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Board Identifies Broad Topics for Future Issues

Governments’ involvement in both funding and using information, relationships between library and museum history, and the intellectual basis of the information age are some of the topics the advisory board of Libraries & the Cultural Record has identified as areas of possible exploration for researchers. At its annual meeting March 28, board members pointed out several untapped areas of library, archival, museum, and information science history in a discussion led by Robert V. Williams, distinguished professor emeritus of the School of Library and Information Science, University of South Carolina. Other topics named were the schemes of information organization over time, comparative librarianship, changes in the way people have used information, and the impact of information on cultural history.

Issues to Highlight Women in History of Information Domain

Two special issues of Libraries & the Cultural Record will be devoted to profiles of women in the history of the information domain, 44:2 (2009) and 45:2 (2010). Women from the fields of librarianship, information science, and archival enterprise will be the subjects of approximately 13 articles. The first issue will cover the years to circa 1950, the second from 1950 to the present. Issue editors will be Trudi Bellardo Hahn and Diane Barlow, professor and associate dean of the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland.

Literature Survey to Appear in Issue 43:4

In 2008, Libraries & the Cultural Record will publish the latest in the journal's series of bibliographic essays on library history. The last essay, which appeared in 2004, covered literature published in the years 2001 and 2002; the forthcoming essay will cover three years of library history publications, 2003 through 2005. Another literature review will appear in 2009, covering the years 2006 through 2007. The essays will be written by Edward A. Goedeken, humanities bibliographer and professor of library science at Iowa State University. Goedeken’s most recent contribution to the journal was “Assessing What We Wrote: A Review of the Libraries & Culture Literature Reviews, 1967-2002” in Libraries & Culture 40:3 (2005).

Journal to Publish I-CHORA Proceedings

Libraries & the Cultural Record has been selected to publish the proceedings of the Third International Conference of the History of Records and Archives (I-CHORA), held in Boston in September 2007. A selection of conference papers, which addressed the history of personal records and record keeping practices, is tentatively scheduled to appear in L&CR 44:1 in February 2009. The announcement was made by Barbara Craig of the University of Toronto, a member of the conference organizing and program committee. Along with Craig, general editors of the issue will be Philip B. Eppard of the University at Albany SUNY, Brenda Lawson of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and Heather MacNeil of the University of British Columbia.

 

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