Libraries & Culture articles from January 2002

Libraries & Culture archives from January 2002

Editorial note.
January 1, 2002... Regular readers of this journal are becoming accustomed to seeing a special number appear in the winter issue of many recent volumes. These have included the proceedings of the quinquennial Library History Seminars and unique conferences having...

Introduction.(celebrating library science and information technology)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... On 3 and 4 November 2000 the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center hosted the Fleur Cowles Flair Symposium 2000: "The Infinite Library, Old Worlds and New: Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections in the Twenty-first Century." This...

Flair participants.
January 1, 2002... Flair Participants Opening Remarks Fleur Cowles Keynote Address William M. Chace Variant States: Futures of the Library Jean Ashton, moderator Jean-Claude Guedon Richard Wendorf Special Speaker Lynne...

Opening remarks.(library science conference speech)
January 1, 2002... May I add my welcome to this, the Fleur Cowles Flair Symposium 2000, the first to be introduced in this exciting new millennium? I cannot imagine a subject more shrouded by the unknown and by probable change than the subject we shall be...

Keynote address.(books, reading, and the future of the publishing industry)
January 1, 2002... The new century brings both a gloomy and a cheerful perspective on the status of reading within the wide range of literature. The losses and the gains of past decades are worth noting, and they are seen for what they are. Though "the book" is...

Special collections libraries: looking ahead by looking back.
January 1, 2002... The conclusions reached at the conference "Rare Book and Manuscript Libraries in the Twenty-first Century," convened at the Houghton Library of Harvard University in 1992, summarized here, provide a context for the Flair Symposium of 2000. Some...

The future of libraries and humanities research: new strategic directions for the British Library.
January 1, 2002... The new chief executive officer of the British Library surveys the new directions for research in the humanities that are both under way and projected. Digital applications and collaborative partnerships are key elements. I was very...

"Only connect!": institutional planning and funding.
January 1, 2002... In a series of personal reminiscences, the author provides insight into issues involved in funding and fund-raising at various institutions with which she has had associations, introducing a panel at the symposium. When I learned that I...

The impact of digitization on special collections in libraries.
January 1, 2002... Digitization has brought significant benefit to the users of special collections. It will also challenge the relative value given to paper originals of rare materials as digital holdings increase. Special collections will need to justify their...

Pushing Paper: Dealers and Institutional Collectors.
January 1, 2002... Several specialists in rare books and manuscripts discuss new developments in the commodification of manuscripts and archival material and the implications these have for acquisition, preservation, and broad utilization. The panel...

Excavating the imagination: archival research and the digital revolution.
January 1, 2002... A literary scholar recounts his personal experience with manuscripts and archival materials of great variety and sees a pendulum shift back toward examining original source materials. Special collections need to reinsert themselves into the...

My infinite library.
January 1, 2002... A literary scholar interacts with various other speakers at the symposium and makes his own case for the necessity of physical materials that are always yielding new insights. He rues the apparent denigration of paper materials and the...

National collections, global collecting: the responsibilities of librarians as collectors.
January 1, 2002... Sharing knowledge, while not a new concept, is receiving new emphasis in a global society. National and other research libraries can fruitfully collaborate to maximize the public value of their materials. The partnership of the British Library...

The bridge beyond.(relationship between libraries and scholarship)
January 1, 2002... Bringing the scholarly world and the collections of scholarly resources together is an ongoing challenge that involves providing a variety of inducements, rediscovering the potential riches of collections, and encouraging imagination and...

The cover.(description of the book-plate of Flair magazine)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Why did I give the name Flair to the astonishing magazine I created and edited in 1950? I did it because to me the word was an instantaneous symbol of any flight of imagination. For all those young at heart it meant a sense of surprise and...