{"title":"History in the Library and Information Science Curriculum: Outline of a Debate","authors":"Christine Pawley","doi":"10.1353/LAC.2005.0057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/LAC.2005.0057","url":null,"abstract":"Only a small minority of Library and Information Science (LIS) schools now schedule courses with a historical focus, and LIS faculty whose research specialty is history seem to be a vanishing breed. Yet some educators are committed to finding ways to preserve historical perspectives in the master's degree curriculum. At the 2004 conference of the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) the Historical Perspectives Special Interest Group (SIG) discussed strategies and subsequently carried on the debate in an online forum. Theoretical justifications for including history in the curriculum appealed to both generalist and specific rationales that argued for \"history as story\" as well as \"history as process,\" while practical suggestions included focusing on the preservation of documents, adopting the principles and methods of public history, and creating stronger avenues for collaboration among all historians of libraries and information science, no matter what their disciplinary affiliation. Overall, participants felt that in the current economic climate modestly scaled efforts stood the best chance of success.","PeriodicalId":81853,"journal":{"name":"Libraries & culture","volume":"40 1","pages":"223 - 238"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/LAC.2005.0057","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66795770","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":"Assessing What We Wrote: A Review of the Libraries & Culture Literature Reviews, 1967-2002","authors":"E. Goedeken","doi":"10.1353/LAC.2005.0049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/LAC.2005.0049","url":null,"abstract":"Biennial literature reviews, somewhat rare in library and historical scholarship, have become integral to the scholarly apparatus of American library history since their inception in 1967. This essay surveys the history and structure of the reviews, tracing trends in our specialized culture and making observations about some of the more significant historiographical debates. The reviews illustrate transitions from institutional history to book culture, the rise of multiethnic and gender studies, and variations in theoretical frameworks. Suggestions for future directions appear in analyses of work by some of our most provocative and productive scholars.","PeriodicalId":81853,"journal":{"name":"Libraries & culture","volume":"40 1","pages":"251 - 266"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/LAC.2005.0049","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66795488","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":"Collecting Contested Titles: The Experience of Five Small Public Libraries in the Rural Midwest, 1893-1956","authors":"W. Wiegand","doi":"10.1353/LAC.2005.0061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/LAC.2005.0061","url":null,"abstract":"This essay is an analysis of the history of how, when, and if five small public libraries in the rural Midwest acquired ten controversial books published between 1885 and 1951. My research is extracted from a database that records all titles obtained by these five libraries over an eighty-year period. It also incorporates analysis of when these titles appeared (or did not appear) in acquisitions guides like Fiction Catalog and Standard Catalog for Public Libraries and notes which of these guides were purchased by the five libraries. I conclude that the collections of each of these five libraries tended to reflect the cultural values systems of the local elites who ran them.","PeriodicalId":81853,"journal":{"name":"Libraries & culture","volume":"40 1","pages":"368 - 384"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/LAC.2005.0061","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66795796","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":"Reading Hilda's Home: Gender, Print Culture, and the Dissemination of Utopian Thought in Late-Nineteenth-Century America","authors":"J. Passet","doi":"10.1353/LAC.2005.0056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/LAC.2005.0056","url":null,"abstract":"American women published dozens of utopian novels between 1836 and 1900, yet little is known about the readers who consumed them. Hilda's Home first appeared as a serialized story in Lucifer, the Light-Bearer, a weekly filled with letters from rural and working-class readers troubled by the social ills caused by late-nineteenth-century industrialization and urbanization. Adopting a reader-centered perspective, this essay explores the novel's publication history and readers' responses to its author's vision of cooperative households, sexual equality, and scientific breeding. The testimony of Hilda's Home readers confirms that novels did play an important role in transmitting nineteenth-century utopian visions to rural and working-class readers and that those readers recognized print culture's power as a tool for achieving social change.","PeriodicalId":81853,"journal":{"name":"Libraries & culture","volume":"40 1","pages":"307 - 323"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/LAC.2005.0056","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66796168","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":"Introduction: Donald G. Davis, Jr.: A Gentleman and a Scholar","authors":"C. Malone, H. Anghelescu, J. Tucker","doi":"10.1353/lac.2005.0052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.2005.0052","url":null,"abstract":"This collection can be read as evidence of the connection so many library and book historians feel toward Donald G. Davis, Jr. As a respected scholar, beloved teacher, and magnanimous colleague, Don has inspired us all to work hard and to take joy in the work. When the invitation went out to a selected group of scholars to contribute to this festschrift in honor of Don on the occasion of his retirement, the enthusiastic acceptances came back quickly. Suggestions for additional contributors came back as well, so many that it was impossible to include them all in a single special issue of the journal Don has so ably edited for more than a quarter century. Don has a worldwide circle of friends and admirers. Every single one of them would have sent in a wonderful paper had we asked. Don joined the faculty of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS, now the School of Information) at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) in 1971. There he developed and taught courses covering the history of printing, books, libraries, and civilization, and collection management, among others. He welcomed colleagues and students into his office, overcrowded with shelves and shelves of books, and met them wherever they were in their lives and career trajectories. The modest man in the suit was actually a node in several different but overlapping networks. A dedicated participant in the community known as the Library History Round Table (LHRT) of the American Library Association (ALA), he and fellow members were responsible for so much of the new knowledge produced in the United States about the library past. Overlapping somewhat with this group was the dynamic network of authors, editorial board and staff, referees, and book reviewers that coalesced around Libraries & Culture, the scholarly publication formerly known as the Journal of Library History that Don had","PeriodicalId":81853,"journal":{"name":"Libraries & culture","volume":"40 1","pages":"207 - 212"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/lac.2005.0052","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66795297","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 Library of Congress Becomes a World Library, 1815-2005","authors":"J. Cole","doi":"10.1353/LAC.2005.0046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/LAC.2005.0046","url":null,"abstract":"Established as a legislative library in 1800 to support the U.S. Congress when it moved from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C., the Library of Congress—retaining its original name and primary legislative purpose—has subsequently become the largest and most international of the world's major libraries. The principal reason is that Librarians of Congress since Ainsworth Rand Spofford (1864–97), but especially Herbert Putnam (1899–1939), Luther H. Evans (1945–53), and James H. Billington (1987–), have affirmed and expanded Thomas Jefferson's concept that the Library of Congress is a national institution that should be universal in scope and widely and freely available to everyone.","PeriodicalId":81853,"journal":{"name":"Libraries & culture","volume":"40 1","pages":"385 - 398"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/LAC.2005.0046","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66795249","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":"In Union There Is Strength: The Farmers' Institute and the Western Literary Union Library","authors":"D. Hovde, John W. Fritch","doi":"10.1353/LAC.2005.0048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/LAC.2005.0048","url":null,"abstract":"Housed in what is now a Quaker meetinghouse in southern Tippecanoe County, Indiana, is the remnant collection of a mid-nineteenth-century library from an early academy. Unlike many of its type, it was never disbursed or absorbed into another library collection. The collection itself is an example of educational and literary society libraries that existed before the development of public libraries or libraries in public schools. The library also supported a literary and debating society that was the center of the intellectual life of the surrounding community. This article places the library in the context of Quaker educational philosophy, popular ideas of education of the day, and its relationship with educational reformist movements both within Indiana and at a national level.","PeriodicalId":81853,"journal":{"name":"Libraries & culture","volume":"40 1","pages":"285 - 306"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/LAC.2005.0048","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66795421","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":"Southern Librarianship and the Culture of Resentment","authors":"James V. Carmichael","doi":"10.1353/LAC.2005.0044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/LAC.2005.0044","url":null,"abstract":"The development of library service in the southern states occurred in a supposedly reconciliatory period of American history following the Civil War, but the reforms of Reconstruction, the indigenous remnants of \"southern culture,\" and feelings of isolation from larger professional affairs bred dissent and feelings of estrangement between natives and outsiders. This article relates \"the southern problem\" to early key events in southern library development and current fractures in American cultural politics.","PeriodicalId":81853,"journal":{"name":"Libraries & culture","volume":"14 1","pages":"324 - 352"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/LAC.2005.0044","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66795718","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":"Fides et Historia: Christian Sources for the Professional Contributions of Donald G. Davis, Jr.","authors":"J. Tucker","doi":"10.1353/LAC.2005.0059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/LAC.2005.0059","url":null,"abstract":"The faith commitments and historical impulses of Donald G. Davis, Jr., provide distinctive foundations for his contributions to the library profession. Convinced of the authenticity of core elements in the Christian message, he has sought to integrate faith into the circumstances of his life, a process complemented by a longitudinal perspective that informs current practice. Don has developed a highly personalized, well-defined theology that he has applied to academic librarianship, intellectual freedom, collection management, and teaching and research. One sees this theology worked out in his pronouncements on controversial topics and in his relationships with students and colleagues.","PeriodicalId":81853,"journal":{"name":"Libraries & culture","volume":"40 1","pages":"460 - 474"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/LAC.2005.0059","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66795950","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 Library as Clinic: A Foucauldian Interpretation of British Public Library Attitudes to Social and Physical Disease, ca. 1850-1950","authors":"A. Black","doi":"10.1353/LAC.2005.0043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/LAC.2005.0043","url":null,"abstract":"Characterized by the pursuit of enlightenment and progress, the municipal public libraries that began to appear in Britain after 1850 were notable cultural ingredients of modern society. Yet public libraries also displayed less liberal dimensions of modernity, as places where scientific rationality was at times mobilized to counter perceived \"social\" diseases, broadly constituted by disorder, deviancy, poor discipline, irrational recreation, and economic and political radicalism. The public library's role as a meaningful clinic for the eradication of social diseases, to which the masses were seen to be prone, necessarily required the attraction of a mass clientele, which, ironically, generated fears of physical disease arising from the spatial mixing of users and the sharing of printed materials. Just as Foucault employed the \"birth of the clinic\" as a metaphor for the emergence of modern medicine and its expert discourse in the setting of the scientific hospital around the turn of the nineteenth century, so also the notion of \"library as clinic\" can be seen to encapsulate later discourses of control associated with public librarianship.","PeriodicalId":81853,"journal":{"name":"Libraries & culture","volume":"40 1","pages":"416 - 434"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/LAC.2005.0043","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66795583","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}