Libraries & Culture articles from June 2000

Libraries & Culture archives from June 2000

Andrew Carnegie and academic library philanthropy: the case of Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida.
June 22, 2000... In addition to his gifts of more than two thousand public libraries to communities across the country, Andrew Carnegie donated 108 libraries to our nation's colleges and universities. These donations are significant because they reflect two of...

The English parish library: a celebration of diversity.
June 22, 2000... This essay examines the nature and history of English parish or parochial Libraries from their medieval origins to the 1709 Parish Libraries Act, inspired by Thomas Bray, and his involvement in the development of fixed parish libraries by the...

Advocate for access: Lutie Stearns and the traveling libraries of the Wisconsin Free Library Commission, 1895-1914.
June 22, 2000... In late-nineteenth-century America, access to print varied widely between urban and rural areas. The Wisconsin Free Library Commission (WFLC) set out to provide reading materials to Wisconsin's rural inhabitants through a system of traveling...

The cover.
June 22, 2000... The Devonshire library, donated to the new Derby Free Library in 1881, was the first of two great local history collections that form the backbone of the present Derbyshire Collection of Derby Library. That first Derbyshire-themed collection,...

Libraries, Immigrants, and the American Experience. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2000... Libraries, Immigrants, and the American Experience. By Plummer Alston Jones Jr. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999. xi, 236 pp. $59.95. ISBN 0-313-30769-5. Plummer Alston Jones Jr. is director of library services at Catawba University...

The Book and the Sword: A Life of Learning in the Shadow of Destruction. (Book Reviews).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... The Book and the Sword: A Life of Learning in the Shadow of Destruction. By David Weiss Halivni. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1998. 199 pp. $15.00 (pbk.). ISBN 0-8133-3465-9. A noted scholar of classical Jewish civilization at Columbia...

The Bible as Book: The Manuscript Tradition. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2000... The Bible as Book: The Manuscript Tradition. Edited by John L. Sharpe III and Kimberly Van Kampen. London: British Library, and New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 1998. xi, 26O pp. $55.00. ISBN 0-7123-4522-1 (British Library) and 1-884718-38-8...

Medicine, Mortality and the Book Trade. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2000... Medicine, Mortality and the Book Trade. Edited by Robin Myers and Michael Hams. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 1998. xii, 158 pp. $39.95. ISBN 1-884718-81-7. Medicine, Mortality and the Book Trade is a collection of seven essays which...

The Vespasiano Memoirs: Lives of Illustrious Men of the XVth Century and Commerce with the Classics: Ancient Books and Renaissance Readers. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2000... The Vespasiano Memoirs: Lives of Illustrious Men of the XVth Century. By Vespasiano da Bisticci; translated by William George and Emily Waters. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997. xvi, 476 pp. $22.50 (pbk.) ISBN 9-780802-079688. ...

The Development of Greek Biography. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2000... The Development of Greek Biography. Expanded edition. By Arnaldo Momigliano. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993. xii, 143 pp. $16.00 (pbk.) ISBN 0-674-20041-1. Harvard University Press has reprinted Arnaldo Momigliano's Carl...

L'Edition rouennaise et ses marches (vers 1600-vers 1730): dynamisme provincial et centralisme parisien. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2000... L'Edition rouennaise et ses marches (vers 1600-vers 1730): dynamisme provincial et centralisme parisien. By Jean-Dominique Mellot. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 1998. Memoires et documents de l'Ecole des Chartes no. 48. 816 pp. SFr 75. ISBN...

Ireland and the French Enlightenment: 1700-1800 and Print and Popular Culture in Ireland: 1750-1850. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2000... Ireland and the French Enlightenment, 1700-1800. Edited by Graham Gargett and Geraldine Sheridan. Hampshire and London: Macmillan Press, and New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. xvii, 293 pp. $65.00. ISBN 0-312-22030-8. Print and Popular...

Border Life: Experience and Memory in the Revolutionary Ohio Valley. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2000... Border Life: Experience and Memory in the Revolutionary Ohio Valley. By Elizabeth A. Perkins. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xiv, 253 pp. $45.00. ISBN 0-8078-4703-8. In the last third of the eighteenth century,...

The Library, Philanthropy, Publications, and UNC's Emergence as a Major American University. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2000... The Library, Philanthropy, Publications, and UNC's Emergence as a Major American University. The Twelfth Hanes Lecture. By Edward G. Holley. Chapel Hill: Hanes Foundation, Rare Book Collection, Academic Affairs Library, University of North...

Story: From Fireplace to Cyberspace and Two Pioneers of Young Adult Library Services. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2000... Story: From Fireplace to Cyberspace. Edited by Betsy Hearne, Janice M. Del Negro, Christine Jenkins, and Deborah Stevenson. Urbana-Champaign: Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois, 1998. 143 pp. $21.95. ISBN...

Anaconda's Treasure: The Hearst Free Library. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2000... Anaconda's Treasure: The Hearst Free Library. By Marian Geil. Anaconda, Mont.: Hearst Free Library, 1998. viii, 136 pp. $16.24. ISBN 0-9664922-0-x. Some of the very first public libraries in South Dakota and Montana were the Hearst public...

Dictionary of American Antiquarian Bookdealers. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2000... Dictionary of American Antiquarian Bookdealers. By Donald C. Dickinson. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998. xv, 273 pp. $75.00. ISBN 0-313-26675-1. A worthy complement to the author's respected and widely used Dictionary of American...

History as a Profession: The Study of History in France, 1818-1914. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2000... History as a Profession: The Study of History in France, 1818-1914. By Pim Den Boer. Translated by Arnold J. Pomerans. Princeton, NJ.: Princeton University Press, 1998. xv, 470 pp. $65.00. ISBN 0-691-03339-0. While France had a royal...

Understanding Community Librarianship: The Public Library in Post-Modern Britain. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2000... Understanding Community Librarianship: The Public Library in Post-Modern Britain. By Alistair Black and Dave Muddiman. Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, 1997. xi, 173 pp. $59.95. ISBN 1-85972-243-1. Alistair Black and Dave Muddiman...

Enrichment: A History of the Public Library in the United States in the Twentieth Century. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2000... Enrichment: A History of the Public Library in the United States in the Twentieth Century. By Lowell Martin. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 1998. x, 205 pp. $35.00. ISBN 0-8108-3403-0. This book is one man's view of the evolution of public...

The Principles of Information Ethics. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2000... The Principles of Information Ethics. By Richard W. Severson. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1997. ix, 161 pp. $54.95. ISBN 1-56324-957-X (pbk. $18.95. ISBN 1-56324-958-8). As information technologies proliferate, information professionals...

Daring to Find Our Names: The Search for Lesbigay History. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2000... Daring to Find Our Names: The Search for Lesbigay History. Edited by James Vinson Carmichael. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1998. xiv, 251 pp. $59.95. ISBN 0-313-29963-3. Collections of essays on gay history often have the...

Scholarly Book Reviewing in the Social Sciences and Humanities: The Flow of Ideas Within and Among Disciplines. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2000... Scholarly Book Reviewing in the Social Sciences and Humanities: The Flow of Ideas Within and Among Disciplines. By Ylva Lindholm-Romantschuk. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998. ix, 152 pp. $55.00. ISBN 0-313-29514-X. Unlike most of us...

Library and Information Science Annual, vol. 6, 1998. (Book Reviews).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... Library and Information Science Annual, Volume 6, 1998. Edited by Bohdan S. Wynar et al. Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1998. xvi, 308 pp. $65.00. ISSN 8755-2108; ISBN 1-56308-609-3. Readers of this journal who care about the...

Libraries Through the Ages. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2000... Libraries Through the Ages. By Frederick Lerner. New York: Continuum, 1999. 160 pp. $15.95. ISBN 0-8264-1201-7. Several large questions frame this slender volume of library history for youth. In the introduction, the author raises the...