Libraries & Culture articles from January 2004

Libraries & Culture archives from January 2004

African bibliophiles: books and libraries in medieval Timbuktu.
January 1, 2004... The West African city of Timbuktu flourished as a center for Islamic scholarship from the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries. The social structure of the city was based on wealth, with further stratification by degree of literacy and...

Keeper of histories: the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Library and its cultural work, 1860-1910.
January 1, 2004... Historical society libraries have remained a largely neglected area of library history. In this article, I examine the particular story of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin through the first two generations of its leadership to...

Edmund Janes James builds a library: the University of Illinois Library, 1904-1920.
January 1, 2004... Edmund Janes James was one of the most effective American university presidents of his generation in building an excellent university library. He had gained a strong reverence for German institutions, especially the ability of universities to...

The National Library of France: a patron reflects.(La Bibliotheque nationale de France: Collections, services, publics)(L'Effondrement de la tres grande bibliotheque nationale de France, ses causes, ses consequences)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Daniel Renoult and Jacqueline Melet-Sanson, eds. La Bibliotheque nationale de France: Collections, services, publics [The National Library of France: Collections, services, publics]. Paris: Editions du Cercle de la Librairie, 2001. 238 pp. 35...

The cover.
January 1, 2004... It's amazing how a small bookplate, only 5 by 5.5 cm, can represent a very large enterprise--large in size, large in scope, and large in meaningful contributions to a significant community of scholars, students, teachers, and laypersons. Within...

Form and Meaning in the History of the Book: Selected Essays.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... By Nicolas Barker. London: British Library, 2003. xiii, 514 pp. 50.00. [pounds sterling] ISBN 0-7123-4777-1. Nicolas Barker is the longtime editor of the Book Collector, the former deputy keeper in charge of conservation at the British...

My Gracious Silence: Women in the Mirror of 76th Century Printing in Western Europe.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... By Axel Erdmann. Lucerne: Gilhofer & Ranschburg, 1999. xxvii, 319 pp. $90.00. Axel Erdmann, a Swiss book dealer deeply familiar with the published record of the sixteenth century, spent years gathering together a collection of books...

On Histories and Stories: Selected Essays.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... By A. S. Byatt. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000. 196 pp. $14.95 (paper). ISBN 0-674-00833-2. Not a book so much about libraries as a library unto itself, A. S. Byatt's collection of essays draws the reader into her journey...

The World's Best Books: Taste, Culture and the Modern Library.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... By Jay Satterfield. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002. 240 pp. $29.95. ISBN 1-55849-353-0. At a time when many cultural critics bemoaned America's apathetic relation to literature, the Modern Library series achieved the dual...

Printing Types: Their History, Forms, and Use.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Printing Types: Their History, Forms, and Use. By Daniel Berkeley Updike. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, and London: British Library, 2001. Vol. 1, xlvi, 292 pp.; vol. 2, xix, 329 pp. $85.00 (cloth), $49.95 (paper). ISBN 1-58456-060-6;...

Illustrated Editions of the Works of William Morris in English: A Descriptive Bibliography.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... By Robert L. M. Coupe. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 2002. 240 pp. $35.95. ISBN 158456079-7. When William Morris died, a doctor listed the cause of death as "having done more work than most ten men" (15). Morris was indeed an...

The House of Blackwood: Author-Publisher Relations in the Victorian Era.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... By David Finkelstein. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2003. viii, 199 pp. $55.00. ISBN 0-271-02179-9. Readers of David Finkelstein's study of the prominent nineteenth-century British publishing house Blackwood may find the...

In the Stacks: Short Stories about Libraries and Librarians.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Edited by Michael Cart. New York: Overlook Press, 2002. 268 pp. $26.95. ISBN 1-58567-259-9. In the Stacks is a carefully diverse selection of short stories about libraries and library workers. The nineteen authors come from seven...

Accademie e Biblioteche d'Italia. Rivista del Ministero per i Beni e le attivita culturali--Direzione generale per i beni librari e gli istituti culturali.(Periodical Review)
January 1, 2004... Anno LXIX (10 NUOVA SERIE). Nos. 1-2, Rome: Palombi Editori, 2001, 212 pp. Nos. 3-4, Rome: Palombi Editori, 2001, 198 pp. ISSN 0393-4451. Available only by subscription at flli.palombi@mail.stm.it. Accademie e Biblioteche d'Italia is the...

Knowledge and Knowing in Library and Information Science: a Philosophical Framework.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... By John M. Budd. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2001. 361 pp. $70.00 (cloth), $38.50 (paper). ISBN 0-8108-4031-3, ISBN 0-8108-4025-1. John M. Budd's Knowledge and Knowing in Library and Information Science provides a much-needed discussion...

Only Connect: Shaping Networks and Knowledge for the New Millennium.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... By Trevor Haywood. London: Bowker-Saur, 1999. 330 pp. $64.00. ISBN 1-85739-2167. Studies on the "current" state of technology often run the risk of finding themselves outdated almost as soon as they roll off the press. It is therefore a...

A Guide to Source Materials for the Study of Barbados History, 1627-1834.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... By Jerome S. Handler. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 2002. 222 pp. $29.95. ISBN 1-58456-064-9. A testament to the value of Jerome Handler's work as a Caribbean studies archivist is the reprinting of his original Guide to Source...

The French in Texas: History, Migration, Culture.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Edited by Francois Lagarde. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. xiii, 330 pp. $55.00 (cloth), $24.95 (paper). ISBN 0-292-74734-9, 0-292-70528-X. The French in Texas is a collection of essays, twenty-one in all, describing many of the...

Letter to the editor.(Communications)(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2004... 4 September 2003 Dear Editor, I just finished Daniel Goldstein's "The Spirit of an Age: Iowa Public Libraries and Professional Librarians as Solutions to Society's Problems, 1890-1940" in Libraries & Culture 38/3 (Summer 2003).... ...

African bibliophiles: books and libraries in medieval Timbuktu.
January 1, 2004... The West African city of Timbuktu flourished as a center for Islamic scholarship from the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries. The social structure of the city was based on wealth, with further stratification by degree of literacy and...

Keeper of histories: the State Historical Society of Wisconsin library and its cultural work, 1860-1910.
January 1, 2004... Historical society libraries have remained a largely neglected area of library history. In this article, I examine the particular story of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin through the first two generations of its leadership to...

Edmund Janes James builds a library: the University of Illinois Library, 1904-1920.
January 1, 2004... Edmund Janes James was one of the most effective American university presidents of his generation in building an excellent university library. He had gained a strong reverence for German institutions, especially the ability of universities to...

Contributors.
January 1, 2004... Robert L. Dawson is a professor of French language and literature in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Texas at Austin, where he has taught since 1975. He holds an undergraduate degree in French from Trinity College,...

Form and Meaning in the History of the Book: Selected Essays.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Form and Meaning in the History of the Book: Selected Essays. By Nicolas Barker. London: British Library, 2003. xiii, 514 pp. [pounds sterling]50.00. ISBN 0-7123-4777-1. Nicolas Barker is the longtime editor of the Book Collector, the...

My Gracious Silence: Women in the Mirror of 16th Century Printing in Western Europe.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... My Gracious Silence: Women in the Mirror of 16th Century Printing in Western Europe. By Axel Erdmann. Lucerne: Gilhofer & Ranschburg, 1999. xxvii, 319 pp. $90.00. Axel Erdmann, a Swiss book dealer deeply familiar with the published record...

On Histories and Stories: Selected Essays.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... On Histories and Stories: Selected Essays. By A. S. Byatt. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000. 196 pp. $14.95 (paper). ISBN 0-674-00833-2. Not a book so much about libraries as a library unto itself, A. S. Byatt's collection...

The World's Best Books: Taste, Culture and the Modern Library.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... The World's Best Books: Taste, Culture and the Modern Library. By Jay Satterfield. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002. 240 pp. $29.95. ISBN 1-55849-353-0. At a time when many cultural critics bemoaned America's apathetic...

Printing Types: Their History, Forms, and Use.(Book Reviews)(Stephenson Blake: The Last of the Old English Typefounders)(Eric Gill in Ditchling)(British Wood Engraved Book Illustration 1904-1940: A Break with Tradition)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Printing Types: Their History, Forms, and Use. By Daniel Berkeley Updike. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, and London: British Library, 2001. Vol. 1, xlvi, 292 pp.; vol. 2, xix, 329 pp. $85.00 (cloth), $49.95 (paper). ISBN 1-58456-0606;...

The House of Blackwood: Author-Publisher Relations in the Victorian Era.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... The House of Blackwood: Author-Publisher Relations in the Victorian Era. By David Finkelstein. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2003. viii, 199 pp. $55.00. ISBN 0-271-02179-9. Readers of David Finkelstein's study of the...

In the Stacks: Short Stories about Libraries and Librarians.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... In the Stacks: Short Stories about Libraries and Librarians. Edited by Michael Cart. New York: Overlook Press, 2002. 268 pp. $26.95. ISBN 1-58567-259-9. In the Stacks is a carefully diverse selection of short stories about libraries and...

Accademie e Biblioteche d'Italia. Rivista del Ministero per i beni e le attivita culturali--Direzione generale per i beni librari e gli istituti culturali.(Book Reviews)(Periodical Review)
January 1, 2004... Accademie e Biblioteche d'Italia. Rivista del Ministero per i Beni e le attivita culturali-Direzione generale per i beni librari e gli istituti culturali. Anno LXIX (1[degrees] NUOVA SERIE). Nos. 1-2, Rome: Palombi Editori, 2001, 212 pp. Nos....

Knowledge and Knowing in Library and Information Science: A Philosophical Framework.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Knowledge and Knowing in Library and Information Science: A Philosophical Framework. By John M. Budd. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2001. 361 pp. $70.00 (cloth), $38.50 (paper). ISBN 0-8108-4031-3, ISBN 0-8108-4025-1. John M. Budd's...

Only Connect: Shaping Networks and Knowledge for the New Millennium.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Only Connect: Shaping Networks and Knowledge for the New Millennium. By Trevor Haywood. London: Bowker-Saur, 1999. 330 pp. $64.00. ISBN 1-85739-2167. Studies on the "current" state of technology often run the risk of finding themselves...

A Guide to Source Materials for the Study of Barbados History, 1627-1834.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... A Guide to Source Materials for the Study of Barbados History, 1627-1834. By Jerome S. Handler. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 2002. 222 pp. $29.95. ISBN 1-58456-064-9. A testament to the value of Jerome Handler's work as a Caribbean...

The French in Texas: History, Migration, Culture.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... The French in Texas: History, Migration, Culture. Edited by Francois Lagarde. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. xiii, 330 pp. $55.00 (cloth), $24.95 (paper). ISBN 0-292-74734-9, 0-292-70528-X. The French in Texas is a collection of...