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Bibliography of Writings on the History of Libraries, Librarianship, Info Bibliography of Writings on the History of Libraries, Librarianship, Info... http://www.ala.org/rt/bibliography-writings-history-libraries-librarianship... Bibliography of Writings on the History of Libraries, Librarianship, Information, and Book Culture, Fall 2018 Bibliography of Writings on the History of Libraries, Librarianship, Information, and Book Culture FALL 2018 By Ed Goedeken Contents A) United States B) Non-U.S. Western Hemisphere C) Europe D) Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Other E) History of Books, Reading, Information and Book Culture F) General Historography, Philosophy, and Library and Information Science Education A. UNITED STATES Ames, Alexander Lawrence. “The Spirit of the Fatherland: German-American Culture and Community in the Library and Archive of the German Society of Pennsylvania, ca. 1887-1920,” Libraries: Culture, History, and Society v. 2, no. 2 (2018): 103-126. Barndt, Kerstin, ed. Object Lessons & the Formation of Knowledge: The University of Michigan Museums, Libraries & Collections, 1817-2017 (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2017) 366 pp. $60.00 ISBN 978-0-472-1302-76. Biswas, Paromita. “Rooted in the Past: Use of East Indians in Library of Congress Subject Headings,” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly v. 56, no. 1 (2018): 1-18. Blank, Lisa. “Taking Up the Work: The Library Apprentices of Redondo Beach, California, 1909-1924,” Libraries: Culture, History, and Society v. 2, no. 2 (2018): 1170-201. The Card Catalog: Books, Cards, and Literary Treasures (Washington, D.C.: The Library of Congress, 2017) 224 pp. $35.00 ISBN 978-1-452-1454-02. Dehmlow, Mark. “Information Technology and Libraries at 50: The 1980s in Review,” Information Technology & Libraries 37 (September 2018): 8-11. Eshleman, Michael O. “A History of the Digests,” Law Library Journal 110 (Spring 2018): 235-59. Gates, Angela. “A (Blind) Woman's Place is (Teaching) in the Home: The Life of Kate Foley, 1873-1940,” (Master’s Thesis, San Jose State University), 2016, 238 pp. Gilland, Julianne, ed. A Library for the Americas: The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2018) 204 pp. $50.00 ISBN 978-1-4773-1511-8. 1 of 8 5/28/2020, 2:18 PM Bibliography of Writings on the History of Libraries, Librarianship, Info... http://www.ala.org/rt/bibliography-writings-history-libraries-librarianship... Gonzalez, Maria E. and Patricia Galloway. “Crises in Scholarly Communications?: Maturity and Transfer of the Journal of Library History to the University of Texas, 1968-1976,” Information & Culture v. 53, no. 2 (2018): 121-52. Hanbury, Dallas. “It is Simply out of the Question to Eliminate the Colorline: The Development of Black Library Service in Atlanta and the Integration of the Atlantic Public Library,” Libraries: Culture, History, and Society v. 2, no. 1 (2018): 24-47. Hanbury, Dallas. “Seekers of Knowledge: The Development of Southern Public Libraries and the African American Quest for Library Access, 1898-1963,” (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Middle Tennessee State University), 2016, 221 pp. Hawley, Johnnie Sue Saylor. “The Evolution of the Library Media Center: A Study of the Past, Current, and Projected Future Library Services Available in Johnson City, Tennessee,” (Unpublished Ed.D. Dissertation), 2016, 118 pp. Higgins, Sarah. “Digital Curation: The Development of a Discipline within Information Science,” Journal of Documentation v. 74, no. 6 (2018): 1318-1338. Irwin, John. “A Farmer’s Passion for Knowledge: Benton Alrich and the Clifton Library Association,” Nebraska History 99 (Summer 2018): 116-31. Jones, Edgar. “The Evolution of the Serial Work, the FRBR Conceptual Model, and RDA,” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly v. 56, nos. 2-3 (2018): 128-45. Knox, Emily J. M., and Shannon M. Oltmann. “Social Responsibility, Librarianship, and the ALA: The 2015 Banned Books Week Poster Controversy,” The Library Quarterly 88 (January 2018): 5–22. Kroessler, Jeffrey A. “One Staff, Two Branches: The Queens Borough Public Library and New York City’s Fiscal Crisis of the 1970s,” Libraries: Culture, History, and Society v. 2, no. 1 (2018): 72-95. Lindell, Lisa R. “The Spirit of the Builder: The Library Career of Julia Carson Stockett,” Libraries: Culture, History, and Society v. 2, no. 1 (2018): 48-71. Little, Geoffrey Robert. “Save the Cross Campus: Library Planning and Protests at Yale, 1968-1969,” Information & Culture v. 53, no. 2 (2018): 153-74. Marks, Mary Romano. “In Our Voices, through Our Eyes: An Oral History of the Illinois School Library Media Association,” (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Northern Illinois University), 2016, 269 pp. McDade, Travis. Torn from Their Bindings: A Story of Art, Science, and the Pillaging of American University Libraries (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2018) 229 pp. $25.00 ISBN 978-0-700-626-36-6. McMillen, David. “Prologue’s Story—So Far,” Prologue 49 (Winter 2017-2018): 6-17. Nollan, Richard H. “Building a Body of Knowledge: Sickle Cell and Libraries,” Journal of the Medical Library Association: JMLA 106 (January 2018): 130–2. Pompelia, Mark, and Carol Terry. “Fleet Library at Rhode Island School of Design: A Decade of Success and Change,” Art Libraries Journal 43 (January 2018): 45–52. Poole, Alex H. “Could My Dark Hands Break through the Dark Shadow?: Gender, Jim Crow, and Librarianship during the Long Freedom Struggle, 1935–1955,” Library Quarterly 88 (October 2018): 348-74. 2 of 8 5/28/2020, 2:18 PM Bibliography of Writings on the History of Libraries, Librarianship, Info... http://www.ala.org/rt/bibliography-writings-history-libraries-librarianship... Purifacato, David. “Well Selected and Well Bound: The Antebellum American Home Library,” Libraries: Culture, History, and Society v. 2, no. 2 (2018): 127-50. Reznick, Jeffrey S. U. S. National Library of Medicine (Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2017) 128 pp. $27.00 ISBN 978-1-4671-260-83. Riemer, John J. “The Professional Career and Life of Valerie Bross,” Cataloging & Cataloging Quarterly v. 56, nos. 2-3 (2018): 118-27. Robertson, Craig. “Learning to File: Reconfiguring Information and Information Work in the Early Twentieth Century,” Technology and Culture 58 (October 2017): 955-81. Schuster, Kristen M. (https://search-proquest-com.proxy.lib.iastate.edu/pqdtglobal/indexinglinkhandler /sng/au/Schuster,+Kristen+M./$N?accountid=10906) “A Sequential Exploratory Mixed Methods Study of Carnegie Libraries and the Library Profession, 1900-1910,” (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Missouri), 2017, 213 pp. Speaker, Susan L. “A Historical Overview of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, 1985-2015,” Journal of the Medical Library Association 106 (April 2018): 162-74. Taylor, Michael L. “The Library of Thomas B. Catron and the Transformation of New Mexico,” Libraries: Culture, History, and Society v. 2, no. 1 (2018): 1-23. Valdés, Vanessa Kimberley. Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2017) 190 pp. $80.00 ISBN 978-1-4384-6513-5. Widdersheim, Michael Majewski. “Libraries and the Circulation of Power: A Historical Case Study of Pittsburgh, 1924-2016,” (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh), 2017, 824 pp. Wiegand, Wayne A. and Shirley A. Wiegand. The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South: Civil Rights and Local Activism (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2018) 266 pp. $38.00 ISBN 978-0-8071-6867-7. B. NON-US WESTERN HEMISPHERE Campbell, Anne, Jeannie Mah, and Susan Birley, eds. Biblio Files: A History of the Regina Public Library (Regina, SK: University of Regina Press, 2017). Münster, Irene. “Libraries in the Jewish Settlements in Argentina,” Libraries: Culture, History, and Society v. 2, no. 2 (2018): 1151-69. C. EUROPE 3 of 8 5/28/2020, 2:18 PM Bibliography of Writings on the History of Libraries, Librarianship, Info... http://www.ala.org/rt/bibliography-writings-history-libraries-librarianship... Ammannati, Francesco. “Book prices and monetary issues in Renaissance Europe,” JLIS.it: Italian Journal of Library, Archives & Information Science 9 (May 2018):180-191. Archer-Parre, Caroline. John Baskerville: Art and Industry of the Enlightenment (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2017) 269 pp. $120.00 ISBN 978-1- 786-940-64-3. [Baskerville was an 18th century Birmingham printer] Booton, Diane E. Publishing Networks in France in the Early Era of Print (London: Routledge, 2018) 252 pp. $150.00 ISBN 978-1-138-7125-39. Brophy, James M. “Bookshops, Forbidden Print and Urban Political Culture in Central Europe, 1800–1850,” German History 35 (September 2017): 403-30. Charles, Sara. “Provenance Evidence from Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica libri Septem (1543 and 1555) and De humani corporis fabrica librorum epitome (1543) in the British Library and University College London,” Library & Information History v. 34, no. 2 (2018): 104-28. Chrystal, Paul. Roman Recordkeeping & Communications (Stroud, UK: Fonthill Media, 2018) 224 pp. $33.00 ISBN 978-1-7815-565-80. Cole, Heather, ed. Houghton Library at 75: A Celebration of its Collections (Cambridge, MA: Houghton Library Harvard, 2018) 115 pp. $25.00 ISBN 978-0-6749-800-82. Coppens, Christian. “Printed Catalogues of Booksellers as a Source for the History of the Book Trade,” JLIS.it: Italian Journal of Library, Archives & Information Science 9 (May 2018): 166-78. Cosials, Alex, Mònica Baró, and Teresa Mañà. “One Hundred Years of Libraries and the Library Profession in Catalonia,” Libraries: Culture, History, and Society v. 2, no. 2 (2018): 202-220. Dell’Antonio, Simonetta Pasqualis, Rita Auriemma, and Alessandro Giacomello, “The Last Doge’s Groom: How the Villa Manin Stable Became a Regional Institute and Library for Friuli-Venezia Giulia Cultural Heritage,” Art Libraries Journal 43 (January 2018): 37–44. Fielding, David, and Shef Rogers. “Monopoly Power in the Eighteenth-Century British Book Trade,” European Review of Economic History 21 (November 2017): 393-413. Gulik, Egbertus van. Erasmus and His Books (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018) 491 pp. $160.00 ISBN 978-0-8020-387-60.
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