Libraries & Culture articles from September 2005

Libraries & Culture archives from September 2005

The New York Society Library: books, authority, and publics in colonial and early republican New York.
September 22, 2005... The New York Society Library was founded in 1754. At its founding it became embroiled in the politics of the city's Whig faction, and through the latter half of the eighteenth century it embodied the republican ideals of its founders. The...

Recasting the debate: the sign of the library in popular culture.
September 22, 2005... This paper is an investigation of the hermeneutic possibilities in the semiotic image of the library represented in three movies--The Name of the Rose, The Wings of Desire, and Star Wars: Attack of the Clones. It looks at the visual...

The Queen Mary 2 library.
September 22, 2005... The maiden voyage in January 2004 of the Cunard Line's Queen Mary 2, an ocean liner designed for the twenty-first century, ushered in a completely new, massive, and spectacular kind of passenger ship that appeals to a genteel clientele who...

The cover.(Cover Story)
September 22, 2005... It is "one of the most striking allegorical representations of the great migration," wrote Carl Irving Wheat (1892-1966) about the small, round woodcut that appears on the 7.5-cm-by-10.5-cm book-plate of the California Historical Society, shown...

French Salons: High Society and Political Sociability from the Old Regime to the Revolution of 1848.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... French Salons: High Society and Political Sociability from the Old Regime to the Revolution of 1848. By Steven Kale. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. 230 pp. $48.00. ISBN 0-8018-7729-6. French Salons: High Society and...

The Human Web: A Bird's Eye View of World History.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... The Human Web: A Bird's Eye View of World History. By J. R. McNeill and William H. McNeill. New York: W. W. Norton, 2003. xvii, 350 pp. $27.95 (cloth); $15.00 (paper). ISBN 0-393-05179-X; 0-393-92568-4. One of the gratifying developments in...

Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome. Edited by I. M. Plant. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004, viii, 268 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $21.95 (paper). ISBN 0-8061-3621-9; 0-8061-3622-7. Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome presents...

William Bradford's Books: Of Plimmoth Plantation and the Printed Word.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... William Bradford's Books: Of Plimmoth Plantation and the Printed Word. By Douglas Anderson. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. ix, 273 pp. $45.00. ISBN 0-8018-7074-7. After knowing William Bradford's Of Plimmoth...

Guangdong Tushuguan Xuehui Sishi Nian (The Guangdong Library Association: 40 Years).(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Guangdong Tushuguan Xuehui Sishi Nian (The Guangdong Library Association: 40 Years). Edited by Cheng Huanwen (chief editor). Guangzhou: Zhongshan University Press, 2003. 825 pp. 80 yuan. ISBN 7-306-02188-5. China's rapid economic...

Books, Friends and Bibliophilia: Reminiscences of an Antiquarian Bookseller.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Books, Friends, and Bibliophilia: Reminiscences of an Antiquarian Bookseller. By Anton Gerits. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Books, 2004. ix, 402 pp. $65.00. ISBN 1-58456-138-6. Booksellers have a long tradition of writing memoirs about their...

Philip Larkin: A Bibliography, 1933-1994.(Thomas Hardy: A Bibliographical Study)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Philip Larkin: A Bibliography, 1933-1994. By B. C. Bloomfield. London: British Library; New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 2002. xviii, 226 pp. $70.00. ISBN 0-7123-4747-X; 1-58456-062-2. Thomas Hardy: A Bibliographical Study. By Richard L....

The Book History Reader.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... The Book History Reader. Edited by David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery. New York: Routledge, 2002. x, 390 pp. $90.00 (cloth); $27.95 (paper). ISBN 0-415-22657-0; 0-415-22658-9. This anthology will be very welcome to those who teach book...

Thirty Years of Electronic Records.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Thirty Years of Electronic Records. Edited by Bruce I. Ambacher. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2003. xix, 190 pp. $42.00 (paper). ISBN 0-8108-4769-8. Most of the eleven papers in this volume (Margaret Adams, Bruce Ambacher, Thomas Brown,...

Libraries, the Internet and Scholarship: Tools and Trends Converging.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Libraries, the Internet, and Scholarship: Tools and Trends Converging. Edited by Charles F. Thomas. New York and Basel: Marcel Dekker, 2002. xiv, 217 pp. $99.75. ISBN 0-8247-0772-9. The idea of creating a single work to describe, analyze,...

Our Own Selves: More Meditations for Librarians.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Our Own Selves: More Meditations for Librarians. By Michael Gorman. Chicago: American Library Association, 2005. xiii, 224 pp. $28.00. ISBN 0-8389-0896-0. On the even of this becoming president of the American Library Association the...

Foundations of Library and Information Science.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Foundations of Library and Information Science, 2nd ed. By Richard E. Rubin. New York: Neal-Schuman, 2004. xvii, 581 pp. $65.00. ISBN 1-55570-518-9. In the years spanning the turn of the recent century students, faculty members, and...