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New Books Available For Review
There are two new titles available for review, "Reading Up," by Amy L. Blair; and "Reading Communities," edited by DeNel Rehberg Sedo. Find out more on our Book Reviews page. Guidelines for reviewers are available here.
ICHORA: Call for Papers
The call for papers for the Sixth International Conference on the History of Records and Archives is now available on the ICHORA 6 website. The ICHORA 6 website will serve as the central location for information about the conference, including registration deadlines, program, and accommodation. The conference is being held August 2-4, 2012 in Austin, Texas.
L&CR Appoints Jane Gruning as 2011-12 Editorial Fellow
Libraries & the Cultural Record is pleased to announce the appointment of UT iSchool PhD student Jane Gruning to the journal's Editorial Fellow position for the 2011-12 school year. Jane is studying digital archives and long-term digital preservation at the school. Read more about Jane on our Editorial Staff page. [9/23/11]
Six new book reviews available online
Libraries & the Cultural Record has published six new book reviews on our new book reviews page. Read reviews of books that explore topics from public libraries in Ontario to an "examination of the scholar's encounter with the archives," to libraries in the ancient world and writing in the Graeco-Roman East, and much more. [9/15/11]
Nine new book reviews available online
Libraries & the Cultural Record just published nine new book reviews on our new book reviews page. Check out reviews of books that run the gamut from explorations of the Texas State Library and Archives to the Hudson's Bay Company Archives, from bookbinding to the information flood, and much more. [5/23/11]
L&CR now publishing book reviews online
Beginning May 16, 2011, Libraries & the Cultural Record will publish its book reviews on the journal's website. The reviews are being made freely available to all readers in order to promote collegial information exchange and scholarship. Libraries & the Cultural Record's Board of Advisory Editors approved the move of book reviews from the print journal to the website so that reviews might be more timely and a greater number of pages in the print journal allotted to original scholarly work. The medium of the web will also allow for more numerous reviews to be published, and make the publication of longer, more detailed analyses of texts possible. Please explore our most recent book reviews. Should you be interested in reviewing for Libraries & the Cultural Record, read our book review guidelines and explore titles available for review. [5/16/11]
William Aspray becomes new Editor of Libraries & the Cultural Record
At the close of the annual meeting and symposium on April 15, 2011 of the Board of Advisory Editors of Libraries & the Cultural Record, William Aspray succeeded David B. Gracy II as the journal’s Editor.
William “Bill” Aspray is the Bill and Lewis Suit Professor of Information Technologies in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin. He holds a BA and MA in mathematics from Wesleyan University and a PhD in history of science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has taught previously at Harvard, Indiana, Virginia Tech, and Williams universities and the University of Pennsylvania. He has held management positions in the Charles Babbage Institute for the History of Information Processing, the IEEE Center for the History of Electrical Engineering, and the Computing Research Association.
Aspray’s research explores the social, historical, and political aspects of information and information technology. The most recent of his more than 70 articles, 150 oral histories, and 20 books are: The Internet and American Business (ed. with Paul Ceruzzi, MIT Press, 2008), Health Informatics (ed. with Barbara Hayes, MIT Press, 2010), and Everyday Information (ed. with Barbara Hayes, MIT Press, 2011). Forthcoming is the third edition of his mass-market history Computer (written with Martin Campbell-Kelly and Nathan Ensmenger, Westview).
Gracy, the Governor Bill Daniel Professor in Archival Enterprise, is retiring after thirty-one years in the School of Information. He assumed the Libraries & the Cultural Record editorship in 2005. Gracy positioned the journal, which began as the Journal of Library History, into “the” journal of the history of the information domain. [5/5/11]
