Libraries & Culture articles from June 2004

Libraries & Culture archives from June 2004

Classification and the definition of a discipline: the Dewey Decimal Classification and home economics.
June 22, 2004... Few not directly involved with the history of home economics may be aware of Melvil Dewey's close involvement with that discipline's early development. Early leaders in home economics attempted to have the subject subdivided between its...

Welcome guests or representatives of the "mal-odorous class"? periodicals and their readers in American public libraries, 1876-1914.
June 22, 2004... This article documents the extensive debate between 1876 and 1914 about the role of periodicals in American public libraries as well as how libraries accommodated the ever-increasing flood of periodicals during this period. It argues that...

Historiography's horizon and imperative: the legacy of Febvrian Annales and library history as cultural history.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Lucien Febvre, lecteur et critique. By Bertrand Muller. Paris: Albin Michel, 2003. 467 pp. [euro]26. ISBN 2-226-13282-1. Were Clio to descend upon the shoulders of academic historical effort, she would undoubtedly discover that the...

The cover.
June 22, 2004... This pale yellow bookplate, 8.5 by 11.75 cm, is printed with the words "Presented to the Halifax Memorial Library by the North British Society of Halifax as a Centenary Memorial to Robert Louis Stevenson" and with a black line drawing of...

Contributors.
June 22, 2004... Anne M. Fields is an information services librarian and collection manager for education and an assistant professor at the Education, Human Ecology, Psychology & Social Work Library, Ohio State University in Columbus. She holds an undergraduate...

Libraries in Times of Utopian Thoughts and Social Protests-The Libraries of the Late 1960s and Early 1970s.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Libraries in Times of Utopian Thoughts and Social Protests-The Libraries of the Late 1960s and Early 1970s. Proceedings of the Conference, University College of Boras, 27-29 May 2002. Journal of Swedish Library Research 14, no. 3 (2002). Edited...

Archives and Libraries in the Ancient Near East 1500-300 b.c.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Archives and Libraries in the Ancient Near East 1500-300 b.c. By Olof Pedersen. Bethesda, Md.: CDL Press, 1998. xxii, 291 pp. $42.00. ISBN 1883053-390. Assyriology is the study of the languages, histories, and intellectual legacies of...

Horae Beatae Mariae ad usum Romanum (Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary Following the Roman Use), France, 1524.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Horae Beatae Mariae ad usum Romanum (Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary Following the Roman Use), France, 1524. Commentary by Christopher de Hamel. Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. Oakland, Calif.: Octavo Digital Editions,...

The Other Enlightenment: How French Women Became Modern.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... The Other Enlightenment: How French Women Became Modern. By Carla Hesse. Princeton, N.J., and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2001. xvii, 233 pp. $22.95 (paper). ISBN 0-691-11480-3. The social history of the book acquired new interest...

Great Natural History Books and Their Creators.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Great Natural History Books and Their Creators. By Ray Desmond. London: British Library; New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 2003. 176 pp. $39.95. ISBN 1-58456-090-8. Ray Desmond's book Great Natural History Books and Their Creators has as...

A History of the Golden Cockerel Press 1920-1960.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... A History of the Golden Cockerel Press 1920-1960. By Roderick Cave and Sarah Mason. London: British Library; New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 2002. xi, 279 pp. $98.00. ISBN 1-58456-09302. The Doves Press. By Marianne Tidcombe. London:...

William Shakespeare: Comedies, Histories & Tragedies, First Folio, London, 1623, Folger Shakespeare Library.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... William Shakespeare: Comedies, Histories & Tragedies, First Folio, London, 1623, Folger Shakespeare Library. Commentary by Arthur Freeman. Oakland, Calif.: Octavo Digital Editions, 2001. $75.00. ISBN 1-891788-30-2. Along with the Gutenberg...

Foreign-Language Printing in London 1500-1900.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Foreign-Language Printing in London 1500-1900. Edited by Barry Taylor. London: British Library, 2002. vii, 273 pp. [pounds sterling]30.00. ISBN 0-7123-1128-9. The history of foreign-language printing in London from 1500 to 1900 is...

Infinite Variety: Exploring the Folger Shakespeare Library.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Infinite Variety: Exploring the Folger Shakespeare Library. Edited by Esther Ferrington. Seattle: University of Washington Press. 222 pp. $35.00 (paper). ISBN 0-295-98232-2. In a 1940 address to the House of Representatives, Ross Alexander...

Apostles of Culture: The Public Librarian and American Society, 1876-1920.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Apostles of Culture: The Public Librarian and American Society, 1876-1920. 2nd ed. By Dee Garrison. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003. xxxiv, 319 pp. $24.99 (paper). ISBN 0-229-18114-6. This book was published in 1979 and has...

Sex Radicals and the Quest for Women's Equality.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Sex Radicals and the Quest for Women's Equality. By Joanne E. Passet. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2003. ix, 259 pp. $39.95. ISBN 0-252-02804-X. Sex Radicals and the Quest for Women's Equality takes a detailed look at the...

Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia. Edited by Sheldon Pollock. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. xxix, 1,066 pp. $80.00. ISBN 0-520-22821-9. Perhaps nowhere on earth are history, culture, language,...

Libraries in India's National Developmental Perspectives: A Saga of Fifty Years since Independence.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Libraries in India's National Developmental Perspectives: A Saga of Fifty Years since Independence. By Mohamed Taher. New Delhi: Concept Publishing, 2001. 569 pp. $45.00/Rs900-. ISBN 81-7022-842-5. Mohamed Taher's book is the culmination of...

Libraries Without Walls 4: The Delivery of Library Services to Distant Users.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Libraries Without Walls 4: The Delivery of Library Services to Distant Users. Proceedings of an International Conference, 14-18 September 2001, Organized by the Centre for Research in Library and Information Management, Manchester Metropolitan...

The Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... The Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy. By Joel Mokyr. Princeton, N.J., and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002. xiii, 359 pp. $35.00. ISBN 0-691-09483-7. In seven essays woven together by a theory of...

Reading and Reader Development: The Pleasure of Reading.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Reading and Reader Development: The Pleasure of Reading. By Judith Elkin, Briony Train, and Debbie Denham. London: Facet Publishing, 2003. xii, 241 pp. [pounds sterling]39.94. ISBN 1-85604-467-X. The authors claim at the outset the...

Time Maps: Collective Memory and the Social Shape of the Past.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Time Maps: Collective Memory and the Social Shape of the Past. By Eviatar Zerubavel. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. xii, 180 pp. $25.00. ISBN 0-226-98152-5. It would be unthinkable to speak of history or the past without...

Guide to the Collections, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Guide to the Collections, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. Edited by Margaret J. Barker. Austin: University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Center, 2003. 157 pp. $12.00. Published to coincide with the opening of the new reading...

Making Meaning: "Printers of the Mind" and Other Essays.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Making Meaning: "Printers of the Mind" and Other Essays. By Donald Francis McKenzie. Edited by Peter D. McDonald and Michael F. Suarez, S.J. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002. X, 286 pp. $70.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). ISBN...

The Promise of Cultural Institutions.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... The Promise of Cultural Institutions. By David Carr. Walnut Creek, Calif.: AltaMira Press, 2003. xxi, 213 pp. $24.95. ISBN 0-7591-0292-9 (paper). This, according to the foreword, is a "why to" book, a meditation on the underlying ethical...