Libraries & Culture articles

Recent articles from Libraries & Culture

"One cathedral more" or "mere lounging places for bummers"? The cultural politics of leisure and the public library in Gilded Age America.
March 22, 2006... This article contextualizes the history of public libraries during their formative periods, the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, within U.S. cultural history. It argues that the triumph of consumer capitalism, the dominance of hierarchy as an organizing principle, and the process of...

Growing up with books: Fanny Seward's book collecting, reading, and writing in mid-nineteenth-century New York State.
March 22, 2006... During her short life (1844-66) Fanny Seward, daughter of Lincoln's secretary of state, William Henry Seward, spent considerable time and energy on her personal library, her diaries, and her creative writing. Fanny Seward's reading was, she suggests in her writing, her dearest pleasure. In...

Mapping activities of artists in the past: a bibliometric study of the library of the Scandinavian Association in Rome until 1870.
March 22, 2006... The purpose of this study is to conduct a bibliometric analysis of the library collection at the Scandinavian Association in Rome. Data were gathered from the library catalog and then submitted to frequency and co-occurrence analyses. By examining keywords, authors, and the language of the...

Tradition and protean nature-journals and scholarly communication: a review essay.(JSTOR: A History)("Devant le Deluge" and Other Essays on Early Modern Scientific Communication)(Book review)
March 22, 2006... JSTOR: A History. By Roger C. Schonfeld. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2003. xxxiv, 412 pp. $29.95. ISBN 0-691-11531-1. "Devant le Deluge" and Other Essays on Early Modern Scientific Communication. By David A. Kronick. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2004. iii-x, 335 pp....

The cover.(Tabard Inn Library, Philadelphia )
March 22, 2006... The Tabard Inn Library of Philadelphia was one segment of a series of entrepreneurial businesses that were the creation of the Canadian-born teacher Seymour Eaton (1859-1919). In Boston, his first American home, he began the Home Study Circle Library, the forerunner of numerous correspondence...