Libraries & Culture articles from September 2000

Libraries & Culture archives from September 2000

A. Robert Rogers: the influence of his Canadianism on his work as a library educator.
September 22, 2000... A. Robert Rogers (1927-85) is often remembered for his accomplishments as professor at and dean of the School of Library Science at Kent State University (1969-85) as well as his work in humanities librarianship. His role at Kent was largely...

The librarian as secular minister to democracy: the life and ideas of John Cotton Dana.
September 22, 2000... This essay explores the work and ideas of John Cotton Dana. It places his early library work and later museum reform within the context of the Progressive Era, arguing that Dana had a complex understanding of the idea of democratic culture....

Religious Tract Society conference: from the Dairyman's Daughter to St. Dominic's and beyond.(Notes & Essays)
September 22, 2000... The Children's Books History Society celebrated the two hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Religious Tract Society by sponsoring a study conference at the University of East Anglia, 29 July to 1 August 1999. The speakers focused on...

Two seventeenth-century library handbooks, two different library theories.(Musei sive bibliothecae tam privatae quam publicae ...)(Avis pour dresser une bibliotheque)
September 22, 2000... This essay describes two landmark publications of the early seventeenth century that left their impact on the history of libraries and librarianship. The work of Clement sheds light on the representative showcase library of the Baroque period...

Andre Malraux and the French Ministry of Cultural Affairs: a bibliographic essay.(Mona Lisa's Escort: Andre Malraux and the Reinvention of French Culture)(La Grande Pitie des monuments de France: Andre Malraux, debats parlementaires (1960/1968))(Book Review)
September 22, 2000... Mona Lisa's Escort: Andre Malraux and the Reinvention of French Culture. By Herman Lebovics. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999. 288 pp. $29.95. ISBN 0-8014-3565-X. La Grande Pitie des monuments de France: Andre Malraux, debats...

The cover.
September 22, 2000... In 1908 recent Harvard graduate Charles Lesley Ames (1884-1964) made a trip to England. As part of his reading materials for the sea voyage, Ames bought a copy of the recently published Tale of the Great Mutiny by W. H. Fitchett (London: Smith,...

Gospel Books and Early Latin Manuscripts.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
September 22, 2000... Gospel Books and Early Latin Manuscripts. By Patrick McGurk. Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate/Variorum, 1998. xii, 344 pp. $103.95. ISBN 0-86078-684-6. Since the mid-1950s Patrick McGurk has been publishing studies on the contents, arrangement,...

Adrien Turnebe (1512-1565): A Humanist Observed.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
September 22, 2000... Adrien Turnebe (1512-1565): A Humanist Observed. By John Lewis. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 1998. 324 pp. + 3 appendixes, bibliography, and index. Fr.s. 81,60. ISBN 2-600-00270-7. Lewis's biography of Turnebe is the first English monograph on...

Le Livre genevois sous l'ancien regime.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
September 22, 2000... Le Livre genevois sous l'ancien regime. By Georges Bonnant. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 1999. 362 pp. Fr.s. 56,10. ISBN 2-600-00306-1. Francophone readers will recognize Librairie Droz as the publisher of the series Histoire et Civilisation du...

The Reach of Print: Making, Selling and Using Books.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
September 22, 2000... The Reach of Print: Making, Selling and Using Books. Edited by Peter Isaac and Barry McKay (Print networks, 2). Winchester, England: St. Paul's Bibliographies; New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 1998. x, 228 pp. $39.95. ISBN 1-873040-51-2...

Children's Book Publishing in Britain since 1945.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
September 22, 2000... Children's Book Publishing in Britain since 1945. Edited by Kimberley Reynolds and Nicholas Tucker. Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate, 1998. xiv, 167 pp. $67.95. ISBN 1-85928-236-9. Kimberley Reynolds, director of the National Centre for Research in...

British Archives: A Guide to Archive Resources in the United Kingdom.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
September 22, 2000... British Archives: A Guide to Archive Resources in the United Kingdom. 3rd ed. By Janet Foster and Julia Sheppard. London: Macmillan Press, 1995. lxiv, 627 pp. $160.00. ISBN 1-56159-172-6. Guide to Information Resources in Ethnic Museum,...

Robert Gitler and the Japan Library School: An Autobiographical Narrative.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
September 22, 2000... Robert Gitler and the Japan Library School: An Autobiographical Narrative. By Robert L. Gitler. Edited by Michael Buckland. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 1999. xi, 173 pp. $49.00. ISBN 0-8108-3632-7. The history of modern Japanese...

Native Libraries: Cross-Cultural Conditions in the Circumpolar North.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
September 22, 2000... Native Libraries: Cross-Cultural Conditions in the Circumpolar North. By Gordon Hills. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 1997. xv, 359 pp. $59.50. ISBN 0-8108-3138-4. Depending upon how one understands "multicultural librarianship," it can be...