Libraries & Culture articles from September 2002

Libraries & Culture archives from September 2002

The American Library Association in Latin America: American librarianship as a "modern" model during the good neighbor policy era.
September 22, 2002... Through ALA projects in Latin America, American librarianship progressed, step by step, from conceptualization to implementation as the model to be followed by the Latin American countries in modernizing not only their library practices but...

Activism in library development: women's studies at Rutgers University, 1970-1995.
September 22, 2002... Women's studies librarians' view that women should be represented at the center of library collections and services generates conflict in the U.S. academic library, a system based on male-centered, disciplinary principles. An examination of the...

"The greatest librarians of the world...were not graduates of library school".
September 22, 2002... Librarians often think of professionalization in terms of standard training, starting with a gatekeeper degree to regulate entrance to the profession. Prior to the spread of library schools, however, library school education was not an option...

The cover.
September 22, 2002... "Well, this will do," declared Philander Chase (1775-1852), bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Ohio, standing atop a hill in Knox County, Ohio, with friend Henry B. Curtis of nearby Mount Vernon. The bishop sought a new home for his...

The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes. By Jonathan Rose. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2001. ix, 534 pp. $39.95. ISBN 0-300-08886-8. Voices. This book is full of the sound of voices. We hear the testimony of...

After Augustine: The Meditative Reader and the Text. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... After Augustine: The Meditative Reader and the Text. By Brian Stock. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. 132 pp. $32.50. ISBN 0-8122-3602-5. This book will be of special interest to a large spectrum of readers, including...

Across Boundaries: The Book in Culture & Commerce. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Across Boundaries: The Book in Culture & Commerce. Edited by Bill Bell, Jonquil Bevan, and Philip Bennett. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 2000. x, 160 Pp. $39.95. ISBN 1-58456-006-1. Across Boundaries: The Book in Culture & Commerce...

La Naissance du livre moderne: Mise en page et mise en texte du livre francais (XIV-XVII siecles). (Book Reviews).(The birth of the modern book: Page and text styles of the French book from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries)(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... La Naissance du livre moderne: Mise en page et mise en texte du livre francais (XIV-XVII siecles) [The birth of the modern book: Page and text styles of the French book from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries]. By Henri-Jean...

Everyday Life in the German Book Trade: Friedrich Nicolai as Bookseller and Publisher in the Age of Enlightenment, 1750-1810. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Everyday Life in the German Book Trade: Friedrich Nicolai as Bookseller and Publisher in the Age of Enlightenment, 1750-1810. By Pamela E. Selwyn. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000. xvi, 419 pp. $75.00. ISBN...

Press, Revolution, and Social Identities in France, 1830-1835. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Press, Revolution, and Social Identities in France, 1830-1835. By Jeremy D. Popkin. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001. x, 329 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $22.50 (paper). ISBN 0-271-02153-5. Jeremy Popkin, who gave us a...

The Sacred & the Secular University. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... The Sacred & the Secular University. By Jon H. Roberts and James Turner. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000. xii, 184 pp. $24.95. ISBN 0-691-01556-2. In The Sacred & the Secular University, Jon Roberts and James Turner trace...

Early Periodical Indexes: Bibliographies and Indexes of Literature Published in Periodicals before 1900. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Early Periodical Indexes: Bibliographies and Indexes of Literature Published in Periodicals before 1900. By Robert Balay. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2000. xxx, 315 pp. $55.00. ISBN 0-8108-3868-0. Cumulated indexes began to appear in...

Ottmar Mergenthaler: The Man and His Machine. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Ottmar Mergenthaler: The Man and His Machine. By Basil Kahan. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 2000. xv, 244 pp. $55.00. ISBN 1-58456-007-X. Although the nineteenth century was the great age of the celebrity inventor, Ottmar...

The Pre-Raphaelite Illustrators. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... The Pre-Raphaelite Illustrators. By Gregory R. Suriano. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press; London: British Library, 2000. 336 pp. $49.95. ISBN 1-58456-021-5. This handsome volume is nothing less than a passionate labor of love and...

The Art of Publishers' Bookbindings 1815-1915. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... The Art of Publishers' Bookbindings 1815-1915. By Ellen K. Morris and Edward S. Levin. Los Angeles, Calif.: William Dailey Rare Books Ltd., 2000. 127 pp. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-915148-21-8; $37.50 (paper), ISBN 0-915148-22-6. This...

Books Have Their Fates. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Books Have Their Fates. By Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine Stem. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 2001. 199 pp. $34.95. ISBN 1-58456-048-7. The life stories of some thirty books--not only their production and publication but also their...

Illuminating Letters: Typography and Literary Interpretation. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Illuminating Letters: Typography and Literary Interpretation. Edited by Paul C. Gutjahr and Megan L. Benton. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001. 198 pp. $34.95. ISBN 1-55849-288-7. In "Reading the Invisible," their...

Ways with Words: Writing about Reading Texts from Early China. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Ways with Words: Writing about Reading Texts from Early China. Edited by Pauline Yu, Peter Bol, Stephen Owen, and Willard Peterson. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. ix, 283 pp. $19.95 (paper). ISBN 0-520-22466-3. Reading is...

Libraries and Librarianship in India. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Libraries and Librarianship in India. By Jashu Patel and Krishan Kumar. Guides to Asian Librarianship Series. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2001. viii, 271 pp. $74.95. ISBN 0-313-29423-2. This book helps in understanding libraries and...

Reading Matter: A Rabid Bibliophile's Adventures among Old and Rare Books. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Reading Matter: A Rabid Bibliophile's Adventures among Old and Rare Books. By Jack Matthews. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 2000. x, 189 pp. $29.95. ISBN 15845 6-027-4. Jack Matthews is more than a scholarly adventurer; he is the...

The Changing Culture of Libraries: How We Know Ourselves through Our Libraries. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... The Changing Culture of Libraries: How We Know Ourselves through Our Libraries. Edited by Renee Feinberg. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 2001. x, 134 pp. $39.95. ISBN 0-78641-138-4. With such an engaging title, I expected this book to...

Communications.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... DONALD G. DAVIS ARTICLE AWARD Carl Ostrowski is the 2002 winner of the Donald G. Davis Article Award presented by the American Library Association (ALA) Library History Round Table (LHRT). The award is presented every second year to...