Imaginative literature encourages us to reflect on real and desired worlds. Among sci-fi authors, Ursula Le Guin’s work is particularly evocative for LCHS because the effects of political and social structures on everyday people frequently appear in her narratives. In the collection Four Ways to Forgiveness, for example, there are colonies, there is slavery, there is patriarchy, and there are questions about postwar reconciliation. As editors of LCHS, we publish or hope to publish material on these concerns as well. The quote from the story “A Man of the People” is also relevant because the character who utters it is Havzhiva, an ambassador between two planets. We, too, strive to be bridge-builders within the special universe we have tried to create where authors from diverse backgrounds, employing perspectives and methods from various disciplines, are welcome to tell library stories from around the world and help our profession make sense of moments that could otherwise wear us out. Le Guin’s use of river imagery also suggests that the flow of library history will continue even after our own roles as editors of LCHS come to an end.As readers of the Fall 2023 issue will notice, aftereffects of COVID-19 continue to be felt in that it remains difficult for many authors to bring manuscripts to fruition. Nonetheless, we are glad to present two research articles. In “Vivian Davidson Hewitt: A Special Librarian’s Advocacy,” Tara Murray Grove adds to the growing body of literature highlighting the contributions of Black women in librarianship. Hewitt served as the first Black president of the Special Libraries Association. This biography emphasizes her considerable accomplishments while acknowledging the broader social and institutional factors that influenced her and other Black librarians in the United States. While special librarians often receive less attention than their academic and public library peers, Hewitt’s story demonstrates how understanding special librarians contributes to a fuller understanding of library history. Our second research article is “‘Neighborhood Library Modernization’: Public Library Development and Racial Inequality in Milwaukee during the 1960s,” by Maddi Brenner. The story of the Milwaukee Public Library expansion and its effects on the African American community in the 1950s and 1960s provides insights into the ongoing racially influenced policy practices in a northern city. Brenner’s account supplements the literature of libraries and African American communities during a transformative time in America’s history.Following Grove’s and Brenner’s work, the “LHRT at Seventy-Five” section continues our yearlong effort to document and reflect upon the round table’s anniversary. While our multiple calls for contributions did not result in as many or as diverse essays as we had hoped, we are thrilled to hear from Donald G. Davis, who served as LHRT chair in the 1978–1979 season, was the editor of LCHS’s intellectual predecess
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.5325/libraries.7.2.0155
Donald G. Davis
What a delight to reflect on my experiences as a library historian and the role of the Library History Round Table of the American Library Association as I enter my eighty-fourth year.Though my serious interest in libraries began in high school and developed during college and graduate school, my official career began with a MLS degree from Berkeley in 1964 and an appointment as reference librarian and special collections bibliographer at Fresno State College. As a new member of ALA, my first annual conference was in 1967, when I attended the program session of the American Library History Round Table. The LHRT program session was on Monday, June 26, at 4:30 p.m.—not the best time, except for the committed. As I remember there were maybe fifteen to twenty people present, of whom I was conspicuously the youngest. The presentation on oral library history interested me less than the paper on Ida Kidder, “Pioneer Western Land Grant Librarian,” by W. H. Carlson of Corvallis, Oregon, and the paper on Mabel Ray Gillis, “California State Librarian” by Peter T. Conmy of the Oakland Public Library. This is probably because I was twenty-seven at the time, in my first professional position as head of special collections and reference librarian at Fresno State College library. I had just sent for publication my first-ever library history piece: a four-page illustrated insert for the October 1967 issue of the California Librarian, entitled “In Fair and Foul: Early Fresno Libraries.”As a doctoral student at Illinois (1968–1972), I found myself increasingly committed to the history of libraries that drew on my previous studies in history and literature. This resulted in a dissertation that studied the Association of American Library Schools (now the Association for Library and Information Science Education) and two other associations of professional schools in the United States and Canada. From 1971 onward I taught courses in the history of archives, books, and libraries regularly at the library school of the University of Texas at Austin until full retirement in 2006, thirty-five years in all.After defending my dissertation at Illinois, I attended the ALA conference in Chicago and participated in the round table’s twenty-fifth anniversary program session. In 1972, during the election of officers that followed the two papers, I nominated Michael Harris for chair. His election signaled a turning point from the founding leaders of the first twenty-five years to a new era of leadership and activity for the round table. Harris and his young colleagues began to serve as key players in the round table’s direction. Program presenters, for example, now included professional historians with related interests. Colleagues who assumed leadership in LHRT in the fifteen years after 1972, included, to name a few, Laurel Grotzinger, George Bobinski, Doris Dale, Susan Thompson, Budd Gambee, Phyllis Dain, Mary Niles Maack, Lee Shiflett, Robert Williams, Arthur Young, Robert Marti
在我步入84岁之际，回顾我作为图书馆历史学家的经历和美国图书馆协会图书馆历史圆桌会议的作用，我感到非常高兴。虽然我对图书馆的浓厚兴趣始于高中，并在大学和研究生院期间得到了发展，但我的正式职业生涯始于1964年在伯克利获得MLS学位，并被任命为弗雷斯诺州立学院的参考图书管理员和特别收藏书目编录员。作为美国图书馆协会的新成员，我的第一次年会是在1967年，当时我参加了美国图书馆历史圆桌会议的项目会议。6月26日，星期一，下午4:30,LHRT项目的会议时间不是最好的，除了那些有承诺的人。我记得当时大概有15到20个人在场，我显然是其中最年轻的一个。我对口述图书馆历史的介绍不太感兴趣，俄勒冈州科瓦利斯的w·h·卡尔森关于艾达·基德的论文，“西部土地赠款先驱馆员”，以及奥克兰公共图书馆的彼得·t·科米关于梅布尔·雷·吉里斯的论文，“加利福尼亚州图书馆员”。这可能是因为当时我27岁，在弗雷斯诺州立大学图书馆担任我的第一个专业职位——特别收藏和参考图书管理员。我刚刚寄去出版我的第一篇图书馆历史文章:1967年10月号《加州图书管理员》上的一篇四页插图插页，题为《公平与不公平:早期弗雷斯诺图书馆》。作为伊利诺斯州的一名博士生(1968-1972)，我发现自己越来越致力于图书馆的历史，这借鉴了我以前在历史和文学方面的研究。这导致了一篇论文，研究了美国图书馆学校协会(现在的图书馆和信息科学教育协会)和美国和加拿大的另外两个专业学校协会。从1971年开始，我定期在德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的图书馆学院教授档案、书籍和图书馆的历史课程，直到2006年完全退休，总共35年。在伊利诺斯州完成论文答辩后，我参加了在芝加哥举行的美国ALA会议，并参加了圆桌会议的25周年纪念活动。1972年，在两篇论文发表后的官员选举中，我提名迈克尔·哈里斯为主席。他的当选标志着一个转折点，从最初25年的创始领导人到圆桌会议的领导和活动的新时代。哈里斯和他的年轻同事们开始在圆桌会议的方向上发挥关键作用。例如，节目主持人现在包括有相关兴趣的专业历史学家。在1972年之后的15年里，担任LHRT领导的同事包括劳雷尔·格罗青格、乔治·博宾斯基、多丽丝·戴尔、苏珊·汤普森、巴德·甘比、菲利斯·戴恩、玛丽·奈尔斯·马克、李·希弗莱特、罗伯特·威廉姆斯、亚瑟·杨、罗伯特·马丁、吉姆·卡迈克尔、韦恩·维根和简·罗森伯格。他们都在图书馆的历史和LHRT上留下了自己的印记。作为一名年轻的图书馆历史学家，我吸收了同事们的热情。与此同时，1976年，我所在的德州学校接受了出版《图书馆史》季刊的责任，该季刊早在佛罗里达州立大学出版10年。关于从佛罗里达州过渡到德克萨斯州的最好的印刷处理是约翰·阿维德·阿霍和唐纳德·g·小戴维斯，“推进图书馆史的学术研究:图书馆史和图书馆与文化杂志的作用”，美国图书馆史研究(华盛顿特区:国会图书馆，图书中心，2000年)，第173-91页。这也发表在图书馆与文化35(2000年冬季):171-91。这篇综合文章的后半部分描述了在我的编辑下，期刊的演变和变化。正如我在早期期刊的编辑笔记中所表达的那样，我认为我的目标只是让这本杂志看起来更专业，更像一本文化历史杂志，就像我们的自我描述或使命声明中所说的那样:“《图书馆与文化》是一本跨学科的杂志，在文化和社会历史的背景下，探索有记录的知识收藏的意义——它们的创造、组织、保存和利用，不受时间和空间的限制。”这似乎引起了广泛的国际投稿和书评人的关注。除了编辑对“&”符号的偏爱之外，使这本杂志与众不同、吸引人的地方还包括封面上带有解释性文章的书签，为杂项小文章留出笔记和随笔的空间，以及撰稿人的传记段落。后者，如果收集起来，将成为图书馆史上名副其实的名人录。在我的指导下，第一期是第十二卷第一期，1977年《冬天》。 作为编辑，我立刻意识到，期刊和圆桌会议可以加强各自的使命，使双方都受益。事后看来，我认为这项工作取得了比任何人想象的更为深远的成果。在我看来，其中四个结果最引人注目。首先，作为1978-1979年圆桌会议的当选主席，我说服执行委员会把这个美国人从这个机构的名字中去掉，这样它就像现在一样被称为图书馆历史圆桌会议。理由是，母公司的名称中已经有“美国人”，所以重复是多余的。1976年，美国图书馆协会成立100周年，次年，英国图书馆协会也举行了百年纪念活动。LHRT授权其主席Budd Gambee(北卡罗莱纳州)和候任主席Don Davis(德克萨斯州)成为协会图书馆历史小组的正式代表，该小组是LHRT的英国学院小组。1977年秋天的这次旅行对我来说是难忘的，它导致了1980-1981年在英国伯明翰的图书馆学校交换教学一年。此外，兴趣和节目也开始反映出一种国际风格，而不仅仅是美国风格。1979年在达拉斯举行的项目会议出席人数众多，其中包括国会图书馆馆长丹尼尔·布尔斯汀的“国会图书馆:过去、现在和未来”，以及大英图书馆的伊恩·威利森的“图书馆与学术，过去、现在和未来”。第二，在我的领导下，圆桌会议开始定期向成员们发布各种问题和公告。事实证明，在互联网和在线机会出现之前的几年里，这对交流特别有用。这鼓励了图书馆历史同事之间的合作。对我来说，这样做的结果之一是在准备《美国图书馆史:文学综合指南》(1989)时得到了许多圆桌会议成员的支持，这本书是马克·塔克和我共同撰写的。第三，在我的编辑下，《图书馆史杂志》(1988年更名为《图书馆与文化》)试图尽可能广泛地吸引世界各地兴趣各异的图书馆历史学家提交反映他们学术追求的手稿。这种国际兴趣的一个方面是与其他国家——英国、德国、澳大利亚、日本等——类似圆桌会议的团体建立关系。我在国际图书馆协会和机构联合会的活动，特别是它的图书馆历史特别兴趣小组和图书馆期刊编辑圆桌会议，支持了这些国际联系。他们还为期刊投稿、项目发言人和其他出版项目提供联系方式。这个不断增长的全球网络的显著成果之一是《图书馆历史百科全书》(1994年)，由韦恩·a·维根和小唐纳德·g·戴维斯编辑，其中包括近250个国际贡献者的条目。第四，也是最后一点，我在LHRT的参与使我推动和组织了图书馆历史研讨会的定期系列。这些研讨会是《图书馆史杂志》及其创始人路易斯·肖尔斯(Louis Shores)的副产品。他们分别在1961年、1963年、1968年、1971年和1976年召开了会议，我参加了第一次会议，并读了一篇论文。当我在德州开始担任编辑职务时，我负责推广和主持1980年春天在奥斯汀举行的第六届图书馆历史研讨会。这似乎为接下来的三次研讨会设定了模式，它们每五年在北卡罗来纳大学(1985年)、印第安纳大学(1990年)和阿拉巴马大学(1995年)举行一次。这些研讨会得到了编辑委员会、圆桌会议以及国会图书馆图书中心的支持。全体会议以值得注意的演讲者、主题会议和招待会为特色。出席人数增加到100多名演讲者和参与者。每次研讨会都出版了两期《图书馆与文化》特刊(用于索引目的)和一本已出版的索引卷。五年的时间间隔似乎是一个合理的时间长度，用于宣传、征求建议、组织手稿、会议监督、收到最后手稿和准备出版。这些研讨会似乎以学院的友谊和智力上的挑战为图书馆历史界注入了活力。约翰·y·科尔(John Y.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.5325/libraries.7.2.0131
Maddi Brenner
ABSTRACT By the early 1960s, the Milwaukee Public Library (MPL), Richard Krug (head librarian of MPL), and Milwaukee mayor Henry Maier and his administration became major partners in expanding the reach of branch libraries across its urban neighborhoods. MPL grew from thirteen isolated libraries to nine connected branch libraries through the coordinated branch library system by 1972. This paper analyzes the history of library expansion in Milwaukee during the 1960s. Goals of community engagement, partnership, and citywide circulation guided the development of branch library construction. However, the creation of these branch libraries in Milwaukee was interconnected with the existence of racial inequality and changing racial demographics in the social, political, and economic context of the African American population in the city. Site and budget decisions made in this context had long-term consequences for the nine new branch libraries in Milwaukee.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.5325/libraries.7.2.0111
Tara Murray Grove
ABSTRACT Vivian Davidson Hewitt was the first Black librarian in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the first Black president of the Special Libraries Association (SLA). Despite these accomplishments and the recognition she received during her lifetime, her story, like those of many special librarians, has not been considered in the context of the broader movement for greater rights and representation for Black librarians. This article explores Hewitt’s path to library leadership, providing context for her autobiography and adding details gleaned from oral histories, unpublished papers, newspaper articles, and her own contributions to the library literature. The resulting narrative shows how she leveraged the successes of her career to open doors for other Black librarians. Hewitt’s biography demonstrates that, far from existing in a separate sphere from pioneers in public and academic libraries, special librarians contribute to the larger profession and their stories are part of library history.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.5325/libraries.7.2.0161
Dominique Daniel
ABSTRACT This essay details the work of the Library History Round Table’s Publication Task Force, whose 2014 report led to the creation of LHRT’s scholarly journal, Libraries: Culture, History, and Society, under the leadership of founding editors Bernadette Lear and Eric Novotny. The chair of the Publication Task Force then highlights lessons for small scholarly societies aiming to establish their own journals, reflecting on issues such as publisher selection, journal ownership, funding, technology, publication frequency, and more.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.5325/libraries.7.2.0176
Anthony Bernier
I would like to acknowledge Bernadette Lear for articulating an expanded vision of the Library History Round Table community and for devoting years to advocating that vision for the LHRT as appears in her essay in the previous issue of LCHS.1 But as we celebrate the LHRT’s seventy-fifth anniversary, I would also like to offer a rejoinder from a different vantage point.What I offer constitutes less an argument with Bernadette’s essay than a more complex refinement of what constitutes the LHRT. Bernadette laudably focuses on community, a “spirit of openness,” for wide audiences of those interested in producing and learning about the library’s past—especially for those unable to participate in LHRT activities.2For my part, however, I would advocate that the LHRT better acknowledge that there are two communities connected to library history. History is not only about what we like to share about the past; it must also include what the wide and systematic collection of evidence, critical assessment of primary sources, and historiographic analysis documents and demonstrates it is.Broadening interest in the LHRT is a laudable aspiration. Though, throughout its seventy-five years, aspirations notwithstanding, the Round Table might well sustain criticism about being less attractive to students and practitioners, among others, who might otherwise see themselves as active members. Self-critique on this is all to the good. We should always seek to expand the reach of library history—for the good of the LHRT, for the American Library Association, the profession, and for libraries.In celebrating the LHRT’s seventy-fifth year, however, I suggest that we better consider how the Round Table is constituted of two distinct communities, not one. Each of these communities envisions addressing distinct types of questions about history and thus different roles for the LHRT. We should strive to build an LHRT capable of valuing both communities for their respective contributions.To be sure, and to a significant extent, the LHRT does attempt to serve its members and respond to what members feel contributes value to their work and interests. For their part, librarians and archivists sharing stories about the past represents an enriching thread in library history. These tend to be the stories and discussions I observed as a member of the executive committee and as chair, what the LHRT concentrates upon in meetings, panels, conferences, and in the very well-edited LHRT News and Notes newsletter. These are indeed generous efforts assembled and contributed by practicing librarians who share various experiences of the past.I would argue, however, that while the Round Table does achieve good success on this count, we must still broaden the communities of people interested in our history further. In better differentiating two communities of library history, I feel the LHRT would also reach for broader and deeper impact.More pointedly, there is a difference between librarians shari
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.5325/libraries.7.2.0216
Brenda Mitchell-Powell
In The Library: A Fragile History, Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen utilize copious primary and secondary sources, as well as websites, to trace the evolution of worldwide libraries and various forms of reading and recordkeeping materials from antiquity to the digital age. Also consulted were numerous international, multilingual sources. In the process, the authors investigate the social, cultural, historical, political, religious, military, national and international, and technological influences that impacted the meanings and developments of institutions and their collections. Pettegree and der Weduwen are ideally suited to this monumental task. Pettegree is professor of modern history at the University of St. Andrews and a renowned expert on the history of book and media transformations. Der Weduwen is a historian, postdoctoral fellow at St. Andrews, and author of books on the history of newspapers, advertising, and publishing. They collaborated previously on titles related to book and library history.This sweeping history of the evolution of books and print culture, reading rooms, and libraries investigates collections of materials—papyrus scrolls, codices, and manuscripts, as well as parchment, illuminated, and printed books—and housing facilities, including chests and cabinets; imperial courts; monasteries, mosques, synagogues, temples, and churches; great halls and private spaces; legal and research centers; universities; and national and special repositories. Libraries are defined not only as intellectual resources but also as architectural centerpieces, cultural capital, financial assets, symbols of power and control, and “statement[s] of what a nation or ruling class stood for” (9). The pivotal roles of religion; wars, incursions, and military conquests; political, national, and international events; finance; and technology are extensively covered by the authors. They also assess the impact of philosophical movements, such as humanism, the Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation, and the Ages of Discovery and Enlightenment, on library genesis and expansion, collection development (or destruction), and access issues. Further, Pettegree and der Weduwen trace perceptions of and reactions to rare, illustrated, and printed materials through the ages, and they examine the advent of book catalogs and lotteries and their bearing on the evaluation, pricing, and sales of books. The involvement in book and library development of well- and lesser-known figures, including national and faith leaders, library professionals and benefactors, town council members and city administrators, and community residents, offers personal dimensions that supplement reportage of historic details.Pettegree and der Weduwen contend that the evolution of libraries is not linear and that throughout the ages libraries survived because they adapted to ever-changing public attitudes and social, cultural, historical, religious, and political considerations. Following
在《图书馆:一段脆弱的历史》一书中，Andrew Pettegree和Arthur der Weduwen利用丰富的一手和二手资源以及网站，追溯了从古代到数字时代全球图书馆和各种形式的阅读和记录材料的演变。还咨询了许多国际多语种来源。在此过程中，作者调查了影响机构及其收藏的意义和发展的社会、文化、历史、政治、宗教、军事、国家和国际和技术影响。佩特格力和德·韦德温非常适合这项艰巨的任务。佩特格力是圣安德鲁斯大学现代史教授，也是书籍和媒体转型史方面的知名专家。Der Weduwen是一位历史学家，圣安德鲁斯大学博士后，著有关于报纸、广告和出版史的书籍。他们之前曾合作过与图书和图书馆历史相关的标题。这本书和印刷文化、阅览室和图书馆演变的历史概览调查了各种材料的收藏——纸莎草卷轴、抄本和手稿，以及羊皮纸、彩绘和印刷书籍——以及包括箱子和橱柜在内的住房设施;帝国法庭;修道院、清真寺、犹太教堂、寺庙和教堂;大厅和私人空间;法律和研究中心;大学;以及国家和特殊资源库。图书馆不仅被定义为智力资源，还被定义为建筑中心、文化资本、金融资产、权力和控制的象征，以及“一个国家或统治阶级所代表的东西的声明”(9)。战争、入侵和军事征服;政治、国内和国际事件;金融;作者对技术进行了广泛的介绍。他们还评估了哲学运动的影响，如人文主义、文艺复兴、新教改革、发现和启蒙时代，对图书馆的起源和扩展、馆藏发展(或破坏)和访问问题。此外，Pettegree和der Weduwen追溯了历代人们对稀有、插图和印刷材料的看法和反应，他们研究了图书目录和彩票的出现，以及它们对图书评估、定价和销售的影响。参与书籍和图书馆发展的知名人士和不太知名的人物，包括国家和宗教领袖，图书馆专业人士和捐助者，镇议会成员和城市管理者，以及社区居民，提供了个人的维度，补充了历史细节的报告文学。Pettegree和der Weduwen认为，图书馆的发展不是线性的，在各个时代，图书馆之所以能够生存下来，是因为它们适应了不断变化的公众态度以及社会、文化、历史、宗教和政治方面的考虑。在有意或无意的退化、毁坏、破坏(包括环境或附带损害的实例)、忽视或掠夺图书馆之后，恢复阶段往往是继增长和衰退之后的又一个阶段，即使恢复需要几十年或几个世纪。恢复包括涉众、管理控制以及收集的目的和重点的变化。两位作者坚持认为，“没有哪个社会对从上几代人继承下来的藏书感到满意”(2)，而且“积累知识的欲望与控制获取知识或利用知识以某种方式‘改善’读者的欲望相竞争”(7)。他们进一步认为，维护良好、受人欣赏的图书馆需要持续的管理和适当的处置。这些决策往往取决于具体情况以及负责决策的利益相关者的个人和/或专业议程。例如，虽然像Gabriel naud<s:1>这样的学者图书馆员为专业社区服务，并以他们的专业知识和专业精神提升了他们的个人前景，但在许多欧洲机构中，图书馆员仅仅是作为闲职人员。图书馆中穿插着这样翔实的例子，这些例子补充了内容，而不会打断文本的流程。最终，这些令人信服的论文为即将到来的文本提供了一个大纲，这是基于大量历史、代际和国际例子支持的合理有效的论点，以及批判性的分析和见解。该图书馆在图书馆史上做出了几项重大贡献。首先，Pettegree和der Weduwen证明，虽然地方情况、条件和时代各不相同，但共性、民族和文化在图书馆的发生和发展中具有明显的可概括模式。其次，它们扩展了之前出版的范围广泛的作品中粗略论述的内容——如果有的话。
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.5325/libraries.7.2.0223
Mandy Webster
There can be few significant private libraries the author Reid Byers has not enjoyed visiting. This personal experience enlivens his fascinating insight into the development of personal libraries and is supported by his wide reading around the subject, as evidenced in the extensive list of works cited at the end of his book. His career includes C language programmer, master IT architect, journalist, and TV newscaster. He is a member of the Grolier Club in New York and is vice president of the Baxter Society. He has directed or curated eighteen book exhibitions, and his publications include work on library archaeology. All of which appears to have provided the perfect grounding for writing The Private Library.Other titles, such as The Oxford Companion to the Book by Michael F. Suarez and H. R. Woudhuysen, cover the history of books in greater detail but do not discuss architecture or benefit from as many floor plans and illustrations as Byers’s book. Book collecting is well provided for, with books ranging from the more practical ABC for Book Collectors by John Carter through to the more anecdotal A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books by Nicholas A. Basbanes, with accounts of collectors prepared to go to any length, including murder, to satisfy their book lust. Few examine the physical structures of the libraries housing these collections and trace the evolution of their furnishings as Byers does. The books which do examine the architecture of libraries tend to have a narrower focus than Byers, for example, the more lavishly illustrated The Most Beautiful Libraries of the World by Jacques Bosser and Guillaume de Laubier and the more unwieldy The World’s Most Beautiful Libraries by Massimo Listri, which has many more sumptuous photographs but little explanatory text. Others favor specific periods and locations, such as The Country House Library and The Big House Library in Ireland: Books in Ulster Country Houses, both by Mark Purcell. The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland, edited by Peter Hoare, dedicates three volumes to the history of collecting, organizing, and housing libraries in these countries and how they were influenced by other countries but devotes much less space to architecture than Byers. The closest alternative to Byers’s book would be The Library: A World History by James Campbell and Will Pryce, similarly based on personal visits to more than eighty libraries around the world and spanning ancient Mesopotamia to present-day Western libraries, but focusing more on photographic evidence without the same explanatory detail as Byers. None cover furnishings in as much detail as Byers’s appendices C and D or provide such detailed floor plans to aid in imagining the scale and layout of library environments from Roman times to the present. Attention to detail in each chapter includes where and how high windows were situated and whether they would face courtyards, gardens, or water
作家里德·拜尔斯(Reid Byers)不喜欢参观的重要私人图书馆几乎没有。这一个人经历激发了他对个人图书馆发展的迷人洞察力，并得到了他围绕这一主题的广泛阅读的支持，正如他在书末引用的大量作品所证明的那样。他的职业生涯包括C语言程序员、IT架构大师、记者和电视新闻播音员。他是纽约格罗里尔俱乐部的成员，也是巴克斯特协会的副主席。他指导或策划了18个书展，他的出版物包括图书馆考古学。所有这些似乎都为《私人图书馆》的写作提供了完美的基础。其他书籍，如Michael F. Suarez和h.r. Woudhuysen的《牛津图书指南》，更详细地介绍了书籍的历史，但没有讨论建筑，也没有像Byers的书那样从大量的平面图和插图中受益。这里为藏书提供了很好的条件，从约翰·卡特的《藏书家入门》到尼古拉斯·A·巴什班斯的《温和的疯狂:藏书家、藏书家和对书的永恒热情》，从更实用的书籍到更有趣的书籍，讲述了藏书家为了满足他们对书的渴望，不惜一切手段，包括谋杀。很少有人像拜尔斯那样研究图书馆收藏这些藏品的物理结构，并追踪其家具的演变。研究图书馆建筑的书往往比拜尔斯的书关注的范围更窄，例如，雅克·博瑟和纪尧姆·德·劳比尔的《世界上最美的图书馆》插图更丰富，马西莫·李斯特里的《世界上最美的图书馆》更笨拙，有很多华丽的照片，但很少有解释性的文字。还有一些人喜欢特定的时期和地点，比如马克·珀塞尔的《乡村别墅图书馆》和《爱尔兰的大房子图书馆:阿尔斯特乡村别墅的书》。由Peter Hoare编辑的《剑桥图书馆在英国和爱尔兰的历史》用三卷的篇幅讲述了这些国家图书馆的收集、组织和安置历史，以及它们是如何受到其他国家的影响的，但与拜尔斯相比，它在建筑方面的篇幅要少得多。与拜尔斯的书最接近的是詹姆斯·坎贝尔和威尔·普莱斯的《图书馆:世界历史》，同样是基于对世界各地80多家图书馆的个人访问，从古代的美索不达米亚到当今的西方图书馆，但更多地关注照片证据，没有拜尔斯那样的解释细节。没有哪本像拜尔斯的附录C和D那样详细地介绍了家具，也没有哪本像拜尔斯的附录C和D那样提供了如此详细的平面图，以帮助想象从罗马时代到现在的图书馆环境的规模和布局。每章对细节的关注包括窗户的位置和高度，以及它们是否面向庭院、花园或水景，以提供照明的印象。这使读者能够想象使用这些特色库会是什么样子。拜尔斯雄心勃勃地带领读者走遍世界，穿越多个世纪，却没有一句乏味的句子。在第一章中，一个主要按时间顺序的旅行从苏美尔和巴比伦的早期图书馆开始，猜测站在一个由泥板组成的小房间里会是什么感觉。在第二章中，拜尔斯介绍了他关于埃及和古典希腊的一类图书馆的想法，这种图书馆的基础是在一个充满盒子或箱子的小空间里储存，演变成罗马共和国的二类图书馆，小房间里有架子，最终成为罗马帝国的大房间，在凹槽里有橱柜。拜尔斯认为，图书馆建筑和布置的演变显然是对书籍演变的一种反应，从早期的篮子里的泥板，到装在盒子里的移动图书馆，用来运送个人收藏的小卷轴，再到我们更熟悉的书架，书架的书钉朝外。在涉及中世纪和文艺复兴时期图书馆的第5章和第6章中，拜耳指出，装订工的华丽艺术需要新的方法来储存和展示这些珍贵的宝石，这导致了甚至在私人住宅中也使用了讲台。他提供了一张有用的私人图书馆大小的表格，从君主和贵族个人到像乔叟这样的平民，再到律师和医生的小型私人专业收藏。第七章涵盖了中国、日本、印度和非洲的图书馆，尽管在章节中也提到了东方图书馆对西方图书馆的影响。拜尔斯强调了两国的不同之处，比如中国的私人图书馆往往在家里的公共场所更显眼，而在日本，它们会被隐藏起来，更加私密。
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.5325/libraries.7.2.0181
Bernadette A. Lear
In 1998, in celebration of LHRT’s fiftieth anniversary, Andrew B. Wertheimer and John David Marshall compiled a chronology of the round table’s activities covering 1947 to 1997.1 This year, in celebration of LHRT’s seventy-fifth anniversary, I have attempted to update their record down to the present day (2023). What follows is reconstructed from back issues of LHRT Newsletter and LHRT News and Notes; announcements and meeting minutes posted on ALA Connect; election reports and other information on LHRT and ALA websites; individuals’ online CVs and social media profiles; and my own records and personal recollections. I also shared a draft with current LHRT members via email and encouraged them to review and correct my work. I contacted many past officers and conference speakers to confirm details. Andrew Wertheimer, Jenny Bossaller, and Steve Sowards deserve special thanks for filling in gaps across multiple years of entries.Over the past twenty-five years, LHRT has grown significantly in organizational complexity, including new committees, such as the Membership and Outreach Committee, and new positions, such as webmaster, social media coordinator, journal editor, and LHRT ALA councilor. While appreciative of all LHRT’s volunteers, LCHS does not have enough space to acknowledge everyone who has led committees or initiatives, nor can we name the dozens of other colleagues who have helped LHRT to prosper over the decades. Thus, the “Leadership” section below only lists elected officers. We must thank dozens of unnamed volunteers who have helped the round table thrive, plus the ALA staff liaisons who assisted us along the way: Mary Jo Lynch (ca. 1997–2003), Denise M. Davis (ca. 2004–2006, 2008–2010), Letitia Earvin (ca. 2006–2008), Norman Rose (ca. 2010–2015), Kelsey Henke (ca. 2016–2017), and Danielle M. Ponton (ca. 2018–present). Thank you, everyone!In the last two and a half decades, LHRT’s educational, research, and outreach programs have developed substantially as well. On the awards side, there are now prizes for books, journal articles, and service, joining the previously established recognitions for unpublished essays and dissertations. Adding to the annual Research Forum and quinquennial Library History Seminar that existed as of the late 1990s, LHRT has offered Chair’s Programs or Invited Speakers Programs, an annual Edward G. Holley Memorial Lecture, occasional cosponsorship of conference sessions organized by other units of the American Library Association, and, most recently, a bimonthly LHRT Reads book discussion group. While all of these events have been included to the best of my knowledge, the round table has also organized occasional informal gatherings, such as library tours and social dinners, which are not listed below.The proliferation of officers, committees, programs, and awards speaks positively to the growth of the round table and the increasing diversity of people who can find a home within it. At seventy-five years old,
Hansen，圣何塞州立大学一般会员:David M. Hovde，普渡大学主席:Christine J. Pawley，威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校财务秘书:Melanie A. Kimball，纽约州立大学布法罗大学一般会员:David M. Hovde，普渡大学一般会员:Bernadette A. Lear，宾夕法尼亚州立大学哈里斯堡主席:Andrew B. Wertheimer，夏威夷大学MānoaSecretary-Treasurer: Allison M. Sutton，伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校一般会员:Suzanne M. Stauffer，路易斯安那州立大学常务委员:Mary Elizabeth Barbosa-Jerez，路易斯维尔大学主席:Mary Niles Maack，加州大学洛杉矶分校财务秘书:Bernadette A. Lear，宾夕法尼亚州立大学哈里斯堡常务委员:Mary Elizabeth Barbosa-Jerez，路易斯维尔大学常务委员:Thomas Glynn，罗格斯大学常务委员:Kenneth J. Potts，加州州立大学斯坦尼斯劳斯分校财务秘书:Suzanne M. Stauffer，路易斯安那州立大学自由会员:Thomas Glynn，罗格斯大学自由会员:David B. Gracy II，德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校主席:Bernadette A. Lear，宾夕法尼亚州立大学哈里斯堡自由会员:Lorna Peterson，纽约州立大学布法罗大学自由会员:David B. Gracy II，德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校自由会员:Maurice C. York，东卡罗莱纳大学自由会员:Melanie A. Kimball，西蒙斯大学自由会员秘书-司库:Mark L. McCallon，阿比林基督教大学一般会员:Maurice C. York，东卡罗莱纳大学一般会员:Eric C. Novotny，宾州州立大学主席:Thomas Glynn，罗格斯大学一般会员:Eric M. Latham，威斯康星大学密尔沃基分校一般会员:Eric C. Novotny，宾州州立大学一般会员:Karen Joyce Cook, Clarion大学一般会员:Mark L. McCallon，阿比林基督教大学一般会员:Dominique R. Daniel，奥克兰大学一般会员:卡伦·乔伊斯·库克，麦克尼斯州立大学/路易斯安那州立图书馆会员:茱莉亚·c·斯金纳，佛罗里达州立大学主席:伯纳黛特·a·李尔，宾夕法尼亚州立大学哈里斯堡财务秘书:艾伦·m·波兹，威廉·帕特森大学财务秘书:茱莉亚·c·斯金纳，佛罗里达州立大学财务秘书:辛迪·韦尔奇，田纳西大学诺克斯维尔分校主席:多米尼克·r·丹尼尔，奥克兰大学财务秘书:Karen Joyce Cook, Clarion大学/ Ellen M. Pozzi, William Paterson大学自由会员:Cindy Welch，田纳西大学诺克斯维尔分校自由会员:Suzanne M. Stauffer，路易斯安那州立大学主席:Eric C. Novotny，宾州州秘书-财务主管:Nancy Barker DuPree，阿拉巴马大学自由会员:Suzanne M. Stauffer，路易斯安那州立大学自由会员:Jenny S. Bossaller，密苏里大学哥伦比亚分校主席:Ellen M. Pozzi，威廉帕特森大学秘书兼财务主管:Karl Pettitt，北伊利诺伊大学委员:Jenny S. Bossaller，密苏里大学哥伦比亚分校委员:Marek Sroka，伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校主席:Suzanne M. Stauffer，路易斯安那州立大学秘书兼财务主管:Michael Stuart Hunter，杨百翰大学委员:Marek Sroka，伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校委员:Emily D. Spunaugle，奥克兰大学主席:Jenny S. Bossaller，密苏里大学哥伦比亚分校秘书-财务主管:Natalie K. Bulick，印第安纳州立大学/空缺一般会员:Emily D. Spunaugle，奥克兰大学一般会员:Anthony Bernier，圣何塞州立大学一般会员:Anthony Bernier，圣何塞州立大学一般会员:Eric C. Novotny，宾夕法尼亚州立大学一般会员:Carol A. Leibiger，南达科他州大学一般会员:H. Jamane Yeager，伊隆大学Anthony Bernier，圣何塞州立大学/ Bernadette A. Lear，宾州州立大学哈里斯堡财务秘书:Steven A. Knowlton，普林斯顿大学财务秘书:H. Jamane Yeager，伊隆大学财务秘书:Amanda Belantara，纽约大学财务秘书:Suzanne M. Stauffer，路易斯安那州立大学财务秘书:Suzanne M. Stauffer，纽约大学财务秘书:Amanda Belantara，纽约大学财务秘书:Ana Ramirez Luhrs, Lafayette college财务秘书:Ana Ramirez LuhrsEmily D. Spunaugle，奥克兰大学财务秘书:Thomas Glynn，罗格斯大学财务秘书:Ana Ramirez Luhrs，拉菲特学院财务秘书:Michele Fenton，印第安纳州立图书馆主席:Steven A. Knowlton，普林斯顿大学财务秘书:Christopher Proctor，印第安纳大学东南地区财务秘书:Michele Fenton，印第安纳州立图书馆财务秘书:Laura Kelly Clark-Hunt，南密西西比大学ifrt /LHRT/LRRT联合项目“失去的机会”《冷战时期美国的知识自由》，Ellen Schrecker，叶史瓦大学回应者:Christine A. Jenkins，伊利诺伊大学香槟分校和Fay Golden，利物浦(纽约)公共图书馆出版:Andrew B。 Zboray和Mary Saracino Zboray，匹兹堡大学“印刷文化史上的图书馆”组织者(s): Christine J. Pawley和Louise s. robinshost:威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校出版:Christine J. Pawley和Louise s. Robbins，编辑。(麦迪逊:威斯康辛大学出版社，2013)图书馆女性地位委员会(COSWL)项目，由LHRT共同主办的“就在这里，我看到了我自己的书:1893年芝加哥世界博览会上的女性图书馆”，莎拉·沃兹沃思，马奎特大学邀请演讲项目:“过去作为序幕:纪念美国图书馆协会135年的论文”论文:研究论坛;“商业、工业和劳工图书馆服务的历史”论文:爱德华·g·霍利纪念讲座:“幽灵与阴影:世界哥伦比亚博览会女性建筑图书馆中的阅读种族”，萨拉·沃兹沃思，马奎特大学爱德华·g·霍利纪念讲座:“全球思考卡内基图书馆”，阿比盖尔·范斯利克，康涅狄格学院邀请演讲小组:“公共图书馆和民权:非裔美国人和美国图书馆的
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.5325/libraries.7.2.0220
Bradley J. Wiles
Much of contemporary scholarship in the archival studies field grapples with the problems of today and tomorrow—how archivists might structure their work methods, institutional operations, and conceptual framings for immediate and long-term solutions in preserving and making available archival collections. As such, theoretical and practical approaches within the archives profession tend not to delve too far into the past for inspiration or direction, both because of the increasingly technology-focused nature of archival work and because of growing consensus around which usable histories and modern conceptual lenses ought to inform the profession going forward. Record-Making and Record-Keeping in Early Societies, by Geoffrey Yeo, feels exceptional in this regard, as it wisely avoids such presentist filters in offering a detailed and comprehensive analysis of records production across several premodern societies.As an internationally recognized scholar, the University College London–affiliated Yeo has long been an authority on archives and records management in contemporary and historical contexts. Record-Making and Record-Keeping in Early Societies shows that humans have always had limited biological capacity for memory but could usually muster the wherewithal to innovate and gain new abilities commensurate with the growing complexity and changing needs of our societies. As Yeo illustrates, this occurred all over the world among different cultures at various points in history, sometimes as part of a chain of regional cultural diffusion and at other times in relative isolation. But Yeo is careful not to conflate current understandings of record making and keeping that suggest a perennial “urge to record” or compulsion to organize and find meaning; instead, early records activity “probably arose from relatively short-term needs” in providing evidence and supporting individual and collective memory (182).Record-Making and Record-Keeping in Early Societies is organized into eight thematic chapters that offer examples from around the ancient world, including Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, China, and the Americas. Yeo begins in the distant preliterate Neolithic era, when marks and seals were employed as symbols of ownership, property, and accounting in predominantly herding and farming communities. As such, these precursors to records should be understood as “persistent representations” of activities and events of that time, rather than in how they may have been collected or utilized beyond their immediate sociomaterial context (x). Yeo demonstrates that the creation of any recording device or system from this time was tied to its effectiveness at facilitating contemporaneous business functions, and any longevity it held was contingent on its adaptability to shifting social and cultural realities. For example, in what is now Syria, from about 6000 to 4600 BCE, the ubiquitous presence of family seals on pottery, containers, and other durable items found in
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