato. "Reading and Riding: Hachette's Railroad Bookstore Network in
Nineteenth-Century France," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, San Diego), 1996, 206 pp.
Dobranski, Stephen Bitonti. "The Labor of Book-Writing: A Critical and Textual Analysis of
John Milton and the Seventeenth-Century Book Trade," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation,
University of Texas at Austin), 1996, 339 pp.
"The Father of Library Science in India: S. R. Ranganathan," Bulletin of Library and
Information Science no. 18 (August 1996): 1-6.
Feather, John. "Robert Triphook and Francis Douce: A Bookseller and One of His Customer,"
The Bodleian Library Record 15 (October 1996): 468-79.
Felsenstein, F. "Some Eighteenth-Century English Provincial Book Advertisements,"
Library Review v. 44, no. 3 (1995): 32-43.
Gier, Helmut and Johannes Janota, eds. Augsburger Buchdruck und Verlagswesen (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1996) 1760 pp. 148 DM ISBN 3-447-03624-9.
Girodin, Paulette. "Le Musee en France depuis 1815: Territoires et Fonctions," Histoirens et
Geographes v. 85, no. 346 (1994): 61-68.
Goldman, Paul. Victorian Illustration: The Pre-Raphaelites, the Idyllic School and the High
Victorians (Aldershot: Scolar/Ashgate, 1996) 391 pp. $100.00 ISBN 0-85967-864-4.
Graffagnino, J. Kevin, ed. Only in Books: Writers, Readers & Bibliophiles on Their Passion
(Madison, WI: Madison House, 1996) 266 pp. $16.95 ISBN 0-945612-49-4.
Green, Jonathon. Chasing the Sun: Dictionary Makers and the Dictionaries They Made
(New York: Henry Holt, 1996) 510 pp. $30.00 ISBN 0-8050-3466-8.
Griffiths, Antony. Prints and Printmaking: An Introduction to the History and Techniques
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996) 160 pp. $40.00 ISBN 0-520-20714-9.
Gross, Robert A. "Reading Culture, Reading Books," Proceedings of the American Antiquarian
Society 106 (April 1996): 59-78. [Address given at SHARP annual meeting in 1996]
Henken, David Michel. "City Reading: The Written Word and the Urban Public in New York
City, 1825-1866," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley),
1995, 300 pp.
Hesse , Carla. "Humanities and the Library in the Digital Age," in Alvin Kernan, ed.
What's Happened to the Humanities? (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997), pp. 107-21.
Higginbotham, Barbra B. "Cedric Chivers: Portrait of a Turn-of-the-century Binder and
Entrepreneur," Technicalities 15 (December 1995): 10-11.
Ho, J. K. "Ardent, Trustworthy, and Erudite: Dr. Tze-Chung Li," Journal of Information, Communication, and Library Science 2 (Spring 1996): 97-107. [In Chinese]
Jackson , Kate. "Doing Things Differently and Striking While the Iron is Hot:
The Entrepreneurial Successes of the Media Magnate George Newnes, 1881-1910,"
Publishing Research Quarterly 12 (Winter 1996/97): 3-23.
[Newnes was a prominent British publisher]
Jagodzinski, Cecile Marie. "Privacy and Print: Reading and Writing in Seventeenth Century
England," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), 1996,
304 pp. [Examines early copyright issues]
Johnson, Charles N. "Wallace Hebberd, A Forgotten Santa Barbara Publisher,' AB Bookman's
Weekly 99 (February 10, 1997): 387-404.
Jones, Martin Joseph, Sister. "Defunct Newspaper Libraries: Why Keep Them?. Catholic Library
World 66 (September 1995): 31-34. [Courier-Express library at the E. H. Butler Library, State
University of New York College at Buffalo)
Kennedy, M.E. "French Language Books in Eighteenth-Century Ireland: Dissemination and
Readership," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University College, Dublin), 1994.
Kintgen, Eugene R. Reading in Tudor England (Pittsburg: University of Pittsburg Press, 1996)
242 pp. $45.00 ISBN 0-8229-3939-8.
Kovac, Alison M. Phillips. "Promoting Rural Civilization: Wallace's Farmer and The Iowa Homestead, 1920-1929," (Master's Thesis, Iowa State University), 1996, 107 pp.
Krieger, Michael T. "The History and Collection of Popular American Catholic Periodicals,"
Serials Librarian v. 30, no. 2 (1996): 45-65.
Landry, Franáois. "La Librairie Beauchemin, 1842-1940: Genese de la Fonction editoriale
et Nationalisation de al Culture ecrite," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Universite de Sherbrooke, Canada), 1996, 640 pp. ISBN 0-612-09547-9.
Leavey, Martin D. "The University of Chicago Press and the Chicago School of Sociology,"
Publishing Research Quarterly 12 (Fall 1996): 30-36.
LeRoy, Ladurie Emmanuel. "Une Histoire Serielle du Livre (XV-XX Siecles)" Histoire, Economie
et Societe; v. 14, no. 1 (1995): 3-24.
Machon, Charles Dewayne. "The Preservation of a Unique Institution: A Chronicle of the Central
Missouri State University Archives/Museum," (Master's Thesis, Central Missouri State University),
1995, 115 pp.
McIsaac, Peter Matthew. "Open to the Public: The Creation of the Museum and the Construction of Gender in Nineteenth-Century German Literature and Culture," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation,
Harvard University), 1996, 227 pp.
Molina Jimenez, Ivan and Arnaldo Moya Gutierrez. "Leyendo Lecturas: Documentos para la Historia
del Libro en Costa Rica a Comienzos del Siglo XX," Revista de Historia no. 26 (1992): 241-62.
Morrisson, Mark Stewart. "The Public Face of Modernism: Journals, Audiences, and Reception in London and Chicago, 1908-1920," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Chicago),
1996, 288 pp.
Moss, Ann. Printed Commonplace-Books and the Structuring of Renaissance Thought
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996) 345 pp. $60.00 ISBN 0-19-815908-0.
Myers, Robin and Michael Harris, eds. Antiquaries, Book Collectors & the Circles of Learning
(New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1996) 176 pp. $40.00 ISBN 1-884718-24-8.
Nelson, Julie R. "A Subtle Revolution: The Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle in Rural
Midwestern Towns, 1878-1900," Agricultural History 70 (Fall 1996): 653-71.
Newboldt, Peter. G.A. Henty, 1832-1902: A Bibliographical Study of His British Editions with
Short Accounts of His Publishers, Illustrators and Designers (Aldershot: Scolar/Ashgate, 1996)
710 pp. $85.00 ISBN 1-85928-208-3. [Examines British publishing industry in the 19th century]
Ogren, Christine Ann. "Education for Women in the United States: The State Normal School
Experience, 18970-1920," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison),
1996, 391 pp.
Olaisen, Johan, Erland Munch-Petersen, and Patrick Wilson, eds. Information Science: From the Development of the Discipline to Social Interaction (Oslo: Scandinavian University Press, 1996)
325 pp. $30.00 ISBN 82-0003939-0.
Pe§a D°as, Manuel. "Libro y Lectura en Barcelona, 1470-1600," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation,Universitate Autïnoma de Barcelona, Spain), 1995, 1150 pp.
Phillips, David Clayton. "Art for Industry's Sake: Halftone Technology, Mass Photography and
the Social Transformation of American Print Culture," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Yale
University), 1996, 226. pp.
Pichnarcik, Lisa Roberge. "The Role of Books in Connecticut Women's Education in the New
Republic: As Examined in Sarah Pierce's Litchfield Female Academy and James Morris' Coeducational Academy," (Master's Thesis, Southern Connecticut State University), 1996, 199 pp.
Pymm, Bob. "The trouble with fiction," Australian Library Journal 44 (November 1995): 188-94.
[19th century attitudes in British, Australian and American public libraries]
Raymond, Joad. The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649 (Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1996) 379 pp. $65.00 ISBN 0-19-813002-3.
Rothenberg, Jerome and David Guss. The Book, Spiritual Instrument (New York: Granary Books,
1996) 160 pp. $20.00 ISBN 1-887123-08-3. [Philosophical and aesthetic treatise on the book]
Ruff, Allen. We Called Each Other Comrade: Charles H. Kerr & Company, Radical Publishers
(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997) 312 pp. $50.00 ISBN 0-252-02277-7.
Salvador, Gregorio and Juan Ram¢n Lodares. Historia de las Letras (Madrid: Espasa Calpe,
1996) 272 pp. 1,900 pesetas.
Sarkowski, Heinz. Springer-Verlag: History of a Scientific Publishing House 2 vols. (Berlin:
Springer-Verlag, 1996) $75.00 ISBN 3-54061744-2.
Scalon, Cesare. Produzione e Fruizione del Libro nel Basso Medioevo: Il Caso Friuli (Padova:
Antenore, 1995) 730 pp.
Schreiber, Fred. Simon de Colines (New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1995) 330 pp. $150.00.
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Seela, Torsten. Bucher und Bibliotheken in Nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslagern:
Das Gedruckte Wort im Antifaschistischen Widerstand der Haftlinge (Munchen: K.G. Saur, 1992)
252 pp.
Shavit, David. Hunger for the Printer Word: Books and Libraries in the Jewish Ghettos in Nazi-Occupied Europe (Jefferson: McFarland, 1997) 178 pp. $38.00 ISBN 0-7864-0203-2.
Silver, Joel. "Houdini: Magician, Escape Artist, Author, and Book Collector," AB Bookman's Weekly (December 9, 1996): 1985-90.
Simmons, Colin and Nicos Leandros. "Printing and Publishing in Greece: Flexibility and the Process
of Innovation, 1979-1991," Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies v. 20 (1996): 142-74.
Solomon, Harry M. The Rise of Robert Dodsley: Creating the New Age of Print (Carbondale:
Southern Illinois University Press, 1996) 339 pp. $35.00 ISBN 0-8093-1651-X.
Stevens, Kevin. "A Bookbinder in Early Seventeenth-Century Milan: The Shop of Pietro Martire
Locarno," The Library 6th ser., 18 (December 1996): 306-27.
Strong, Roy. Country Life, 1897-1997: The English Arcadia (London: Boxtree, Country Life, 1996)
224 pp. $30.00 ISBN 0-7522-1054-8. [Historical overview of prominent British serial]
Sullivan, Larry E. and Lydia Cushman Schurman, eds. Pioneers, Passionate Ladies, and Private Eyes: Dime Novels, Series Books, and Paperbacks (New York: Haworth Press, Inc., 1996)306 pp.
$45.00 ISBN 0-7890-0016-4. [Includes essays on how libraries have dealt with popular literature]
Swegle, Wayne E. and John Harvey. Farm Magazines, Milestones & Memories (Austin, Texas:
American Agricultural Editors Association, 1996) $25.00.
Thomas, Nancy Pickering. "Reading Libraries: An Interpretive Study of Discursive Practices in
Library Architecture and the Interactional Construction of Personal identity," (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick), 1996, 567 pp.
[Dissertation Advisor: Hartmut B. Mokros]
Thompson, Susan O. American Book Design and William Morris 2nd ed. (New Castle: DE:
Oak Knoll Press, 1996) 318 pp. $50.00 ISBN 1-884718-25-6. (Thompson's first edition came
out in 1977)
Tingler, Stephanie Kay. "Oley Speaks and the Oley Speaks Music Library Archive: A Legacy of the Twentieth Century American Art Song," (D.M.A. Dissertation, Ohio State University), 1993, 327 pp.
Tucker, Louis Leonard. Massuchusetts Historical Society: A Bicentennial History, 1791-1991
(Boston: Masschusetts Historical Society, 1996) 623 pp. $50.00 ISBN 0-9349-0968-7.
Vann, J. Don, ed. Periodicals of Queen Victoria's Empire: An Exploration (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996) 371 pp. $80.00 ISBN 0-8020-0810-0.
Walker, Thomas D. "Surveying the Library Landscape: The Inspection Visits of the University of
Illinois Library School," Graduate School of Library and Information Science Occasional Papers
no. 206 (September 1996): 1-49. [Examines period between 1895 and 1948]
Welch, Theodore F. Libraries and Librarianship in Japan (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997)
232 pp. $75.00 ISBN 0-313-29668-5.
Wertsman, Vladmir F. The Librarian's Companion: A Handbook of Thousands of Facts and Figures
on Libraries/Librarians, Books/Newspapers, Publishers/Booksellers 2nd ed. (Westport: Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996), 225 pp. $65.00 ISBN 0-313-29975-7.
Wilkins, Catherine E. "The changing library environment," (Unpublished Ed.D. Dissertation,
University of Toronto), 1995, 164 pp.
Wurm, Carsten. Der FrÅhe Aufbau-Verlag 1945-1961 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1996) 260 pp. 66 DM ISBN 3-447-03826-8.
Zboray, Ronald J. and Mary Saracino Zboray. "Books, Reading, and the World of Goods in
Antebellum New England," American Quarterly 48 (December 1996): 587-622.
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217 pp. 148 DM ISBN 3-447-03740-7.
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