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Links and Books for History of Libraries in the Western World

LIS 61095  (Kent State University)

Summer 2011

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Resources Bibliography Videos Just for fun

Resources for research paper:

Bibliography of Writings on the History of Libraries, Librarianship, and Book Culture - Library History Round Table ALA http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/rts/lhrt/popularresources/libhistorybib/libraryhistory.cfm

ALA Library History Roundtable Newsletter

 http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/rts/lhrt/popularresources/lhrtnewsletters/lhrtnewsletters.cfm

International Dictionary of Library Histories. 2 vol. Edited by David H. Stam. Chicago & London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2001.

 

Dead Sea Scroll Exhibit in Toronto 2009

The Dead Sea Scrolls are coming to the Royal Ontario Museum on June 27, 2009. For six months, the ROM will display these priceless treasures together with a collection of ancient artifacts from Jerusalem and environs from the time of the Second Temple and the births of early Judaism and Christianity. http://www.rom.on.ca/scrolls/

 

Daniel Traister’s Resources for the History of Books and Printing   http://www.english.upenn.edu/~traister/hbp.html

 

The Rare Book School pre-reading assignments   http://www.rarebookschool.org/ 

 

Bibliotheca Alexandrina http://www.bibalex.org

 

Directory of Special Libraries in the US http://lists.webjunction.org/libweb/usa-special.html

Directory of Special Collections of Research Value in Canadian Libraries http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/collectionsp/index-e.html

Library History Database: British Isles to 1850 (Robin Alston) - from SHARP Website - http://www.r-alston.co.uk/

Database of American Libraries before 1876 (Davies Project, Princeton) from SHARP Website - http://www.princeton.edu/~davpro/databases/index.html

Center for Epigraphical and Palaeological Studies at Ohio State University - http://epigraphy.osu.edu/default.cfm

Jefferson's Legacy: A Brief History of the Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/loc/legacy/

The Library Company, Philadelphia - founded by Ben Franklin http://www.librarycompany.org/

Hereford Cathedral - Chained Library  http://www.herefordcathedral.org/visit-us/mappa-mundi-1 

The Cloisters - Metropolitan Museum of Art http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/the_cloisters.org/

Digital Scriptorium - Columbia University http://www.scriptorium.columbia.edu/

Scriptorium: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Online   http://scriptorium.english.cam.ac.uk/index.php

Duke University - Papyrus Archive http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/papyrus/
British Library - Early Printed Books http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/epc/earlyprinted/index.html
 
Timbuktu Libraries

 

Curious Expeditions - http://curiousexpeditions.org 

see especially the expeditions to libraries & bibliophilia

 

Selected Bibliography

AAM “Museums & Society 2034: Trends and Potential Futures” The Center for the Future of Museums, Dec 2008 http://futureofmuseums.org/reading/publications/2008.cfm

Arenson, Adam. “Libraries in Public before the Ages of Public Libraries; Interpreting the Furnishings and Design of Athenaeums and Other ‘Social Libraries,’ 1800-1860.” In The Library as Place: History, Community, and Culture Edited by John E. Buschman and Cloria J. Leckie. (Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2007): 41-60.

Augenbraum, Harold. “New York’s Oldest Public Libraries.” RBM 1 No. 2 (Fall 2000): 145-159 http://rbm.acrl.org/

The library as an agency of culture / guest editors, Thomas Augst and Wayne A. Wiegand. Series: American studies 42 No. 3 Lawrence, KS : American Studies, 2001.

Augst, Thomas and Kenneth Carpenter, Editors. Institutions of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the United States. Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007 (essays from "History of Libraries in the United States" conference April 11-13, 2002 in Philadelphia: Library Company of Philadelphia).

Barker, Nicolas “Libraries and the Mind of Man.” In A Potencie of Life: Books in Society. (New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2001): 179-194.

Battles, Matthew. Library: An Unquiet History. NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 2003

Beer, Joan F. de. “National Library of South Africa.” Libraries for the Future: Progress and Development in South African Libraries 2007. IFLA 43-60 http://www.dissanet.com/jsp/ifla/book.jsp

Bird, Jr., William L. “A Suggestion Concerning James Smithson’s Concept of ‘Increase and Diffusion’,” Technology and Culture 24 No. 4 (April 1983): 246-255.

Blackburn, Robert H. “The Ancient Alexandrian Library: Part of It May Survive!” Library History 19 No. 1 (March 2003): 23-34.

Blades, William “On Chained Libraries” The Library Series 1 vol 1 No. 1 (1889):411-417.

Bobinski, George S. Carnegie Libraries: Their History and Impact on American Public Library Development Chicago: ALA 1969, 1970.

 “The Library of Babel”  from Borges Labyrinths http://jubal.westnet.com/hyperdiscordia/library_of_babel.html

Brown, Dale Patrick. Brilliance and balderdash: Early lectures at Cincinnati’s Mercantile Library. Cincinnati, OH: The Mercantile Library, 2007.

Buckridge, Patrick. “Generations of Books: A Tasmanian Family Library, 1816-1994” Library Quarterly 76 No. 4 (Oct 2006): 388-402.

Burleigh, Nina. The Stranger and the Statesman: James Smithson, John Quincy Adams, and the Making of America’s Greatest Museum: The Smithsonian. NY: Perennial, Harper Collins Publishers, 2003.

Carpenter, Kenneth and Thomas Augst "The History of Libraries in the United States": A Conference Report. Libraries & Culture 38, No. 1 (Winter, 2003): 61-66

Casson, Lionel. Libraries in the Ancient World. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001

Clark, J.W. Libraries in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods. Rede Lecture June 13, 1894 (Chicago: Argonaut Inc. Publishers, 1968).

Clark, John Willis. The Care of Books: An Essay on the Development of Libraries. Cambridge at the University Press, 1901.

Cole, John Y. “Jefferson’s Legacy: A Brief History of the Library of Congress” http://www.loc.gov/loc/legacy/

Cole, John Y. “The Library of Congress Becomes a World Library, 1815-2005.” Libraries & Culture: Historical Essays Honoring the Legacy of Donald G. Davis, Jr. ed. Cheryl Knott Malone, Hermina G.B, Anchelescu, and John Mark Tucker. (Washington, DC: Library of Congress Center for the Book, 2006): 163-176.

Coleman Jr., Sterling Joseph. “The British Council and UNESCO in Ethiopia: The Comparison of Linear and Cyclical Patterns of Librarianship Development.” Library History 21 No 2 (July 2005): 121-130.

Galbreath, C.B. Sketches of Ohio Libraries Columbus, OH: Fred J. Heer, State Printer 1902

Gamble, Harry Y. “Early Christian Libraries.” Ch. 4 in Books and Readers in the Early Church: A History of Early Christian Texts. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995 p 144-202.

Gaunt, Heather. ”A Native Instinct of Patriotism: Nationalism in the Australian Public Library from Federation to the 1930s: A case study of the Public Library of Tasmania” Library History 24 No. 2 (June 2008): 152-166.

Glasgow, Eric. “The Huntington Library.” Library History 20 No. 1 (March 2004): 69-74.

Guerrini Mauro and Giovanna Frigimelica "Libraries in Italy: A Brief Overview" IFLA Journal 35 No. 2 (2009): 94-116 http://ifl.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/35/2/94

Glynn, Tom. “The New York Society Library: Books, Authority, and Publics in Colonial and Early Republican New York.” Libraries & Culture 40 No. 4. (Fall 2005): 493-529.

Hamlin, Arthur T. The University Library in the United States: Its Origin and Development. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981: 3-59.

Hobson, Anthony. Great Libraries. NY: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1970.

Houston, George W. “Tiberius and the Libraries: Public Book Collections and Library Buildings in the Early Roman Empire” Libraries & The Cultural Record 43 No. 3 (September 10, 2008): 247–269.

Hunt, R.W. “The Library of the Abbey of St. Albans.” In Medieval Scribes, Manuscripts & Libraries; Essays Presented to N.R. Ker. Edited by MB. Parkes and Andrew G. Watson. London: Scholar Press, 1978, 251-277.

If: book: The really modern library (October 2007) http://www.futureofthebook.org/blog/

Irwin, Raymond. The Origins of the English Library. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd. 1958.

Jackson, Sidney L. Libraries and Librarianship in the West: A Brief History NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company 1974

Jacob, Christian. “Gathering Memory: Thoughts on the History of Libraries,” Diogenes 49 No. 4 (April 2002): 41-57.

Javersak, David T. “One Place on this Great Green Planet Where Andrew Carnegie Can’t Get a Monument with His Money.” West Virginia History 41 (1979): 7-19.Kim, Chin. “A New National Library: The National Diet Library of Japan.” The Journal of Library History IV No. 3 (July 1969): 225-238.

Kaltwasser, Franz Georg. “The Common Roots of Library and Museum in the Sixteenth Century: The Example of Munich.” Library History 20 No. 3 (Nov 2004): 163-181.

Kenny, Colum. King’s Inns and the Battle of the Books, 1972: Cultural controversy at a Dublin Library. Dublin: Four Courts Press / The Irish Legal Society Library, 2002.

Koch, Theodore W. “The Bibliothèque Nationale: Organization and History.” Library Journal 39 (May 1914): 339-350.

Lawler, Andrew. “Raising Alexandria.” Smithsonian (April 2007)

Levy, Steven. “The Future of Reading” (Amazon and Kindle) Newsweek 150 Issue 22 (26 Nov 2007): 57-64

Liebaers, Herman. “The Impact of American and European Librarianship Upon Each Other.” Libraries and the Life of the Mind in America. Chicago: American Library Association, 1997, 67-83.

Lorenzen, Michael. “Deconstructing the Carnegie Libraries.” Illinois Libraries 81 No. 2 (Spring 1999): 75-78 http://www.lib.niu.edu/1999/il990275.html

Liao, Jing. “The Genesis of the Modern Academic Library in China: Western Influences and the Chinese Response.” Libraries & Culture 30 No. 2 (Spring 2004): 161-174. [available through KentLink]

Lin, Sharon Chien. Libraries and Librarianship in China. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998.

Lippman, Walter. “The Museum of the Future.” Atlantic Monthly 182, no. 4 (October 1948): 70-72. Printed version of a talk he gave at the AAM annual meeting in 1948. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1969/12/the-museum-of-the-future/6626/2/

Luis Borges, Jorge. “The Library of Babel.” In Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings. ed. Donald A. Yates and James E. Irby. (NY: A New Directions Book 1962): 51-59.

Manguel, Alberto. The Library at Night. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008.

Manley, K.A. “Scottish Circulating and Subscription Libraries as Community Libraries.” Library History 19 No. 3 (Nov 2003): 185-194.

Oehlerts, Donald E. Books and Blueprints: Building America’s Public Libraries. Contributions in librarianship and information. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. 1991.

Oliver, Bette Wyn. “The Bibliothèque Nationale from 1792-1794: Becoming a National Institution during the French Revolution.” Libraries & the Cultural Record 42 No. 1 (April 2007) 48-56

O'Toole, J. “Herodotus and the Written Record.” Archivaria 33 No. 1 (1991) http://journals.sfu.ca/archivar/index.php/archivaria/article/view/11806/12757

 Pennavaria, Katherine. “Representations of Books and Libraries in Depictions of the Future.” Libraries & Culture 37 No. 2 (Summer 2002): 229-248.

Popowich, A.S., “Carlyle, Panizzi, and the Public Library Ideal,” Library Student Journal (Feb 2007)

Ranasinghe, Rhis. “How Buddhism Influenced the Origin and Development of Libraries in Sri Lanka (Ceylon): From the Third Cenury BC to the Fifth Century AD.” Library History 24 No. 4 (Dec 2008): 307-312.

Reid, Peter H. “The Decline and Fall of the British Country House Library.” Libraries & Culture 36 No. 2 (Spring 2001): 345-366Shera, Jesse H. “The Circulating Library,” Chapter 5 in  , Foundations of the Public Library: The Origins of the Public Library Movement in New England 1629-1855, (Shoestring Press, 1965)

Roberts, Daphne and Bob Duckett. “The Bradford Library and Literary Society, 1774-1980.” Library History 22 No. 3 (Nov 2006): 213-226.

Rukanci, Fatih and Hakan Anameric. “Libraries as Scientific, Educational and Cultural Institutions in the Ottoman Empire (XIVth –XVIIth Centuries) Libri 56 No. 4 (Dec 2006): 252-263.

Satterley, Renae. “The Libraries of the Inns of Court: An Examination of their Historical Influence.” Library History 24 No. 3 (Sept 2008): 208-219.

Schlup, Leonard and Stephen H. Paschen, ed. Librarianship in Gilded Age America: An Anthology of Writings, 1868-1901. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2009. (selections of articles about libraries, librarians and librarianship)

Schwill, Rudolph “An Impression of the Condition of Spanish American Libraries.” Modern Language Notes 20 No. 5 (1905): 142-145

 Shaw, Jonathan. “Gutenberg 2.0 Harvard’s libraries deal with disruptive change.” Harvard Magazine (May-June 2010): 36-41, 82-83. available online at http://harvardmagazine.com/2010/05/gutenberg-2-0

Streeter, Burnett Hillman. The Chained Library; a survey of four centuries in the evolution of the English library. London, Macmillan and Co., Ltd, 1931

Sturgeon, Roy L. “Preserving the past, preparing for the future: Modern Chinese libraries and librarianship 1898-2000s.” World Libraries 14 No. 1 (Fall 2004) http://www.worlib.org/vol14no1/sturg_v14n1.shtml

Sturges, Paul. “Great City Libraries of Britain: Their History from a European Perspective.” Library History 19 No. 2 (July 2003): 93-111.

Summit, Jennifer. Memory's Library: Medieval Books in Early Modern England. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.

Towner, Lawrence W. “The Newberry Library: A Research Opportunity in Library History,” Library History Seminar No. 3 Proceedings, 1968, (Tallahassee, FL: School of Library Science Florida State University, 1968): 1-16.

Van Beynum, William J. “The Book-Company of Durham,” Library History Seminar No. 3 Proceedings, 1968, (Tallahassee, FL: School of Library Science Florida State University, 1968): 73-97.

Videos

Name of the Rose

National Treasure – part one (Declaration of Independence)

Buffy Season II

Shawshank Redemption (scene - “How to build a library”)

Desk Set (end)

Born Yesterday  - (Scene in LOC)

Twilight Zone

The Librarian I (introductory scenes)

Beauty & The Beast – Cartoon movie

Breakfast & Tiffany – library

9th Gate (Basd upon Arturo Perez-Reverte's Dumas Club)

Dr. Who in the library

Mummy (1st session – Chapter 3)

Star Trek – Day after Tomorrow (introductory scenes)

The Time Machine – newest version

Day after Tomorrow (when the world freezes) – scene in New York Public Library

Inkheart

Page Master?

Neverending Tale

Angels & Demons (destruction of special archives chamber)

 

Just for Fun

 

 


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