Libraries & Culture articles from March 2004

Libraries & Culture archives from March 2004

"The whole tragedy of leisure in penury": the South Wales miners' institute libraries during the Great Depression.
March 22, 2004... From the late 1860s, the mining communities of South Wales developed a distinctive form of general library linked to well over a hundred miners' institutes. These libraries were genuine working-class facilities, largely funded, run, and managed...

"This Year--Richmond!": the 1936 meeting of the American Library Association.
March 22, 2004... At ALA's 1936 conference in Richmond, Virginia, librarians faced issues of professional identity, technological advance, and societal change. Meeting in the South and led by southerner Louis Round Wilson, attendees focused on the extension...

The genesis of the modern academic library in China: Western influences and the Chinese response.
March 22, 2004... From early antiquity through the end of the nineteenth century, the primary missions of Chinese imperial and private libraries were to collect and preserve books and documents. Except for a few isolated historical periods, these libraries...

The literature of American library history, 2001-2002.
March 22, 2004... The past is never dead. It's not even past. William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun Books collide-- Or books in a library do: Marlowe by Charlotte Mew, Sir Horace Walpole by Hugh; The most unlikely writers stand shoulder...

The cover.(Cover Story)
March 22, 2004... The lively and distinctive cowboy design featured on the 8.5-by-10-cm Irving H. "Larry" Larom (1889-1973) bookplate of the McCracken Research Library was adapted in 1992 from an old carved and painted wooden sign from the Valley Ranch near...

Contributors.
March 22, 2004... Chris Baggs is a lecturer in the Department of Information Studies at the University of Wales in Aberystwyth. He holds an undergraduate degree in German language and literature from University College, London, where he also earned a master's...

Libraries as Agencies of Culture (American Studies 42, no. 3 [fall 2001]).(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Libraries as Agencies of Culture (American Studies 42, no. 3 [fall 2001]). Edited by Thomas Augst and Wayne A. Wiegand. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003. 211 pp. $19.95. ISBN 0-299-18304-1. This book is the best collection of...

Reading on the Middle Border: The Culture of Print in Late-Nineteenth-Century Osage, Iowa.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Reading on the Middle Border: The Culture of Print in Late-Nineteenth-Century Osage, Iowa. By Christine Pawley. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001. xi, 265 pp. $39.95. ISBN 1-55849-275-5. In memoirs of rural life, reading is...

From Revolution to Revolution: Perspectives on Publishing & Bookselling 1501-2001.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... From Revolution to Revolution: Perspectives on Publishing & Bookselling 1501-2001. By Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine B. Stern. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 2002. 192 pp. $39.95. ISBN 1-58456-074-6. Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine B....

Libraries to the People: Histories of Outreach.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Libraries to the People: Histories of Outreach. Edited by Robert S. Freeman and David V. Hovde. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland and Company, 2003. x, 245 pp. $39.95. ISBN 0-7864-1359-X. We live in an information age, yet pockets of people remain...

Perspectives on American Book History: Artifacts and Commentary.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Perspectives on American Book History: Artifacts and Commentary. Edited by Scott E. Casper, Joanne D. Chaison, and Jeffrey D. Groves. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002. ix, 461 pp. $70.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). ISBN...

James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps: The Life and Works of the Shakespearean Scholar and Bookman.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps: The Life and Works of the Shakespearean Scholar and Bookman. By Marvin Spevack. New Castle, Del., and London: Oak Knoll Press and Shepheard-Walwyn, 2001. 624 pp. $49.95. ISBN 1-58456-051-7. James Orchard...

Books in the Blood: Memoirs of a Fourth Generation Bookseller.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Books in the Blood: Memoirs of a Fourth Generation Bookseller. By Anthony Rota. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Books, 2002. 313 pp. $35.00. ISBN 1-58456-076-2. Early on in Books in the Blood: Memoirs of a Fourth Generation Bookseller, Anthony...

The Night Before Christmas: A Descriptive Bibliography of Clement Clarke Moore's Immortal Poem.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... The Night Before Christmas: A Descriptive Bibliography of Clement Clarke Moore's Immortal Poem. By Nancy H. Marshall. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 2002. xlviii, 279 pp. +24 pp. of color plates. $75.00. ISBN 1-58456-071-1. Nancy H....

The Victorian Illustrated Book.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... The Victorian Illustrated Book. Edited by Richard Maxwell. Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2002. 440 pp. $45.00 (cloth). ISBN 0-8139-2097-3. As the author of one of the essays in this...

The Kynoch Press: The Anatomy of a Printing House 1876-1981.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... The Kynoch Press: The Anatomy of a Printing House 1876-1981. By Caroline Archer. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press. 2001. xviii, 222 pp. $49.95. ISBN 1-58456-046-0. Beginning as an in-house printer of sporting and military cartridge...

The Descent of Ideas: The History of Intellectual History.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... The Descent of Ideas: The History of Intellectual History. By Donald R. Kelley. Hampshire, England: Ashgate, 2002. vii, 320 pp. $59.95. ISBN 0-7546-0776-3. Donald Kelley's lucid and ambitious study outlines the disciplinary roots of...

Historical Information Science: An Emerging Unidiscipline.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Historical Information Science: An Emerging Unidiscipline. By Lawrence J. McCrank. Medford, N.J.: Information Today, 2001. vii, 1,192 pp. $149.50. ISBN 1-57387-071-4. This lengthy bibliographic essay analyzes the ongoing confluence of...

The Dynamics of Change: A History of the Washington State Library.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... The Dynamics of Change: A History of the Washington State Library. By Maryan E. Reynolds with Joel Davis. Pullman: Washington State University Press, 2001. xii, 244 pp. $18.95 (paper). ISBN 0-97422-248-6. In 2002 Washington governor Gary...

On Doing Local History.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... On Doing Local History. 2nd ed. By Carol Kammen. Walnut Creek, Calif.: AltaMira Press, 2003. xv, 188 pp. $70.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). ISBN 0-7591-0252-X; 0-7591-0253-8. True to its title, On Doing Local History is a practical guide for...

Time Capsules: A Cultural History.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Time Capsules: A Cultural History. By William E. Jarvis. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland and Company, 2003. vii, 321 pp. $39.95. ISBN 0-7864-1261-5. Time capsules are part of the ephemeral drollery of contemporary popular culture, here today,...