Libraries & Culture articles from March 2001

Libraries & Culture archives from March 2001

Rebecca Browning Rankin uses radio to promote the Municipal Reference Library of the City of New York and the civic education of its citizens.(Biography)
March 22, 2001... This article examines the use of emerging technology by Rebecca Browning Rankin, the director of the Municipal Reference Library of the City of New York, to promote the resources and services of the library to its intended clients. When budget...

Trends in Philippine library history.
March 22, 2001... This essay divides Philippine library history into three periods, establishing a relationship between historical events and library trends. During the Spanish period, modern library trends were introduced through the establishment of the...

The decline and fall of the British country house library.
March 22, 2001... The libraries of British country houses have generally been neglected in terms of historical or bibliographic study even though they are among the most important examples of private library collections in the world. However, many collections...

The cover.
March 22, 2001... The new bookplate for the Sherlock Holmes Collections at the University of Minnesota Libraries is as inviting as the collections themselves. In the foreground left of the plate, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle looks out at the reader as if in welcome to...

The Great Libraries: From Antiquity to the Renaissance (3000 b.c. to 1600 a.d.).(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2001... The Great Libraries: From Antiquity to the Renaissance (3000 b.c. to 1600 a.d.). By Konstantinos Sp. Staikos, preface by Helene Ahrweiler. Translated by Timothy Cullen from the Greek ed. of 1996. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press and London:...

Public Records & Archives in Classical Athens.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2001... Public Records & Archives in Classical Athens. By James P. Sickinger. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. x, 274 pp. $49.95. ISBN 0-8078-2469-0. Well steeped in the topic of Athenian public records by his...

Women and the Book: Assessing the Visual Evidence.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2001... Women and the Book: Assessing the Visual Evidence. Edited by Lesley Smith and Jane H. M. Taylor. London: British Library and Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997. 287 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper). ISBN 0-8020-8069-3. This...

English University Life in the Middle Ages.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2001... English University Life in the Middle Ages. By Alan Cobban. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1999. xi, 264 pp. $45.00. ISBN 0-8142-0826-6. Author of several previous articles and books on medieval universities, Alan Cobban now...

Leuven in Books, Books in Leuven: The Oldest University of the Low Countries and Its Library.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2001... Leuven in Books, Books in Leuven: The Oldest University of the Low Countries and Its Library. Edited by Christian Coppens. Louvain, Belgium: Louvain University Press, 1999. 324 pp. 1700 BEF (42.14 EURO). ISBN 90-6186-951-X. Leuven in...

Storia della Biblioteca Universitaria di Napoli: dal Viceregno spagnolo all'Unita d'Italia.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2001... Storia della Biblioteca Universitaria di Napoli: dal Viceregno spagnolo all'Unita d'Italia. By Vincenzo Trombetta. Istituto Italiano per Gli Studi Filosofici, Crisopoli, 1. Naples, Italy: Vivarium, 1995. 293 pp. L. 65.000. ISBN 88-85239-22-6....

Eighteenth-Century Monastic Libraries in Southern Germany and Austria: Architecture and Decorations.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2001... Eighteenth-Century Monastic Libraries in Southern Germany and Austria: Architecture and Decorations. By Eric Garberson. Baden-Baden: Verlag Valentin Koerner, 1998. xi, 264 pp. DM 240.00. ISBN 3-87320-437-1. Eric Garberson's...

The Darnton Debate: Books and Revolution in the Eighteenth Century.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2001... The Darnton Debate: Books and Revolution in the Eighteenth Century. Edited by Haydn T. Mason. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1998. ix, 305 pp. $60.00. ISBN 0-7294-0566-4. This volume comprises thirteen essays of somewhat uneven quality, but...

Kegan Paul, A Victorian Imprint.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2001... Kegan Paul, A Victorian Imprint. By Leslie Howsam. London: Kegan Paul International and Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. xxvi, 218 pp. $45.00. ISBN 0-8020-4126-4. Kegan Paul was widely regarded at the end of the nineteenth...

A History of the Book in America, Volume One: The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2001... A History of the Book in America, Volume One: The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World. Edited by Hugh Armory and David D. Hall. New York: Cambridge University Press, in association with the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass., 2000....

Mexican Americans in Texas History.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2001... Mexican Americans in Texas History. Edited by Emilio Zamora, Cynthia Orozco, and Rodolfo Rocha. Austin: Texas State-Historical Association, 2000. 226 pp. $15.95 (paper). 0-87611-174-6. A library historian looks for evidence and mention of...

The Book on the Bookshelf.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2001... The Book on the Bookshelf. By Henry Petroski. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. x, 290 pp. $26.00. ISBN 0-375-40649-2. From a contemporary perspective, it is difficult to imagine books being stored any way other than vertically on shelves,...

Journeys through the Market: Travel, Travellers and the Book Trade.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2001... Journeys through the Market: Travel, Travellers and the Book Trade. Edited by Robin Myers and Michael Harris. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 1999. xiii, 152 pp. $39.95. ISBN 1-58456-014-2. The bare title announcement of this work was...

Technology and Scholarly Communication.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2001... Technology and Scholarly Communication. Edited by Richard Ekman and Richard E. Quandt. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. xi, 442 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). ISBN 0-520-21763-2. Technology is changing how scholars work....

America's Library: The Story of the Library of Congress, 1800-2000.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2001... America's Library: The Story of the Library of Congress, 1800-2000. By James Conway. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, in association with the Library of Congress, 2000. xiii, 226 pp. $39.95. ISSN 0732-3257. The bicentennial...