Libraries & Culture articles from March 2000

Libraries & Culture archives from March 2000

James Alfred Pearce and the question of a national library in antebellum America.
March 22, 2000... The question of a national library received much attention in antebellum America, with a number of writers calling for one to be established either at the Library of Congress or the new Smithsonian Institution. An overlooked but very...

Museums, management, media, and memory: lessons from the Enola Gay exhibition.
March 22, 2000... A plethora of articles discussing the development of and controversy resulting from the Smithsonian Institution's ENOLA GAY exhibition has been published. Experts from such diverse fields as museum studies, journalism, psychiatry, and history...

The literature of American library history, 1997-1998.
March 22, 2000... A library is thought in cold storage. Herbert Samuel A library implies an act of faith. Victor Hugo It takes courage to be an historian. Striding forth from the comfortable knowledge of our own time and place to explore the mysteries...

The cover.
March 22, 2000... The Great Chicago Fire of 8 and 9 October 1871 destroyed the Chicago College of Pharmacy, its library, and the editorial offices and back files of the Pharmacist and Chemical Record published by the Chicago College of Pharmacy. The college was...

Untold Stories: Civil Rights, Libraries, and Black Librarianship. (Book Reviews).
March 22, 2000... Untold Stories: Civil Rights, Libraries, and Black Librarianship. Edited by John Mark Tucker. Champaign: Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois Press, 1998. 210 pp. $27.00 (paper). ISBN 0-87845-104-8. ...

The Story of Libraries: From the Invention of Writing to the Computer Age. (Book Reviews).
March 22, 2000... The Story of Libraries: From the Invention of Writing to the Computer Age. By Fred Lerner. New York: Continuum Publishing Co., 1998.246 pp. $24.95. ISBN 0-8264-1114-2. Library history has needed a brief but engaging overview, a successor...

How Writing Came About. (Book Reviews).
March 22, 2000... How Writing Came About. By Denise Schmandt-Besserat. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996. xiv, 193 pp. $19.95. ISBN 0-292-77704-3. How Writing Came About is an abridged version of Schmandt-Besserat's earlier work Before Writing, Volume...

Guardians of Language: The Grammarian and Society in Late Antiquity. (Book Reviews).
March 22, 2000... Guardians of Language: The Grammarian and Society in Late Antiquity. By Robert A. Kaster. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997. xxi, 524 pp. $24.95 (paper). ISBN 0-520-21225-8 First published in 1988 to critical...

A History of the Byzantine State and Society. (Book Reviews).
March 22, 2000... A History of the Byzantine State and Society. By Warren Treadgold. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997. xix, 1,019 pp. $79.50 ISBN 0-8047-2421-0 Warren Treadgold's massive work is the long-awaited successor to George...

Jean Calvin et le Livre Imprime. (Book Reviews).
March 22, 2000... Jean Calvin et le Livre Imprime. By Jean-Francois Gilmont. Geneva, Switzerland: Librairie Droz, 1997. 412 pp. 40.80 Fr. ISBN 2-600-00205-7. Scrutinizing the Opera Calviniana, namely, the letters and the records of the Conseil and the...

France in the Enlightenment. (Book Reviews).
March 22, 2000... France in the Enlightenment. By Daniel Roche, translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998. 723 pp. $39.95. ISBN 0-674-31747-5. Between the death of Louis XIV in 1715 and the beginning of the French...

Tocqueville and the French. (Book Reviews).
March 22, 2000... Tocqueville and the French. By Francoise Melonio, translated by Beth G. Raps. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998. xc, 300 pp. $37.50. ISBN 0-18139-1778-6. This is not a biography of Alexis de Tocqueville but, rather, a...

Les Bibliotheques en France, 1991-1997. (Book Reviews).
March 22, 2000... Les Bibliotheques en France, 1991-1997. Edited by Dominique Arot. Paris: Editions du Cercle de la Librairie, 1998. 315 pp. 250 F. ISBN 2-7654-0706-1. This book fills a gap in the library science literature in France as opposed to Great...

Print Culture in a Diverse America. (Book Reviews).
March 22, 2000... Print Culture in a Diverse America. Edited by James P. Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1998. x, 291 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $27.95 (paper). ISBN 0-252-06699-5. Danky and Wiegand, codirectors of the Center...

Making the Modern Reader. Cultural Mediation in Early Modern Literary Anthologies. (Book Reviews).
March 22, 2000... Making the Modern Reader. Cultural Mediation in Early Modern Literary Anthologies. By Barbara M. Benedict. Princeton, NJ.: Princeton University Press, 1996. ix, 252 pp. $39.50. ISBN 0-691-02578-9. The anthology has been around at least...

Silencing Scientists and Scholars in Other Fields: Power, Paradigm Controls, Peer Review, and Scholarly Communication. (Book Reviews).
March 22, 2000... Silencing Scientists and Scholars in Other Fields: Power, Paradigm Controls, Peer Review, and Scholarly Communication. By Gordon Moran. Greenwich, Conn.: Ablex Publishing, 1998. xiii, 187 pp. $73.75. ISBN 1-56750-342-X. This is a difficult...

Librarians in Fiction: A Critical Bibliography. (Book Reviews).
March 22, 2000... Librarians in Fiction: A Critical Bibliography. By Grant Burns. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 1998. 185 pp. $25.00 (paper). ISBN 0-7864-0499-X. Ever wonder whether anyone has bothered to document an actual basis for the pervasive...

Frank Lloyd Wright: In Word and Form. (Book Reviews).
March 22, 2000... Frank Lloyd Wright: In Word and Form. By David Michael Hertz. New York: G. K. Hall & Co. 1995. xiii, 171 pp. $45.00. ISBN 0-8161-0536-7. Among the many studies devoted to Frank Lloyd Wright, this work is a welcome contribution. Hertz has...

Economie et bibliotheques. (Book Reviews).
March 22, 2000... Economie et bibliotheques. Edited by Jean-Michel Salaun. Paris: Editions du Cercle de la Librairie, 1997. 234 pp. 195 F. ISBN 2-7654-0670-7. Le Patrimoine: Histoire, partiques et perspectives. Edited by Jean-Paul Oddos. Paris: Editions du...

Puss in Books: Adventures of the Library Cat. (Book Reviews).
March 22, 2000... Puss in Books: Adventures of the Library Cat. By Gary Roma. Waltham, Mass.: Iron Frog Productions, 1997. 30-minute videotape. $24.95. Informative, funny, moving-these are a few appropriate adjectives one could use to describe Puss in...