Libraries & Culture articles from September 2003

Libraries & Culture archives from September 2003

The library of the Himalayan Club, a unique cultural institution in Simla, 1928-1946.
September 22, 2003... The Himalayan Club was established in 1928, and its highly regarded library in Simla was an integral part of its activities from the outset. After a few comments about Simla, where the library was located until 1946, as background information...

Civil rights and the Louisiana Library Association: stumbling toward integration.
September 22, 2003... The twentieth-century civil rights movement had a profound impact on the Louisiana Library Association (LLA). In the 1940s and 1950s, the association made halting attempts to end professional segregation and grant equal rights to African...

Forbidden fruit: the banning of The Grapes of Wrath in the Kern County Free Library.
September 22, 2003... The Kern County, California, board of supervisors' action to ban John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath from the Kern County Free Library shortly after the novel's publication in 1939 was controversial and unprecedented in the county's history,...

Revisiting C. H. Milam's What Libraries Learned from the War and rediscovering the library faith.
September 22, 2003... As 2003 unfolds and the world is again troubled with the immediate threat of multinational military conflicts, it is an appropriate time to remember the pioneering contributions made by librarians during a previous conflict, World War I....

Eric Moon as the twentieth-century embodiment of Melvil Dewey? A review essay.(Eric Moon: The Life and Library Times)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Eric Moon: The Life and Library Times. By Kenneth E. Kister, with a foreword by John N. Berry III. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland and Company, 2002. xxii, A-P, 442 pp. $30.00. ISBN 0-7864-1253-4. Life writing in the profession has been a...

The cover.
September 22, 2003... The elegant 10-by-12.5-cm bookplate of the Library and Research Center of the National Museum of Women in the Arts was designed in 1985 by the painter and printmaker Pamela Wedd Brown (1928-). The museum, founded in 1981, invited Brown to...

A Jewish Archive from Old Cairo: the History of Cambridge University's Genizah Collection.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... By Stefan C. Reif. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2000. xix, 277 pp. $15.00 (paper). ISBN 0-7007-1312-3. Almost every page of this phenomenal volume could become a chapter, but the narrative style is so economical and clear that it engages...

Sources for the History of Medieval Books and Libraries.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Edited by Rita Schlusemann, Jos. M. M. Hermans, and Margriet Hoogvliet. Groningen: Egbert Forsten, 1999. xxiii, 428 pp. Dfl 125, ISBN 90-6980-113-2. This volume consists of papers presented at the fourth international Codicologendagen, a...

Rewriting Chaucer: Culture, Authority, and the Idea of the Authentic Text, 1400-1602.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Edited by Thomas A. Prendergast and Barbara Kline. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1999. vii, 301 pp. $55.00. ISBN 0-8142-0811-8. Once rejected as deflecting interest from the critical process, historicist approaches to literary...

The Correspondence of Johann Amerbach: Early Printing in Its Social Context.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Selected, translated, and edited by Barbara C. Halporn. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. xiv, 383 pp. $57.50. ISBN 0-472-11137-X. In this volume, which contains 256 letters edited and translated chiefly from the first volume...

Melanges autour de l'histoire des livres imprimes et periodiques.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Edited by Bruno Blasselle and Laurent Portes. Paris: Bibliotheque nationale de France, 1998. 369 pp. 24.39 [euro] (paper). ISBN 2-7177-2063-4. This splendid collection of sixteen articles by the erudite staff of the Bibliotheque nationale...

Lumieres du Nord: Imprimeurs, libraires, et "gens du livre" dans le Nord au XVIII siecle (1701-1789), Dictionnaire prosopographique.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... By Frederic Barbier with the collaboration of Sabine Juratic and Michel Vangheluwe. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2002. 544 pp. 83.23. [euro] ISBN 2-600-00683-4. Frederic Barbier, a director of research at France's National Center of Scientific...

The Haunting Past: History, Memory, and Justice in Contemporary France.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... By Henry Rousso. Translated by Ralph Schoolcraft. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. xxii, 96 pp. $29.95. ISBN 0-8122-3645-9. The Haunting Past is a brief but richly textured treatment of the role of the historian in...

Visual Words: Art and the Material Book in Victorian England.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... By Gerard Curtis. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2002. xii, 305 pp. $94.95. ISBN 1-84014-657-5. Material culture, including the study of art, literature, iconography, and the interrelation between these elements, is an...

Guardians of Medical Knowledge: the Genesis of the Medical Library Association.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... By Jennifer Connor. Lanham, Md.: Medical Library Association and Scarecrow Press, 2000. xi, 190 pp. $65.00. ISBN 0-8108-3470-7. Connor reports the results of her rigorous historical investigation of the genesis and evolution of the Medical...

Winsor, Dewey, and Putnam: the Boston Experience.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... By Donald G. Davis Jr., Kenneth E. Carpenter, Wayne A. Wiegand, and Jane Aiken. Occasional Paper no. 212. Champaign: GSLIS Publications Office, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002. 37 pp. $8.00. ISBN 0-87845-121-8; ISSN 0276-1769....

Closing an Era: Historical Perspectives on Modern Archives and Records Management.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... By Richard J. Cox. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000. xiii, 252 pp. $65.00. ISBN 0-313-31331-8. This volume is a collection of nine essay chapters, most recast from previous writings, by Richard Cox, former editor of American...

Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Edited by Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle, and Ernest W. Sullivan II. Essays from the International Conference on the History, Function and Study of Watermarks, Roanoke, Virginia. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press; London: British Library,...

A Bibliography of Printing.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... vols. 1-3. Compiled by E. C. Bigmore and C. W. H. Wyman. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press; London: British Library, 2001. Vol. 1: A--L, xii, 449 pp.; vol. 2: M--S, vii, 412 pp.; vol. 3: T--Z, vi, 115 pp. $85.00. ISBN 1-58456-061-4. ...

True to Type: a Typographical Autobiography.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... By Ruari McLean. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 2000. 216 pp. $39.95. ISBN 0-907961-11-8. If at the age of eighteen and a half Ruari McLean had indeed followed his dream of riding horses in South America, this book would never have...

A Bibliography of Texas Library History 1685-2000 and A Chronology of Texas Library History 1685-2000.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Compiled and edited by Donald G. Davis Jr. Austin, Tex.: Eakin Press, 2002. xx, 158 pp.; xv, 199 pp. $57.95 set. ISBN 1-57168-716-5, 1-57168-715-7. These two volumes form a compendium of Texas library history so thorough that they are not...

The Best of Times: a Personal and Occupational Odyssey.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... By Paul Wasserman. Detroit, Mich.: Omnigraphics, 2000. ix, 458 pp. $35.00. ISBN 0-7808-0433-3. Paul Wasserman's The Best of Times is a welcome addition to the small body of autobiographies by contemporary librarians. Wasserman earned a...