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Table of Contents, Volume 44, number 2, 2009
Special Issue: Women Pioneers in the Information Sciences, Part I
Issue Editors
Trudi Bellardo Hahn and Diane L. Barlow
Women Pioneers in the Information Sciences: Introduction
Trudi Bellardo Hahn and Diane L. Barlow
Articles
The Eye Prophetic: Julia Pettee
Christopher H. Walker and Ann Copeland
Margaret Cross Norton: Defining and Redefining Archives and the Archival Profession
Erin Lawrimore
Women Professionals in Documentation in France during the 1930s
Sylvie Fayet-Scribe
Michael Buckland, Translator
María Moliner and Her Contribution to the History of Spain’s Public Libraries
Maria R. Osuna Alarcón
Vivian Harsh, Adult Education, and the Library's Role as Community Center
Laura Burt
Highly Subjective: The Librarianship of Winifred Sewell
Malissa Ruffner and Emily J. Glenn
Table of Contents, Volume 44, number 1, 2009
Special Issue: Personal Papers in History
Papers from the Third International Conference
on the History of Records and Archives
Issue Editors
Barbara L. Craig, Philip B. Eppard, Brenda Lawson, Heather MacNeil
Introduction: Personal Papers in History: Papers from the Third International Conference on the History of Records and Archives
Barbara L. Craig
Articles
The Genealogical Gaze: Family Identities and Family Archives in the Fourteenth to Seventeenth Centuries
Eric Ketelaar
“Kepe wysly youre wrytyngys”: Margaret Paston’s Fifteenth-Century Letters
Jennifer Douglas
Custodial History, Provenance, and the Description of Personal Records
Geoffrey Yeo
Sir John Soane: Rewriting a Life
Susan Palmer
Where Narratives Meet: Archival Description, Provenance, and Women’s Diaries
Heather Beattie
Is it a Diary, Commonplace Book, Scrapbook, or Whatchamacallit?: Six Years of Exploration in New England’s Manuscript Archives
Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray
Communicating Community: Russian and Canadian Mennonite Correspondence, 1850-1900
Rachel Joanne Mills
The Dawn of the “Chaotic Account”: Horatio Hale’s Australia Notebook and the Development of Anthropologists’ Field Notes
Tom Belton
Table of Contents, Volume 43, number 4, 2008
Articles
“A Library of the Most Celebrated & Approved Authors”: The First Purchase Collection of Union College
Awarded 2008 Justin Winsor Prize
Jeremy B. Dibbell
Recovery Amid Destruction: Manoel de Maya and the Lisbon Earthquake of 1755
Lúcia Lima Rodrigues and Russell Craig
A Library for Engineering Education: The Case of Frank O. Marvin at the University of Kansas, 1875-1915
James D. Neeley
Essays & Notes
The Literature of American Library History, 2003-2005
Edward A. Goedeken
Cultural Record Keepers
Littlefield Fund for Southern History, University Libraries, University of Texas at Austin
David B. Gracy II
Book Reviews
Books on Trial: Red Scare in the Heartland by Shirley A. Wiegand and Wayne A. Wiegand
J. Greg Matthews
Commemorating the Past, Celebrating the Present, Creating the Future: Papers in Observance of the 50th Anniversary of the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services edited by Pamela Bluh
Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa
The Information-Literate Historian: A Guide to Research for History Students by Jenny L. Presnell
Edward A. Goedeken
Cuando los lectores nos susurran: libros, lecturas, bibliotecas, sociedad y prácticas editoriales en la Argentina by Alejandro E. Parada
Nicolas Shumway
The Commonwealth of Books: Essays and Studies in Honour of Ian Willison edited by Wallace Kirsop
Michael Dzanko
African American Librarians of the Far West edited by Binnie Tate Wilkin
Kam Teo
Spreading the Word: A History of Information in the California Gold Rush by Richard T. Stillson
Mary Kay Duggan
Uniting a Profession: The Australian Institute of Librarians, 1937-1949 by Jean P. Whyte and David J. Jones
Russell Cope
From the Garden Club: Rural Women Writing Community by Charlotte Hogg
Ramirose I. Attebury
Libraries and Librarianship: Sixty Years of Challenge and Change, 1945-2005 by George Bobinski
Herman A. Peterson
Table of Contents, Volume 43, number 3, 2008
Articles
Tiberius and the Libraries: Public Book Collections and Library Buildings in the Early Roman Empire
George W. Houston
The Public Library as Instrument of Colonialism: The Case of the Netherlands East Indies
Elizabeth B. Fitzpatrick
“The Feminine Touch Has Not Been Wanting”: Women Librarians at Camp Zachary Taylor, 1917-1919
Caroline Daniels
An American Library Association War Service librarian in uniform, circa 1917. Courtesy of the LFPL Collection, Special Collections, University of Louisville.
Contradictions of Corporate Benevolence: Industrial Libraries in the Southern Textile Industry, 1920-1945
Bart Dredge
South Carolina mill workers browse the shelves of the Parker Pathfinder library truck circa 1925. The bookmobile delivered books to textile mills throughout the Parker District near Greenville. Courtesy of the Greenville Historical Society, Greenville, South Carolina.
Essays & Notes
Culture and the New Iraq : The Iraq National Library and Archive, “Imagined Community,” and the Future of the Iraqi Nation
Julie Biando Edwards and Stephan P. Edwards
Cultural Record Keepers
Cultural Record Keepers: Beth Budd Bentley Collection, Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books, Toronto Public Library
Leslie McGrath
Book Reviews
History of the Book in Canada/Histoire du livre et de l'imprimé au Canada (3 vols.) edited by Patricia Lockhart Fleming, Gilles Gallichan, Yvan Lamonde, Fiona A. Black, Carole Gerson, and Jacques Michon
Hermina G.B. Anghelescu
The History of the Library in Western Civilization: From Constantine the Great to Cardinal Bessarion by Konstantinos Sp. Staikos
Jeffrey Garrett
Collecting the Imagination: The First Fifty Years of the Ransom Center edited by Megan Barnard
William L. Joyce
The Early Information Society: Information Management in Britain before the Computer by Alistair Black, Dave Muddiman, and Helen Plant
Genevieve Williams
Who Will Write Our History? Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive by Samuel D. Kassow
Matthew Heintzelman
Caribbean Libraries in the 21 st Century: Changes, Challenges, and Choices edited by Cheryl Peltier-Davis and Shamin Renwick
Ellen Gilbert
When Writing Met Art: From Symbol to Story by Denise Schmandt-Besserat
Mildred L. Jackson
Indian Ink: Script and Print in the Making of the English East India Company by Miles Ogborn
George H. Thompson
Out of Print & Into Profit: A History of the Rare and Secondhand Book Trade in Britain in the 20th Century edited by Giles Mandelbrote
Michael Dzanko
American Signed Bindings Through 1876 by William Spawn and Thomas E. Kinsella
Alexis Antracoli
Table of Contents, Volume 43, number 2, 2008
Articles
Preparing for an Air Attack: Libraries and American Air Raid Defense During World War II
Brett Spencer
The Yellow Register Archives of Imperial Ming China
Wenxian Zhang
Sketch map of the Yellow Register Archives of the Ming Dynasty on islands in Houhu Lake near Nanjing, China. From Annals of Houhu Lake, ce 2, j. 2. Original located at the People's University, Beijing, China.
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Western Canadiana at McGill University: The Formation of a Rare Book Collection
Peter F. McNally
Bernard Amtmann, antiquarian book dealer and agent for Nathan Arkin . University of Regina Special Collections and Archives Photograph Collection 80-8, Photograph 23.
Essays & Notes
The Ambiguous Origins of the Archival Principle of “Provenance”
Shelley Sweeney
Cultural Record Keepers
Cultural Record Keepers: The Myron Eells Northwest History Collection, Whitman College
Michael J. Paulus
Book Reviews
The Library as Place: History, Community, and Culture edited by John E. Buschman and Gloria J. Leckie
David C. Weber
Glut: Mastering Information through the Ages by Alex Wright
Edward A. Goedeken
Political Pressure and the Archival Record edited by Margaret Proctor, Michael Cook, and Caroline Williams
Robert N. Matuozzi
The Alexandria Library Company by William Seale
Patrick M. Valentine
The Library of Leander van Ess & the Earliest American Collections of Reformation Pamphlets by Milton McC. Gatch
Michael Dzanko
Personal versus Private: Presidential Records in a Legislative Context: A Bibliographic Exploration by Peter Sezzi
Peter Haligas
La bibliothèque parisienne de Gabriel Naudé en 1630: Les lectures d'un libertin érudit by Estelle Boeuf
Brett B. Bodemer
Barbarians at the Gates of the Public Library: How Postmodern Consumer Capitalism Threatens Democracy, Civil Education, and the Public Good by Ed D'Angelo
James Jesson
Library Juice Concentrate edited by Rory Litwin
Lynne M. Thomas
Museum Philosophy for the Twenty-first Century edited by Hugh H. Genoways
Kelly Lynn Anders
Law Libraries and the Formation of the Legal Profession in the Late Middle Ages edited by Stanley Chodorow
Renate Chancellor
The Enlightenment and the Book: Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, & America by Richard B. Sher
Greg Matthews
Our Very Illustrious Brother, Abraham Lincoln: A Bibliography of the Louis D. Carman Lincolniana Collection in the Library of the Supreme Council, 33° S.J. by Larissa P. Watkins
Emma Louise Kilkelly
L'Europe de Gutenberg: Le livre et l'invention de la modernité occidentale by Frédéric Barbier
Jim Chevallier
Peoples of the Plateau: The Indian Photographs of Lee Moorhouse, 1898-1915 by Steven L. Grafe
John E. Dockall
Table of Contents, Volume 43, number 1, 2008
Articles
Promoting Citizenship: How Librarians Helped Get Out the Vote in the 1952 Presidential Election
Jean L. Preer
American Library Association directors view promotional materials for the Register and Vote campaign. ALA Bulletin 46 (June 1952).
The Making of a Collection: Mesoamerican Manuscripts at Princeton University
Teresa T. Basler and David C. Wright
To "Build upon the Foundation": Charles Gayarré's Vision for the Louisiana State Library
Faye Phillips
Essays & Notes
Wishing They Were There: Old Postcards and Library History
Bernadette A. Lear
Postcard, Sargentville Public Library, Maine. Published by Hugh C. Leighton Co., printed in Germany, undated, probably 1907-1914.
Cultural Record Keepers
Bruce Rogers Book Collection, Archives and Special Collections, Purdue University Libraries
Amanda C. Grossman and Sammie L. Morris
Book Reviews
What is Documentation? English Translation of the Classic French Text by Suzanna Briet. Translated and edited by Ronald E. Day and Laurent Martinet with Hermina G. B. Anghelescu
Jonathan Furner
The Anglo Saxon Library by Michael Lapidge
J. G. Matthews
Amassing Treasures for All Times: Sir George Grey, Colonial Bookman and Collector by Donald Jackson Kerr
Ian Morrison
Confiscations at Customs: Banned Books and the French Booktrade during the Last Years of the Ancien régime by Robert L. Dawson
Robert P. Holley
A Place Not a Place: Reflections and Possibility in Museums and Libraries by David Carr
Heidi LM Jacobs
Library Daylight: Tracings of Modern Librarianship, 1874-1922 edited by Rory Litwin
Steven E. Bales
How to Think about Information by Dan Schiller
Millie Jackson
Worlds of Print: Diversity in the Book Trade edited by John Hinks and Catherine Armstrong
Marja Smolenaars
Printing and Book Culture in Late Imperial China edited by Cynthia J. Brokaw and Kai-Wing Chow
Michael Dzanko
The Abbé Grégoire and the French Revolution: The Making of Modern Universalism by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall
Todd Jermstad
Table of Contents, Volume 42, number 4, 2007
Articles
The Library and Its Place in Cultural Memory: The Grande Bibliothèque du Québec in the Construction of Social and Cultural Identity
Birdie MacLennan
The Bibliothèque Saint-Sulpice, rue Saint-Denis, Montréal, in 2004. Photo by the author.
In Their Own Image: The Public Library Collection as a Reflection
of Its Donors
Suzanne M. Stauffer
Breaking the Color Barrier: Regina Andrews and the New York Public Library
Ethelene Whitmire
Regina Anderson Andrews, left, was the first African American to head a branch library in the New York Public Library system. She was appointed in 1938. Reprinted with permission from the Schomburg Center for the Study of Black Culture, New York.
Essays & Notes
Responses to the Resurrection of Miss Ruth Brown: An Essay on the Reception of a Historical Case Study
Louise S. Robbins
The History of the Library in Western Civilization: A Review Essay
David B. Gracy II
Burning Books: A Review Essay
Stanley Chodorow
In Memoriam: Robert L. Dawson (1943-2007)
Bette W. Oliver
Cultural Record Keepers
The New York Mercantile Library and Its Home Delivery Service
Larry Nix
Book Reviews
From Royal to National: The Louvre Museum and the Bibliothèque Nationale by Bette W. Oliver
Mary Niles Maack
Leuven University Library, 1425-2000 edited by Chris Coppens, Mark Derez, and Jan Roegiers
Fred M. Heath
Women in Print: Essays on the Print Culture of American Women from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries edited by James P. Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand, foreword by Elizabeth Long
Mary Niles Maack
The World of a Seventeenth-Century Book Collector: The Atlas Blaeu-van der Hem by Erlend de Groot
Michael Dzanko
International Masonic Periodicals, 1738-2005: A Bibliography of the Library of the Supreme Council, 33°, S.J. by Larissa P. Watkins
Michael LaMagna
States of Inquiry: Social Investigations and Print Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the United States by Oz Frankel
Elizabeth Peterson
The SP Century: Boston's Society of Printers through One Hundred Years of Change by Scott-Martin Kosofsky
Matthew Z. Heintzelman
Volume 42, number 3, 2007
Volume 42, number 2, 2007
Volume 42, number 1, 2007
Volume 41, number 4, 2006
Volume 41, number 3, 2006
Volume 41, number 2, 2006
Volume 41, number 1, 2006
Special Issue: The Woman's Building Library of the World's Columbian Exposition, 1893
Volume 40, number 4, 2005
Volume 40, number 3, 2005
Perceiving the Past: Essays Honoring the Legacy of Donald G. Davis, Jr.
