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Library Trends articles from January 2008
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Library Trends archives from January 2008
Introduction: Alternative Print Culture.
January 1, 2008... I sometimes tease my colleagues in history, English, and other traditional humanities disciplines that they have consistently undervalued the importance libraries have played in their own scholarly lives. To prove my point, I refer to Name of...
The write stuff: U.S. serial print culture from conservatives out to neo-Nazis.
January 1, 2008... ABSTRACT
Insufficient scholarly attention has been devoted to alternative or "oppositional" serials from the political right, even though a number of scholars have used these materials as primary sources for studies in several academic...
The joy of finding periodicals "Not in Danky".
January 1, 2008... ABSTRACT
This essay examines the seminal reference tool, African-American Newspapers and Periodicals: A National Bibliography (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998), edited by James P. Danky. It provides background on the creation...
Native American Press in Wisconsin and the Nation, 1982 to the present.(Essay)
January 1, 2008... ABSTRACT
In late April 1982, James P. Danky organized a conference titled "Native American Press in Wisconsin and the Nation," an extension of the work Danky had been engaged in as newspapers and periodicals librarian at the Wisconsin...
Internationalizing working-class history since the 1970s: challenges from historiography, archives, and the web.(Essay)
January 1, 2008... ABSTRACT
In this essay the communication practices of labor migrants and their evolution from nineteenth-century print media to late twentieth-century electronic media provide the frame for a discussion of the limitations of national...
Reconstructing a life: the archival challenges of women's history.(Essay)
January 1, 2008... ABSTRACT
The field of women's history emerged and developed through the joint efforts of scholars, librarians, and archivists. When the field emerged in the early 1970s, the combined labor of individuals in these academic disciplines...
Collecting the wretched refuse: lifting a lamp to zines, military newspapers, and Wisconsinalia.(Essay)
January 1, 2008... ABSTRACT
Newspapers/periodicals librarian James Danky does collection building wherever he goes and with whomever he communicates, it seems. Thanks to his efforts, the Madison-based Wisconsin Historical Society collects materials from...
An alternative vision of librarianship: James Danky and the sociocultural politics of collection development.
January 1, 2008... ABSTRACT
The work of James P. Danky, longtime librarian at the Wisconsin Historical Society, is situated within the intellectual context of collection-development practices. Danky's belief in the value of alternative periodicals--and the...
"Success on a shoestring:" a center for a diverse Print Culture History in Modern America.
January 1, 2008... ABSTRACT
In 1992 James Danky, Wayne Wiegand, and Carl Kaestle founded the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The study of print culture was then a new field represented by...
