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

By Ed Goedeken

Spring 2013

A. UNITED STATES

Attebury, Ramirose and Michael Kroth. “From Pedagogical Museum to Instructional Material Center: Education Libraries at Teacher Training Institutions, 1890s to 1970s,” Education Libraries 35 (Summer/Winter 2012): 48-58.

Cook, Karen. “Struggles Within: Lura G. Currier, the Mississippi Library Commission, and Library Services to African Americans,” Information & Culture: A Journal of History v. 48, no. 1 (2013): 134-56.

Doe, Janet. “The Development of Education for Medical Librarianship,” Journal of the Medical Library Association 100 (October 2012): 213-20.

Ebert, Myrl. “The Rise and Development of the American Medical Periodical 1797-1850,” Journal of the Medical Library Association v. 100 supplement (October 2012): 243-76.

Funk, Mark E. “Our Words, Our Story: A Textual Analysis of Articles Published in the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association/Journal of the Medical Library Association from 1961 to 2010,” Journal of the Medical Library Association 101 (January 2013): 12-20.

Gura, Philip F. The American Antiquarian Society, 1812-2012 (Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 2012) 454 pp. $75.00 ISBN 978-1-929545- 65-0.

Guthrie, Ana, Frances Ba, and Cheryl Wilcher. “The History of Florida's Four FBCU (Historically Black Colleges & Universities) Libraries,” Florida Libraries 55 (Fall 2012): 38-42.

Hand, Shane. “Transmitting Whiteness: Librarians, Children, and Race, 1900- 1903s,” Progressive Librarian Issue Nos. 38/39 (Spring 2012): 34-63.

Hansen, Debra Gold. “Depoliticizing the California State Library: The Political and Professional Transformation of James Gillis, 1899-1917,” Information & Culture: A Journal of History v. 48, no. 1 (2013): 68-90.

Heller, James S. “From Oxford to Williamsburg: Part 2 – The College of William & Mary Law School and Wolf Law Library,” Legal Information Management 12 (December 2012): 290-97.

Herold, Irene M. H. “An Examination of the Leadership Program for College Library Directors Associated with ACRL's College Libraries Section,” (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Simmons College), 2012, 324 pp. [Examines program from 1940 to 2009]

Jaeger, Paul T., et al. “Libraries, Policy, and Politics in a Democracy: Four Historical Epochs,” The Library Quarterly 83 (April 2013): 166-81.

Jayroe, Tina J. “A humble servant: The work of Helen L. Brownson and the early years of information science research,” Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology 63 (October 2012): 2052-2061.

Jumonville, Florence M. “Interested in Public Libraries: J.O. Modisette and the Contributions of a Louisiana Library Commissioner,” Information & Culture: A Journal of History v. 48, no. 1 (2013): 112-33.

Lear, Bernadette A. “A State Library Transformed: Pensylvania, 1878-1921,” Information & Culture: A Journal of History v. 48, no. 1 (2013): 26-49.

Mediavilla, Cindy. “Carma Zimmerman Leigh and the Diffusion of Cooperation through California Libraries, 1951-1972,” Information & Culture: A Journal of History v. 48, no. 1 (2013): 157-77.

Namachchivaya, Beh Sandore. “The First 30 years of the Internet through the Lens of an Academic Library: The University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, 1982-2012,” Library Hi Tech v. 30, no. 4 (2012): 623-42. Newberry Library. The Newberry 125: Stories of Our Collection (Chicago, IL: Newberry Library, 2012) 219 p. $45.00 ISBN 978-0-911028-27-0.

Rubenstein, Ellen. “From Social Hygiene to Consumer Health: Libraries, Health Information, and the American Public from the Late Nineteenth Century to the 1980s.” Library & Information History 28 (September 2012): 202-219.

Ryan, Susan M. “An Idea Likely Too Big: John B. Stetson University’s Pursuit of an Academic Carnegie Library in the Early Twentieth Century,” Library & Information History 29 (March 2013): 38-58.

Searing, Susan E. “The Special Collection in Librarianship: Researching the History of Library Science Libraries,” Journal of Education for Library & Information Science 53 (Fall 2012): 225-38.

Shaw, John T. “The Origins of a State Library: New Jersey, 1704-1824,” Information & Culture: A Journal of History v. 48, no. 1 (2013): 8-25.

Smith, Helen. “My Own Small Private Library: USA Armed Forces Editions and the Culture of Collecting,” in John Hinks and Matthew Day, eds., From Compositors to Collectors: Essays on Book-Trade History (New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press and the British Library, 2012), pp. 357-74.

Stuart, Shana L. My Duty and My Pleasure: Alice S. Tyler’s Reluctant Oversight of Carnegie Library Philanthropy in Iowa,” Information & Culture: A Journal of History v. 48, no. 1 (2013): 91-111.

Thompson, Anthony Hugh. “From AVL to MmIT: A Brief History of Our Journal and of Multimedia Development in Libraries,” Multimedia Information & Technology 38 (May 2012): 20-25.

Tilley, Carol L. “Seducing the Innocent: Fredric Wertham and the Falsifications that Helped Condemn Comics,” Information & Culture: A Journal of History v. 47, no. 4 (2012): 383-413.

Vance, Jason. “Librarians as Authors, Editors, and Self-Publishers: The Information Culture of the Kentucky Pack Horse Library Scrapbooks (1936- 1943)” Library & Information History 28 (December 2012): 289-308.

Weaver, Diana. “Letters to Lucy Johnson: Addressing the Need for Literature on the Kansas Prairies,” Information & Culture: A Journal of History v. 48, no. 1 (2013): 50-67.

Witt, Stephen. “Merchants of Light: The Paris Library School, Internationalism, and the Globalization of a Profession,” The Library Quarterly 83 (April 2013):131-51

Zhu, Xiaohua. “The Access Rights to Digital Legal Information: A Historical Case Study of Lexis,” (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison), 2011, 257 pp. [Advisor: Kristin R. Eschenfelder]

B. NON-US WESTERN HEMISPHERE

C. EUROPE

Austin, Liam and John Feather. “A Sixteenth-Century Library in Eighteenth- Century Cambridge,” Library & Information History 29 (March 2013): 3-18.

Black, Alistair. “Organizational Learning and Home-Grown Writing: The Library Staff Magazine in Britain in the First Half of the Twentieth Century,” Information & Culture: A Journal of History v. 47, no. 4 (2012): 487-513.

Black, Alistair and Christopher Murphy. “Information, Intelligence, and Trade: The Library and the Commercial Intelligence Branch of the British Board of Trade, 1834-1914,” Library & Information History 28 (September 2012): 186-201.

Cole, Richard Glenn. “The Art of History and Eighteenth-Century Information Management: Christian Gottlieb Jöcher and Johann Heinrich Zedler,” The Library Quarterly 83 (January 2013): 26-38.

Leapman, Michael. The Book of the British Library (London: British Library, 2012) 256 pp. $40.00 ISBN 978-0-71235-837-8.

Minter, Catherine. “Academic Library Reform and the Ideal of the Librarian in England, France, and Germany in the Long Nineteenth Century,” Library & Information History 29 (March 2013): 19-37.

Mounier-Kuhn, Pierre. “Computer Science in French Universities: Early Entrants and Latecomers,” Information & Culture: A Journal of History v. 47, no. 4 (2012): 414-56.

Sroka, Marek. “Forsaken and Abandoned: The Nationalization and Salvage of Deserted, Displaced, and Private Library Collections in Poland, 1945-1948,” Library & Information History 28 (December 2012): 272-88.

D. ASIA, AFRICA, THE MIDDLE EAST, AND OTHER

Dick, Archie L. The Hidden History of South Africa’s Book and Reading Cultures (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013) 196 pp. $55.00 ISBN 978-1- 442-64289-8.

E. HISTORY OF BOOKS, READING, AND BOOK CULTURE

Chen, Minjie. “Friends and Foes on the Battlefield: A Study of Chinese and U.S. Youth Literature about the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)” (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), 2011, 322 pp.

Cox, Richard J. “Lester J. Cappon, Scholarly Publishing, and the Atlas of Early American History, 1957-1976,” Journal of Scholarly Publishing 43 (April 2012): 294-321.

Ebert, Myrl. “The Rise and Development of the American Medical Periodical 1797-1850,” Journal of the Medical Library Association 100 (October 2012): 243-76.

Gray, Tim. Variety: An Illustrated History of the World from the Most Important Magazine in Hollywood (New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 2012) 320 pp. $50.00 ISBN 978-0-8478-3880-6.

Howard, Eric. “The Grub-Street Journal and the Changing Culture of Information in the Early 1730s,” Library & Information History 28 (September 2012): 171-85.

Le Roux, Elizabeth. “Book History in the African World,” Book History v. 15 (2012): 248-300.

Manley, Laura and Robert P. Holley. “History of the Ebook: The Changing Face of Books,” Technical Services Quarterly v. 29, no. 4 (2012): 292-311.

Ogilvie, Sarah. Words of the World: A Global History of the Oxford English Dictionary (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013) 241 pp. $20.00 ISBN 978-1-107-60569-5.

Schumacher, Ryan. “The Wisconsin Magazine of History: A Case Study in Scholarly and Popular Approaches to American State Historical Society Publishing, 1917-2000,” Journal of Scholarly Publishing 44 (January 2013): 114-41.

Tonchi, Stefano, ed. The First 40 Years of W (New York: Abrams, 2012) 311 pp. $75.00 ISBN 978-1-4197-0447-5.

Valentine, Patrick M. A Social History of Books and Libraries from Cuneiform to Bytes (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2012) 201 pp. $60.00 ISBN 978-0-8108-8570-7.

Williams, Robert V. “The Changed and Changing ADI/ASIS/ASIS&T after 75 Years,” Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science & Technology 38 (June/July 2012): 32-38.

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

Buschman, John. Libraries, Classrooms, and the Interests of Democracy: Marking the Limits of Neoliberalism (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2012) 237 pp. $65.00 ISBN 978-0-8108-8528-8.

Cheng, Eileen Ka-May. Historiography: An Introductory Guide (New York: Continuum, 2012) 244 pp. $80.00 ISBN 978-1-4411-0966-8.

Tanya Clement, Wendy Hagenmaier and Jennie Levine Knies. “Toward a Notion of the Archive of the Future: Impressions of Practice by Librarians, Archivists, and Digital Humanities Scholars,” The Library Quarterly 83 (April 2013): 112-30.

Ibekwe-SanJuan, Fidelia. “The French Conception of Information Science: Une Exception Française?” Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology 63 (September 2012): 1693-1709.

Irish, Sharon. “The Performance of Information Flows in the Art of Stephen Willats,” Information & Culture: A Journal of History v. 47, no. 4 (2012): 457-86.

Jack, Belinda. The Woman Reader (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012) 329 pp. $30.00 ISBN 978-0-300-12045-5.

Nahin, Paul J. The Logician and the Engineer: How George Boole and Claude Shannon Created the Information Age (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013) 228 pp. $25.00 ISBN 978-0691-1510-07. Piper, Andrew. Book was There: Reading in Electronic Times (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2012) 192 pp. $22.50 ISBN 978-0-226-66978- 6.

Reid, Peter H. “It is Ridiculous that the Borough Librarian of Croydon Should Decide the Policy of the Scottish Education Department: The Establishment of Scotland's Second Library School,” Library & Information History 28 (December 2012): 257-71.

Riter, Robert Barnet. “Defining and Contextualizing American Modern Historical Documentary Editing: An Analysis of Early Modern Editorial Theory, Methods, and Their Influence on the Production of Documentary Editions, 1943-1970,” (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh), 2011, 295 pp. [Advisor: Richard J. Cox]

Schumacher, Ryan. “The Wisconsin Magazine of History: A Case Study in Scholarly and Popular Approaches to American State Historical Society Publishing, 1917-2000,” Journal of Scholarly Publishing 44 (January 2013):

Weller, Toni, ed. History in the Digital Age (New York: Routledge, 2013) 212 pp. $115.00 ISBN 978-0-415-66696-1.

Wilschut, Arie. Images of Time: The Role of a Historical Consciousness of Time in Learning History (Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2012) 284 pp. $86.00 ISBN 978-1-61735-907-1.