Libraries & Culture articles from March 2006

Libraries & Culture archives from March 2006

"One cathedral more" or "mere lounging places for bummers"? The cultural politics of leisure and the public library in Gilded Age America.
March 22, 2006... This article contextualizes the history of public libraries during their formative periods, the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, within U.S. cultural history. It argues that the triumph of consumer capitalism, the dominance of hierarchy as an...

Growing up with books: Fanny Seward's book collecting, reading, and writing in mid-nineteenth-century New York State.
March 22, 2006... During her short life (1844-66) Fanny Seward, daughter of Lincoln's secretary of state, William Henry Seward, spent considerable time and energy on her personal library, her diaries, and her creative writing. Fanny Seward's reading was, she...

Mapping activities of artists in the past: a bibliometric study of the library of the Scandinavian Association in Rome until 1870.
March 22, 2006... The purpose of this study is to conduct a bibliometric analysis of the library collection at the Scandinavian Association in Rome. Data were gathered from the library catalog and then submitted to frequency and co-occurrence analyses. By...

Tradition and protean nature-journals and scholarly communication: a review essay.(JSTOR: A History)("Devant le Deluge" and Other Essays on Early Modern Scientific Communication)(Book review)
March 22, 2006... JSTOR: A History. By Roger C. Schonfeld. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2003. xxxiv, 412 pp. $29.95. ISBN 0-691-11531-1. "Devant le Deluge" and Other Essays on Early Modern Scientific Communication. By David A. Kronick....

The cover.(Tabard Inn Library, Philadelphia )
March 22, 2006... The Tabard Inn Library of Philadelphia was one segment of a series of entrepreneurial businesses that were the creation of the Canadian-born teacher Seymour Eaton (1859-1919). In Boston, his first American home, he began the Home Study Circle...

Publishing, Culture, and Power in Early Modern China.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Publishing, Culture, and Power in Early Modern China. By Kai-Wing Chow. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004. xv, 397 pp. $49.50. ISBN 0-8047-3367-8. Although China is credited for inventing movable type, woodblock printing...

Archives & nations dans l'Europe du XIXe siecle.(Archives and nations dans l'Europe du XIXe siecle)(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Archives & nations dans l'Europe du XIXe siecle. Compiled by Bruno Delmas and Christine Nougaret. Paris: Ecole des Chartes, 2004. 262 pp. [euro]30. ISBN 2-900791-65-0. One of the very first measures taken by the French Revolution, at the...

Libricide: The Regime-Sponsored Destruction of Books and Libraries in the Twentieth Century.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Libricide: The Regime-Sponsored Destruction of Books and Libraries in the Twentieth Century. By Rebecca Knuth. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2003. 277 pp. $39.95. ISBN 0-275-98088-X. "As good almost kill a man as kill a good book," wrote John...

Adventures in Russian Historical Research--Reminiscences of American Scholars from the Cold War to the Present.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Adventures in Russian Historical Research--Reminiscences of American Scholars from the Cold War to the Present. Edited by Samuel H. Baron and Cathy A. Frierson. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 2003. xxii, 272 pp. $72.95 (cloth), $27.95 (paper)....

Magna Commoditas: A History of the Leiden University Library, 1575-2005.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Magna Commoditas: A History of the Leiden University Library, 1575-2005. By Christane Berkvens-Stevelinck. Translated by Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen. Leiden: Primavera Pers, 2004. 112 pp. e13,50 (paper). ISBN 90-5997-005-5. Christane...

Widener: Biography of a Library.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Widener: Biography of a Library. By Matthew Battles. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004. xi, 201 pp. $50.00. ISBN 0-674-01668-8. In the preface of Widener: Biography of a Library Matthew Battles announces that "this is not a...

A True Politician: Rebecca Browning Rankin, Municipal Reference Librarian of the City of New York, 1920-1952.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... A True Politician: Rebecca Browning Rankin, Municipal Reference Librarian of the City of New York, 1920-1952. By Barry W. Seaver. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 2003. v, 218 pp. $45.00 (paper). ISBN 0-7864-1634-3. Barry W. Seaver's A...

Selected Works of Alfred K'aiming Ch'iu in Library Science. Harvard-Yenching Library Studies.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Selected Works of Alfred K'aiming Ch'iu in Library Science. Harvard-Yenching Library Studies, no. 2. Edited by Cheng Huanwen. Guangxi, China: Guangxi Normal University Press, 2003. 424 pp. $20.00, ISBN 7-5633-41927. This volume contains...

The La Trobe Journal: Redmond Barry Number.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... The La Trobe Journal: Redmond Barry Number, no. 73. Edited by John Barnes and Shane Carmody. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia: State Library of Victoria Foundation, 2004. 124 pp. Aus$65.00 per year. ISSN 1441-3760. Redmond Barry is hardly a...

American Masonic Periodicals, 1811-2001. A Bibliography of the Library of the Supreme Council, 33[degrees], S.J.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... American Masonic Periodicals, 1811-2001. A Bibliography of the Library of the Supreme Council, 33[degrees], SJ. By Larissa P. Watkins. New Castle, Del., and Washington, D.C.: Oak Knoll Press and the Library of the Supreme Council, 2003. xxxiii,...

The Literature of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: A Bibliography and Essays.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... The Literature of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: A Bibliography and Essays. Essays by Stephen Dow Beckham; bibliography by Doug Erickson, Jeremy Skinner, and Paul Merchant. Portland, Ore.: Lewis & Clark College, 2003. 315 pp. $75.00. ISBN...

Revue francaise d'histoire du livre.(Revue francaise d'histoire du livre, 118-21, "Le berceau du livre: autour des incunables")(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Revue francaise d'histoire du livre, 118-21, "Le berceau du livre: autour des incunables." Edited by Frederic Barbier. Geneva: Librairie Droz S.A., 2004. 472 pp. [euro]6.31 (paper). ISBN 2-600-00910-8. An introduction to the fascinating...

The List: The Uses and Pleasures of Cataloguing.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... The List: The Uses and Pleasures of Cataloguing. By Robert E. Belknap. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004. xviii + 252 pp. $27.50. ISBN 0-300-10383-2. The universe may be defined as a random series of interminable lists. Robert...

Stranded in the Present: Modern Time and the Melancholy of History.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Stranded in the Present: Modern Time and the Melancholy of History. By Peter Fritzsche. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004. 268 pp. $27.95 (cloth). ISBN 0-674-01339-5. In this densely written and timely book the author...

Le Livre & ses secrets.(Le Livre and ses secrets)(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Le Livre & ses secrets. By Jean-Francois Gilmont. Geneva, Switzerland: Librairie Droz, 2003. 437 pp. [euro] 45. ISBN 2-600-00876-4. Jean-Francois Gilmont's Le Livre & ses secrets is a welcome addition to a genre seldom explored in...

Pioneers and Leaders in Library Services to Youth: A Biographical Dictionary.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Pioneers and Leaders in Library Services to Youth: A Biographical Dictionary. Edited by Marilyn L. Miller. Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited, 2003. xvi, 207 pp. $40.00. ISBN 1-59158-028-5. From Ahlers to Woodworth, the biographies of...

Still Struggling for Equality: American Public Library Services with Minorities.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Still Struggling for Equality: American Public Library Services with Minorities. By Plummer A. Jones, Jr. Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited, 2004. xvii, 269 pp. $65.00. ISBN 1-59158-243-1. This book examines the historical evolution of...

Offrir Internet en bibliotheque publique.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Offrir Internet en bibliotheque publique. By Gaelle Enjalbert. Paris: Electre, 2002. 212 pp. [euro]38 (paper). ISBN 2-7654-0844-0. When the Internet's "true history" comes to be written, libraries will wish they knew how foreigners had...

No Trespassing: Authorship, Intellectual Property Rights, and the Boundaries of Globalization.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... No Trespassing: Authorship, Intellectual Property Rights, and the Boundaries of Globalization. By Eva Hemmungs Wirten. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. xii, 224 pp. $50.00. ISBN 0-8020-8835-X. Eva Hemmungs Wirten's No Trespassing...

Errata.(Correction notice)
March 22, 2006... In Libraries & Culture, Vol. 40, No. 3 (Summer 2005), pages 244-45, Table 2, "Shaw-Shoemaker Totals by Year" contained incorrect numbers. On page 245, beginning with the column under 1830, the numbers on the top and bottom rows are reversed....