Libraries & Culture articles from June 2001

Libraries & Culture archives from June 2001

Men of energy and snap: the origins and early years of the Billings Public Library.(Parmly Billings Public Library)
June 22, 2001... This essay examines the origins and early years of the Parmly Billings Public Library. The author considers the creation of the library in relation to the funding and growth of Billings, Montana. Indeed, libraries are seen as one aspect of a...

Collection development in public and university libraries of the former German Democratic Republic since German unification.
June 22, 2001... 9 November 1999 marked the ten-year anniversary of the German Wende, the peaceful revolution that preceded the unification of East and West Germany. The impact of this change on East German library collections, the book market, and higher...

"Illumino" for all: opening the library association of Portland to the public, 1900-1903.
June 22, 2001... This essay explores the establishment of public library service in Portland, Oregon, which occurred when the Library Association of Portland, a private subscription library, opened to the public in 1902. Four main elements of the transition are...

The cover.
June 22, 2001... In its rooms the lover of literature, the curious and imaginative, the student of history and even the cormorant of current events may find pleasant opportunity and abundant means to gratify their tastes and desires and enjoy...

The Library of Alexandria: Centre of Learning in the Ancient World.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 22, 2001... The Library of Alexandria: Centre of Learning in the Ancient World. Edited by Roy MacLeod. London and New York: I. B. Tauris Publishers, 2000. xii, 196 pp. $55.00. ISBN 1-86064-428-7. This collection of essays is indicative of a renewed...

Les Livres de Claude Dupuy: Une bibliotheque humaniste au temps des guerres de religion.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 22, 2001... Les Livres de Claude Dupuy: Une bibliotheque humaniste au temps des guerres de religion. By Jerome Delatour. Paris: Editions de I'Enssib and L'Ecole des Chartes, 1998. xvii, 344 pp. 200 F. ISBN 2-910227-22-7. Serendipity: "the faculty of...

Le Droit d'auteur et les bibliotheques.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 22, 2001... Le Droit d'auteur et les bibliotheques. Edited by Yves Alix. Paris: Editions du Cercle de la Librairie, 2000. 237 pp. 210 F. ISBN 2-7654-0785-1. This book was written as a group effort by French librarians and a lawyer to try and explain...

The Archeology of Medieval Bookbinding.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 22, 2001... The Archeology of Medieval Bookbinding. By J. A. Szirmai. Aldershot, England, and Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, 1999. xvi, 352 pp. $149.50. ISBN 0-85967-904-7. This publication is a textbook on the structure of early codex...

The Bible as Book: The Reformation.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 22, 2001... The Bible as Book: The Reformation. Edited by Orlaith O'Sullivan. London: British Library, and New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 2000. x, 181 pp. $55.00. ISBN 1-58456-025-8. Third in the Bible as Book series, this volume contains essays...

La Preuve par les fleurons? Analyse comparee du materiel ornemental des imprimeurs suisses romands, 1775-1785.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 22, 2001... La Preuve par les fleurons? Analyse comparee du materiel ornemental des imprimeurs suisses romands, 1775-1785 (Identifying presses by their ornaments? A comparative analysis of typographical ornaments used by Francophone Swiss publishers,...

Sister Revolutions: French Lightning, American Light.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 22, 2001... Sister Revolutions: French Lightning, American Light. By Susan Dunn. New York: Faber and Faber, 1999. xi, 258 pp. $26.00. ISBN 0-571-19900-3. Susan Dunn is an elegant writer, and her Sister Revolutions is among the best introductions...

Bibliothekswissenschaft in Berlin.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 22, 2001... Bibliothekswissenschaft in Berlin. By Horst Kunze, Engelbert Plassmann, Renate Rohde, Walter Umstatter, and Peter Zahn. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 1999. 147 pp. DM 78,00. ISBN 3-447-04210-9. Library science has a rich tradition in...

A History of Reading in the West.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 22, 2001... A History of Reading in the West. Edited by Guglielmo Cavallo and Roger Chartier. Translated by Lydia G. Cochrane. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999. x, 478 pp. $40.00. ISBN 1-55849-213-5. This collection of authoritative...

Making Books: Design in British Publishing since 1940.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 22, 2001... Making Books: Design in British Publishing since 1940. By Alan Bartram. London: The British Library and New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 1999. 160 pp. $39.95. ISBN 0-7123-4633-3 (The British Library) and 1-884718-93-0 (Oak Knoll Press). ...