Libraries & Culture articles from June 2003

Libraries & Culture archives from June 2003

False optimism: modernity, class, and the public library in Britain in 1960s and 1970s.
June 22, 2003... In the late 1950s, the long-awaited postwar expansion in British public library services got under way. During the 1960s and 1970s, librarians and library planners became strongly optimistic about the public library's "modern" future. In...

The spirit of an age: Iowa public libraries and professional librarians as solutions to society's problems, 1890-1940.
June 22, 2003... Iowa public libraries flourished during the twenty-five years after 1890. Their prosperity resulted from the ability of the library leadership, working within a national context, to articulate a compelling argument that public libraries and...

Behind adobe walls and iron bars: the Utah Territorial Penitentiary library.
June 22, 2003... Drawing upon a wealth of detail recorded in the writings of imprisoned Mormon polygamists and other published and unpublished records from the Utah Territorial Penitentiary, we get a glimpse of the educational and intellectual life of an inmate...

What we wrote about and who we were: historical writings in JLH/L&C, 1966-2000.(Journal of Library History, Libraries & Culture)
June 22, 2003... When studying the work of the Masters, I watch the working of their minds. --Lu Chi, Wen Fu It has been said that the mansion of history contains many rooms. If this is so, then we can safely assume that the room devoted to...

The cover.(National Sporting Library, Middleburg, Virginia)
June 22, 2003... The National Sporting Library, established in 1954 in Middleburg, Virginia, is devoted to turf and field sports. Driving through rolling green hills dotted with horses, one arrives at the library to find that the antique weathervane atop the...

The Bible as Book: the First Printed Editions.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Edited by Paul Saenger and Kimberly Van Kampen. London and New Castle, Del.: British Library and Oak Knoll Press, with the Scriptorium, Center for Christian Antiquities, 1999. xii, 164 pp. $55.00. ISBN 1-88471-892-2 (Oak Knoll) and...

Letters and Orations, Cassandra Fedele.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Edited and translated by Diana Robin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. xxvi, 181 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $15.00 (paper). ISBN 0-226-23932-2. By translating the Latin letters and orations of Cassandra Fedele (1465-1558), classicist...

Mercaderes e impresores de libros en la Salamanca del siglo XVI.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... By Marta de la Mano Gonzalez. Acta Salmanticensia, Estudios Historicos & Geograficos, 106. Salamanca, Spain: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 1998. 268 pp. PTA 3.300. ISBN 84-7481-898-2. This book, along with Clive Griffin's The...

The Moving Market: Continuity and Change in the Book Trade.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Edited by Peter Isaac and Barry McKay. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 2001. xiv, 201 pp. $39.95. ISBN 1-58456-052-5. The Moving Market: Continuity and Change in the Book Trade takes a look at how the book trade has played a significant...

Purity in Print: Book Censorship in America from the Gilded Age to the Computer Age.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... By Paul S. Boyer. 2nd ed. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002. xxvix, 466 pp. $21.95. ISBN 0-299-17584-7. Censorship in one form or another has been a continuing theme in American history since the arrival of the earliest settlers....

For Love of the Binding: Studies in Bookbinding History Presented to Mirjam Foot.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Edited by David Pearson. London and New Castle, Del.: British Library and Oak Knoll Press, 2000. xiv, 394 pp. $135.00. ISBN 1-58456-035-5. For Love of the Binding is comprised of twenty-six essays written on the subject of bookbinding...

Who Owns Academic Work? Battling for Control of Intellectual Property.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... By Corynne McSherry. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001. 275 pp. $29.95. ISBN 0-674-00629-1. Corynne McSherry, a law student at Stanford University, explores the complicated world of intellectual property rights and copyright...

Academic Research on the Internet: Options for Scholars and Libraries.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Edited by Helen Laurence and William Miller. Binghamton, N.Y.: Haworth Information Press, 2000. 386 pp. $79.95 (cloth); $49.95 (paper). ISBN 0-7890-1177-8. Far from being an oxymoron, academic research on the Internet has become an...

Collecting Nature: the American Environmental Movement and the Conservation Library.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... By Andrew Glen Kirk. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001. xix, 243 pp. $35.00. ISBN 0-7006-1123-1. Andrew Glen Kirk, assistant professor of history and public history coordinator at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, chronicles the...

Librarianship - Quo Vadis? Opportunities and Dangers as We Face the New Millennium.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... By Herbert S. White. Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 2000. xxxvi, 393 pp. $65.00. ISBN 1-56308-807-X. "It will not surprise readers to know that, while both my views and my professional activities made me highly visible within ALA...

Ethics and Librarianship.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... By Robert Hauptman. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2002. x, 151 pp. $35.00 (paper). ISBN 0-7864-1306-9. You still can't judge a book by its cover. The cover of Ethics and Librarianship is very, very nice. Robert Hauptman's book is...

Glossar bibliothekarischer Fachtermini Arabisch-Deutsch/Fihris al-Mustala hat al-Maktabiyah 'Arab-Almani.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... By Hanna Repp. Landesspracheninstitut Nordrhein-Westfalen Lehrmaterialien, Band 4.5. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2001. 215 pp. 39 [euro]. ISBN 3-447-04388-1. This volume's modest title, An Arabic-German Glossary of Technical Terms for...

A Brief History of the Future of Libraries: an Annotated Bibliography.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... By Gregg Sapp. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2002. xl, 295 pp. $65.00. ISBN 0-8108-4196-7. If you are like most folk, even librarians, you likely think that reading annotated bibliographies is worse than enduring a prison sentence. But...