Libraries & Culture articles from September 2004

Libraries & Culture archives from September 2004

The road to Minsk for Western "trophy" books: twice plundered but not yet " home from the war".
September 22, 2004... In the fall of 1945 an echelon of fifty-four freight cars arrived from Silesia in the war-torn Belarusian capital of Minsk bringing over 1 million library books. Half of them had been plundered from Belarusian libraries by the Einsatzstab...

Libraries in communities: expected and unexpected portrayals in state case law.
September 22, 2004... Social analyses of libraries are important for understanding their community roles. State case law from Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona was examined for references to public and academic libraries from 1900 to 2002. Qualitative analysis was used...

Clio's Dream, or has the muse departed from the temple? Implications for library history: a review essay.(The Education of Historians for the Twenty-First Century)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... The Education of Historians for the Twenty-first Century. By Thomas Bender, Philip M. Katz, Colin Palmer, and the Committee on Graduate Education (AHA). Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2004. 200 pp. $35.00. ISBN 0-252-02898-8. The...

The steamship named ALA.
September 22, 2004... An incident in the history of the American Library Association's World War I activities that involved the naming of a cargo ship in honor of ALA has been cited in three sources in library literature over the years. Although the references offer...

Breaking bad habits: a review essay.(Habits of the High-Tech Heart: Living Virtuously in the Information Age)(The Enduring Library: Technology, Tradition, and the Quest for Balance)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Habits of the High-Tech Heart: Living Virtuously in the Information Age. By Quentin J. Schultze. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Book House, 2002. 256 pp. $24.99. ISBN 0-8010-2322-X. The Enduring Library: Technology, Tradition, and the Quest for...

The cover.(American Hungarian Foundation)
September 22, 2004... The original bookplate of the American Hungarian Foundation (AHF) Library was curious in its subject: a bust in profile of American founding father George Washington on a disc resembling nothing so much as the U.S. quarter. The history of...

Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies. By Elizabeth McHenry. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2002. xiv, 423 pp. $18.95 (paper). ISBN 0-8223-2995-6. In Forgotten Readers: Recovering the...

The Making of Revolutionary Paris.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... The Making of Revolutionary Paris. By David Garrioch. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. xiv, 382 pp. $34.95 (cloth). ISBN 0-520-23253-4. In his superb history of eighteenth-century Paris, David Garrioch explores the social,...

La figure du bibliomane: Histoire du livre et strategie litteraire au XIXe siecle.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... La figure du bibliomane: Histoire du livre et strategie litteraire au XIXe siecle. By Daniel Desormeaux. Saint-Genouph, France: Librairie Nizet, 2001. 251 pp. [euro]22,87. ISBN 2-7078-1254-4. The two sections of Daniel Desormeaux's La...

A History of the Farmington Plan.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... A History of the Farmington Plan. By Ralph D. Wagner. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2002. 454 pp. $69.50. ISBN 0-8108-4359-9. Ralph D. Wagner's History of the Farmington Plan chronicles the program from its inception in the 1940s to its...

Graphic Design, Print Culture, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Graphic Design, Print Culture, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel. By Janine Barchas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xvi, 296 pp. $60.00. ISBN 0-521-81908-3. The study of printed culture has transformed eighteenth-century...

Publishing in Yugoslavia's Successor States.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Publishing in Yugoslavia's Successor States. Edited by Michael Biggins and Janet Crayne. Binghamton, N.Y.: Haworth Press, 2000. 234 pp. $49.95. ISBN 0-7890-1046-1. Publishing in Yugoslavia's Successor States has been copublished...