Reading is acknowledged to have been a key means of transmission and reinforcement of the Methodist message in Britain, yet the role played by libraries in the history of the movement has been comparatively neglected, certainly in the aggregate. This article offers a preliminary collective overview of non-institutional private libraries and collections of Wesleyana formed by individual British Methodists, from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, and seeks to ascertain what became of them over subsequent years. Information is assembled about ninety-five collectors, a combination of ministers and laity, who mostly achieved some prominence in British Methodism. Although the need for further research into the topic is recognised, it has already been possible to detect several trends, not least the historically relatively weak appetite of what is now the Methodist Church of Great Britain for the acquisition and preservation of its library and documentary heritage, a reticence which has contributed to the loss of a significant portion of it overseas.
{"title":"‘A reading people’: mapping the personal libraries of prominent British Methodists","authors":"Clive D. Field","doi":"10.3366/lih.2023.0147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/lih.2023.0147","url":null,"abstract":"Reading is acknowledged to have been a key means of transmission and reinforcement of the Methodist message in Britain, yet the role played by libraries in the history of the movement has been comparatively neglected, certainly in the aggregate. This article offers a preliminary collective overview of non-institutional private libraries and collections of Wesleyana formed by individual British Methodists, from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, and seeks to ascertain what became of them over subsequent years. Information is assembled about ninety-five collectors, a combination of ministers and laity, who mostly achieved some prominence in British Methodism. Although the need for further research into the topic is recognised, it has already been possible to detect several trends, not least the historically relatively weak appetite of what is now the Methodist Church of Great Britain for the acquisition and preservation of its library and documentary heritage, a reticence which has contributed to the loss of a significant portion of it overseas.","PeriodicalId":325851,"journal":{"name":"Library & Information History","volume":"185 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115901579","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}
The tenure of the Halkevleri (‘People's Houses’, 1932–51) spanned most of the single-party period of the early Turkish Republic (1923–46), and their work took place during a widespread public education campaign that focused on literacy, healthcare, and the construction of a national identity. In the aftermath of an alphabet reform and in the midst of a major language reform, Halkevleri libraries were tasked with helping a largely illiterate population to read and write. Their journals, bibliographies, and library instruction manuals reveal the policies (circulation, collection development, public education, and the twinned operations of publishing and archiving) that prepared these institutions to develop a readership for government propaganda. These strategies were employed to stretch literacy as far as possible throughout the halk (people), enabling community libraries to create and conserve a culture that could absorb their readers in a shared project of nation-building.
{"title":"The role of Halkevi libraries in the early Turkish Republic","authors":"Eve Lacey","doi":"10.3366/lih.2023.0146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/lih.2023.0146","url":null,"abstract":"The tenure of the Halkevleri (‘People's Houses’, 1932–51) spanned most of the single-party period of the early Turkish Republic (1923–46), and their work took place during a widespread public education campaign that focused on literacy, healthcare, and the construction of a national identity. In the aftermath of an alphabet reform and in the midst of a major language reform, Halkevleri libraries were tasked with helping a largely illiterate population to read and write. Their journals, bibliographies, and library instruction manuals reveal the policies (circulation, collection development, public education, and the twinned operations of publishing and archiving) that prepared these institutions to develop a readership for government propaganda. These strategies were employed to stretch literacy as far as possible throughout the halk (people), enabling community libraries to create and conserve a culture that could absorb their readers in a shared project of nation-building.","PeriodicalId":325851,"journal":{"name":"Library & Information History","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128233530","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 Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information, by Craig Robertson","authors":"N. Kozak","doi":"10.3366/lih.2023.0150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/lih.2023.0150","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":325851,"journal":{"name":"Library & Information History","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123296838","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":"Speaking Volumes: Books with Histories, by David Pearson","authors":"Michelle Craig","doi":"10.3366/lih.2023.0149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/lih.2023.0149","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":325851,"journal":{"name":"Library & Information History","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121767913","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}
In this article, I will discuss how the information state provides a new way of understanding the absolute Danish-Norwegian state (1660–1814). Following recent research about the role of communication in the Danish-Norwegian state, I will argue for an understanding of the information state that stresses the population as a formative part of state building. The studies favour a communicative approach, which includes circulation of information as an integral part. My contribution to the discussion of the information state emphasises that exchange of information between state and population implies negotiations and the use of genre systems in a trading zone. The meeting between ideology and everyday practices and cultures is a negotiation that shows how ideologies, purposes, and ideas are sifted and negotiated through concrete practices that are formed by but also shape technologies and materialities.
{"title":"Rethinking a Danish information state: information in the trading zone","authors":"Laura Skouvig","doi":"10.3366/lih.2023.0145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/lih.2023.0145","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, I will discuss how the information state provides a new way of understanding the absolute Danish-Norwegian state (1660–1814). Following recent research about the role of communication in the Danish-Norwegian state, I will argue for an understanding of the information state that stresses the population as a formative part of state building. The studies favour a communicative approach, which includes circulation of information as an integral part. My contribution to the discussion of the information state emphasises that exchange of information between state and population implies negotiations and the use of genre systems in a trading zone. The meeting between ideology and everyday practices and cultures is a negotiation that shows how ideologies, purposes, and ideas are sifted and negotiated through concrete practices that are formed by but also shape technologies and materialities.","PeriodicalId":325851,"journal":{"name":"Library & Information History","volume":"07 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114899811","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":"Awakening a Curate’s Library: The Rev. William Arderne Shoults (1839–1887): His Life, His Book Collection, and His Legacy to New Zealand, by Donald Jackson Kerr","authors":"K. Attar","doi":"10.3366/lih.2023.0148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/lih.2023.0148","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":325851,"journal":{"name":"Library & Information History","volume":"395 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123518014","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 Pasts and Futures of the Library Conference: themed issue for Library & Information History","authors":"E. Bonney, Kevin Lambert","doi":"10.3366/lih.2023.0134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/lih.2023.0134","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":325851,"journal":{"name":"Library & Information History","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130791986","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 Minute Book of the Bristol Library Society, 1771–1801, by Max Skjönsberg and Mark Towsey (eds.)","authors":"Joshua Smith","doi":"10.3366/lih.2023.0139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/lih.2023.0139","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":325851,"journal":{"name":"Library & Information History","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128697747","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 ‘group scheme’: modernisation, regionalisation, and the origins of rural public library service in British Columbia and Saskatchewan in the 1930s","authors":"Laticia Chapman","doi":"10.3366/lih.2023.0137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/lih.2023.0137","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":325851,"journal":{"name":"Library & Information History","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133913063","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":"Bibliophobia: the End and the Beginning of the Book, by Brian Cummings","authors":"D. Pearson","doi":"10.3366/lih.2023.0138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/lih.2023.0138","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":325851,"journal":{"name":"Library & Information History","volume":"76 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134465103","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}
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