{"title":"The Literature of American Library History, 2010–2011","authors":"E. Goedeken","doi":"10.7560/IC48405","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"As historians of libraries and librarianship, we face the constant challenge of understanding the people and actions of another era, of another time, and perhaps even of another culture that has changed remarkably from the past to the present. Joyce Carol Oates observed recently that when it comes to the past we “are forever viewers, voyeurs. We haven’t a clue.”1 Yet, in order for us to do our work we need to find the clues that are left behind and from them create a story that will inform our readers about the library past and about how that past has influenced the present. That is the task before us each day as we labor in the vineyards of American library historiography.","PeriodicalId":42337,"journal":{"name":"Information & Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6000,"publicationDate":"2013-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.7560/IC48405","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Information & Culture","FirstCategoryId":"91","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.7560/IC48405","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"HISTORY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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As historians of libraries and librarianship, we face the constant challenge of understanding the people and actions of another era, of another time, and perhaps even of another culture that has changed remarkably from the past to the present. Joyce Carol Oates observed recently that when it comes to the past we “are forever viewers, voyeurs. We haven’t a clue.”1 Yet, in order for us to do our work we need to find the clues that are left behind and from them create a story that will inform our readers about the library past and about how that past has influenced the present. That is the task before us each day as we labor in the vineyards of American library historiography.
作为图书馆和图书馆事业的历史学家,我们面临着不断的挑战,即理解另一个时代、另一个时代的人和行为,甚至可能是另一种从过去到现在发生了巨大变化的文化。乔伊斯·卡罗尔·奥茨(Joyce Carol Oates)最近观察到,当谈到过去时,我们“永远是观众,永远是偷窥者”。我们毫无头绪。然而,为了完成我们的工作,我们需要找到留下的线索,并从中创造一个故事,告诉我们的读者图书馆的过去,以及过去是如何影响现在的。这是我们每天在美国图书馆史学的葡萄园里劳作时所面临的任务。