Libraries & Culture articles from January 2000

Libraries & Culture archives from January 2000

American Library Association's Library History Round Table. (Introduction).
January 1, 2000... Anniversaries have been the occasion of some of the finest and also the poorest historical writings. Unfortunately, library history is no exception. We hope that you will find these writings on the state of historical research on librarianship...

American library history literature, 1947-1997: theoretical perspectives?
January 1, 2000... An examination of fifty years of published research literature in American library history that was facilitated by the Library History Round Table reveals a significant and welcome increase in the diversity of coverage but a relative dearth of...

Louis Shores and library history.
January 1, 2000... Together with Wayne Shirley, Louis Shores began the American Library History Round Table in 1947. With the addition of N. Orwin Rush and John David Marshall, they dominated its proceedings for the first two decades. When Shores and Shirley...

The Library History Round Table's first twenty-five years: reminiscences and remarks on recent research.
January 1, 2000... This is a personal reminiscence of the first twenty-five years (1947-1972) of the Library History Round Table of the American Library Association. The lives of the two founders of the round table--Louis Shores and Wayne Shirley--are presented...

Library feminism and library women's history: activism and scholarship, equity and culture.
January 1, 2000... This essay places the development of library women's history in the context of library feminism and American history. The equity or fairness orientation, evident in the earlier years, is today challenged by a cultural orientation in both...

International dimensions of library history: leadership and scholarship, 1978-1998.
January 1, 2000... This essay sketches the growth of internationalism in library history since 1978, when the members of the American Library History Round Table (ALHRT) voted to drop the word 'American" from its name in acknowledgment of the growing importance...

Toward a multicultural American public library history.
January 1, 2000... A recent interpretive shift in library history posits public libraries as institutions that advance the dominant culture's ideology. Complicating the research questions that arise from such an interpretive stance is the multicultural society in...

"They sure got to prove it on me": millennial thoughts on gay archives, gay biography, and gay library history.
January 1, 2000... The American Library Association's Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Task Force (GLBTRT) * justly takes pride of place as the first professional gay organization in the world. (1) While the ALA itself ended discrimination based on sexual...

The history of youth services librarianship: a review of the research literature.
January 1, 2000... Youth services librarianship--a term that encompasses all library services to youth (children and young adults, ages zero to eighteen) in school and public library settings--has long been considered the classic success story of American...

The failure or future of American archival history: a somewhat unorthodox view.
January 1, 2000... The quality of research on American archival history has been uneven and the quantity not very impressive. This essay reviews some of the highlights of American archival history research, especially the growing interest in cultural and public...

Historical bibliography and library history.
January 1, 2000... The fields of historical bibliography and library history have drawn upon each other and long been linked in their scholarship. The history of the book interest of recent years has shown further interdisciplinary relationships. Several...

The library historian's Field of Dreams: a profile of the first nine seminars.
January 1, 2000... History haunts me with a sense of lost opportunities. Louis Shores (1) The Library History Seminars, founded by Louis Shores in 1961, have met about every five years ever since. Through a series of tables and charts, this essay...

Advancing the scholarship of library history: the role of the Journal of Library History and Libraries & Culture.
January 1, 2000... Founded in 1966 at Florida State University by Louis Shores, the quarterly Journal of Library History moved to the University of Texas at Austin in 1976 and continues to he published by the University of Texas Press. It was renamed Libraries &...

Clio's workshop: resources for historical studies in American librarianship.
January 1, 2000... The sources for historical research in American librarianship are the same tools that provide the foundations for American history. The formative years of American library practice (approximately 1876 through World War I) were marked by a...

Fifty years of promoting library history: a chronology of the ALA (American) Library History Round Table, 1947-1997.
January 1, 2000... Programs 1947, Summer, San Francisco Monday, 30 June, 10:00 A.M. "Topic to Be Announced" (outlining the ALHRT goals), Louis Shores, Florida State University, Tallahassee "The Decline and Fall of Adult Education," Wayne Shirley,...

The historical sensibility.
January 1, 2000... Library historians, most of them librarians themselves, bring identity, context, and continuity to- librarianship, as well as situating libraries and librarianship in the general stream of history. They do this mainly through exploring...

The cover--the Cavagna Collection: a case study in special collections.
January 1, 2000... Designed for the Cavagna Collection at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, the black-and-white bookplate depicts at its center the Cavagna family crest. The Cavagna family, from the Lombardy region of Italy, traces its name to 1112....