{"title":"Encyclopedia of the Library of Congress: For Congress, the Nation & the World (review)","authors":"R. Martin","doi":"10.1353/LAC.2006.0062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/LAC.2006.0062","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81853,"journal":{"name":"Libraries & culture","volume":"41 1","pages":"517 - 519"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/LAC.2006.0062","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66800447","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}
Since the Florence flood of November 4, 1966, the concept of an or ganized disaster response for cultural property has been a focus for conservators. In 1976, a decade after the Arno River had retreated from Florence's museums, libraries, and historic churches, a Library of Congress planning conference convened to initiate a U.S. national preservation program. At that meeting Stephen Salmon noted a "glaring . . . lack of preparedness for disaster [s] by almost all American librar ies."1 Now, forty years since that calamitous flood, little has changed in terms of being able to initiate a nationally coordinated plan in the face of calamitous events that threaten cultural property in all collect ing institutions. In fact, it is now clearly recognized that only one in five cultural institutions has created an emergency response plan that encompasses collections,2 and it is likely that some or all of these plans will prove ineffectual in the case of a regional disaster. Furthermore, according to meteorologists at the National Oceanographic and Atmo spheric Administration, we now face in the next twenty to thirty years the possibility of stronger, more damaging storms capable of threatening our cultural institutions.3 Ample evidence is at hand that a national disaster response protocol is urgently needed if we are to ensure that irreplaceable cultural collec tions are not needlessly lost. This protocol must be able to be activated quickly to deliver appropriate assistance to affected institutions and, accordingly, be unencumbered by day-to-day bureaucracies that his torically have delayed response time and increased collection damage. This essay describes two recent large institutional catastrophes as well as the damage wrought by Hurricane Katrina, an unprecedented U.S. regional disaster, in an effort to underscore the importance of creating a nonprofit entity?the National Disaster Center for Cultural Property (NDC)?capable of implementing an effective response in situations where local resources and expertise are overwhelmed and cultural property is at risk.
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Melvil Dewey founded the New York Library Club in 1885. It became an influential forum for exchanging ideas and debating methods and principles among practitioners of an emerging profession. Members were inspired by the mission of the public library, by an evangelical zeal to uplift the masses by bringing fine literature into their homes. At the same time, they had to develop methods of gaining intellectual control over the increasing number of titles issued by American publishers each year as well as methods of attracting readers of cheap fiction to more uplifting works. This article explores tensions between mission and methods during the early history of the club.
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Epistle to Mr. Ellys the Painter” using traditional bibliographical methods based upon historical evidence and literary style. William McCarthy asks, “What Did Anna Barbauld Do to Samuel Richardson’s Correspondence?” As Barbauld’s biographer he answers through his careful examination and interpretation of the Forster MSS and the Dyce Letters at the Victoria and Albert Museum, separating out Barbauld’s markings from those of Richardson, his copyists, and the editorial interventions of Richard Phillips, the owner of the manuscripts and the publisher of the correspondence (and his compositors). McCarthy also posits the former existence of additional copies of some correspondence, edited by Richardson, many of which provide conflations of letters previously attributed to Barbauld. Marcus Walsh lauds Edward Capell’s editorial practices on the works of Shakespeare in “Form and Function in the English Eighteenth-Century Literary Edition: The Case of Edward Capell,” discussing the formatting of Capell’s editions of Shakespeare in relation to Capell’s editorial strategies. R. Carter Hailey sketches more Shakespearean editorial history with his ‘This Instance Will Not Do’: George Steevens, Shakespeare, and the Revision(s) of Johnson’s Dictionary.” Hailey argues that Steevens “played a much more active role in the revision of the Dictionary than has hitherto been suspected,” exhaustively supporting his assertion that Steevens continued working on the Dictionary well after Johnson’s death (245). Pamela Clemit and David Wools provide attribution for “Two New Pamphlets by William Godwin: A Case of Computer-Assisted Authorship Attribution.” They ascribe The Law of Parliament in the Present Situation of Great Britain Considered(1788) and Reflexions on the Consequences of His Majesty’s Recovery from His Late Indisposition. In a Letter to the People of England (1789) to Godwin, using both stylistic and computer-assisted textual analysis. The authors chose not to use the cusum technique lauded earlier in this volume by Farringdon, using instead multiple programs familiar to Wools, a forensic linguist. The volume is rounded out with David Chandler’s “A Bibliographical History of Thomas Howes’ Critical Observations (1776–1807) and His Dispute with Joseph Priestley,” Andrew M. Stauffer’s “The First Publication of Byron’s ‘To the Po,’” and Roger Osborne’s “Joseph Conrad’s Under Western Eyes: The Serials and First Editions,” along with Arthur Sherbo’s “Unrecorded Writings by G. K. Chesterton, H. G. Wells, Padraic Colum, Mary Colum, T. S. Eliot, George Bernard Shaw, and William Butler Yeats.” This volume of Studies in Bibliography provides a good entry point into the ongoing argument about the future of textual criticism for historical materials by highlighting its history and practice thus far.
“给画家埃利斯先生的书信”，使用基于历史证据和文学风格的传统书目方法。威廉·麦卡锡问道:“安娜·巴鲍德对塞缪尔·理查森的信件做了什么?”作为巴鲍德的传记作者，他通过仔细检查和解读维多利亚和阿尔伯特博物馆的福斯特MSS和戴斯信件来回答这个问题，将巴鲍德的标记与理查森、他的抄写员、理查德·菲利普斯的编辑干预区分开来，理查德·菲利普斯是手稿的所有者和信件的出版商(以及他的排字师)。麦卡锡还假定，理查森曾经编辑过一些信件的副本，其中许多是以前认为是巴博尔德写的信件的合并。Marcus Walsh在《18世纪英国文学版的形式与功能:爱德华·卡佩尔案例》中赞扬了爱德华·卡佩尔对莎士比亚作品的编辑实践，讨论了卡佩尔版本莎士比亚的格式与卡佩尔的编辑策略之间的关系。R. Carter Hailey在他的《这个例子不行:乔治·史蒂文斯、莎士比亚和约翰逊词典修订版》中勾勒了更多莎士比亚的编辑史。海利认为史蒂文斯“在修订《字典》方面发挥的作用比迄今为止人们所怀疑的要积极得多”，这充分支持了他的说法，即史蒂文斯在约翰逊去世后很长一段时间内仍在继续编纂《字典》(245页)。帕梅拉·克莱米特和大卫·伍尔斯为《威廉·戈德温的两本新小册子:计算机辅助作者归属案例》提供了署名。他们把这两篇论文的题目归为《考虑大不列颠现状的议会法》(1788年)和《关于国王陛下从晚期疾病中恢复的后果的思考》。在给戈德温的一封致英国人民的信(1789)中，使用了文体和计算机辅助的文本分析。作者选择不使用Farringdon在本卷早些时候称赞的cusum技术，而是使用了法庭语言学家Wools熟悉的多个程序。该书还包括大卫·钱德勒的《托马斯·豪斯批判观察的参考书目史(1776-1807)和他与约瑟夫·普利斯特利的争论》、安德鲁·m·斯托弗的《拜伦的《给波河》的首次出版》、罗杰·奥斯本的《约瑟夫·康拉德的西方眼睛下:系列和第一版》，以及阿瑟·舍伯的《g·k·切斯特顿、h·g·威尔斯、帕德里克·科伦、玛丽·科伦、t·s·艾略特、乔治·伯纳德·肖和威廉·巴特勒·叶芝的未记录作品》。本卷的研究书目提供了一个很好的切入点，通过突出其历史和实践到目前为止，正在进行的争论关于未来的文本批评的历史材料。
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In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries public libraries used annual reports to inform the public and one another about new services and managerial approaches. Because librarians filled reports with statistics, narrative, and professional philosophy and exchanged them throughout the country, nearby collections of reports can provide rich and accessible evidence for institutional, social, and cultural history studies. However, starting in the 1920s, library reports began to emphasize themes rather than departmental details, and librarians increasingly communicated through journals. Thus some libraries ceased collecting institutional publications. Although today's reports are suitable for public relations purposes, historians should be concerned about their limited content and distribution.
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In the conclusion to Through the Reading Glass the author cites Roger Chartier, The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution, in which he writes that “while books themselves do not make revolutions, the ways they are made, used, and read just might” (205). Diaconoff agrees and asserts that “acts of reading can produce profound changes in society,” noting “the quiet revolution in women’s reading” during the eighteenth century (205). She is instructive and persuasive in illustrating the motivations underlying the uses of reading and writing by eighteenth-century women and how their culture differed from ours. She explains that the reading glass of the title is a metaphor used to show how a book culture was developed for women and by women in eighteenth-century France, for, as she phrases it, “the reading glass is to the book as the book was to women, opening up both a world and a wealth of ideas perhaps unsuspected at first glance” (209). Diaconoff’s enlightening book is well documented with a useful bibliography and index. Through the Reading Glass should appeal to readers interested not only in books, reading, writing, and women’s roles but also in how these areas were related and interwoven during one of the pivotal cultural periods in modern history.
{"title":"Greek Civilization Through the Eyes of Travellers and Scholars (review)","authors":"A. Andres","doi":"10.1353/lac.2006.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.2006.0000","url":null,"abstract":"In the conclusion to Through the Reading Glass the author cites Roger Chartier, The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution, in which he writes that “while books themselves do not make revolutions, the ways they are made, used, and read just might” (205). Diaconoff agrees and asserts that “acts of reading can produce profound changes in society,” noting “the quiet revolution in women’s reading” during the eighteenth century (205). She is instructive and persuasive in illustrating the motivations underlying the uses of reading and writing by eighteenth-century women and how their culture differed from ours. She explains that the reading glass of the title is a metaphor used to show how a book culture was developed for women and by women in eighteenth-century France, for, as she phrases it, “the reading glass is to the book as the book was to women, opening up both a world and a wealth of ideas perhaps unsuspected at first glance” (209). Diaconoff’s enlightening book is well documented with a useful bibliography and index. Through the Reading Glass should appeal to readers interested not only in books, reading, writing, and women’s roles but also in how these areas were related and interwoven during one of the pivotal cultural periods in modern history.","PeriodicalId":81853,"journal":{"name":"Libraries & culture","volume":"41 1","pages":"523 - 524"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/lac.2006.0000","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66797180","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}
Private library bookplates are designed to reflect the interests of the book owners and often symbolize their life’s work with simple drawings or emblems. The Norman W. Brillhart Collection bookplate is a good example of this simplicity of design. The 18.5-by-15-cm plate shows a map that depicts the route Brillhart believed Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer followed during the Battle of the Little Big Horn River in 1876. This graphic depiction of Custer’s route summarizes Brillhart’s lifetime of reading, travel, and research devoted to the controversial subject of Custer and the Little Big Horn. The Norman W. Brillhart Collection, held by the University of Oklahoma Libraries’ Western History Collections, is comprised of rare books and special material on George Armstrong Custer, the Seventh Cavalry Regiment, and the Battle of the Little Big Horn River. All of the major works necessary for research on Custer and the Little Big Horn are in
私人图书馆的书版是为了反映图书所有者的兴趣而设计的，通常用简单的图画或标志来象征他们一生的工作。Norman W. Brillhart收藏的书板就是这种简单设计的一个很好的例子。这块18.5 × 15厘米的盘子上画着一张地图，布里哈特认为，地图上描绘的是1876年小比格霍恩河战役中乔治·阿姆斯特朗·卡斯特中校所走的路线。这幅对卡斯特路线的生动描绘总结了布里哈特一生的阅读、旅行和对卡斯特和小大角这个有争议的主题的研究。Norman W. Brillhart Collection由俄克拉何马大学图书馆的西部历史收藏馆藏，由关于乔治·阿姆斯特朗·卡斯特、第七骑兵团和小比格霍恩河战役的珍贵书籍和特殊材料组成。所有研究卡斯特和小大角所必需的主要作品都在
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four parts: the title with its heading, the bibliographical description, the note, and the bibliographical references. The note information is varied and may contain the item’s printing history, mention of its relative scarcity, information about the author, or a description of its illustrations or other special features. The bibliographical references identify the library that has a copy of the book (often a national library, although not always) and a cross-reference, if relevant, to the corresponding entries in the Blackmer, Atebey, or Gennadius catalogs. In addition to the interesting notes and references, the volume under review provides several other invaluable features. Most notable among these is the introduction by Navari, published in English, describing her methodology for organizing the catalog. The outlined methodology reveals Navari’s respect for accuracy, specifically with reference to her explanation of collation. Another significant feature in this catalog is the historical and informative essay written by Ioli Vingopoulou, which explores the nature of travel writing and its relationship to the Greek world. Especially welcome in a catalog of this nature is the reproduction of over two hundred rare illustrations, many in color, that originate from the cataloged items. The usefulness of this catalog is enhanced by an extended bibliography, a guide to abbreviations, and the multiple indices: index of names; index of printers, publishers, booksellers, and bookbinders; and index of provenances. While the catalog’s most practical function might be restricted to specialists and scholars of Greek civilization, its contents unquestionably would prove most interesting for bibliophiles and rare book enthusiasts. Greek Civilization Through the Eyes of Travellers and Scholars makes an excellent companion catalog to the author’s catalogs of the Blackmer and Atabey collections as well as Weber’s catalog of the Gennadius Library. Dimitris Contominas and Leonora Navari are to be commended for their collaboration in offering this beautifully rich catalog.
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