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{"title":"Encyclopedia of the Library of Congress: For Congress, the Nation & the World (review)","authors":"R. Martin","doi":"10.1353/LAC.2006.0062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/LAC.2006.0062","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81853,"journal":{"name":"Libraries & culture","volume":"41 1","pages":"517 - 519"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/LAC.2006.0062","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66800447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Toward a National Disaster Response Protocol","authors":"Randy Silverman","doi":"10.1353/LAC.2006.0065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/LAC.2006.0065","url":null,"abstract":"Since the Florence flood of November 4, 1966, the concept of an or ganized disaster response for cultural property has been a focus for conservators. In 1976, a decade after the Arno River had retreated from Florence's museums, libraries, and historic churches, a Library of Congress planning conference convened to initiate a U.S. national preservation program. At that meeting Stephen Salmon noted a \"glaring . . . lack of preparedness for disaster [s] by almost all American librar ies.\"1 Now, forty years since that calamitous flood, little has changed in terms of being able to initiate a nationally coordinated plan in the face of calamitous events that threaten cultural property in all collect ing institutions. In fact, it is now clearly recognized that only one in five cultural institutions has created an emergency response plan that encompasses collections,2 and it is likely that some or all of these plans will prove ineffectual in the case of a regional disaster. Furthermore, according to meteorologists at the National Oceanographic and Atmo spheric Administration, we now face in the next twenty to thirty years the possibility of stronger, more damaging storms capable of threatening our cultural institutions.3 Ample evidence is at hand that a national disaster response protocol is urgently needed if we are to ensure that irreplaceable cultural collec tions are not needlessly lost. This protocol must be able to be activated quickly to deliver appropriate assistance to affected institutions and, accordingly, be unencumbered by day-to-day bureaucracies that his torically have delayed response time and increased collection damage. This essay describes two recent large institutional catastrophes as well as the damage wrought by Hurricane Katrina, an unprecedented U.S. regional disaster, in an effort to underscore the importance of creating a nonprofit entity?the National Disaster Center for Cultural Property (NDC)?capable of implementing an effective response in situations where local resources and expertise are overwhelmed and cultural property is at risk.","PeriodicalId":81853,"journal":{"name":"Libraries & culture","volume":"41 1","pages":"497 - 511"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/LAC.2006.0065","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66800546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Professionalization of a Calling: Mission and Method at the New York Library Club, 1885-1901","authors":"T. Glynn","doi":"10.7282/T3H130DM","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7282/T3H130DM","url":null,"abstract":"Melvil Dewey founded the New York Library Club in 1885. It became an influential forum for exchanging ideas and debating methods and principles among practitioners of an emerging profession. Members were inspired by the mission of the public library, by an evangelical zeal to uplift the masses by bringing fine literature into their homes. At the same time, they had to develop methods of gaining intellectual control over the increasing number of titles issued by American publishers each year as well as methods of attracting readers of cheap fiction to more uplifting works. This article explores tensions between mission and methods during the early history of the club.","PeriodicalId":81853,"journal":{"name":"Libraries & culture","volume":"41 1","pages":"438 - 461"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71383862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Scholar-Librarian: Books, Libraries, and the Visual Arts (review)","authors":"D. Marcum","doi":"10.1353/lac.2006.0061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.2006.0061","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81853,"journal":{"name":"Libraries & culture","volume":"41 1","pages":"519 - 520"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/lac.2006.0061","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66799872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Through the Reading Glass: Women, Books, and Sex in the French Enlightenment (review)","authors":"B. W. Oliver","doi":"10.1353/LAC.2006.0063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/LAC.2006.0063","url":null,"abstract":"Epistle to Mr. Ellys the Painter” using traditional bibliographical methods based upon historical evidence and literary style. William McCarthy asks, “What Did Anna Barbauld Do to Samuel Richardson’s Correspondence?” As Barbauld’s biographer he answers through his careful examination and interpretation of the Forster MSS and the Dyce Letters at the Victoria and Albert Museum, separating out Barbauld’s markings from those of Richardson, his copyists, and the editorial interventions of Richard Phillips, the owner of the manuscripts and the publisher of the correspondence (and his compositors). McCarthy also posits the former existence of additional copies of some correspondence, edited by Richardson, many of which provide conflations of letters previously attributed to Barbauld. Marcus Walsh lauds Edward Capell’s editorial practices on the works of Shakespeare in “Form and Function in the English Eighteenth-Century Literary Edition: The Case of Edward Capell,” discussing the formatting of Capell’s editions of Shakespeare in relation to Capell’s editorial strategies. R. Carter Hailey sketches more Shakespearean editorial history with his ‘This Instance Will Not Do’: George Steevens, Shakespeare, and the Revision(s) of Johnson’s Dictionary.” Hailey argues that Steevens “played a much more active role in the revision of the Dictionary than has hitherto been suspected,” exhaustively supporting his assertion that Steevens continued working on the Dictionary well after Johnson’s death (245). Pamela Clemit and David Wools provide attribution for “Two New Pamphlets by William Godwin: A Case of Computer-Assisted Authorship Attribution.” They ascribe The Law of Parliament in the Present Situation of Great Britain Considered(1788) and Reflexions on the Consequences of His Majesty’s Recovery from His Late Indisposition. In a Letter to the People of England (1789) to Godwin, using both stylistic and computer-assisted textual analysis. The authors chose not to use the cusum technique lauded earlier in this volume by Farringdon, using instead multiple programs familiar to Wools, a forensic linguist. The volume is rounded out with David Chandler’s “A Bibliographical History of Thomas Howes’ Critical Observations (1776–1807) and His Dispute with Joseph Priestley,” Andrew M. Stauffer’s “The First Publication of Byron’s ‘To the Po,’” and Roger Osborne’s “Joseph Conrad’s Under Western Eyes: The Serials and First Editions,” along with Arthur Sherbo’s “Unrecorded Writings by G. K. Chesterton, H. G. Wells, Padraic Colum, Mary Colum, T. S. Eliot, George Bernard Shaw, and William Butler Yeats.” This volume of Studies in Bibliography provides a good entry point into the ongoing argument about the future of textual criticism for historical materials by highlighting its history and practice thus far.","PeriodicalId":81853,"journal":{"name":"Libraries & culture","volume":"41 1","pages":"521 - 523"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/LAC.2006.0063","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66800619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"\"'Tis better to be brief than tedious\"? The Evolution of the American Public Library Annual Report, 1876-2004","authors":"Bernadette A. Lear","doi":"10.1353/LAC.2006.0060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/LAC.2006.0060","url":null,"abstract":"In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries public libraries used annual reports to inform the public and one another about new services and managerial approaches. Because librarians filled reports with statistics, narrative, and professional philosophy and exchanged them throughout the country, nearby collections of reports can provide rich and accessible evidence for institutional, social, and cultural history studies. However, starting in the 1920s, library reports began to emphasize themes rather than departmental details, and librarians increasingly communicated through journals. Thus some libraries ceased collecting institutional publications. Although today's reports are suitable for public relations purposes, historians should be concerned about their limited content and distribution.","PeriodicalId":81853,"journal":{"name":"Libraries & culture","volume":"41 1","pages":"462 - 486"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/LAC.2006.0060","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66799797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Studies in Bibliography, Volume 54 (review)","authors":"L. Thomas","doi":"10.1353/LAC.2006.0066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/LAC.2006.0066","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81853,"journal":{"name":"Libraries & culture","volume":"41 1","pages":"520 - 521"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/LAC.2006.0066","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66800609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Greek Civilization Through the Eyes of Travellers and Scholars (review)","authors":"A. Andres","doi":"10.1353/lac.2006.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.2006.0000","url":null,"abstract":"In the conclusion to Through the Reading Glass the author cites Roger Chartier, The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution, in which he writes that “while books themselves do not make revolutions, the ways they are made, used, and read just might” (205). Diaconoff agrees and asserts that “acts of reading can produce profound changes in society,” noting “the quiet revolution in women’s reading” during the eighteenth century (205). She is instructive and persuasive in illustrating the motivations underlying the uses of reading and writing by eighteenth-century women and how their culture differed from ours. She explains that the reading glass of the title is a metaphor used to show how a book culture was developed for women and by women in eighteenth-century France, for, as she phrases it, “the reading glass is to the book as the book was to women, opening up both a world and a wealth of ideas perhaps unsuspected at first glance” (209). Diaconoff’s enlightening book is well documented with a useful bibliography and index. Through the Reading Glass should appeal to readers interested not only in books, reading, writing, and women’s roles but also in how these areas were related and interwoven during one of the pivotal cultural periods in modern history.","PeriodicalId":81853,"journal":{"name":"Libraries & culture","volume":"41 1","pages":"523 - 524"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/lac.2006.0000","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66797180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cultural Record Keepers: Norman W. Brillhart Collection, University of Oklahoma Libraries' Western History Collections","authors":"Kristina L. Southwell","doi":"10.1353/lac.2006.0067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.2006.0067","url":null,"abstract":"Private library bookplates are designed to reflect the interests of the book owners and often symbolize their life’s work with simple drawings or emblems. The Norman W. Brillhart Collection bookplate is a good example of this simplicity of design. The 18.5-by-15-cm plate shows a map that depicts the route Brillhart believed Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer followed during the Battle of the Little Big Horn River in 1876. This graphic depiction of Custer’s route summarizes Brillhart’s lifetime of reading, travel, and research devoted to the controversial subject of Custer and the Little Big Horn. The Norman W. Brillhart Collection, held by the University of Oklahoma Libraries’ Western History Collections, is comprised of rare books and special material on George Armstrong Custer, the Seventh Cavalry Regiment, and the Battle of the Little Big Horn River. All of the major works necessary for research on Custer and the Little Big Horn are in","PeriodicalId":81853,"journal":{"name":"Libraries & culture","volume":"41 1","pages":"512 - 514"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/lac.2006.0067","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66800700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780-1910 (review)","authors":"K. Galinsky","doi":"10.1353/LAC.2006.0057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/LAC.2006.0057","url":null,"abstract":"four parts: the title with its heading, the bibliographical description, the note, and the bibliographical references. The note information is varied and may contain the item’s printing history, mention of its relative scarcity, information about the author, or a description of its illustrations or other special features. The bibliographical references identify the library that has a copy of the book (often a national library, although not always) and a cross-reference, if relevant, to the corresponding entries in the Blackmer, Atebey, or Gennadius catalogs. In addition to the interesting notes and references, the volume under review provides several other invaluable features. Most notable among these is the introduction by Navari, published in English, describing her methodology for organizing the catalog. The outlined methodology reveals Navari’s respect for accuracy, specifically with reference to her explanation of collation. Another significant feature in this catalog is the historical and informative essay written by Ioli Vingopoulou, which explores the nature of travel writing and its relationship to the Greek world. Especially welcome in a catalog of this nature is the reproduction of over two hundred rare illustrations, many in color, that originate from the cataloged items. The usefulness of this catalog is enhanced by an extended bibliography, a guide to abbreviations, and the multiple indices: index of names; index of printers, publishers, booksellers, and bookbinders; and index of provenances. While the catalog’s most practical function might be restricted to specialists and scholars of Greek civilization, its contents unquestionably would prove most interesting for bibliophiles and rare book enthusiasts. Greek Civilization Through the Eyes of Travellers and Scholars makes an excellent companion catalog to the author’s catalogs of the Blackmer and Atabey collections as well as Weber’s catalog of the Gennadius Library. Dimitris Contominas and Leonora Navari are to be commended for their collaboration in offering this beautifully rich catalog.","PeriodicalId":81853,"journal":{"name":"Libraries & culture","volume":"56 1","pages":"524 - 525"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/LAC.2006.0057","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66799944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}